Time: 9:00am
Location: Meet at Gold Medal Park on 2nd Street S
A Friends of the Mill District Sponsored Event
Join Professional Boxer Joe Amouta in Gold Medal Park for a free boxing based fitness class:
Boxing instruction + Whole Body Workout + Light Cardio
For: All ages, fitness & skill levels
Time: 8 AM - 11 AM
Location: Chowgirls at Solar Arts, 711 15th Ave NE
Charge: Power Up For More Meaningful Meetings
Chowgirls Killer Catering and Pollen invite you to rewire your mindset toward meetings, changing them from mundane to meaningful. CHARGE, a morning work retreat open house hosted at Chowgirls at Solar Arts, focuses on creating positive and invigorating experiences to gather for work. Guests will discover a variety of meeting environments, mindful ways to engage their bodies and brains for more productive and less stressful meetings, fun and energizing brunch and snack buffets, and healthful drink choices for balance and wellness. During a mid-morning presentation, Chowgirls founders Heidi Andermack and Amy Lynn Brown will speak on sustainability and food trends along with Julie Cohen of Pollen who will share ideas to make your meetings more meaningful.
Chowgirls Killer Catering will be launching a new wellness menu, sharing an array of exciting new foods, including a brunch spread with personal-sized chilaquiles and frittatas, chia puddings, grilled fruit, and mezze snacking platters with house-made pita.
Featured partners include:
MN Nice Cream
Green Bee Juicery
Well Rooted Teas
Après Event Decor & Tent Rental
Alex Freese Trainer
Big Watt Coffee
Bogart's Doughnut Co.
Peace Coffee
NE Wellness
St Paul Bagelry
BeThings
AVEX
The Ring Toss Twins
Please note, this is a free event, however tickets are limited. Register today to experience this retreat with your team!
Time: Meet at the Soap Factory, 6:30pm walking tour
Location: Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE
Restroom vs. bathroom vs. WC vs. potty vs. toilet? Gendered vs. unisex? Political wedge? ADA compliance? Pristine or horrific? To talk or avoid eye contact? To graffiti or not? Hand washing! Visiting the bathroom is a universal experience that can also be a fraught social and cultural touchpoint. Join Common Room in an exploration of some local bathrooms while discussing some global bathroom issues.
ABOUT COMMON ROOM
The Soap Factory continues its ongoing site-specific public program, Here & There: Rethinking Public Spaces, welcoming back Common Room for its 10th iteration of artist-led tours through the Twin Cities. Through August, themed tours will take place every Wednesday evening. Common Room topics provide a focus through which to explore multiple facets of the urban geography — in the past, these themes have included cats, skyways, fishing, freeway construction, weather, community kitchens, personal memory, sacred spaces, islands and more. The tours this year include The Casino Tour, The Piped Music Tour, The Bathroom Tour, and The Mobile Dance Party Tour to celebrate Common Room’s Tenth Anniversary.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Andy Sturdevant is an artist and writer living in Minneapolis. He is the author of two books of nonfiction, and he has exhibited his art projects at venues in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle and elsewhere.
Sergio Vucci is a Minneapolis-based artist. He is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his work focuses primarily on engaging his surroundings outside of gallery spaces and on relational interactions, co-authoring ephemeral creative experiences with participants in response to place.
HERE & THERE
This project is supported and presented as part of Here & There: Rethinking Public Spaces, the Soap Factory’s ongoing site-specific public program. Rethinking Public Spaces presents artist projects that enliven underutilized spaces throughout Minnesota, rethinking public space and considering what it means to place-make through a contemporary, celebratory, and critical lens.
Enjoy outdoor movie nights at Target Field Station. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, find a spot on the green grass outside the Twins’ ballpark and enjoy an evening watching a movie under the stars and the downtown skyline. This programming is part of Go Outside with Hennepin County.
Movie starts at 7pm: August 22 - Mary Poppins
Time: 7:00pm
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 South 2nd Street
It is show time for the Mill City Players! Rehearsing since mid-June, this energetic and talented group of young people are ready to perform. We hope you can join us August 21st at 7 p.m. in MacPhail Center for Music's Antonello Hall, or on August 25th at 1:30 p.m. in Central Library's Pohlad Hall. Performance will be in 3 sections: Movement, Drumming, and Acting. The actors have been writing - you can expect to hear their own words, and they are powerful.
We are so honored to have an incredible team of professionals leading the Mill City Players. James A. Williams is the Artistic Director and comes to this project with 42 years of theater experience and incredible skills. JW (as he is known) has been a professional actor, director, producer, and writer for almost 40 years. Patricia Brown, adjunct professor of dance at the University of Minnesota and Macalester, teaches movement and serves as Associate Director. Ahanti Young, professional percussionist, actor, and spoken word artist teaches our actors drumming on paint pails and also serves as Associate Director.
