Past public field trips
Field trip number: FT#24428
Title: CONTRA-TIEMPO
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Friday, February 6, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Dedicated to transforming the world through dance, the activist dance company CONTRA-TIEMPO takes Latin social dance to new heights by infusing elements of Salsa, Afro-Cuban, and urban dance styles. Full Still Hungry, the company’s newest work explores our relationship with food, along with its social, historical, and cultural impact through an invigorating blend of high-energy dance, live music...
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Field trip number: FT#24483
Title: DIY Workshop: Archer
Location: Rapids Archery Club — Bunker Hills Regional Park, 1255 133rd Ave NW, Andover, MN 55304
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
This is a three-session event on Tuesdays, January 6, 20 and 27.
The volunteers at Rapids Archery Club are developing this new DIY Archer workshop! The plan is for the kids will make and decorate PVC bows, learn to fletch arrows, make a quiver and learn to shoot. Kids will also get to try a variety of different Club-owned bows for shooting as well as use the PVC bows that they make.
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Field trip number: FT#24470
Title: Valentine's Day Cards
Location: Rumriver Art Center — Old Milk Factory, Suite 102 , 2665 4th Ave, Anoka, MN 55303
Date: Friday, January 23, 2015 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Design a custom Valentine's Day card mixing watercolor, acrylics, printing, linocut designs and more, creating a unique, personal touch only you can give!
Your design will be converted into a digital images and printed on folded card stock.
Printed card will be ready for pick up approximately 1 week after the workshop. (You will receive an email notification when they are ready.)
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Field trip number: FT#24483
Title: DIY Workshop: Archer
Location: Rapids Archery Club — Bunker Hills Regional Park, 1255 133rd Ave NW, Andover, MN 55304
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
This is a three-session event on Tuesdays, January 6, 20 and 27.
The volunteers at Rapids Archery Club are developing this new DIY Archer workshop! The plan is for the kids will make and decorate PVC bows, learn to fletch arrows, make a quiver and learn to shoot. Kids will also get to try a variety of different Club-owned bows for shooting as well as use the PVC bows that they make.
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Field trip number: FT#24427
Title: Dobet Gnahoré
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Widely considered one of contemporary African music’s most exciting talents, Dobet Gnahoré has astounded audiences with her thrilling stage presence, appealing melodies and powerful singing. Gnahoré’s diverse music composition moves from delicate ballads to upbeat African grooves. From Mandingue melodies to Congolese rumba, from Ivory Coast ziglibiti to Cameroon bikoutsi, from Ghanian High-Life...
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Field trip number: FT#24483
Title: DIY Workshop: Archer
Location: Rapids Archery Club — Bunker Hills Regional Park, 1255 133rd Ave NW, Andover, MN 55304
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
This is a three-session event on Tuesdays, January 6, 20 and 27.
The volunteers at Rapids Archery Club are developing this new DIY Archer workshop! The plan is for the kids will make and decorate PVC bows, learn to fletch arrows, make a quiver and learn to shoot. Kids will also get to try a variety of different Club-owned bows for shooting as well as use the PVC bows that they make.
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Field trip number: FT#24468
Location: Rumriver Art Center — Old Milk Factory, Suite 102 , 2665 4th Ave, Anoka, MN 55303
Date: Friday, December 19, 2014 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
See also: DIY Writer + NaNoWriMo YWP at Lindamood-Bell Learning Center (Edina), Tue, Oct 28–Dec 2, 1pm–3:30pm.
See also: Hardcover Post-Bound Portfolio Journal with Hand Made Pulp Painted Cover at Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Minneapolis), Tue, Feb 10 and Feb 17, 1pm–3pm.
You've spent November crafting your story for National Novel Writing Month! Now it's time to illustrate your masterpiece...
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Field trip number: FT#24467
Location: Rumriver Art Center — Old Milk Factory, Suite 102 , 2665 4th Ave, Anoka, MN 55303
Date: Friday, November 21, 2014 - 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Local artist Franny Hyde will lead students through the process of working with clay, using under glazes, glaze, and firing of their work (off-site). Students will receive a block of clay from which they can create small holiday gifts such as toothpick holders, ring boxes, tea candle holder, dipping sauce bowls, wasabi plates, thimbles or a small creature or other statue.
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Field trip number: FT#24426
Title: Creole Choir of Cuba
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Prepare to be blown away: hear the passionate melodies, wild harmonies and richly textured arrangements of these ten inspiring male and female vocalists. Because the choir members are descendants of Haitians, they sing much of their music in Creole, a language spoken by almost a million people in Cuba, as well as Spanish. Multiple award winners, this Grammy-nominated choir sings the vital music...
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Field trip number: FT#24464
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts — Open Book Building , 1011 Washington Ave S, Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55415
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - 1:30pm - 3:00pm
No dragoneer would be caught without an all essential personal Book of Spells! Use ancient tacket binding and faux leather with sewn pages to create a lovely book that is reminiscent of books from the Middle Ages. This Book of Spells is sturdy and flexible with a faux leather strap closure and will be used by Dragoneer's to record the secrets they unlock at all other gatherings for the year....
