Entries from August 1, 2017 - August 31, 2017
Share Article August 30, 2017, Wednesday - Mill City Live at Mill City Museum
Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
August 30: Salsa del Soul
Mill City Live returns for its 14th season with live music every Wednesday evening in August. Set in the museum's dramatic open air Ruin Courtyard, "Mill City Live" features outdoor music by some of the best local artists for a unique happy hour experience. Music takes place from 6-8 pm, with food and drink for purchase.
Cost: $5 (online registration required), includes museum admission from 4 to 9 pm. This is a free event for MNHS members, but to guarentee admittance it is recommended that members make a $5 advance purchase online or by calling 651-259-3015.
August 30, 2017, Wednesday - Capella Tower Indoor Market
Time: 11:00AM - 2:00PM
Location: Capella Tower, 225 S 6th Street (in the atrium)
Markets will run from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Atrium every Wednesday through September. A variety of locally grown vegetables, fruits, flowers, honey, and baked goods will be available each week.
* Now featuring fresh-made WAFFLES! *
Many of the vendors will be cash-only so please come prepared.
August 30, 2017, Wednesday - The Common Room Neighborhood Mixtape Tour
Time: 6:00pm
Location: The Soap Factory, 514 2nd St. SE
The Common Room Neighborhood Mixtape Tour
The Neighborhood Mixtape Tour takes the concept of the classic mixtape, which channels feelings and ideas through curated musical playlists, and applies this mode of communication to paint an audio-portrait of Minneapolis neighborhoods’ character and characteristics. This bus tour invites you to experience a series neighborhoods interpreted by residents through playlists and commentaries showcasing their neighborhood’s unique flavor and essence.
Common Room is a series of artist-led tours of Twin Cities sites, with each tour themed around a specific concept that the group uses as a lens to explore facets of the urban geography — in the past, these themes have included cats, alleys, skyways, fishing, freeway construction, weather, community kitchens, personal memory, and many more. Common Room is the work by Sergio Vucci and Andy Sturdevant, along with a rotating lineup of contributors. Now in its eighth year, is using the occasion of the Rethinking Public Spaces project to expand the scope of its programming for this summer to travel beyond The Soap Factory, and various neighborhoods of the Twin Cities by foot, bicycle and bus. Common Room’s themes in 2017 will include silence, sacredness, islands, neighborhood music, and more.
About the Artists
Sergio Vucci is a Minneapolis-based artist. He is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his work focuses primarily on engaging his surroundings outside of gallery spaces and on relational interactions, co-authoring ephemeral creative experiences with participants in response to place.
Andy Sturdevant is an artist and writer living in Minneapolis. He is the author of two books of nonfiction, and his artistic projects have been exhibited at venues in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle and elsewhere.
August 29, 2017, Tuesday - Movie Night at Mill City Running
Time: Screening begins at 7:30pm.
Location: Mill City Running, 411 E Hennepin Avenue
Mill City Movie Night: Run Free
It's our first-ever Mill City outdoor movie night! Join us in the "backyard" for a big-screen projection of "Run Free - The True Story of Caballo Blanco". We'll provide popcorn, chairs & maybe even some fake grass for blankets!
August 29, 2017, Tuesday - Music & Movie in the Park at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park (East Bank of the Stone Arch Bridge)
Tonights entertainment: (See website in case of scheduling changes.)
What to bring: Blanket or chair, sunblock and bugspray, picnic basket.
Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos of you, your family and friends enjoying the concerts and movies on the facebook page Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.
Music & Movies in The Parks is produced by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board. Enjoy more than 250 FREE concerts and movies in Minneapolis parks this summer!
August 29, 2017, Tuesday - Mill City Farmers Market Night Market at The Commons
Time: 3:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: The Commons, 425 Portland Avenue S
Mill City Farmers Market Night Market
This will be an ongoing event through Tuesday, September 26.
Pick up farm fresh, organic produce and local artisan foods for an easy weeknight meal. Prepared food vendors will be cooking up seasonal recipes all evening, so come hungry, stay, listen to live music and have a picnic supper in The Commons! More Info
PROGRAMS
At our Tuesday Night Market we will continue to offer “can do” cooking and wellness activities and live entertainment, such as:
- Meet Your Vegetables demonstrations
- Power of Produce kids veggie tasting club
- CSA pick-up
- Community dinners
- Live Music
August 29, 2017, Tuesday - Ecological System Plan Community Advisory Committee Meeting at MPRB
Time: 4:306m-6:00pm
Location: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, 2117 West River Road
The next Ecological System Plan Community Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting is scheduled Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, at Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board headquarters, 2117 West River Road.
At the meeting, the CAC will determine dates, locations and formats of plan-specific public involvement events, including partnership opportunities with local organizations relating to plan themes (water, air, land, life) and topics (air quality issues, carbon sequestration, urban heat island effect, stormwater runoff, habitat connectivity, habitat quality and biodiversity, and sustainable energy generation). A status update and timeline of next steps regarding plan development will be provided.
