April 21, 2018, Saturday - Annual Marcy Arts Gala at Grain Belt Bottling House

Time: 6:00pm to 11:00pm

Location: Grain Belt Bottling House, 71 13th Avenue NE

Marcy Arts Gala

The Marcy Arts Gala is a fantastic event to experience! The Gala's live and silent auctions include more than 200 pieces of original art from local and national artists.

This year's Arts Gala will feature music from critically acclaimed musical artist, DJ Tiiiiiiiip, who also happens to be a Marcy graduate. There will be amazing food from local restaurants including nationally renowned Restuarant Alma and Brasa Premium Rotisserie. Thirsty? Plenty of libations will be served including some tasty local craft brews from Dangerous Man and Fair State Brewing.

Join us as we support the vibrant arts community of Minneapolis and Marcy Open School!

The Marcy Arts Gala raises funds to bring art residencies to the classrooms. By attending, volunteering and donating to the annual Marcy Arts Gala, you are supporting arts opportunities for students at Marcy Open School while helping sustain our vibrant artist community.

April 21, 2018, Saturday - People Serving People's 2018 Unmasking Homelessness Gala

Time: 6:00pm

Location:  Minneapolis Hilton, 1001 S Marquette Avenue

People Serving People's Annual Gala

Support People Serving People in honoring 30+ years of helping families find their way home. Enjoy passed cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, fun games, silent and live auctions, wine with dinner, and fund a need in support of families experiencing homelessness.

April 21, 2018, Saturday - 27th Annual Children’s Star Gala at The Depot

Time: 6:00pm

Location: The Depot, 225 Third Avenue South

Children’s Star Gala

As one of the premier events in the Twin Cities, the 26th annual Children’s Star Gala is not to be missed. Join Children’s Hospital and Clinics for a special evening with proceeds supporting their important programs for children. With cocktails, a dinner, stories from physicians and patients, silent and live auctions, fund-a-need and live entertainment, it truly will be a night to be remembered.  

April 21, 2018, Saturday - The Danger Committee presents: Playing with Fire at The Lab

Times: 2 pm and 7 pm

Location: The Lab Theater, 700 First Street N

The Danger Committee presents: Playing with Fire

The Danger Committee is back with their first theatrical show to feature fire! The beloved Minnesota Renaissance Festival performers and producers of the popular holiday show A Stocking Full of Awesome have put together a collection of their favorite flaming feats in a show that offers something for the whole family--and both performances in this limited run will be recorded to produce a new full length DVD. Come see why The Danger Committee always offers definite comedy and possible tragedy! General admission $25.

April 21, 2018, Saturday - The North Loop Spring Crawl

The North Loop Spring Crawl

Saturday, April 21, 2018 from 10:00am-6:00pm

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Loop into spring by shopping the North Loop! Local retailers will collaborate with area artists to celebrate the “coolest neighborhood in Minneapolis.” Grab a “passport” card from your first destination and journey to all of the stores listed. Receive an exclusive stamp from each store for the chance to win amazing prizes. Vote for your favorite spring-themed art installation showcased at participating stores and the winning artist will receive a prize, our way of supporting our local artists! The crawl will culminate with an after-party at The Hewing Hotel featuring appetizers, specialty cocktails, music, fun, and fabulous drawing prizes! To stay up to date on events occurring throughout the day; including fitness classes, restaurant specials, gift card giveaways and discounted services, head to the Shops of the North Loop Facebook page.

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Participating North Loop stores: Bonobos Guideshop - North Loop, C'est Chic Boutique, D.NOLO, Jeromeo Wellness Center & Shoppe, Lappin Lighting, Statement Boutique, Lolë Twin Cities, MartinPatrick 3, Mitrebox Framing Studio, Queen Anna, russell+hazel, Shoesters, North Loop Wine and Spirits 

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Crawl goers are encouraged to use any of the following hashtags when sharing their experiences from the day on social media: #shoptheloop #northloopcrawl #loopintospring

April 21, 2018, Saturday - Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association Earth Day Clean Up

Time: 9:30 - Noon

Location: Father Hennepin Buffs Park, Sixth Avenue SE and Main Street

Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association Earth Day Clean Up

It's easy to get involved in Earth Day Cleanup 2018. No pre-registration is required! Arrive between 9:30 am and noon, bring a pair of gloves to pick up trash, and check in at the registration table. Our site coordinator will provide you with gloves (if you did not bring any) and bags, and instruct you where to go and where to leave trash. 

