August 7, 2019, Wednesday - Crime and Safety Public Forum at Open Book

Time: 6p - 8p

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue S

Crime and Safety Public Forum

The Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association and the North Loop Neighborhood Association are co-hosting a public forum on Crime and Safety coming up on Wednesday, August 7, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South, 2nd Floor Performance Hall.  Representatives from the Minneapolis Police Department will be addressing the increase in crime in the downtown community this summer and discussing solutions to the problem. Please help spread the word about this important event.

August 7, 2019, Wednesday - Public Hearing on Above the Falls Regional Park Master Plan at MPRB

Time:  6pm

Location: Minneapolis Pard and Rec Board Headquarters, 2117 West River Road. 

A public hearing on the Above the Falls Regional Park Master Plan is scheduled at 6 pm during the regular Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) of Commissioners meeting Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, at Mary Merrill MPRB Headquarters, 2117 West River Road. 

Interested parties who wish to speak about the master plan can sign up outside the Board Room before the hearing or by calling 612-230-6400 before 3 pm on Aug. 7. A draft of the plan opened for a 45-day public comment period on Feb. 14, 2019 and closed April 1, 2019. Comments received during that time have been reviewed and, as warranted, incorporated into the current draft Master Plan for Board consideration.

The master plan is split into 12 sections and two appendices, which are linked below. It's also available on the Above the Falls Regional Park Master Plan project page, in the right column under "Key Documents."

To learn more about this project and others, visit www.minneapolisparks.org/planning.

August 7, 2019, Wednesday - Dog Days Of Summer at Canopy

Time: 5 PM – 7 PM

Location: Canopy Minneapolis Mill District, 708 Third Street S

Dog Days Of Summer

Join us for Dog Days Of Summer at Canopy Minneapolis Mill District! Bring your furry friend to shop our pup-up shops!

Enjoy:
- Get a Pet portrait taken by Lauren Engfer
- Live illustrations with you and your pup by Claire Ward Illustration
- Meet and greet of adoptable pups from Ruff Start Rescue
- Learn more about Canine Inspired Change
- Shop Pup-Up Shops
- Visit local non profits and learn how to get involved!

Drinks will be provided by Prairie Organic Spirits, and food by Umbra Minneapolis! Canopy By Hilton is a dog friendly hotel right in the heart of Mill City!

Pup- Up Shops Include:
-Just Dogs Gourmet MOA.
- Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies

Giveaways from:
- Bone Marché
- Superior Labb

*All dogs must be on leash during the event and they aren't allowed on the furniture.

August 6, 2019, Tuesday - NNO at Minneapolis Bouldering Project

Time: 5p - 11p

Location: Minneapolis Bouldering Project, 1433 W River Road N

National Night Out at Minneapolis Bouldering Project

"National Night Out" is intended to encourage the neighborhood to get out, meet people, and build community. Let's climb, eat, drink, and dance at MBP on the evening of Tuesday, August 6th.

It's a Tuesday, what else are we going to do?
- $5 after 5pm
- DJ Omaur Bliss
- Pryes Brewing Company serving $3 pints with proceeds donated to American Alpine Club - Twin Cities Chapter
- Food trucks: KCM EggRolls & MN Nice Cream
- Local climbing organizations: AAC - Twin Cities, MCA - Minnesota Climbers Association, and local Access Fund rep

August 6, 2019, Tuesday - Street Store on Nicollet Mall

Time: 4 PM – 6 PM

Location: 651 Nicollet Mall

933rd Street Store - Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

HOSTED BY: Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District and The Spread Sunshine Gang

Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District (providing clean, green, safe, and better services throughout the 120+ block district) and The Spread Sunshine Gang (a non-profit with the mission to share goodness, kindness, and generosity to the Twin Cities metro area and beyond) are collaborating on The Street Store to provide a dignified shopping experience for our friends experiencing homelessness.

August 6, 2019, Tuesday - NNO & The Goonies Movie Night at The Commons

Time: 5p - 9p

Location: The Commons, 425 Portland Ave S

National Night Out & The Goonies Movie Night at The Commons

A neighborhood National Night Out event at The Commons, including a free outdoor movie screening of The Goonies, presented in partnership with the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association and sponsors Freestyle Productions, Inc. and Izzy's Ice Cream. Other activities to be announced.

