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TARGET FREE THURSDAY NIGHTS IN FEBRUARY

FEATURE CHEF-IN-RESIDENCE MIKE RAKUN, FEVER

SONGS, AND THE SCREENING/TALK: TRÉSORS DE

SCOPITONES, WITH CODIRECTOR MICHÉLE

COLLERY

Minneapolis, January 17, 2014The Walker Art Centers Target

Free Thursday Nights in February features a Chef-in-Residence

event with Mike Rakun of Marin Restaurant & Bar (Thursday,

February 6), and Fever Songs, a night of song-making with Lexa

Walsh and local music hero John Munson (Thursday, February

6).Target Free Thursday Nights in February also include the

Screening/Talk: Trésors de Scopitones, with codirector Michéle

Collery, (Thursday, February 27) presented as part of the

exhibition Album: Cinematheque Tangier.

Target Free Thursday Nights

Get inspired. Get in free.

February 6, 13, 20, & 27

Galleries open 59 pm; special events follow.

Thursday, February 6

Tastings with Chef-in-Residence Mike Rakun

Gather by DAmico, 59 pm

Thursday evenings at Gather by DAmico feature $5 small plates

and drink specials, and limited-edition dishes from a roster of

stellar guest chefs who share tastings each month.

Join chef-in-residence Mike Rakun, executive chef at Marin

Restaurant & Bar, who shares tastes from his small plates menu,

created exclusively for Gather and featured throughout the month.

Lexa Walsh Photo: Courtesy the Artist

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About the Chef

As executive chef and partner for Marin in downtown Minneapolis

and Mill Valley Kitchen in St. Louis Park, Rakun was the first local

chef to take the bold move of printing the nutritional information for

all the items on his menus. His fun, flavorful, health-conscious

approach to food has earned him a devoted, loyaland evergrowing

fan following. Rakun discovered his passion for food as

a teenager, working in various culinary jobs in the Chicago area. In

later years, he helped to open the Mission American Kitchen in

Minneapolis. In Florida, he served as executive chef at Trulucks, a

steak and seafood restaurant with its own fisheries and fleet of

fishing boats. Returning to Minneapolis, he assisted with the

management and development of the concept for Black Sheep

Pizza and later partnered with Craig Bentdahl on Mill Valley

Kitchen. Marin, which opened in 2013, is the new restaurant in the

Le Méridien Chambers hotel.

Fever Songs

Walker Art Center, 69 pm

Join artist Lexa Walsh and local music hero John Munson to cocreate

collaborative Fever Songs about the long northern winters.

Participants are welcome to contribute lyrics and melodies to be

developed on the spot by the Fever Band, wholl be writing and

recording live. The multiple-authored completed songs will be

made available on the Walker blog.

About the Artists

An interdisciplinary, socially engaged artist based in Oakland,

California, Walsh works with conversation, food, and music to

create what she calls hospitable democracy. She was recently an

artist-in-residence at Portland Art Museum and a community artistin-

residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts. Walsh is currently an

artist fellow in San Franciscos de Young Museum.

Munson is a Twin Cities-based musician, composer, and producer.

A founding member of the 90s cult band Trip Shakespeare, he

went on to form Semisonic with Dan Wilson and Jacob Slichter.

His recent projects include producing Lucy Michelles solo

record Attack of the Heart; acting as music director for Wits, an

American Public Media radio variety show; and playing in his

bands the New Standards and the Twilight Hours.

Walsh and Munson met almost 10 years ago at an artist residency

in Taipei. As they ate colorful dumplings while singing Neil Young

songs in the Gongguan district, they vowed to

someday collaborate.

Thursday, February 27

Screening/Talk: Trésors de Scopitones,

Featuring Codirector Michéle Collery

Walker Cinema, 7 pm

Photo: Chef Mike Rakun

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In the documentary Treasures of the Scopitones (Trésors de

Scopitones), North African performers and their families and

friends reunite in a French café to watch the Scopitone videos they

made in the late 1960s when they were struggling new immigrants

in France. Made for French television, the film rekindled interest in

this lost music form and the Scopitone jukebox. See one in the

exhibition Album: Cinematheque Tangier.

Directed by Michéle Collery and Anaïs Prosaic (1999, France, in

French and Arabic with English subtitles, 54 minutes).

Album: Cinematheque Tangier, a project by Yto Barrada is made possible

by generous support from the Bentson Foundation.

Target Free Thursday Nights Special in the Walker Shop

The Walker Shop offers a discount on selected items during Target

Free Thursday Nights. The special for February is Eggling.The

precious Eggling looks like an extra-large egg, but crack it and

discover a garden ready for sowing! The Eggling is made in Japan

of white bisque and comes with a peat mixture and seeds already

inside, as well as a terra cotta tray and extra seeds. Just crack,

water, and grow! The special price for Target Free Thursday

Nights in February is $6 (regularly $12), limit one per customer.

Offer valid in-store only and not combinable with other discounts.

Target Free Thursday Nights sponsored by

Silmane Azem in Michèle Collery and Anaïs Prosaïcs Treasures

of the Scopitone

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