July 31, 2018, Tuesday - Community Meeting on Public Art for Public Service Building at Mill City Museum

5:30pm doors open; 6:00pm meeting starts

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 S Second Street

Community Meeting on Public Art for Public Service Building

A community meeting will be held July 31 on public art planned for the City’s new Public Service Building, which will be built near City Hall. The new building will bring together City employees currently working in several different sites downtown and provide better service for residents and businesses. It will include a customer-centric public service area and is scheduled to open the fall of 2020.

Once completed, the City’s new office building will feature prominent public art pieces. Learn more about public art planned for the new building, review feedback from previous public meetings and get a project update.

Artist Tristan Al-Haddad of Atlanta-based Formations Studio has been selected to work with the design team of MSR Design and Henning Larsen to identify public art opportunities for the building. The City will be issuing multiple calls for artists, in a range of media, for the project.

For more information about the Public Service Building project and to sign up for email updates, visit the project website.

July 31, 2018, Tuesday - Music and Movie in the Park at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park

Time: 7:00pm

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

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

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

Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos of you, your family and friends enjoying the concerts and movies on the facebook page Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.

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 31, 2018, Tuesday - Mill City Farmers Market Night Market at The Commons

Time: 4:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: The Commons, 425 Portland Avenue S

Mill City Farmers Market Night Market

This will be an ongoing event through Tuesday, September 25.

Pick up farm fresh, organic produce and local artisan foods for an easy weeknight meal. Prepared food vendors will be cooking up seasonal recipes all evening, so come hungry, stay, listen to live music and have a picnic supper in The Commons!

PROGRAMS

At our Tuesday Night Market we will continue to offer “can do” cooking and wellness activities and live entertainment, such as

• Free outdoor yoga
• Monthly Beer, Wine & Cider Nights with Day Block Brewing (dates TBD)
• Live Music every week
• Bag toss, kubb and other lawn games
• Meet Your Vegetables demonstrations
• Power of Produce kids veggie tasting club
• CSA pick-up

NOTE - Monitor MCFM's Facebook for any weather-related cancellation updates!

July 30, 2018, Monday - Music in the Park at Nicollet Island

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Nicollet Island Park

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

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

Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos of you enjoying the concerts on the facebook page. Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.

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 29, 2018, Sunday - Sociable Summer Presents Americana Fest at Sociable Cider Werks

Time: 2p-8p

Location: Sociable Cider Werks, 1500 Fillmore Street NE

Sociable Summer Presents Americana Fest

Sociable Cider Werks and 89.3 The Current, present the #SociableSummer Americana Fest! 

Hosted by The Current's Andrea Swensson

MUSIC
The Last Revel
Roe Family Singers
Collapsing Stars
Kind Country

CIDER
Road Rash Shandy Apple and all your other flagship favorites back on tap
Good ole' American themed ciders 

FOOD
Red River Kitchen • City House
Don oishi kitchen
Gastrotruck
Vito Lucco Pizza co.
MN Nice Cream

TICKETS
$5 Drinking Wristband: Drinking wristbands are required if you plan to drink at the event, and can be purchased for $5 at the door, with a portion of wristband proceeds benefiting Southern Anoka Community Assistance. **If you buy your wristband prior to July 1, we'll give you your FIRST PINT FREE!**

$60 VIP Package: Pay one fee and enjoy all-you-can-drink access all day, PLUS: Surf and Turf tasty eats from Union Kitchen MN and Gohan along with one of a kind deserts from Dulceria Bakery, and the opportunity to enjoy the festival from our fancy new private event space and patio, with access to indoor bathrooms (VIP ticket holders only). We're only selling 150 of these, so get yours now!

VENDORS
Craft vendors from the Minneapolis Craft Market
ShamelessInc Mpls
The Beer Dabbler Store
ThriftyHipster.com
Hippy Feet
More to come!

GAMES
Kubb
Bean Bags
Giant Jenga
Giant Inflatable sprinklers and Training Wheels races anyone?
More to come!

- THIS EVENT IS ENTIRELY CASH ONLY - ATMS will be on-site
- No dogs allowed: While we love your furry friends, please leave them at home as the event is on hot asphalt with limited shade
- Bring your ID if you plan to drink (and be 21+, obviously)
- Event goes on rain or shine, but let's hope for the shine!

July 29, 2018, Sunday - Railroad History Tour at Mill City Museum

Times: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Railroad History Tour

Future dates: August 12, September 9

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.

July 29, 2018, Sunday - Families Volunteering Together Event at People Serving People

Time: 2:30pm–4:45pm

Location: People Serving People, 614 3rd Street S

People Serving People appreciates your support of families who are experiencing homelessness, and is excited to offer an event this July to help children and their families better understand homelessness and the importance of supporting families in need.

Families Volunteering Together will take place at People Serving People, 2:30pm–4:45pm, Sunday, July 29. Learn about People Serving People with a short welcome, video, Q&A, and tour. Volunteer activities may include packing baby wipes, making tie-blankets, portioning laundry detergent, and more.

