Thanks to Romi Slowiak and EAST SIDE PRIDE for the their enthusiasm! We’re very excited to bring Tales of Hoffmann: A Picnic Operetta to audiences on the East Side of St. Paul. Romi Slowiak sat for an interview about this opera and our special symposium, Quick Quips of Hoffmann at the Weequah Canue Club.
On September 1st we’ll sit for songs and snacks while we discuss Offenbach’s work with opera singer and anthropoligist Professor William Beeman. We hope you can join us.
Call to RSVP and receive direction to the Weequah.
Click here to read more about Professor William Beeman, Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Minnesota. Professor Beeman has specialized in variety of disciplines, including linguistics, Central Asian Studies and Performance Studies.
We are gearing up for our opening in a couple weeks… and we’re excited to invite all of you to a special preview performance on FRIDAY August 21st at 6:00pm with SIP n SAMPLE.
SIP n SAMPLE is a network of foodies and dedicated restaurant goers who love trying new culinary adventures. It will be a treat to introduce them to our garden / dinning / opera excursion, especially at the EAT STREET COMMUNITY GARDEN.
You can reserve a spot on-line through their site.
Here’s a video with SIP n SAMPLE founder Delany Collins speaking about our project.
Wow! Look our fabulous screen printed posters are being completed!
Angela Sprunger created these limited edition prints. Look for them in a garden (or breakroom) near you!
Thanks to the Mill City Farmer’s Market for hosting a group of our singers for a preview interlude on Saturday July 24th. We had a lot of fun presenting our music among the hustle and bustle of market activity.
Meredith Cain-Nielsen and Eric Pearson call in the gondola's at the Mill City Farmer's Market
Meredith Cain-Nielsen, Carmelita Guse and Lauren Drasler at play in the garden! Thanks to Ty Sassaman for the photo.
The members cast of the picnic operetta will be singing short preview selections at a gallery opening on FRIDAY July 16th 7:00 — 10:30 at Chakra Khan Massage and Asian Body Work! Please join us. Proceeds will support the 2010 Picnic Operetta!
Located in the Ivey Building
in the Seward Neighborhood
2637 27th Avenue South #216b
Minneapolis, MN 55406
(612) 247-8789
Click HERE for more information about CSA Love and HERE for more information about Chakra Khan.
Also we are pleased to announce our 2010 tour dates! Please see below for more information about our garden sites. Maps will be coming soon!
Mixed Precipitation presents
TALES of HOFFMANN: A Picnic Operetta
August 21st – September 26th
Voluntary Donations Appreciated $10 – $20
Performance Calendar
August 21 – Eat Street Community Garden, 2416 1st Avenue South, Minneapolis
August 22 — Eat Street Community Garden, 2416 1st Avenue South, Minneapolis
August 28 – Birchwood Community Garden, Vernon Avenue South and West 26th Street, St. Louis Park
August 29 – JD Rivers’ Children’s Garden, Glenwood Avenue and Washburn Ave. North, Theodore Wirth Park
***ASL SERVICES PROVIDED at the JD Rivers’ Children’s Garden
September 4 – Soo Line Community Garden, Garfield Avenue and the Greenway, Minneapolis
September 5 – Midway Greenspirit Community Garden, Taylor and Hamline Avenue, St. Paul
September 11 – Urban Farming Community Garden, 12th and Morgan Ave North, Minneapolis
September 12 – Gateway Trail Community Garden, 300 Arlington Avenue at Mississippi Street, St. Paul
September 18 — Swede Hollow Park, East Beaumont Street and Payne Avenue, St. Paul
September 19 – Bronx Park Community Garden, 2500 Georgia Avenue and Cedar Lake Trail, St. Louis Park
***AUDIO DESCRIPTION PROVIDED at the Bronx Park Garden
September 25 – Augsburg Community Garden, 20th Avenue South and S. 6th Street, Minneapolis
September 26— Corner Copia Student Organic Farm, Cleveland and Larpenteur Avenue, Falcon Heights
Tickets: 612.619.2112
Donation appreciated, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Meredith Cain-Nielsen as the crafty courtesan Guiliette, Carmelita Guse as the afflicted Antonia, Lauren Drasler as the austere automaton Olympia. Photo Credit-Ty Sassaman
Hello friends and supporters of the Picnic Operetta and Mixed Precipitation!
