September 15, 2018, Saturday - Historic Main Street Walking Tour at the Mill City Museum

Time:  10:30pm - Noon

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Historic Main Street Walking Tour

Stroll through Minneapolis' oldest neighborhood on a guided tour and learn about the rich diversity of the 1850s town of St. Anthony and the immense changes along Main Street throughout the years. Founded in 1848, a few years before Minneapolis, St. Anthony has been a crossroads for many diverse peoples, including Dakota, Ojibwe, Yankees, German and Irish immigrants, métis, free blacks, and Southern tourists accompanied by enslaved people.

Tour landmarks include 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 begins and ends at the gray door on Third Avenue SE at Main Street (around the corner from the A-Mill Artist Lofts' main entrance at 315 Main Street SE). It includes about one mile of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces.

September 15, 2018, Saturday - Healing Place Festival - Weaving the Web at Mill City Museum

Time:  11a - 3p

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Healing Place Festival - Weaving the Web

Come to the Minneapolis riverfront to explore activities focused on the river as a source of healing and a place that needs healing. Organized by the Healing Place Collaborative, an indigenous artist-led group of artists, educators, researchers, and activists, the event will bring together hands-on activities, interactive performances, visual art, panels and presentations, cooking demos, media art and more. 

Discover the connections between indigenous understanding of place, the environment, water, language, the arts, and the Mississippi River. Help weave the web of connections for our future. The festival will begin on the riverfront with words led by Janice Bad Moccasin and an interactive art piece of Marcus Young.

Programs include:

• Čhokata Nažiŋ (The Dakota Language Medicine Wheel Table): A living and traveling gathering space for the Dakota language to be restrengthened through a deeper understanding of the interdependent relationships of the land, language, and lifeways to the health and wellbeing of people that call Mnisota Makhočhe (Minnesota) home.
• Wičhóie Wótapi (Feast of Words): Learn about indigenous place names throughout the state, try local indigenous foods, learn to prepare wožapi, a traditional Dakota berry pudding, and immerse yourself in the Dakota language.
• Mniowe: Learn about indigenous philosophies, relationships, and practices relating to Mni (water) that have allowed Dakota people to thrive in this area for millennia. Sample water from a variety of sources in Mnisota with the pop-up Water Bar and engage in conversations about the ways in which we use and interact with water in our daily lives, often without thinking about where our water comes from. 
• Dakhota Wordscapes: an installation of large-scaled Dakota words stenciled into the sidewalks
• Native Foods Cooking Demo with Chef Austin Bartold
• Horse Nation Transformations with Janice Bad Moccasin: Horse Nation Transformations’ equine services is honored to offer a powerful and transformational approach to promote self-discovery, provide healing with horse medicine and empowerment to individuals, families, and communities.
• Let's Bog: an interactive game with Veronica Quillien
• ​Weaving: public interactive weaving with Amoke Kubat

This event is made possible by a grant from the St. Anthony Falls Heritage Board.

September 15, 2018, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market: (check back for updates)

September 15, 2018, Saturday - The Cedar's 30th Season Celebration

Time: 5:30p

Location: The Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Avenue S

The Cedar's 30th Season Celebration

Come celebrate 30 years of The Cedar with us! 

30th Season Celebration featuring Aar Maanta and Hoven Droven (Mainstage), JD Steele Youth Choir & Mill City Players (Local Roots Stage)

5:30-7pm Local Roots Stage Performances (Free)
7:00pm Doors / 8:00pm Show Mainstage Performances ($30 General Admission)

The Cedar Cultural Center will kick off its 30th anniversary season this fall at the 10th Annual Global Roots Festival taking place September 15-19 2018. Over the last ten years, The Cedar’s signature Global Roots Festival has offered Twin Cities audiences free, in-depth access to new artistic voices from around the world, fulfilling The Cedar’s mission to promote intercultural appreciation and understanding through global music. 

The first night of The Cedar's 2018 Global Roots Festival Festival is a ticketed 30th Birthday Celebration featuring two artists that speak to the Cedar Riverside neighborhood’s history of immigration: classic Swedish folk-rockers Hoven Droven, and Cedar Artist-In-Residence Aar Maanta.

