December 10, 2016, Saturday - Printed Holiday Note Cards Class at MCBA

Time: 12:30 – 4 pm

 

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

 

Printed Holiday Note Cards

 

Embrace your holiday spirit by making your own cards this year! Each adult/child pair will create note cards with a festive image and letterpress greeting, while learning to use the Platen and Vandercook Presses. Students will design their own holiday images and choose text from a variety of messages. Each pair will print 40 cards. Single/additional participants will print 20 cards. Envelopes will be provided. These cards are sure to be holiday favorites! Adult/child pair: $50 ($45 members) + $10 supply fee; additional participants (adult or child): $25 ($22.50 members) + $5 supply fee. For families with children grades 1 and up.

 

December 10, 2016, Saturday - 1st Annual Winterfest on 2nd Street S

Winterfest on 2nd St with Friends of the Mill District

 

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Dinner Detective at Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown

Time: Doors open at 6:00pm

Location: Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown, 1500 Washington Avenue S

Dinner Detective Minneapolis

The Dinner Detective is America’s LARGEST, award-winning interactive comedic murder mystery dinner show! Our high-energy, modern-day whodunit is combined with a full four-course meal.

Our immensely popular murder mystery shows are set in the present day. Unlike other murder mystery dinner shows (or just dinner shows in general), with The Dinner Detective, you and your guests will not find themselves staring at cheesy costumes, there will be no recited campy dialogue and certainly no hokey song and dance. Our performers are dressed just like everyone else, leaving all of the guests to suspect who is a part of the show and who is not! All scripts are based on actual cold cases and are created in house. From the get go, the guests are seated with the performers and most likely will not realize it! Our Detectives enter the room, proceed to interrogate guests, find clues and start the investigation. This allows our guests to socialize with and interrogate each other, while deciphering real life-based clues. At the end of the night, prizes are awarded to the Top Sleuth who solves the crime!

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Casket Arts Holiday Marketplace

Casket Arts continues a new Northeast tradition – our second annual Holiday Marketplace! Join us on the first floor for a craft fair-style marketplace and find a variety of treasures to fill your stockings or to hang above the mantel. Whether you plan on celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, or Festivus – what better way to finish your holiday shopping than while supporting local artists in a fun, festive setting!

Over 40 Northeast MPLS artists and makers will line the first floor hallways, showing paintings, jewelry, prints, tiles, sculpture, gifts, and more in one convenient location. Come for the arts, and stay for the festivities: live music all day + tasty treats from Groveland Confections (http://www.grovelandconfections.com/) and delicious food from GastroTruck for vegans and carnivores alike (http://gastrotruck.mobi/).

Casket Arts will also be taking donations for the annual Canadian Pacific Holiday Train (http://www.esns.org/event-2359164), so bring healthy non-perishable items here to help stock the food shelves at East Side Neighborhood Services!

Saturday, December 10th, 10am to 6pm
681 17th Ave NE, 1st Floor
Free admission • All are welcome • Family-friendly event! http://www.casketarts.com/

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Washburn A Mill Tour

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd Street

Washburn A Mill Tour 

$16 adults, $14 seniors and college students, $12 ages 5-17, $4 discount MNHS members, includes museum admission

Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555

Take an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building. A guide will take visitors into the building's many nooks and crannies, highlighting the lives of the men and women who worked there, how the building functioned during its peak flour milling years and the many changes to the building over time. This is the only opportunity for a guided tour through the entire museum building and the only chance to see some of its nonpublic spaces.

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market in Mill City Museum

The Mill City Farmers Market boasts the best indoor winter market in town from November to April. Shop from over 40 local farmers, food vendors, and artists from 10:00am to 1:00pm inside the Mill City Museum.

2016/2017 Winter Market Schedule:
Holiday Markets – December 10, & 17
January 14 & 28
February 11
March 4*, 11, & 25
April 8 & 22
*At the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen

December 9, 2016, Friday - Talking Image Connection: Working Forces/Desktop at The Soap Factory

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

Talking Image Connection: Working Forces/Desktop

Please join us on December 9 for our final Talking Image Connection reading of 2016! I'm thrilled about this fantastic lineup, which will feature D. Allen, b: william bearheart, Sarah Fox, Opal McCarthy and Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen. Bios below!

D. Allen (thebodyconnected.com) is a queer poet and interdisciplinary artist living in Minneapolis, where they are an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. Their work has recently appeared in pnk prl,Rogue Agent, Black Warrior Review, Connotation Press, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, and elsewhere. D. is the artist and designer of "Restored Mural for Orlando," a chapbook written by poet Roy G. Guzmán created in response to the Pulse nightclub m...assacre. D. is currently at work on a hybrid manuscript about connective tissue.

Sarah Fox lives in NE Minneapolis. Coffee House Press published her books Because Why and The First Flag; she's currently at work finishing a collection of poetry, Invisible Wife, and starting a collection of nonfiction, Pain Management. She is a grandmother, teacher, placenta encapsulator, and therapeutic astrologer. Spread love.

