January 7, 2020, Tuesday - Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association's Land Use & Development Committee Meeting

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: University Lutheran Church of Hope (basement), 601 13th Avenue SE

Land Use & Development Committee Meeting

The Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association's Land Use & Development Committee will be learning about a revised project slated for 200 Central Avenue:

Although the project is within the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, an earlier version of this project attracted much attention to the Nicollet Island-East Bank neighborhood.

If you would like to learn more about this project, please consider attending this MHNA meeting, or review the current proposal, found at this link.

January 7, 2020, Tuesday - FOOD BUILDING Tour, Tasting + Lunch

Time: 9:45 AM – 11 AM

Location: FOOD BUILDING, 117 14th Avenue NE

FOOD BUILDING Tour, Tasting + Lunch

Join us on a guided tour of FOOD BUILDING, a unique urban space that houses a flour mill and bakery, salumeria, creamery and restaurant.

January 7, 2020, Tuesday - Superfoods for the New Year at Cooks of Crocus Hill

Time: 6 PM – 8:30 PM

Location: Cooks of Crocus Hill, 208 1st Street N

Superfoods for the New Year

Superfoods get that title for a reason. These ultra-healthful fruits, vegetables, healthful fats, and beneficial proteins not only give you sustained energy throughout the day, but they can also give your immune system a boost and so much more. Join Chef Robin as she explains superfoods and demonstrates some delicious combinations that will put the wow in your wellness plan.

Menu: Superfood Juice and Green Smoothies; Arugula, Pears and Berries in Pomegranate Vinaigrette; Roasted Broccoli with Pistachios; Quinoa-Crusted Baked Salmon with Cucumber Lime Salsa; Dark Chocolate-Mandarin Shots.

January 6, 2020, Monday - Ultimate Intro to Wine: Winespeak at North Loop Wine

Time: 6:30p - 8:30p

Location: North Loop Wine and Spirits, 218 Washington Ave N

Ultimate Intro to Wine: Winespeak

Our most popular class and the best wine fundamentals class out there! ULTIMATE INTRO TO WINE: "WINESPEAK" Presented by Certified Sommelier Jason Kallsen The fundamentals of wine knowledge intimidate many, for we are talking about a subjective subject (smell and taste) while at the same time trying to understand why many give it a numerical score (90 points! Ah! Hedonistic fruit bomb!). Between varietals, regions, countries, aromas, flavors, and about a million different opinions out there, it's no wonder many see the world of wine as a tornado of confusion. No more! Come to the Winespeak class, presented by Jason Kallsen. It is here that you will learn there is no single best 'tasting system' out there. Instead, you will learn how YOU taste and perceive wine, and how an understanding of wine can be influenced to a great degree on the context in which you have it (including a discussion on food and wine pairings).

The core of the class is tasting through six wines while deciphering the key terms that wine professionals use to discuss wine. By learning these nine words and the way they are used in the wine world, you can then describe any wine from anywhere in the world, for the rest of your life! This is the best wine class available to help you learn about this complex subject in a fun, entertaining, and unforgettable way. And, y ou will never again be nervous when somebody hands you a glass of wine and asks "So what do you think of that?" *** Info on your instructor, plus terms and conditions Jason Kallsen is Minnesota's most experienced wine educator, with over two decades of experience teaching the subject. A Certifed Sommelier with the Court of Master Sommeliers, plus a Certified Specialist of Wine with the Society of Wine Educators, Jason has taught over 40,000 students since starting in the wine business in the early 1990s. He's appeared in local, national, and international media including pairing wine with classical music on an interationally broadcasted edition of Performance Today. His style is well known to be accurate but unpretentious, detailed yet not overwhelming.

January 6, 2020, Monday - Yoga + Cider at Number 12 Cider

Time: 6p

Location: Number 12 Cider, 614 N 5th Street

Yoga + Cider

Cost: $10 (Eventbrite/cash/Venmo day of)

Includes: A Number 12 cidera+a bit of humor

About: A happy hour flow (bring your work mates!), relax, work out of your chair pose + into forward folds. Work out the kinks of the day + build energy to tackle the evening.
All humans + levels welcome. Bring a mat + a smile.