September 15, 2018, Saturday - Mill Ruins Park Volunteer Habitat Restoration with the National Park Service

Looking for something fun and rewarding to do on a Saturday morning? Consider joining a volunteer crew for habitat restoration activities with the National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with Mississippi Park Connection, in Mill Ruins Park.

Typical NPS Mill Ruins volunteer activities include invasive species removal, occasional planting, and caring for native species that have been planted by other volunteers.  

These drop-in volunteer events will take place at Mill Ruins Park from 9am-12pm on the following Saturdays throughout the summer and fall:

September 15 & 29 - October 6 & 20

Sign in will be at 9 AM in front of the St. Anthony Falls Visitor Center. Gloves, tools, and instruction will be provided. Volunteers should bring a water bottle, sunscreen, sturdy shoes, and clothes that can get dirty. Chat with a ranger or NPS volunteer crew leader, play in the dirt, and feel good knowing that your efforts are helping to improve the national park in our backyard!

Questions? Contact Ranger Erin Steinhibel at erin_steinhibel@nps.gov. Come join an award-winning team of volunteers in their restoration adventures!

Can't make the date, but interested in volunteering? Please send an email to miss_volunteer@nps.gov to request our volunteer e-newsletter.

September 15, 2018, Saturday - Writers, Rebels & Rejects opens at Gamut Gallery

Time: 7pm - 11pm 

Location: Gamut Gallery, 717 South 10th Street

Writers, Rebels & Rejects will be launching us into our Fall programming this season at Gamut. This month long exhibition includes 20+ graffiti and street artists who are bringing beautiful vandalism into the gallery, showing new paintings as well as commissioned street art on miniature 2-D white box trucks and 3-D electrical boxes. Opening night will include live painting from Rogue Citizen & friends and DJ Sammy Figz.

Featured Artists: Flora, Sheva, Mavel, Biafra Inc, Wundr, Peak, Cybin, Impeach, Strae, Theory, Black Daze, Oter, Groe, Value HM, Itse, Max315, Hank, Repo, Boxy Mouse, Luis Fitch, Eric Inkala. Curated by Cassie Garner

We have long taken for granted the idea of “property”. There is a clear divide between public and private spaces, and that even in public spaces, the deluge of images and advertisements barraging our senses on billboards and bus stops is legitimate because capital changed hands. We tend to think that money alone buys the right to our vision, but anyone with a sense of disenchantment with the status quo can spark a love affair with “getting up” that can be hard to extinguish.

Writers, Rebels, & Rejects celebrates the street artists and graffiti writers who fill our public sphere with tags, wheatpastes, characters and stickers, bringing them into a gallery setting to focus on the “art” in street art. An eclectic bunch, these artists hail mostly from the Twin Cities, with a few from New York, LA, and Canada: familiar names will be on view like Theory, Wundr, Biafra Inc, Flora, Sheva, Mavel and Impeach. This group of talented writers, painters, and designers have collectively spent thousands of hours developing their craft on open-world canvases such as railroads, bridges, billboards, and dumpsters using a diverse arsenal of tools ranging from common latex house paint to rattle cans, paint markers to stickers, and mops to fire extinguishers, making work that ranges from simple tags to complex monikers, cute character designs to bold abstract color blocks.

As well as original artworks, artists have been asked to work their magic on one of two dozen miniature white box trucks, one of many blank canvases often found in the wild. Repo, Fitch, and Boxy Mouse will also be doing paste ups on 3-D printed faux electrical boxes just for the exhibition. Writers, Rebels, & Rejects brings the outdoors inside and shines light on work usually done in the shadows, giving these subcultural contributions the consideration they deserve.

