December 14, 2016, Wednesday - Art Circle -- Putting Down Roots at MWMO

Time:   5pm – 8 pm

Location: Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, 2522 Marshall Street NE

Art Circle – Putting Down Roots

Also Friday, December 16, 10 am – 12 noon

Help create new fiber art for the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization’s Putting Down Roots exhibit. Use your talents to help bring awareness about keeping the Mississippi River clean! MWMO is looking for works made from any fiber and constructed using any technique. Ideally works will be life-sized and three-dimensional. Pieces should represent plants that are good for clean water and habitat and/or species that benefit from these plants.

December 12, 2016, Monday - Glam Party at Grumpy's NE

Time: 6 PM

Location: Grumpy's Northeast, 2200 4th Street NE

Glam Party at Grumpy's NE

Join Glam Doll Donuts for a night of donuts, drinks and fun at Grumpy's NE on Monday December 12th from 6-9pm! We are thrilled to be moving in to the NE hood and can't wait to celebrate with you at our favorite bar! See you then!

December 12, 2016, Monday - NT Live: War Horse at St. Anthony Main Theatre,

Time: 7:00pm

Location: St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 Main Street SE

NT Live: War Horse

At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse, is sold to the Cavalry and shipped to France. He’s soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary journey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man’s land. Albert, who remained on his parents’ Devon farm, cannot forget Joey. Though still not old enough to enlist he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.

Based on the beloved novel by Michael Morpurgo, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama, filled with stirring music and songs, is a show of phenomenal inventiveness. At its heart are astonishing life-sized horses by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, who bring breathing, galloping, charging horses to thrilling life on stage. War Horse is an unforgettable theatrical event which takes audiences on an extraordinary journey from the fields of rural Devon to the trenches of First World War France.

 

NT Live is a groundbreaking initiative of London's National Theatre that broadcasts the world's finest stage performances to cinema screens in 22 countries around the globe. Through a partnership with the Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul, National Theatre Live has moved from the Guthrie across the river to the Film Society's St. Anthony Main Theatre. Tickets are available through the Film Society and are $20 Regular; $15 Film Society members.

December 12, 2016, Monday - Kevin Kling at the Guthrie

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Wurtele Thrust Stage, Guthrie, 818 2nd Street S

Kevin Kling - Tales from the Charred Underbelly of the Yule Log

Best known for his popular commentaries on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and his storytelling stage shows, Kevin Kling delivers hilarious, often tender stories that have delighted audiences around the country. With Yule Log, Kling spins hilarious yarns of family traditions and holiday merriment.

December 12, 2016, Monday - Washington Avenue Bikeway Open House at Open Book

Time: 5:30p -7:00pm

 

Location: Open Book, 1011 S Washington Avenue

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Washington Avenue Bikeway Open House

Join the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition and the Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association (DMNA) for an open house about bike lanes on Washington Avenue in the Mill District. Feel free to come anytime between 5:30 and 7pm.

Hennepin County is opening protected bike lanes from Hennepin to 5th Ave S next year. We want your input on the best way to connect those protected bike lanes through the Mill District to the U of M area.

We will share some options and get your thoughts.

More info on protected bikeways.

December 11, 2016, Sunday - Tales of the Falls, a Storytelling Tour at Mill City Museum

Times: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Tales of the Falls, a Storytelling Tour

The story of the Minneapolis riverfront will come alive in this unique program led by master storyteller Richard Rousseau. Rousseau will spin three tales that weave the history of St. Anthony Falls with the expectations of the present in three different historic spaces within Mill City Museum. Between stories, participants will walk to the next location while learning about the Washburn A Mill, the home of Mill City Museum.

The tour includes about two blocks of moderately-paced walking.

