August 26, 2017, Saturday - Harvest Family Day at Mill City Museum

Times: Noon - 3:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Harvest Family Day

Learn about harvest time in the 19th century with a day of family activities. Make seed art and a book project, taste fresh bread, join in story time, help thresh grain and check out the Science of Butter demonstrations in the Baking Lab. Plus, History Player Mary Dodge Woodward will share stories about harvest time on a giant "bonanza" farm. Come early for entertainment and activities at the Mill City Farmers Market.

This program is presented by Mill City Museum and the Oliver H. Kelley Grange.

August 26, 2017, Saturday - Twin Cities Food Tours' Historic Northeast Minneapolis Food Tour

Times: 11:00am and 1:00pm

Twin Cities Food Tours' Historic Northeast Minneapolis Food Tour

The Historic Northeast Walking Food Tour takes place in the Minneapolis neighborhood known as Northeast, or Nordeast to locals! You’ll savor favorites from 6 locations including sausages also served at Twins Stadium, authentic Neaopolitan Pizza, traditional Greek desserts and gourmet cheeses, to name a few. You’ll also learn how these local establishments came to be, who owns them and some fun and interesting stories they have to share. The food sampled on the tour is included in the price of your ticket and is enough for a satisfying lunch.

August 26, 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!

August 26, 2017, Saturday - Pillsbury A Mill Tour

Time: 10:00pm - Noon

Location: A-Mill Artist Lofts, 415 Main Street SE

Pillsbury A Mill Tour

Future date: September 9 and 30m October 21

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. Visitors will explore parts of the largest and best-preserved waterpower system in Minneapolis (with views straight down a 50-foot drop shaft); discover how the building functioned during the flour milling era and learn about the new hydroelectric plant that helps to power the complex.

The Pillsbury A Mill was the flagship mill of the Pillsbury Flour Milling Company. The A Mill was not only the largest flour mill in the world when it opened in 1881, it was one of the few architect-designed mills in Minneapolis, designed by Leroy S. Buffington. As such it was an industrial show piece and tourist attraction from the start. The Pillsbury A Mill ceased operation in 2003, and in 2015, the complex was redeveloped as affordable lofts for working artists by Dominium, a Minneapolis-based developer.

Please meet at the gray door on Third Avenue SE at Main Street (around the corner from the A-Mill Artist Loft main entrance at 315 Main Street SE). The tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately-paced walking indoors and outdoors with some uneven surfaces. Please call ahead to make arrangements for guests with limited mobility.

This tour is presented in partnership with Dominium, A-Mill Artist Lofts.

August 26, 2017, Saturday - Free Yoga with Friends of the Mill District in Gold Medal Park (Cancelled due to weather)

8/25/17 NOTE - This session has been cancelled due to weather.

Time: 9am

Location: Gold Medal Park  

Grab your mat (or a towel) and a neighbor, and meet us by the orange sculpture! 

The sessions are free of charge and sponsored by the Friends of the Mill District. Come salute the sun and enjoy the beauty of our neighborhood with your friends and neighbors. Saturdays thru September 2nd.

August 26, 2017, Saturday - Run Like Rel at Father Hennepin Bluff Park

Time: 9:00am (Kids run at 8:45 am, 5K at 9 am)

Location: Father Hennepin Bluff Park

Run Like Rel

You’re invited to participate in RLR's inaugural Start with a Dream 5K and Kid's Race. This unique event will be fun for all ages, so get your entire family together to run, walk or jog for an amazing cause. Organizers promise awesome sponsors and swag. All event proceeds benefit RLR's youth programs and founding scholarship fund efforts.

To learn more about RLR's mission to inspire youth to dream BIG, set goals and accomplish their own definition of success, visit: https://runlikerel.com/. Register at: http://www.andersonraces.com/new-events/2017/8/26/start-with-a-dream-5k.

August 25, 2017, Friday - Parts of a Whole 4: Opening Reception at Minnesota Center for Book Arts

Time - 6 PM - 9 PM

Location - Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Open Book building) 1011 Washington Avenue S

Parts of a Whole 4: Opening Reception

You're invited to the exhibition opening of Parts of a Whole 4! Free and open to the public. Cash bar.

Parts of a Whole 4 features new work by over 70 members of our artist community — faculty, Artist Co-op members, recent artists-in-residence, fellowship and mentorship recipients, Book Arts Certificate graduates, staff, and board members.

See what MCBA's creative community has been up to! View new artists’ books, broadsides, prints, installation work, and other bookish artistic endeavours. Curated by the MCBA Artist Co-op.