Opening Night - DJ Sammy Figz and LIVE painting from Rogue Citizen; $5 or free with Gallery Membership

Exhibition Finale - Saturday October 13th, 7-11pm, $5 or free with Gallery Membership

September 15, 2018, Saturday - Frankenstein – Playing with Fire opens at The Guthrie

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 South 2nd Street

Frankenstein – Playing with Fire

by Barbara Field (from the novel by Mary Shelley) 
directed by Rob Melrose

September 15 - October 27, 2018

Adapted by Minnesota playwright Barbara Field from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (celebrating its 200th anniversary this year), this captivating retelling of the classic tale imagines a meeting between a dying Frankenstein and his creation in the Arctic Circle. As Frankenstein prepares to right his greatest wrong by confronting the Creature, scenes from their past are replayed and the line between good and evil is debated, revealing a powerful and agonizing question that interrogates the ethical limits of science and human imagination.

September 15, 2018, Saturday - Autumn Brew Review 2018

Time: 1 – 5 pm

Location:Hall’s Island, 907 Sibley St. NE

Autumn Brew Review 2018

Enjoy an outdoor beer sampling festival dedicated to the fine art of craft brewing. The 18th annual Autumn Brew Review craft beer festival will return on Saturday, September 15. Due to construction at the Grain Belt complex, this year, the festival is moving just down the road to Hall’s Island. The stunning views of downtown Minneapolis and the river will not disappoint! Beer and brewers from all across the nation will be on-site for one of the largest and oldest annual celebrations of craft beer in Minnesota. The annual non-profit outdoor festival, produced by and benefiting the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild, will feature unlimited beer from 100+ breweries, as well as non-alcoholic samples, a commemorative tasting glass, live music, tasty food vendors on-site, vote in the “Best of Fest” awards for best beer and best brewery, beer educational sessions and tours, random shenanigans and a good time to be had by all at this beautiful historic venue on the banks of the mighty Mississippi. $45 in advance. 

September 15, 2018, Saturday - Walk to End Alzheimer's at Target Field

Time: Registration at 8am, Ceremony at 9:30am, Walk to immediately follow

Location:Target Field

Walk to End Alzheimer's

Route Length: 1 mile or 3 mile

All funds raised through Walk to End Alzheimer's further the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer's Association. The Alzheimer's Association is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. All donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

September 15, 2018, Saturday - Hennepin Healthcare Educational Event: Here 4 Health: Women's Heart & Breast Health, Physical Therapy

Here 4 Health: Women's Heart & Breast Health, Physical Therapy

Hennepin Healthcare is hosting a series of free educational events focused on keeping you healthy, active and feeling your best. Attend one, or attend them all.

These events will be held at our beautiful new Clinic & Specialty Center, located on our downtown Minneapolis campus.

After each session, we’ll provide time to interact with the presenters and tour the Clinic & Specialty Center.

This session's topics include: 

You Gotta Have Heart - Women’s Heart Health | Michelle Carlson, MD

September 15, 2018, Saturday - 18th Annual Twin Cities Ukrainian Heritage Festival

Time:  1 PM - 11:30 PM

Location: Ukrainian American Community Center, 301 Main Street SE

18th Annual Twin Cities Ukrainian Heritage Festival

Welcome to the 18th Annual Twin Cities Ukrainian Heritage Festival!

Bring family and friends to this FREE event! Get entertained with outstanding dance and music performances, enjoy delicious homemade Ukrainian food, and simply have fun!

Ukrainian Heritage Festival is world-class celebration of Ukrainian culture and its unique traditions in the Twin Cities. “All things Ukrainian” await you!

As in previous years, we will share the artistic and cultural achievements of our community on the local, national and world-wide levels, in folk dance, music, and other folk art. 

Come waltz and polka with Ukrainian Village Band, a Ukrainian roots band, playing folk & modern music. One can always find people dancing wherever they play!

This festival has many attractions: cultural exhibit, craft vendors, children's games, silent auction, beer garden with local and international beers, and more! 

September 14, 2018, Friday - Dave Ryan's (n)0K for Special Olympics Minnesota at Boom Island

Location:  Surly Brewing

Dave Ryan's (n)0K for Special Olympics Minnesota

Not your average 5K...

