Time: 8:00pm - 11:00am
Location: Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE
Improvised Music Series (in conjunction with the , , , exhibition).
Justin Meyers; Andrew Broder/George Cartwright/Timothy Glenn/Paul Metzger; Anne Elias; John Zuma Saint-Pelvyn & Kristi Ternes.
Free.
When: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Where: Mill City Museum ground-floor lobby, 704 South 2nd Street
Staff contact: Andrew Caddock, Project Manager acaddock@minneapolisparks.org
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will host the first in a series of public meetings to gather input on a master plan for Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park. The agenda for this meeting will include the “Water Works” area bounded by 3rd Ave. S., Portland Ave. S., 1st Street S. and the Mississippi River. Subsequent public meetings will be held through early 2014 and will address other focus areas, so there will be plenty of opportunities to weigh in! Please go to the MPRB project page to learn more about the plan and to sign up for email updates: http://www.minneapolisparks.org/default.asp?PageID=1396
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Central Library, Pohlad Hall, 300 Nicollet Mall
Twin Cities Book Festival Preview
Please join us for a special Book Festival Preview with Rain Taxi’s editor-in-chief, Eric Lorberer, who will offer a behind-the-scenes look of the 2013 lineup. Don’t miss this opportunity to get an insider’s view of the writers appearing at this year’s landmark event, and why you might want to meet them! Plus, we’ll have prize raffles, ticket giveaways, and more.
This program is free and open to the public, and a brief reception will follow.
Sponsored each year by Rain Taxi Review of Books, the Twin Cities Book Festival is the largest literary gathering in the Upper Midwest. But it’s not just the huge book fair and amazing local authors that make the Book Festival renowned: over the last 12 years, it has become famous for showcasing literary heavyweights, top-flight poets, best-selling authors, and soon-to-be household names from the publishing world.
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
Minneapolis Riverfront Tour
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.
Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 children 6-17 and MHS members. Includes museum admission.
Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm
Location: Begins at Gold Medal Park (10th Avenue South & 2nd Street South), next to the Guthrie Theater - ends in Northeast Minneapolis
Hungry for an off-the-beaten path Minneapolis food experience? Join us as we explore one of the city's trendy and historical neighborhoods, Mill District and St. Anthony on Main in Northeast Minneapolis. You'll enjoy the afternoon sampling food at the first Thai restaurant in Minnesota, drinking local Minnesota brewed beer at the oldest restaurant in Minneapolis, and enjoy a local favorite - the cheese curds. You'll also enjoy mouth-watering pasta located in the historical Chase building, fresh baked European style bread at a local Farmers Market, home-made gelato, and lip smacking BBQ sliders from a historical restaurant that once operated as a mattress company.
Along with sampling food we will also visit the Mill City Museum, stroll by the Guthrie, and enjoy gorgeous views of St. Anthony Falls as we walk along the Stone Arch Bridge into historical St. Anthony on Main. You'll learn about the history of both these neighborhoods including a stroll along the oldest street in Minneapolis. You'll taste and chat with other food-loving guests, and leave the tour with an appreciation for these distinct neighborhoods that most tourist never see!
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Time: Doors open at 10:00am for seating, snacks and activities; films begin at 10:30am.
Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
Now in its 6th year, Childish Films @ the Library is a free program of children's cinema and arts for all ages. Each screening features a pre-show activity, an educational introduction for children's film fans and complimentary healthy snacks.
Childish Films takes place the third Saturday of each month at Minneapolis Central Library. Here's the slate of programs scheduled for the Fall/Winter 2013 Season:
• September 21: Kid Flix Fest. Play with ukuleles, guitars and shakers and sing along with musician Buddy Goodfellow. Screen a selection of ten animated mini-shorts on tour from the New York International Children's Film Festival.
• October 19: Saturday Mourning Cartoons. Come in costume and make book art with Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Enjoy an eclectic program of Halloween cartoons.
