Target Free Thursday Nights at the Walker Art Center offer visitors a chance to enjoy an exhibition, take in a lecture, watch a film, take part in a workshop, and ask questions every Thursday night from 5–9 pm.

The Walker Art Center’s Target Free Thursday Nights in June are highlighted by the finals of the teen artists competition 20 Under 20, presented by the Walker Art Center Teen Arts Council (WACTAC).

The Walker Art Center presents the area premiere of Carlos Brooks' Quid Pro Quo, Friday, June 6, 7:30 pm, the latest film in the series Premieres: First Look, an ongoing presentation of area premieres that gives audiences an early look at tomorrow's critically acclaimed classics. Producer Sarah Pillsbury (Desperately Seeking Susan, River's Edge, Eight Men Out, And the Band Played On) will introduce the film and participate in a post-screening conversation.

June tours at the Walker Art Center offer a chance to get outside and explore the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden during Walker Inside Out: Art goes outdoors, a summerlong celebration honoring the Garden's 20th anniversary.

In their own words, the directors of Australia's Back to Back Theatre create "locally devised, globally relevant and significant theater." This ambition plays out in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden in a show where two men who normally escape notice—seemingly mentally disabled and possibly homeless—play inadvertent but pivotal roles in the lives of two ambitious executives.

Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis, the late Japanese artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, premieres at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 18, 2008–January 11, 2009.

A reemergence of Latin American films on the international scene in recent years has resulted in a wealth of vivid, groundbreaking work.

April tours at the Walker Art Center offer a chance to see the latest exhibition Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing (opening April 18), providing an in-depth look at the visual arts practice of an artist recognized primarily for her work in dance and opera.

On Tuesday, April 15, 7:30 pm, the Walker Art Center presents a special advance screening of Errol Morris' latest documentary Standard Operating Procedure, and the director will participate in a post-screening Q&A with the audience. Groundbreaking Academy Award–winning documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, The Fog of War) investigates what he calls "the mystery" behind the images that shocked the world, the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph upends the phrase "think globally, act locally," striving to inject core community values into his work as an international hip-hop artist. He performs the world premiere of the Walker Art Center-commissioned the break/s Thursday–Saturday, April 10–12, at 8 pm in the William and Nadine McGuire Theater.

The exhibition Trisha Brown: So That the Audience Does Not Know Whether I Have Stopped Dancing, the centerpiece of a spectrum of programs honoring the 40-year career of this contemporary dance icon, will be on view at the Walker Art Center April 18–July 20. Providing an in-depth look at the visual arts practice of an artist recognized primarily for her work in dance and opera, the exhibition anchors the Year of Trisha festivities.

Families are invited to celebrate suburbia at the Walker Art Center's Free First Saturday event Escape to the Suburbs! from 10 am–3 pm Saturday, April 5, in conjunction with the exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes (through August 17).