City: Mankato

Kyle Fokken employs vintage ‘toy’ and ‘folk art’ aesthetics as a way to talk about the passing down of cultural values from one generation to the next. His goal is to entice the audience with ‘fun’ imagery that one sees in toys and folk art.

Gallery hours 8:00am – 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday

Hosted by Twin Rivers Council for the Arts.

The exhibition runs from November 1-24 and is sponsored by Meyer & Norland Financial Group.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Your Hy-Vee registered dietitian will conduct a simple blood test, and review the results with you immediately following the test.

Hemoglobin A1C is a blood test that individuals living with diabetes use to manage their blood glucose levels, and provides information about an individual’s average levels of blood glucose over a two- to three-month period.

Appointments can be made online here, at Customer Service, via phone (507.625.1107), or email (HEllison@hy-vee.com). Walk-ins are welcome but appointments will be given priority.

Workshops start at 3pm. Performances at 7pm.

The Minnesota State Mankato Performance Series welcomes Caravan du Nord on Friday, November 1 in the Earley Center for Performing Arts, 320 Maywood Ave.

The Caravan du Nord is a traveling showcase of Minnesota music, bringing top regional acts, emerging bands and music industry professionals to towns across Greater Minnesota for a day of workshops, networking and performances. Sponsored by 89.3 The Current, this annual fall tour has presented more than 200 artists to audiences totaling more than 10,000. The Caravan du Nord is an ongoing project of the Minnesota Music Coalition.

The lineup for the Mankato portion of the tour includes the following:

• 3:00 – 3:50: Tour headliner Reina del Cid Songwriting Workshop (PA102)
• 4:00 – 4:50: Katy Vernon Mental Health for Musicians Workshop (PA102)
• 5:30 – 6:30: Music Industry Social Hour (Weggy’s on Campus)
• 7:00 – 7:30: Katy Vernon (Halling Recital Hall)
• 7:45 – 8:30: Maria and The Coins (Halling Recital Hall)
• 8:45 – 9:45: Reina del Cid (Halling Recital Hall)

Reina del Cid is a singer songwriter and leader of the eponymous folk-rock band based in Minnesota. Her song-a-week video series, Sunday Mornings with Reina del Cid, has amassed 30 million views on YouTube and collected a diverse following made up of everyone from jamheads to college students to white-haired intelligentsia. In 2011 she began collaborating with Toni Lindgren, who is the lead guitarist on all three of Del Cid’s albums, as well as a frequent and much beloved guest on the Sunday Morning videos.

In the past dozen or so years, Katy Vernon has established herself as one of the busiest musicians in Minnesota, combining melodic pop/folk songwriting with her twangy Americana band. Vernon has won numerous songwriting awards and was also a finalist in the New Song contest at Kerrville Folk Festival (Texas).

Maria and the Coins bundle big-picture pop ambition into earnest, indie sensibility. The five-some have distinguished themselves in the Minneapolis alt-rock scene by fusing singer-songwriter driven pop hooks with the vulnerability and honesty of an indie band.

The 2019 Caravan du Nord is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call the Performance Series office, (507) 389-5549.

Free Standard FNM

4:30 pm – 6:30 pm

• No entry free.
• Standard Magic format.
• First and second place gets free entry into the Paid FNM tournament.

Friday Night Magic

6:30 – 10:00 am

• $5 Entry Fee
• Standard format
• 1 prize pack for playing guaranteed
• Bounty prize pack for defeating an undefeated player from the Free FNM
• More packs and promos based on wins!

Commander Friday Night Magic

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

• $5 Entry
• 1 prize pack for playing, 2 if you win your pod
• Promos for each pod winner and random participants

Want to learn how to curl? These classes provide basic instruction for beginners who have never curled before or for those looking for a refresher course. Whether you are just curious and want to give curling a shot, or whether you are looking to learn the basics to prepare you for League play and beyond, this is the place to start!

Just $25! More information please visit:

https://mankatocurling.org/index.php/curling/new-curlers/learn-to-curl

To register, please visit:

https://mankatocurling.org/index.php/events/event-listings

Young Will Shakespeare has writer’s block. The deadline for his new play is fast approaching and he’s in desperate need of inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse, Viola. This beautiful young woman is Will’s greatest admirer and will stop at nothing to appear in his next play. Against a whirlwind of mistaken identity, ruthless scheming and backstage theatrics, Will’s love for Viola quickly blossoms and inspires him to write his greatest masterpiece. The hit movie based on this play captured 7 Oscars including Best Picture.

Tickets

This full-day workshop includes four sessions for every level of family historian. Sessions include Beginning Genealogy, Online Resources, DNA and more! Full schedule and registration are available online at www.BlueEarthCountyHistory.com..

