Time: 8:00am
Location: Near Mariucci Arena, 5thStreet SE (Finish: Target Field, with the post-race finish chute at Target Field Station)
Benefiting the Prairie Care Child & Family Fund. Join Glen, Alisha and the Minnesota Twins players for a great race where everyone finishes on Target Field!
Times: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South
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.
Each tour will begin and end at Mill City Museum where participants can visit the museum gallery (included in the price of the tour). The tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately-pace walking on uneven surfaces.
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
Take a guided walking tour of the Minneapolis riverfront and learn about its dramatic past and bright future. Visit the historic district at St. Anthony Falls, once the milling center of the world and now a growing cultural, recreational and residential neighborhood. Stop along the Stone Arch Bridge for spectacular views of the falls, view historic buildings surrounding the riverfront and downtown Minneapolis. The tour will explore stories of the people who have worked and lived in the area and how it has changed over the years.
Time: 11:00am - 12:15pm
Location: Plaza Lawn (Cancer Survivors Park) on Nicollet Mall between Washington Avenue and 3rd Street S
Life Time Athletic Target Center is taking yoga outside to the Plaza.
Price/Registration: Free for members and non-members. No registration required.
Future date: August 27
Time: 9:00am - 10:00am
Location: Gold Medal Park
Saturday yoga in Gold Medal Park returns! Grab your mat (or a towel) and a neighbor and meet us by the letters. The sessions are free of charge and sponsored by Friends of the Mill District. We will meet every Saturday through September 3rd. Come salute the sun and enjoy the beauty of our neighborhood with your friends and neighbors.
Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm
Location: 704 South 2nd Street
Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Youth at the Market Day
On July 30th, we are celebrating youth at the market with activities designed for our youngest market shoppers! Learn about good food in our schools from Farm 2 School and the Minneapolis Public Schools' Food Truck. Also, like every Saturday, kids ages 3-12 are encouraged to join our Power of Produce veggie sampling club to earn $2 market tokens to spend on local produce!
Times: 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.
Time: 5:00pm (The parade will begin at 6:00pm)
Start point: Main Street SE between East Hennepin and Central
The Northeast Minneapolis Riverfront District invites you to their Annual Dog Parade. At 5 pm, gather on the riverfront across from the Wilde Roast. Fun costumes are encouraged. There will be activities and vendors. Beginning at 6 pm, Officer Elliot Wong of the Minneapolis Police Department will escort the parade throughout the business district.
Return to the Riverfront for more socializing, visiting with the vendors, treats and prizes.
Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm, approx. 1.5 miles
Location: Meet at 125 Main Street SE (at the green awning between Pracna on Main and the Aster Café).
Tickets on sale online or at 612-341-7555.
Future date: August 11
Mill City Museum and Xcel Energy will partner on a series of weekday walking tours highlighting the story of waterpower at St. Anthony Falls, including rare access to an operating power plant.
During the early 20th century, more than two dozen mills and hydroelectric plants used the water power from St. Anthony Falls. Today just one is left: Xcel Energy's Hennepin Island Hydroelectric Plant.
On this tour, a Mill City Museum guide will lead participants to Hennepin Island and Father Hennepin Bluffs Park, including special access to the power plant. Along the way, participants will learn about the historic uses of waterpower at the falls for flour milling, sawmilling and hydroelectricity, the role of hydroelectricity in Xcel Energy's green energy and energy efficiency initiatives and the future of waterpower on the Minneapolis riverfront.
Hennepin Island Hydropower Tour is presented by Xcel Energy.
Time: 4:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: The Grain Belt Apartments, 1215 Marshall Street NE
Northeast Farmers Market at The Grain Belt
Thursdays thru August 25th
A dozen vendors providing the neighborhood with fresh fruits and vegetables, locally made art, specialty foods, and live music every Thursday!
VENDORS
Kiss My Cabbage
Fieldstone Family Farm, LLC
Lil Momma Cakes
Creature Comfort Hot Sauce
Superior Switchel Co.
