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Minneapolis, nicknamed City of Lakes and the Mill City, is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States. Its name is attributed to the city's first schoolteacher, who combined mni, the Dakota word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city.
Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. Known as the Twin Cities, Minneapolis-St. Paul is the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with 3.5 million residents. The Metropolitan Council estimated the city's population in 2009 as 386,691.
The city is abundantly rich in water with over twenty lakes and wetlands, the Mississippi river, creeks and waterfalls, many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway. It was once the world's flour milling capital and a hub for timber, and today is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle. Named America's most literate city, it has cultural organizations that draw creative people and audiences to the city for theater, visual art, writing, and music. The community's diverse population has a long tradition of charitable support through progressive public social programs, as well as private and corporate philanthropy.
The region is second only to New York City in live theater per capital and is the third-largest theater market in the U.S. after New York and Chicago, supporting the Illusion, Jungle, Mixed Blood, Penumbra, Mu Performing Arts, Bedlam Theatre, the Brave New Workshop, the Minnesota Dance Theatre, Red Eye, Skewed Visions, Theater Latté Da, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Lundstrum Center for the Performing Arts, and the Children's Theatre Company. The city is home to Minnesota Fringe Festival, the United States' largest nonjuried performing arts festival. French architect Jean Nouvel designed a new three stage complex for the Guthrie Theater, a prototype alternative to Broadway founded in Minneapolis in 1963. Minneapolis purchased and renovated the Orpheum, State, and Pantages Theatres vaudeville and film houses on Hennepin Avenue now used for concerts and plays. Eventually, a fourth renovated theater joined the Hennepin Center for the Arts to become the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, to be completed in 2011 and a home to more than one dozen performing arts groups and a provider of Web-based art education.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, built in 1915 in south central Minneapolis is the largest art museum in the city with 100,000 pieces in its permanent collection. A new wing designed by Michael Graves was completed in 2006 for contemporary and modern works and more gallery space. The Walker Art Center sits atop Lowry Hill, near downtown, and doubled its size with an addition in 2005 by Herzog & de Meuron and is continuing its expansion to 15 acres (6.1 ha) with a park designed by Michel Desvigne across the street from the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The Weisman Art Museum, designed by Frank Gehry for the University of Minnesota, opened in 1993. An addition, also designed by Gehry, is expected to open in 2011.
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Minneapolis ( (listen)) is the county seat of Hennepin County and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2017, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 45th-largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 422,331. The Twin Cities metropolitan area consists of Minneapolis, its neighbor Saint Paul, and suburbs which altogether contain about 3.6 million people, and is the third-largest economic center in the Midwest.Minneapolis lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, the state's capital. The city is abundantly rich in water, with 13 lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls; many connected by parkways in the Chain of Lakes and the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. It was once the world's flour milling capital and a hub for timber. The city and surrounding region is the primary business center between Chicago and Seattle. In 2011, Minneapolis proper was home to the fifth-highest number of Fortune 500 headquarters in the United States. As an integral link to the global economy, Minneapolis is categorized as a global city.Minneapolis has one of the largest LGBT populations in the U.S. proportional to its overall population. Noted for its strong music and performing arts scenes, Minneapolis is home to both the award-winning Guthrie Theater and the historic First Avenue nightclub. Reflecting the region's status as an epicenter of folk, funk, and alternative rock music, the city served as the launching pad for several of the 20th century's most influential musicians, including Bob Dylan and Prince. More recently, Minneapolis has become noted for its underground and independent hip-hop and rap scenes, producing artists such as Brother Ali, Atmosphere, and Dessa.The name Minneapolis is attributed to Charles Hoag, the city's first schoolmaster, who combined mni, a Dakota Sioux word for water, and polis, the Greek word for city.
6 Brothers
This 60-minute documentary explores the joys and challenges of life on the plains through the stories of the Stenberg brothers. Arnold, Cap, Chris, Henry, Ray, and Selmer were the children of western North Dakota homesteaders, and they belonged to the generation that survived the Great Depression and experienced World War II.
Weaving together interviews, archival footage, and letters sent during World War II, 6 BROTHERS recounts how an ordinary North Dakota family experienced one of America's most intriguing time periods. Further, it touches on how their lives and experiences have helped to shape future generations.