Opal McCarthy is a poet, teacher, bodyworker, and performer who lives in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. Opal's first book of poems, SURGE,​ a book of wild girls & fierce tenderness, is now available from​ Tinderbox Editions​ (​http://www.tinderboxeditions.org/online-store/!/Surge/p/72249094/category%3D17921460). Opal is passionate about calling forth the splendor, the shadows, the secrets, the wild & free beings within herself and others, through ​embodied creative presence. Opal's poetry has appeared in La Petite Zine, alice blue review, ​Midway Journal​, Invoke Magazine, and elsewhere. Opal is a practitioner of Heartworks Lomi Lomi bodywork and also leads writing workshops and community healing events focused on feminine power, ​pleasure, vulnerability, and beauty-making.

Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen is a poet, community artist, activist and educator. She was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland, California where she was awarded the Mary Merrit Henry Prize in Poetry and the Ardella Mills Literary Composition Prize in Creative Non-Fiction. Some of her publications include “CAYLX Journal,” “Asian Pacific American Journal,” the Vietnamese Artists Collective anthology “AS IS: A Collection of Visual and Literary Works by Vietnamese American Artists” and the Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) anthology “Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women.” She has performed her work at numerous venues in the Bay Area and Twin Cities. Anh-Hoa is the founder of Pomelo Press, and creates self-published and hand bound artists books. Anh-Hoa has also completed a residency at Hedgebrook, a Writers-in-Residence Program for women, and has received a writing fellowship from the Elizabeth George Foundation and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant.

December 9, 2016, Friday - The State of the River at McKnight Foundation

Time: 8 – 9:30 am

Location: McKnight Foundation, 710 Second Street South, Suite 400

The State of the River

How is the health of the Mississippi River? Can I safely swim in it? Can I eat the fish I catch? How are the bald eagles faring? What "new" pollutants are impacting the river's health? The National Park Service partnered with Friends of the Mississippi River to examine the research that helps answer these and other questions, and recently released the updated State of the River Report. Come learn about the important trends and emerging issues impacting the health of the river, as well as potential solutions. Presenter Lark Weller is the Water Quality Coordinator for the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service, and Trevor Russell is Watershed Program Director for Friends of the Mississippi River.

Light breakfast provided. Free. RSVP to lark_weller@nps.gov.

December 9, 2016, Friday - Into Quarterly: Minneapolis Launch at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave

Into Quarterly: Minneapolis Launch 

Copresented by Into Quarterly and the Loft, this event will feature readings from contributors and a panel discussion. Into: Minneapolis is a collection of original writing and art inspired by Minneapolis. Forty local writers, designers, photographers and fine artists share their creative tributes to the city, exploring such themes as cold, kindness, identity and Prince. Through their combined voices and mediums, we get an unconventional portrait of Minneapolis and a time capsule of the art coming out of it today. The panel discussion will focus on sense of place and how that influences home, community and social action/reaction through words and visual art. Book sales and reception to follow.

December 9, 2016, Friday - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in concert at the Minneapolis Convention Center (2 nights)

Times: Dec 9 - 7pm; Dec 10 1pm and 7pm

Location: Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 Second Avenue South

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in concert

About this Concert:
The Harry Potter™ film series is one of those once-in-a-lifetime cultural phenomena that continues to delight millions of fans around the world. This concert will feature the Minnesota Orchestra performing every note from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone™.

Tickets 

December 9, 2016, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm $6

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight:  Hannah von der Hoff Kickstarter Launch & The Lucky Dutch

December 8, 2016, Thursday - 3rd Annual Holiday Party with Jacob Frey

December 8, 2016, Thursday - Spirit Made Here Launch Event at City Center

Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Location: City Center, 33 S 6th Street

Spirit Made Here Launch Event

Spirit: Made Here fills over 30 window displays with art that interprets the theme “spirit.” All displays are on view from December 8, 2016 through March 30, 2017. Enjoy a warm cup of cocoa while on a tour through the Cultural District made bright (literally) by art.

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The launch of Spirit: Made Here coincides with 5 to 10 on Hennepin, featuring an artists’ market, street performers and live music on the Northern Lights Stage presented by Jack Link’s!

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Here’s a rundown of the launch activities on December 8, 2016:

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Launch Reception
5:00-8:00 p.m. Minneapolis City Center Atrium (light appetizers and cash bar)

The Northern Lights Stage presented by Jack Link’s
5:00-6:30 p.m. Spotlight Education student performance
5:45-6:00 p.m. Welcoming remarks
6:30-8:00 p.m. Spoken word by Kulture Klub Collaborative
6:45-7:00 p.m. Tours of Spirit: Made Here installations

Local Artists’ Market
5:00-8:00 p.m. Featuring more than 15 artists and makers + free flu shots

irit Made Here Launch Event

December 8, 2016, Thursday - Holidazzle in Loring Park (Thurs-Sun)

2016 schedule:

Thursdays from 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. | Fridays from 5 p.m. – 10 p.m.
Saturdays from 11 a.m. – 10 p.m. | Sundays from 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

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Thursday, Dec 8 - Sunday, Dec 11
Thursday, Dec 15 - Sunday, Dec 18
Thursday, Dec 22 - Friday, Dec 23

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Check out the Holidazzle website for the full list of activities, vendors, etc.