December 11, 2016, Sunday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 8:000pm $5

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight:  Daniel Schwartz + Gabriel Andrews (Finger-Style Acoustic Folk)

Daniel Schwartz: Starting at the very beginning, his dad’s interest in The Grand Ole Opry and his mom’s fondness for American Bandstand immersed Dan Schwartz in a wide variety of great music. This influence resonates in the range of music he composes, records and performs today in his solo work and with group: The Neighborhood Trio. Dan has written and released nine CDs and has been featured on several internationally released acoustic guitar compilations including Narada Records Masters of Acoustic Guitar. His recordings have earned him a nomination for guitarists of the year (Minnesota Music Academy) and local Folk/roots album of the year (Mpls. St Paul Magazine). He has a new solo CD in the works – a collection of finger-style guitar tunes played on harp guitar and acoustic lap steel, to be released in fall 2016.

Gabriel Andrews is an emerging Australian acoustic guitarist, taking first prize in the 2014 Wilson Centre International Guitar Competition (Milwaukee, USA), and opening for Canadian Guitarist Jesse Cook in the evening showcase. 2015 saw Gabriel complete a Master of Music at the Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, place third in the Kentucky International Home of the Legends Thumb-picking Championship, and reach the semi-final round of the ISC instrumental category for his composition “Here & Now.” The afore mentioned piece was recorded on his first solo album Pathways (2013), released at the Blue Mountains Music Festival in Sydney, Australia.

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Winter Book Publication Party at Open Book

Time: 7pm

Location:  Open Book, Target Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Winter Book Publication Party

7pm reading by Heid E. Erdrich followed by a book signing and public reception with light refreshments in MCBA’s studios and gallery. Free and open to the public.

RSVP to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1781706438763552/

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Friends of the Mill District Singers Rehearsal at the Guthrie

Time: 2:00pm - 3:30Pm

Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 S 2nd Street

For more information, please contact Claudia Kittock at cjkittock@gmail.com.

December 10, 2016, Saturday - 12 Bars of Xmas Crawl

12 Bars of Xmas Crawl

The 12 Bars of Christmas Crawl will be Saturday December 10th from 12pm-6pm!! Grab you best holiday onesies, Santa suits, ugly sweaters, and elf costumes and get ready to crawl!

What you get:
- 22oz Bad Santa Stadium Cup for all your drinks!
- Commemorative Santa hat!
- No cover with your ticket purchase!
- Drink specials at all participating bars!
- Everyone dressed in outrageous costumes!

Participating Bars:

Brothers Bar and Grill (Registration location. 9am-11am for Super Early Bird ticket holders. 11a-3p all other tickets.)...
$3 Fireball, $4 Stell Artois small / $5 Stell tall, $3 Jolly Rancher shots, $2 mini Cherry bombs

The Pourhouse
$3 Bud/Bud Light/Michelob Golden, $4 Aboslut, $5 Jager bombs

Kierans's Irish Pub
$5 22oz Big or Skinny Ginger, $5 22oz Finnegans, $4 22oz Miller Lite, $5 Wee Ginger shot

The Exchange
$4 domestic beers, $5 Vodka Red Bull

Huberts Sports Bar
$4 22oz domestic drafts, $3 rails

Cowboy Jacks
$3 Bud/Bud Light, $5 Vodka Red Bull

The 508 Bar
$3 domestic taps, $4 craft taps, $4 rail drinks, $4 Fireball shots

The Pint
$3 Fireball, $4 Jameson & water moccassins, $5 22oz domestic draft, $4 rails (8p-11p only)

Must be 21 to participate. Event will go on rain, snow, or shine! All sales final, no refunds.

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Printed Holiday Note Cards Class at MCBA

Time: 12:30 – 4 pm

 

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

 

Printed Holiday Note Cards

 

Embrace your holiday spirit by making your own cards this year! Each adult/child pair will create note cards with a festive image and letterpress greeting, while learning to use the Platen and Vandercook Presses. Students will design their own holiday images and choose text from a variety of messages. Each pair will print 40 cards. Single/additional participants will print 20 cards. Envelopes will be provided. These cards are sure to be holiday favorites! Adult/child pair: $50 ($45 members) + $10 supply fee; additional participants (adult or child): $25 ($22.50 members) + $5 supply fee. For families with children grades 1 and up.