April 20, 2018, Friday - Chocolates, treats and more from Dancing Bear Chocolate at Open Book (2 days)

Tme: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue S

Chocolates, treats and more from Dancing Bear Chocolate

Dancing Bear Chocolate will be selling handcrafted gourmet chocolates and pastry in the Lobby of Open Book during the Loft Pitch Conference. Visit us Friday and Saturday 11AM to 3:30PM

Our selection for The Loft Pitch Conference 2018
-Northern Spumoni cups
-Bear Paw Peanut Butter cup
-Individual truffles, 4 varieties
-Chocolate Dipped Ginger Cookie
-Coconut Macaroons 
-Chocolate Covered Oreo 
-Peanut Brittle 
-Pretzel rods

April 19, 2018, Thursday - Next Generation of Parks with Bruce Chamberlain

Time: 7:00pm

Location: University of Minnesota, School of Design Rapson Hall, 89 Church Street

Next Generation of Parks with Bruce Chamberlain

RiverFirst: A Model for Urban Transformation

Great cities choose pathways that achieve a collective imagination. In 2015, the Minneapolis Parks Foundation created the Parks Fellow program to achieve transformative efforts with the power to alter the trajectory of a city. Since its inception, the Parks Fellow seat has been held by urban designer and strategist, Bruce Chamberlain, FASLA.

As Parks Fellow, Chamberlain’s focus has been the Parks Foundation’s partnership with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board on the generational RiverFirst Initiative, which will transform 5.5 miles of urban Mississippi River corridor from obsolete industry to a mix of parkland, trails, and redevelopment. In addition, the Parks Foundation is steering implementation of Water Works and the Great Northern Greenway River Link, two RiverFirst Signature Projects, in partnership with the Park Board. Water Works, which overlooks St. Anthony Falls and the Stone Arch Bridge, will bring significant new historic, cultural, and recreational amenities to one of the most iconic location in the region.

Chamberlain will speak about:

• Why the pathways between bold public initiatives and implementation have become so allusive and how cities can break through barriers to achievement.
• How RiverFirst and the Minneapolis Parks Fellow program are testing innovative models for achieving urban transformation.
• The importance of the Parks Fellow program to our region.

Who Should Attend

RiverFirst supporters and partners will get an in-depth update on the project and begin to explore ways in which RiverFirst is bringing more than parks and trails to the Upper Riverfront. Planners, landscape architects, and placemakers will learn more about the strategies that are shaping our community for this generation and the next.

April 19, 2018, Thursday - Commercial Real Estate 2018 Update at the Depot

Time: 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Location: Renaissance Depot, 225 3rd Avenue S

Commercial Real Estate 2018 Update  Register

Renovating office space, building apartments and ushering in a new era of retail. Join us to hear the changes in the downtown market, how long the apartment boom will last and more! 

Moderator: 
Nick Halter, Reporter, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal  

Panelists:
- Kelly Doran, CEO of Doran Cos. 
- Brent Erickson, Senior Managing Director, Newmark Knight Frank 
- Chris Garcia, Principal, Lee Associates 
- Bill Katter, President and Chief Investment Officer, United Properties 
- Jeff Mitchell, Vice President, Hoyt Properties Inc. 

April 19, 2018, Thursday - Run Beer Repeat at FINNEGANS Brew Co.

Time:6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Location:FINNEGANS, 817 5th Avenue S

Run Beer Repeat at Finnegans Brew Co.

Join us for our 9th run of 2018 when we visit Finnegan's Brew Co. in Minneapolis

Finnegan's isn't officially open yet (at the time of this posting) but we're confident they will be by the event date, and we're excited to visit another new place!

We'll meet at the brewery at 6:20 PM. Starting at 6:30, we'll go for a casual 30 minute run - all paces welcome - and meet back at the brewery at 7 PM for some post run beverages!

Hope to see some new faces and old friends!

April 19, 2018, Thursday - East Town Business Partnership Business Forum Annual Meeting at Normandy Inn

Time: 11:30am to 1:00pm

Location: Best Western Normandy Inn, 405 S 8th Street

The East Town Business Partnership Business Forum Annual Meeting is Thursday, April 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the Best Western Normandy Inn.

The title for the April forum is A Big, Bold North, Booming East Town Extraaaaavaganza  

This forum will include annual district highlights and emerging priorities. And, our feature presenter is the very popular Theater of  Public Policy.  They will provide a humorous and improvised look at what it means to be East Town in the Bold North! Networking and lunch will start at 11:30 a.m., with the program starting at Noon.

Please register for the Annual Meeting via Eventbrite.