The cost is $5 per person, with 100% of the proceeds directly benefiting services for families at People Serving People.

Click to register your family for Families Volunteering Together.
** Children and their parents and/or grandparents **

In addition, please consider bringing a board book, pop-up book, or activity book for a child in need.

RSVP or Questions: Contact Bev: email or 612.277.0223

Check out Families Volunteering Together on Facebook.

July 28, 2018, Saturday - Peace Paper Pop-Up at MCBA

Time: 10am-1pm

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

Peace Paper Pop-Up

Free and Open to the Public.

MCBA will be hosting a workshop and pop-up exhibition in partnership with Project Peace Paper! Experience visions of peace and a public installation using community-designed wrapping paper. Refreshments and treats will be provided — bring your friends and family to share in the peace together.

Please RSVP here

July 28, 2018, Saturday - Annual North Loop Fest 2018

Time:  3:00pm - 10:00pm

Location: Cuzzy's, 507 Washington Avenue N

North Loop Fest

Grab a friend or two and join us for live music, food + beverages from North Loop restaurants and breweries. Check out NorthLoopFest.com for more details on entertainment and sponsors. 

July 28, 2018, Saturday - Loring Park Art Festival (2 days)

Times: Saturday 10am-6pm & Sunday 10am-5pm

Location: Loring Park, 1382 Willow Street

Loring Park Art Festival

Since 2000, the Loring Park Art Festival has combined creative expression and community connectedness to surprise and delight all who attend. With beautiful ponds and formal gardens, Loring Park makes an idyllic spot to celebrate art, music, food and entertainment for two days each summer in downtown Minneapolis. 

July 28, 2018, Saturday - Historic Main Street Walking Tour at the Mill City Museum

Time:  10:30pm - Noon

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Historic Main Street Walking Tour

Stroll through Minneapolis' oldest neighborhood on a guided tour and learn about the rich diversity of the 1850s town of St. Anthony and the immense changes along Main Street throughout the years. Founded in 1848, a few years before Minneapolis, St. Anthony has been a crossroads for many diverse peoples, including Dakota, Ojibwe, Yankees, German and Irish immigrants, métis, free blacks, and Southern tourists accompanied by enslaved people.

Tour landmarks include the 1855 Upton Block, 1858 Martin and Morrison Building, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, the Pillsbury A Mill, and the Chalybeate Mineral Springs.

This tour begins and ends at the gray door on Third Avenue SE at Main Street (around the corner from the A-Mill Artist Lofts' main entrance at 315 Main Street SE). It includes about one mile of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces.

Future date: September 15

July 28, 2018, Saturday - Yoga in Gold Medal Park

Yoga in Gold Medal Park 

We meet Saturdays thru September 1st. Each session will begin at 9 a.m. and end before 10.  Grab your mat (or a towel), a neighbor, and meet us by the orange sculpture. 

The sessions are free of charge and sponsored by the Friends of the Mill District charity. Come salute the sun and enjoy the beauty of our neighborhood with your friends and neighbors. Questions and comments can be sent to cjkittock@gmail.com.

July 28, 2018, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market: (check back for updates)

July 28, 2018, 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 a volunteer crew for habitat restoration activities with the National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with Mississippi Park Connection, 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:

July 28 - August 11 & 25 - September 15 & 29 - October dates TBD

Sign in will be at 9 AM in front of the St. Anthony Falls Visitor Center. Gloves, tools, and instruction will be provided. Volunteers should 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. Come join an award-winning team of volunteers in their restoration adventures!

July 27, 2018, Friday - Atrium Art: Mosquito Repellent Candles

Time: 11a-1p

Location: 801 S Marquette Avenue (in the atrium)

Atrium Art: Mosquito Repellent Candles

Great as a gift or for your own backyard, it's easy to make fun floating candles that will keep the bugs away! Not interested in keeping bugs away? Don't worry — we will have plenty of different essential oils to make your own candle for you to enjoy indoors as well.

Please RSVP so we can have enough supplies, other arts & crafts materials will also be available for you to enjoy!

July 27, 2018, Friday - Earth Goddess Yoga - Full Moon Ceremony with a View & Elixers at A-Mill Artist Lofts

Time: 6:30PM - 9:30PM

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

Earth Goddess Yoga - Full Moon Ceremony with a View & Elixers

Tickets 

July 27th: At the A-Mill Lofts in Minneapolis. Meet in the performance hall for opening ceremony, practice and met for outdoor meditation and moonlit social hour on rooftop. Full Moon in Aquarius. 

We start inside with ceremony by the river with drinking kava and cacao. Then we take the practice outside, timed with the sunset and the moon rise! Moon and sun salutations! After class join us for elixirs on the roof overlooking the Minneapolis city scape and the falls on the Mississippi river, Dakota territory. Tuesday the 29th! 7-9pm (check in start at 630 pm, class starts at 7pm. optional roof top social at 930pm after class). 