 

December 10, 2016, Saturday - 1st Annual Winterfest on 2nd Street S

Winterfest on 2nd St with Friends of the Mill District

 

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Dinner Detective at Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown

Time: Doors open at 6:00pm

Location: Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown, 1500 Washington Avenue S

Dinner Detective Minneapolis

The Dinner Detective is America’s LARGEST, award-winning interactive comedic murder mystery dinner show! Our high-energy, modern-day whodunit is combined with a full four-course meal.

Our immensely popular murder mystery shows are set in the present day. Unlike other murder mystery dinner shows (or just dinner shows in general), with The Dinner Detective, you and your guests will not find themselves staring at cheesy costumes, there will be no recited campy dialogue and certainly no hokey song and dance. Our performers are dressed just like everyone else, leaving all of the guests to suspect who is a part of the show and who is not! All scripts are based on actual cold cases and are created in house. From the get go, the guests are seated with the performers and most likely will not realize it! Our Detectives enter the room, proceed to interrogate guests, find clues and start the investigation. This allows our guests to socialize with and interrogate each other, while deciphering real life-based clues. At the end of the night, prizes are awarded to the Top Sleuth who solves the crime!

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Casket Arts Holiday Marketplace

Casket Arts continues a new Northeast tradition – our second annual Holiday Marketplace! Join us on the first floor for a craft fair-style marketplace and find a variety of treasures to fill your stockings or to hang above the mantel. Whether you plan on celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the Winter Solstice, or Festivus – what better way to finish your holiday shopping than while supporting local artists in a fun, festive setting!

Over 40 Northeast MPLS artists and makers will line the first floor hallways, showing paintings, jewelry, prints, tiles, sculpture, gifts, and more in one convenient location. Come for the arts, and stay for the festivities: live music all day + tasty treats from Groveland Confections (http://www.grovelandconfections.com/) and delicious food from GastroTruck for vegans and carnivores alike (http://gastrotruck.mobi/).

Casket Arts will also be taking donations for the annual Canadian Pacific Holiday Train (http://www.esns.org/event-2359164), so bring healthy non-perishable items here to help stock the food shelves at East Side Neighborhood Services!

Saturday, December 10th, 10am to 6pm
681 17th Ave NE, 1st Floor
Free admission • All are welcome • Family-friendly event! http://www.casketarts.com/

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Washburn A Mill Tour

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 S. 2nd Street

Washburn A Mill Tour 

$16 adults, $14 seniors and college students, $12 ages 5-17, $4 discount MNHS members, includes museum admission

Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555

Take an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building. A guide will take visitors into the building's many nooks and crannies, highlighting the lives of the men and women who worked there, how the building functioned during its peak flour milling years and the many changes to the building over time. This is the only opportunity for a guided tour through the entire museum building and the only chance to see some of its nonpublic spaces.

December 10, 2016, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market in Mill City Museum

The Mill City Farmers Market boasts the best indoor winter market in town from November to April. Shop from over 40 local farmers, food vendors, and artists from 10:00am to 1:00pm inside the Mill City Museum.

2016/2017 Winter Market Schedule:
Holiday Markets – December 10, & 17
January 14 & 28
February 11
March 4*, 11, & 25
April 8 & 22
*At the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chanhassen

December 9, 2016, Friday - Talking Image Connection: Working Forces/Desktop at The Soap Factory

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

Talking Image Connection: Working Forces/Desktop

Please join us on December 9 for our final Talking Image Connection reading of 2016! I'm thrilled about this fantastic lineup, which will feature D. Allen, b: william bearheart, Sarah Fox, Opal McCarthy and Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen. Bios below!

