October 17-19, 23-27 and 30, 31

Skin Tight by Gary Henderson directed by Sarah Nargang is a story that is nostalgic and melancholy, joyous and grotesque. It's a story we all face each day, a journey we volunteer for and in the same breath, are forced to play out. It's a voyage along the road never taken and the trodden and true. Skin Tight is a glimpse into the strange, indefinable, epic adventure of human interaction, attraction and all that falls within the vague area somewhere in between; Starring Leah Dutchin and Daniel Joeck. This is the Area Premiere of Skin Tight.

Saturday, September 27, 5-8pm

Sunday, September 28, 2-pm

Saturday, October 4, 2-8pm

This show represents many of the voices of Iraqi people in relation to their historical struggles. It is meant to reach out and build relationships with the outside world. We are building of communication based on mutual respect and appreciation though arts and culture.

Fridays- Saturdays from September 19 to 28

Friday - Sunday August 29th - 31st

Irascible libertarian playwright phillip low and the Maximum Verbosity comedy troupe, fresh off of their multi-Fringe tour, present a special director’s cut of their irreverent sketch comedy All Rights Reserved: A Libertarian Rage.

Fringe favorite The Nonsense Company, from California and Wisconsin, returns to Minneapolis to throw down some satirical songs. They’ll be performing as special guests with the Rockstar Storytellers, the infamous supergroup of ten of the Fringe’s biggest hit solo performers, in the late-night cabaret News in Briefs: Stories of Politics.

Saturday, August 9, 2008

A Celebration of Folkloric Dance from Mexico

Wednesday, July 23rd

An interactive art experience with those who work, play and live in South Minneapolis!

Friday June 20 - Sunday, June 22

Hayor Bibimma Dance will perform a benefit concert, in which some of the proceeds will go to an organization in Ghana, working with children who are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS.

Friday - Sunday June 13 - 15

SIX plays for the price of one! Comedy, Tragedy and Drama, Slapstick & Silliness! All in One exceptional evening of magnificent theater!

Fridays and Saturdays June 13 - 28th

Visual Art Exhibit of Artists and Work made a the Labor Room - a three-day open studio where artists from all disciplines share their art making with the public!

Thursday - Saturday July 10 - 12 & 17 - 19
Friday and Saturday July 25 & 26th

X-communicated Girls Scouts, having been thoroughly tested for shelf life and customer taste appeal, are uniquely designed and now come in 100% natural, individually wrapped slices with wholesome ingredients and extra whip.

Friday, May 23, Friday May 30 and Saturday, May 31

An improvised show where everybody’s got nothing but themselves.

Wednesday, May 28

A twist on an art fair focused on bringing greater exposure of the arts to Minneapolis high school students and giving them the freedom to explore art in their own terms.

Thursday, June 19

Structural Improvising Music

2 weekends
Thursday - Saturday
May 8 - 10 & May 15 - 17

Radio Traffic captures the dramatic tension of emergency services workers who struggle, in the absence of competent leadership or resources, to cope with the chaos and, ultimately, their sense of loss, surrounding an incident that overwhelms their capacity.

Friday and Saturday May 2 - 3

Staged reading of a new play by David P. O'Sullivan about dementia and euthanasia. With Marilyn Murray.

Friday - Sunday April 18 - 20
Friday - Saturday April 25 & 26

A Triple Bill Show With Maximum Verbosity, Kirsten Stephens And Dean Hatton that features Physycal Comedy with Silent And Verbal Text.

Sunday, April 13th

An evening of performance to benefit a documentary film about the writer/thinker Paula Gunn Allen.

Through April 12

A working mural prep studio where Coyote and his youth apprentices display and work ideas for small business murals to be painted around Minneapolis May - Sept 2008.

Friday, February 29th

A staged musical reading of Illinois Poet Sterling Plumpp's ode to Charlie Parker, Fred Anderson, The Velvet Lounge (Chicago, IL) and Be-Bop!

Fridays & Saturdays
February 15, 22nd and 23rd

The Story of Exodus from the Bible, new, improved, and delightfully anachronistic.

Concert - Sunday, February 24
Visual Exhibit February 19 - 26th

Freestyle Jazz
Jim Ryan alto/tenor sax, flute, spoken word, Dan Godston trumpet, Joel Wanek doublebass, Steve Hirsh drums, Alicia Mangan tenor saxophonist, Special Guests TBA

Watercolors and Monotype Prints

Saturday, December 8 and Sunday December 9

The New Directions Festival presents new works by emerging Asian American Artists.

This weekend: Asiamnesia, by Sun Mee Chomet

Sunday, December 9th

Open submission slide show exhibition and reception organized by MCAD students Drilling, Drutter and Bookler.

Friday, December 21st

Urban Hip - Hop concert with positive messages for youth encouraging education, life change.