Annie: Annie Hayes is a yoga teacher, meditation guide + wellness coach with certifications from the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, MN, + Yoga Center of Minneapolis. Her passions extend beyond yoga to encompass a whole body, whole mind approach to wellness, a holistic approach to making wellness affordable and accessible to all.
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January 6, 2020, Monday - MacPhail Jazz Benefit at the Dakota

Time: 7p

Location: Dakota, 1010 Nicollet Mall

MacPhail Jazz Benefit

A Benefit for MacPhail Center for Music’s Jazz Program, the Dakota Combo & the Irv Williams Fellowship - 
featuring the Macphail Faculty Jazz Combo & the Dakota Combo

Celebrate the legacy and promise of jazz. This evening will feature some of the extraordinary instructors that lead the the MacPhail Jazz Program. 100% of the evening’s ticket sales will go to MacPhail Center for Music to support youth jazz programs. Support and invest in jazz futures!

Musicians include:
Christopher Rochester
Michael Cain
Jacob Dodd
Greg Byers
L.A Buckner
The Dakota Combo

$40/35/30  Click here→http://bit.ly/2EFlYDa for tickets.

January 6, 2020, Monday - Good Night at the Southern Theater

Time: 7:30 – 9 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)

Location: Southern Theater, 1401 Washington Ave. S

Good Night at the Southern

Join us on Monday, January 6th at 7:30pm for the very first 2020 installment of Good Night at The Southern! Tickets are sold online or at the door and are Pay What You Can. Starting at 6:30, you can join us at the bar for a local beer, glass of wine, pop, or a snack!

Featuring: Denim on Denim, Jenna Jean Alstad, Kayla Schiltgen Dance, and Mario Pérez

Denim on Denim is a long-form improv group from Minneapolis, comprised of several University of Minnesota graduates who are all generally silly/goofy human beings, and not to be trusted.

Jenna Alstad will present her play, The Girl that Grew Up Out of the Ground. Written in the fall of 2018, the piece explores relationships surrounding motherhood, childhood, and the coming of age journeys of those who have identified as daughters. Featured artists: Claire Loveall, Agustina Borre, Madeline Larson, Callie Tovar, Ayla Carbonell, and Tyanna Gross.

Kayla Schiltgen Dance is presenting work from Short Haul and Shantyman which are part of a project exploring the lost art form of sea shanties, and human-powered, community-based work. The project is inspired by Kayla’s interest in how work was done throughout history as well as a curiosity about how and why we work the way we do today and its impact on us. These are two sections of an in-progress, evening length work. Featured artists: Kayla Schiltgen, Haley Jensen, Crystal Secor, Stepheni Hubert, and Madelyn Schwartz.

Accompanied by Wesley Frye, Mario Pérez will be performing the following arias: "Il mio tesoro" from Don Giovanni by Mozart, "Fra poco a me ricovero" from Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, "Ah, la paterna mano" from Macbeth by Verdi, and "Recondita armonia" from Tosca by Puccini. He is performing these pieces as "works in progress" as he tries to find his new voice in these larger roles for opera auditions.

January 6, 2020, Monday - Central Library Craft Club

Time: 10:30 am to 12:00 pm 

Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Craft Club

Minneapolis Central Library opens up part of their library space every Monday for a Craft Club and has asked Mobile Menders to participate in helping teach basic mending and sewing skills to participants.

If you are a Mobile Menders volunteer interested in participating in this event, please sign up here: https://volunteersignup.org/F4PAH

January 5, 2020, Sunday - The Bakken Trio at MacPhail

Time: 4:00pm

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 2nd Street S

Triptych featuring Hanna HyunJung Kim

We are excited to work with a newcomer to Minnesota, the fabulous pianist Hanna HyunJung Kim. The Schumann Piano Quartet, written originally for Clara Schumann, has long been a favorite of mine. And I think you will really enjoy discovering Lera Auerbach's Piano Trio No. 2, exploring the contrasting images found in a mirror with three faces. — Pitnarry Shin

January 5, 2020, Sunday - Shaamya - Of Equality at The Southern

Time: 2 pm

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave. S.