Producer: Daniel Stenberg. Editor: Dave Geck. Executive Producer: Bob Dambach.
Major production funding provided by the Williston State College Foundation, the North Dakota Humanities Council, a nonprofit, independent state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Basin Electric Cooperative, an Operation Round Up grant from McKenzie Electric, and by the members of Prairie Public.
To learn more about the brothers, including access to more than 1,000 pages of letters sent by the brothers during World War II, visit 6brothersfilm.com.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the website do not necessarily reflect those of the North Dakota Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Shelly Bachberg Presents: How Helen Keller and Anne Frank Freed the Slaves: The Musical
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I said it, so it's true!
What happens when the people in power revise history for their own political gain? Find out when a charming but woefully misguided congresswoman promotes her super-accurate children's history book (along with her own wacky ideologies) in this irreverent new musical satire from the creators of FRUIT FLY: THE MUSICAL!
SHELLY BACHBERG PRESENTS: HOW HELEN KELLER AND ANNE FRANK FREED THE SLAVES: THE MUSICAL
book and lyrics by Max Wojtanowicz
music by Michael Gruber
directed and choreographed by Nikki Swoboda
musical direction by Jason Hansen
at the 2013 Minnesota Fringe Festival,
the largest non-juried arts festival in the United States!
starring Kim Kivens as Shelly Bachberg
with David Darrow, Mary Fox, Brianna Graham, Ryan Grimes, Caroline Innerbichler, Kasono Mwanza, Whitney Rhodes & Rudolph Searles III
the New Century Theatre
615 Hennepin Ave (in the City Center)
Minneapolis, MN 55403
Sunday, August 4th - 1:00pm
Monday, August 5th - 5:30pm
Wednesday, August 7th - 7:00pm
Friday, August 9th - 10:00pm
Sunday, August 11th - 1:00pm
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Minnesota 15-Year-Old is World Powerlifting Champion
For 15-year-old Beth-el Algarin, powerlifting and setting world records has become a way of life. The Pierz teenager trains with her father Luis, who has been her coach since starting her with the weights when she was eight years old.
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Postcards: Volstead Fever: Prohibition in Minnesota
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In the Prohibition-era of southwest Minn., get a glimpse at early 20th century history, visiting the home of Andrew Volstead and learning dark secrets about Granite Falls' supper club, Bootleggers. Hear from local brewers shaping the landscape of locally produced beers and find out how Schell's was able to survive Prohibition. So pour yourself a tall one and tune in to Volstead Fever.
2. Minnesota Dance Theater - Waawshishijay
Wawshishijay means Our Beginning. The piece is built from classic modern dance technique.
This is performed in United Through Dance 2013 organized by SAP class of SILC ( This event is held on Saturday, October 12, 2013, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM at F.K. Weyerhaeuser Auditorium, 75 W. Fifth St., St. Paul, MN 55102.
SILC: A non-profit organization, SILC, is run by a team of volunteers. During the course of each academic year, students are imparted instruction by volunteer teachers in the following subjects
* Languages (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali, Tamil and Telugu)
* Social Studies,Literature and Special Achievement Projects (SAP)
* Electives (Dance, Tabla, Cooking, Cricket, Chess, Yoga, Arts & Craft)
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88th Winter Meeting: Plenary Breakfast Honoring Leadership in the Arts & An Introduction to Esports
#245: HUGE Improv Theater, Davina + the Vagabonds + The Minnesota Historical Society's 1968 Exhibit
HUGE Improv Theater demonstrates classic techniques of long form improvisation. Davina and the Vagabonds perform at the Dakota Jazz Club. As part of the Minnesota Historical Society's exhibit on the year 1968, a group of veterans assemble a replica of a Huey Helicopter.
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A Brief History of Prince
A documentary and biography about Prince Rogers Nelson. Produced and written by Matt Beat.
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Some report Prince left so much unreleased music behind that he could have released a new album every year for the next century. He was also in the process of writing a memoir before his death.
Prince continues to greatly impact the world. As you watch this, tens of thousands of people around the world are currently listening to a Prince song. He won 8 Grammy Awards, 6 American Music Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and even an Oscar for Purple Rain. To date, Prince has sold over 100 million records worldwide. Around half of those in the United States alone. Today, tsort.info, the most comprehensive collection of popular music data around, ranks Prince has the 16th most successful musical act of all time.