Whole Sum Kitchen
The Moral Omnivore
The Green Hare Farm
Paul Ronyak Wood Work
Violett's Blossoms Fresh Flower and Vegetables
HipNoses Handcrafted Candles
Desdamona Doolittle Leather Work
Teresa Audet - Object Maker
FrioFrio MN Ice Popsicles
The Caramel Jar
The Bitter Buffalo
Time: 6:30 – 9 pm
Location: Minneapolis Events Center, 212 Second Street SE
Minnesota Monthly presents: Fine Spirits Classic 2016
Celebrate cocktails at the fifth Annual Fine Spirits Classic. This highly interactive event is not to be missed, featuring many of the Twin Cities top mixologists and national/local distillers. Sample new brands and spirits from around the world while enjoying gourmet fare and gathering new cocktail recipes. Event features include multiple mixology stations presented by Bittercube, cocktail tastings and high-end spirits sampling, plus hors d’oeuvres from local restaurants.
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South
Let's Go to the Beach! with Ellen Ferrari
For families with children ages 2-10
Celebrate summer with Hotter Than a Hot Dog! by Stephanie Calmenson. Create a GIANT tunnel book that unfolds across the floor, and turn it into an (almost) life-sized summer vacation getaway – beach, lake or poolside. And don’t forget the small tunnel book for your doll or action figure. Cool off with ice pops. Join Ellen Ferrari for family book arts fun! Each workshop starts off with a story and game to warm up your creativity and then dives into a book arts project. Workshops accommodate a range of developmental levels so that adults and children (or) adult/child teams may choose to work together or side-by-side. Each participant receives supplies to use during the workshop, but may choose to bring one set home if working with his or her partner. Ellen will provide older children with suggestions for extending their learning.
Adult/child pair: $38 ($35 members); additional participant (adult or child): $19 ($17.50 members). Prices include supply fee.
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Meet and start at Corner Coffee, 512 N 3rd Street
Time: 6;30pm
Location: 1758 N West River Rd
Join the River Rats for some excitement on the river! The show will feature pyramids, barefoot skiers, ballet line, swivel skiers and much more!
Development show at 6:30, main show at 7:00.
Bring blankets or lawn chairs and enjoy this free waterski show for the whole family along the banks of the Mississippi River.
Future shows: August 4. 10, 18, 23, 25 and September 1
Time: 7:30p
Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 S Washington Ave
Synesthesia: 3rd Annual Film Fest
By drawing on a broad range of innovative modes and techniques, the Ae Film Festival exhibits artists who explore the art of the moving image, including artworks that represent experimental narratives, avant-garde poetics, genre-expanding documentary, and contemporary art practices. Synesthesia, the festival's third season at The Southern Theater, offers selections of short film and video work and accompanying workshops that stretch the notion of what the moving image is and can be.
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: Crown Roller Mill Building, 105 Fifth Avenue S and Izzy's, 1100 Second Steet S
Izzy's Rooftop Ice Cream Social with Dessa
Izzy’s Ice Cream is introducing a new flavor inspired by rapper/writer/artist Dessa. Dessa’s Existential Crunch is a dark brown sugar and Creme Fraiche ice cream, flavored with Jameson Irish Whiskey and Disaronno Originale amaretto to help you contemplate the incomprehensible, all mixed with Praline Pecan pieces and a crunchy cashew brittle.
Izzy's Rooftop Ice Cream Social with Dessa
Tickets: $35 per person, 21+ event (suggested donation up to $75 per ticket). All event proceeds benefit The Bridge for Youth, a Twin Cities-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization serving youth and families in crisis. A walk down to Izzy's Minneapolis retail shop will follow for Dessa’s Existential Crunch samples and personal appearance by Dessa from 7 to 7:30 pm.
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Location: Elliot Park, 1000 E 14th Street
Minneapolis Pops Orchestra at Elliot Park
Sit back, relax and listen to the wonderful music of the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra at their annual summer concert at Elliot Park. Then join neighbors and friends after the performance for ice cream treats courtesy of Elliot Park.
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
"Up and Down: The H.H.H. Metrodome Portfolio" Exhibit Opening
A public reception will open a new exhibit of photographs by Mark E. Jensen depicting the rise and demise of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. From 1980-1982, Jensen photographed the construction of the Metrodome using a large format field camera patented in 1898. In 2014, he was awarded an Artists Initiative Grant by the Minnesota State Arts Board to photograph the stadium's demolition. The resulting pairs of black and white photographs present the rise and demise of the Metrodome, and more than 30 years of change in downtown Minneapolis.
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