Friday - Sunday November 9 - 11th
Thursday - Sunday 15 - 18th
Saturday, November 17th AD/ASL interpreted - (must be reserved 2 weeks in advance)

out of time. . . movement meditations play out absurd human strategy for water. extremes of public and private policy. . . your status determines your access. but all play a part. . .
can we turn back the water clock? role-play out the future before it happens and dissect the possibilities with us.

Through Saturday, October 27th

THE WORKS ON DISPLAY REPRESENT A PROGRESSION IN MY UNDERSTANDING OF NATURE, AND HUMANITY’S PLACE WITHIN THE NATURAL GOVERNING SYSTEMS.

Friday and Saturday September 14 & 15

The play makes a dramatic speculation in verse on the friendship between Diana, Princess of Wales and Mother Teresa cemented by their passion to eradicate land mines throughout the world. The play appeals to audiences younger and older, liberal to conservative, religious and nonreligious.

September 5th - October 7th, 2007

Digital photography and Acrylic painting often depicting places where the water and the land meet.

Friday - Sunday, September 7 - 9

Former Israeli Soldier, transgender playwright Ronny Almog and his original cast challenge our ideas about "the other sex" and our own in clever, funny, multi-media assault on cherished gender notions.

Friday, July 20

An artistic potluck around the issue of Youth and Militarism featuring a rich sampling of poets, dancers and musicians. This potluck, open to everyone in the community, is a kick-off event to a weekend strategy conversation about demilitarizing culture for our young people.

Wednesday, August 1st

Rejuvenation Trio:
Hasan Abdur-Razzaq - alto saxophone, processed cello.
Tom Abbs - Upright bass, cello
Ryan Jewell- trap set, tablas, found objects
With Special Guest - Douglas R. Ewart.

The Rejuvenation Trio represents an intersection of the impassioned, cathartic nature of 'energy music" and the subtleties and unique textures of modern improvised music.

The performance will be a free jazz trio performing spontaneous compositions with a high level of interaction and listening.

Sunday July 22, & 29

Play/sketch sessions for creative people of all stripes! Place to cure creative blocks, connect with new creative energy, test your limits, and create the cutting edge!

Wednesday, July 25

Ice Cream, interactive creative education, games, poetry, dance, freestyle, a jam session & more!

Monday, July 23

A zealous quest to save a friend’s life catapults a young girl into a magical world of old theatres, dance lessons and crystal shoes. Until a painful discovery pulls her back to the real world of limitations and disappointment… and a secret that shows her there are more choices than failure.

Saturday, July 21

Music performance / CD Release show for CoreSource Productions Compilation Vol. 1

July 6 - July 28

Modern African furniture and decorative objects inspired by my country, Burkina Faso, and Africa in general.

Through Sat July 28, 2007

Closing Reception Friday, July 20th, 6 -10pm

This is a documentary exhibition of sixty-six photographic images of artists participating in a three-day Open Studio, “The Labor Room: an open studio where visual artists from all disciplines share their art making with the public.” Attendees were able to view artists in the midst of their creative process. These images were taken during the third day of this Open Studio, Sunday, May 18, 2007.

Friday June 22 - Saturday, June 30th

Kenneth Caldwell’s body of work is insightful and filled with authenticity. His art represents African American aesthetics from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts movement to Jazz, R&B, Hip Hop and Southern Blues.

Through Saturday, June 16th

A Month Long group exhibit of work made during the Labor Room and by Labor Room Artists

Saturday, May 19th

Bringing people together to share music, poetry, and other arts to form a strong community and cultural consciousness.

Sunday, May 27th

Members of Sound Ideas will perform Music and Poetry for an intimate evening of creation.

Sunday, May 20

An afternoon of improvised music & a jam session w/ Carei Thomas, Mankwe Ndosi, Walter Kitundu, Douglas R. Ewart, Donald Washington and special guests.

June 15, 16, 18, 22, 23

A modern-day riff on the love, gender confusion and other themes of Shakespeare's romantic comedy "As You Like It."

Tuesday, May 1st

Marie Sheppard Williams will read from her book, The God Stories; and Denise duMaurier will read poems from her new book, Abandoning the Raft.

Saturday & Sunday May 5 and 6
Friday - Sunday May 11 - 13

A double-bill of physical comedy for all ages.

Friday and Saturday, April 13th & 14th

New Voices in Native Media honors youth and new filmmakers. A special reception opens this two-night mini-film festival; the filmmakers and their families are invited to talk about their films. The juried selection of short films, videos, and animations are shown at local screening rooms around the Twin Cities.

March 26 - April 22

Exhibiting works that span over two and a half decades and a variety of media.The show features McMahon's most recent series of humorously insightful paintings pitting iconic superheroes against the trivial annoyances faced everyday by mere mortals.