This troupe was created and is sponsored by the Friends of the Mill District. We began a year ago and are now preparing to make this troupe a permanent group. The mission of the Friends is to create and support activities that build community, and are free of charge to all participants. We hit a home run with this group! Come and see for yourself. You do not want to miss a chance to see what these actors have to say.
Thank you for joining us for MNSpin LIVE at the Hook and Ladder on August 21st! Doors will open at 6pm. Your RSVP through this form will guarantee your entry to the event.
If you have any questions about the event, please email friends@hclib.org or call 612-543-8107.
Time: 4:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: The Commons, 425 Portland Avenue S
Mill City Farmers Market Night Market
This will be an ongoing event through Tuesday, September 25.
Pick up farm fresh, organic produce and local artisan foods for an easy weeknight meal. Prepared food vendors will be cooking up seasonal recipes all evening, so come hungry, stay, listen to live music and have a picnic supper in The Commons!
PROGRAMS
At our Tuesday Night Market we will continue to offer “can do” cooking and wellness activities and live entertainment, such as
NOTE - Monitor MCFM's Facebook for any weather-related cancellation updates!
KLE August 21, 2018, Tuesday - Mill City Farmers Market Night Market at The Commons
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park (East Bank of the Stone Arch Bridge)
Tonights entertainment: (See website in case of scheduling changes.)
What to bring: Blanket or chair, sunblock and bugspray, picnic basket.
Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos of you, your family and friends enjoying the concerts and movies on the facebook page Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.
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!
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street S
Happening: An Immigrants’ Cabaret
Free and open to the public. Reservations required.
From our dedicated year-round staff to the talented artists who join us for the run of a show, each person pours their unique background, sensibilities and perspectives into the artistry displayed onstage. To celebrate this collective of voices and the experiences of U.S. immigrants past and present, we are proud to present a special evening of reflection by our immigrant family. Join us for cabaret-style music, dance, poetry and storytelling performed by members of the WEST SIDE STORY cast and Guthrie staff.
An Immigrants’ Cabaret will also celebrate two organizations supporting immigrant rights locally and nationally.
The Advocates for Human Rights
Based in Minneapolis, this independent, non-partisan organization seeks to implement international human rights standards to promote civil society and reinforce the law. Learn more at www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org.
Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES)
This Texas-based non-profit promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families and refugees in Central and South Texas. Learn more at www.raicestexas.org.
Time: 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum - ADM Room (Floor 6, 710 2nd St. entrance)
The next Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association board meeting is scheduled for Monday, August 20, at the Mill City Museum.
DMNA Board Meeting Agenda.
We have rescheduled our summer event to August 20th at Pryes Brewing
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.
Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos of you enjoying the concerts on the facebook page. Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.
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 20, 2018, Monday - Music in the Park at Nicollet Island
Time: 1:00pm – 2:30pm
Location: A-Mill Artist Lofts, 415 Main Street SE
Discover the story of the National Historic Landmark Pillsbury A Mill, the largest flour mill in the world for many years, which recently reopened as the A-Mill Artist Lofts. A Mill City Museum guide will lead a tour of the former milling complex, including the rooftop deck and the basement waterpower facilities.
Highlights include the largest and best-preserved waterpower system in Minneapolis, with views straight down a 50-foot drop shaft through a glass floor. Guests will discover how the building functioned during the flour milling era; see the architectural highlights of the recently completed A-Mill Artist Lofts built within the historic mill buildings; and learn about the new hydroelectric plant that helps to power the complex. This tour is presented in partnership with A-Mill Artist Lofts.
The tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately-paced walking indoors and outdoors with some uneven surfaces. Tours begin at the gray door on 3rd Avenue SE at Main Street (around the corner from the main entrance at 315 Main Street SE).
Join us and the North Loop Neighborhood Association on August 19th for Chalk Art Day! It's free to participate, so bring your whole family down from 10am-3pm.
Time: 11 AM - 3 PM
Location: The Commons
YOUTH! We want you. The ReThink Your Drink Leadership Team is hosting a #rethinkyourdrinkSLOW ROLL at the Commons Park in Minneapolis.
Come to do a Slow Roll to the Mississippi River and stick around for spoken word, free food, games and fun following the ride!
Why come?
- Slow Roll MPLS along the Mississippi River (or walk!)
- FOOD! - Free food
- Learn from Water Bar & Public Studio samples of different local water - bar style!
- Participate in OPEN MIC by performing your own spoken word about rethinking your drink, water and community
- Listen to Tru Art Speaks perform a spoken word piece about water
- Interact with Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board Pop Up Parks yard games
- Take pics to create a ReThink Your Drink photo art installation
Special shout out to Tap Minneapolis for bringing their faucets to provide awesome Minneapolis water!
