Target Free Thursday Nights in November
Thursday, November 5
Chef-in-Residence Gavin Kaysen
Gather by D’Amico
5 – 9 pm
Happy Hour, 5–7 pm
Top talents from Twin Cities restaurants create limited-edition small plates exclusively for this ongoing series—meet them on the first Thursday of every month for a tasting.
On the first Thursday in November, tempt your taste buds with traditional Heartland offerings from Gavin Kaysen of Spoon and Stable in the North Loop neighborhood of Minneapolis, a James Beard finalist for Best New Restaurant.
The chef refined his dexterity in contemporary American fine dining by dedicating time to some of the world’s best restaurants. After graduating in 2001 from the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, VT, Kaysen worked at Domaine Chandon in Yountville, CA; L’Auberge de Lavaux in Lausanne, Switzerland; and the famed L’Escargot in London, before becoming executive chef at El Bizcocho in San Diego, where he was named one of Food & Wine magazine’s Best New Chefs. In late 2007, he joined Chef Daniel Boulud as chef de cuisine of Café Boulud in New York City, where he later earned the James Beard Rising Star Chef award and a coveted Michelin star. While there, he discovered so much more than tangible, technical skills. “It was like getting my master’s and PhD with Daniel and his organization,” he explains. “I learned so much about hospitality, about the business, cooking—but more importantly, I learned a lot about soulful food. When he cooks, it’s all about spontaneity, which I have discovered is how I really thrive, too.”
Today, Kaysen helps the next generation of young culinarians refine their skills in the kitchen. He is one of the founding mentors of the nonprofit ment’or BKB Foundation (formerly Bocuse d’Or USA Foundation), for which he currently serves as Team USA’s head coach in preparing for the famed biennial culinary competition that showcases the world’s best up-and-coming chefs. Kaysen brings an intimate knowledge of the Bocuse d’Or competition, as he proudly represented the U.S. in 2007. In 2015, he successfully led Team USA to a record-breaking Second Place victory, the first medal and podium placement for the United States.
Thursday, November 5
Screening: Carol
Walker Cinema, 7:30 pm
Directed by Todd Haynes, In Person: Producer Christine Vachon
Free tickets can be reserved with the purchase of a Dialogue ticket; any remaining tickets will be released at 6:30 pm at the box office before the screening Carol.
“More than hugely accomplished cinema, it’s an exquisite work of American art.” —The Telegraph (UK)
In 1950s New York, a young store clerk (Rooney Mara) falls for an older, married woman (Cate Blanchett). Through a series of quiet but calculated looks, the romance that cannot be acknowledged steadily builds between them. Mara won the Best Actress award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival for her performance. 2015, DCP, 118 minutes.
Opens in Minneapolis theaters in December.
The screening of Carol is a part of Todd Haynes: 20 Years of Killer Films.
This Dialogue and Retrospective program is made possible by generous support from Anita Kunin and the Kunin family.
Thursday, November 5
Hippie Localism
Garden Terrace Room, 6:30 pm
Ten pioneering local activists, artists, musicians, and innovators of the era share firsthand experiences of the Twin Cities in the 1960s and ’70s through personal stories and photos. Topics range from life on the commune and the American Indian Movement to Minneapolis’s first co-ops and the happening music scene on the West Bank. Cash bar available.
This event is a part of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia.
Guests include Ellen Kennedy Michel, Eve MacLeish, Kristen Eide-Tollefson, Dave Gutknecht, Bill Tilton, Al Milgrom, Marcie Rendon, Irv Williams, Manuel Woods, and Leola Johnson.
Thursday, November 12
Screening/Discussion: Drop City
Walker Cinema, 7 pm
Free tickets available at the lobby desk from 6 pm
This documentary tells the story of Drop City, the Colorado artists’ commune formed in 1965, which became an icon for a global counterculture. Directed by Joan Grossman; animations by Michael Krueger. 2012, 82 minutes.
A discussion follows with the director, the animator, and Drop City cofounder Gene Bernofsky.
Free tickets available at the lobby desk from 6 pm.
About drop City:
In 1962, Gene Bernofsky, Jo Ann Bernofsky and Clark Richert were students at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. Gene and Clark developed a concept they called “Drop Art” (coining the term well before the era-branding slogan, “Turn on, tune in, drop out”). “Dropping” artworks from the rooftop of a loft space in Lawrence, they were making art a spontaneous part of everyday life in the face of a society they saw as increasingly materialistic and war-mongering.
In 1965, they bought a small piece of land near Trinidad, Colorado andcalled their settlement Drop City. They were soon joined by other artists, writers and inventors, and they started building a community that celebrated creative work.
Drop City’s dazzling structures were based on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes and the crystalline designs of Steve Baer, a pioneer in geometric structure and solar energy. The Droppers had little building experience, but they were full of ingenuity and exuberance. The domes cost almost nothing and were made from salvaged materials – culled lumber, bottle caps and chopped-out car tops. Drop City became a lab for experimental building, and in 1966 Fuller himself honored Drop City with his Dymaxion Award for “poetically economic structural accomplishments.”
Drop City attracted international attention and inspired a generation of alternative communities. But the flood of attention led to overcrowding, and the community was eventually abandoned to transients. By 1973, Drop City had become the world’s first geodesic ghost town.
Drop City is now recognized as the first rural commune of the 1960s, and its early experiments with solar technology and recycled materials speak to a green economy and a new generation of DIYers.
Thursday, November 12
Student Open House: The Time Is Now!
5 – 9 pm
Walker Art Center
Free
Join us for an evening of countercultural, cross-generational happenings inspired by the exhibition Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia.
Greenroom Collaboration
Teens, the young at heart, and Greenroom Magazine present conversation and good vibes for your well-being.
Just Do You
Come to this event dressed to stunt. Wear an outfit that showcases your personality and style, get your picture taken by our event photographers, and live forever on the Internet.
Tools for Remediation
Using the 1960s and early 1970s as a lens, get together with artist collective Red76 to assemble books reflecting on social upheaval, political inequity, and creative engagement across your own experience, place, and time.
Screening/Discussion: Drop City
Walker Cinema, 7 pm
Post-screening discussion with the film’s director, the animator, and Drop City founder Gene Bernofsky.
Thursday, November 19
Lars Bang Larsen: Turning on the Modern, or Against It?
Walker Cinema, 7 pm
The art and culture of the 1960s had high aesthetic and political stakes, but less well known is the decade’s ambiguous and conflicted relation to modernism. Independent curator and art historian Lars Bang Larsen reflects on this struggle of a more philosophical but no less radical nature.
This event is a part of Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia.