September 9, 2017, Saturday - Marcy-Holmes Yard Sale

Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association Yard Sale  

The Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association is organizing a neighborhood-wide yard sale on Saturday, September 9. All residents of Marcy-Holmes are encouraged to participate!

Use this form to register the details of your yard sale:
https://goo.gl/forms/oGXt7wDiZRD3J2Yp1

We'll add an entry to an official garage sale map so shoppers can locate your sale and buy your stuff. The map will be shared online and in printed form on Friday, September 8th.

Don't Have a Yard or a Garage? Not a Problem!

If you have items to sell but don't have access to a good space for setting up a yard sale, bring your items to the Marcy-Holmes September Ice Cream Social on September 23, from 2 - 5 pm, at University Lutheran Church of Hope and sell them there!

If you have any questions, please contact the MHNA office at david@marcy-holmes.org or 612.623.7633. Thanks!

September 9, 2017, Saturday - Avant Garden 2017 at the Walker Art Center

Time: 6 PM - 11:59 PM

Location: Walker Art Center, 725 Vineland Place

Avant Garden 2017

Join us on Saturday September 9 for Avant Garden 2017, the Walker Art Center’s annual benefit and crowning event in a summerlong celebration of the expanded Walker campus and transformed Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. The evening promises a signature Walker party experience complete with gourmet food, craft cocktails, premier art auction, live music, and DJ Jazzy Jeff to top off the night.

Silver Key Tickets are $125 and include three free drinks, and late-night sweets and savories.

Gold Key Tickets are $500 and include
complimentary craft cocktails and gourmet fare.

Proceeds from Avant Garden support the Walker Art Center’s award-winning artistic and educational programming. There’s no doubt that this will be a night to remember!

Other ticket options and package are also available. Tickets are on sale now. walkerart.org/avantgarden

September 9, 2017, Saturday - MN Run Relay

Time: 6 AM - 5 PM

Location: Starts and finishes at Father Hennepin Bluff Park

MN Run Relay

Round up your friends and take on the MN Run Relay! This 50-mile relay run highlights a handful of regional trails and regional parks the Twin Cities has to offer! Create your team of 4, 3, or 2 people for this one-day event that starts and finishes at the scenic Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis.

Race Limited: 400 x 4 person teams or 1600 runners
Total Distance: 50 Miles

September 9, 2017, Saturday - Healing Place Festival at Mill City Museum

Time: 11 AM - 3 PM

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Healing Place Festival

Explore the vital role of the Mississippi River as a source of healing and place of healing in this free event presented by Healing Place. Discover the connections between indigenous understanding of place, the environment, water, language, the arts, and the Mississippi River with hands-on activities, interactive performance, visual art, panels and presentations, cooking demos, media art and more.

September 9, 2017, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Update coming soon!

September 9, 2017, 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.

The annual Monarch Festival celebrates the monarch butterfly's amazing migration from Minnesota to Mexico. Using art, music, dance, games, native plants, prairie tours and food, the festival raises awareness of the need to provide and protect monarch habitat.

Art, Music, Dance, Games, Tours and More - These activities are free and open to the public. No registration required.

The Monarch Festival takes place near the Nokomis Naturescape, a certified Monarch Waystation, featuring native plants that monarchs need to lay eggs, host caterpillars and get nectar. The festival features several vendors with native plants for sale so participants can grow a monarch habitat at home.

Festival participants can listen to great music, dance up a storm, make a milkweed seed bomb, enjoy great food, get up-close with monarch caterpillars and butterflies, get their hands dirty and make some art, tag and release a monarch butterfly, play games and much more.  

Visit The Minneapolis Monarch Festival website for the full line-up of up Monarch Festival music, food, art, activities, and native plant sale information. These activities are all free and open to the public. No registration is required.

September 9, 2017, 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 the National Park Service (NPS) volunteer crew for habitat restoration activities 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 autumn and fall:  September 9 and 23 - October 14

Gloves, tools, and instruction will be provided. Volunteers 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. Per Erin, "We are so proud of our volunteers - they even won an award from the Minneapolis Park Board last season because of all their hard work!" 