On view August 25 through October 29, 2017.

August 25, 2017, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm  $7

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight: Ruben & Special Guest TBA (Rock n Soul) 

August 25, 2017, Friday - Good Morning, Minneapolis at the Guthrie Theater

Time: 7:30 AM - 9 AM

Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 S 2nd Street

Good Morning Minneapolis hosted by Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce and Minneapolis Downtown Council

RiverFirst is a public/private partnership that includes a series of ongoing projects of the Minneapolis Park Board & Minneapolis Parks Foundation focused on redevelopment of iconic areas along the Mississippi River. One of these projects, Water Works, will transform the riverfront surrounding the Stone Arch Bridge into a place to gather, play and explore. A second is a proposed development of the Upper Harbor which could include an outdoor music amphitheater. Speakers at the next Good Morning Minneapolis will provide an overview of the riverfront plans and specific project updates.
ADMISSION: $30

August 25, 2017, Friday - Black Magnesia - 3 Nights of Improvised Music at The Southern Theater

Time: 8:30pm

Location: The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue S

Black Magnesia - 3 Nights of Improvised Music

Black Magnesia is three nights of improvised music curated by Joe Horton. Each night highlights a different aspect of what makes improvisation foundational to the human experience.

We don't want money to be a barrier to the music, so ticket prices are on a sliding scale of $5-$20. Please pay what you can to support the artists, technicians, and theater staff that make the show possible.

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FRIDAY AUG 25 - 8:30P doors, 9P music
Ensemble: Joe Horton, Anthony Cox, Cory Healey, DeVon Gray
Duo: Chris Cunningham, Pat O'Keefe

SATURDAY AUG 26 - 8:30P doors, 9P music
Ensemble: Joe Horton, Dave King, James Buckey, Trever Hagen, Andrew Broder...
Duo: Graham O'Brien, DeVon Gray

SUNDAY AUG 27 - 7:30P doors, 8P music
Ensemble: Mankwe Ndosi, Heather Barringer, Sarah Porwoll-Lee, Joey Van Phillips, Ernest Bisong
Duo: Peter Schimke, Josh Clausen

August 25, 2017, Friday - Philemon and Baucis – Planet in Peril: A Picnic Operetta at Loring Park

Time: 7 PM - 9:30 PM

Location: Loring Park

Philemon and Baucis – Planet in Peril: A Picnic Operetta

A new adaptation of Haydn’s rarely performed 1773 marionette opera, featuring the music of Queen!
Returning from space exploration in a far off galaxy, space cadets Jupiter and Mercury return to earth to find humanity decimated by plague. Surviving citizens are cold, suspicious, and hooked on banality. Our gods-in-disguise prowl about town looking for someplace to unveil their gender-bending extravaganza. No one will give these gods a chance but the down-trodden tavern of Philemon and Baucis.
ASL and Audio Description Services offered at this performance.

August 24, 2017, Thursday - Be You, Be Seen, Belong at the Guthrie

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location: Guthrie Theater, Dowling Studio, 818 S 2nd Street

Be You, Be Seen, Belong
Created and performed by the Mill City Youth Players
Directed by Jessica Finney

Join us for a one-night, one-hour performance titled Be You, Be Seen, Belong, created by young adults from YouthLink, who have or are currently experiencing homelessness, and youth residents of Minneapolis’ Cedar Riverside neighborhood. Through a two-week intensive class on acting and theater craft, the participants formed the Mill City Youth Players and have developed an original theater piece inspired by their personal stories, featuring music dance, spoken word and more. As the culmination of their efforts, they will perform for an audience for the first time. Stay for a discussion after the performance to learn about the players and the creation of this special event.

Tickets are free but reservations are required. Call the Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224 to reserve tickets today.

Mill City Youth Players is a pilot program established by the Friends of the Mill District, YouthLink MN and the Guthrie Theater. 

August 24, 2017, Thursday - You Are Here at The Lab (thru Aug 27)

Time: Aug 24 - 26 7:30pm, Aug 27 2:30pm

Location: The Lab Theater, 700 1st North Street

You Are Here is inspired by principles of phenomenology, universal laws, existentialism, and determinism. You Are Here seeks to identify the fleeting, reflective conscious under lenses of the past and the future.  If the universe is absolute, and time is independent, consciousness becomes the process in which we assign meaning to the world around us, forming a reality convoluted by interpretation.  But time moves both ways, turning even a moment of awareness into a web of then and now, of there and here.

