Vanventure!
Join us for a small group adventure!
April 18: Minnesota History Center including a North Star Voices presentation on carousels
April 30: Sidekick Theatre for lunch and Birthday Candles (meal and performance information below)
MAY 1: walk at Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary followed by a self-guided tour at Augsburg University greenhouse
MAY 7: Bell Museum of natural history featuring Imagine the Future and Wonder: Experiences of Nature, Curiosity, and Play; and The Museum of Russian Art featuring Cats and Dogs in Soviet Art: Workers, Teachers, Friends; Spies and Space: Cold War Artifacts from Both Sides of the Iron Curtain; and Say No to War: Political Cartoons by Ukrainian and Russian Artists.
June 25: glaze a piece of pottery at the Kraft Koop to create your own ceramic masterpiece!
July 22: garden tour at Rustic Designs Flower Farm
July 30: Horticulture Night at University of MN Morris West Central Research & Outreach Center
Registration full? Please add you name to the waiting list!
Sidekick Theatre The lunch menu is: creamy chicken breast, served with roasted red potatoes, glazed carrots, coleslaw, dinner rolls, and assorted dessert. About Birthday Candles: this charming new play, recently on Broadway, will warm the soul. The ingredients for the cake are simple: eggs, butter, sugar, salt. Look closer, though, and you’ll see the essence of life itself. Every year, Ernestine bakes a cake and celebrates with her family on her birthday — a delicious ritual that unfolds onstage across 90 years of birthdays. We meet Ernestine and the people who sweeten her life every year on this day as she grows from 17 to 107 years old. Through glimpses of Ernestine’s life as the years go by, Birthday Candles tenderly explores motherhood, family, love, loss and finding your place in the universe.