September 9, 2017, Saturday - Garden Saturday! at Loring Park

Time: 9 AM - 12 PM

Location: Loring Park Gardens, 1382 Willow Street

Garden Saturday! at Loring Park

Let's garden!
Not a garden volunteer? No problem. Just show up to sign up.
Tools, gloves, plants, treats and "Friends" provided.

Sponsored by the Friends of Loring Park and the MPRB.

September 9, 2017, Saturday - Free Family Music Series: The Story of Babar at MacPhail

Time: 10 am – 12 noon

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 Second St. S

Free Family Music Series: The Story of Babar

A musical retelling of the classic story The Story of Babar the little elephant by Jean de Brunhoff! This concert will feature MacPhail Faculty members, Carrie Vecchione (oboe); Rolf Erdahl (bass); Sarah Miller (piano) and Steve Staruch (host of MPR’s Music with Minnesotans) as the narrator. With music by Margi Griebling-Haigh, projected images and evocative musical accompaniment, this is sure to be an exciting trip to the great forest! No tickets required. Free and open to the public.

September 8, 2017, Friday - Dance Hive at 514 Studios

Time: 6:30 AM - 7:30 AM 

Location: 514 Studios, 514 North 3rd Street

Dance Hive

Call it organized chaos or sweet messy freedom, the Dance Hive experience is about moving around like crazy, feeling good & celebrating wildly!

September 8, 2017, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm  Cover: $8

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Joshua Cleveland & The Cedar Street Band / Sesay & The Good Thyme (Folk Soul/R&B)

September 8, 2017, Friday - U2 at US Bank Stadium

Time: 7:30pm

Location: US Bank Stadium

U2 and Beck

Live Nation confirmed that, due to incredible demand, select new stadium shows have been added to U2 The Joshua Tree Tour 2017. The newly announced dates include a limited return to North America with a stop at U.S. Bank Stadium on September 8 with special guest Beck.

September 8, 2017, Friday - Friday Garden Meditation at Loring Park

Friday Garden Meditation

Free meditation program. Meet in the Garden of the Seasons at 7am. All are welcome!

https://www.facebook.com/events/275635762917824/

September 7, 2017, Thursday - PRN Alumni Foundation Inaugural Benefit at Machine Shop

Time: 8:00pm

Location:  Machine Shop, 300 2nd Street SE

PRN Alumni Foundation Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Paisley Park with Inaugural Benefit featuring Grammy nominated musical trio KING

VIP experience, silent auction, music and memories. Open to the Public – Tickets

September 2017 marks the 30th Anniversary of Paisley Park’s inception. The newly formed PRN Alumni Foundation, a non-profit 501c(3) (approval pending) organization whose members are former employees of Paisley Park announces a 3-day weekend celebration in Minneapolis Sept. 7-9, 2017 to commemorate the milestone.

“So much innovation has taken place through the doors of Paisley Park in the last 30 years ,” stated Jacqui Thompson, President of PRN Alumni Foundation board, “As former employees who helped contribute to Prince’s many creative endeavors, we have cause to celebrate the magnitude of his work along with the impact of his many philanthropic projects.”

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Also happening:

Saturday, Sept 9 at 12p – Stories from Inside the Park – Paisley Park Alumni Panels discuss Engineering, Fashion, Record Label & Innovation w/ Q&A

Venue: Capri Theather, 2017 W Broadway

Open to the Public – Tickets

PRN Alumni Foundation, officially formed in 2016, is comprised of former employees of Paisley Park and the international icon Prince. The group’s mission is to continue the generosity of their late boss who supported opportunities for underprivileged youth to grow in music, arts and education. The foundation also supports urban farming initiatives that create sources of healthy, organic foods where they are otherwise scarce and help alumni members in-need.

September 7, 2017, Thursday - Bike Share Public Industry Discussion / Q & A at Honey

Time: Doors open 5pm with appetizers available and cash bar; Program begins about 5:30pm

Location: honey mpls, 205 E Hennepin Avenue

Bike Share Industry Discussion / Q & A

Nice Ride Minnesota and Our Streets Minneapolis will host a public discussion and Q & A about bike share industry change. In response to these changes, Nice Ride is issuing a Request for Proposals for the transition the Twin Cities bike sharing system.

