July 21, 2016, Thursday - Warehouse District Smartphone Photo Tour

Time: 5:30 PM - 8 PM

Location: BKV Group, 222 N 2nd Street

Warehouse District Smartphone Photo Tour

Hosted by Preservation Alliance of Minnesota

We're going behind, between, and beneath the warehouses of Minneapolis' North Loop.

Architectural tours often present the 'glamour shot' view of buidlings. Here in the oldest section of the North Loop, we'll see those fascinating facades, but we will also slip around to the sides and backs of these historic buildings, where ghost signs, old pavements, and foundations tell another story about this lively district.

We'll gather for a drink and presentation by professional photographer Eric Mueller. Eric teaches how to maximize your smartphone for snapping stunning pictures on this tour and future excursions. Art history and architecture professor Kristin Anderson will lead us as we wind through the alleyways of the district, offering a new perspective on an old neighborhood.

Tickets: $25

July 21, 2016, Thursday - Mill City Summer Opera: Sweeney Todd at Mill City Museum Ruin Courtyard

Mill City Summer Opera returns for their fifth season with Sweeney Todd. See their Facebook page for Barber Seat features on performers.

Future shows:

Friday, July 22

Sunday, July 24

Ticket info

July 21, 2016, Thursday - Aquatennial Yoga presented by CorePower Yoga at Target Field Station

Time: 5:30 pm

Location: Target Field Station

Aquatennial Yoga presented by CorePower Yoga

Connecting people and places, this multi-modal transportation hub at 5th Street N and 5th Avenue N in downtown Minneapolis offers public green spaces, connections to 500 trains daily via the METRO Blue and Green lines, Northstar Commuter Rail, as well as access to the North Loop community. 

July 21, 2016, Thursday - Northeast Farmers Market at The Grain Belt

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

July 20, 2016, Wednesday - Torchlight Parade

Time: 8:30pm - 10:30pm

Location: Hennepin Ave. from Basilica of St. Mary to 5th Street

The CenterPoint Energy Torchlight Parade will illuminate downtown with bands, floats and fun for all and includes a celebrity Grand Marshall.

Join us for the Aquatennial's CenterPoint Energy Torchlight Parade, set to take place Wednesday, July 20 at 8:30 p.m. Join the community as they gather and watch great floats, displays and bands march through the heart of Downtown Minneapolis. This is CenterPoint Energy's 16th year being part of the Aquatennial and sponsoring the CenterPoint Energy Torchlight Parade. Come down and celebrate on July 20!

July 20, 2016, Wednesday - Riverfront Walking Tour with Preserve Minneapolis

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Meet at Mill Ruins Park - Portland Avenue South and West River Parkway

Riverfront Walking Tour with Preserve Minneapolis

Event Description

A history-heavy tour of the riverfront, which may include original descriptions from the journals of St. Anthony Falls’ founders, including Father Louis Hennepin, Jonathan Carver, Zebulon Pike, and Stephen Long. An emphasis on the importance of the Falls themselves to both European/East Coast developers and the original Native American population will be covered, as well as the history of the mills and the remaining 19th-century buildings on Main Street. The tour will walk to Nicollet Island to share the history of the island and its close brushes with destruction, both at the hand of man and of nature, and on to Boom Island to talk about the lumber industry that originally brought so many people to the area.

The tour will walk about two miles. The tour guide is Holly Day.

July 20, 2016, Wednesday - Capella Tower Indoor Market

Time: 11:00AM - 2:00PM

Location: Capella Tower, 225 S 6th Street (in the atrium)

July 19, 2016, Tuesday - Mill City Summer Opera: Sweeney Todd at Mill City Museum Ruin Courtyard

Mill City Summer Opera returns for their fifth season with Sweeney Todd. See their Facebook page for Barber Seat features on performers.

Future shows:

Thursday, July 21

Friday, July 22

Sunday, July 24

Ticket info

July 19, 2016, Tuesday - Music & Movies in the Park at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park

Time: Music 7:00pm; Movie 15 minutes after sunset

Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park (East Bank of the Stone Arch Bridge)

Tonights entertainment: (See website in case of scheduling changes.)

