Time: 10:30am
Location: East River Flats
Run to Unite is holding a 5-K run/walk along the East River Flats to raise funds for the American Refugee Committee International to aid the region.
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Local D'Lish, 208 N 1st Street
Pumpkins are so much more than just a blank canvas for your spooky Halloween carvings or your Thanksgiving pie. Discover sweet and savory ways to serve up these icons of autumn.
Location: 514 2nd Street SE
The Soap Factory's 5th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!
Runs October 1 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
An Evening of Spoken Word, Jazz, and Dance Theater
The Wise Whys YsE.G. Bailey adapts Amiri Baraka's Wise Why's Y's, an epic journey through the history of Africans in America, and a perfect blend of avant-garde poetry with the griot consciousness.
Paying homage to Langston's Ask Your Mama, William Carlos William's Patterson, and Melvin B. Tolson's Liberia alike, it attempts to articulate the history of a people or a place. Wise Why's Y's questions and answers broad themes of history and cultural identity.
Tru Ruts' Freestyle Theatre presents this evening of provocative Spoken Word, Jazz and Dance.
Tickets: $7 in advance at amiribaraka.eventbrite.com
More information at www.truruts.com or 612-559-0408.
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Doty Board Room, Central Library
Information and resources for creating nutritious, delicious, budget-balancing meals! Find out about local food shelves, meal programs for kids and seniors and eligibility requirements for government food support programs. Attendees will be entered into drawing for a grocery gift card.
Presented in partnership with the University of Minnesota Extension.
Time: Noon to 3:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
Fee: Programs included with museum admission of $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for MHS members.
Families can participate in the unique art of linoleum block printmaking in conjunction with “Original Green,” an exhibit of contemporary American Indian art. Noted Minneapolis artist Gordon Coons, whose works are featured in the exhibit, will demonstrate the process for creating carved blocks and then show participants how to make their own prints in the Woodland Art Style to take home. Coons is an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribe of northern Wisconsin. This workshop is part of “Greening the Riverfront,” a series of programs exploring our relationship with nature, past, present and future.
Time: 9:30am-11:30am
Location: Riverside Park, Mississippi River Gorge
Join the Mississippi River Gorge Stewards at Riverside Park, a significant riverfront, community park in Minneapolis's Cedar-Riverside and Seward neighborhoods.
Working alongside ecologist Carolyn Carr, who developed this park's restoration plan, and Friends of the Mississippi River River Stewardship Coordinator Karen Solas, volunteers will help improve local wildlife habitat and watershed health, removing invasive species (such as buckthorn) and possibly assisting with watering and other restoration tasks.
The range of activities will be suitable for adults and for youth, and everyone is encouraged to work at their own pace and ability level. All supplies are provided, and capacity is limited. To sign up, please contact FMR Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator Sue Rich at srich@fmr.org or 651-222-2193 x14.
Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm
Location: 704 South 2nd Street
Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Harvest Festival
PRODUCE PLANNER for the WINTER:
Stock up now! Keep storage veggies, like carrots, onions, beets, squash, pumpkins, potatoes, garlic, parsnips, celeriac and apples dry and cool and they’ll keep for months. Hang herbs and carrot greens to dry or dehydrate them to use all year long. Freeze kale, Swiss chard and collards. Or, get a winter CSA!
WHAT’S NEW:
- Bulk Packs of 20# Wild Alaskan Salmon are now available at Wild Run Salmon for $259 ($12.95/lb.). Pre-order available, contact Matt Oxford at wildrunsalmon@yahoo.com.
- Jeanne Beatrice LLC is having a end-of-season sale on their Market Baskets: 40% off their entire stock! Think holiday gifts!
Mill City Cooks, 10:00am:
Market Chefs Nick and Heather team up for one last cooking demo to prepare what everyone wants this time of year: delicious and hearty food, including Roasted Beet Chevre Crostini! Get recipes from this demo and every Mill City Cooks demos this season in our Recipe Archive.
Mini Farm, all day:
Visit your furry friends at Gale Woods Farm in the Three Rivers Park District.
Live Music, 11:00am – 1:00am:
Sustainable agriculture supporters and toe-tapping inspirations, Light of the Moon Band!
Book Signing, all day:
Authors Shelly Holl and BJ Carpenter take readers on a journey through the seasons and around the state with their culinary travelogue celebrating local ingredients, The Minnesota Table.
Sponsors: UCare
Art Market, all day:
Featuring Barnswallow Garden, ceramics by Matthew Krousey, Aprilerre, and Woodsport.