Earth Goddess Yoga presents our summer series that will be held outdoors to absorb the benefits of moonlight and soak in the splendor of yoga under the changing sky. Bask under the fully illuminated moon, breathe in the crisp night and and move with intention under the healing vibrations of kava and cacao in this special edition of Earth Goddess Yoga! We will connect to grandmother moon, brother sky and mother earth in this series to charge your intentions, body, mind and spirit with plant and movement medicine.

By many ancient traditions, the full moon is a sacred time for manifesting. Combining it with yoga and the healing vibrations of music and crystals, it creates a connection to the earth and sky that aligns your energies in the same way the moon, earth and sun do when the moon is full. Under this alignment, our intentions can be charged propelling our manifestations forward. Even if the full moon is behind clouds, her energies will be enjoyed by all.

We will begin with sacred smudging and kava/cacao ceremony. Explore our deepest desires for manifesting before moving into a vigorous Earth Goddess Yoga style tribal movement, yoga and dance to clear out energy, remove mental obstacles and be one with the energies under the full moon. Then we will move into a gentler crystal yoga. A crystal charged, moon flow that will shift awareness into the higher vibrations with the aid of healing sounds, songs and finally surrendering to the wisdom within. We will end with a closing ceremony of deep gratitude and offering. 

Three full moon opportunities, take one or participate in all! Event time 6:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30pm event starts at 7:00pm) - 10:00 p.m.
Cost for single event: $ 45.00 or take all three for discount rate of : $ 99.00

Musicians (Drum Circle style - Drummers who will only participate / practice one yoga class and freestyle drum for the others. participate in Kava/Cacao ceremony and drum during yoga. Must bring own drum) : $ 30.00

Cost includes kava/cacao ceremony, 3 hrs of yoga + meditation, live music, refreshments and a crystal to be worn. Collect one crystal or all three, a different one will be selected carefully according to the energies of that particular full moon, just for you.

July 27, 2018, Friday - Northeast Dog Parade

Time: 5:00pm (The parade will begin at 6:15pm)

Northeast Dog Parade

Join us for the annual Northeast Dog Parade! We will be meeting in the park across from Wilde Cafe, before making our way along the parade route through the neighborhood. Stick around for Best Look-Alike, Best Trick and Best Costume contests afterwords! More information about sponsors and vendors to come.

Program

5:00pm - 6:00PM

Gather at the park across from the Wilde Cafe & Spirits

Time to mingle, sniff some butts and check out the vendors

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6:00PM

Who wants to go for a walk?! The Parade starts

We will loop around The Heart of Northeast to end up back at the Park across from the Wilde Cafe & Spirits

Stick around for the vendors and the contests!

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7:00PM

Best costume contest

Best look alike contest

Best trick contest

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Prizes for the winners! 

July 27, 2018, Friday - Twin Cities Carifest (2 days)

Time: Friday and Saturday, July 27 and 28, 11 am – 10 pm

Location: West River Parkway between Plymouth Avenue and West Broadway Avenue 

Twin Cities Carifest

For more than two decades, Twin Cities Carifest has been the premier Caribbean Festival featuring Caribbean food, music, arts, crafts and a traditional carnival parade with colorful costumes and dance. Twin Cities Carifest began as a grass-roots celebration of the Caribbean cultural heritage in 1994. Now approaching its 21st anniversary, Carifest has grown to provide festival-goers of all ages and backgrounds the ultimate arts fusion experience featuring: colorful Caribbean flair, danceable live calypso and reggae beats, vibrant parade costumes and more. Each element is as diverse as the islands themselves. $10; $7 in advance.

July 26, 2018, Thursday - Hennepin Island Hydropower Tour with the Mill City Museum

Time: 10:30a - Noon

Location: Tours begin at the gray door on 3rd Avenue SE at Main Street (around the corner from the main entrance at 315 Main Street SE).

Hennepin Island Hydropower Tour

Future dates: August 9 & 23

Explore the history of waterpower at St. Anthony Falls, including special access to view the exterior of an operating Xcel Energy hydroelectric plant. During the early 20th century, more than two dozen mills and hydroelectric plants used the waterpower from St. Anthony Falls, today just one is left: Xcel'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.

This tour is presented in partnership with Xcel Energy.

This tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces, as well as climbing up and down several flights of stairs. Some historic locations on this tour are not wheelchair accessible. Tours begin at the gray door on 3rd Avenue SE at Main Street (around the corner from the main entrance at 315 Main Street SE).

July 26, 2018, Thursday - The Commons | Movies: Isle of Dogs

The Commons | Movies: Isle of Dogs  7pm

Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to Trash Island, Atari sets off alone and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. 101 min.

And don't forget, Movies in the Park are 'BYO Alcohol' events. Enjoy beer, wine or another favorite drink as you take in the night's film.https://www.commonsmpls.com/page/show/4021556-bring-your-own-alcohol-ordinance

Future Movies at The Commons:
August 9 - Black Panther

August 16 - Wonder Woman