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News and events
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Mura sparkles at Pankake Poetry reading
As David Mura stood behind the podium in Elmer L. Andersen Library, he remembered that it was not far from there that he had his first public reading, as a student poet. That 1976 reading took place in an art gallery — and, it was noted, Andersen Library had not yet been built on the West Bank. This afternoon, Mura was standing inside Andersen Library delivering the 13th annual Pankake Poetry reading.
Exhibit

Living Masquerades : Blue Lady and the Art of Revelry
Local Minneapolis artist, Jeanie Ockuly, a.k.a. Blue Lady, invites us to parade in costumes made of sequins, jewels, paint, or mud to mock and/or revel in all of life that is beautiful and atrocious in order to let go, celebrate and heal. See the exhibit that runs through May 28, 2022 at Wilson Library.
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