April 19, 2018, Thursday - "St. Croix & Namekagon Rivers: The Enduring Gift" Blacklock Exhibit Opening Reception at Mill City Museum

Time:6 PM - 9 PM

Location:Mill City Museum, 704 S 2nd Street

"St. Croix & Namekagon Rivers: The Enduring Gift" Blacklock Exhibit Opening Reception

The grand opening and reception for renowned nature photographer Craig Blacklock's new book, “St. Croix & Namekagon Rivers: The Enduring Gift,” will be on April 19th at the Mill City Museum in Minneapolis.

Guests are invited to browse the photo exhibit showcasing prints from this incredible new book while enjoying wine and hors d'oeuvres beginning at 6 PM. At 7 PM Craig will lead a short program with people that were instrumental in crafting this work of art. The evening will end with music by Peter Mayer. The book includes a foreword by Vice President Walter F. Mondale, who has been invited to participate as our special guest.

The St. Croix River Association is a proud partner in the creation of this beautiful tribute to the nation’s first wild and scenic river national park. This photo exhibition will be located in the museum’s central Mill Commons from April 12 through June 24, 2018. To pre-order your book now visit: http://www.stcroixphotography.com/

If you are interested in shuttle service departing from Marine on St. Croix or the Stillwater area, please email info@scramail.com.

April 19, 2018, Thursday - #MINNSTAFASHION Fashion Week MN Kick off at W Minneapolis

Time: 7:00pm

Location: W Minneapolis - The Foshay, 821 Marquette Avenue

#MINNSTAFASHION

W Minneapolis x The Scout Guide Minneapolis Present: #MINNSTAFASHION, in its 6th semi-annual Official Kick-off to Fashion Week Minnesota. #MINNSTAFASHION has become one of the highest-attended events of one of the most-anticipated weeks of the season in the Minnesota Fashion Industry. Notorious for its ever-growing local social media celebrity crowd, energetic atmosphere, and digitally innovative integration, this season’s event is sure to be the best yet.

Innovative social media interaction is one of the crown jewels of this Instagram-buzzing event. Never resting on its laurels, #MINNSTAFASHION continues to surprise, merging in-person mingling and social media networking in unexpected ways while giving local designers a chance to be showcased on the stage of an internationally renowned W Hotels brand. Guests flaunt stylish streetstyle and light up the infamous fashion collage backdrop, while admiring bold designs by 5 Emerging Designers featured on rotating platforms (Drazenka Designs, Spencer Versteeg, Hannah Johnson, Cassidy Glynn, & Coup De Fourdre), and shopping local jewelry & accessory boutique pop-ups (Luxury Garage Sale, Queen Anna House of Fashion, Karen Morris Millinery, Strey Designs, Aprilierre Jewelry, Aura Boutique, & JW Hulme Co). DJ Lenka Paris will serve up beats all night and the #MINNSTAFASHION signature cocktail, The Sparkling Stilletto will be on the menu just for the occasion. 

April 18, 2018, Wednesday - Book Launch Open House for Bill Sullivan's Lemon Jail: On the Road with the Replacements at the Loon Cafe

Time: 6:00 PM

Location: The Loon Cafe, 500 N 1st Avenue

LEMON JAIL launch event with Bill Sullivan

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Bill Sullivan will be at The Loon Cafe on Wednesday, April 18 at 6:00 p.m. for the launch of his new book, Lemon Jail: On the Road with the Replacements. The free open house will begin at 6:00, and books will be available for purchase and signing.

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“Don’t bore us, get to the chorus” is Bill Sullivan’s motto, which will come as no surprise to anyone who opens Lemon Jail. A raucous tour diary of rock ’n’ roll in the 1980s, Sullivan’s book puts us in the van with the Replacements in the early years. Barreling down the highway to the next show through quiet nights and hightailing it out of scandalized college towns, Sullivan—the young and reckless roadie—is in the middle of the joy and chaos, trying to get the band on stage and the crowd off it and knowing when to jump in and cover Alice Cooper. Lemon Jail shows what it’s like to keep the band on the road and the wheels on the van—and when to just close your eyes and hit the gas.

That first van, dubbed the Lemon Jail by Bill, takes the now legendary Replacements from a south Minneapolis basement to dive bars and iconic rock clubs to college parties and eventually an international stage. It’s not a straight shot or a smooth ride, and there’s never a dull moment, whether Bob Stinson is setting a record for the quickest ejection from CBGB in NYC or hiding White Castle sliders around a hotel room or whether Paul Westerberg is sneaking gear out of a hostile venue or saving Bill’s life at a brothel in New Jersey. With growing fame (and new vans) come tours with REM and X (what happens when the audience isn’t allowed to stand?), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Violent Femmes (against their will), and Saturday Night Live, where the band’s televised antics earn the edict You’ll never play on NBC again. Fast forward: You’ll never play Washington, D.C., again. Or Moorhead.