Shaamya - Of Equality

Inspired by the poetry of writer and activist Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976), Shaamya - Of Equality attempts to draw parallels between the experiences of today's oppressed communities with those expressed by Nazrul Islam in his time. Using a mixture of classical Indian dance choreographed by KDT artistic director Rita Mustaphi, original songs composed by musician J.D. Steele, and poetry by artist and playwright Ifrah Mansour, Of Equality shows that Nazrul Islam's ideas about countering oppression with peace, justice and equality remain relevant today.

This is a work-in-progress performance, with a full production coming later in 2020.

$10 general admission; $5 youth/student. Pay-what-you-can option available at-the-door.

January 5, 2020, Sunday - Mixtape Yoga: The Best of at A-Mill Artist Lofts

Time: 10 AM – 11:15 AM

Location: A-Mill Artist Lofts, 315 SE Main Street

Mixtape Yoga: The Best of

One of the first things that happens when music enters our brains is the triggering of pleasure centers that release dopamine, a neurotransmitter that makes you feel happy. This response is so quick, the brain can even anticipate the most pleasurable peaks in familiar music and prime itself with an early dopamine rush.

Mixtape Yoga combines the pleasure triggers of classic sit-on-your-bed-with-the-headphones-on comfort music with the the mindfulness of a vinyasa flow yoga class.

For this Mixtape Yoga, we are going to do something new. Instead of featuring a specific artist, I'm encouraging everyone to rifle through their mental iPod Shuffle, and find 1-3 songs that you think would be perfect for a yoga class. I will then take, at least, one of those songs and put it into our 75-minute yoga class soundtrack.

3 Easy Steps to Register:
1. Figure out if the date works, if not, cancel your previous plans.
2. Contemplate your ideal yoga contemporary song Mt. Rushmore. You don't have to provide song ideas to attend this class.
3. Email/Text said songs to me.
4. Venmo your payment to me, or let me know of another way in which you are thinking of paying (maybe with seashells, or donuts?)
5. Mark it on your calendar, and begin to count the days.

LOCATION: A-Mill Artist Lofts, 315 SE Main St, Minneapolis
COST: $15

January 5, 2020, Sunday - Succulent Bar Make & Take at Lakes & Legends Brewing Co.

Time: 1p - 5p

Location: Lakes & Legends Brewing, 1368 Lasalle Ave

Succulent Bar Make & Take

Join Minnesota’s original and largest traveling succulent bar, Succ It Up Buttercup, at Lakes & Legends Brewing Company in Minneapolis for a succulent bar make and take event!

This is a come as you please, open house style event. No registration or ticket purchase needed (please mark yourself as going on this event page so we can be sure to bring enough supplies for everyone attending.) Come any time between 1 pm to 5 pm to create your very own unique, one of a kind succulent creation! We supply hundreds of containers from vintage to modern and a whole bunch of beautiful succulents! If you have your own container you would like to use, feel free to bring it and we will take $1 off your total.

Prices are between $18- $33 (cash or credit) depending on how many succulents you choose. We also have cacti available for an additional cost. Price includes everything you need to plant and decorate your arrangement!

We now offer an air plant bar as an option for planting! The cost is $13 and includes one container, one air plant, and toppings to decorate. If you choose to add additional air plants to your arrangement the cost is $3 per additional air plant.

Visit our website at www.succitupbuttercup.com for more about us and our events.

January 5, 2020, Sunday - Washburn A Mill Tour at Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Washburn A Mill Tour

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.

Tour highlights include:

• The dramatic story of the 1878 Washburn A Mill explosion, and the other dangers that mill workers faced on a daily basis
• "The Octopus," a large machine that directed wheat into nine storage bins
• The Humphrey Manlift, a vertical conveyor belt that carried workers from floor to floor
• The Rail Corridor where hundreds of boxcars arrived each day to unload wheat and carry away flour
• Millstone plaza originally paved with retired millstones and the location for lunchtime concerts by the Washburn-Crosby employee band in the 1920s
• Evidence of the three major fires that have damaged the building in 1878, 1928, and 1991
• The East Engine House, once home to a two-story steam engine, has been remodelled into two classrooms while preserving the original railroad car pulling machinery

The tour includes no more than 1 mile of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces. Please call ahead to make arrangements for guests with limited mobility.

