May 31, 2016, Tuesday - Science on Screen: Grizzly Man at St. Anthony Main Theater

Time: 7:00 pm

Location: St. Anthony Main Theater 3, 115 Main Street SE

The Film Society of Minneapolis and St. Paul presents SCIENCE ON SCREEN: GRIZZLY MAN

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Join wildlife researcher Dr. Mark Ditmer for a special screening of Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man, paired with a discussion on bear behavior and their evolving environmental landscape.

Filmmaker Werner Herzog adds another real-life character to his growing pantheon of people who walk a fine line between visionary genius and madness in this documentary. Timothy Treadwell was a self-styled authority on bears who, starting in 1990, would spend as much time as possible each year in Alaska, camping out near a grizzly bear habitat. While Treadwell claimed to love the bears and felt as one with them, he had no formal training in their behavior, and while familiarizing himself with the creatures he would walk within a few feet of them with a video camera in hand. To many, Treadwell seemed part man of nature, part conjuror, and part self-promotion expert, but the part that guided his kinship with the bears failed him in 2003, when he and his girlfriend were killed in a grizzly attack. Treadwell shot hundreds of hours of footage of himself and the grizzlies, and Herzog has used this footage as the core of Grizzly Man, a documentary look at Treadwell's life and death, while also including interviews with people who knew him, animal experts, and scientists. Acclaimed British guitarist Richard Thompson composed and performed the film's musical score. 

May 31, 2016, Tuesday - Marge Barrett Publication Launch at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave

Marge Barrett Publication Launch

The Loft presents an evening with author Marge Rogers Barrett celebrating the release of her new memoir, Called: The Making & Unmaking of a Nun. The book recounts Barrett’s life growing up in a large Catholic family in Marshall and St. Paul, Minnesota, joining a convent in 1963, leaving, and answering other “calls.” 

The launch event will include a conversation with Loft Executive Director Britt Udesen and Barrett about the process of writing this story over a large swath of time, the experience of becoming a nun, a teacher, a wife and mother, a sister caring for family members. The discussion will include excerpts from the book and a Q &A with the audience. 

Marge Rogers Barrett is proud to be a part of Minnesota’s literary tradition, graduating with a BA in English from the University of St. Catherine and completing Master’s work in education and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota. She’s taught in high schools and universities, and for the past ten years, adults in the community—at the Loft Literary Center, the Jewish Community Center, MinnPost, the Collegeville Institute, and workshops in the Cities and around the country. She has published poetry and prose in numerous journals, stories in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2009, the Minnesota Historical Society’s The State We’re In, and a poetry chapbook, My Memoir Dress. 

There is a $5–$10 suggested admission fee at the door for this event.

May 31, 2016, Tuesday - Music in the Park at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park

Time: Music 7:00pm

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

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

Music: Kingsview May 31
Brianna Lane June 7
Matt Hannah June 14
Sabby White June 21
The Broken Heartland String Band June 28
Lisa Carney Anderson Quintet July 5
Byron Johnson-Blanchard Trio July 12
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: (no movie on May 31)
Finding Nemo June 7
Casablanca June 14,
Comme Un Lion June 21
Top Gun June 28
La Belle Vie July 5
Young Frankenstein July 12
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.

May 30, 2016, Monday - Memorial Day

May 29, 2016, Sunday - Washburn A Mill Tour at Mill City Museum

Times: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.

Take an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building. A museum interpreter 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 non-public spaces. The tour includes admission to the museum gallery, Baking Lab, Water Lab and Flour Tower show.

May 28, 2016, Saturday - Cat, Cow and Coffee: Sunrise Yoga with Baby at Pacifier – North Loop

Time: 9:30am

Location: Pacifier North Loop, 219 N 2nd Street, # 102

Cat, Cow and Coffee: Sunrise Yoga with Baby

 

Join Tumblewalla’s certified yoga instructor, Chrissy Hart, as we help you and your baby start the weekend with movement and breakfast goodies.

Chrissy will guide you through yoga stretches for your little one, then a core series that can be done with baby, and finally an empowering series to help bring the superhero out in you. Please bring a yoga mat for yourself and a comfy blanket for your little one.

This workshop will finish with coffee, breakfast treats, and an interactive discussion led by Sonal Gerten, Tumblewalla founder + play activist, on recommended toys & activities to stimulate play, imagination, curiosity and creativity at home.

All participants will receive 20% off Tumblewalla's Yoga line the day of the event.