Thanks to all who attended A Midsummer Swig.
The Company thanks the crowd with song!
Thank for your support of our summer project. We had an excellent time! It was fun to share the tastes and flavors of summer on a beautiful evening. We’re so thankful to have your support as we continue our work–presenting opera and celebrating urban agriculture.
Nick Schneider prepares an impressive spread with produce and provisions donated from Gardens of Eagan, Linden Hills Co-op, Seward Co-op, Local D’Lish and Rustica Bread–as well as his own garden creations.
Our name, Mixed Precipitation, comes from my personal experience as a year round biker. I found that whenever I heard the words ‘mixed precipitation’ in the forecast it meant the worst biking weather imaginable—slush, rain, sleet, snow and ice–precipitation that exists between solid, liquid and gaseous forms. My aversion turned to affection as I began thinking of how I was consistently drawn to performance work that exists between multiple forms of expression. With the involvement of our team of collaborators, we have made a tradition presenting theatrical work that encourages multiple forms of human interaction (singing, dancing, dining and celebrating the urban landscape!)
And it is your support that makes this possible!
In the future you can expect work of a similar nature. Recently proposed projects have included Wagner’s The Ring Cycle presented in melodramatic installments for Vikings tailgaters and William Schumann’s A Mighty Casey (an oratorio based on Casey at the Bat) presented outside Target Field.
We’d love to hear your ideas!
Don, Ted and Birk poured seasonal cocktails with passion and expertise! Thanks to the Bradstreet Crafthouse!
We are just a week away from announcing our summer schedule.
We’ll be kicking off our season with the premiere of Tales of Hoffmann: A Picnic Operetta at the Eat Street Community Garden on August 21st at 4:00 where some of the local mediums will assist so you can get your psychic reading.
In the meantime, please support those who donated to our solstice benefit: Bradstreet Crafthouse, Local D’Lish,Linden Hills Co-op, Seward Co-op and Codespace!
Also, on July 27th, our chef, Nick Schneider is serving his signature TAVOLA FRESCA, a monthly garden dinner experience. I think you’d all enjoy this lovely evening. See his web-site for information about how to RSVP.
http://www.latavolafresca.com/
Nick Schneider is ready to take on his next culinary challenge, but maybe he’ll enjoy a beverage first!
Enjoy this lovely mix of rain, sun and humidity!
Shelia Regan and Jeanne Calvit enjoyed Nick’s Chicken and Duck Liver Pate!The crowd enjoys summer music outside Codespace.
Ethan Brinkmann / The Beat Heist spun the awesome tunes!The music flowed after sundown thanks to Brother Jeremiah.
As the weather warms, we’ve set our sites on the summer. We’re anxious to bring back the picnic operetta, this year with TALL TALES of HOFFMANN, our vision of Jacques Offenbachs 1851 masterpiece of impossible love, sinister villains and the poet’s search for inspiration.
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve received the St. Louis Park Arts and Culture Grant, our first grant of 2010. With this money will be able to host weekday school performances in September! And we’re holding auditions this weekend!
And I wrote an article about site specific performance for Minnesota Playlist. READ IT HERE.
WHAT:Mpls Autotelic: An Evening of Symbolism and Decadence
WHO: Mixed Precipitation and Nightpath Theatre presents the work of directors Terry Hempleman, Maggie Scanlan, performance artists Jennifer Arave, choreographer April Sellers and singer Erik Pearson, currated by Scotty Reynolds
WHEN: Thursday through Saturday March 4, 5 and 6 and March 11, 12 and 13 at 7:30.
WHERE: Interact Center / Colonial Warehouse Building, 212 3rd Avenue North. Please enter through the Inside Out Gallery on North 2nd Street; the performance will unfold throughout the building from there. Promenade style will require audience movement through various configurations in the Colonial Warehouse.
TICKETS and INFORMATION: Please call 612.619.2112 for reservations. The building is 100% accessible. Seating is very limited, please call ahead for reservations. Visit www.mixedprecipitation.wordpress.com for additional information.