September 7, 2017, Thursday - Sunrise on the Mississippi at Bohemian Flats Park

Time: 7:30 – 9 am (7:30am arrival and check-in; 8:00am program start)

Location: Bohemian Flats Park

Minneapolis Parks Foundation presents: Sunrise on the Mississippi

The Minneapolis Parks Foundation will be putting up the big tent for the third annual Sunrise on the Mississippi. This memorable event brings together community and civic leaders in support of transformative parks.

The featured speaker is journalist and outdoorsman James Edward Mills, author of The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors. Mills is an adventurer and award-winning journalist and author, who grew up exploring the outdoors with his family. He writes about outdoor recreation, the environment, charitable giving and sustainable living, and minority issues. He’s worked in and written about the outdoor industry since 1989. He lives in Wisconsin with his family. Mills observes that minority populations are much less likely to seek recreation, adventure and solace in our wilderness spaces. Mills will talk about this cultural situation and create a compelling case for ALL Americans to enjoy and protect the great outdoors. 

September 7, 2017, Thursday - Dancing on the Edge opens at the Southern Theater (4 nights)

Times: See schedule in below link

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue S

Theatre Novi Most presents: Dancing on the Edge

September 7 – 10

Theatre Novi Most presents the world premiere of a new bilingual play by Adam Kraar about the tumultuous marriage of American modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan and Russian poet Sergei Esenin. Dancing on the Edge takes place in Russia, Boston and Europe at the dawn of the Soviet Union and follows the passionate pairing of these two celebrated artists, set against a poetic examination of Russian-American relations.

September 6, 2017, Wednesday - "Art, Wayfinding, and the Creation of Place" with Artist Owen Brown at Mill City Quarter

Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm, artist talk at 6:00pm

Location: Mill City Quarter (MCQ), 322 S 2nd Street

"Art, Wayfinding, and the Creation of Place"

During this event, artist Owen Brown will discuss paintings he created for MCQ, and the understanding and conscious investment of "place" in "space," that is, how can we seek to create more human environments.

We have the choice to make our places:

Intimate vs. Impersonal
Informal vs. Formal
Private vs. Public
Attentive vs. Dismissive/Indifferent

...which correspondingly affect people by making them feel:

Safe vs. Imperilled
Certain vs. Confused
Encouraged vs. Discouraged
Found vs. Lost!

Per Owen, "Of course, this has been considered by thousands of architectural theorists and psychologists (to say nothing of interior designers), but it's always worth thinking about these issues. We "humanize" the spaces in which we move and live whether or not we consider such, from the mere fact of being human."

Please direct questions to owenbrown@eyesvoice.com

September 6, 2017, Wednesday - Capella Tower Indoor Market

Time: 11:00AM - 2:00PM

Location: Capella Tower, 225 S 6th Street (in the atrium)

Markets will run from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Atrium every Wednesday through September. A variety of locally grown vegetables, fruits, flowers, honey, and baked goods will be available each week.

* Now featuring fresh-made WAFFLES! *

Many of the vendors will be cash-only so please come prepared.

September 6, 2017, Wednesday - Public Hearing on Sheridan Memorial Park Improvements at MPRB

Time: 6:30 pm

Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 W River Road N

Public Hearing on Sheridan Memorial Park Improvements

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) is holding a public hearing on proposed improvements for Sheridan Memorial Park. Sheridan Memorial Park will receive more than $1 million in park improvements in 2018. After evaluating feedback from three public meetings and an online survey, a preferred concept for the park improvements has been created. Click the link below to view a detailed depiction of the proposed improvements, which include new playgrounds, paths, public art, picnic shelter, restrooms, a basketball court and volleyball court.

During the hearing, interested members of the public will have a chance to weigh in the proposed improvements before the Board of Commissioners. After the hearing is closed, commissioners will consider its approval. If approved, construction bids will be awarded over winter 2017-2018 and the park improvements will be built during spring-summer 2018. In 2015 the MPRB was awarded a $500,000 grant  from the National Park Service Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership project. The federal grant is matched by $1 million in Minnesota Parks and Trails Legacy Funding (administered by Met Council).

View the preferred concept: https://www.minneapolisparks.org/_asset/sp5n6y/smp17_preferred_concept.pdf.