Hiding in fans’ backyards while the police search the streets and pelted with canned goods at a Kent State food drive, the Replacements hit rough patches along with sweet spots, and Lemon Jail reveals the grit and glory both onstage and off, all told in the irrepressible, full-throttle style that makes Bill Sullivan an irresistible guide on this once-in-a-lifetime road trip with a band on the make.

April 18, 2018, Wednesday - Back Alley Bazaar at The Golden Pearl Vintage

Time: 6pm - 9pm

Location: The Golden Pearl Vintage, 507 E Hennepin Ave

Spring Will Come, Clean Your Closet, Get Your Swap On!!!
$10-$15 for all the clothing you can carry!

The Golden Pearl is hosting an after hours clothing swap, comprised of clothes from the wardrobes of our fashionable clientele. Admission will be $15 at the door, $10 pre-pay, which includes access to all the FREE clothes. We will be offering some snacks and refreshments as well.

April 18, 2018, Wednesday - Public Meeting on City's New Consolidated Public Office Building at Mill City Museum

Time: 5:30 - 6 pm Doors open, refreshments available; 6 - 7:30 pm meeting

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Public Meeting on City's New Consolidated Office Building

The City of Minneapolis is moving forward with plans for a new downtown office building near City Hall to better serve residents and businesses. The goal of the Consolidated Public Office Building is to strategically co-locate City employees who are now working in several leased and owned sites scattered around downtown Minneapolis. The new City office building will be diagonally across from City Hall at 501 4th Ave. S., a site now home to a parking ramp. It will be a sustainable and resilient building featuring a welcoming, customer-centric public service area. City staff and the project design team of MSR Design and Henning Larsen will be hosting a public meeting on Wednesday, April 18, to provide an update and status report and to gather project input.

April 17, 2018, Tuesday - The Music of Duke Ellington at Central Library

Time: 12:30p -1:30p

Location: Minneapolis Central Library, 300 Nicollet

The Music of Duke Ellington

A master of American jazz composition, Duke Ellington broadened the sound of jazz music through his leadership of swing bands, musical composition, and promotion of individual jazz artists. Join MacPhail Teaching Artist Andrea Leap in this music appreciation seminar as we learn about the sounds of jazz and how they were transformed by this Pulitzer Prize winning composer. Collaborator: MacPhail Center for Music.

April 16, 2018, Monday - DMNA Meeting at Mill City Museum

Time: 5:45pm

Location: Mill City Museum, in the ADM Room

The next Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association meeting is on Monday, April 16, at 5:45 p.m., at the Mill City Museum in the ADM Room.

Agenda

April 16, 2018, Monday - Paint Nite at 508 Bar

Time: 7:00pm

Location: 508 Bar and Restaurant, 508 1st Avenue N 

Starry Moonlit Tree

Paint Nite is invading bars and restaurants near you with everything you need to create a one-of-a-kind painting. We’ll guide you and your friends through two lively hours of creativity, drinking, and laughing ‘til your cheeks hurt. The best part? You don’t have to be an artist to have an amazing time.

April 15, 2018, Sunday - Stonebridge Lofts Arts Exhibition “Connections” Opening Reception

Time: 2:00-5:00PM

Location: Stonebridge Lofts, 1120 South 2nd Street

The Mill Yard at Stonebridge Lofts presents the Arts Exhibition, “Connections” Opening Reception

The Arts Exhibit runs from April 15 – June 30, 2018

The Mill Yard presents a new show, “Connections,” that showcases eight local artists whose work illuminates various connections in the human experience, the past and present, ideas and emotions. The featured artists are:

Laurie Borggreve (mixed media)
Kat Corrigan (painting)
Eddie Hamilton (painting/mixed media)
Farida Hughes (painting/mixed media)
Deb Kirkeeide (painting)
Michael Schmidt (painting)
Barbara Riegel Bend (fiber artist),
Opening reception only:  Sheila Moor (jewelry)

Additionally, Misfit Coffee's truck will be parked outside of Stonebridge for the whole event, so you can sip gourmet coffee while viewing beautiful local art!

The Mill Yard at Stonebridge Lofts thanks Luke Kleckner, Condo Development and Sales, for his generous sponsorship.