Past public field trips
Field trip number: FT#25610
Title: NaNoWriMo YWP (National Novel Writing Month’s Young Writers Program) Support Group & Workshops
Location: Lindamood-Bell Learning Center — 3300 Edinborough Way, Suite 206, Edina, MN 55435
Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Meets weekly on Tuesdays, September 26–December 5, 2017, January 9—February 27, 2018, and March 13–May 1, 2018.
Gathering space is generously provided by Lindamood-Bell Learning Center, located inside Edinborough Corporate Center, which is connected to Edinborough Park, home to Adventure Peak indoor play structures. We will be meeting in the 3rd-floor training room of the Edinborough Corporate...
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Field trip number: FT#25478
Title: Abominables
Location: Children's Theatre Company — 2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 10:30am
The Abominables
UnitedHealth Group Stage
Rink rats, hockey moms, tournament weekends and the quest to play your best – It’s tryout season in the Great State of Hockey! Mitch has always played on the A team for the Prairie Lake Blizzards – these are his guys – they've played together forever. But he hasn't hit his growth spurt yet and he's worried this could be the year he gets sent down to the B...
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Field trip number: FT#25520
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
Before Hamilton, there was In the Heights. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s four-time Tony Award-winning musical tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood—a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change,...
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Field trip number: FT#25589
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
Before Hamilton, there was In the Heights. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s four-time Tony Award-winning musical tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood—a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change,...
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Field trip number: FT#25118
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2017 - 9:00am
World Premiere Exclusive!
Journey with Stages to the depths of the ocean as Stages Theatre for the Very Young series continues this season with the subtly beautiful tale of Swimmy, based on the Caldecott Honor book by Leo Lionni. Being a different color doesn’t stop Swimmy from teaching his fellow fish to think “outside the box.” His uniqueness is just the thing to inspire his school to work...
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Field trip number: FT#25117
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 - 9:00am
World Premiere Exclusive!
Journey with Stages to the depths of the ocean as Stages Theatre for the Very Young series continues this season with the subtly beautiful tale of Swimmy, based on the Caldecott Honor book by Leo Lionni. Being a different color doesn’t stop Swimmy from teaching his fellow fish to think “outside the box.” His uniqueness is just the thing to inspire his school to work...
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Field trip number: FT#25116
Title: Shrek the Musical
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Thursday, July 6, 2017 - 10:00am
Theatre for Young Audiences version
The rousing fairy tale adventure of an ogre turned unlikely hero galumphs onto our main stage this summer in this Tony Award-winning musical based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film. A wise-cracking Donkey, a feisty princess, a short-tempered villain, a cookie with an attitude and dozens of fairy tale misfits stir up the kind of muddled mayhem that...
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Field trip number: FT#25115
Title: Shrek the Musical
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2017 - 10:00am
Theatre for Young Audiences version
The rousing fairy tale adventure of an ogre turned unlikely hero galumphs onto our main stage this summer in this Tony Award-winning musical based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film. A wise-cracking Donkey, a feisty princess, a short-tempered villain, a cookie with an attitude and dozens of fairy tale misfits stir up the kind of muddled mayhem that...
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Field trip number: FT#25378
Title: Imagination Fair 2017
Location: Peace Lutheran Church — 20 Northdale Blvd NW, Coon Rapids, MN 55448
Date: Saturday, June 3, 2017 - 10:00am - 12:30pm
Schedule for Saturday, June 3, 2017To ensure that organizers have the space set up for exhibitors on time and with as little interruption as possible, no exhibitor set-up is allowed before 9:30am (that includes no set-up by the organizers' own children).9am–9:30am set up period for event organizers9:30am–10:00am set up period for exhibitors9:45am–10am mentor check-in period10am–12:...
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Field trip number: FT#25436
Title: GuGu Drum Group
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
2017 Flint Hills International Children’s Festival
Drummers, storytellers, and athletes-the members of GuGu Drum Group direct from Shanghai, China will engage audiences with their high-energy theatrical drum drama. The show features drum vignettes accompanied by projections based on timeless Chinese proverbs, fables, and fairy tales. Director Yang Xiaodong utilizes authentic ancient drum...