One of the most prolific and accomplished songwriters, producers, and musicians of all-time, Prince Rogers Nelson single handedly changed popular music forever. He invented what became known as “Minneapolis sound,” the mix of funk, R&B, electronic, and rock music that influenced so many who came after him. He was incredibly unique, often demanding everyone in the industry follow him. He never chased trends, he created them. And while the world continues to miss him, he has left so much behind for all of us to continue to enjoy.
Bob Dylan, Peter Himmelman & Harry Dean Stanton - Hava Nagila (Los Angeles, 1989)
Legend Bob Dylan, his son-of-law Peter Himmelman & the great actor Harry Dean Stanton performs the Traditional Jewish song Hava Nagila at 25th Anniversary of Chabad (for telethon).
Rabbi Baruch Shlomo Eliyahu Cunin, (Hebrew ברוך שלמה אליהו קונין), (Shlomo Cunin), is a Hasidic Rabbi, associated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Cunin is the director of Chabad-Lubavitch of California, and Chabad activities on the West Coast of the United States.
In 1965, he was appointed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as a head shaliach to the west coast.
Rabbi Cunin began West Coast Chabad in 1967. Chabad now runs the largest network of nonsectarian educational and social services under Jewish auspices on the West Coast.
Chabad of California's mission is to reach out to others with acts of goodness and kindness. West Coast Chabad is a community-based nonprofit organization whose efforts are rooted in traditional Jewish values—and many of its programs help the needy regardless of background or belief.
Hava Nagila (Hebrew: הבה נגילה, Havah Nagilah, Let us rejoice) is an Israeli folk song traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations. It is perhaps the first modern Israeli folk song in the Hebrew language that has become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and bar/bat mitzvah celebrations. The melody is based on a Hassidic Nigun. It was composed in 1915.
Abraham Zevi Idelsohn , a professor at Hebrew University, began cataloging all known Jewish music and teaching classes in musical composition; one of his students was a promising cantorial student, Moshe Nathanson, who (with the rest of his class) was presented by the professor with a 19th-century, slow, melodious, chant (niggun or nigun) and assigned to add rhythm and words to fashion a modern Hebrew song. There are competing claims regarding Hava Nagila's composer, with both Idelsohn and Nathanson being suggested.
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, author, and visual artist. He is one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 20th century, known for songs that chronicle social and political issues.
Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman (Hebrew: שבתאי זיסל בן אברהם Shabtai Zisl ben Avraham) in in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Range west of Lake Superior. He has a younger brother, David. Dylan's paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa, in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), to the United States following the anti-Semitic pogroms of 1905. His maternal grandparents, Ben and Florence Stone, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in the United States in 1902.
Dylan's father, Abram Zimmerman – an electric-appliance shop owner – and mother, Beatrice Beatty Stone, were part of a small, close-knit Jewish community.
Harry Dean Stanton was an American actor, musician, and singer. He was born in West Irvine, Kentucky, to Sheridan Harry Stanton, a tobacco farmer and barber and Ersel (née Moberly), a cook.
Stanton had two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph, and a younger half-brother, Stanley McKnight. His family had a musical background.
Peter Himmelman, born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, is an American singer-songwriter and film and television composer from Minnesota, who formerly played in the Minneapolis indie rock band Sussman Lawrence before pursuing an extensive solo career. Himmelman is also the founder of Big Muse, a company which helps individuals and organizations unlock their creative potential. He is married to Maria Dylan, a lawyer and adopted daughter of Bob Dylan.
lyrics :
Hava nagila, hava nagila
Hava nagila venis'mecha
Hava neranena, hava neranena
Hava neranena venis'mecha
Uru, uru achim
Uru achim belev same'ach .
Let's rejoice
Let's rejoice
Let's rejoice and be happy
Let's sing
Let's sing
Let's sing and be happy
Awake, awake, my brothers
Awake my brothers with a happy heart
Awake my brothers, awake my brothers
With a happy heart.
