July 11, 2019, Thursday - July Beyond the Box (multiple locations)

Time: 12 PM – 1 PM

Locations:  See below

July Beyond the Box

Hosted by Minnesota Fringe and Mpls Downtown Improvement District

Join us for 2 free back-to-back performances over the lunchtime hour at the new Theater In The Round Amphitheater on Nicollet Mall directly outside the Minneapolis Central Library.

Thursday, July 11 from 12-1p, featured artists are:

Mentor Ensō Daiko (of TaikoArts Midwest) with live brush painting by Laughing Waters Studio highlighting shared cultural traditions, inspiration, and energetic visual elements.

Mentee Micah Chermak choreographs a new work in partnership with fellow Twin Cities dancers incorporating influences of Butoh, and reflecting on the theme of tribalism.

Learn more about the project and artists at minnesotafringe.org/beyondthebox.

ABOUT MENTOR ENSO DAIKO
Enso Daikō offers loud, energetic performances that combine music, dance, culture, and pure athleticism. The group regularly premieres new work adding their unique voice to the expanding canon and innovation of North American taiko. Through performances, studio classes and school residencies, Ensō Daiko has taught thousands of students of all ages and abilities. Ensō Daiko was founded as Mu Daiko in 1997 by Rick Shiomi. New Artistic Director, Jennifer Weir, renamed it Ensō Daiko in 2017, when TaikoArts Midwest took over the taiko program formerly supported by Theater Mu.

ABOUT MENTEE MICAH CHERMAK
Micah received his MFA from the University of Arizona School of Dance, working as a preceptor and instructor of record for the University. Currently a dancer and choreographer for Twin Cities Ballet of Minnesota, Micah has worked across the country dancing and setting works at St. Paul Ballet, PDX Contemporary Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, Minnesota Dance Theater, Ballet Tucson, and Portland Opera. Micah earned his BFA in Ballet and BA in Liberal Studies from Friends University in Wichita, KS. Some notable danced works include Balanchine’s 'Serenade' and Anna Marie Holmes’ 'La Vivandiere'. Modern and contemporary work includes Christopher Wheeldon’s 'The American', Jose Limon’s 'The Unsung', and Ohad Naharin’s 'Deca'.

ABOUT BEYOND THE BOX
Beyond the Box is a site-specific performance incubator partnership of nonprofit Vibrant and Safe Downtown, the Mpls Downtown Improvement District, the Minneapolis Central Library & Minnesota Fringe. Nicollet Mall is one of the most diverse gathering spaces in Minneapolis. Using free public performances, these partners catalyze free, cutting edge shared artistic "happenings" for all Minnesotans to enjoy.

Join us for the last 2019 installment of Beyond the Box on August 1st featuring BareBones Puppets.

This project is funded in part by support from the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Culture Heritage Fund.

Cover Photo: May performance by Micah Chermak + Company. Photographer: Richard Andersen.

July 11, 2019, Thursday - DMNA Land Use Meeting at Mill City Museum

Time:  6:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, ADM Room, 704 S 2nd Street

Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association monthly Land Use Meeting.

The next Land Use Committee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 11, 2019, at 6 p.m., at the Mill City Museum, in the ADM Room.  

Our August meeting will take place on Monday, August 5, 2019, at 6 p.m., at the Mill City Museum, in the ADM Room.

July 11, 2019, Thursday - Brew Love at The Depot

Time: 5:30 – 8:30pm

Location: Milwaukee Depot Train Shed, 225 Third Avenue South

Brew Love Beer Tasting Fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House

Enjoy craft beers and trendy food at the hottest fundraising ticket of the summer, all in support of the Ronald McDonald House. Helping others never tasted so good! Get your tickets NOW...Brew Love sells out every year. Over 30 breweries and the area's favorite food trucks. New this year: Minnesota favorite and friend of the House Kat Perkins will be performing LIVE! A super silent auction and lots of fun games. All proceeds go directly to serving the over 5,400 families a year that come through the Ronald McDonald House doors.

July 10, 2019, Wednesday - Millers Landing Community Blood Drive

Our neighbors at Millers Landing Senior Living invite you to the Millers Landing Community Blood Drive on Wednesday, July 10, 11:00AM - 2:00PM. They are located at 155 5th Avenue S in the Ceresota building across from MacPhail Center for Music.Participants receive a free T-shirt (while supplies last) and lunch.

Memorial Blood Centers is offering blood donors the chance to win Minnesota State Fair tickets! Donate and be automatically entered to win a pair of tickets. Visit MBC.ORG/FAIR for details. 

