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Showing This Season At 825 Arts

Ten Thousand Things: The Most Happy Fella

A waitress finds a love note from a mysterious customer and begins a letter-writing romance. Little does she know the object of her growing love is an aging immigrant wine grower. Fearing rejection, he sends her another man’s photograph. This beautiful story marks the revival of TTT’s second-ever musical, asking who deserves love and how we come to understand each other.

Jun 4-7
Suggested $40, Pay What You Can $15

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Performance Art Intensive: ANCESTRESS

Ancestress is the culminating event of the 2026 Performance Art Intensive. Twenty participants spend one week immersed in artmaking, self-inquiry, poetry, plant medicine, movement, mentorship and community. They welcome you to witness the fruits of their labor in an immersive performance and living art installation where craft is a ritualized process for renewal and transformation!
PAI creator/director Summer Hills-Bonczyk, along with an interdisciplinary team of teachers and artists, offers an event that combines her training and experienece in ceramic art, performance, sculpture, poetry, yoga and sacred ritual.
Stick around for a Q & A with the director and cast after the show.
A limited number of Rush tickets will be available for $10 the day of the performance. Arrive early to get in line.
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Full Court Queens: The Miss Basketball Minnesota Story

June 1st at 6pm, join Documentarian and announcer Mike Peden for the premier of Full Court Queens: The Miss Basketball Minnesota Story, a docuseries project arising from a collaboration with the Minnesota Historical Society. Featuring interviews with nearly 30 Miss Basketball winners, this documentary series premier highlights the history and influence of girls and women’s basketball in the state of Minnesota, starting with the 1990s.

More Coming Soon!

Want your show to be at 825 Arts? Email matt@825arts.org or go to our Rental Page to learn more!

Past Shows at 825:

A person in a green track suit pours tea for a person in a pink zip up sweater. She is smiling, with her mouth open, as if mid-sentence.
A group of people sit at the bedside of a person. An audience is seated in the background.
The chorus watches Helen and Menelaus reunite
A group of robed spirits wave a scarf over a befuddled and amazed person, who walks through them.
A masked chorus, dressed in blue and white robes, beckons the viewer
Two dancers spin over Helen in Ten Thousand Thing's production of Helen.
Drag artists Texas Tea Cakes and Kara Morgan perform in Divas & Drag, presented by An Opera Theater. Photo by Brittany Powell

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​This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board,
thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.