Lynching in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Lynching in the United States
00:03:30 1 Background
00:07:58 2 Name origin
00:08:28 3 Social characteristics
00:11:32 4 The West
00:14:42 5 Reconstruction (1865–1877)
00:18:48 6 Disenfranchisement (1877–1917)
00:23:19 6.1 Other ethnicities
00:26:20 6.2 Enforcing Jim Crow
00:33:30 7 Photographic records and postcards
00:38:22 7.1 Resistance
00:41:43 7.2 Federal action limited by the Solid South
00:44:53 7.3 Great Migration
00:46:53 8 World War I to World War II
00:47:04 8.1 Resistance
00:48:11 8.2 New Klan
00:51:26 8.3 Continuing resistance
00:57:00 8.4 Federal action and southern resistance
01:00:34 9 World War II to present
01:00:44 9.1 Second Great Migration
01:01:41 9.2 Federal action
01:03:36 9.3 Lynching and the Cold War
01:05:13 9.4 Civil Rights Movement
01:08:32 9.5 After the Civil Rights Movement
01:11:48 10 Effects
01:12:29 11 Statistics
01:18:30 12 Representation in popular culture
01:18:41 12.1 Literature and film
01:24:52 12.2 Strange Fruit
01:26:05 13 Laws
01:29:31 13.1 State laws
01:33:32 14 See also
01:33:41 15 Notes
01:33:49 16 Books and references
01:39:24 17 Further reading
01:43:36 18 External links
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Lynching is the practice of murder by a group by extrajudicial action. Lynchings in the United States rose in number after the American Civil War in the late 1800s, following the emancipation of slaves; they declined in the 1920s but have continued to take place into the 21st century. Most lynchings were of African-American men in the South, but women were also lynched, and white lynchings of blacks occurred in Midwestern and border states, especially during the 20th-century Great Migration of blacks out of the South. The purpose was to enforce white supremacy and intimidate blacks by racial terrorism. On a per capita basis lynchings were also common in California and the Old West, especially of Latinos, although they represented less than 10% of the national total. Native Americans and Asian Americans were also lynched. Other ethnicities (white, Finnish-American, Jewish, Irish, Italian-American) were occasionally lynched.
The stereotype of a lynching is a hanging, because hangings are what crowds of people saw, and are also easy to photograph. Some hangings were professionally photographed and sold as postcards, which were popular souvenirs in some parts of the U.S. Victims were also killed by mobs in a variety of other ways: shot repeatedly, burned alive, forced to jump off a bridge, dragged behind cars, and the like. Sometimes they were tortured as well, with body parts sometimes removed and sold as souvenirs. Occasionally lynchings were not fatal (see Lynching survivors in the United States). A mock lynching, putting the rope around the neck of someone suspected of concealing information, might be used to compel confessions.According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 whites. More than 73 percent of lynchings in the post-Civil War period occurred in the Southern states. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, 4,084 African-Americans were lynched between 1877 and 1950 in the South.Lynchings were most frequent from 1890 to the 1920s, with a peak in 1892. Lynchings were often large mob actions, attended by hundreds or thousands of watchers, sometimes announced in advance in newspapers and in one instance with a special train. However, in the later 20th century lynchings became more secretive, and were conducted by smaller groups of people.
According to Michael Pfeifer, the prevalence of lynching in postbellum America reflects lack of confidence in the due process judicial system. He links the decline in lynching in the early twentieth century with the advent of the modern death penalty: legislators renovated the death penalty...out of direct concern for the alternative of mob violence. He also cites the modern, racialized excesses of u ...
1904 and 1928 Hinners organs in Southeast Missouri
Brent Johnson talks with Matt Palisch about two more Hinners organs, one from 1904 in Zion Lutheran Church in Gordonville, Missouri, and St. John's Lutheran Church in Pocohontas, Missouri.
Longtime church member Arthur Seboldt talks about the days before electric blowers and restoring the organ of Zion Lutheran.
ALL THE WAY: Post-Opening TV Commercial
Watch the latest TV commercial starring Bryan Cranston as LBJ in ALL THE WAY! Now on Broadway:
Bryan Cranston, the three-time Emmy Award-winning star of Breaking Bad, makes his Broadway debut in an electrifying portrayal of one of the most controversial, ambitious and exciting presidents of the 20th century: President Lyndon Baines Johnson in ALL THE WAY. This STRICTLY LIMITED ENGAGEMENT of the gripping and suspenseful new play from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan features a company of 20 distinguished stage actors playing some of history's most dynamic figures: J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King, Jr., Governor George Wallace, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Secretary of Defense Robert J. McNamara and, of course, LBJ himself.