December 8, 2016, Thursday - SHE presents: Abandon Outlines at the Southern Theater (4 nights)

Times: Thur, Fri, Sat 7:30pm; Sun 2:00pm

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

Al Taw'am presents: SHE presents: Abandon Outlines

December 8 - 11

Through an intersection of Hip Hop, Urban and Street Styles; SHE displays an ensemble of movement. This show is a platform for creativity, abstract interpretations, simplicity and enjoyment. Discarding what’s expected, defying the odds, transitions of ambiguity and intentioned meaning is how we Abandon Outlines. Admission: $24, student (with ID): $18, ARTShare members free and Tuesday – Pay What You Can.

December 8, 2016, Thursday - City Pages Third Annual Cocktailian at The Depot

Time: 6:00pm-10:00pm

Location: The Depot, 225 3rd Avenue South

City Pages Third Annual Cocktailian

City Pages Third Annual Cocktailian event will feature a variety of libations from both local and national distilleries & wineries.

From neat sips of micro-distilled spirits to tastes of craft cocktails, guests will have the opportunity to indulge in 20+ premium samples coming from the Twin Cities and beyond including 11 Wells, Du Nord Distillery, J. Carver, Vikre, Tattersall, Twin Spirits, Beet Spirits, Proximo Spirits, 5 Vodka, Lawless Distilling, Far North Spirits, Bittercube, 45th Parallel Distillery, Panther Distillery, Twin Spirits & more.

Educational demos by renown local mixologists, restaurant sampling including Pinstripes, Caffrey's Deli, Cherry on Top Confections, Augustine's Bakery, Trout Air Tavern, The Happy Gnome and a live music performance will round out the experience for an evening full of flavor and fun!

December 7, 2016, Wednesday - Wake-Up with Jacob at Kramarczuk’s

  

Time: 7:30am

Location: Kramarczuk’s, 215 East Hennepin Avenue

Wake-Up with Jacob

Council Member Frey will be holding open office hours at Kramarczuk’s on Wednesday, December 7, 2016, from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. Please stop by for coffee, conversation and questions you may have for the Council Member. We look forward to great guests and inspired conversation at Wake-Up with Jacob in 2017.
 
Coffee and Kolaches will be available for purchase. Please RSVP to zachary.farley@minneapolismn.gov.

December 7, 2016, Wednesday - Work of Art: Career Planning for Artists at Central Library

Work of Art: Career Planning for Artists

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Location: Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Description

Where do you want to be both artistically and professionally? Learn how to define your values, identify key choices and develop a plan to achieve your career goals. Collaborator: Springboard for the Arts. Funded by Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

December 6, 2016, Tuesday - Big Ideas: Words for Change at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave

Big Ideas: Words for Change

Can words really change the world? We often say that actions speak louder than words. If we believe that's true, maybe words can't do all that much to make the world a better place. Maybe only action leads to change. But don't we also often say that words matter? That they're something uniquely human, and at their best, aren't they also powerful actions in themselves? Aren't words, poems and stories capable of effecting change in a family, community, country or world? In the Loft's first Big Ideas conversation they're going to get to the heart of hearts and minds. They'll explore how and when words provoke someone to act, change their mind or find common understanding. Join them for a conversation with writers and community leaders who use language and storytelling to build bridges of understanding and effect change in the world. Sun Yung Shin will facilitate the conversation, joined by Alexs D. Pate and Tea Rozman Clark. Regular admission: $10.00; members: $5.00.

December 4, 2016, Sunday - 1850s Holiday Party at the Ard Godfrey House

Time: 12:30pm – 3:30pm

Location: Ard Godfrey House, Chute Square Park (University & Central, across from Lund's)

Visit the oldest remaining wood frame residence in Minneapolis, built in 1849. The house is decorated for the holidays in the modest style of the era.

• Light refreshments and musical entertainment
• Tour the House with Woman’s Club guides dressed in period costume
• See how the Godfrey family might have celebrated the holidays in the new community at St. Anthony Falls
• Free Godfrey House buttons for the kids
• ADMISSION FREE; donations suggested. No reservations necessary.

Street parking available. Off-street parking in River Place Ramp, with entrance on 2nd Street SE, off East Hennepin Avenue, or at St. Anthony Falls Public Ramp, on 2nd Street SE off Central Avenue.

For more information, or to arrange group tours, please call 612-781-8791.

Don’t miss out on this annual holiday party, sponsored by The Woman's Club of Minneapolis.