August 20, 2017, Sunday - Railroad History Walking Tour at Mill City Museum

Times: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Railroad History Walking Tour

Beginning with the arrival of Minnesota's first rail line in 1862, Minneapolis boomed in population and flour milling, lumber production and warehousing took off. Take a guided tour of railroad landmarks, including the Stone Arch Bridge, Milwaukee Road Depot and the Minneapolis Eastern Railway engine house and trestle. Along the way, find clues to the vanishing railroad landscape and learn about the future of Twin Cities rail.

The 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 10

August 20, 2017, Sunday - Watershed by Bike II

Time:  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Location: Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, 2522 Marshall Street Northeast

Watershed by Bike II

Join Saint Paul songwriter, poet and cycling advocate Ben Weaver for a short (less than 6 mile) bike ride from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) through the Holland neighborhood and back to the Mississippi River and MWMO. The group will make several stops enroute to experience this watershed area and discuss questions such as: What is a watershed? How big is your watershed? Learn how we can nurture a healthy relationship with the great Mississippi River through the daily choices we make that impact the watersheds in which we live.

Along the ride we’ll notice the path water takes through the neighborhood to the river and make a brief stop for a snack break. There will be time at the beginning and end of the ride to explore the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO) campus where you’ll see raingardens and many other features designed to collect rain runoff, minimizing its ability to carry pollution to the river. Expect to hear a little music and poetry as well. All ages and abilities are encouraged to join for this event.

On the day of the ride we will meet at the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization (MWMO). MWMO has a parking lot should you choose to drive.

THIS EVENT WILL BE RAIN OR SHINE. If there is lightning or severe weather the event will move indoors for a mini concert and waterehd interpreptive activity onsite in the MWMO building.

This ride will be led by Ben Weaver and is sponsored by the Holland Neighborhood Improvement Association with a grant from the Miississippi Watershed Management Organization. If you have specific needs or questions feel free to reach out Adelheid Koski at the Holland Neighborhood Improvemnt Association: a.koski@hnia.org.

August 20, 2017, Sunday - 7th Annual Boarfest at Butcher & the Boar

7th Annual Boarfest at Butcher & the Boar, 1121 Hennepin Avenue - 1pm

It's that time of year again! We are so excited to announce that this year we are bringing in bleachers to won't be a bad seat in the place! Join us for a FREE concert filled with food, beer, bourbon and shots! Bring your friends and your dancing shoes!

August 19, 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 19, 2017, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Bike to the Market Day

August 19, 2017, Saturday - Northeast Farmers Market 14th Annual Corn and Brat Feed Fundraiser

14th Annual Northeast Farmers Market Corn and Brat Feed

No one can resist the barbecue aromas of roasted sweet corn and grilled brats from Kramarczuk's. We'll also have refreshing lemonade and herb butter from Chowgirls Killer Catering to top off your sweet corn.

-Kramarczuk's Brat $6
-Vendor Sweet Corn $3
-Lemonade $2
-Meal Deal $10 (brat, corn, drink)

Northeast Farmers Market
University Ave & 7th Ave NE
Saturday, August 19th, 2017
9:00am-1:00pm

August 19, 2017, Staurday - Donut Run 4.0: The Glaze Runner with Mill City Running

Time: 8 AM - 11 AM

Location: Mill City Running, 411 E Hennepin Ave

Donut Run 4.0: The Glaze Runner

It's Donut Run time again, and this time we're going hyper-local. You'll be devouring dough from four different shops without ever leaving Northeast! Do-nut worry, you'll still be getting plenty of miles in - we'll have a 6.5 & an 8.5 mile route.

The Glaze Runner route will include a Northeast institution making its Donut Run debut (Sarah Jane Bakery), a shop so new it's not even open at post time (Rebel Donut Bar), Downtown Minneapolis's newest hit (Cardigan Donuts), AND our favorite new neighbors (the award-winning Glam Doll Donuts). Once again we'll be making it super easy for you to scarf dough - each Glaze Runner $10 entry includes a ticket for one donut at each stop. Finish all four and you'll be crowned Donut Royalty - scoring you a limited-edition decal and 20% off all in-store purchases!

Tickets are now available on the via millcityrunning.com/shop/donutrun - move quickly to guarantee your spot, the Donut Run sells out every year! Tickets required for entry.