Registration is $50/adults, $40/BECHS Members

Catered Lunch $10/lunch

• 9:30 a.m. – Meet and greet, browse the displays, music exchange (please bring any music you might wish to donate to students or exchange with others.
• 10:00 a.m. – Alumni Marathon Recital (This will be somewhat informal, but we invite all organ alumni to participate. If you’d like to play a short piece please message Mark DeGarmeaux. We are able to accommodate 24-36 players. The organ works very well for baroque music. We might encourage pieces from 80 Chorale Preludes, Orgelbuchlein, but other composers as well. We will allow attendees to come and go in between pieces. If you don’t feel comfortable playing without rehearsal, please come and listen! Link to Video Stream
• Noon – Lunch on your own – Cafeteria will be open until 12:30 p.m.
• 1:30 p.m. – Lynn Dobson, the architect and builder of the Chapel organ, will present about his craft. Link to Video Stream
• 2:30 p.m. – Browse the displays
• 3:30 p.m. – Hymn Festival with Bethany alumnus Jacob Weber (’10). Weber works for Concordia Publishing House and has published over 100 compositions. Link to Video Stream

Minnesota State University, Mankato faculty will hold a free concussion workshop titled “Getting Ahead on Concussions”

This workshop, ideal for educators and coaches but also free and open to the general public, provides a fun, hands-on way to understand the signs and effects of sports-related concussions. The event will include various activity stations for participants as they explore the human brain and learn traumatic brain injury protocols.

The workshop will be presented by Minnesota State Mankato faculty members Adam Steiner and Sheen Chiou, along with speech language pathologist Alyssa Rickels and certified athletic trainer Troy Hoehn. Steiner is a neuroscientist and assistant professor in the University’s Department of Psychology. Chiou is a communication sciences and disorders specialist and professor in the Department of Speech, Hearing and Rehabilitation Services.

For more information, please contact Adam Steiner by phone at 507-389-5815 or by email at adam.steiner@mnsu.edu.

In addition to the presenters, psychology and communications science and disorders graduate and undergraduate students from the University will also be assisting with the workshop and demonstrations.

Bring color into your life and home with some beautiful stained glass artwork.

Participants will receive personal instruction about stained glass basics, foil, and soldering techniques. Over the course of the workshop, you will be making a stained glass box.

Have fun customizing your boxes by choosing different colors and patterns of stain glass shards to create a unique and stunning piece of artwork you will appreciate all year long. The finished product is versatile; it would make a lovely holder for candles, keys and change, pocket stones or jewelry.

WORKSHOP DETAILS:

• 3 classes – Nov 2nd, 9th, and 16th. from 3-6 pm (must be taken in sequence)
• 3 hours per class
• 3 students per class
• $250 per Ticket, covers all class fees and tool use for all 3 classes

Tickets available here.

Let us know if you have any questions. If you are Makerspace Member you get discounted tickets! REALLY want to take this class but can’t make it that night? Get ahold of Dustin to schedule a private class. – dustin.swiers@gmail.com – 507-273-0745

Bring color into your life and home with some beautiful stained glass artwork.

Participants will receive personal instruction about stained glass basics, foil, and soldering techniques. You will be making your very own Sun Catcher in this lesson!

Have fun customizing your sun catchers by choosing different colors and patterns of stain glass shards to create a unique and stunning piece of artwork you will appreciate all year long.

Course Details:

• 3-hour class
• 3 student per class
• $75 per ticket, covers all class fees and tool use

Tickets available here. 

Davina and the Vagabonds will perform on Saturday, Nov. 2 at Hooligans Neighborhood Pub, 1400 East Madison Ave., Mankato. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. with The New Classics, an indie-rock group comprised of University Music Industry students.

The concert event is co-sponsored by KMSU-The Maverick and the Minnesota State Mankato Performance Series with assistance from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

“We are very excited to be returning to Mankato,” Davina Sowers said in an interview. “It has been quite some time since we last appeared there. We always have a great time, and the Mankato audiences have always been very supportive and enthusiastic. We plan to have some new music to share as well.”

Davina Sowers fronts a well-tested road band, creating her own Americana mishmash, a mixture of Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday and Betty Boop, all with a 21st century twist. Comparisons don’t suffice—Sowers is a true original. Davina Sowers voice and vigor have earned the Vagabonds quite a following throughout the United States, Europe, England, and South America.

NPR’s Marc Silver writes, “Davina Sowers’ classically trained right fingers shimmy down the piano keys and meet up with an insistent boogie-woogie bass. Then she reveals her other musical talent: a sassy, salty, sweet voice that’s childlike at the top, husky at the bottom.”

Blues in Britain adds, “Sowers’ vocals are unreal. She simultaneously evokes Adele and Bessie Smith, and the band’s sound is retro and fresh, a modern take on old-time blues, Dixieland and jazz.

