Latest Past Events

2022 McKnight Visiting Composer Victor Marquez-Barrios’ – ‘A Path Home/Camino a Casa’

Truman State University

The world premiere of the song cycle A Path Home/Camino a Casa, with music by Victor Márquez-Barrios and lyrics by Márquez-Barrios and Rodolfo Nieto, will take place on Friday, October 27, at 7:30pm in Truman State University. These songs were inspired by testimonies provided by a group of Latino immigrants living in the Twin Cities area […]

Free

Asuka Kakitani (2019 McKnight Composer Fellow) Album Release Concert

On Saturday, June 24, the Japanese composer Asuka Kakitani presents a concert at Studio Z (St. Paul, Minn.), to support her new solo percussion album Twelve Months in Minnesota (out on June 30), featuring Eri Isomura and inspired by nature in the state. Kakitani is a 2019 McKnight Composer Fellow and a 2016 JFund awardee […]

$15

NEA Big Read Study Group no. 5

Springboard for the Arts 262 University Ave West, Saint Paul

Immigration, Identity and the Arts You are invited to join American Composers Forum (ACF) and East Side Freedom Library (ESFL) on Thursday, June 1 at 6:30 pm CT for the culminating event of our "Immigration, Identity, and the Arts" series. Taking place at the Community Hall in the newly-renovated Springboard for the Arts complex in […]