Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm
Location: Children's Library at Central Library, 300 Nicollet
Preschool-grade 5. Certified volunteers will help put young readers at ease so they can cuddle up with a dog or other animal and practice reading aloud. Call ahead to find out what types of animals will be visiting.
Presented in collaboration with the North Star Therapy Animals.
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet
A book launch party for two phenomenal local poets published by Coffee House Press: Bao Phi's “Sông I Sing” and Ed Bok's “Whorled.” Visit http://www.supporthclib.org/ for program details. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Seating is first-come, first-served. Doors open at 7:15 p.m.
Milkweed Editions will be featured on Dec. 8, 2011.
Time: 7:00am-11:00am
Location: Starts at Father Hennepin Bluff
The DASH FOR DAD is part of a national initiative designed to raise funds for prostate cancer research and community awareness. The race is part of the Great Prostate Cancer Challenge®, America’s Premier Men’s Health Event Series, taking place in 27 cities in 2011.
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South
Fee: $12 adults, $10 seniors and college students, $8 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Tour includes museum admission.
Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555
Walk the Minneapolis riverfront and learn about its dramatic past and bright future. Participants will visit the historic district at St. Anthony Falls, which was once the milling center of the world and is now a growing cultural, recreational and residential neighborhood. A guide from Mill City Museum will lead visitors onto the Stone Arch Bridge for a spectacular view of the falls, the historic buildings surrounding it and downtown Minneapolis and tell stories of the people who have worked and lived in the area and how it has changed over the years. The tour begins and ends at Mill City Museum where participants can visit the museum gallery (included in the price of the tour) and enjoy refreshments at the Mill City Museum Café.
Time: 8:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South
FREE. (Regular museum admission required for baking demonstration in the museum's Baking Lab.)
Celebrate Minnesota brewing past and present as Mill City Museum and the Mill City Farmers Market team up for a Mill City Oktoberfest. Enjoy the tastes, smells, sights and sounds of Germany with activities inside the museum, outside in the Ruin Courtyard and in the Farmers Market area in the Train Shed and Chicago Mall next to the Guthrie Theater.
Taste samples of beer and learn about the art of brewing from Minnesota craft brewers. Watch German cooking demonstrations by Heather Hartman in the Outdoor Café Kitchen.
Dance to the music of the Elk River German Band and the Bavarian Musikmeisters. Enjoy performances by the S.G. Edelweiss Dancers. Relax with a Minnesota brew and German fare in the Ruin Courtyard beer garden. View a display of Minnesota brewing collectibles with the North Star Chapter of the American Breweriana Association. View photographs of Minneapolis’ historic riverfront breweries. Taste and watch a demonstration of Central European baked goods in the museum's Baking Lab.
Mill City Oktoberfest!
Celebrate Minnesota brewing past and present as Mill City Museum and the Mill City Farmers Market team up for a Mill City Oktoberfest! Enjoy the tastes, smells, sights and sounds of Germany with activities at the Farmers Market, inside the museum and outside in the Ruin Courtyard.
PRODUCE PLANNER:
Winter squash
WHAT’S NEW:
- Black Cat Natural Foods will have a special menu this week featuring traditional German foods, including a sauerkraut bar to accompany bratwurst from Kramarczuk’s! They’ll also have Roasted Potatoes with Grüne Sosse and pfeffer-snaps. If you’re lucky, you may even be served your meal by a chef in leiderhosen!
- Bliss has their Fall granola, Pumpkin-Spice, now available through the end of the market season: Wisconsin cranberries, pecans, pepitas, coconut, sesame seeds and flax seeds all tossed and toasted with Minnesota honey, olive oil and the wonderful aroma of fall spices – cinammon, nutmeg, cloves & ginger. Get it while you can!
- Northern Lakes Wild Rice has their 2011 harvest available at the market!
- Did you know you can find wheat-free, dairy-free crepes at Spoonriver’s crepes stand? They’re made with coconut milk, teff, quinoa and sorghum flours. And, they’re now offering a Caramel Apple stuffed crepe! Yum!
Mill City Cooks, 10:00am:
Build a Bavarian Bratwurst Burger with the pros at Kramarczuk’s. Join Heather Hartman and Nick Kramarczuk for a demo of culinary creativity with Eastern European sausages!
Live Music, 9:30am – 1:00pm:
Mill City welcomes back long-time market favorite, the Elk River German Band, a 10-musician strong group featuring Bavarian-style German music. Prepare to oumpah-pah!
Live Entertainment, 11:00am:
The SG Edelweiss Dancers are back!
