Twin Cities Film Fest will take place in a hybrid format – both online and in-person. Over 70 online showings will be accessible on TCFF’s streaming platform, and 70+ in-person screenings will be available at ShowPlace ICON Theatres in St. Louis Park, MN.
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2022 TCFF Series
Once again, we’ll be offering the best in American independent films with studio films, indie films, documentaries and short films. About one third of all our films will have Minnesota connections.
Enjoy our special film series including:
CHANGEMAKER SERIES (2022) (Sponsored by Support & Feed and Stephanie Dillon) – our focus this year is Climate Action: Food & Fashion
CODE REDSERIES (NEW) (Sponsored by Support & Feed and Stephanie Dillon) – films devoted to addressing climate change.
BLACK ON SCREEN (NEW) (Sponsored by Comcast) – films by, for and about black individuals
HER SERIES (Sponsored by Grey Search + Strategy, Monster, Irish Titan, Team Women) – films by, for and about women
EMPOWER SERIES (Sponsored by FEI Group, Twin Cities Rise, Media Bridge) – films that feature BIPOC filmmakers and content
LGBTQ+ SERIES– films that feature LGBTQ+ filmmakers and content
TECHSERIES – films about advancements in technology
MN SERIES (Sponsored by 3M) – Films that are filmed in Minnesota, produced or directed by a native Minnesotan (residency not required) or feature a native Minnesotan actor in a lead role.
We will continue our commitment to creating meaningful experiences for everyone involved including red carpet interviews + photos, Q&As, educational events, and parties.
This year we will have a virtual reality (VR) experience at Rem5’s Virtual Laboratory in St. Louis Park, MN. Don’t worry – the festival screenings will continue to stream online at twincitiesfilmfest.org – stay-tuned for more details to come!
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Lounge
The Twin Cities Film Fest offers a relaxing, spacious venue for the public, filmmakers, attendees and supporters to gather before and after screenings for most evenings of the festival. The lounge is open to 21+ and offers complementary beverages and snacks. Click here for the 2022 Lounge Schedule.
Mia is offering exclusive early access to “Botticelli and the Italian Renaissance: Masterworks from the Uffizi” before it opens to the general public. Enjoy specially selected entertainment, drinks, and more during an unforgettable evening in Mia’s second floor corridor.
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Renaissance Florence was a hub of inventiveness and creativity, and artist Sandro Botticelli was at the center of it all. This major exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Uffizi stars that rarely travel outside Italy.
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About
In Renaissance Florence, artists saw art anew, inspired by ancient marbles and myths as well as the humanism of ruler and patron Lorenzo de’ Medici. At the center of it all was Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), whose genius for transforming classical themes into wholly original art inspired new ideals of beauty. Now, in a remarkable partnership with the Uffizi Galleries, Mia is hosting a major exhibition exploring the fevered creativity that defined this time and place. Paintings, sculptures, and prints from Mia’s collection will be shown alongside masterworks from the Uffizi, including rare paintings and drawings by Botticelli, such as his masterful Pallas and the Centaur (c. 1482); works by his teacher (Fra Filippo Lippi) and colleagues (Domenico Ghirlandaio, Cosimo Rosselli, Perugino); and ancient Greek and Roman marbles that the Florentine artists saw and studied. Mia is privileged to be the single stop for this exhibition, an enviable opportunity to see Uffizi stars that rarely travel outside Italy.
While many Minnesota gardens are winding down for the winter season, the Sunken Garden at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory will be in full bloom! White, pink, lime green and purple chrysanthemums will be on display for the first half of the fall flower show. The second half of the fall flower show will feature white, yellow, lime green, bronze, red and orange colored chrysanthemum blooms. Ornamental grasses and pepper plants will accent the fall flower show displays.
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Spend the day with brightly colored chrysanthemums in full bloom at the Como Conservatory for the Fall Flower Show
For over one hundred years, Como Park has played a vital role in meeting the recreational needs of residents of Saint Paul and surrounding communities. Inspired in part by the landscape designs of H.W.S. Cleveland, Frederick Nussbaumer, Superintendent of Parks from 1891 to 1922, worked tirelessly to create an outdoor haven for the area’s urban population. Nussbaumer strongly advocated for a wide variety of free or reasonably priced recreational activities, services, and educational opportunities for all park visitors. The park as we know it today continues to carry out this original vision.