All blood types help save lives, and all blood types are needed - especially O negative (O-) and O positive (O+).

July 10, 2019, Wednesday - Hewing x Kolman Pryor Gallery Artist Exhibit: Mary Nagel Klein

Time: 6 PM - 8 PM

Location: Hewing Hotel, 300 Washington Avenue N

Hewing x Kolman Pryor Gallery Artist Exhibit: Mary Nagel Klein

Join us Wednesday, July 10th from 6-8pm for an artist reception celebrating the work of Hewing's newest featured artist, Mary Nagel Klein. Hewing Hotel is proud to partner with Kolman & Pryor Gallery to feature new local artists each season.

Klein's exhibition includes over 20 paintings, opening on June 18 and running through August 18. This free catered reception is open to the public. It includes a cash bar and an artist led tour of the exhibit at 7:00 p.m. The work will be available for purchase until the exhibition closes.

Klein’s work is representational and impressionist, and invites contemplation. “There’s nearly nothing man-made depicted in the paintings in order to create a sense of being alone in nature,” she says. “The people in my paintings are the viewers looking at the artwork.”

Anita Sue Kolman, the gallery’s co-owner and curator of the Hewing exhibitions, sought out Klein because of the soft materiality, shifting light, and evocative color woven into her paintings. “Mary finds inspiration in what some might consider everyday scenes, in parks, arboretums, and areas outside of the cities,” Kolman says, “but her landscapes evoke a powerful sense of wonder. Viewers will find in her work an invitation to reflect and feel refreshed by her vision.”

Born and raised in Wisconsin, and now living in Minnesota, Klein paints natural areas throughout the state. Many of the pieces in the show were done plein air. “The experience of creating art in nature is absolutely exhilarating,” she says. “It’s a challenge to keep up with the shadow and bugs and weather, while capturing extraordinary beauty. Combining it all into a two-dimensional depiction, using every sense including the element of time, is an incomparable experience.”

Klein’s work will be on view throughout the Hewing’s first-floor spaces, including the lobby and dining room; in small private-event rooms; in the 6th floor bar; and on the lower-level of the hotel. 

July 10, 2019, Wednesday - DID 10th Birthday Block Party on Nicollet

Time: 11a - 1p

Location: On Nicollet between 6th and 7th Streets

10th Birthday Block Party

You're Invited! The Mpls Downtown Improvement District is celebrating ten years of a cleaner, greener, safer and more vibrant downtown.

> Play a round on DID’s mini golf course and enjoy an ice cold
Arnold Palmer, on us.
> Enjoy lively party music by DJ Mickey Breeze and challenge
your friends to a variety of street games.
> Grab a food truck lunch and get to know the DID
Ambassadors at the Really Big Table.
> Stop by the Storymobile to share a downtown memory.
> Shop local handmade goods at the Nicollet Makers Market.

July 10, 2019, Wednesday - Nicollet Makers Market

Time: 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Location: Nicollet Makers Market, 651 Nicollet Ave

Nicollet Makers Market

We are an outdoor shopping event featuring local artisans in downtown Minneapolis. Meet your makers and buy handmade on the new Nicollet! Visit our website for more information www.nicolletmakersmarket.com

July 10, 2019, Wednesday - What Would Crazy Horse Do? at Mixed Blood Theatre (thru July 14)

What Would Crazy Horse Do? at Mixed Blood Theatre: 

Wednesday, July 10 - 7:30 pm

Thursday, July 11 - 7:30 pm

Friday, July 12 - 7:30 pm

Saturday, July 13 - 7:30 pm

Sunday, July 14 - 2pm

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Tickets can be purchased in advance at Brown Paper Tickets. Please note, walk-up tickets can be purchased by cash only. For questions about tickets please contact: turtletheaterboxoffice@gmail.com. 