August 19, 2017, Saturday - Mill Ruins Park Volunteer Habitat Restoration with the National Park Service

Looking for something fun and rewarding to do on a Saturday morning? Consider joining the National Park Service (NPS) volunteer crew for habitat restoration activities in Mill Ruins Park.

Typical NPS Mill Ruins volunteer activities include invasive species removal, occasional planting, and caring for native species that have been planted by other volunteers. 

These drop-in volunteer events will take place at Mill Ruins Park from 9am-12pm on the following Saturdays throughout the summer and fall:

August 19 - September 9 and 23 - October 14

Gloves, tools, and instruction will be provided. Volunteers bring a water bottle, sunscreen, sturdy shoes, and clothes that can get dirty. Chat with a ranger or NPS volunteer crew leader, play in the dirt, and feel good knowing that your efforts are helping to improve the national park in our backyard!

Questions? Contact Ranger Erin Steinhibel at erin_steinhibel@nps.gov. Per Erin, "We are so proud of our volunteers - they even won an award from the Minneapolis Park Board last season because of all their hard work!" 

August 19, 2017, Saturday - Riverfront Quest Family Walking Tour at Mill City Museum

Time: 10:30am - Noon

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Riverfront Quest Family Walking Tour

Explore the Minneapolis riverfront with a family treasure hunt. Make a quest journal from 10:30-11 am and then solve rhyming riddles, search for hidden boxes and discover the stories of Minneapolis' history along the way from 11 am to noon. The tour is designed for ages 6-11.

The 60-minute tour includes no more than one mile of moderately paced walking on uneven terrain. Please call ahead to make arrangements for guests with limited mobility.

August 19, 2017, Saturday - Free Yoga with Friends of the Mill District in Gold Medal Park

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 19, 2017, Saturday - Equilibrium: Cindy Tran with special guest Paul Tran at The Loft

Time: 8:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave

Equilibrium: Cindy Tran with special guest Paul Tran

The Loft's spoken word series, Equilibrium, continues with Spoken Word Immersion Fellow Cindy Tran and special guest Paul Tran.

Cindy Tran holds a degree in English Literature from UCLA. She is a 2017 Brooklyn Poets Fellow. In her free time, she writes Yelp reviews, hoping that someone will look for a pork sandwich and find a poem about sandwiches and racism.

Paul Tran is a Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net-nominated poet. Their work appears in Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, RHINO, which gave them an Editor's Prize, & elsewhere. They are the first Asian American in twenty years to represent the Nuyorican Poets Cafe at the National Poetry Slam & Individual World Poetry Slam, where they placed Top 10. Th...ey received fellowships & residencies from Kundiman, Poets House, Lambda Literary Foundation, Napa Valley Writers Conference, Home School Miami, Vermont Studio Center, The Conversation, & Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Paul lives in Brooklyn, where they serve as Poetry Editor at The Offing & Poet In Residence at Urban Word NYC. Also featuring DJ Nak.

TICKETS
Advanced tickets guarantee a general admission seat and help cover the Loft's costs to host the event. Pay-what-you-can tickets are available at the door 30 minutes prior to the event on a first-come, first-served basis. No one turned away for lack of funds. Doors open 30 minutes before the event. Seating is general admission (not assigned).

August 18, 2017, Friday - Vivify-A Still Life in Motion at the Southern Theater (3 nights)

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

Vivify - A Still Life in Motion

August 18 – 20

Vivify- A Still Life in Motion explores the kinetic possibilities of iconic visual art. Minnesota Dance Collaborative is excited by the challenge of reinterpreting classic works of art through the mediums of music and movement. Dancers will bring to life the elements of art with a focus of the visceral connection of color and emotion. Though the majority of dances are choreographed to instrumental music, we seek to honor the voice of the artists we highlight by using their own statements as a way to transition from dance to dance and color to color.

August 18, 2017, Friday - Live Music at Day Block Brewing

Time: 9pm Doors | 21+ show | $5 Cover in tap room, dining room is always free

Location: Day Block Brewing, 1105 Washington Avenue S

Tonight:

11:30p Part Time Ex’s  

Part Time Ex’s is your typical on again, off again type situation. Formed in the catacombs of St. Paul, the players have grown accustomed over time and heartache to doing that thing you like with the guitars and drums and what have you. Part Time Ex’s plays authentic rock-and-roll with an edge that screams “I can’t believe she left me for him.” Imagine if early seventies Rod Stewart had joined The Rolling Stones instead of Ron Wood. “If you want my body and you think I’m sexy, come on sugar, let me know.” We aim to play high energy music that inspires people to have fun. Part Time Ex’s wants you to go for it, live in the now, we promise not t...o tell the new person. They could never love you like we do anyway.

