Past public field trips
Field trip number: FT#25131
Title: The Bluest Eye
Location: Guthrie Theater — 818 S 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - 10:30am
Pre-Play Presentation
Please check in by 9:30am. For no additional cost, student matinees include an optional 30-minute pre-play presentation during which students learn more about the production directly from professional artists and members of the Guthrie’s staff. Pre-show presentations run from 9:45am–10:15am.
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Field trip number: FT#25070
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Indigenous is a blues-inspired rock group that rose out of Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, led by front man, Mato Nanji. The group’s music is motivated not only by blues and rock greats, such as Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and B.B. King, but also by the social issues and cultural bonds of the Mato’s Nakota roots. Indigenous dedicated their latest album, Time is...
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Field trip number: FT#25386
Location: Minneapolis Institute of Art — 2400 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2017 - 11:15am - 12:15pm
You can watch "Walkthrough of Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters (LACMA)" to get a better sense of the exhibit.
Please plan to meet our docent, David Fortney, in the atrium of the Target Wing at 11am for our 11:15am tour. To be clear, the group is NOT meeting in the main 3rd Ave entrance area between MIA and CTC.
Directions to Target Wing's atrium: First check your backpacks and oversized...
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Field trip number: FT#25221
Title: Paper Dreams of Harry Chin
Location: History Theater — 30 East 10th St, St Paul, MN 55101
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2017 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
History Theatre
The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin
By Jessica HuangDirected by Mei Ann Teo
A haunting, poetic journey of secrets, identity and family
1939. Follow the true story of Harry Chin, one of the many Chinese nationals who landed in the U.S. through a loophole in the Chinese Exclusion Act. Haunted by the ghosts of his past and provoked by the curiosity of his daughter, Harry...
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Field trip number: FT#25069
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Las Cafeteras combines the vibrant energy of Son Jarocho music with an edgy LA sound. Their pounding Afro-Mexican rhythms, stomping zapateado dancing and uplifting verses tell stories of everyday people fighting for justice and respect. A re-mix of the traditional, Las Cafeteras adds Afro-Carribean marimbol, spoken word, lyrics in English & Spanglish to Jarocho instruments like jarana &...
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Field trip number: FT#25214
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 1:00pm
This is a 5-week series led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple. Workshop length will vary with the complexity of the project from 1½ hours to 2½ hours, for a total of 9 hours of workshops over 5 weeks.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Pulp Painting Combine the art and science of papermaking with painting. After pulling a sheet of cotton paper, create a rich image using an assortment...
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Field trip number: FT#25358
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 - 1:00pm - 3:30pm
This stand-alone workshop is the fifth from the 5-week series, Paper Makers: From Pulp to Book, led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple.
Small Hardcover Four-Section Pop-Up Explore the third dimension in bookmaking through paper engineering!
Using two of your Suminagashi marbling pages for the background and cover, create a simple 9½ x 6¾-inch base to transform into the real or the fanciful...
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Field trip number: FT#25110
Title: The Velveteen Rabbit
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2017 - 12:30pm
The cherished tale about the transformational magic of love graces our main stage this March. “Real isn’t how you are made,” the old Skin Horse tells the Velveteen Rabbit, “It’s a thing that happens to you when a child loves you for a long, long time.” This treasured story of a stuffed rabbit’s desire to become REAL is told through original music and dance. It continues our popular performance...
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Field trip number: FT#25109
Title: The Velveteen Rabbit
Location: Stages Theatre Company — 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 10:00am
The cherished tale about the transformational magic of love graces our main stage this March. “Real isn’t how you are made,” the old Skin Horse tells the Velveteen Rabbit, “It’s a thing that happens to you when a child loves you for a long, long time.” This treasured story of a stuffed rabbit’s desire to become REAL is told through original music and dance. It continues our popular performance...
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Field trip number: FT#25363
Title: "Thurgood Marshall"
Location: Illusion Theatre — 528 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
THURGOOD
by George Stevens Jr.
We know about Martin Luther King and about Malcolm X.