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Field trip number: FT#25435
Location: F.K. Weyerhaeuser Auditorium, Landmark Center — 75 W 5th St, Saint Paul, MN 55102
Date: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 10:30am - 11:30am
2017 Flint Hills International Children’s Festival
Back by popular demand, Flying Foot Forum will premiere their new work The Mystery of Pig’s Eye Manor. Audience members embark on a percussive dance, music, and theater adventure as they follow three sleuths through the corridors, hallways, staircases, and rooms of the lower level of the Landmark Center to help solve the mystery. Along the way...
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Field trip number: FT#25072
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Take a live concert journey through musical selections from some of the most famous stage and film musicals of all time. Hollywood has consistently looked to hit Broadway shows as a source of inspiration for films, such as The Sound of Music, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, and West Side Story. In return, Broadway has been making musical shows out of such non-musical films, like The Color Purple,...
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Field trip number: FT#25114
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 10:00am
Hopkins Jaycees Studio
World Premiere Exclusive!
The super-hero squirrel, Ulysses and the self-proclaimed cynic Flora Belle Buckman land in our Hopkins Jaycees Studio this spring in an inspiring story of being born anew. When Flora saves Ulysses after he is sucked up through a vacuum cleaner, neither could predict the changes that will ensue. This eccentric, endearing saga about the possibilities...
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Field trip number: FT#25113
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 - 10:00am
Hopkins Jaycees Studio
World Premiere Exclusive!
The super-hero squirrel, Ulysses and the self-proclaimed cynic Flora Belle Buckman land in our Hopkins Jaycees Studio this spring in an inspiring story of being born anew. When Flora saves Ulysses after he is sucked up through a vacuum cleaner, neither could predict the changes that will ensue. This eccentric, endearing saga about the possibilities...
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Field trip number: FT#25222
Title: Sweet Land
Location: History Theater — 30 East 10th St, St Paul, MN 55101
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
History Theatre
Sweet Land, the musical
Book by Perrin PostLyrics & Book by Laurie Flanigan-HeggeMusic by Dina MaccabeeFrom the film Sweet Land by Ali Selim and the short story “A Gravestone Made of Wheat” by Will WeaverDirected by Perrin PostChoreography by Joe ChvalaMusical Arrangements by Robert ElhaiMusical Direction by Jason Hansen
A poignant, lyrical celebration of land, love, and the...
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Field trip number: FT#25112
Title: Stone Soup
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2017 - 10:00am
World Premiere
The classic folktale of the feared strangers who inspire a whole community through the use of one little stone charms its way onto our main stage this spring in a world premiere musical. When war-weary foreigners arrive in the village square, fear and suspicion reign. But as the outsiders start to make soup out of a stone, each of the locals is prompted to contribute to the ever-...
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Field trip number: FT#25111
Title: Stone Soup
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 10:00am
World Premiere
The classic folktale of the feared strangers who inspire a whole community through the use of one little stone charms its way onto our main stage this spring in a world premiere musical. When war-weary foreigners arrive in the village square, fear and suspicion reign. But as the outsiders start to make soup out of a stone, each of the locals is prompted to contribute to the ever-...
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Field trip number: FT#25071
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Don’t miss Saint Paul’s own TU Dance, a leading voice for contemporary dance founded by Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands. Acclaimed for its diverse and versatile artists, TU Dance’s work draws together modern dance, classical ballet, African-based and urban vernacular movements.
“Dance creates a shared experience — an undeniable space where a diverse community of audience and artists connect to a...
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Field trip number: FT#25149
Title: Frog & Toad
Location: Children's Theatre Company — 2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 10:30am
UnitedHealth Group Stage
Based on the Arnold Lobel’s Newbery and Caldecott Honor Books Music by Robert Reale Lyrics and book by Willie Reale Original Direction by David Petrarca Directed by Peter Rothstein
Waking from hibernation in the spring, the perky Frog and the worrywart Toad plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, go sledding, and learn life lessons through four, fun-filled seasons. The...
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Field trip number: FT#25150
Title: Frog & Toad
Location: Children's Theatre Company — 2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - 10:30am
UnitedHealth Group Stage
Based on the Arnold Lobel’s Newbery and Caldecott Honor Books Music by Robert Reale Lyrics and book by Willie Reale Original Direction by David Petrarca Directed by Peter Rothstein
Waking from hibernation in the spring, the perky Frog and the worrywart Toad plant gardens, swim, rake leaves, go sledding, and learn life lessons through four, fun-filled seasons. The...
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