Capping off The Great Northern 2022 is a showcase of ACF’s most recent cohort of McKnight Composer Fellows: Ashley DuBose, Ritika Ganguly, George Maurer, and Mary Prescott.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Minnesota Orchestra as part of The Great Northern 2022. This one-hour Relaxed Family Concert is designed for audiences of all ages and abilities.

Ojibwe mother, singer, songwriter, and visual artist Annie Humphrey curates an evening that includes her own music and special guests Corey Medina and Brothers

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Minnesota Orchestra as part of The Great Northern 2022.

Walk, ski, or snowshoe on Lake of the Isles alongside candle-lit luminaries outlining a serene landscape of glowing ice.

Dancer/choreographer Dimitri Chamblas’ Slow Show is a 20-minute collective dance whose visible repercussions are minute, precise, and concentrated. In this iteration, 50 local participants will respond to their immediate environment on a frozen Como Lake.

Get together, get moving, and build some midwinter heat with this all-abilities movement class offering a fun and inclusive approach to dancing.

LA-based musician Naeem Juwan’s “Minneapolis period” was artistically formative, and supported the development of his critically lauded 2020 release Startisha, “a spacious, sonically curious record that sees him exploring new emotional and sonic ground” (Interview Magazine). Performance details and special guests to be announced.

Artist Kim Heidkamp and choreographer/dancer Mathew Janczewski (ARENA DANCES) discuss their collaborative interdisciplinary installation Thermal ahead of its month-long premiere at American Swedish Institute in March 2022.

Join environmentalist/composer Gabriela Lena Frank and writer/birder/conservationist J. Drew Lanham for a conversation on collaboration, sustainability, birds, and music.

Singer, composer-producer, and performance artist Lyra Pramuk performs songs from her debut album Fountain, “a journey through experimental sounds and electronically reshaped vocals” (Metal Magazine)

Driven by a devotion to the sonic afterlife, memory, and material curiosity, “one of the most exciting young composers in North America” (The Guardian), Kara-Lis Coverdale makes her Upper Midwest debut at The Great Northern 2022.

This work-in-progress conversation explores choreographer/dancer Ashwini Ramaswamy’s Invisible Cities’—a reinterpretation of Italo Calvino’s metaphysical/philosophical novel, with interactive projections created by internationally renowned artist Kevork Mourad.

On the eve of Philip Glass’ 85th birthday, The Great Northern honors the unprecedented impact the composer has had on the musical and intellectual life of his times with a gigantic outdoor screening of his cult classic KOYAANISQATSI projected onto Minneapolis’ iconic United Crushers Mill.

An ice cello dyed black and embedded with electronics is played and translated into sound, paying tribute to an avant-garde past while reflecting on overlooked and undocumented cases of mental disability within underrepresented populations.

Multidisciplinary artist Maren Hassinger will discuss her life’s work and the in-progress reimagining of her iconic pink installation Embrace/Love for Minneapolis, to be presented as part of The Great Northern 2023.

Cellist Seth Parker Woods and artist Spencer Topel discuss their interactive performance installation ICED BODIES with poet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney.

Join us to kick off The Great Northern's most ambitious year yet with a "festival eve" winter village at Northeast Minneapolis' Quincy Hall.