Future dates: January 19 and 25

January 5, 2020, Sunday - 13th Annual Women’s Christmas at Keegan's Pub

Time: 12 Noon – 4:00pm

Location: Keegan’s Pub, 16 University Avenue NE

13th Annual Women’s Christmas

There'll be no post-holiday depression the weekend after New Year's at Keegan's Pub. For its lucky 13th year, Keegan’s Pub will host the only official Women’s Christmas celebration in the Twin Cities, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020.

On that day, Christmas celebrations will be over for most of the Twin Cities. But Keegan’s will once host one last holiday bash exclusively for women to celebrate the Irish tradition of “Women’s Christmas.” The 13th annual Women’s Christmas at Keegan’s will take place noon to 4 p.m. on Jan. 5. Prize drawings for women and special food offerings will be featured, and Locklin Road will perform from 1 to 4 p.m.

Keegan’s Pub started the celebration in 2008 after learning that Women’s Christmas is a popular event in Ireland—particularly in Cork. On Women’s Christmas—celebrated on the feast of the Epiphany, the traditional end of Christmas season (aka the twelfth day of Christmas)—the custom is for Irish women take the day off, and for men to take on the household duties. Women fill the pubs, and go out and celebrate with their girlfriends. Gifts are given to women.

The event is designed to give women a day off, to be together and have fun after the frantic holiday season.

“This is a great event. It’s been wildly popular, and we look forward to this memorable day at the pub,” says owner Marty Neumann.

In keeping with the tradition of Women’s Christmas (also known as Little Christmas or Little Women’s Christmas), women are encouraged to bring small gifts to the pub to exchange with their friends. Keegan’s will also have prize drawings.

Keegan’s full menu will be offered. Following the Women’s Christmas event on Jan. 6, a traditional Irish Session will begin at 6 p.m.

For more information, contact Keegan’s Pub, (612) 252-0880 or go to www.keeganspub.com. For more information about Locklin Road, go to http://www.locklinroad.com. 

January 4, 2020, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market inside the Mill City Museum

Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm (winter hours)

Location: Inside the Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market.

2020 WINTER SCHEDULE:

January 4 & 18

February 1 & 15

March 7 & 21

April 4 & 18

January 4, 2020, Saturday - Free First Saturday: Story Time at Walker Art Center

Time: 10 AM – 3 PM

Location: Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Place

Free First Saturday: Story Time

There are many ways to tell a story—through sound, music, words, images, movement, and more! This January you are invited to celebrate stories in their multiple forms. Listen in or create your own.

Free First Saturdays feature free gallery admission on the first Saturday of every month, plus performances, games, art-making, and kids’ films from 10 am to 3 pm. Family friendly food options are available or bring something from home to snack on in the museum’s public spaces.

Art-Making Activity: Puppet Portraits
10 am–3 pm

Join actors and teaching artists from Speaking Out to make your own hand puppet using found materials. Create your character to bring to performances of School’s No Place for Kids or develop your own puppet show!

Performance: School’s No Place for Kids
10:30 am and 1 pm

School’s No Place for Kids is a 30-minute play performed by Speaking Out about how a spirited child and a by-the-book teacher find their way to the classroom from different places. Adventurous audience members are invited to join the actors onstage to reenact a favorite scene or re-envision the story following the show.

Performance: DJ Simone
11 am–1 pm and 2–3 pm

Bring the whole family to groove to funk, soul, house music, and more spun by DJ Simone! Tell your story through dance and movement.

Workshop: Songwriting Our Stories with Kashimana
11:30 am, 12:30 pm, and 1:30 pm

What is your story? Songwriting is a creative and fun way to share about who you are. Join local musician Kashimana to tell your story through music. Kashimana will lead three 30-minute drop-in workshops where families can work together to create a song. No previous experience required.

Gallery Tour
Join a Walker-trained educator on a participatory 45-minute tour for kids that will explore the idea of place. Meet in the Main Lobby.
English, 12 pm
Spanish, 1 pm

DJ Simone started her musical career at Macalester College, where she DJ-ed vinyl records on her own radio show for three years. She creates a musical experience inspired by an eclectic assortment of uplifting music. Along with being a DJ and producer, Simone is also a teacher, sharing knowledge, creativity, and instilling a love for music in her students.