What do you know about the other visionary leader of the Civil Rights' Movement:
Thurgood Marshall?
Coming from a childhood in Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer and eventually a Supreme Court Justice. Thurgood was a one of the architects of the American Civil Rights Movement including the...
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Field trip number: FT#25214
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 1:00pm
This is a 5-week series led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple. Workshop length will vary with the complexity of the project from 1½ hours to 2½ hours, for a total of 9 hours of workshops over 5 weeks.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Pulp Painting Combine the art and science of papermaking with painting. After pulling a sheet of cotton paper, create a rich image using an assortment...
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Field trip number: FT#25357
Title: Suminagashi paper marbling
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
This stand-alone workshop is the fourth from the 5-week series, Paper Makers: From Pulp to Book, led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Suminagashi paper marbling Suminagashi paper marbling is a Japanese technique in which the artist creates concentric rings of colors with a brush, other tools, or even their breath!
Two of your completed pieces will be...
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Field trip number: FT#25214
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 1:00pm
This is a 5-week series led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple. Workshop length will vary with the complexity of the project from 1½ hours to 2½ hours, for a total of 9 hours of workshops over 5 weeks.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Pulp Painting Combine the art and science of papermaking with painting. After pulling a sheet of cotton paper, create a rich image using an assortment...
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Field trip number: FT#25356
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
This stand-alone workshop is the third from the 5-week series, Paper Makers: From Pulp to Book, led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple.
Small Hardcover Screw-Post Sketchbook A 9x6-inch hardcover sketch book using two of your Pulp Paintings for the front and back cover and two of your Ebru marbling pages for the end sheets.
Includes 30 sheets of 5½x8½-inch drawing paper.
The versatile hinged...
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Field trip number: FT#25068
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Bringing together dance, music and indigenous languages, DANCING EARTH will explore native plants, foods and seeds as metaphors for the powerful potential of every community we touch through their performance of …SEEDS: REdGENERATION… With extraordinary Native American talent in dance, music and costuming, DANCING EARTH will express the importance of native plants and healthy food to the...
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Field trip number: FT#25214
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 1:00pm
This is a 5-week series led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple. Workshop length will vary with the complexity of the project from 1½ hours to 2½ hours, for a total of 9 hours of workshops over 5 weeks.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Pulp Painting Combine the art and science of papermaking with painting. After pulling a sheet of cotton paper, create a rich image using an assortment...
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Field trip number: FT#25355
Title: Ebru paper marbling
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
This stand-alone workshop is the second from the 5-week series, Paper Makers: From Pulp to Book, led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple.
Ebru paper marbling For centuries paper marbling was a highly guarded secret! Discover the rich tradition of paper marbling. Ebru marbling is a traditional Middle Eastern marbling technique in which “combs” are used to create patterns in colored paint,...
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Field trip number: FT#25130
Title: King Lear
Location: Guthrie Theater — 818 S 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 10:30am
Pre-Play Presentation
Please check in by 9:30am. For no additional cost, student matinees include an optional 30-minute pre-play presentation during which students learn more about the production directly from professional artists and members of the Guthrie’s staff. Pre-show presentations run from 9:45am–10:15am.
Post-Play Discussion
For no additional cost, following the matinee performance, you...
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Field trip number: FT#25214
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 1:00pm
This is a 5-week series led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple. Workshop length will vary with the complexity of the project from 1½ hours to 2½ hours, for a total of 9 hours of workshops over 5 weeks.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Pulp Painting Combine the art and science of papermaking with painting. After pulling a sheet of cotton paper, create a rich image using an assortment...
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Field trip number: FT#25354
Title: Pulp Painting
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
This stand-alone workshop is the first from the 5-week series, Paper Makers: From Pulp to Book, led by teaching artist Cindy Gipple.
Pulp Painting Combine the art and science of papermaking with painting. After pulling a sheet of cotton paper, create a rich image using an assortment of finely pigmented (colored) pulp and stencils. Learn traditional Western papermaking while exploring an...
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