Hey you: Come to the May Art Happy Hour!

Wednesday, May 12
5 to 7:30 p.m.

Bedlam Theatre
1501 S. 6th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55454

Ah, loneliness.
Ah, Minnesota.

Is there any lonelier month, and any lonelier place, than Minnesota in March?

Well, be lonely no longer. Thanks to:

ART HAPPY HOUR, the antidote to March loneliness.
Come, gather with your art-loving friends. Mingle and make crucial art-professional contacts.
Drink well, and cheaply.

And, best of all, be less lonely.

Wednesday, March 10, 4 to 7 pm
At the fabulous Bedlam Theatre
Click here for directions

Art Happy Hour @ the Bedlam Theatre

Wednesday, August 12
4 to 7 pm

Hey ho: Come to Art Happy Hour this Wednesday, May 13, 4 to 7 pm

Bedlam Theatre
1501 S. 6th St. (on the West Bank), Mpls
(Phone:  6123411038)

Art Happy Hour (est. 2008) is known for being a relaxing good time, and a chance for your to mingle, over drinks, with your fellow local artists, arts writers, arts organizers, museum professionals, filmmakers, screenwriters, theater artists, and other art scenesters of all ages!

As promised, this (May) Art Happy Hour features many good things, including:

• Food and drink specials

• An Art Trivia contest

• Fabulous prizes

• A very special guest

And for all you green Happy-hourians, the Bedlam Theatre has informed Art Happy Hour HQ that, just in time for Bike Walk Week, 10 brand new bike racks have been installed outside the theatre. This makes a previous easy-to-reach venue that much more convenient to get to.

Also, please note that following the Art Happy Hour, the Bedlam will be presenting, at 8 pm, the 8th Annual Bedlam Community 10 Minute Play Festival. Tickets are $10 per set!

To learn more, please visit www.bedlamtheatre.

All are welcome!

Come on, people! Why are we letting a little doom and gloom get us all, um, gloomy and doomy?
Sure we’ve got lemons galore, but that never stopped Thomas Jefferson from making vodka lemonade!

In other words, come to Art Happy Hour! Where else can you mingle, in relaxed and fun surroundings, with artists, arts writers, arts organizers, museum professionals, filmmakers, screenwriters, theater artists, and other art scenesters of all age?

At the Fabulous Bedlam Theatre – Wednesday, May 13 – 4 to 7 pm

May’s Art Happy Hour features:

• Food and drink specials

• An Art Trivia contest

• Fabulous prizes

• A very special guest

Plus, advance information about two special Art Happy Hour June events!

(Here’s a hint about one of them):

All are welcome!

Art Happy Hour!

At the Bedlam Theater (1501 S. 6th St., Minneapolis)
4 to 7 pm

Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday ( April 8 )

Consume food and drink. Enjoy a Dyngus Day buffet.
Mingle with fellow art lovers. Enjoy a relaxing happy hour.
Try your hand at the Happy Art Trivia contest (inaugural version, truncated). Maybe even win a prize!

More info for Facebookers.

Directions for the anxious: If you want to come to Art Happy Hour but are concerned about how you will manage to find the group, just follow these simple steps. 1. Go to the West Bank area of Minneapolis. 2. Enter the front door of the Bedlam Theater (1501 S. 6th St). 3. Look for people who are eating, drinking, smiling, possibly laughing. 4. In case you can’t seem to find the group you’re looking for, seek out a guy wearing a black jacket, gold shirt, and Roberto Clemente-era Pittsburgh Pirates cap (that’ll be Michael Fallon, a.k.a., Art Happy Hour).

See you there!

In just two weeks from today, Art Happy Hour will take place at its new regular time and venue: the 2nd Wednesday in April, 4 to 7 pm, at the Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis.

This event will coincide with Bedlam Theatre’s Dyngus Day celebration. What is Dyngus Day? You ask. Well, Dyngus Day is a holiday that takes place on Easter Monday and is celebrated in countries of  Catholic bent, such as Poland (where it’s more properly known as Åšmigus-dyngus). According to Polish tradition, early in the morning boys awake girls by pouring a bucket of water on their heads and striking them about the legs with long thin twigs or switches. Fortunately, I’m fairly sure the Bedlam Theatre does not plan to reprise this particular tradition during their Dyngus Day revelry.

What the Bedlam does plan is to provide plenty of Dyngus Day treats and drinks, good spirits and fun, and much more. Plus, if it all works out, there will be a short Polish Art Trivia Contest (as a sort of test for May’s big trivia blowout), and some lovely prizes for the contest winners.

Come spread the Art joy at the April Art Happy Hour!

At the fabulous Bedlam Theatre (at 1501 S. 6th St. on the West Bank in Minneapolis).

Wednesday, April 8, 4 to 7 pm.

More details to follow in the next week or so. (You can also get details by friending “Art HappyHour” on Facebook.)

Greetings, all, and welcome to 2009 — where changes are afoot, a restless sense of possibility fills the land, and you’re all destined to attend the new and improved version of Art Happy Hour!

As you may (or may not know), Art Happy Hour! was birthed — by mild-mannered art critic, art lover and all-around nice guy Michael Fallon — in a dark time during what turned out to be a dark year, January of 2008. Over the course of the year, as moods deteriorated as quickly as the economy, Art Happy Hour! took place four times — in four different venues and at four different times of the week. The idea for the first year was, in order to optimize the eventual convenience and appeal of the event to everyone, experimentation — trying different things to see what worked best for the most people. The results, even discounting the fact that AHH!3 took place while severe storms, tornadoes, and flash floods ripped through the Cities, were admittedly uneven, although the events were always fun.

And we kept trying.

And with that I’d like to offer a hearty thank you to all of you who voted in the latest poll and who sent your helpful suggestions about the AHH!’s format. We here at AHH!HQ have taken into account all of your suggestions and have come to the several conclusions, which will have a bearing on the format of AHH!5 (scheduled to take place some time in the next 2-3 months or so):

1. Most people favor a more regular time and venue for their (art) happy hours.
2. Most people seem really to dislike the poll function on this site.
3. Most people like the idea of including, as part of Art Happy Hour, some sort of extra bonus material/event.

So there you have it, the results in a nut-shell. I’m going to get to work to try to find a venue for our little social experiment, and once I do I’ll get back to you with all the juicy, Art-Happy details. Until then, keep in touch!