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Field trip number: FT#24425
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Ignacio “Nachito” Herrera stunned Cuban audiences at the age of twelve in performing “Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2” with the Havana Symphony Orchestra. Today Herrera continues to be at the forefront of an exciting renaissance in Cuban music and is known as one of the of the world’s great Cuban pianists. In collaboration with members of the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba and the Havana Jazz...
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Field trip number: FT#24387
Location: Osceola Depot - Minnesota Transportation Museum — 114 Depot Rd, Osceola, WI 54020
Date: Saturday, June 21, 2014 - 11:00am - 12:30pm
For the first time in the history of the Osceola and St Croix Valley Railway, the start of their rail season must be delayed due to poor track conditions. Exactly how long it will take to repair the tracks is unknown as inspections are still underway, but it is believed it will be several weeks. With the advice of the Depot Manager, our Homeschool Adventure Marine on St. Croix round trip has...
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Field trip number: FT#24349
Title: Imagination Fair 2014
Location: Rasmussen College-Blaine Campus — 3629 95th Ave NE, Blaine, MN 55014
Date: Saturday, May 31, 2014 - 10:00am - 12:00pm
Schedule for Sat, May 319am–9:30am | Set up period for volunteers 9:30am–10am | Set up period for participants 10am–12pm | Imagination Fair 12pm–12:30pm | Clean up period for participants and volunteersWhat is an Imagination Fair?An Imagination Fair is a bit of a cross between a Science Fair and an Art Show. It is a space for homeschooled children of all ages to display,...
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Field trip number: FT#18096
Title: TU Dance
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Friday, May 9, 2014 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Celebrating their 10 year anniversary, TU Dance founders Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands aim to uncover the connective power of dance for audiences, students, artists, and the community. TU’s work, featuring a fusion of modern, ballet, West African, and street dance, is ultimately about the human experience; be it through the music you hear, the performance you see on stage or the person sitting...
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Field trip number: FT#24386
Title: Stained Glass #2
Location: Rumriver Art Center — Old Milk Factory, Suite 102 , 2665 4th Ave, Anoka, MN 55303
Date: Friday, April 25, 2014 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
Learn how to design, assemble and grout a mosaic glass tile project.
Discovering a thousand-year old art form, students will arrange small pieces of colored glass to form patterns or pictures inside a frame. Students will take home a bag of grout with which to finish the project once the glass pieces have set.
Due to the nature of this project, students must be at least 8 years old to...
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Field trip number: FT#24395
Title: Learn to Juggle
Location: Air Traffic Kites & Games — Mall of America — 343 West Market, Bloomington, MN 55425
Date: Monday, April 7, 2014 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Students will first master juggling 3 scarves and then be taught how to juggle 3 balls.
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Field trip number: FT#24371
Title: Stained Glass
Location: Rumriver Art Center — Old Milk Factory, Suite 102 , 2665 4th Ave, Anoka, MN 55303
Date: Friday, March 28, 2014 - 12:30pm - 3:00pm
Learn how to design, assemble and grout a mosaic glass tile project.
Discovering a thousand-year old art form, students will arrange small pieces of colored glass to form patterns or pictures inside a frame. Students will take home a bag of grout with which to finish the project once the glass pieces have set.
Due to the nature of this project, students must be at least 8 years old to...
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Field trip number: FT#18092
Title: AXIS Dance Company
Location: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts — 345 Washington St, St Paul, MN 55102
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 10:30am - 11:30am
AXIS Dance Company, one of the world’s most acclaimed and innovative ensembles, will forever change the way you think about the possibilities of the human body. Under the artistic direction of Judith Smith, the company of seven dancers— with and without physical disabilities—challenges the possibilities of movement, expanding and enriching the art form itself.
Learn more about AXIS Dance Company...
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Field trip number: FT#24334
Title: Teen Hand-Built Pottery
Location: Rumriver Art Center — Old Milk Factory, Suite 102 , 2665 4th Ave, Anoka, MN 55303
Date: Friday, February 28, 2014 - 1:15pm - 2:30pm
Local artist Franny Hyde will lead teens through the process of creating a coil pot, mug or plate from clay. Teens learn about working with clay, using under glazes, glaze, and firing of their work (offsite).
Franny Hyde is a local ceramic artist specializing in sculpting animals and people. She is a former elementary art teacher, marketing executive, and graduate of St. Olaf College. She is...
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Field trip number: FT#24333
Title: Clay Sculpture
Location: Rumriver Art Center — Old Milk Factory, Suite 102 , 2665 4th Ave, Anoka, MN 55303
Date: Friday, February 28, 2014 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Local artist Franny Hyde will lead students through a clay dragon / dinosaur project. The class will take students through process of working with clay, using under glazes, glaze, and firing of their work (offsite).
Franny Hyde is a local ceramic artist specializing in sculpting animals and people. She is a former elementary art teacher, marketing executive, and graduate of St. Olaf College. She...
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