Kashimana (“that is her heart”) is a singer-songwriter, composer, producer, lyricist, and artist with a rich soulful blues voice that soars through her original compositions, for which she writes both lyrics and music. Her songs are catchy and paint compelling stories of her experiences growing up in Nigeria and Kenya, traveling through Africa and Europe, and settling in the United States. Her goal is to help people share their own stories through song.

Speaking Out creates arts-based activities to nurture curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking for children and adults. This collective of working and teaching artists shares techniques communities can use to express themselves and dig into ideas that need attention. With puppets, plays, poems, songs and dance, they invite conversations and new creation.

January 4, 2020, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Downtown Minneapolis Skyway Tour

Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: Starting and ending location is in the Metro Building outside Hell’s Kitchen. Exact location is 86 S 9th Street.

Taste Twin Cities Food Tours Minneapolis Skyway Tour

While it's chilly outside, join us as we weave our way through the cozy corners of downtown Minneapolis skyways on a food adventure. We will stroll through the "Broadway" Theater District and enjoy VIP service as we visit some of the newest and hottest award-winning restaurants downtown Minneapolis has to offer. The tour includes seeing the Minneapolis skyscraper that was modeled after the Washington Monument and visiting the famous Statue of Mary Richards tossing her hat. Along the way, we will also visit quaint eateries that have pride in local ownership, including a favorite since 1932. You will taste craft beer samples and learn the secrets behind the great food you are enjoying. You'll leave the tour with a tasty experience of some of the best food finds Minneapolis has to offer all while learning history of downtown and soaking in the local culture.

• Ham and pear crisp sandwich with fresh home-made chips from the restaurant that has "damn good food"
• All about sourcing local with heirloom corn bread with ghost pepper cheese, scallions and honey butter
• Deliciously sweet and salty popular Chicago Mix® popcorn
• Fresh and melt-in-your-mouth rotisserie chicken wings in maple glaze made with pure maple syrup, lemon juice, fresh ginger and Sriracha
• Fine chocolates to be savored
• Fried shrimp tossed in sweet & spicy Thai chili sauce, served with ginger citrus sauce with locally-brewed Minnesota craft beer (optional non-alcoholic tastings available)
• Featured on the Cooking Channel Unique Sweets - Bourbon Whiskey Caramel Donut Bread Pudding Loaf

January 3, 2020, Friday - Teens Cook: Macarons at Cooks of Crocus Hill

Time: 10 AM – 12:30 PM

Location: Cooks of Crocus Hill, 208 1st St. N

Teens Cook: Macarons

If your teen loves to help on baking day, then why not get them out of your kitchen and into ours for day of making the perfect mini treats: macarons! They'll learn how to make these simple, sumptuous tidbits from scratch.

Seats are for teens — ages 12 to 17 only. Enjoy your free time, parents!

Menu: Lemon Macarons with Lemon Curd Filling; French Toast Macarons with Maple Cinnamon Swiss Meringue Buttercream; Chocolate Raspberry Macarons with Framboise Ganache.

January 2, 2020, Thursday - Joke Drop at The Comedy Corner Underground

Time: 8p

Location: The Comedy Corner Underground, 1501 Washington Ave S

Joke Drop

What better way to ring in the New year than with a whole bunch of brand spankin' new jokes!

What better way to ring in the New year than with a whole bunch of brand spankin' new jokes! The most comics you've ever seen at Comedy Corner Underground at once (literally dozens of em'), all performing their first new jokes of 2020!

January 2, 2020, Thursday - WeRunMPLS | New Years Run

Time: 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Location: Honest Studios, 905 Washington Ave N

WeRunMPLS | New Years Run

all paces welcome. no one runs alone.

We mean that.

Help us ring in the new year and a new decade! Join us Thursday, January 2nd at Honest Studios at 6:30pm. We'll run 3ish miles + hang out as a group post-run. Since this is our New Year’s run, there are a few fun surprises in store!

It’s headlamp season! Don’t forget to bring a headlamp for the next few months. There are a few sections of the route that are pretty dark + it’s much safer with a little light.