HOLD TIGHT is a collaborative ceramic art show by Minneapolis potters, Emily Mohrbacher and Yessica Buenrostro. The exhibition combines handmade ceramic wares with local produce, feminist theory and a smack of humor.

Through these mediums, their work investigates:

the role of mothers + experiences of child rearing, sexual liberation and sexual politics, the significance of food in women's bodies and the home and the realities of growing up female in our patriarchal world.
 

Join us Friday June 19th from 7-11pm for a skateboard-influenced print assembly. Proudly presented by Rift, Annex Skateboards and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

RIFT is an open collaboration focusing on documenting and influencing skateboard culture. Jacob Durham and Josh Manoles spend their time globetrotting between Long Beach, California, Portland, Oregon, Europe, Japan, Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota, using skateboarding as a means of cultural exchange and documentation.

Two screens will be set up for live screen printing of two custom Rift graphics; as well as shirts, a sticker machine, and skateboards will be for sale. Rift films will be playing all evening long as well as its soundtracks composed by Jacob Durham.

Coinciding with the Rift Print Assembly, it will be the closing reception of Prøve's exhibition "Tunnel Vision". 

As always, free to all ages. Free Pabst Blue Ribbon for the 21+ crowd. 

Join us on Monday, June 1, for an informal gathering to meet the artist and learn more about his project. On Tuesday, June 2, Moheb will lead small groups of volunteers on excursions from the gallery to create interactive pieces, which will ultimately become part of a final, immersive film and performative installation detailing his travels. 
Admission to both events is free. 

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SKATE THE LAKE is back on May 22nd! We will be meeting at Beacon Pointe (2099 Water St // bottom of 21st Ave E) and skating the Lake Walk to PRØVE Gallery (21 N Lake Ave). Once at Prøve, there will be free pizza from Pizza Luce as well as sodas and beer (brews for the 21+). MEET AT 5PM!
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On Saturday, March 28th, 2015, 7:30 pm, Prove Gallery, Connie Wanek, a prolific poet with Duluth roots, will be reading from her latest book.

Support local, underground zine publishers! 

Join us in celebration of our 3rd annual zine party and 7 years of publishing Minerva zine. There will be original zine art work, readings, food, beverages, and local music by Israel Malachi starting at 6 pm and Black Diary later in the evening.

Join us for a collaborative presentation on activating vacant commercial property with temporary visual displays, aka "pop ups."

Joan Vorderbruggen will share images and storytelling from her project, Made Here, which is the largest storefront initiative of it's kind in the nation, currently hosting 38 visual displays over 16 city blocks in downtown, Mpls.

Jami Rosenthal who leads Duluth Pop Up Galleries will also give an update about this project that hopes to add to the beauty of downtown Duluth with the help of local artists! This project produces galleries in storefront windows that are accessible anytime, day or night, and appealing even to those who might not usually engage in art spaces.

http://www.madeheremn.org/

Animal Allies Humane Society will be kicking off 2015 with new ideas, new leadership, and an exciting new event:  the New Year’s Celebration Social.  The event will be a festive and casual night where guests will enjoy delicious appetizers, fun music, wine and beer.  Attendees will have the opportunity to mingle and visit with our staff, volunteers, and board members.  Animal Allies Humane Society will be sharing its hopes and dreams to support the mission in 2015.  So come and join your fellow animal lovers at the New Year's Celebration Social and see what Animal Allies has in store for 2015!  Tickets are just $25.  For more information, contact Beth at 218-623-6358 orbeth@animalallies.net

For more information, visit Animal Allies at

https://www.facebook.com/animalallies

Brian has written for Alba, All Music Guide, Arts Indiana, The Bark, The Big Jewel, Blues Revue, City Pages, Elephant Journal, elimae,
The Evergreen Review, Gigantic, Guitar World Acoustic, Guffaw,
Gulf Coast, Hobart, Juked, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, METRO, mnartists.org, Monkeybicycle, Opium, Paper Darts, Phoebe, Publishers Weekly,
The Quarterly, Rain Taxi, The Rake, Revolver, Seventeen,
The Sycamore Review, The Writer and Yankee Pot Roast.

He’s performed comedy at the 331 Club, Art Shanties Project 2010, Bedlam Theatre, Brave New Workshop, Bryant Lake Bowl, Club Jager, Dangerous Man Brewing, KFAI’s Listening Lounge, MPR’s Fitzgerald Theater, The Hollywood Improv, 2010 and 2011 Minnesota Fringe Festivals, Nomad World Pub, Northern Spark 2013, Northrop Memorial Auditorium, The Playwrights’ Center, The Ritz Theater,
The Soap Factory, Teatro Zuccone, Triple Rock Social Club, Trylon Microcinema, The Turf Club, Walker Art Center, Widespot Performing Arts Center, Wild River Festival, WMSE’S Wild Wild Midwest Variety Show and the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis.

For two years Brian hosted “You Are Hear,” a monthly literary podcast, for mnartists.org, a joint project of the Walker Art Center and the McKnight Foundation.

http://brianbeattympls.com/about/