• November 16: Celebrating Aardman. Enjoy pre-show music from Dave Salmela and friends. Watch award-winning clay animation films from world-renowned Aardman Animations of U.K. - featuring the beloved characters Wallace and Gromit.
• December 21: The Gruffalo's Child. Decorate your own cookie with Whole Foods Market staff. View the sequel release of "The Gruffalo."
Sponsors: Minnesota Parent, Whole Foods Market, Weston Woods Studio and Crash +Sues.
Time: 12:00pm-2:00pm
Location: Surdyk's, 303 East Hennepin Avenue
Register today to secure your time slot of grape stomping entertainment for just $5.
All stompers get a T-Shirt, and the winner of each stomp heat will get a $10 gift card.
Find friends to challenge or team up and stomp against others!
Sign up for a time in-store, by calling 612-379-3232, or online!
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
Minneapolis Riverfront Tour
Stroll through Minneapolis’ oldest neighborhood with a Mill City Museum guide, and learn about the rich past and exciting future of historic Main Street. The tour will highlight the life in the village of St. Anthony, changes along Main Street throughout the years, and such landmarks as 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 will begin and end at Pracna Restaurant, 117 Main Street S.E. Tours include admission to Mill City Museum.
Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 children 6-17 and MHS members. Includes museum admission.
Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Third Ave North between Washington Avenue and Second Street
UNIQUINOX: A Street Festival of the Imagination
Directed by Scotty Reynolds and Taous Khazem, featuring the Interact artists with and without disabilities.
Interact will once again unveil itself as a palace of wonders and celebrate the fall equinox with a one-day-only art and performance extravaganza! Guests will marvel at larger than life puppets, be amazed by a host of frolicking forest creatures and witness a circus of the make believe!
The street festival includes a giant puppet and mask pageant of unparalleled curiosities, side show cameos, live music, art cars, food trucks and a market place of treasures and more!
Please visit us on Facebook to see photos from past years and share your favorite UNIQUINOX moment.
Don’t miss this one-day-only event which boasts a pageant of unparalleled curiosities, live music, food trucks and more! Presented with support from the North Loop Neighborhood Association.
Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm
Location: 704 South 2nd Street
Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Bread Festival!
Mill City Farmers Market, Mill City Museum, and Gold Medal Flour are teaming up again to create an exciting celebration of bread-baking in America! This event will be the third annual event spotlighting the healthy goodness and nourishment of bread-baking.
Produce Planner: Somerset seedless grapes, Beacon apples, Zestar apples, pears, sweet corn, cantaloupe, muskmelon, watermelon, blackberries, raspberries, ground cherries, herbs, arugula, kale, Swiss chard, green beans, edamame, brussel sprouts, head lettuce varietals, spinach, kohlrabi, broccoli, Romanesco cauliflower, cabbage, zucchini, summer squash, fresh mushrooms, baby bok choi, cilantro, mint, basil, carrots, rhubarb, red and golden beets, purslane, jalapeño peppers, bell peppers, sweet Italian peppers, cherry tomatoes, slicing and heirloom tomatoes, Japanese eggplant, filet beans, spring greens salad mix, spring onions, cippolini onions, red, white, and yellow onions, garlic, radishes, cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, turnips, butternut squash, buttercup squash, and more!
Mill City BAKES, 10 am: Be awed by the wholesome goodness created by local baking masters, Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertzberg, authors of Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day and Lorenzo of Lorenzo’s Ovens. You can find their recipes from this demo and previous Mill City Cooks recipes in our Recipe Archive!
Crop Art Activity for Kids, 10 am – 1 pm (while supplies last): Were you inspired by the crop art at the MN State Fair? Try your hand at this historic craft and learn more about whole grains!
Community Booth: Compatible Technology International is a nonprofit organization that alleviates hunger and poverty in the developing world by designing and distributing simple, life-changing food and water technologies. They will demo grain grinders, their “tools for harvest, hope for the hungry.”