D. Allen (thebodyconnected.com) is a queer poet and interdisciplinary artist living in Minneapolis, where they are an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota. Their work has recently appeared in pnk prl,Rogue Agent, Black Warrior Review, Connotation Press, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, and elsewhere. D. is the artist and designer of "Restored Mural for Orlando," a chapbook written by poet Roy G. Guzmán created in response to the Pulse nightclub m...assacre. D. is currently at work on a hybrid manuscript about connective tissue.

Sarah Fox lives in NE Minneapolis. Coffee House Press published her books Because Why and The First Flag; she's currently at work finishing a collection of poetry, Invisible Wife, and starting a collection of nonfiction, Pain Management. She is a grandmother, teacher, placenta encapsulator, and therapeutic astrologer. Spread love.

Opal McCarthy is a poet, teacher, bodyworker, and performer who lives in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood of Minneapolis. Opal's first book of poems, SURGE,​ a book of wild girls & fierce tenderness, is now available from​ Tinderbox Editions​ (​http://www.tinderboxeditions.org/online-store/!/Surge/p/72249094/category%3D17921460). Opal is passionate about calling forth the splendor, the shadows, the secrets, the wild & free beings within herself and others, through ​embodied creative presence. Opal's poetry has appeared in La Petite Zine, alice blue review, ​Midway Journal​, Invoke Magazine, and elsewhere. Opal is a practitioner of Heartworks Lomi Lomi bodywork and also leads writing workshops and community healing events focused on feminine power, ​pleasure, vulnerability, and beauty-making.

Anh-Hoa Thi Nguyen is a poet, community artist, activist and educator. She was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College in Oakland, California where she was awarded the Mary Merrit Henry Prize in Poetry and the Ardella Mills Literary Composition Prize in Creative Non-Fiction. Some of her publications include “CAYLX Journal,” “Asian Pacific American Journal,” the Vietnamese Artists Collective anthology “AS IS: A Collection of Visual and Literary Works by Vietnamese American Artists” and the Asian American Women Artists Association (AAWAA) anthology “Cheers to Muses: Contemporary Works by Asian American Women.” She has performed her work at numerous venues in the Bay Area and Twin Cities. Anh-Hoa is the founder of Pomelo Press, and creates self-published and hand bound artists books. Anh-Hoa has also completed a residency at Hedgebrook, a Writers-in-Residence Program for women, and has received a writing fellowship from the Elizabeth George Foundation and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant.

December 9, 2016, Friday - The State of the River at McKnight Foundation

Time: 8 – 9:30 am

Location: McKnight Foundation, 710 Second Street South, Suite 400

The State of the River

How is the health of the Mississippi River? Can I safely swim in it? Can I eat the fish I catch? How are the bald eagles faring? What "new" pollutants are impacting the river's health? The National Park Service partnered with Friends of the Mississippi River to examine the research that helps answer these and other questions, and recently released the updated State of the River Report. Come learn about the important trends and emerging issues impacting the health of the river, as well as potential solutions. Presenter Lark Weller is the Water Quality Coordinator for the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, a unit of the National Park Service, and Trevor Russell is Watershed Program Director for Friends of the Mississippi River.

Light breakfast provided. Free. RSVP to lark_weller@nps.gov.

December 9, 2016, Friday - Into Quarterly: Minneapolis Launch at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Performance Hall), 1011 Washington Ave

Into Quarterly: Minneapolis Launch 

Copresented by Into Quarterly and the Loft, this event will feature readings from contributors and a panel discussion. Into: Minneapolis is a collection of original writing and art inspired by Minneapolis. Forty local writers, designers, photographers and fine artists share their creative tributes to the city, exploring such themes as cold, kindness, identity and Prince. Through their combined voices and mediums, we get an unconventional portrait of Minneapolis and a time capsule of the art coming out of it today. The panel discussion will focus on sense of place and how that influences home, community and social action/reaction through words and visual art. Book sales and reception to follow.

December 9, 2016, Friday - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in concert at the Minneapolis Convention Center (2 nights)

Times: Dec 9 - 7pm; