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Running Aces Casino & Racetrack is hosting a custom artwork contest to select a talented local artist or artist group to create an original wall installed art piece to be a permanent fixture in its High Limit VIP Area.
Running Aces is seeking professional artists age 18 and older who can bring the property’s rich history alive through a three-dimensional original piece of artwork that represents Trout Air, harness racing and/or casino gaming and entertainment. Running Aces will award the top two finalists for the design proposals with $500, and the Grand Prize winner will receive $7,777.
To enter, artists must provide the following information in a single word document and submit digitally:broadstreet.zone(48036);
• Contact information (name, email, phone, address, URL link or media link)
• A one-page letter of interest, including a description of working methodology and project proposal description of how the artist proposes to address the thematic and formal issues relevant

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Thanks to the Moscow Ballet’s innovative Dance With Us program, which casts student dancers as extras in a major performance, Forest Lake area dancers will be dancing alongside talents in a Russian rendition of “The Nutcracker” this holiday season. Dancers will take the stage at 7 p.m. Nov. 26 at the Orpheum Theater located at 910 Hennepin Ave. in Minneapolis. The traveling Moscow Ballet company, now in its 24th season, includes award-winning principal dancers and, in total, a corps of about 40 dancers.

Moscow Ballet audition directors, who are also dancers in the company, travel the United States each fall before the Nutcracker tour to personally audition and rehearse aspiring student dancers. The Dance With Us program provides dancers age 7 to 17 the experience of participating in real auditions, with an opportunity to be cast, rehearse, be costumed with the company, and take the stage alongside professional dancers for a

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