Turtle Theater Collective is proud to present the regional premiere of What Would Crazy Horse Do? written by Larissa FastHorse. FastHorse is an award winning playwright, director and choreographer based in Santa Monica. Larissa co-founded Indigenous Direction, a consulting firm that helps organizations who want to create accurate work by and for Indigenous peoples. Her produced plays include Urban Rez (Cornerstone Theatre Company) Landless (AlterTheater), Average Family (Children’s Theater Company of Minneapolis), Teaching Disco Squaredancing to Our Elders: a Class Presentation (Native Voices at the Autry), Vanishing Point (Eagle Project), Cherokee Family Reunion (Mountainside Theater) and The Thanksgiving Play (Artists Pre and Cap Stage). Larissa was awarded the PEN USA Literary Award for Drama, NEA Distinguished New Play Development Grant, Joe Dowling Annamaghkerrig Fellowship, AATE Distinguished Play Award, Inge Residency, Sundance/Ford Foundation Fellowship, Aurand Harris Fellowship, the UCLA Native American Program Woman of the Year and numerous Ford and NEA Grants. She is a current member of the Playwright’s Union, Director’s Lab West 2015, Theater Communications Group board of directors, Playwright’s Center Core Writers and is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Sicangu Lakota Nation.

What Would Crazy Horse Do? is a dark comedy inspired by an actual event. The play is set on a Lakota reservation in South Dakota, although the tribe is fictional. "The play is the tale of a single photo and the strange bedfellows it reveals. The Klan and a tribe of Indians joining together for a Pow Wow. What could these two groups find in common ground? This powerful play examines manipulations, genocide, racial purity, hate, love, fear and trauma. It is a play that will challenge your beliefs, stir your emotions and leave you wondering. We thank you for joining us and would like to warn some may find triggering moments and language in this production,” said Brian Joyce, Director.

“I had the honor of being a part of the Minneapolis staged reading of What Would Crazy Horse Do? in the spring of 2016 right here at Mixed Blood Theatre. This show, more than any other, started so many conversations amongst the audiences who came to see it. I was awestruck by the play’s ability to be funny, severe, dark, hurtful, difficult and ignited a conversation about what we are seeing reflected in our society and how hate is often times allowed to survive. I knew the moment I took part in this reading, I wanted to see this show performed, if only to start a conversation and to remind people to be vigilante, because sometimes the people who speak softly can do more damage to our society than those who shout loudly,” said Ernest Briggs, Artistic Director of Turtle Theater Collective.

Turtle Theater Collective is committed to producing high-quality, contemporary work that explores Native experiences and subverts expectations about how and when Native artists can create theater. In addition to producing Indigenous plays, we center Native bodies and voices by situating them within the broader theatrical canon, providing opportunities for Native artists to grow and play.

The Turtle Theater Collective is: Ernest Briggs (White Earth Ojibwe), Marisa Carr (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), Sequoia Hauck (White Earth Ojibwe/Hupa)

The Turtle Theater Collective Advisory Committee is: Heid E. Erdrich, Carra Martinez, Sarah Rasmussen, James A. Williams

Directed by Brian Joyce

Cast: Ernest Briggs, Jei Herald-Zamora, David Rand-McKay, Maretta Zilic Production crew: Katie Johns (Stage Manager), Mitchell Frazier (Lighting Designer), David Lewis-Frazier (Sound Designer), Barb Portinga (Costume Consultant), Sarah Salisbury (Prop Master), Marisa Carr (Producer), Ernest Briggs (Artistic Director)

July 10, 2019, Wednesday - Cuningham Group Urban Currents Series: The Geography of Prince

Schedule:

5:30 pm Snacks / Refreshments / Socializing
6:00 pm Speaker Begins
6:30 pm Discussion
7:00 pm Program Ends

Location:Cuningham Group Minneapolis, 201 Main Street SE, Suite 325

(Note: Enter the building at 212 2nd Street SE)

The Geography of Prince

Join us at this month's Urban Currents speaker series!

Questions? Contact Rebecca Nash (rnash@cuningham.com) or 612-379-5508.

July 9, 2019, Tuesday - Music in the Parks Series at Father Hennepin Park

Time: 7 pm 

Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park, 420 Main Street SE

Tonight: Matt Hannah folk americana singer-songwriter

View full Music and Movies in the Parks schedule.

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

Reminders: Watch facebook or twitter for weather cancellations of the evening festivities.

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!

Upcoming shows:

JULY

Tuesday July 16, 7:00 The Fattenin's Frogs roots/folk/blues/rock

Tuesday July 23, 7:00 Hunker'd Down Blues Band rocking and slow blues

Tuesday July 30, 7:00 Bluedog native american original blues

AUGUST

Tuesday 6-Aug 7:00 Wax Lead post-punk soundscapes and ballads

Tuesday 13-Aug 7:00 Brooke Elizabeth singer-songwriter, pop/R&B

Tuesday 20-Aug 7:00 Demoliton Means Progress dryly peppy classic guitar pop

Tuesday 27-Aug 7:00 The Common Ground Company woman fronted newgrass

July 9, 2019, Tuesday - Transfer of Memory: Portraits of Minnesota Holocaust Survivors at Central Library

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Transfer of Memory: Portraits of Minnesota Holocaust Survivors

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Celebrate the opening of Transfer of Memory: Portraits of Minnesota Holocaust Survivors. This exhibit illustrates Holocaust survivors living in Minnesota, in their homes, in full color. As a collection, these images focus on life and hope. From Europe to Minnesota, it was here they fashioned their dreams, their futures, and their families. Their lives are constant reminders about the value of freedom and the enduring human spirit. The opening reception features exhibit photographer David Sherman, writer Lili Chester and additional special guests.

