List MN: Finns Festival and Drag Opera and more

MN Shortlist is the weekend of the recommended events from MPR News, highlighting the shows, exhibitions and prominent gatherings throughout the region.

Finnfest in Dolotooth

July 31 until August 3 Food, sauna and music makeup a A five -day festival focused on Finnish culture. For more than 40 years, Finnfst gave an opportunity to learn about the Finnish culture and experience. The episodes on languages, folk dance lessons and film shows at the festival.

Finnfest is not limited to Finnish culture – it also hosts events for other northern groups, including Sámii, who is indigenous residents from the far north of Norway, Sweden and Finland. (Yaqoub Al -Wii)

“Divas & Drag IV: Off Off Broadway” in Jungle Theater

August 1 – 4 – At the South Minneapolis’ Jungle Theatre Theater this week, clouds and local opera artists conduct successes from the famous opera and musical plays. “Divas & Drag IV: Off Off Broadway” Through the opera theater, it displays the art of clouds and the opera scene. It will include a mixture of “Rent”, “La Bohème”, “West Side Story” and “Romeo and Juliet” (GOUNOD and Bellini versions).

The Opera Theater was founded in 2018, and aims to dismantle barriers around classic music by building society and socially relevant work. Its headquarters is located in the twin cities, and this event hosts to celebrate the expression of self and the higher talent for the lights of local opera and clouds. (Anika Besst)

“The Ordinary Days” at the St. Crooch Festival Theater

2 – August 17 – The new music for the St. “Ordinary Days” By Adam Gwom mixes short stories with live music.

New York may be larger and more complicated than any city in Minnesota, but by showing how 8.3 million people collide with unexpected ways, music reminds us that society can make any place to feel like at home. (Anika Besst)

Louis Lee’s book in Magers & Quinn happened

August 4 – Louis Lee came from China to teenagen Minnesota. He started as a owner in the end, and in the end he became the owner of a comedy club in Minneapolis – until the debts forced him and the agents and the absence of customers to stop. He worked tirelessly to revive his dream and ultimately created one of the most popular Mininapolis places: ACME Comedy Company.

on monday, I share tales of his life It was captured in the book “The Home Club” at Magrs & Quinn in Minneapolis. The “Home Club” is a comedy correspondent Patrick Street. The book picks up the fall and ascension of ACME, along with Lee’s commitment to providing a creative haven for the comedians. (Anika Besst)

Charlie Bar in the electric fetus

August 5 -Minnesotan Charlie Bar, known as his voice and blues, was built by the chain, building national followers. He is also the author of the book “Five”, a collection of five stories that Parr describes as “an endless worldly descriptions of worldly people” on his website.

He will read a bar of the book in the electric fetus In Minneapolis, where it will also lead. The event is free and open for all ages. (Yaqoub Al -Wii)

The return of the cat video festival

Until August 14th Remember when the Walker Art Center hosted the first video festival on the Internet in Rolling Greens in 2012? I’m sure. Ten thousand people entertain the blankets on the hill, and many of them with cats in the clouds. A large number of adults wear cats. They stumbled, wearing it on the screen. The year that the existential Tuxedo cat was our hearts: “Henry, if Noir chat” She won the People’s Choice AwardGolden Kitty. Even the New York Times noted that the Walker Festival had succeeded in harnessing a global reality of the Internet: “The cat’s video was king.”

Perfume, Walker He finished the popular event after four yearsBut the Cat video is still king, fortunately, other clothes have eaten the scarf. Oscilloscope Laboratories, an independent film distributor outside New York, CATVIDEOFEST 2025, 1-4 August, displays in theaters at the country level. There is a useful map of places participating with many of them throughout Minnesota, including Main In Minneapolis, Zinema 2 In Doloth, Man Lix 12 In Paxter and Bob Art Theater In Rochester.

You still yearn for something like the experience of a group cinema lover in the open air presented by Walker? Go to the CHS field in Saint -Paul. On August 14, St. Paul Science and the Twin Citizen Film Festival will be restored Cat Video Festival, After making a fuin tonic last year by opening all pets.

The press statement says: “We heard your calls, your screams, and we have signs of scratching (the cat) to prove this,” says the press statement, and we “repeat the common cat’s video festival on a large scale and focused only.” The attendees can bring their bacillus, on the steering wheel, to the stadium. FIFA if cinema! (Alex V. Cipolle)

Nancy Carlson exhibition in the colony of Grand Marais

Until August 31 – The colony of the artist of the great artist Marais opens Art Gallery 1 August Written by Nancy Karlson, author of children’s book and classic painter like “Halloween Halloween” and “I love me!” This collection of artworks, which include women alone in nature and at home, explore topics such as loss, hardship, healing and loneliness. (Alex V. Cipolle)

Alice Oumi Ogura in Landoro Arts

Until September 16 Dancer of twin cities and stories narrators Alice Ayomi Ogura begins her artist to stay August 1 in Landoro Arts, an art organization based in southeast Minnesota. Starting August 7, Ogura, which I amS also the colleague of Jerome Hill artist 2025-2028, It will host a series of free workshops, yoga -rooted and popular events.

It will also develop new episodes of “Yumiverse”, an artistic platform that Ugura says began to “share the novels that focus on marginalized voices of Asian women like them while celebrating the richness and generosity of the American Middle West.”

Yumiverse performance will be crowned on September 13 at St. Mane Theater. Originally from Japan, Ogura learned from her late teacher, dancing Mika Korosawa, “Araba” is a Japanese contemporary dance. (Alex V. Cipolle)