Recommended for babies 0-1. Advanced registration required.

$10 fee includes yoga workshop for 1 parent + baby, coffee, breakfast snacks and personalized toy and activity recommendations for your baby.

May 28, 2016, Saturday - 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.

May 27, 2016, Friday - Buried Child opens at Southern Theater (thru June 19)

Time:  See ticket link for schedule

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

Buried Child Presented by Red Bird Theatre

May 27 - June 19

Sam Shepard’s Buried Child directed by Artistic Director, Genevieve Bennett. The mission of Red Bird Theatre is to produce plays that expose life’s transcendent moments. It’s inaugural production, Buried Child, examines the violent dysfunction of a Midwestern family with a dark secret. The arrival of an estranged son breaks the patterns of lies, and life and death hang in the balance as the truth begins to take root.

Featuring Twin Cities favorites: Terry Hempleman*, Barbra Berlovitz, Paul de Cordova*, Brian Goranson, Matthew Englund, Charlotte Calvert and Leif Jurgensen.

May 26, 2016, Thursday - Student and Faculty Open House at MacPhail

Time: 6:00pm

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

May is Teacher Appreciation Month

Join us for a student and faculty Open House on May 26.  6:00pm program includes performances and recognizes teachers with 25 to 35 years of service.

May 26, 2016, Thursday - Riverfront Vitality Forum at Mill City Museum

Time: 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 S Second Street

River ecology after the lock closure: return to a more natural river?

Hosted by Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership

Free event, but please register

Nearly a year ago, in an unusual move, the lock at Upper Saint Anthony Falls was closed to boat and barge traffic.  The closure was the result of an act of Congress, designed in part to slow the spread of invasive carp up the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, to rivers and lakes beyond.

But inevitably, the closure, and the end of dredging the area for a shipping channel, is having an impact on the area's ecology.  What is the impact on the shape of the river bottom?  How are invertebrates and mussels impacted?  What is the impact on water chemistry.

The Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership, Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, and the St. Anthony Falls Lab and River Life Program at the University of Minnesota have partnered to investigate those impacts.

Join us along with a panel of experts to hear about data collection efforts and consider the kinds of impacts we may see on our river environment.

May 25, 2016, Wednesday - Tastemakers - Wine: New American Classics

Time: 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: The Lab Theater, 700 N 1st Street

Tastemakers - Wine: New American Classics

Tasting and talking about cutting-edge wine with nine of America's most important new winemakers.

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May 25, 2016, Wednesday - North Loop Neighborhood Association Board Meeting

Please note the location for tonight's meeting has changed - we will be meeting at 514 Studios, 514 3rd Street North.

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Heritage Landing, 415 1st Street N

North Loop Neighborhood Association Board Meeting

Agenda

May 24, 2016, Tuesday - Upper Harbor Terminal Open House

Time:  6 – 8 pm

Location: Urban League, 2100 Plymouth Avenue, Laura Scott Williams Room

Upper Harbor Terminal Open House

Get informed and share opinions on an epic opportunity to redevelop 48 acres of riverfront.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and City of Minneapolis are hosting an open house on May 24 for Minneapolis residents to learn more about the Upper Harbor Terminal site and provide input on its upcoming redevelopment. The public meeting will be held 6-8 pm at the Minneapolis Urban League (2100 Plymouth Ave. N) in the Laura Scott Williams Room.

Short presentations are scheduled at 6:15 pm and 7 pm. Families are encouraged to attend and light refreshments will be served. Staff members fluent in Somali and Spanish will be present to help with any translation needs. Please request other languages

The Upper Harbor Terminal closed in 2014 after decades as an industrial shipping yard. Now the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board and City of Minneapolis are working collaboratively to redevelop the 48-acre site along the North Minneapolis riverfront. Please join us on May 24!

May 24, 2016, Tuesday - Keep the Beat Police Fundraiser at Vic's

Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm

Location: Vic's on the River, 201 Main Street SE

Keep the Beat Police Fundraiser

The annual Keep the Beat fundraiser and silent auction is coming up! Come and meet the business owners and residents of this great neighborhood and help the NE Business Association in supporting the 2nd Precinct Substation with a raffle and silent auction featuring prizes from local neighborhood businesses. Proceeds go directly to support the substation on University Avenue as well as to pay for “Beat Cops,” “Cops on Bikes” and additional Police Patrols of the neighborhood.

Tickets are $25 each and available at Surdyk’s and Keegan’s.