Topic: Discuss first plan-specific public involvement event and collaboration with local organizations related to plan themes and topics.
What is the Ecological Systems Plan?
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) and the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) are preparing the first-ever Ecological System Plan. This plan will set a vision for making parks and public lands more friendly to the environment.
The Ecological System Plan will seek to first understand the ecology of the city and watershed, then plan for parks and public lands management and improvements that benefit both humans and nature.
It will address specific threats such as climate change, decreasing water quality, explosion of invasive species, increasing runoff, and fragmentation of habitat. It will envision a more environmentally sound way of managing the impacts of the city, so that the city can be cleaner, greener, cooler, and more efficient.
To learn more about this project and others, visit www.minneapolisparks.org/planning.
August 28, 2017, Monday - "Music in the Park" at Nicollet Island
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Nicollet Island Park
Tonights entertainment: (See website in case of scheduling changes.)
What to bring: Blanket or chair, sunblock and bugspray, picnic basket.
Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos of you, your family and friends enjoying the concerts and movies on the facebook page Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.
Music & Movies in The Parks is produced by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board. Enjoy more than 250 FREE concerts and movies in Minneapolis parks this summer!
August 27, 2017, Sunday - Disasters of the Riverfront Walking Tour at the Mill City Museum
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
Disasters of the Riverfront Walking Tour
Take a guided walking tour of the St. Anthony Falls milling district and learn about some of the most tragic disasters in Minnesota history. Hear the stories of fires, floods, explosions, collapses and other natural and human-created calamities. Visitors will learn about the Eastman Tunnel Collapse in 1869, the Great Conflagration of 1893, bridge collapses in 1859 and 2007, numerous fires and massive landscape changes that shaped the Twin Cities.
This tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces. Please call ahead to make arrangements for guests with limited mobility.
Future date: September 24
August 26, 2017, Saturday - The Ragman - Film Screening w/ The Rolling Stoners at Day Block Brewing
Time: 9pm Doors | 21+ | $10 Cover (includes film and concert, dining room is separate and is always no cover)
Location: Day Block Brewing Company, 1103 Washington Avenue S
The Ragman - Film Screening w/ The Rolling Stoners
His name is Michael Bork but most people call him The Ragman. He is a vagabond, yet also a storyteller and songwriter who, over his lifetime, wrote and recorded 100 songs during and about his rail-riding adventures.
The Ragman handed over those hand-written lyrics and sampling of recordings (on a cassette tape… we kid you not!) to a handful of players from the national indie-music scene who became instantly smitten with his Dylan-esque narrative cadence and soon embarked on a musical journey that ultimately became The Ragman Project.
From this music came two things:
A documentary film of The Ragman, titled: A Hobo’s Story Untold
The film showcases Ragman’...s adventures and struggles living what he called a hard life in rail cars, abandoned houses and ditches throughout the United States. Yet out of that life came the pages of lyrics that led The Ragman and an entourage of touring musicians to a recording studio in Lexington, KY. The film is being showcased at Newport Beach Film Festival April 24, 2017.
The Album titled The Ragman Project – A Hobo’s Story Untold
The Ragman Project's first album is a transformation of Michael Bork's original cassette tape demos, into a mesmerizing collection of a unique genre we deem “Dreamscape-Americana” gold. Over 20 musicians from America's indie music scene came together to bring to life The Ragman’s hobo stories, including members of ENEMY PLANES, Vandeveer, Cheyenne Mize, Horse Feathers, and musician and producer Duane Lundy of Lexington KY's Shangri-La Studios, whose credits include (Jim James, Sturgill Simpson, Ben Sollee).
9:30pm - Listening Party for the Album
10:05pm - Screening of the film
10:45pm - The Rolling Stoners
Special Firkin available this night only - “Train Hoppin’ Daze” - Daisy infused Pale Ale.
August 26, 2017, Saturday - LEYYA MONA TAWIL: DESTROY// MINNEAPOLIS Opening Reception at The Soap Factory
Time: 8:00PM-10:30PM
Location: Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE
LEYYA MONA TAWIL: DESTROY// MINNEAPOLIS Opening Reception
Destroy//
A new ritual for new times.
Leyya Tawil builds the work on location in one day with local artists.
In performance, the dance destroys itself.
In collaboration with local dancers and musicians, dance artist and composer, Leyya Mona Tawil, will bring her day long performance, ‘Destroy// All Places’, to The Soap Factory. ‘Destroy// All Places’ is a new ritual for new times. The performance is composed, but untethered. The artists attempt a score imbedded with mechanisms that make its execution increasingly impossible, forcing the material into stages of deterioration and evolution. ‘Destroy// All Places’ began in San Francisco in 2012, and has since visited over 23 cities including Saint Petersburg, Rome, Cairo and Athens. Over 100 artists have participated in the project internationally.