Join us for the first annual Dave Ryan's (n)0K at Surly Brewing! Dave, Falen and Steve-O will be leading the way as we 'race' to the beer tent to grab a drink.

REGISTRATION: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
(n)0K: 5:00 p.m.
CELEBRATION: 5:01 - 7:00 p.m.

Register today to reserve your spot for the easiest 'race' you'll ever run! Registration fee includes participant shirt and first beer free. All ages, and dogs, are welcome but you must be 21 to drink beer. 

September 14, 2018, Friday - Twin Cities Zine Fest 2018 Kick-Off Reading at MCBA

Time: 7p - 9p

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

Twin Cities Zine Fest 2018 Kick-Off Reading

Twin Cities Zine Fest strives to showcase the best of zines and self publishing in the Twin Cities and beyond! Kick off Twin Cities Zine Fest 2018 at MCBA by joining us for a night of readings from a talented group of zine creators! Free and open to the public.

The 14th annual Twin Cities Zine Fest will be held Saturday September 15th at Hennepin County Library’s Minneapolis Central Library. Learn more about Twin Cities Zine Fest at http://tczinefest.org/

Artwork created by Minneapolis artist Ana Hinojosa

September 13, 2018, Thursday - The Way We Wore: Women's Fashion From Mid-20th Century at Central Library

Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM

Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

The Way We Wore: Women's Fashion From Mid-20th Century

Jean McElvain, curator of the Goldstein Museum of Design, will review the history of women's fashion from the 1920s to the 1970s. This timespan featured major social changes including women's suffrage, the Great Depression, World War II, the struggle for Civil Rights and the Feminist movement. Each new development influenced the way women presented themselves, from flapper to the fashion plate arrayed in the classic designs of Christian Dior to the flower child wearing hippie chic.

September 13, 2018, Thursday - 6th Avenue SE Greenway Clean-Up

Time: 6pm – 7:30pm

6th Avenue SE Greenway Clean-Up

The Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association is seeking volunteers to help care for the 6th Avenue SE Greenway! They'll provide gloves and ask that you bring a trowel. Use above link for more information or to register.

Future Clean-Up dates:

Thursday, September 27, 5:30 - 7 pm

Saturday, October 13, 9 am - Noon

Sunday, October 28, 1 - 5 pm

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September 13, 2018, Thursday - Spring Awakening at Lab Theater (thru Sept 30)

Times: See show link below

Location:Lab Theater, 700 First St. N

Shoot the Glass Theater presents: Spring Awakening

September 13 – 30 

Winner of eight Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book, this breathtaking story by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater shines with what Entertainment Weekly called "the most gorgeous Broadway score this decade." Spring Awakening explores the journey from adolescence to adulthood with a poignancy and passion that is illuminating and unforgettable. In the wake of the powerful message sent by the youth of America in the March for our Lives, there is no better time to remember the power of young idealism and bitter consequences of repression against a generation that is ready to stand-up and speak for itself. With its hauntingly powerful alt-rock score and electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and tragedy, there has never been a better time to be exhilarated by the story of Spring Awakening. Shoot the Glass Theater is proud to partner with The Lab Theater to bring this musical to life.

Spring Awakening contains adult themes and is not recommended for children.

September 12, 2018, Wednesday - Taste of Generosity: Cocktails & Nosh

Time: 4:30 -- 7:30 pm

Location: Nicollet Island Pavilion, 40 Power Street

Taste of Generosity: Cocktails & Nosh

The third annual Taste of Generosity: Cocktails & Nosh is a one-of-a-kind cocktail event that will inspire and lift your spirits as organizers celebrate an amazing group of MS Stars – people who are important to the MS movement. Attendees will sip delicious drinks from an array of local distilleries, wineries and breweries, and taste unique hors d'oeuvres and a signature dessert. They also will bid on exciting silent and live auction items and enjoy a short program. The event will recognize and honor a group of distinguished MS Stars – people who have been nominated for making an impact on the MS movement in some way. Funds raised at this event will support National MS Society programs and services to help people with multiple sclerosis live their best lives.