Thursday - Saturday, March 8 - March 10

A comedy about murder
in conjunction with week 19 of
365 Plays in 365 Days by Suzan-Lori Parks

Mothers' Day Weekend

Friday - Sunday May 11-13, 2007

Bring your Mom to the Labor Room to witness the birth of art!

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Queer Quaker and "ex-ex-gay" theatrical activist Peterson Toscano will be having an "Evening with Peterson." Peterson will do excerpts from his various performances, interspersed with time for Q&A.

Opening Reception & Party
Friday, March 16, 2007

Visual collaborative is a group exhibit/Networking event focused on professional, unaffiliated visual artists from around the country, working in a variety of media. Work includes new media design, abstract print design, digital abstract art, and oil painting.

Wednesday. February 14

A fun and comical review of Hip-Hop: it’s culture and it’s influence on America through dance, sound and visual creations. You will be throughtly entertained by this well known and up and coming cast of artists.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Learn about the history of the Center
Engage in Creative Dialogue on Critical Ideas
Tour and hear stories from the Center.
Pre-view upcoming workshops and performances
Pre-view Center offerings for 2007
Meet directors and advisors of the Center

Saturday - Sunday, June 2 & 3
and June 8 - 10, 2007

The Body Project explores the impact of cultural and societal expectations on how individuals experience their bodies.

Thursday, February 22 and Friday February 23

A cabaret by Magician David Harris and Performance Artist David Harris

Friday thru Sunday January 26 - 28, 2007

Is the man in the orange jumpsuit really our Lord locked up with a bunch of Muslim terrorists? Or is he just nuts?

Friday - Sunday April 20 - 29

Charley is loosing it. No wonder. He is trying to close a deal that will guarantee retirement in Florida (or is it Mexico?). Problem is, his accomplices (who, along with him, are trying in vain to stage the last show in an interrupted run of Death of a Salesman) have other ideas about Charley's future.

January 8 - 27, 2007
Extended through Feb 9, 2007 Sat. : Noon - 4:00 PM

Opening Recepton: Mon. Jan. 8, 6:00 - 9:00 PM.

Artworks juxtaposing the scientific perceptions and the more emotional or sensory perceptions of time travel.

Saturday, September 16th

A community celebration of the creative human spirit. Making art and inspiration outside in the park as the sun goes down. Led by artists and youth fron our community.

Friday, August 25, 06

Portrait of my heart
Free and open to the public

Visual Art Exhibit September 12 - 29

A visual arts event where artists made work live in the studio for the public to watch. Now come to see the exhibit of the work and the artists who participated.

August 11, 2006

A public lecture accompanying an exhibition of Arab art.

Friday, August 11, 2006
Opening Reception and Public Lecture by
art historian Sana Makhoul , 7-10 PM

Gallery Hours: Tues. - Sat.12 Noon - 5pm,
Wednesdays until 9pm and by appointment. Friday, August 25, 2006
Panel Discussion: 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Performance: 8:00 - 9:00PM
Exhbition: Aug. 25-Sept. 2, 06

Participating Artists:
Haider Al-Amery – Iraq
Hend Al-Mansour – Saudi Arabia
Jumana Al-Hashal – Jordan
Heba Amin – Egypt
Saed Kakish - Jordan
Fatima Maghdoui – Morocco
Mona Peterson-Rosow – Egypt/USA
Adnan Shati – Iraq

Visual art exhibits open July 16. Performances are July 28 - August 14, 2005

An amazing kaleidescope of theater, music, performance puppetry and visual art, with something different every hour.

July 22-23

Created and Performed by Andrew Kim
Direction and Music by Kathy Bradley

July 28 - Aug 16, 2004

a festival of plays, music, performance art, puppetry and film.

February 6 - March 14, 2004

All original, solo performances by a dynamic collection of actors, dancers, puppeteers and performance artists.

July 31 - Aug 10, 2003

More than 50 artists presenting 25 events (plays, music, films, performance art and storytelling) in 1 affordable, accesible, air conditioned location. FREE PARKING

May 10, 2003

Food, music, performances, exhibits, an art fair and fun for all ages

May 8-25, 2003

by Charissa Uemura
a documentary photography project about women, drumming and Asian American life

January 23, 2003

October 2-24, 2004; ASL Interpreted by Jules Peterson on Sat, Oct 23;

Written and performed by Carlyle Brown

NOV 9, 2003 - APRIL 4, 2004, once a month on Sundays

December 2002

performance poetry with Nasreen Mohamed and Juliana Pegues

August 2002

Plays, music, spoken word, dance and visual art exhibits.

A City Pages A-list Recommended Event

April 1-3, Stages Theatre, Houston

"...a terrific night of storytelling..." City Pages

Feb 13, 2001

Center for Independent Artists presents WANT, a wordless mask play on the comedy of fear and desire...

City Pages: Best Production of 2001

A unique theater experience seen through the touch of hands and the mind's eye...