The Goonies will air on an LED screen, beginning at 7pm. 1 hour, 54 minutes (PG). Come early to picnic, meet your downtown neighbors, and receive a free scoop of Izzy's Ice Cream!

National Night Out is an annual nationwide event that encourages residents to get out in the community, holding block parties and getting to know their neighbors as a way to encourage crime prevention. It's a great way to promote community-police partnerships and enjoy a Minnesota summer evening surrounded by friends and family.

As with many past National Night Outs, Minneapolis has been ranked #1 among all U.S. cities over 250,000 population for many years, and was ranked #2 in 2018. Over 1,600 events were registered in 2018.

This is not a 'BYO-alcohol' event.

August 6, 2019, Tuesday - Music in the Parks Series at Father Hennepin Park

Time: 7 pm 

Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park, 420 Main Street SE

Tonight: Wax Lead (post-punk soundscapes and ballads)

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:

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

August 13, 2019, Tuesday - Music in the Parks Series at Father Hennepin Park

August 6, 2019, Tuesday - Let's Go to the Pet Store! Workshop at MCBA

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Let's Go to the Pet Store! with Ellen Ferrari

Celebrate pets with And Here’s to You by David Elliot. Create imaginary pets with shape stamps. Fill a pet store with animal stamps and cookie cutters. Print pet pictures using letters D-O-G, C-A-T, etc. Celebrate running and flying pets with a roller stamp. Celebrate swimming pets by fish printing. Animal crackers for all.

Join Ellen Ferrari for Tuesday mornings of family book arts fun! Each workshop starts off with a story and game to warm up your creativity and then dives into book arts projects. Workshops accommodate a range of developmental levels so that adults and children (or) adult/child teams may choose to work together or side-by-side. Each participant receives supplies to use during the workshop, but may choose to bring one set home if working with his or her partner. Ellen will provide older children with suggestions for extending their learning.

Adult/child pair: $40 (10% discount for MCBA memberss) + $5 supply fee
Additional participants (adult or child): $20 (10% discount for MCBA members) + $2.50 supply fee

August 6, 2019, Tuesday - National Night Out in Gold Medal Park

National Night Out in Gold Medal Park

August 5, 2019, Monday - Canoeing in Loring Park

Canoeing at Loring Park

August 5, 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!

August 5, 2019, Monday - Davina and The Vagabonds: Live At the Guthrie

Time: 7:30p

Location: Guthrie Theater, Wurtele Thrust Stage

Davina and The Vagabonds: Live At the Guthrie

"Sugar Drops" Album Release

To celebrate the highly anticipated release of their new album Sugar Drops, this musical evening will transcend all eras and expectations and tell Davina’s story like never before. She goes on to talk about her excitement… “I can’t even start to tell you how happy I am with the start of the album. It sounds so amazing so far! More to come and thank you everyone who has ever believed in me. This has been a new experience for me. I’m a creature of habit and was so scared, but my heart is so full now. I just can’t wait to hand this beautiful monster of an album over to the world.”

Davina and The Vagabonds offer “a modern take on old-time blues and jazz” (PennLive). They’ve created a stir on the national music scene with their high-energy live shows, level A musicianship, sharp-dressed professionalism, and Davina’s commanding stage presence. With influences ranging from Fats Domino and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Aretha Franklin and Tom Waits, the band is converting audiences one show at a time.

This concert takes place at the Guthrie Theater: Wurtele Thrust Stage. To purchase tickets, click the “Buy Tickets” button above, buy tickets in person at the Guthrie, or call the Guthrie Box Office at 612-377-2224.

LEARN MORE: https://www.guthrietheater.org/shows-and-tickets/concerts/davina-and-the-vagabonds/

August 5, 2019, Monday - Job Fair at Central Library

Time: 9a - 2p

Location: Hennepin County Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Job Fair

This event is free and open to all job seekers. Several employers with a variety of job openings will be attending.

