JULY TARGET FREE THURSDAY NIGHTS FEATURE PERFORMING ARTS SEASON REVEAL PARTY AND A FREE SCREENING OF KIKI

Target Free Thursday Nights in July feature the Performing Arts Season Reveal Party with the season announcement by curator Philip Bither and performances by guitarist John King and DJ Paper Sleeves. The month also includes a free screening from the Cinema of Urgency series, KIKI. Special event details follow.

Target Free Thursday Nights
Get inspired. Get in free.
July 7, 14, 21 & 28
Galleries open 5-9 pm

Thursday, July 14
Performing Arts Season Reveal Party
5:30-8:30 pm
Garden terrace Room and Terrace

Join curator Philip Bither as he unveils the 2016-2017 Performing Arts season and shares stories about bringing the best in international contemporary performance to the Walker. Get the scoop at this inside/outside celebration.

Program Highlights
- Happy Hour, 5:30-7 pm
- Season Announcement by Philip Bither, 6 pm
- Live Music by Guitarist John King and DJ Paper Sleeves
- Ticket Giveaways and Special Offers
- Skyline Views from the Terraces

About John King
John King, composer, guitarist and violist, has received commissions from the Kronos Quartet; Red {an orchestra},Ethel; the Albany Symphony/"Dogs of Desire", Bang On A Can All-Stars; Mannheim Ballet; New York City Ballet/Diamond Project, Stuttgart Ballet, Ballets de Monte Carlo; as well as the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. His string quartets have also been performed by the Eclipse Quartet (LA) and the Mondriaan Quartet (Amsterdam), in addition to the Secret Quartet which has premiered many of his compositions at The Stone (June 2007, May 2015), The Kitchen (April 2009), Lincoln Center Festival (July 2011); and Roulette (Oct. 2014).

He has written 7 operas: ping and WHAT IS THE WORD, with texts by Samuel Beckett, premiered at the Experiments in Opera Festival, spring 2014 and the Avant Music Festival, February 2016; impropera, which used randomly selected text msg's from the singers' cell phones; SapphOpera, a chamber opera with text-fragments by Sappho translated by Anne Carson; herzstück/heartpiece, based on the text of Heiner Müller, premiered at the 1999 Warsaw Autumn Festival and presented at the Kitchen NYC in 2000 (a double-opera, co-written with Krzysztof Knittel); la belle captive based on texts by Alain Robbe-Grillet, premiered at Teatro Colon/CETC in Buenos Aires in 2003, and toured to London's ICA (Fronteras Festival) in 2004 and The Kitchen in 2005; and also his most recent opera, Dice Thrown, based on the Stéphane Mallarmé poem, an excerpt of which was performed by New York City Opera as part of its VOX series in May 2008. The complete staged version was presented at CalArts April 23-24, 2010.

He has written songs and incidental music for five plays (The Tempest, Faust, The Trial, Steppenwolf and Wings of Desire) at the Ludwigburg TheaterSommer directed by Peter Kratz. He has been commissioned numerous times by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and collaborated with them on their "Black Mountain Songs" project, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Nov. 20, 2014 and went on to tour in Europe.
He has 3 recent CD releases of music for string quartet; 10 Mysteries and AllSteel (Tzadik); and Ethel (Cantaloupe). He was Music Curator at The Kitchen from 1999-2003 and from 2002-2011 was a co-director of the Music Committee at MCDC. He received the 2014 Award for Sound/Music from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and is also the recipient of the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Music. He has been a Rockefeller Foundation/Bellagio Center Fellow in March 2016, as well as in residence at the Emily Harvery Foundation in Venice, Italy in July 2015.

About DJ Paper Sleeves
Danny Sigelman (aka DJ Paper Sleeves) has long been involved in Twin Cities radio and music. While studying at the University of Minnesota, he served as Music Director at Radio K - the University of Minnesota's college radio station - and co-hosted its legendary "Off The Record" local music program.

Sigelman graduated in 1997 with a degree in Art. With an undying passion for music, his musical knowledge and interest spans a myriad of styles and genres that he effectively combines while DJing in clubs and around town. As a musician, Danny has played drums with a number of notable local acts, including the Legendary Jim Ruiz Group and singer/songwriter Mike Brady. Danny is also an active and accomplished visual artist.
Read a Star Tribune Q&A with DJ Paper Sleeves

Thursday, July 21
KIKI
Directed by Sara Jordenö
Walker Cinema, 7 pm, Free

"It's a kaleidoscopic and vivid rendering of a world that is larger than life, flamboyant but ultimately fragiles." -The Guardian

Swedish-director Sara Jordenö's collaboration with advocate and performer Twiggy Pucci Garcon is an exhilarating depiction of New York's kiki ball scene. However, KIKI is also a tender examination of its subjects' lives outside the ballroom and draws attention to the poverty, discrimination, and homelessness that disproportionately impact queer youth of color. 2016, DCP, 93 minutes.

Post-screening discussion with director Sara Jordenö and performer Gia Marie Love, moderated by Elliot H. Powell (Assistant Professor, American Studies University of Minnesota).

The Walker's Cinema of Urgency series is programmed in partnership with Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, an annual event in Durham, North Carolina that is dedicated to the presentation of contemporary nonfiction cinema.

Paper City
Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab

This summer as the construction encompasses the Walker, the Art Lab will be transformed into a construction zone of its own. From July 2 through August 6 during gallery hours, children and families are invited to help design and build a collaborative paper structure. Fold and connect polygon pieces to participate in the Paper City project and influence ways that this marvelous architecture evolves over time.

Paper City was designed by artist/architect Noa Haim of Collective Paper Aesthetics, the Rotterdam-based design initiative she established in 2008. The project was inspired by Buckminster Fuller's exploration of the relationship between objects, space, and experience.

Stop in often and watch the structure grow throughout the summer.

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This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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