2010 Festival

Painters Paint Poetry: exhibition

Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Alesci Gallery
Free Event
Painters Paint Poetry is a show of paintings by nine artists from the St. Croix River Valley region and beyond. The show is June 16-July 12 at Alesci Gallery with an opening reception June 17.
Categories: Poetry Visual Art
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Painters Paint Poetry: opening reception

Thursday, June 17, 2010 6 p.m. -9 p.m.
Alesci Gallery
Free Event
Painters Paint Poetry, a show of paintings by nine artists from the St. Croix Valley region and beyond, invites you to an opening reception at the Alesci Gallery from 6-9 p.m. on June 17.
Categories: Poetry Visual Art
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St. Croix Preparatory Academy Student Art Exhibit

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9 a.m. -5 p.m.
ArtReach St. Croix
Free Event
ArtReach St. Croix partners with the White Pine Festival to feature a visual art exhibit of some of the region’s most promising student artists from the St. Croix Preparatory Academy, representing works inspired by Saturday night's concert program, including George Crumb's "Black Angels." Festival event tickets are also available for purchase. Exhibit is June 8-July 3, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; festival hours are June 23-26, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Categories: Visual Art
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Festival Information Desk

Thursday, June 24, 2010
ArtReach St. Croix

Visit the galleries at ArtReach St. Croix to purchase tickets, ask questions about the festival, and see featuring senior projects from St. Croix Preparatory Academy art students. The students' work was inspired by the music of Saturday night's concert, including George Crumb's "Black Angels."
Categories: Visual Art
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Morning Arts Conversation

Thursday, June 24, 2010 9 a.m. -10 a.m.
ArtReach St. Croix
Free Event
Join festival organizers and artists for a conversation and preview highlights of the day.
Categories: Conversations
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Lecture recital: a conversation and musical sneak preview with Jorja Fleezanis and Karl Paulnack

Thursday, June 24, 2010 10:30 a.m.
Boutwells Landing
Free Event
Join returning festival favorite Jorja Fleezanis and her accompanist Karl Paulnack for an up-close-and-personal musical sneak preview and conversation with concert-goers about their upcoming evening performance.
Categories: Chamber Music Conversations
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Master Class with Layton "Skip" James

Thursday, June 24, 2010 2 p.m.
Boutwells Landing
Free Event
Watch some musical magic when some of the region’s most promising young musicians hone their skills and take their art to the next level with former Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra keyboardist Layton "Skip" James.
Categories: Chamber Music Conversations
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St. Croix Preparatory Academy Student Art Exhibit: opening reception

Thursday, June 24, 2010 4 p.m.
ArtReach St. Croix
Free Event
ArtReach St. Croix partners with the White Pine Festival to feature a visual art exhibit of some of the region’s most promising student artists from the St. Croix Preparatory Academy. Festival event tickets are also available for purchase. Exhibit is Wednesday through Saturday, June 23-26, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Categories: Visual Art
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Opening Night: violinist Jorja Fleezanis

Thursday, June 24, 2010 7:30 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
$15 adults, $10 students
A returning festival favorite, the revered former Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster Jorja Fleezanis teams up again with pianist Karl Paulnack for another breathtaking evening of virtuosic music, poetry and reflection.
Categories: Chamber Music Highlighted Events Poetry
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Morning Arts Conversation

Friday, June 25, 2010 9 a.m. -10 a.m.
ArtReach St. Croix
Free Event
Join festival organizers and artists for a conversation and preview highlights of the day.
Categories: Conversations
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The Loft Poetry Workshop with Carol Bjorlie

Friday, June 25, 2010 10 a.m. -4 p.m.
Arcola Mills
$100
The White Pine Festival and The Loft Literary Center team up to present a one-day poetry workshop with UW-River Falls professor and Loft teaching artist Carol Pearce Bjorlie.
Categories: Poetry
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Painters Paint Poetry: a discussion with the artists

Friday, June 25, 2010 3 p.m. -4 p.m.
Alesci Gallery
Free Event
Painters Paint Poetry is a show of paintings by nine artists from the St. Croix River Valley region and beyond. Selected artists were given a poem, Stephen Spender’s 1964 “I Think Continually,” and were asked to paint a new work for a showing based on a collaborative workshop on poetry, metaphor and distinct artistic vision.
Categories: Poetry Visual Art
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Jazz with the Charles Lazarus Group

Friday, June 25, 2010 7:30 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
$15 adults, $10 students
Minnesota Orchestra trumpeter and returning festival artist Charles Lazarus will bring his jazz quartet, the Charles Lazarus Group, to Trinity Lutheran Church.
Categories: Chamber Music Highlighted Events Jazz
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Post-Concert Reception

Friday, June 25, 2010 9 p.m.
The Lowell Inn
Free Event
Meet the artists of this evening's concert—the Charles Lazarus Group, Jorja Fleezanis, Jack Perla and the Miro Quartet—and join them for drinks and conversation at the Lowell Inn in Stillwater.
Categories: Chamber Music Conversations
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Morning Arts Conversation

Saturday, June 26, 2010 9 a.m. -10 a.m.
ArtReach St. Croix
Free Event
Join festival organizers and artists for a conversation and preview highlights of the day.
Categories: Conversations
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Children's Poetry Workshop

Saturday, June 26, 2010 11 a.m. -noon
Valley Bookseller
Free Event
White Pine Festival, in cooperation with Valley Booksellers, presents a poetry-writing session for elementary school children in grades K-6.
Categories: Poetry
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Info Session: About the White Pine Festival

Saturday, June 26, 2010 3 p.m. -4 p.m.
ArtReach St. Croix
Free Event
Learn more about the White Pine Festival, its origins, its future, and how you can get involved at this informal information session with festival leaders.
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Meet the Artists: Dinner with the Miró Quartet at the Lowell Inn

Saturday, June 26, 2010 4:30 p.m.
The Lowell Inn
$50 (includes dinner)
Enjoy an intimate dinner and discussion with the critically acclaimed Miró Quartet, this year’s premiere performing ensemble at the fourth annual White Pine Festival, at Stillwater’s opulent and historic Lowell Inn in the Matterhorn Room.
Categories: Artist Dinners Conversations
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The Miró Quartet and George Crumb’s Black Angels

Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:30 p.m.
Trinity Lutheran Church
$15 adults, $10 students
One of America’s highest profile chamber groups, the Miró Quartet returns to the White Pine Festival to perform a 40th anniversary tribute to George Crumb’s seminal composition about loss, destruction and resurrection, Black Angels: Thirteen Images from the Dark Land.
Categories: Chamber Music Highlighted Events
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The Miró Quartet: An American Tribute

Sunday, June 27, 2010 2 p.m.
The Phipps Center for the Arts
$15 adults, $10 students
The critically acclaimed Miró Quartet returns to the Phipps Center for the Arts to close out the 2010 festival with an all-American program.
Categories: Chamber Music Highlighted Events
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