Please come prepared with:
• copies of your resume
• answers to common interview questions
• professional attire

Employers attending:
 Atlas Staffing
 Award Staffing
 Amazon
 Chuck and Don’s
 Cintas
 City of St. Paul
 Crowne Plaza Northstar Hotel
 DGS
 Dominos
 Dungarvin
 Estes-Express
 FedEx Freight
 FedEx Ground
 FedEx Express Airport
 First Student
 Genesis Group Homes
 Gopher Hospitality (Aramark)
 Harvard Maintenance
 Hennepin County
 Hilton Minneapolis
 Hy-Vee
 Independent Packing Services, Inc.
 Indrotec
 LGC Minneapolis
 LSC Communications
 Marsden Building Maintenance
 Metropolitan Airports Commission
 MnDOT
 NAPA Auto Parts
 Nike
 Olympic Steel
 OTG
 Personnel Plus
 PrideStaff
 Right at Home Care
 Rise Baking Company
 Sojos
 The Lindgren Group
 Thomas Allen
 University of Minnesota (M Dining)
 UPS

Want to have a leg up? Visit the employers’ websites and apply online before attending the fair.
Learn more at hennepin.us/employmentservices.

August 5, 2019, Monday - DMNA Land Use Committee Meeting at Mill City Museum

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, ADM Room

The next Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association Land Use Committee meeting is scheduled for Monday, August 5, 2019, at 6 p.m., at the Mill City Museum, in the ADM Room.  

The September meeting will take place on Tuesday, September 3, 2019, at 6 p.m., at the Mill City Museum, in the ADM Room.

August 4, 2019, Sunday - Back Alley Bazaar IV at The Golden Pearl

Time: 11a - 5p

Location: The Golden Pearl Vintage, 507 E Hennepin Avenue

Back Alley Bazaar IV

The Golden Pearl Vintage presents “Back Alley Bazaar IV” Every August we hold a vintage yard sale full of items that are “Not quite perfect, but still DANG CUTE!”
An entire years worth of items with slight flaws will fill the parking lot/alley behind the store. Clothing, coats/furs, scarves, hats, shoes, and purses will abound, everything will be priced to move! PLUS this year we are being joined by some fantastic vendors!! Our vintage loving buddies at Shop Country Club, Paper Unicorn Vintage, and AudreyRose Vintage will be bringing all their goodies at hot prices. If that weren’t enough variety June will be popping up with a selection of designer resale delights.

Open Street NE AND the Red Stag Block Party are going on as well! Our neighborhood will be hopping, so come check it out!
To enter the Bazaar come to the alley entrance off 5th St, between Conga and findfurnish . You can also enter the front door of the shop and come through out the back door. Look for the pink fruity tent:) We will be accepting cash AND cards. One fitting room outside, and the 3 in shop will be available. 

August 4, 2019, Sunday - Railroad History Walking Tour at Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 S 2nd Street

Railroad History Walking Tours

Beginning with the arrival of Minnesota's first rail line in 1862, Minneapolis boomed in population, flour milling, lumber production, and warehousing as a rail network extended throughout the Upper Midwest.

Take a guided tour of railroad landmarks, including the Stone Arch Bridge, Milwaukee Road Depot, and the Minneapolis Eastern Railway engine house and trestle. Along the way, find clues to the vanishing railroad landscape and learn about the future of Twin Cities rail.

The tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces. Please call ahead to make arrangements for guests with limited mobility.

Future dates: September 8, September 29 

August 4, 2019, Sunday - Open Streets Northeast

Time: 11a - 5p

Location: Central Avenue NE, 22nd Avenue NE, and Monroe Street NE 

Open Streets Northeast

Back again for 2019, Minneapolis residents will have the opportunity to explore their neighborhood streets at Open Streets Northeast!

Open Streets Northeast is a free event bringing together artists, community groups and local businesses to temporarily close parts of Central Ave NE, 22nd Ave NE, and Monroe St NE to car traffic, opening them up for people walking, biking, rolling, and playing.

More than a street festival, Open Streets Northeast brings together local businesses, families, and neighbors to bike, walk, socialize, play, enjoy art and live performances, and shop in their communities in a car-free environment.

What will YOU create on your street at Open Streets Northeast? Visit www.openstreetsmpls.org for more information, to volunteer, or to sign up for a spot on the street. Open Streets Minneapolis is a City of Minneapolis event, hosted by Our Streets Minneapolis.