August 24, 2017, Thursday - Hennepin Island Hydropower Tour with the Mill City Museum

Time: 10:30am - Noon

Hennepin Island Hydropower Tour

Explore the history of waterpower at St. Anthony Falls, including rare access to Xcel Energy's Hennepin Island Hydroelectric Plant. During the early 20th century, more than two dozen mills and hydroelectric plants used the waterpower from St. Anthony Falls, today just one is left. On this tour, a Mill City Museum guide will lead participants to Hennepin Island and Father Hennepin Bluffs Park, including special access to the power plant. Along the way, participants will learn about the historic uses of waterpower at the falls for flour milling, sawmilling and hydroelectricity, the role of hydroelectricity in Xcel Energy's green energy and energy efficiency initiatives and the future of waterpower on the Minneapolis riverfront.

The Hennepin Island Hydropower Tour is presented by Mill City Museum in partnership with Xcel Energy.

All guests must sign a waiver before taking the tour. This tour includes about 1.5 miles of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces, as well as climbing up and down several flights of stairs. Some historic locations on this tour are not wheelchair accessible.

Tickets on sale online or at 612-341-7555.

August 24, 2017, Thursday - Movie Night at The Commons: Casablanca

Movie Night at The Commons: Casablanca

4th and final film in a series of festive movie nights at The Commons, with a large format LED screen to enable easy viewing before sundown. For the first time you can bring your favorite beer or wine to The Commons. In 2017, these four movie events are the only "BYO" events in the city!  Bring a blanket and a picnic, or grab food at one of the featured food trucks, and settle in for an evening of open air film with friends and family.

August 24, 2017, Thursday - Fool for Love opens at Grain Belt Bottling House (thru Sept 16)

Time: 8:00pm

Location: Grain Belt Bottling House, 79 13th Ave. NE

Dark and Stormy Productions presents: Fool for Love

By Sam Shepard, Directed by Mel Day

August 24 - September 16

The late Sam Shepard's seminal drama about toxic, passionate, star-crossed lovers Eddie and May, a ghostly old man in a rocking chair and a young gentleman caller. Winner of the Obie Award. Don't miss this searing, funny, thrilling masterpiece!

For information and tickets: http://www.darkstormy.org/

August 23, 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.

August 23, 2017, Wednesday - Mill City Live at Mill City Museum

Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

August 23: Jack Brass Band

Mill City Live returns for its 14th season with live music every Wednesday evening in August. Set in the museum's dramatic open air Ruin Courtyard, "Mill City Live" features outdoor music by some of the best local artists for a unique happy hour experience. Music takes place from 6-8 pm, with food and drink for purchase.

Cost: $5 (online registration required), includes museum admission from 4 to 9 pm. This is a free event for MNHS members, but to guarentee admittance it is recommended that members make a $5 advance purchase online or by calling 651-259-3015.

Additional Date:  Salsa del Soul, Aug 30, 2017, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

August 23, 2017, Wednesday - Common Room–Island Tour at Nicollet Island

Time: 6 pm

Starting location: Nicollet Island Pavilion, 40 Power Street

Common Room – Island Tour

The landscape of Minneapolis is home to many islands, both literal and metaphoric. On a bus tour — which will make an additional excursion onto open water — Common Room will explore some of these islands, and otherwise hear how the idea of an island is shaped by its surroundings. From the geopolitical ramifications of being an island nation to an exploration of how heat islands affect both human health and animal behavior, we’ll cross boundaries both natural and human-made on foot.

August 22, 2017, Tuesday - Hope, Health & Humor: An Evening with Nora McInerny at Machine Shop

Time: 5:30p

Location: Machine Shop, 300 2nd Street SE

Gather your favorite women together and join Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation and Nora McInerny for a unique and inspiring evening out!

Featuring:

A keynote from Nora McInerny, the refreshingly frank author of It's Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too) and host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking with book signing opportunity

A lively dialogue featuring female cardiologists sharing the latest insights on women's heart health: Dr. Jessica Titus, Dr. Retu Saxena and Dr. Kasia Kryniewicz from Minneapolis Heart Institute®

A marketplace highlighting interactive health information and local females artisits and designers

Creatively fresh appetizers and refreshments from Fabulous Catering with speciality cocktails available for purchase.

Along with MHIF, this event is co-hosted by Heidi Chen, Alissa Goessl, Stacey Hurrell, Cheri Rolnick and Mary Beth Schubert.

Tickets $40. Register on Eventbrite. Questions? Contact events@mhif.org or 612-863-5410

Proceeds from the event will benefit women’s heart health research at Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. To learn more, visit https://mplsheart.org/womens-event