Tawil’s project for The Soap Factory, ‘Destroy// Minneapolis,’ is a metaphor for renewal and resistance. The health of a city is dependent on change; a change that requires destruction as part of the life cycle.
August 26, 2017, Saturday - Harvest Family Day at Mill City Museum
Times: Noon - 3:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South
Learn about harvest time in the 19th century with a day of family activities. Make seed art and a book project, taste fresh bread, join in story time, help thresh grain and check out the Science of Butter demonstrations in the Baking Lab. Plus, History Player Mary Dodge Woodward will share stories about harvest time on a giant "bonanza" farm. Come early for entertainment and activities at the Mill City Farmers Market.
This program is presented by Mill City Museum and the Oliver H. Kelley Grange.
August 26, 2017, Saturday - Twin Cities Food Tours' Historic Northeast Minneapolis Food Tour
Times: 11:00am and 1:00pm
Twin Cities Food Tours' Historic Northeast Minneapolis Food Tour
The Historic Northeast Walking Food Tour takes place in the Minneapolis neighborhood known as Northeast, or Nordeast to locals! You’ll savor favorites from 6 locations including sausages also served at Twins Stadium, authentic Neaopolitan Pizza, traditional Greek desserts and gourmet cheeses, to name a few. You’ll also learn how these local establishments came to be, who owns them and some fun and interesting stories they have to share. The food sampled on the tour is included in the price of your ticket and is enough for a satisfying lunch.
August 26, 2017, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market
Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm
Location: 704 South 2nd Street
Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Update coming soon!
August 26, 2017, Saturday - Pillsbury A Mill Tour
Time: 10:00pm - Noon
Location: A-Mill Artist Lofts, 415 Main Street SE
Future date: September 9 and 30m October 21
Discover the story of the National Historic Landmark Pillsbury A Mill, the largest flour mill in the world for many years, which recently reopened as the A-Mill Artist Lofts. A Mill City Museum guide will lead a tour of the former milling complex, including the rooftop deck and the basement waterpower facilities. Visitors will explore parts of the largest and best-preserved waterpower system in Minneapolis (with views straight down a 50-foot drop shaft); discover how the building functioned during the flour milling era and learn about the new hydroelectric plant that helps to power the complex.
The Pillsbury A Mill was the flagship mill of the Pillsbury Flour Milling Company. The A Mill was not only the largest flour mill in the world when it opened in 1881, it was one of the few architect-designed mills in Minneapolis, designed by Leroy S. Buffington. As such it was an industrial show piece and tourist attraction from the start. The Pillsbury A Mill ceased operation in 2003, and in 2015, the complex was redeveloped as affordable lofts for working artists by Dominium, a Minneapolis-based developer.
Please meet at the gray door on Third Avenue SE at Main Street (around the corner from the A-Mill Artist Loft main entrance at 315 Main Street SE). The tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately-paced walking indoors and outdoors with some uneven surfaces. Please call ahead to make arrangements for guests with limited mobility.
This tour is presented in partnership with Dominium, A-Mill Artist Lofts.
August 26, 2017, Saturday - Free Yoga with Friends of the Mill District in Gold Medal Park (Cancelled due to weather)
8/25/17 NOTE - This session has been cancelled due to weather.
Time: 9am
Location: Gold Medal Park
Grab your mat (or a towel) and a neighbor, and meet us by the orange sculpture!
The sessions are free of charge and sponsored by the Friends of the Mill District. Come salute the sun and enjoy the beauty of our neighborhood with your friends and neighbors. Saturdays thru September 2nd.
August 26, 2017, Saturday - Run Like Rel at Father Hennepin Bluff Park
Time: 9:00am (Kids run at 8:45 am, 5K at 9 am)
Location: Father Hennepin Bluff Park
Run Like Rel
You’re invited to participate in RLR's inaugural Start with a Dream 5K and Kid's Race. This unique event will be fun for all ages, so get your entire family together to run, walk or jog for an amazing cause. Organizers promise awesome sponsors and swag. All event proceeds benefit RLR's youth programs and founding scholarship fund efforts.
To learn more about RLR's mission to inspire youth to dream BIG, set goals and accomplish their own definition of success, visit: https://runlikerel.com/. Register at: http://www.andersonraces.com/new-events/2017/8/26/start-with-a-dream-5k.
August 25, 2017, Friday - Parts of a Whole 4: Opening Reception at Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Time - 6 PM - 9 PM
Parts of a Whole 4: Opening Reception
Parts of a Whole 4 features new work by over 70 members of our artist community — faculty, Artist Co-op members, recent artists-in-residence, fellowship and mentorship recipients, Book Arts Certificate graduates, staff, and board members.
See what MCBA's creative community has been up to! View new artists’ books, broadsides, prints, installation work, and other bookish artistic endeavours. Curated by the MCBA Artist Co-op.
On view August 25 through October 29, 2017.
