The Object LIVE! Presented by Ameriprise Financial

Mia’s award-winning podcast, The Object, tells the surprising, true stories behind the art and artists in the collection. Called “playful, thoughtful, and elegant” and “on par with This American Life” by critics, it’s the museum as you’ve never heard it before. The Object LIVE! is a series of live taping events—everything listeners love about the podcast brought to life on stage.

October 30, 2025
This live taping of The Object, hosted by Tim Gihring, features special guest Chan Poling (The Suburbs, The New Standards), fun quizzes and prizes, and of course storytelling. The evening is all about the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, the flapper-ific art and music of the Jazz Age, and Saint Paul’s own F. Scott Fitzgerald. It’s “Great Gatsby’s Ghost!” Join us on Halloween eve (costumes encouraged, not required) for a theatrical evening you’ll remember for the next 100 years.

Chan Poling is the celebrated songwriter, composer, and performer behind The Suburbs; The New Standards; and a wide variety of theatrical, television, and film scores. His hit musical Glensheen (“shamelessly witty”) returned this year for a 10th anniversary run at the History Theatre in Saint Paul. His second children’s book with illustrator and musician Lucy Michell, The Moons, came out in 2024. His Saint Paul home shares an architect with the Summit Avenue row houses where F. Scott Fitzgerald lived.

Free tickets available September 22, 2025.