Thursday, April 26
Photographer
Cal Rice presents his images and story from his trip to Emerging Bhutan, at the Brainerd Library, 6 p.m.
“Pecha kucha” is the Japanese word for
“chitchat.” Pecha Kucha Night is a way to meet new people, learn new things,
and have a laugh. Speakers share their
experiences, hobbies, artwork, and just about anything else in six-minute-forty-second
presentations. No theme, no advertising, anyone can present. During
intermission, audience members and presenters mingle. It’s hosted at Bemidji’s Hungry
Bear Banquet and Conference Center, at 6:30 p.m.
Friendships
are stretched to the breaking point - by a painting - in Art: a play by Yasmina Reza.
The local production will be staged at Central Lakes College Dryden Theater
this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30.
Saturday, April 28
At Aitkin’s Jaques Art Center: Digital
photography classes are offered
Saturday: Dee Kotaska offers a free
lecture at 9 a.m. with additional classes to follow throughout the day.
Poet Sean Hill delves into history through poetry Saturday, 1 p.m., at Beltrami
History Center. What was it like to live through the Great Depression,
Reconstruction, Prohibition, or the Civil Rights Era? Hill will read and discuss his and other
poets’ work and strategies for creating poetry with the materials provided by
history. Sean Hill is the author of Blood
Ties & Brown Liquor.
Tu Dance, the Twin Cities dance group, is back by
popular demand at the Edge Center in Bigfork, at 7:00.
Sunday, April 29
Bemidji Symphony Orchestra closes its season with “American
History,” featuring a new Chris Brubeck composition called Roosevelt in Cowboy Land narrated by Clay Jenkinson. The concert starts at 3 at Bemidji High
School.
The Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota is
celebrating its tenth anniversary season. The spring concert includes Mozart’s Requiem, with chamber orchestra. Performances are on Thursday at Lord of Life
Lutheran Church, Baxter; 7:30 p.m.; Saturday at Franciscan Sisters Convent,
Little Falls; 7:30 p.m.; and
Sunday at Tornstrom Auditorium in Brainerd at 3:30.
Minnesota
History Datebook
April 26, 1896 Edward J. Thye is born
in South Dakota. As Minnesota’s 26th
governor in the mid-1940s, Thye became the first farmer to hold the office. He would reduce the state debt, increase
old-age assistance, expand state institutions, establish a human rights
commission, the Iron Range Rehabilitation Commission, and approve a health-care
plan for state employees. He was a
Republican. As a senator from 1947 to 1958, he would be one of seven to sign a
"declaration of conscience" against communist witch-hunter Joseph
McCarthy. He died at his farm near Northfield in 1969.
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