Sponsor: The Gold Medal brand’s heritage and quality have earned the trust of both scratch and professional bakers alike. For over 125 years, they have remained dedicated to sourcing and milling top-grade wheat. Gold Medal is committed to delivering the best quality flour for your home-baked breads, cookies, pie crusts, cakes, and brownies.
Live Music, 11 am – 1 pm: Gypsy Mania. You’ll feel like you’re shopping on the streets on Paris as you listen to these lively and talented gypsy-jazz artists.
Baking Lab inside the Mill City Museum, 1 pm:
The Science of Wheat and Flour. Learn all about the science of bread baking with a presentation by members of the Grain and Flour Quality Lab of General Mills!
Art Market, all day: Featuring Hmong ABC, Matthew Krousey, Chris Chookiatsirichai, and Stirsby!
Time: 10:30am
Location: Central Library, Children's Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
For children age 2 and up. Share books, stories, rhymes, music, and movement with your children.
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm Opening Reception
Location: Solar Arts Building - 3rd Floor Gallery, 711 15th Avenue NE
Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA) presents the 14th annual Fall Fine Arts Show
Don’t miss our Opening Reception on Friday, September 20, 2013. In addition to the fabulous artwork on view and for sale, you’ll also have an opportunity to meet our artists, other art enthusiasts, and tour the new Solar Arts Building.
Our guest judges will present four awards (for first through third places, plus an honorable mention) during our Opening Reception. Vote for your favorite piece of art for NEMAA’s “People's Choice" Award during the opening or during gallery hours. "People's Choice" will be awarded at the end of the show.
An exhibit of more than 140 of our members’ artwork. It’s a great opportunity to view and purchase a vast collection of painting, photography, sculpture, mixed-media art, and much more — all in one location.
Hours
Exhibit Dates: September 20 – 29, 2013 (open to the public during weekends)
Opening Reception: Friday, September 20, 2013, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Free
Gallery hours, September 20-22 & 27-29:
Friday, September 20, 6:00 – 9:00 PM (opening reception)
Saturday, September 21, 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Sunday, September 22, 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Friday, September 27, 5:00 – 9:00 PM
Saturday, September 28, 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Sunday, September 29, 12:00 - 5:00 PM
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Antonello Hall, MacPhail Center for Music, 501 South 2nd Street
Scholarship Benefit Concert Featuring Ralph and Albertine Votapek
About Ralph Votapek
Born in Milwaukee, Mr. Votapek began his musical education at age nine, when he enrolled in the Wisconsin Conservatory. Continuing his studies at Northwestern University, he subsequently attended the Manhattan School of Music and The Juilliard School, where his principal teachers were Rosina Lhevinne and Robert Goldsand. He has served as Artist-in-Residence at Michigan State University where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Piano at the College of Music.
Pianist Ralph Votapek’s early triumphs — as winner of the prestigious Naumburg Award and gold Medalist in the first Van Cliburn International Piano Competition — were an auspicious prelude to an even more remarkable career. Votapek’s compelling keyboard style embodies all that is best in twentieth-century piano traditions, combining the fire, poetry and tonal warmth of the grand-manner prewar era with the modernday virtues of fastidious clarity and electrifying rhythmic flair.
Frequently joined by his wife Albertine in two piano and four hand recitals, the Votapeks have appeared in Buenos Aires under the auspices of the Mozarteum Argentino, on the Van Cliburn series in Fort Worth, the Pabst Theatre Series in Milwaukee, and have been featured on performing arts series of numerous colleges and universities.
$20 suggested donation.
Program will include works by Haydn, Schumann, Debussy, Piazzolla, and Ravel Concert to benefit the Joan Miller Scholarship fund.