Today Como Park Zoo & Conservatory is operated by the Saint Paul Parks and Recreation Department. The zoo features a seal island, a large cat exhibit, a variety of aquatic life, primates, birds, African hoofed animals and a world class polar bear exhibit. The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory has two acres under glass with a number of different wings dedicated to a variety of plant life including bonsai trees, ferns, orchids and seasonal flowers. The Marjorie McNeely Conservatory also features many outdoor gardens.
In 1994, the initial program planning and design concept was completed for the Como Education Resource Center (now the Visitor Center). $3.9 million in state bonding passed for the building in 1998, and in 2000, $16 million in state bonding passed for Como Education Resource Center Phase 2. In 2002, Mayor Randy Kelly provided a city guaranty so that bidding of the Como Park Conservatory Restoration and the Visitor Center could go forward.
The Visitor Center at Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, developed by architectural firm HGA, opened for education classes in January of 2005 and celebrated its public opening in February 2005. The Visitor Center is 65,000 square feet and features meeting rooms, classrooms, and event spaces, in addition to a large auditorium and the Zobota Cafe. The Visitor Center links to the Como Zoo and Marjorie McNeely Conservatory, serving as the primary entrance to both.
On November 17, 2006, the Tropical Encounters exhibit opened in the Visitor Center. This exhibit is an immersion experience of a Central/South American rainforest and is the first exhibit to feature animals from Como Zoo and plants from the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory. It features turtles, frogs, fish, free-roaming birds, leaf-cutter ants, spiders, an anaconda, and Chloe the Sloth. It also highlights more than 700 plants.
The Minnesota Streetcar Museum — an operational trolley on what used to be the Como-Harriet Streetcar line — rolls along the tracks.
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KSTP: Long before light rail trains, streetcars rolled through the Twin Cities. The Minnesota Streetcar Museum in Minneapolis honors the history of streetcars by giving people a ride on one.
“One of the things people come out and ask is, ‘Where’s the museum?’” Pat Cosgrove with the Minnesota Streetcar Museum said. “I tap on the side of the car and say, ‘You’re on it.’ Most museums, they yell at you if you touch the artifacts. Not only do you get to touch the artifacts, you get to ride it. So how cool is that?”
by Aaron Isaacs; Bill Graham; Byron Olsen; Minnesota Transportation Museum. (Author)
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Streetcars in the Twin Cities date back more than a century and became most popular in the 1920s.
“At the peak, there was more than 500 miles of track,” Cosgrove said. “You could go from Hastings, all the way up to Anoka and from Stillwater, all the way out to Lake Minnetonka.”
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By 1954 the last streetcar in the Twin Cities shut down.
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“Everybody goes out and buys cars, so that was pretty much the end of the streetcar service at that point,” Cosgrove said. “They switched over to buses because it was a lot cheaper to maintain.”
The Minnesota Streetcar Museum was founded about a decade later. It includes one of the last streetcars to operate in the Twin Cities and survive fully intact.
The formal garden is officially reopening to the public for the first time since restoration and reconstruction started. This project has been a long time in the making and couldn’t have happened without the support of so many people, from legislators to construction staff and more.
Our mission at Glensheen is to celebrate preservation, and by completing this critical project while also restoring the gardens to an earlier design & planting plan, we are doing just that.
The Congdon estate originally included 22 acres of lakeshore property. At the time, the area was heavily wooded and the shoreline was rugged, yet the Congdons saw the potential for a gracious, formal estate and practical home for a busy family with six children.
Charles Wellford Leavitt, Jr. was a civil and landscape engineer with offices in New York City. As the landscape architect of Glensheen, Charles was directed by the Congdons to preserve as much of the natural beauty of the property as possible. He was also charged with making the estate self-sufficient, which required plans for a large vegetable garden, a greenhouse, an orchard, a cow barn and a water reservoir.
Walk through the formal garden each weekend and take advantage of our extended hours on Saturday and Sunday, when we are open late until 7pm. Grounds admission is only $5 or you can explore the grounds after any tour of the house.
Curated by local studio furniture maker, TiAnna DeGarmo, this year’s exhibition highlights the artists’ favorite woods and why specific woods are selected for certain pieces. We will explore grain patterns, veneers, and dive deep into the processes based on how these amazing artists use lumber. Proudly sponsored by WNB Financial.
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Gallery shows are free to view. Artwork is for sale, benefitting the Winona County Historical Society and the artist. Regular museum admission applies for the History Center main exhibition hall and archives.
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The River Arts Alliance
River Arts Alliance supports and celebrates regional arts and culture by organizing educational programs, community events, and public art projects while promoting opportunities for artists and facilitating collaborations between organizations in the Winona region.