DETROIT - CITY PRIDE - PEOPLE OF DETROIT
My impression was that the people of Detroit that I encountered in the course of doing my many vlogs on Detroit were very friendly. But in retrospect I wish I would have made more of an effort to interview people even more than I did. It also struck me how eager people were to speak about Detroit in the context of America's Great Comeback City. I knew very little about Detroit before I started this series of vlog in October of 2017. With time I came to the realization of how great Detroit was at one point and even more astounded by how deep it fell as a city to a degree that I had seen no where else. Then the realization of the ongoing comeback story sunk in and amazed me to no end. So the people of Detroit for the most part take pride in what has been happening happening in the downtown core of the city. Yes as with every economic comeback there are winners and losers and the present gentrification of downtown Detroit is not without its critics. But the comeback had to start somewhere and that was the downtown core. With time it will spread to many parts outside the downtown core. Detroit was, not too long ago, a downtown core that most people living in the suburbs would avoid due to a feeling of lack of security. That has changed greatly as there is much draw people to the downtown such as professional sports, world class entertainment, a vibrant food scene and availability of accommodations at relatively low prices. There is much to attract the younger generation to find jobs and housing in the downtown core.
Join me as I talk with various Detroiters about their city and their lives.
Detroit is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest United States city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2017 estimated population of 673,104, making it the 23rd-most populous city in the United States. The metropolitan area, known as Metro Detroit, is home to 4.3 million people, making it the second-largest in the Midwest after the Chicago metropolitan area. Regarded as a major cultural center, Detroit is known for its contributions to music and as a repository for art, architecture and design.
Detroit is a major port located on the Detroit River, one of the four major straits that connect the Great Lakes system to the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The Detroit Metropolitan Airport is among the most important hubs in the United States. The City of Detroit anchors the second-largest regional economy in the Midwest, behind Chicago and ahead of Minneapolis–Saint Paul, and the 13th-largest in the United States.] Detroit and its neighboring Canadian city Windsor are connected through a tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge, the busiest international crossing in North America.[9] Detroit is best known as the center of the U.S. automobile industry, and the Big Three auto manufacturers General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler are all headquartered in Metro Detroit.
In 1701, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founded Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit, the future city of Detroit. During the 19th century, it became an important industrial hub at the center of the Great Lakes region. With expansion of the auto industry in the early 20th century, the city and its suburbs experienced rapid growth, and by the 1940s, the city had become the fourth-largest in the country. However, due to industrial restructuring, the loss of jobs in the auto industry, and rapid suburbanization, Detroit lost considerable population from the late 20th century to the present. Since reaching a peak of 1.85 million at the 1950 census, Detroit's population has declined by more than 60 percent.[4] In 2013, Detroit became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, which it successfully exited in December 2014, when the city government regained control of Detroit's finances.[10]
Detroit's diverse culture has had both local and international influence, particularly in music, with the city giving rise to the genres of Motown and techno, and playing an important role in the development of jazz, hip-hop, rock, and punk music. The erstwhile rapid growth of Detroit left a globally unique stock of architectural monuments and historic places, and since the 2000s conservation efforts managed to save many architectural pieces and allowed several large-scale revitalizations, including the restoration of several historic theatres and entertainment venues, high-rise renovations, new sports stadiums, and a riverfront revitalization project. More recently, the population of Downtown Detroit, Midtown Detroit, and various other neighborhoods has increased. An increasingly popular tourist destination, Detroit receives 19 million visitors per year.[11] In 2015, Detroit was named a City of Design by UNESCO, the first U.S. city to receive that designation.
ch 14) War Is The Health Of The State
chapter 14: A People's History (Of The United States) Howard Zinn.
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Chapter 14, War is the Health of the State covers World War I and the anti-war movement that happened during it, which was met with the heavily enforced Espionage Act of 1917. Zinn argues that the United States entered the war in order to expand its foreign markets and economic influence.
Ragamala Dance
Through an ancient southern Indian dance form, Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy of Ragamala Dance interpret worship of sacred waters. Here, Ragamala Dance perform their latest creation Ihara: Sacred Waters at the Southern Theater.