Prizes, open mic, biking, food - what more could you ask for? Come to learn about the negative health impacts of sugary sweetened beverages and organize around reducing sugary beverages in Minneapolis!
Schedule of events to be announced soon. Please RSVP to get a meal ticket and ensure we have enough food!
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Lab Theater, 700 First Street N
RISE – 2018 Student Choreography Showcase
RISE: 2018 Student Choreography Showcase was created to give a voice to young choreographers on the rise. The event will honor our next generation of choreographers and dancers and give back to one charity of choice that has had an impact on our dance community. This showcase offers student choreographers ages 14-22 an opportunity to exhibit their work on a professional stage. The dance pieces will be adjudicated by a panel of working choreographers, dance educators and industry professionals. A cash prize will be given to the first, second and third place choreographers.
This year’s charity is Give Kids the World Village. Give Kids the World Village is an 84-acre, nonprofit resort in Central Florida that provides weeklong, cost-free vacations to children with critical illnesses and their families. The goal is to raise $10,000! www.gktw.org. $20 general admission.
Time: 10am – 6pm
Location: Aria, 105 First Street North
AUTOPTIC 2018 Free and open to the public.
In late 2012, a group of Twin Cities based cartoonists and publishers began planning for what was to become AUTOPTIC's inaugural show the following year. Rather than creating “just another comics/ graphics festival,” organizers chose to take a giant step forward into the bigger, messier world of independent culture at large. To accomplish this they showcased not only cartoonists and zinesters, but also poster artists, printmakers, musicians, alternative and small labels, illustrators, designers and more, ranging from the exclusively local to the internationally acclaimed. At its core, AUTOPTIC is a juried, expo-style show, but orbiting the expo are readings and talks, artist showcases and music events, held both at Aria and several other sites throughout Minneapolis. In addition to 120+ exhibitors from around the world (and around the corner), AUTOPTIC will feature an international slate of special guest artists.
Time: 10:30 am – 12 noon
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
Engineering the Falls: History Player William de la Barre Tour
Additional Date: September 8
Join a walking tour of St. Anthony Falls led by costumed History Player William de la Barre, the Austrian engineer who spent half a century developing Minneapolis flour milling and waterpower. Visit the Minneapolis riverfront, the west side milling district and the Stone Arch Bridge and hear about the many ways the falls have changed over the years.
William de la Barre, an Austrian engineer, arrived in Minneapolis in 1878 and was hired by C.C. Washburn to oversee reconstruction of the Washburn A Mill after its 1878 explosion. De la Barre was soon involved in the management of waterpower companies at St. Anthony Falls, and spent a 50-year career engineering the falls to maximize the power available to Minneapolis millers.
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.
Time: 11:00am
Location: Insight Brewing, 2821 E Hennepin Avenue
Break out the petroleum jelly and squeeze into your lederhosen, it’s time for Oktober in August. From noon-4pm we’re enjoying everything we love from Oktoberfest in the beautiful Minnesota summer sun.
- German Beer: Märzen, Schwarzbier, Smoked Lager, Berliner Weisse, and of course our year round Royal Nüisance
- Food: NE Minneapolis' own Kramarczuk's will be serving up traditional German food (yes, there will be kraut, brats, and mustard!)
- Music: Live accordion music from Matt Meyer
- Games: Hammerschlagen and beer-stein-holding feats of endurance
Be sure to tag your Augtoberfest Facebook or Instagram pics with #OktoberInAugust. We’ll be looking for the most German photos possible and awarding each person in the winning photo with a ticket to the State Fair and a free growler or any tier one beer.
Free & Kid Friendly.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Pantages Theatre, 710 Hennepin Avenue
Broadway Princess Party at Pantages
Brush off your tiara and unleash your inner princess with Broadway’s original Cinderella, Belle, and Jasmine! Hosted by two-time, Tony-nominated star, Laura Osnes (Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella) and her own Fairy Godfairy, Benjamin Rauhala (musical director extraordinaire), and joined by pals Susan Egan (Tony-nominated for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and voice of ‘Meg’ in Hercules) and Courtney Reed (original star of Disney’s Aladdin on Broadway), you are cordially invited to a Royal Ball filled with stories, sparkle and a bit of sass. Your every dream will come true as three knockout voices sing the petticoats off of every princess song in the book! Direct from its sold-out shows at Feinstein’s/54 Below in NYC, this is the princess party you WISH you’d had as a kid … only better … ‘cuz now there’s cocktails! Come see what thousands of fans are raving about on YouTube! Join them at Pantages for The Broadway Princess Party you will never forget! Casual attire is permitted, but princess prizes will be awarded for the best cosplay costumes!
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