Cross-country ski the bluffs of the Mississippi River by candlelight at Spring Lake Park in Hastings. Light concessions including cookies, hot chocolate, hot apple cider and popcorn available for purchase.
Bring your own equipment. All Ages. Carpooling encouraged but there is free onsite parking.
Guide dogs only.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
6-9pm
Spring Lake Park Reserve
1800 – 127 Street East
Hastings, MN 55003
$8 if you pre-register by January 10, $10 at the door
Mixed Precipitation’s fourth edible extravaganza celebrating the sustainable food movement brings opera and theater to community gardens and farms. In a lively and festive adaptation of Mozart’s 1780 Italian opera, Idomeneo, ré di Creta (King of Crete), the Picnic Operetta continues as a neighborhood tradition celebrating the harvest season.
Mozart and Librettist Gaimbattista Varesco based their opera on a version of the Greek story of General Idomeneus, with inspiration from the Greek Pantheon and Homer’s Odyssey. The opera takes place in the years following the Trojan war as the Trojan women face a new life enslaved by the Greeks. Idomeneo, ré di Creta is considered an early Mozart masterwork and his first “great opera”. The score contains several majestic choruses, Placido e il mar, Nettuno s’onori and the famous quartet Andrò ramingoe solo.
Our adaption, The Return of King Idomeneo, brings the myth to life on the urban streets of mid- century America. The hometown heroes of Crete are returning victorious from the long and bloody Trojan War. Idomeneo can barely recognize the town that he left. As the town attempts to move toward reconciliation and peace, angry Neptune, god of the sea, prepares to unleash his sewage monsters. Mozart’s epic music comes to a 1950s street corner with a unique mash-up of passionate arias, exciting chorus, 50s doo-wop and 60s girl-groups. This magical story is family friendly and full of adventure.
August 11-September 23, 2012: Click here for a performance schedule, location varies by date.
Tickets: Call 612.619.2112 or visit mixedprecipitation.org to reserve a seat. Seating is very
limited. The audience is encouraged to bring lawn chairs and blankets. Voluntary donations collected at the end of the performance. No one turned away for lack of funds.
With this Groupon daily deal, save $15 at the Green Mill. Offer is valid at thirteen locations.
If you missed out on this deal or eat at the Green Mill frequently, like them on Facebook for access to coupons.
Today’s TwinCities.com daily deal tops the prior Groupon deal for the Midwest Tomato Fest, held on July 31. Today’s deal is $10 for one ticket to the fest (Reg. $30, Groupon offered $13).
The best day of the summer in Minnesota is on July 31st at Afton Alps. It will be a day where you can throw thousands of soft tomatoes at your friends, all the while listening to a DJ spinning fun mashups. If you need to refuel we have a beer garden and fair food stands you can visit. Afterwards, we will have live music to cap off the night. So, come join us as we pay homage to our brethren in Spain.Not into tomatoes? No problem! Come to watch the excitement and stay for the live music!
July 31, 2011
Afton Alps
6600 Peller Ave. S
Hastings, Minnesota 55033
Today’s Groupon is $13 for one ticket to the Midwest Tomato Fest, held on July 31 (Reg. $30).
The Midwest Tomato Fest’s tomato celebration pits patrons against one another in a vegetable-fueled battle royal inspired by Spain’s traditional La Tomatina festival. The festival provides a purpose for thousands of overripe, inedible tomatoes, which participants will use as ketchup-splattering grenades to make bruschetta on the bodies of their opponents. Patrons can calm their pre-battle nerves with offerings from food and beer vendors and sponsors such as Grain Belt Beer before marching into battle or cowering behind vine-covered pillboxes. To pump up participants, musicians such as the Johnny Holm Band, The Cool Kids, and headliners Shwayze and Cisco Adler enliven brandywine cavalries with energetic, tomato-inspired anthems throughout the day. All partakers of the hour-long tomato fight from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. must wear goggles and are encouraged to dress in all white, swimsuits, or garden-camo battle fatigues, and to bring a change of clothes for canoodling with rival factions during post-war peacetime.
The Midwest Tomato Fest utilizes hundreds of pounds of spoiled tomatoes each year with the goal of raising awareness of food waste and hunger. Part of the proceeds from the event will be donated to Fight Hunger MN and the Dorothy Day House.
July 31, 2011
Afton Alps
6600 Peller Ave. S
Hastings, Minnesota 55033
