History Revealed: Tracing Teddy Roosevelt
2019-07-14 14:30 - 16:00 (America/Chicago) | Courtroom 326 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, Minnesota, 55102, United States
Join RCHS for a special History Revealed presentation. As part of his “Tracing TR’s 1903 Train Trip Tour,” author James Blase will present the history of Teddy Roosevelt’s 1903 train trip that culminated in a stop at the Grand Canyon. Blase’s new book, “Keep it for Your Children: Theodore Roosevelt’s 1903 Western Trip,” creates a first-person journal of a 66-day western train trip the President made during his first term in office, in 1903 – a year after Landmark Center first opened its doors. The train trip included a stop in Saint Paul, where Theodore Roosevelt arrived by train at 2:30 pm on April 4, 1903, and where the President spoke to a crowd estimated at approximately 50,000 outside the Cedar Street side of the State Capitol. Late in the afternoon the President travelled to Minneapolis, where he attended a banquet and made a speech at the Nicolette Hotel.
Jim Blase’s presentation, complete with photos, will cover the entire 66-day trip, but he will be emphasizing the President’s stops in Saint Paul and Minneapolis. The presentation is in conjunction with a two-week Amtrak western “loop tour” train trip Blase will be making, beginning in St Louis Missouri (the “Gateway to the West”) on July 1, and continuing through New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, California, Oregon, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, culminating back in St. Louis. The tour’s route mirrors much of the President’s in 1903.
Reservations requested – see the page here or call the office at 651.222.0701. Free and open to all.

Music in the Café: Peter Kogan Trio
2019-07-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Music in the Café welcomes musicians to the Musser Cortile for four Thursday lunch hour performances. The concerts are a great opportunity to hear talented local musicians. Past Music in the Café musicians have gone on to be featured at the Dakota Jazz Club and on NBC’s The Voice! They are free and open to the public. Guests are invited to bring their lunch or purchase one from Anita’s Café. Music in the Café is sponsored in part by KFAI Radio with additional support from the Minnesota Music Coalition.
Peter Kogan, percussionist and composer, has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Lyra/Baroque Orchestra. The Peter Kogan Quartet and Septet (The Monsterful Wonderband) perform regularly at clubs around the Twin Cities. Kogan’s newest album “The Green Album” was released in November 2018.
Abebi Stafford, from Atlanta, Georgia, has been playing Jazz and Classical piano since he was 9 years old. He’s headlined in the Atlanta and Minneapolis/St. Paul Jazz festivals in 2002. In 2013 and 2014 he released his 3rd album “Are Changing” which is his first album containing all original works.
Ted Olsen is a bassist and composer from Minneapolis. As a bandleader his groups have been featured at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, The Artists’ Quarter, and Icehouse. He has also performed at Nocturne Jazz Club in Denver, CO and Festival No Improviso in Curitiba, Brazil. In composition he won the 2012 Eric Stokes Song Contest held by the American Composers’ Forum.

Saint Paul Walking Tours: Rice Park
2019-07-10 10:00 - 11:00, 2019-06-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Enjoy a historic and architectural tour that takes you back in time to learn the hidden secrets of the unique buildings that surround one of the city’s most beloved parks. The Rice Park walking tours are the second Wednesday of the month, June – September and departs from Landmark Center’s Information Center at 10 am.
Reservations/tickets are REQUIRED.

Building Closed
2019-07-04 | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Happy Independence Day. The building will be closed for the 4th of July holiday.

Music in the Café: The Crow's Delight
2019-06-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Music in the Café welcomes musicians to the Musser Cortile for four Thursday lunch hour performances. The concerts are a great opportunity to hear talented local musicians. Past Music in the Café musicians have gone on to be featured at the Dakota Jazz Club and on NBC’s The Voice! They are free and open to the public. Guests are invited to bring their lunch or purchase one from Anita’s Café. Music in the Café is sponsored in part by KFAI Radio with additional support from the Minnesota Music Coalition.
Brian and Sheralyn Barnes are The Crow’s Delight. They love to travel, in music as well as in real life. For music, they mash up Irish traditional, folk, swing, gypsy, pop/British New Wave and world music into shiny gems of song.

Saint Paul Walking Tours: Great River
2019-06-26 10:00 - 11:00 | Upper Landing Park, 206 Shepard Rd, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Learn about St. Paul’s start and its relationship with the Mississippi River. On this walking tour you will learn great information while observing the beautiful view of the river and its surrounding areas. The Great River tours are the fourth Wednesday of the month, June – September, and departs from Upper Landing Park in St. Paul (Shepard Rd. & Chestnut St./Eagle Pkwy) at 10 am.
Tickets/reservations are REQUIRED.