(Minneapolis, MN) Five creators join forces to bring you a traveling evening of live performance! In this evening of drama, dance, music and short form performance we examine the symbolist arts and the decadent movement–literary movements driven by the artists desire to explore the self, the conscious world and darkness beneath our reality. Autotelic (au·to·te·lic) is an adjective used to describe the “inner-directed” and “self motivated” process of creation.
Our line-up includes Sage Award winning Choreographer April Sellers and many fresh names in the world of performance.
Director Maggie Scanlan takes on Madame Rachilde’s The Crystal Spider and Paul Margriette’s Pierrot: Assasin of His Wife. Actor Terry Hempleman returns to the directors chair with Wallace Steven’s Carlos Among the Candles and Jennifer Arave creates an original solo titled Expect theUnexpected: A Study in Entropy and April Sellers creates a duet with dancer Kay Krischt, titled Acceptable Doses. Eric Pearson will perform a cycle of songs by Claude Debussey and Francis Poulenc.
Jennifer Arave's Expect the Unexpected: A Study in EntropyKay Kirscht and April Sellers in Reasonable Doses
Mixed Precipitation is new performance group committed to exploring text, space and dramatic form. The company was founded in 2009 by Scotty Reynolds with an eye to create events of distinctive social interaction with a commitment to building relationships among independent artists and communities. Previous projects have included MPLS Pinter Studies and Orpheus and Eurydice: A Picnic Operetta. Maggie Scanlan’s Nightpath Theatre has presented work for the European cannon, including The Balcony by Jean Genet and The Devils by John Whiting. Her 2008 production of How I Learned to Drive was named in Lavender Magazine’s top 10 of 2008.
MPLS PINTER STUDIES
Performance Calendar
Presented at the Interact Center / Colonial Warehouse Building
The Ensemble sings "He gave her a good whack..." Jeff Gillooly pleads with Tonya
We got the crowd pumped up for the Olympics and pumped up for our performances in February!
We’re bringing the fun to BOTH sides of the river next month. There will be a chance to cheer on the opera, a chance to cheer on your favorite figure skaters and a chance to compete in our figure skating trivia competition!
TONYA and NANCY: The Opera
Performance Calendar
Tuesday February 23rd at 6:30 and 8:30 at the Bedlam Theatre (1501 South 6th Street, Minneapolis)
Figure skating broadcast, demonstrations and trivia occur between performances
Thursday, February 25th at 6:30 and 8:30 at Camp Bar (490 Robert Street North, St. Paul)
Figure skating broadcast, demonstrations and figure skating trivia occur between performances–There’s even a Medal Ceremony!
Thanks to Ty Sassaman and Mark Bimson for taking photos and Video of our performance at the Art Shanties!
That’s right, Mixed Precipitation and the Dead Composers Society are teaming up to present TONYA and NANCY: THE OPERA.
Music by Abigail Al-Doory Cross, Libretto by Elizabeth Searle
The events of the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics and the knee clubbing scandle come to life as Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan become duelling American singing divas!
Lead Reddy and Meredith Cain-Nielsen
We’ll be previewing the show with brief interludes at the Art Shanties. Here is a link to directions (it’s about 15 minutes from downtown Mpls).
Look for us Saturday January 30th at 11:30 and 12:30 and Sunday January 31st at 1:30 and 2:30.
Look for the shanty with the stocking cap!
Thanks to Julie Kesti and her partners at the Art Swap Shanty for offering to be our hosts! Bring some art to share as well, and you can swap it for a fresh piece for your home. To read about their awesome art sharing project, check out their blog.
Meredith Cain-Nielsen returns to take on the role of tough girl Tonya Harding. She’ll contend with Leah Reddy as the prim Nancy Kerrigan.
Lauren Drasler, Jacob LaSota, Kitten Stoekler and Jason Vogen are featured in the cast.
Mike Meyer is our music director. Scotty Reynolds is directing.
Thanks to Ty Sassman for these great photos.
Mike Meyer and Leah Reddy examine the complicate score by Abigail Al-Doory Cross