Music:
OSO July 19
Iron for Ghosts July 26
Niki Becker August 2
Grateful Red August 9
Hunker'd Down Blues Band August 16
The Paper Days August 23
War Poets August 30

Movies:
He Named Me Malala July 19
TC Black Film Festival Selection July 26
Pitch Perfect 2 August 2
Jaws August 9
Batkid Begins August 16
TC Black Film Festival Selection August 23

What to bring: Blanket or chair, sunblock and bugspray, picnic basket.

Music & Movies in The Parks is produced by the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board.

July 18, 2016, Monday - Movie Night at Gold Medal Park: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Time: Screening begins at dusk. In case of rain or high winds, screenings will be rescheduled or cancelled.

Location: Gold Medal Park

The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul announces the 2016 lineup of their outdoor Movies in the Park series. Now in its second year, the popular series will feature six family-oriented classic and contemporary narrative and documentary films showing for free at Gold Medal Park.

Screenings are presented by the Film Society on behalf of the Gold Medal Park Conservancy. 

Monday, July 18 - Film: O Brother, Where Art Thou? 

In this Odyssey inspired, Oscar-nominated film from Minnesota native duo the Coen Brothers, Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang with simple Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and maladjusted Pete (John Turturro), then the trio sets out to pursue freedom and the promise of a fortune in buried treasure. With nothing to lose and still in shackles, their hasty run takes them on an incredible journey of awesome experiences and colorful characters.

Future Movie Nights in Gold Medal Park:

Monday, August 15 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Monday, September 19 - Film: The Triplets of Belleville

July 18, 2016, Monday - "Music in the Park" at Nicollet Island

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Nicollet Island Park

Tonights entertainment: (See website to verify any programming changes.)

2016 Music:
July 18, Vicky Emerson
July 25, Mosaica
August 1, The UnderGroove
August 8, Little Diamonds
August 15, She Has Issues
August 22, The Brandon Projekt
August 29, Rob Meany

What to bring: Blanket or chair, sunblock and bugspray, picnic basket.

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!

July 17, 2016, Sunday - Mill City Summer Opera: Sweeney Todd in Mill City Museum Ruins Courtyard

Mill City Summer Opera returns for their fifth season with Sweeney Todd. See their Facebook page for Barber Seat features on performers.

Future shows:

Tuesday, July 19

Thursday, July 21

Friday, July 22

Sunday, July 24

Ticket info.

July 17, 2016, Sunday - Milwaukee Avenue Historic District Walking Tour with Preserve Minneapolis

Time: 10:00am

Location: Meet at Milwaukee Avenue and East Franklin Avenue

Milwaukee Avenue Historic District Walking Tour with Preserve Minneapolis

In the late 19th century, the narrow street that became Milwaukee Avenue served as the first home in Minneapolis for immigrant families of Northern European workers who labored in the nearby Milwaukee Railroad yards and industrial shops.

A 1970s public agency’s renewal plan called for demolishing approximately 70% of the houses in the 35 block Seward West neighborhood, including all of the houses on Milwaukee Avenue. However, a neighborhood organization, the Seward West Project Area Committee (PAC), thwarted that plan, instead established rehabilitation of the houses as a principal development tool. PAC’s research led to Milwaukee Avenue’s local and national historic district designation.

The neighborhood organization’s 1970s redevelopment process rehabilitated 34 of the original 46 houses facing the street, and converted the once narrow street into a landscaped pedestrian walkway. The street’s unique architectural character renders a human scale quite different from the surrounding neighborhood. Milwaukee Avenue was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The tour will walk 1/4 mile. The tour guide is Bob Roscoe.

July 17, 2016, Sunday - Minneapolis Sister Cities Day Celebration on Nicollet Island

Time:  1:00pm–5:00pm

Location: Nicollet Island Pavilion

Join us as we celebrate all 12 of the Minneapolis Sister Cities with a FREE Ice Cream Social & gathering on Nicollet Island Pavilion, Minneapolis. This family event features multi-cultural entertainment, children activities, ice cream and refreshments. The event highlights all of Minneapolis’ International Sister Cities, with a special spotlight this year on the 25th anniversary of our Sister City with Tours, France!