Saint Paul Walking Tours: Heart of the City
2019-06-19 10:00 - 11:00 | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Enjoy some of St. Paul’s most historic landmarks on this tour that takes you into the heart of the city. The tour covers popular spots like Mickey’s Diner, Candyland, the Hamm Building and more! The tour takes place the third Wednesday of the month, June – September and departs from Landmark Center’s North Lobby, inside the 6th Street entrance.
Reservations/tickets are REQUIRED

Woodturning Demonstration
2019-06-16 12:00 - 15:00 | AAW Gallery of Wood Art – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Suite 222, Saint Paul, MN, 55104, United States
The AAW Gallery of Wood Art presents free live demonstrations of woodturning from 12-3 pm, the third Sunday of each month.

Music in the Café: Pushing Chain
2019-06-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Music in the Café welcomes musicians to the Musser Cortile for four Thursday lunch hour performances. The concerts are a great opportunity to hear talented local musicians. Past Music in the Café musicians have gone on to be featured at the Dakota Jazz Club and on NBC’s The Voice! They are free and open to the public. Guests are invited to bring their lunch or purchase one from Anita’s Café. Music in the Café is sponsored in part by KFAI Radio with additional support from the Minnesota Music Coalition.
Pushing Chain was formed in 2012 by Boyd Blomberg and Adam Moe. The duo, which has been performing together in various manifestations since 1997, plays Folky-Tonk music featuring Blomberg on guitar and vocals and Moe on the fiddle and vocals. Strong songwriting, tight harmonies, and a gonzo approach have been winning fans for Pushing Chain across the Midwest and beyond.

Money in Politics: Restoring Fair Representation to the People
2019-06-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Learn about recent Supreme Court decisions that have limited our ability to regulate campaign spending and have allowed big moneyed special interest groups to influence our elections and our policies. Featured speakers are Vicki Barnes, Volunteer MN State Coordinator for American Promise and Take Back Our Republic, and Richard Painter, author of Taxation Only with Representation and Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota.

Rice Park Grand Opening
2019-06-11 16:00 - 18:00 | MN
Rice Park Revitalization is almost complete. Come and celebrate on June 11.

"Convergent Voices" - Opening reception for summer art exhibit
2019-06-06 17:00 - 19:00 | North Gallery – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., St. Paul, MN, 55104, United States
“Convergent Voices” begins June 6, with an opening reception from 5-7 p.m. The summer exhibition will feature three distinct cultural/heritage backgrounds and showcase the work in concert with one another.
The exhibit and reception are free and open to the public. The exhibit runs through July 28.

Flint Hills Family Festival
2019-05-31 17:00 - 2019-06-01 21:00 | F. K. Weyerhaeuser Aud. – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Performances, free activities, and more – Learn a new kind of dance, hear music from all over the world, get your face painted, or make a new balloon animal friend! With three exciting indoor performances, outdoor stages, and free activities in Rice Park, Landmark Plaza, and the Ordway, there’s hundreds of ways to play at the Flint Hills Family Festival.
Featured performance in Landmark Center’s F.K. Weyerhaeuser Auditorium, Puppet State Theatre’s The Man Who Planted Trees – June 1, 10:30 am & 2:30 pm.

Building Closed for Memorial Day
2019-05-27 | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
The building will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday.

Border CrosSing choral concert
2019-05-19 13:00 - 15:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Border CrosSing is a choral ensemble founded with the mission of integrating historically segregated audiences and musicians through the performance of choral music.
Exploring connections between Minnesota and Latin America, Border CrosSing will present choral works by emerging Latinx composers, each paired with music by a Minnesota-based composer. This concert will include several world premieres.

Woodturning Demonstration
2019-05-19 12:00 - 15:00 | AAW Gallery of Wood Art – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Suite 222, Saint Paul, MN, 55104, United States
The third Sunday of each month, visit the AAW Gallery of Wood Art and see live demonstrations of woodturning.

