The Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center

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One of the easiest ways of following the new developments of The Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center and its partners is to read their quarterly newsletters in PDF form.

September 2009
March 2009
November 2008
January 2008
October 2007
July 2007
April 2007
October 2006
July 2006
April 2006

01.11.10 Press Release: iDance Program Launches
The Minnesota Shubert Center and its eight consortium partners are accepting applications for iDance, a new initiative to provide dance enthusiasts with unique educational opportunities, ranging from seminars with national experts to open rehearsals with leading Twin Cities dance companies. Participants in iDance will enrich their own aptitude to understand, interpret, and appreciate dance in its many forms. “The goal of iDance is simple,” says Minnesota Shubert Center Education Director Melissa Koch. “We want to nurture a growing network of well-informed dance lovers who use their knowledge and enthusiasm to welcome new audiences into the Twin Cities dance community.”.Click here to read more.

December 2009 Update
As the Minnesota Shubert Center moves into construction, we talk about a spring 2011 opening, but the truth is the Shubert is already very much in business. The Hennepin Center for the Arts wing of the Shubert currently provides affordable administrative and rehearsal space to 24 nonprofit arts organizations, including two of the Twin Cities’ largest and most acclaimed dance schools.Click here to read more.

12.01.09 Press Release: Mary McColl to Lead the Minnesota Shubert Center
Less than two weeks after breaking ground, the Minnesota Shubert Center announced the addition of three core staff members, including its new Executive Director, Mary McColl. Ms. McColl will be joined by Jeff Bartlett, Dance Community Liaison, and Troy Linck, Marketing Director.Click here to read more.

11.05.09 Press Release: Minnesota Shubert Center Breaks Ground
The Minnesota Shubert Center breaks ground Thursday, November 19, marking a major step in the establishment of a new flagship center for dance in Minnesota. Located at 6th Street & Hennepin Avenue in the heart of downtown Minneapolis, The Shubert Center will connect the vibrant Hennepin Center for the Arts and the soon-to-be restored Shubert Theater to create an affordable, state-of-the-art home for dance performance and education. The groundbreaking ceremony takes place at 12:30pm in the parking lot between Hennepin Center for the Arts and the Shubert Theater.Click here to read more.

November 2009 Update
The Minnesota Shubert Center will connect the vibrant Hennepin Center for the Arts and the soon-to-be restored Shubert Theater to create a flagship home for dance performance and education in the heart of Minneapolis. The Shubert will provide affordable yet state-of-the-art space to work, teach, rehearse and perform. The new center will serve more than 30 local non-profit arts organizations, including most of our leading dance companies, and hundreds of individual artists and students.Click here to read more.

September 2009 Update
Construction on the Minnesota Shubert Center, a new center for dance in the heart of Minneapolis, will begin on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. A celebratory groundbreaking event, open to the entire community, will be staged from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in the small lot between the Hennepin Center for the Arts and the Shubert Theater on Hennepin Avenue.Click here to read more.

August 2009 Update
In the coming weeks, the Minnesota Shubert Center expects to announce a late fall 2009 date for its groundbreaking. Such a schedule would project an early 2011 opening. The opportunity to move forward in this challenged economic climate has been made possible by a series of alternative funding strategies. Click here to read more.

May 2009 Update
Join us on Monday, May 4 at 2 PM as we rally for the Minnesota Shubert Center. The rally will be led by Mayor R.T. Rybak and County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin and emceed by WCCO Anchor Don Shelby. It will include brief performances by the hip hop crew The Battle Cats and ARENA Dances, and perhaps a few surprises. Click here to read more.

11.1.07 Press Release: Shubert Expands Leadership
Artspace Projects President Kelley Lindquist and Rebecca Yanisch, newly appointed chair of the Shubert Steering Committee, today announced the appointment of Colin Hamilton as Artspace’s director of advancement and the Minnesota Shubert Center capital campaign, and the promotion of Kim Motes to Minnesota Shubert Center executive director.Click here to read more.

5.22.06 Minnesota Shubert Center receives $11 million from Legislature
The Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center took a giant leap forward Sunday, May 22nd when the Minnesota Legislature approved $11 million in bonding to help Artspace Projects build the new arts center in downtown Minneapolis.Click here to read more.

2.18.06 Is this the Year for the Shubert?
In the years since the Shubert Theater was relocated to its new home in downtown Minneapolis, Artspace has struggled to transform it into the premier venue for the arts in Minnesota. Could this be the year for the Shubert? Click here to read more.

2.13.06 Shubert Gets New Design
Designed by local architects Miller-Dunwiddie, the Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center's new design will unite the Shubert Theater and the Hennepin Center for the Arts into a signle venue. Click here to read more.

2.08.06 Press Release: New Design
The Minnesota Shubert Center gets new look, new leadership, new graphic identity. Click here to read more.

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