Sister Cities Day 2016 program:

1:00  Welcome Remarks

1:05  Japanese Entertainment Group (Ibaraki City, Japan) 

1:25  Sounds of Hope 

2:00  Official Program 

2:20  French Entertainment Group (Tours, France) 

2:45  The Hongde Lion Dance Association (Harbin, China) 

3:10  Aztec Dancers (Cuernavaca, Mexico)

3:35  Somali Dancers (Bosaso, Somalia) 

4:00  Vikarbyns Lilla Spelmanslag (Uppsala, Sweden) 

4:25  Ballet Folklorico (Cuernavaca, Mexico)  

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Make your own ice cream sundaes (while supplies last), entertainment and activities for the family! An afternoon celebrating the Sister City relationships between the city of Minneapolis and 12 Sister Cities.

More information 

July 16, 2016, Saturday - Free Yoga in Gold Medal Park

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.

July 16, 2016, Saturday - Streets.pic at Boom Island Park

Time: 8PM

Location:  Boom Island Park, 724 Sibley Street NE

Streets.picnic hosted by Streets.mn

As we have done the last few years, we will be having a quasi-potluck, quasi-writer appreciation type picnic for the streets.community. This year we will be at Boom Island Park, which is a little bit more centrally located and easier to get to than Minnehaha Falls. Watch for more information!

July 16, 2016, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market:  MISSISSIPPI RIVER DAY!

Celebrate our Mighty Mississippi River at the Market on Saturday, July 16! After you pick up your local groceries, stop by our local community groups to learn about the river's ecology and value to Minnesota agriculture from: The University of Minnesota Raptor Center, Mississippi Park Connection, Friends of the Mississippi, Great River Coalition, and Big River Magazine.

Produce Planner: Arugula, beets, berries, baby bok choi, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cilantro, collards, cucumbers, dandelion greens, fennel, garlic scapes, green beans, green onions, hakurei salad turnips, herbs, kale, kohlrabi, lavender, lettuce, mint, microgreens, mushrooms, mustard greens, Nappa cabbage, oregano, pac choi, parsnips, radicchio, radishes (red and french breakfast), rhubarb, oregano, potatoes, raspberries, sour cherries, spring onions, squash blossoms, salad mix, snap peas, snow peas, spinach, strawberries, Swiss chard, thyme, zucchini and much more!

Cooking Demo, 10:30am: Market Chef Nettie Colón will prepare a seasonal market meal in our FREE cooking demonstration.

Community Booths: The University of Minnesota Raptor Center, Mississippi Park Connection, Friends of the Mississippi, Great River Coalition, Big River Magazine.

Live Music, 11am-1pm: Enjoy live music from guitarist Ben Glaros in the green music tent by the Guthrie stairs.

Kids Activities: Power of Produce (PoP): A seasonal vegetable tasting club for kids ages 3-12, located at the Info Booth tent. Kids are empowered to buy their own vegetables with a $2 market token after tasting a seasonal fresh veggie sample.

Meet Your Vegetables: Sample fresh, seasonal veggie recipes created and prepared by Nutrition students at our Meet Your Vegetables booth, located at the top of the Chicago Mall–grab a recipe and a sample and chat with medical professionals fromAllina Health, the program’s sponsor.

Art Market: This Saturday’s featured local artists include Annika Kaplan Jewelry, Anna Metcalfe Ceramics, Ink Orchard, Stangler Works, Aprilierre, ArtAndes, Jeanne Beatrice Market Baskets, Larissa Loden, Sassy Knitwear, and Milkweed Editions. Find them in the train shed and the Chicago Expansion!

July 16, 2016, Saturday - Disgraced opens at the Guthrie

Time: 7:30pm

Location:  Guthrie Theater, McGuire Proscenium Stage, 818 Second Street South

Disgraced

by Ayad Akhtar

directed by Marcela Lorca

July 16 -- August 28,

Amir Kapoor, a successful Pakistani-American lawyer, is happy, in love and about to land the biggest promotion of his life. But ethnicity collides with ambition when Amir and his wife, Emily, host a dinner party at their Upper East Side apartment. Friendly conversation soon turns confrontational and Amir makes a costly decision. A 2015 Tony Award nominee for Best Play and winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, this 90-minute one-act has been described as a “blistering social drama about racial prejudices” (Variety) and a “combustible powder keg of identity politics” (Bloomberg). Don’t miss this conversation-starter from one of the most promising playwrights in theater today.

July 15, 2016, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm  Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Vicky Emerson & Matt Hannah (Folk/Singer-songwriter)

July 15, 2016, Friday - Twin Cities Food Tours' Historic Northeast Minneapolis Food Tour

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.