St. Paul Civic Symphony's Annual Mother's Day Concert
2019-05-12 13:00 - 15:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Don’t miss the 32nd annual Mother’s Day Concert. It’s the perfect way to spend the day with the mothers in your life. Seats fill up quickly, so arrive early.
On the program:
> Emilie Mayer (1812-1883) – Faust-Overture
> Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) – D’un soir triste & D’un matin de printemps
> Grazyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) – Symphony No. 3
> Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972) – Apu – Tone Poem for Orchestra

Schubert Club Courtroom Concert
2019-05-09 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
FREE Courtroom Concert featuring American Composers Forum in partnership with Schubert Club NextNotes Lab student recital

SPCPA VOCAL ARTS DEPARTMENT Ensembles Spring Concert
2019-05-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Musser Cortile – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
VOCAL ARTS: Spring Ensembles Concert. Featuring SPCPA’s Vocal Ensembles and some small ensemble/duet/solo works. Free and open to the public – plenty of seating

First Thursdays in the Schubert Club Museum
2019-05-02 16:00 - 20:00 | Schubert 205 – Landmark Center
The Schubert Club Museum is open late on the First Thursday of each month from 4-8 pm! This is a great opportunity for the community to experience our engaging collection of historical music and replicas, original autographed letters from notable composers and other music-themed exhibits of historic and cultural interest outside of the regular daytime hours.

Uncle Sam Worked Here - "First in Line to Vote"
2019-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 430 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Local historian Madeline Hansen will discuss the history of women’s suffrage in Minnesota, including South Saint Paul’s role as the first city in the U.S. where women voted after the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. This Uncle Sam Worked Here lecture is presented in conjunction with the North Gallery exhibition, “A Century of Civic Engagement: League of Women Voters.”
This program is free and open to the public, but reservations are encouraged. They can be made by emailing Judy (jbrooks@landmarkcenter.org).

Schubert Club Courtroom Concert
2019-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
FREE Courtroom Concert featuring Horacio Contreras, cello and Ana María Otamendi, piano

Schubert Club KidsJam workshop
2019-05-01 10:30 - 12:00, 2019-04-30 10:30 - 11:30 | Schubert 205 – Landmark Center
Travel around the world with Lumina as you LISTEN to languages and songs from many countries. LEARN about distant lands and people of many cultures through music. PLAY with your voice as you imitate different sounds and CREATE your own instrument to play along!
Space and supplies are limited. Advance registration is highly recommended.

Bandwidth Community Band Festival
2019-04-28 12:00 - 18:00 | Landmark Center, 75 5th St W, Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
Enjoy an afternoon listening to marches, concert band classics, pop, Broadway, and jazz music performed by some of the top volunteer-based ensembles in Minnesota. This festival is part of Sundays at Landmark and is produced in partnership with the Lex-Ham Community Band.

North Gallery Exhibition: League of Women Voters
2019-04-26 17:00 - 19:00 | North Gallery – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., St. Paul, MN, 55104, United States
To celebrate the 19th Amendment and their centennials this year, LWV St. Paul and LWV Minnesota present “A Century of Civic Engagement: League of Women Voters,” which will make its debut in Landmark Center’s North Gallery during the LWVMN’s Convention in April and remain on display through May. This exhibit of 12 pop-up panels and related history and photos will celebrate the LWV’s history, beginning with the suffrage movement in the 19th century and continuing through today’s work educating and encouraging active, informed participation in government. The exhibit will include history on both LWV Minnesota and LWV St. Paul, who both turn 100 this year.
The exhibit will be open during normal building hours through May 28, 2019.
Register for the opening reception

Schubert Club Courtroom Concert
2019-04-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
FREE Courtroom Concert featuring Liba Schacht, violin; John Sharp, cello; Esther Wang, piano

Schubert Club Courtroom Concert
2019-04-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 317 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, MN, 55102, United States
FREE Courtroom Concert featuring the Music of Abbie Betinis

RCHS History Revealed
2019-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Courtroom 326 – Landmark Center, 75 5th St. W., Saint Paul, Minnesota, 55102, United States
Janice Quick: Stories in Stone: Victorian Headstones at Forest Lawn Cemetery
Free and open to all. No reservations needed.
Join RCHS for History Revealed, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians, authors and archaeologists, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County.
Janice Quick has photographed and researched a variety of Victorian mourning symbols on headstones at Forest Lawn cemetery. Some symbols express the sentiments of the mourners. A few expose superstitions of the era. Many depict the careers, interests and lifestyles of the individuals interred below the stones.
View PowerPoint photos of beautifully hand-carved headstones, many in the shape of trees, with images of ivy, ferns, calla lilies, birds, wheat, corn and other natural subjects, as well as the logos of several local organizations. Hear how those images reflect the lives and times of the persons honored by the elaborate headstones.
Janice Quick is a historian, researcher and writer.
Attendees are welcome to bring a bag lunch.