Dates & Times: Thursday - Saturday 7:30 pm; Sunday 3:00pm
Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
COLLIDE Theatrical Dance Company presents the world premiere Broadway-style dance musical, “The Belmont Hotel.” The story centers on hotel owner Frank Dougherty’s determination to provide for his family during the 1920’s Prohibition Era. When Frank is faced with the prospect of having to close the hotel doors, he is forced to make a decision that can put his life, and that of his family, in great danger.
“The Belmont Hotel” is performed in the narrative dance style of Broadway’s Tony Award winning “Movin’ Out” and features live vocals by Twin Cities Jazz veteran Katie Gearty and upcoming recording artist Cameron Wright. The production is choreographed and directed by Regina Peluso and features the dance talents of Jeff Quast, Dora Dolphin, Renee Guittar, Patrick Jeffrey and Elander Rosser. A talented cast of ensemble dancers, actors, and musicians will complement the production.
COLLIDE is a Minneapolis-based nonprofit theatrical dance company whose mission is to collaborate with Twin Cities artists of different genres in the creation of original Broadway-style jazz dance musicals that engage and entertain audiences.
Tickets are available now at http://www.collidetheatrical.org/
$27 Adults
$19 Seniors, Students, Children
$40 Opening Night VIP Ticket
Get the best seats in the house on opening and mingle with the cast. Ticket prices includes reserved seating in front rows, complimentary Whiplash wines and Stella Artois beers, and entrance to Opening Night Curtain Close Celebration following the show.
Ticket prices include complimentary wine and beer courtesy of Whiplash Wines and Stella Artois Cidre and complimentary Shirley Temples and Roy Rogers for children. Alcoholic beverages available only to patrons over the age of 21. Valid government issued ID required.
Time: Noon - 1:00 pm (Registration begins at 11:30am)
Location: Padilla Speer Beardsley, 1101 West River Parkway, Suite 400
September 19 Business Forum will feature Izzy’s Ice Cream
You are cordially invited to the East Downtown Council Business Forum scheduled for Thursday, September 19. It will take place at Padilla Speer Beardsley. Registration and lunch will start at 11:30 a.m., with the EDC update and guest speaker commencing at Noon.
The September forum will feature Izzy’s Ice Cream, which opened in the Mill District on July 29. Izzy’s owner Jeff Sommers will provide an overview of his business and talk about why he decided to build his new manufacturing facility in the Mill District. After Sommer’s presentation, we will walk over to Izzy’s for a tour, and maybe a sample of ice cream.
Please RSVP by no later than Monday, September 16. You can reserve your space and purchase a lunch ticket in advance (scroll to the bottom of the page), or send an email to info@edcmpls.org, and pay for your lunch at the door.
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm
Location: In the IDS Center Crystal Court and along Nicollet Mall between 6th and 10th Streets.
The 2013 PrepareFair will feature dozens of emergency preparedness exhibitors inside the IDS Center Crystal Court. Along Nicollet Mall there will be live demonstrations from special teams such as the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) Bomb Squad, SWAT and K9 units. Response vehicles from the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD), Minneapolis Fire Department (MFD) and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) among others will be on display.
Target and Points of Light are teaming up to bring Good & Ready, an online and on-the-ground emergency preparedness program, to the Minneapolis PrepareFair to help families and the community prepare for disasters. Attendees will receive disaster preparedness kits to take home for their families. While supplies last, the kits will include a hand-crank flashlight, water bottle, dust mask, garbage bags and hand sanitizing wipes, among other items.
More Info.
For questions, contact:
Renee Allen, Crime Prevention Specialist
Minneapolis Police Department, First Precinct
renee.allen@minneapolismn.gov
(612) 673-5163
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road
Meeting are broadcasted live on the City of Minneapolis Government Meeting Channel 79, or online at http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/tv/79. Those interested in viewing the MPRB meeting are encouraged to attend at MPRB headquarters, located at 2117 West River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55411, or view during the 10:30 p.m. Monday (12/3) rebroadcast on Channel 79.
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