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Ayn Rand: Trauma Response - Prelude 17
AYN RAND: Trauma Response looks at the life of Ayn Rand, the controversial and influential writer and philosopher, who is partially responsible for this current searing moment in American politics. Rand’s philosophy, “objectivism” has captivated the alt-right movement in the US and is in special favor with the Tea Party and its friends in Washington. The president has said that Rand’s most well-known book, The Fountainhead “relates to everything.” Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum, was a Jewish girl born into czarist Russia in 1905 in St. Petersburg. Her father was a prosperous pharmacist but with the October Revolution of 1917 everything changed for the Rosenbaums. Their property was seized and they were plunged into poverty and chaos. These traumatic events led Alisa to leave Russia for the United States, change her name to Ayn Rand and move to Hollywood, where she began her astonishing career by writing “scenarios” for silent pictures. TRAUMA RESPONSE examines how Ayn Rand became one of America’s most influential writers and whose ideas about free-market capitalism shaped US and world economic policy and ushered in the age of Trump and Brexit.
The Builders Association Founded in 1994 and directed by Marianne Weems, The Builders Association is a New York-based performance and media company that creates original productions based on stories drawn from contemporary life. The company uses the richness of new and old tools to extend the boundaries of theater. Based on innovative collaborations, Builders’ productions blend stage performance, text, video, sound, and architecture to tell stories about human experience in the 21st century. From BAM to Bogata, Singapore to Melbourne, Minneapolis and Los Angeles to Budapest, The Builders Association’s OBIE award-winning shows have toured to major venues the world over.
Collaborating Artists: Marianne Weems, director; James Gibbs, dramaturg/writer; Dan Dobson, sound design; Hannah Heller, actor; Moe Angelos, actor/writer
The Builders would like to thank Cynthia Hedstrom and The Performing Garage, Helen Shaw and all of the great believers at Prelude.
Helen Shaw writes about theater and performance for Time Out New York, 4Columns, The Village Voice, American Theatre magazine and TheatreForum. She wrote the introduction to The Difficulty of Crossing a Field: Collected Plays by Mac Wellman (pub. University of Minnesota Press) and is at work on her own book on Wellman. She twice curated Prelude, has twice been an Obie judge, and she also teaches at NYU.
Upcoming
Upcoming: The Builders are also working on an adaptation of Henry James’ Turn of the Screw, which will be at BAM in 2018.
‘I’m Working Like A Dog’: Frey On First Days As Minneapolis Mayor
He spoke with Jason DeRusha and Ali Lucia about affordable housing, the Super Bowl and police-community relations (3:00). WCCO This Morning – Jan. 11, 2018
Local lawmaker plays role in state Capitol renovation
For more than a hundred years, the Minnesota State Capitol has attracted people for hearings, protests and special events.
It is not a museum. It is not a modern office building, said Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope. It is an opportunity for people to watch government at work.
Rest has been a part of that government since 1985, serving in both the House and Senate. In those 32 years of being in office, she's seen the building show its age. The interior pipes would rust and burst and the exterior marble was falling apart.
Well, the building was falling down, she said. It got to the point where we had to put up some canopies to keep the pieces of marble that were coming loose from the facade of the building from falling on people walking by.
Everyone who used the building on a daily basis knew it was time for some serious upkeep. The Capitol first opened in 1905 and it hadn't undergone a major renovation since. Now, after four years of construction and more than $300 million spent, tens of thousand of people will come to celebrate the grand reopening this weekend.
This is literally a once-in-a-lifetime event, said Matt Massman, commissioner of the State Department of Administration, which is overseeing the weekend celebration. There's going to be fun for people of all ages and interests. It's going to be a great set of three-day events.
Those events will things such include public tours, concerts and food. But ultimately visitors will get to see a structure that fits the original vision of its architect, Cass Gilbert, with a host of modern amenities.
All of the marble and stone work, interior and exterior, all of the artwork has been restored and worked on. It really is just a massive project that puts the building in good shape for generations to come, Massman said.
The Capitol celebration begins Friday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and goes through Sunday. Event organizers encourage people to use free public transit to get to the festivities. Parking is also free in several state-run lots and ramps.
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