10:30p The Back 40s 

The Back 40s deliver Midwest rock and roll. Hooks, harmony, jangle, tone. Songs about people you know, delivered with punch. This music is meant for bars, cars, and nights beneath stars. You know this band. You stand next to them at shows. You see 'em at record stores. Now you hum their songs. They're your songs. Because it all starts with the songs. Shuffled back and forth, stripped down, rebuilt by hand. Ten found a new home on the band's debut release --"Relative Paradise."

9:30p May As Well

The power trio is a lost art. Like the samurai of medieval Japan, the power trio once kept faith with a dignified sophistication and structure from which they drew their power. May As Well embraces this lost art, employing youth, wisdom, hooks and power chords as its modern day Katana. The band’s touchstone is the first rock that rolled.

August 18, 2017, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm $7

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight: Family Three (Gospel Folk)

August 18, 2017, Friday - Book Arts, Then Happy Hour Starts at MCBA

Time: 6-9pm

Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue S

Book Arts, Then Happy Hour Starts

ARLD invites you to join us for a tour of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts! We'll also learn about the other Open Book arts tenants and have time to explore the gift shop and gallery. At 6:00 we'll walk next door to Dayblock Brewing Company for drinks and dinner (not provided). Contact Phil Dudas (duda0014@umn.edu) with questions.

Pro Tip: Downtown is going to be busy that night thanks to the Justin Bieber concert, we recommend carpooling or metro transit. The 19th Avenue and Seven Corners Parking Ramps are within walking distance.

August 17, 2017, Thursday - Pop-up Beer Garden Featuring Pryes Brewing at The Bachelor Farmer

Time: 5:00pm - 10:00pm

Location: The Bachelor Farmer, 50 North 2nd Avenue

Pop-up Beer Garden Featuring Pryes Brewing

This month in our Beer Garden, we're celebrating the opening of Pryes Brewing Company's nearby taproom. Look for their flagship Miraculum IPA alongside some new pours and our own soft pretzels, and toast summer in the courtyard with us.

August 16, 2017, Wednesday - Mill City Live at Mill City Museum

Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

August 16: Socaholix

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.

Additional Dates:
Jack Brass Band, Aug 23, 2017, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Salsa del Soul, Aug 30, 2017, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

August 16, 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 16, 2017, Wednesday - Common Room–Sacred Space Tour

Time: 6:00pm

Starting location: The Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

Common Room – Sacred Space Tour

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. Common Room is the work of Sergio Vucci and Andy Sturdevant, along with a rotating lineup of contributors. Now in its eighth year, it 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 to various neighborhoods of the Twin Cities by foot, bicycle and bus. Common Room’s themes in 2017 include silence, sacredness, islands, neighborhood music and more.

Common Room is one of several public projects being presented by The Soap Factory as a part of Here& There. Here & There is The Soap Factory's out-of-building programming during 2017 while the building undergoes renovation. The Sacred Space Tour explores our relation to the idea of the sacred in our daily lives—both concrete and symbolic. This bus tour will stop at various locations, looking at public, intrapersonal and internal sacred spaces, investigating how they operate and their impacts on us and our city. What is sacredness? Where is it housed? What does it do? How do we access it? These are some of the underpinning questions spurring this journey.

August 15, 2017, Tuesday - Twin Cities River Rats

The 2017 Twin Cities River Rats shows  take place at 1628 West River Road (between the Plymouth and Broadway bridges). These are free events!

The Twin Cities Rivers Rats describe their show as an aquatic Broadway musical featuring multiple water ski acts choreographed to music and built around a theme. Facebook

Show Schedule:

6:30pm – Development show: Our members under the age of 18 and our new members get the opportunity to perform for the crowd before jumping into the “big” show.

7:00pm – The Big Show! The ski show is a 1 hour long themed-show. In between daring and beautiful acts on water, a storyline unfolds. We encourage audience participation and love applause!

8:00pm – Photos! Photo opportunities with the cast of the show, visit with the skiers, and even take a ride in our “triple-rig” boat (for a price!)