July 9, 2019, Tuesday - Transportation Workshop Series: The Business Case at HGA

Time: 7:30 AM – 9 AM

Location: HGA Architects and Engineers, 420 5th St N, Ste 100

Transportation Workshop Series: The Business Case

Just a few years ago Lyft, Nice Ride, Uber, and Bird existed only in our dreams. Today they’re everywhere, and these new shared mobility options are changing the way businesses do business. This workshop addresses how Minneapolis employers can incorporate new shared modes into employee policies and benefits along with transit. We’ll review the rules of the road, how shared mobility operates, and how employers can integrate these options into business travel solutions using special rates and apps. There will be time to discuss how shared mobility is impacting participants’ business processes and to share ideas.

July 9, 2019, Tuesday - Open House: President's Bike Crossing and E Hennepin Resurfacing at HeadFlyer

Time: 5p - 7p

Location: HeadFlyer Brewing, 861 E Hennepin Ave

Open House: President's Bike Crossing and E Hennepin Resurfacing

Open house for the President’s Bike Blvd Crossing Project and County resurfacing of East Hennepin Avenue.

The City and County have been invited by the Beltrami Neighborhood Council and the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association to introduce these projects to the public and receive community feedback. 

July 9, 2019, Tuesday - Paddle with a Ranger at Boom Island

Time: 6 – 8 pm

Location: Start and end at Boom Island Park, 724 Sibley St. NE

Mississippi Park Connections presents: Paddle with a Ranger

Get up close and personal with a heron rookery, spot bald eagles, peregrine falcons and other wildlife as you kayak down the Mississippi River with Park Ranger Sharon Stiteler. You will also pass by the site for the Upper Harbor Terminal Project and several industries on the river. This four-mile paddle from North Mississippi Regional Park to Boom Island Park includes a kayak, paddle and personal flotation device rental from Paddle Share. Cost: $35 ($30 for members of Mississippi Park Connection).

July 9, 2019, Tuesday - Plant Nite at 612Brew

Time: 7pm

Location: 612Brew, 945 Broadway St NE

Plant Nite

Cultivate your creativity, naturally. Our gifted growers will guide you step-by-step as you make a mini Zen garden, succulent arrangement, or tiny terrarium. Dig in for two lively hours of planting, creating, and laughing with the group.

July 8, 2019, Monday - Canoeing in Loring Park

Canoeing at Loring Park

July 8, 2019, Monday - Music in the Park Series 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.

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 8, 2019, Monday - Movie Night at Target Field Station

Enjoy outdoor movie nights at Target Field Station. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, find a spot on the green grass outside the Twins’ ballpark and enjoy an evening watching a movie under the stars and the downtown skyline. This programming is part of Go Outside with Hennepin County.

Upcoming 2019 Movie nights (all movies 7pm):
July 8 - Mary Poppins Returns
July 15 - Spaceballs

July 8, 2019, Monday - Public Hearing: 8th and 9th Streets SE Development

Time: 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Location: Minneapolis City Hall, 350 S 5th Street

Public Hearing: 8th and 9th Streets SE Development

There will be two public hearings regarding a mixed use development and alley vacation before the City Planning Commission on July 8, 2019.

For more information about each of these hearings, visit:

1) https://www.marcy-holmes.org/notice_of_a_public_hearing_mixed_use_building_hotel

2) https://www.marcy-holmes.org/notice_of_a_public_hearing_parking_lot

July 8, 2019, Monday - Hiring Event at Minneapolis Event Centers

Time: 3p - 7p

Location: Minneapolis Event Centers, 212 2nd St SE

Hiring Event

Hosted by Entourage Events Group

We are hosting an open hiring event for full and part time positions!

• Event Captains
• Event Servers
• Event Bartenders

Come with your printed resume and let's chat! Interviews will happen on a rolling basis.  Email hr@thentourage.com for questions.