September 11, 2018, Tuesday - SECOND CHANCE at Central Library (thru Sept 14)

Times: September 11, 12, and 13 at noon and September 14 at 5pm at the amphitheater outside of Minneapolis Central Library. All performances are free, but donations are gladly accepted. 

Location: Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

zAmya Theater Project presents SECOND CHANCE

SECOND CHANCE explores what a second chance looks like for people experiencing homelessness. Created through weekly workshops (primarily by people experiencing homelessness) with playwright Carlyle Brown, choreographer Leah Nelson and theater artists Bianca Pettis and Esther Ouray. SECOND CHANCE is directed by Maren Ward. 

Who deserves a second chance? And who decides? SECOND CHANCE explores the concept of what it means to get a second chance in life. A woman has a criminal charge that has been following her around and she can’t seem to get rid of it no matter what she tries. We hear her plea to the Council of Second Chances and the audience weighs in on whether or not she gets a second chance. What would you decide?

SECOND CHANCE will be performed by Stayci Bell, Charles Hilton, Caroline Mannheimer, Greg Tromiczak, Arminta Wilson, D. “Lurch” Yundt, Shannon Kemp, Tahiti Robinson, Sol Moran, Robert Blood, Calvin Wright, Annette Bryant, David Schnell, and Kamp Welch.

SECOND CHANCE is the culmination of ACTivation: Changing the Conversation on Homelessness Downtown. ACTivation is zAmya’s year-long residency at the Hennepin County Library – Minneapolis Central on Nicollet Mall. The goal of the residency is to engage library patrons experiencing homelessness in creative projects which will build relationships between homeless and housed patrons of the library and, by extension, Minneapolis – particularly downtown employees and residents. Activities have included weekly workshops and performances on Nicollet Mall. 

It is said in the housing advocacy world that people with criminal backgrounds are the hardest to house. The phrase Second Chance is a term housing advocates use to refer to this challenge. Second Chance implies there is someone who messed up. With this housing or this job we’ll give that person a Second Chance at life. As it is now, these Second Chances are hard to come by. While we generally believe in the idea of serving time and paying dues, our systems do not support this idea. As the truth gets louder around racial covenants in housing practice, Criminal Justice System as the new Jim Crow, huge racial disparities in shelters and on the streets – it must be asked – was there ever a first chance? Maybe it is America that needs a Second Chance to fulfill the dream for all Americans?

These are the questions and contradictions that fuel the latest project of zAmya Theater Project, a company embedded in St. Stephen's Human Services, a social services agency devoted to ending homelessness. Created by actors who have experience with homelessness, zAmya’s plays tell stories related to this vital issues that increase awareness and understanding and build the public knowledge and will to address this problem. As with all zAmya productions, SECOND CHANCE will include humor, song and spoken word. 

SECOND CHANCE is created with support from Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District, National Endowment for the Arts and the Carolyn Foundation. 

SECOND CHANCE will run September 11, 12, and 13 at noon and September 14 at 5pm at the amphitheater outside of Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis. All performances are free, but donations are gladly accepted. 

More info is available at https://ststephensmpls.org/latest/zamya-theater-project-announces-second-chance.

September 11, 2018, Tuesday - "Healthy Hour" at the Downtown YMCA with East Town Business Partnership

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Join us for social networking on the YMCA rooftop with light appetizers, tours of the new facility and to learn about all the YMCA has to offer.

- 5 day passes for all attendees

- free chair massages

- free hydromassages

- tours of the YMCA facilities

- special joining promotion

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Registration 

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Dayton YMCA at Gaviidae, 651 Nicollet Mall (check in on third floor), 4:30pm – 6:00pm

September 11, 2018, Tuesday - Bike with a Ranger at The Commons

Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Location: Meet on The Commons' West Block, at 4th Street and Portland Avenue

Bike with a Ranger

A family-friendly way to explore the Mississippi River. Led by a National Park Service Ranger, participants will bike along the riverfront and learn about the area’s fascinating history and wildlife. Rides depart from The Commons. BYO-bike! In partnership with Mississippi Park Connection.