Time: 10:30am - Noon
Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet
The annual Halloween show featuring lots of skeletons, robbers, black cats, and bats.
The extras: Come in costume! Boo-gie down! Make your own Halloween craft to take home.
Preschool-grade 6. A program of children's cinema and arts, featuring unique films, hands-on arts activities, live entertainment and educational introductions for children's film fans. For more information, visit: www.supporthclib.org.
A program of the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Support provided by Whole Foods Market, Lerner Publishing Group, Weston Wood Studios, Minnesota Parent and Jagged Edge.
Time: 9:00am - Noon
Location: Start/End at Wilde Roast, St. Anthony Main, 65 Main Street SE
NOTE ! COURSE CHANGE!!!
Our new course is as flat and fast as it gets! The race will be an out and back course: the start and finish will still be in front of Wilde Roast, will run down Main Street, over the Stone Arch bridge, north on West River Road, shortly after going under the Hennepin Ave. Bridge the course will turn around and return on the same route. Miles 1, 2, and 3 will be marked with signs.
Come out for a 5k run/walk to support marriage equality during National Coming Out Week and LGBT History Month. All proceeds will go to Minnesotans United For All Families, the organization created to oppose the proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in Minnesota. It's worth coming out for!
Location: 514 2nd Street SE
The Soap Factory's 5th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!
Runs October 1 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.
Time: 10:00pm, $8
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: The Morning After Girls
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Local D'Lish, 208 N 1st Street
Make the most of fall and winter veggies: beets, turnips, sweet potatoes, parsnips… We will whip, roast and bake up satisfying dishes made from these earthy delights.
Location: 514 2nd Street SE
The Soap Factory's 5th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!
Runs October 1 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.
Time: 10:00pm, $5 Cover
Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South
Tonight: Boogie Wonderland
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall) 1011 Washington Avenue South
Authors Jill Christman and Sonya Huber will join local author and Loft teaching artist, Kate Hopper, for the 5th Annual Mother Words Reading. Kate launched this reading series in 2007 as a way to highlight some of the wonderful, literary writing out there about motherhood and to counteract the way the public dismisses motherhood literature.
Join us for a reading, laughter, and refreshments and mingle with other mothers who write.
Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, won the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2002. It will be released in paperback October, 2011. Recent essays appearing in River Teeth and Harpur Palate have been honored by Pushcart nominations and her writing has been published in Barrelhouse, Brevity, Descant, Literary Mama, Mississippi Review, Wondertime, and many other journals, magazines, and anthologies. She teaches creative nonfiction in Ashland University’s low-residency MFA program and at Ball State University in Muncie where she lives with her husband, writer Mark Neely, and their two children.
Kate Hopper received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship to Costa Rica, a Gesell summer residency at the Anderson Center in Red Wing, and a 2008 MN State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals and magazines, including Brevity, Literary Mama, Mamazine, and the New York Times online. She is finishing work on Small Continents, a memoir about learning to live with uncertainty in the wake of her daughter’s premature birth. Her first book, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers is forthcoming from Viva Editions in Spring 2012. She teaches online and at The Loft Literary Center, leads an annual writing retreat for mothers, and reviews motherhood literature on her blog, Mother Words: Mothers Who Write.
Sonya Huber is the author of two books of creative nonfiction, Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir (2010), finalist for the 2010 Grub Street National Book Prize in Nonfiction, and Opa Nobody (2008), shortlisted for the Saroyan Prize. She has also written a textbook, The Backwards Research Guide for Writers: Using Your Life for Reflection, Connection, and Inspiration (2010). Her work has been published in literary journals and magazines including The Sonora Review, Fourth Genre, Passages North, Hotel Amerika, Crab Orchard Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Washington Post Magazine, in other journals and in many anthologies. She teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Ashland University.
This event will be recorded and is free and open to the public.
Location: 514 2nd Street SE
The Soap Factory's 5th annual Haunted Basement. An artist designed, adult only Halloween experience not to be missed!
Runs October 1 - October 31, 2011 - Reservations required.
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Spill the Wine, 1101 Washington Avenue South
Featuring Conway Family Deep Sea Winery from Central Coast, California.
Food prepared by Chef Craig Johnson.
Deep Sea Chardonnay
Deep Sea Red (Signature Rhone Style Blend)
Deep Sea Pinot Noir
Seep Sea 'Sea Flower' Dry Rose
$35/Person Reservations
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