Today is the Spring “Poker” Walk for Fitness (and Walk The Dragon), from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. This is a great opportunity to familiarize yourself with the MSUM campus and get some exercise to boot! Prizes will be awarded for the top 3 hands. Click the headline for details.
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson’s experimental documentary, Sveit, will be exhibited at the 2010 Wisconsin Film Festival. Sveit will screen at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 17 at Madison’s Play Circle Theatre. A geneography of memory and place, Sveit was shot in a rural village on the north coast of Iceland. The filmmaker traces her family’s history and emigration from Iceland to the United States, while unpacking memories and stories of her grandfather’s experience as a New American in North Dakota. Click headline to read more.
Trumpeter Marvin Stamm performs with the MSUM jazz ensemble Thursday, April 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Hansen Theatre in the Roland Dille Center for the Performing Arts on the MSUM campus. A second appearance is set for Friday, April 23, at 8 p.m. at downtown Fargo’s Studio 222, where he’ll join the Simon Rowe Trio. Stamm will also present two educational events while on campus, open to music students and educators from any school in the area. Click headline for details.
Ragamala Dance Theatre, a Minneapolis-based dance company that tours every year around the world, appears on stage at Minnesota State University Moorhead Saturday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. Wadaiko Ensemble Tokara, a taiko drumming group from Japan, joins them. Click headline to read more.
Violinist Benjamin Sung and his wife, pianist Jihye Chang, give a recital of works by American composers for violin and piano on Monday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. on the Gaede Stage in the Roland Dille Center for the Arts on the MSUM campus. Click headline to read more.