Beer Tasting, 10:00am – 1:00pm:
Stillwater’s first brewery since prohibition, Lift Bridge Brewery, maker of the Farm Girl Saison and other delicious small-batch brews
Art Market, all day: Featuring The Ink Orchard, ceramics by Matthew Krousey, Plantworn, and Old World Cabinet
In the Museum, the excitement continues:
On your way to the Beer Garden in the Ruin Courtyard, view a photo exhibit in the Rail Corridor of Minneapolis’ Historic Breweries and Breweriana display. Have another sausage and local brew, watch a German Folk Art demo, then join Kramarczuk’s for one more demo, this time in the Baking Lab! For a full roster of Mill City Museum’s day-long events, visit their website.
Location: Nicollet Island Pavilion
SCHEDULE
5:30pm VIP Reception
6:00pm Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction, Live Entertainment provided by DJ Focus
7:30pm Dinner and Live Auction
9:30pm Live Music provided by The Butanes Soul Revue
Get ready to dance the night away with a soulful nod to 1960’s music! Join People Serving People as we go back to when soul, funk and blues came together.
Enjoy appetizers, specialty cocktails, dinner, entertainment and live and silent auctions.
All proceeds benefit People Serving People, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. A portion of donations are tax-deductible.
To reserve your ticket in advance or for more information, call 612-277-0246.
Sponsored by:
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, KARE 11, Star Tribune, Cummins Power Generation, Highlight Printing, Risdall Marketing, Phillips Distilling.
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Local D'Lish, 208 N 1st Street
What’s in season? A trip to the market readily answers this question with a colorful array of still ripening fruits and veggies. We’ll find the ripest and create scrumptious combinations based solely on what nature chooses to provide.
Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Fall Clearance Sale
The Library Foundation's Book Store at the Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall, will host a 3-week clearance sale from September 8 through October 1. All proceeds benefit the Library Foundation of Hennepin County and programs and services at the Library.
Here are the details:
•WEEK ONE: September 8 - 16: All used books, music, and videos are 50% off.
•WEEK TWO: September 17 - 23: All used items $.25 each.
•WEEK THREE: September 23 - October 1: All the items you can fit into a bag for $2.
For more information, see the website or call 612-543-8102.
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: Sorella Wine & Spirits, 1010 Washington Avenue South
The Big Wine Tastings - 45+ wines per night.
NOTE - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Spill the Wine, 1101 Washington Avenue South
Spanish Wine Dinner
5 Course Wine Dinner featuring Spanish Fine Wine from Cava to Ludovicus Red.
Food prepared by Chef Craig Johnson.
Castilla Perelada Cava
Vina Gormaz White
Fuente del Conde Rose
Bodegas Vinos Pinol Ludovicus Red
GR-174 Priorat
Reservations $65/person
Tour Time: 8:30am - 1:00pm
Join Midwest Photo Safari near downtown Minneapolis on St. Anthony Main to photograph the sites of the St. Anthony Falls Heritage Trail. This tour will take us along selected parts of this historically significant trail.
Our morning session takes place on the EAST BANK (St. Anthony Main side) of the Heritage Trail. Highlghts include:
The Ard Godfrey House in Chute Park - Old Saint Anthony Neighborhood - The Historic Pillsbury "A" Mill - The East Approach of the Stone Arch Bridge at Hennepin Bluffs Park - Nicollet Island Historic area - The Third Avenue Bridge - Our Lady of Lourdes Church
Your tour directors and photographer/guides will provide you with the best exposure, angles, and composition tips. You are sure to come away with compelling images of your visit to this historically significant Minneapolis area.
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: Sorella Wine & Spirits, 1010 Washington Avenue South
The Big Wine Tastings - 45+ wines per night.
Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Location: Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, 2 Third Avenue SE
** Please note: this tour is limited to 30 people and is currently full. To be placed on the waiting list email: admin@preserveminneapolis.org. **
St. Anthony Falls Laboratory (SAFL) overlooks historic St. Anthony Falls on the east bank of the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis. This unique location allows SAFL to divert Mississippi River water from the upper pool of the falls so that it flows through the building’s many experimental facilities, then rejoins the river’s main flow below the falls.
These facilities are ideally suited to support a variety of innovative research and educational activities. SAFL was designed and built in the 1930s with funds from the Works Progress Administration and the University of Minnesota. SAFL is an interdisciplinary fluid mechanics research and research training facility of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Their research focuses on environmental, energy and health challenges.
Since 2002, the Laboratory has been the headquarters and administrative home of the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED), a National Science Foundation-sponsored Science and Technology Center. SAFL is also home to the Eolos Wind Energy Research Consortium, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. SAFL is currently in the design stages for a complete renovation of the building infrastructure and utilities as well as renovation of the research and training facilities.
This project is made possible by a National Science Foundation federal stimulus funding grant and University funds. It is an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and Higher Education Asset Preservation (HEAPR) project. This free tour is offered by Preserve Minneapolis as part of its Happy Hour with a Preservationist program.
