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Jan. 25, 2019 • Volume 39 • Number 47
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School hosts Anishinabe artist
IMAX Theatre lights to go down Company closes movie house, zoo officials evaluating its future by Tad Johnson SUN THISWEEK DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE
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Highland Elementary recently hosted Julie Kastigar Boada, a local Anishinabe artist with a background in puppet making and theater. Highland fifth-graders studied Minnesota habitats as part of their science unit and how to draw animals in art class, before Kastigar Boada spent five days teaching them how to turn a discarded cereal box into a paper mache sculpture. The students used symbols to decorate their sculptures as codes to symbolize some facts about the animals such as nesting, eating, climate, or predator characteristics, according to a news release. More photos of Highland students making the sculptures can be found on Page 9A of this edition and online at www.sunthisweek.com.
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The IMAX Theatre adjacent to the Minnesota Zoo in Apple Valley will go dark on Jan. 27. When the house lights go down for the last time Sunday it won’t be in anticipation of the start of another blockbuster feature film or a natureinspired documentary, it’s because the company that owns the movie house has decided to close it. When the film machines will crank up after Sunday at the largest IMAX screen in the state is in doubt. With the decision, IMAX, the corporation that operates more than 1,000 IMAX theatres in more than 66 countries around the globe, has turned over ownership to the zoo based on terms of the lease agreement, and Minnesota Zoo officials said it would communicate it’s intent for the space once decided. The closure sparked much surprise and sadness across the south metro as many families held the theater in high regard as it has been part of the community since April 5, 1997. It was built at a time when IMAX 3D theaters were a novelty. With 600 seats and a six-story high screen, the IMAX in Apple Valley instantly turned into a destination. The $8 million theater was built by the Minnesota Zoo Theatre Company, a branch of Toronto-based Larger Than Life Entertainment, according to a 1997 Thisweek Apple Valley story. The company signed a long-term lease with the zoo as funding for the startup came from private investors, approximately a third of them from the Twin Cities, the newspaper reported in 1997. See IMAX, 17A