Events & Activities
January, 2009
23rd - 25th
Rainbow Couples Retreat
Location: White Rose Inn
Wisconsin Dells WI
Retreat for committed couples to relax, participate in workshops designed to develop skills that improve relationships - led by LGBT friendly psychologist in a private, enjoyable atmosphere. For a brochure or information contact Lisa at 414-841-8184 Housing can be viewed at White Rose Inn website www.thewhiterose.com
31st
Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra's 2nd Annual "Get to Know the MPO" Salon and Silent Auction
Location: Park House
2120 Park Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55404
Join the MPO for it's second annual Salon and Silent Auction on Saturday, January 31 from 7:00PM-9:00PM. The MPO's own string quartet and wind quintet will be featured performers and music director Joe Schlefke will speak at this event. Come to hear members of the MPO perform, enjoy desserts and beverages, and bid on silent auction items. Admission is FREE!!
February, 2009
20th
DEREK
Location: Walker Art Center Cinema
Director Isaac Julien (Looking for Langston, Young Rebel Souls) creates a touching portrait of artist Derek Jarman. As a fighter for gay liberation and for the rights of people with AIDS, the disease to which he succumbed in 1994, Jarman made films that were not just artful, but also politically and socially engaged. Actress Tilda Swinton, his conifdante and star of many of his films, guides viewers through Derek, highlighting the artistic rigor of his work and its effect on the British film community. Screening begins at 7:30 pm.
21st
JUBILEE
Location: The Walker Art Center Cinema
Directed by Derek Jarman. As audacious today as it was more than 30 years ago, Jarman's time-travel fantasy sends Queen Elizabeth 400 years into the future, to a glitter punk-popluated United Kingdom. With star turns by the Slits, trans-gender legend Wayne County, Little Nell, Toyah Wilcox, and a pre-Prince Charming Adam Ant, Jubliee is an anarchic cult classic with a pounding score that includes Siouxsie and the Banshees, Brian Eno, and the Sex Pistols. 1977, 100 minutes. Screening will begin at 2 pm.
21st
CARAVAGGIO
Location: Walker Art Center Cinema
Jarman's breathrough film was also the first to feature his compartriot and muse Tilda Swinton (as the prostitue Lena). Using a bold visual style that evokes Caravaggio's baroque paintings, Jarman also embraces the transgressive history of this painter, who scandized his patrons by using thieves, gamblers, and male lovers as models for his commissions. 1986, 93 minutes. The screening begins 7:30 pm.
22nd
SEBASTIANE
Location: Walker Art Center Cinema
Directed by Derek Jarman. A reinterpretation of the tale of Saint Sebastian, one of the early martyred Christian saints, with a gay sensibility. Jarman recasts his hero as a homoerotic resistance fighter refusing the advances of a Roman Army captain, in what is most likely the first film shot entirely in Latin. 1975, Latin with English subtitles, 90 minutes. The screening will begin 2 pm.
26th
Jarman's Music Films
Location: Walker Art Center Cinema
Jarman's oppsitional cinema allied him with musicians who shared a similiar aesthetic. Marianne Faithfull worked with him on a series of films to illustrate her dark album, Broken English (1979). Using Super-8 footage shot in Russia at the end of the Cold War, the filmmaker collaborated with Benjamin Britten, David Ball, and Genesis P-Orrige to complete Imagining October (1984), about the connections between the revolutionary spirit of the Soviet Union and that of Thatcherite Britain. Later, he was commissioned to create The Queen Is Dead, a series of 35mm promotional films for a project by the Smiths (1986). 62 minutes. The screening will begin 8:30 pm and admission is free.
March, 2009
27th - 28th
Food, Glorious Food
Location: Ted Mann Concert Hall
2128 Fourth St. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Featuring Special Guest Lynne Rossetto Kasper from The Splendid Table®
Devouring tasty melodies, savory tunes, and sweet songs, the Chorus will delight the palate with a sumptuous feast of musical delights! Come hungry, leave satisfied. This concert promises to be a feast for the ears as well as the appetite.
Both concerts begin at 8 p.m.
