June 11, 2016, Saturday - Northern Spark at Mill City Museum

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd Street

Northern Spark at Mill City Museum

Mill City Museum is proud to be a presenting partner and venue for Northern Spark 2016, an annual all-night art festival that will light up the night. In 2016 and 2017, the festival will explore the theme "Climate Chaos | Climate Rising" taking a look at the interconnected, evolving, long-term consequences from climate change, giving local and national artists a platform to help turn a sense of overwhelment into concrete actions anchored in a realistic and hopeful map for the future.

At Mill City Museum, explore landscape change at St. Anthony Falls and our changing relationship to the land and waters through performances, museum exhibits and other live programming in the exhibit gallery, open 9 pm-midnight. Take in a performance by costumed History Player William de la Barre, the Austrian engineer who spent half a century developing Minneapolis waterpower and milling. Watch Pare Lorentz's documentary films "The Plow That Broke the Plains" and "The River" about 1930s environmental devastation and resulting social dislocation. 

Mill City Museum will also host a number of artist projects all night throughout the building and in its evocative outdoor space, the Ruin Courtyard and train shed.