Arts & Entertainment – Page 2

Regina Williams, left, Thomasina Petrus and Austene Van discuss the play “Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill” with students in Writing 300: Creative Writers, Identity and Race in the Twin Cities, on the Midway campus on June 4, 2018. Photo by Kathryn Ganfield

‘On Stage’ program brings live theater to college classrooms

Post Author:Kathryn Ganfield
Post published:February 26, 2019
Post Category:Arts

Three Twin Cities theater professionals brought Billie Holiday's jazz to life for a Metro State creative writing class.

A performer at FAWK’s Clapback Cabaret on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018 at the Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center, 788 East 7th Street, St. Paul. Photo by Mai Houa Xiong.

Combating racial stereotypes with comedy

Post Author:Mai Houa Xiong
Post published:January 22, 2019
Post Category:Arts

The Funny Asian Women Kollective (FAWK) hosts comedic cabarets to clap back at racism and discrimination.

Minnesota author Sarah Stonich, center, discusses her memoir “Shelter: Off the Grid in the Mostly Magnetic North” with members of the Dayton’s Bluff Book Club at the Metropolitan State Library and Learning Center on Nov. 7, 2018. Photo by Margot M. Barry

Bonding over books

Post Author:Margot Barry
Post published:January 22, 2019
Post Category:Arts

The Dayton's Bluff Book Club picks books by Minnesota and Midwest authors, with a particular eye to social justice. Members meet monthly in the Metro State Library.