August 4, 2019, Sunday - In Cahoots Block Party: A Collaboration of Craft at Red Stag

Time: 2:00pm - 8:00pm

Location: Reg Stag Supperclub, 509 1st Avenue NE

In Cahoots Block Party: A Collaboration of Craft

The Red Stag & The Growler are proud to bring you Minneapolis's First Collaboration Festival, In Cahoots! Minnesota breweries form teams to create new collaboration beers you can only experience at the block party. You vote on the best brew! A portion of the event proceeds will be given to the winning team's local charity!

Free! Rain or Shine!

2019 Brewery Teams:
Bent Paddle Brewing Co. & Sociable Cider Werks
Pryes Brewing Company & Lupulin Brewing Company
Fulton Beer & Surly Brewing Company
Able Seedhouse & Brewery & Drekker Brewing Company
Fair State Brewing Cooperative & Portage Brewing Company
Modist Brewing Company & Forager Brewery

STAGE LINE UP:

Foxy Tann
2pm DJ's Astronautalis + Minnie Blanco
3pm Kiss the Tiger
STREET 3:45pm Epitome No Question
4pm Black Widows
STREET 4:45pm Epitome No Question
5pm The Lonesome Losers: A Tribute to Yacht Rock
STREET 5:50pm Epitome No Question
6:05pm Nooky Jones
7:10pm The Bad Man

**Be sure to check out performances & interactive demos for block party attendees by The Aviary!

Thanks to FairVote Minnesota for running the best brew ballot process at the party! FairVote Minnesota works for a smarter, more inclusive and more representative democracy that gives voters more choice and more power.

Thanks to our partners!
The Growler, Bent Paddle Brewing Co., The Current, City Pages Minneapolis, Red Bush Whiskey, Boodles Gin, Prairie Organic Spirits, Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild, Yelp Twin Cities, The Heart of Northeast, ThriftyHipster.com, T Lee Custom Designer Jewelry, HDMG, Tap Minneapolis, Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild, and North Star Roller Derby.

Through careful planning and the participation of everyone attending, this event can generate no waste. By eliminating, reusing, recycling and composting all the discards generated here, we are greatly reducing our impact on the environment! This is a hot asphalt event - please leave your pets at home. 

August 3, 2019, Saturday - Women's Work Walking Tour at Mill City Museum

Time: 10:30am - Noon

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Women’s Work Walkring Tour

Join a walking tour led by a costumed interpreter portraying labor writer Eva Valesh, who exposed poor working conditions along the Minneapolis riverfront in a series of articles in 1888 and 1889.

Learn about jobs that were available to women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, key events in Minneapolis women's labor history, and the factories that Valesh exposed, including the North Star Woolen Mill, which still stands two blocks from Mill City Museum.

Valesh was a labor writer and orator also known by her pen name Eva Gay. Valesh served as labor editor for the Saint Paul Globe and Minneapolis Tribune as well as an orator for the National Farmers' Alliance. She went on to national acclaim, working as assistant editor of the American Federationist.

This tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces. Please call ahead to make arrangements for guests with limited mobility.

Future date: September 7

August 3, 2019, Saturday - Yoga Summer Series - Target Field Station

Time: 10:30am

Location: Target Field (Metro Transit station)

Yoga Summer Series

Ericka Jones - Lululemon Ambassador of the North Loop and teacher at Minnesota Power Yoga presents...The 2019 Yoga Summer Series and local market!

Join us at the Target Field Station and make the most out of summer with outdoor yoga and treats from local businesses!

The Yoga Summer Series Mission is to host empowering yoga classes with a diverse group of teachers from MPY teachers and North Loop Ambassadors. Each class is donation based to raise money for Africa Yoga Project, an incredible non-profit organization.

Each donation-based class will host a market with different business! Each business will be announced before each class!
You don’t want to miss out!

We want to get as many people as we can on their yoga mats so they feel empowered, connected to the community and make a contribution to an amazing non-profit.

Let's elevate our community together!

Some include: Crisp & Green, Savasana Epsom, Kind Lips, Minnesota Power Yoga, YOD, and more!