May 23, 2016, Monday - Franklin Bridge Detour Ride

Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Location: Seward Community Co-op, Franklin Store-2823 E Franklin Avenue

Franklin Bridge Detour Ride Hosted by Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition

The Franklin Bridge is CLOSED for the rest of the summer!! Although we are super excited for a brand new protected bikeway when it re-opens- it may have put a wrench in your commute or your journey to the Seward Co-op!

Join us for this slow-paced, 10 mile ride that will lead us on detours starting from the Seward Co-op and back there again!

5:30PM- Meet-up at Seward Co-op
6PM- Roll out!!
7PM- Arrive back at Seward Co-op for snacks and treats.

**This ride is approximately 10 miles, but is a slow-paced, no rider left behind event! It is also in place of our Bikeways for Everyone Monthly Get Together!** 

May 22, 2016, Sunday - Art-a-Whirl talk with Jamies Eli Shiffer at A-Mill Artist Lofts

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location: A-Mill Artist Lofts, Performance Hall, 315 Main Street NE

Author James Eli Shiffer will discuss and sign copies of his new book The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers—hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers—into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city’s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue missions, preachers and nuns tried to save their souls. Sociology researchers posing as vagrants studied them. And in their midst John Bacich, aka Johnny Rex, who owned a bar, a liquor store, and a cage hotel, documented the gritty neighborhood’s last days through photographs and film of his clientele.

The King of Skid Row follows Johnny Rex into this vanished world that once thrived in the heart of Minneapolis. Drawing on hours of interviews conducted in the three years before Bacich’s death in 2012, James Eli Shiffer brings to life the eccentric characters and strange events of an American skid row. Supplemented with archival and newspaper research and his own photographs, Bacich’s stories recreate the violent, alcohol-soaked history of a city best known for its clean, progressive self-image. His life captures the seamy, richly colorful side of the city swept away by a massive urban renewal project in the early 1960s and gives us, in a glimpse of those bygone days, one of Minneapolis’s most intriguing figures—spinning some of its most enduring and enthralling tales.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
James Eli Shiffer has been a professional journalist for twenty-five years and is currently a columnist and editor at the Minneapolis–St. Paul Star Tribune. In 2010 he partnered with Ewen Media to create Rubbed Out, a multimedia history of the murder of a journalist in Minneapolis in 1945.

May 22, 2016, Sunday - Swing Brunch at Aster Cafe

Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Today: Swing Brunch with Patty and the Buttons

May 22, 2016, Sunday - Art-A-Whirl!

The last day of the 2016 Art-A-Whirl is Sunday, May 22, Noon-5:00 p.m.

 
PLAN YOUR VISIT USING THE FREE ARTIST DIRECTORY AND GUIDE!

NEMAA's Artist Directory and Guide is a year-round guide for our visitors to NE Minneapolis, Art-A-Whirl, and other arts happenings.

The Directory includes:
•Information about NEMAA artists and our supporting non-artist members
•Listings of artists sorted: alphabetically, by medium, and by Art-A-Whirl location
•Listing of family-friendly artists/studios and NEMAA members who offer workshops/classes
•A calendar listing of year-round art and studio events in NE Minneapolis
•An area map of Northeast Minneapolis including Art-A-Whirl locations, trolley route, parking and info booth locations, bike routes, dining establishments, and more
•A  Dining Guide and Craft Brew/Spirits Guide to NE area food and beverage businesses.

FREE TROLLEY RIDES
There will be FREE trolleys running during Art-A-Whirl hours, and will make stops at Art-A-Whirl locations throughout the NE Minneapolis Arts District. A full circle takes approximately 20 minutes.

FIRST TROLLEY DEPARTS:
Grain Belt Studios - Sunday, May 22: 12 noon 

LAST TROLLEY DEPARTS:
Grain Belt Studios - Sunday, May 22: 5 PM

May 21, 2016, Saturday - Little Free Library Festival at Minnehaha Park

Little Free Library Fest at Minnehaha Park, 10:00am - 4:00pm Saturday, May 21.

Celebrate the joys of sharing books and reading with a colorful day of Library-building, storytelling, performance, poetry, and more!

With special events taking place throughout the day and ongoing festivities like live music from the Brass Messengers, random acts of poetry, pop-up puppet shows, and a 100 Library Build, this is one festival you don't want to miss!

May 21, 2016, Saturday - Twin Cities Food Tours' Historic Northeast Minneapolis Food Tour

Times: 11:00am or 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.