Click here for more information on other Preserve Minneapolis events.
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Local D'Lish, 208 N 1st Street
The stock market may be unpredictable but your kitchen stocks will be consistently delicious. We’ll bone up on a variety of easy, flavorful stocks to use all through the fall (seasonal and stock market) and winter.
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road
NOTE - Included on the agenda: Minneapolis Riverfront Development Initiative (MR|DI) formal presentation. During the meeting, Park Board planning staff anticipate asking Commissioners to authorize a 45-day comment period on the MR|DI draft report.
Click here for the September 21 Agenda.
For timely information regarding news and developments, community members are encouraged to sign up for the e-newsletter at http://minneapolisriverfrontdevelopmentinitiative.com/newsletter or subscribe to the blog at http://minneapolisriverfrontdevelopmentinitiative.com/feed.
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Ginger Hop, 201 East Hennepin Avenue
Surdyk's Scotch Portfolio Tasting with Remy Cointreau Brand Ambassador Stephanie Ridgeway
$45 per person, Reservation Required.
This one of a kind tasting experience will feature tasting flights of 10 different scotches from the prestigious Remy Cointreau USA portfolio, including The Famous Grouse, Cutty Sark, The Macallan and Highland Park. Ms. Ridgeway, a 25 year veteran of the hospitality industry and member of Les Dames de Escoffier, will lead the tasting. Her expertise comes from the rigorous education program where she has honed her knowledge of one of Scotland’s greatest gifts to the world.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet
Born in Somalia, Farah is the author of 11 novels, one nonfiction and numerous plays. Pushed into exile by the dictator Siyad Barre before the collapse of Somalia's government, he is the 2010-2012 Winton Chair in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. Books will be available for purchase and signing. Seating is first-come, first-served.
A program of the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Premier sponsor: The Private Client Reserve of U.S. Bank. Additional support provided by National Endowment for the Arts, Marquette Hotel, Minnpost.com, and Magers and Quinn Booksellers.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft at Open Book (Performance Hall) 1011 Washington Avenue South
Nancy Paddock Publication Reading: A Song at Twilight: of Alzheimer's and Love
A Song at Twilight: Of Alzheimer’s and Love is a feature-length memoir by acclaimed Minnesota poet Nancy Paddock. The book tells the story of her parents’ near-parallel descents into the netherworld of Alzheimer’s, and the challenges and choices for care that she and her sisters faced while confronting this most baffling and tragic of diseases, now afflicting millions of people and their families.
Published by Blueroad Press this is one daughter’s story of Lois and Ralph Pearson, whose love of life and each other transcended the darkest moments of war, separation, heartache, and family tragedy to achieve a memorable state of grace spanning six decades of marriage.
Nancy Paddock lives and gardens in Litchfield, Minnesota, with her husband, Joe. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets From Pre-Territorial Days to the Present; The Writer Dreaming in the Artist’s House; As Far As I Can See: Contemporary Writing of the Middle Plains; Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude; From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright; Farming Words; and County Lines. Her book Trust the Wild Heart, a finalist for the 2006 Minnesota Book Award in poetry, was published by Red Dragonfly Press.
This event is free and open to the public.
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road
With the change of seasons comes the prospect of a change of Upper Riverfront scene, as finance consultants HR&A and design team TLS/KVA return to Minneapolis, September 19-21, to present the Minneapolis Riverfront Development Initiative’s (MR|DI) draft report to the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, MR|DI committees and the public.
HR&A, TLS/KVA and the MR|DI project team will jointly author the draft report, which is scheduled for release on September 20. In it, the authors will summarize the RiverFIRST vision for Upper Riverfront parks development, along with research, engagement and other steps taken to gather relevant information; detail recommendations for priority sites and projects, timing and funding; and suggest steps and structure for maintaining project momentum.
On Tuesday, September 20, the Minneapolis Park Board invites the community to join Advisory and Technical committee members to a 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. briefing on the draft report at Park Board headquarters. HR&A, along with TLS/KVA and Project Manager Mary deLaittre, will present to the MR|DI Steering Committee on Wednesday, September 21, beginning at 7:30 a.m., also at Park Board headquarters.
Minneapolis Park Board Commissioners will hear the MR|DI team’s formal presentation during the regularly scheduled board meeting on September 21 at 5:30 p.m. in the board room at Park Board headquarters. At that meeting, Park Board planning staff anticipate asking Commissioners to authorize a 45-day comment period on the MR|DI draft report. For timely information regarding news and developments, community members are encouraged to sign up for the e-newsletter at http://minneapolisriverfrontdevelopmentinitiative.com/newsletter or subscribe to the blog at http://minneapolisriverfrontdevelopmentinitiative.com/feed.
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