Sowers has shared the stage with PineTop Perkins, Aaron Neville, Los Lobos, Little Feat, Buddy Guy, Elvin Bishop, The Blues Brothers, Joe Bonamassa, Irma Thomas and James Hunter, among others, at venues such as House of Blues in Atlantic City, N.J., the Bayfront Blues Festival in Duluth, Minn., the Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, Calif., the Raperswil Blues & Jazz Festival in Switzerland, and Blues in Hell Festival, Hell, Norway.

Concert admission is $15 in advance; $18 the day of the show. Tickets are also available for purchase at Hooligans. For more information, call the Performance Series office, (507) 389-5549. Those who wish to purchase tickets online should go to link.mnsu.edu/musictickets.

Young Will Shakespeare has writer’s block. The deadline for his new play is fast approaching and he’s in desperate need of inspiration. That is, until he finds his muse, Viola. This beautiful young woman is Will’s greatest admirer and will stop at nothing to appear in his next play. Against a whirlwind of mistaken identity, ruthless scheming and backstage theatrics, Will’s love for Viola quickly blossoms and inspires him to write his greatest masterpiece. The hit movie based on this play captured 7 Oscars including Best Picture.

Tickets

The Student Events Team and Summit and Jacob Heights present The Price is Right for the fifth year in a row with the ever-energetic host, Alex Arndt! It will be held in Ostrander Auditorium during Family Weekend, Saturday, November 2 at 8 pm, 9 pm and 10 pm with small breaks in between. Reserved seat tickets for the show are free and must be reserved online at mnsuevents.com.

Contestants will participate in a replica set of the Price is Right including games such as Hole in One, Plinko, Cliff Hangers, Punch-a-Bunch, Stack the Deck, Lucky 7, and others. Contestants will be drawn from the crowd and bid on stage against three other contestants. Contestants in this live version of the popular television show will play for over $2000 in prizes ranging from common household items to Headphones, Gift Cards, and a TV! The Audience will have a lot of chances to participate and assist the contestants on stage.

There will also be concessions available for purchase during the show, and a Price is Right photo opportunity will be available to remember this special family event. Students who fill out a Summit & Jacob Heights contact sheet will have a double chance to appear on stage.

The shows will run like the real show with six games to play and include the spinning of the Big Wheel. Students and family members can participate, (age 16 and up) and win prizes but all are welcome to attend the event.

During this introduction to encaustic painting, participants will paint with molten wax on a warm wood panel, fusing each layer with a heat gun. To release ourselves from the paralyzing effects of self-criticism, we’ll tap into our creative intuition using playful exploration in a fun, supportive environment!

After practicing the basics, we’ll explore techniques for altering the wax surface. Watercolors, oil pastels, charcoal, stencils, metal, artifacts (like pressed leaves, paper, feathers, and thread) and other media will be available for experimentation; and an assortment of tools and supplies. The small class size allows for more individualized instruction.

Note: Encaustic painting involves safety hazards including heat, fumes, and sharp tools. We’ll meet in a well-ventilated room; student safety and comfort are top priorities? Questions? Contact Deb Groebner at whiteoak22@gmail.com

Tickets available here.

Adventurer’s League is your stress-free entry into D&D. Groups are filling quickly so if you want to sign up ahead of time check out our Facebook page. The cost per session is $10. $5 Goes back to you on a gift card, $5 goes to the DM.

Resources:

• Log Sheet

http://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/DnD_5e_AdventureLogsheet.pdf

• Players Guide

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/208178/DD-Adventurers-League-Players-Pack

• FAQ

http://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/DDAL_FAQv6-1.pdf

Join us for an exclusive after-hours fashion event! Enjoy the latest fashion, hors d’oeuvres, and so much more!
Tickets are $10 and all proceeds will go to the YWCA Mankato Girls on the Run Program.
Each guest will receive a $10 gift card with a ticket purchase.
Register to win great prizes from some of fashion’s best brands! Tickets are limited and available online only.
We can’t wait to see you all on November 3rd!

Tickets available here.

Kyle Fokken employs vintage ‘toy’ and ‘folk art’ aesthetics as a way to talk about the passing down of cultural values from one generation to the next. His goal is to entice the audience with ‘fun’ imagery that one sees in toys and folk art.

Gallery hours 8:00am – 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday

Hosted by Twin Rivers Council for the Arts.

The exhibition runs from November 1-24 and is sponsored by Meyer & Norland Financial Group.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Kyle Fokken employs vintage ‘toy’ and ‘folk art’ aesthetics as a way to talk about the passing down of cultural values from one generation to the next. His goal is to entice the audience with ‘fun’ imagery that one sees in toys and folk art.

Gallery hours 8:00am – 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday

Hosted by Twin Rivers Council for the Arts.

The exhibition runs from November 1-24 and is sponsored by Meyer & Norland Financial Group.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.