Hennepin Arts’ Post

🎆🌟 Happy #4thOfJuly! 🌟🎆 Ready for tonight's "Red White and Boom" event? Head to the west side of the river at Water Works and Stone Arch Bridge parking lot starting at 6 p.m. for live music and food trucks. Fireworks start at 10 p.m.!

💃 🎧 Have you heard? Mathew Janczewski's ARENA DANCES has a podcast! Not only is Arena Dances an internationally-renowned contemporary dance company, they are also an honored feature in our Dance on Hennepin exhibit! This historic exhibit, now in The Hennepin's Jack Links Legends Lounge, celebrates Minneapolis’ rich dance history from ritual and recreational forms of the Native tribes to the dance centers of today. Listen to Studio Stories now: https://bit.ly/3Vx9Rk2 #DanceHistory #PublicArt #podcast

📚 💫 Make magic happen! 💫 📚 Apply to become a Disney Musicals in Schools Teaching Artist! This position partners with a select public school in Minnesota to help establish and foster a musical theatre program, with the primary goal being inclusivity and sustainability. This position will hold residency in this school for the entirety of the Program Year. The Teaching Artist role requires you and your TA partner to visit your assigned school once a week for 17 weeks, partnering with the school to develop the wide spectrum of skills needed when producing a piece of musical theater, including critical thinking, problem-solving, ensemble building, communication, self-confidence and interpersonal skills. For more information contact: disneymusicals@hennepinarts.org! #TheatreEducation #TeachingArtist #DisneyMusicalsInSchools

🌟 Hennepin Theatre Trust is now Hennepin Arts! 🌟 Visit our new website to learn how we’re making Minneapolis Braver, Brighter, Bolder: https://bit.ly/4cmKuqn #HennepinArts #nonprofit #Minneapolis

"They make it their own place when they’re in town. Then the traveling crews come back time after time. Some of them we’ve known for 20-plus years." What's it like owning a pub next to the temporary home of touring Broadway shows? Visit our website to get the scoop from Mackenzie's Scotch Pub owners, Brian and Debbie MacKenzie! https://bit.ly/3K2LJix #Minneapolis #TheaterDistrict

Michael Jackson popularized the robot in the mid-to-late 1970s, and it now holds a reputation as the first viral dance craze. Join MJ the Musical's Brandon Lee Harris for a video dance lesson with Bank of America here, and don't miss your chance to see the show at the Orpheum now through Sunday! https://bit.ly/4byO6pp 🎟️: https://bit.ly/3yqqLHI #Broadway #DanceHistory #TheRobot

🌠 The most magical day of the year is here! It’s the Disney Musicals in Schools Student Share Celebration! 🌠 💪 After five months of hard work, nearly 300 elementary school students from across the Twin Cities take to the stage at the Pantages Theatre to celebrate their achievements! 🎼 Students and teachers work in teams, developing the wide spectrum of skills needed when producing a piece of musical theater, including critical thinking, problem-solving, ensemble building, communication, self-confidence and interpersonal skills. 🌟 Congratulations to this year’s students, teachers and volunteers! 🌟 The Hennepin Theatre Trust’s Disney Musicals in Schools program engages with Minnesota public elementary schools in the Twin Cities metro area, prioritizing Title 1 and under-resourced schools. Want to apply to the 2024-2025 School Cohort? Visit our website to learn more: https://bit.ly/41VHxbu Disney Musicals in Schools is made possible in partnership with Disney Theatrical Group with additional support from PNC. #TheatreEducation #minnesota #nonprofit #ArtsEducation

Discover art that moves you in the Dance on Hennepin Center Stage exhibit, now on display at The Hennepin! This exhibit features the extraordinary feat of moving the Shubert Theater in 1999, which, at the time, held the Guinness World Record for the largest building ever moved on rubber wheels. The exhibit also shines a spotlight on the MIXTAPE Collective and many musical theater posters of shows that have performed on our stages through the years. Visit our website to learn more and stop by The Hennepin before your scheduled performance of MJ the Musical to step into the shoes of Hennepin Avenue's greatest dancers! https://bit.ly/3ykrt9D #PublicArt #ArtHistory #FreeGallery #Dance

🎉 School Performances are going on now for the 2024 Disney Musicals in Schools Program! 🎉 🎭 This program is an initiative developed by Disney Theatrical Group to create sustainable theater programs in under-resourced elementary schools. 🎓 Chosen schools receive a free performance license to a 30-minute Disney KIDS musical, ShowKit materials and in-school support from Hennepin Theatre Trust teaching artists. 👏 Then at the end of the school year, the young performers get to showcase their talent in front of nearly 300 fellow elementary school students from across the Twin Cities at the Pantages Theatre during the Student Share Celebration! Learn more and see how you can apply to bring this program to your school: https://bit.ly/41VHxbu Disney Musicals in Schools is made possible in partnership with Disney Theatrical Group with additional support from PNC. #Education #TheaterEducation #nonprofit