September 7, 2019, Saturday - Minneapolis Monarch Festival-Festival de la Monarca™

Time: 10 am – 4 pm

Location: Near the Lake Nokomis Community Center, Lake Nokomis, East 49th Street and Woodlawn Blvd.

Minneapolis Monarch Festival-Festival de la Monarca™

The annual Monarch Festival – Festival de la Monarca celebrates the monarch butterfly’s amazing 2,300 mile migration from Minnesota to Mexico. Come and enjoy art, music, dance, games, buying native plants, prairie tours and food, the festival raises awareness of the need to provide and protect monarch habitat.

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Highlights:

• Costume parade 
  The Chicks on Sticks stilt-walking and performance group leads this always-popular march. Children ages 0–12 are encouraged to dress up in monarch-themed costumes. Line-up is at 10:50 am and parade at 11 am.  
• Monarch migration & monarch-friendly plants
  Get an up-close and personal encounter with these incredible creatures and learn about their 2,300-mile journey between Minnesota and the mountains of Michoacán, Mexico. Find out about and purchase native flora to create a habitat in your yard for butterflies and other pollinators, and discover other simple actions restore their populations. 
• Performances galore on an all-day stage 
  Performers include In the Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theatre's "The Way of the Monarch" in English and Spanish with American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation; plus music and dance highlighting the Minnesota/Mexico connection: Mariachi Mi Tierra, Ballet Mexico Azteca, Marimba Bullies, the Aztec dance troupe Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue (“Precious Mother Earth”), Tropical Zone Orchestra, and Salsa del Soul.
• Art activities 
  Get creative with Art in the Park with Mia; fold paper flowers with Karine Rupp; make prints with Sarah Nassif and Sol y Luna; paint giant monarch caterpillars with Heart of the Beast; create paper from plants with Paper Plains - or puppets with Lynette LaRue. And much more!
• Great tastes 
  Minnesotan and Latin foods plus other eats and treats available for purchase from Taco Taxi, La Dulce Bakery, Habanero Tacos, La Loma Tamales, Naturally Delicious Ice Cream, Twin Cities Paella, Tibet Momo, Tequenice, 9Yum Yum ice cream treats, Taqueria Victor, La Guadalupana, Phil’s Mini Donuts, D & D Goodies, and Finer Meats & Treats.
• ASL interpreters 
  Available upon request all day from the Info Booth.
  

• Join us as a volunteer! The Festival offers many opportunities for a rewarding volunteer experience. For information please call 612 313-7781 or email volunteer4monarchs@gmail.com.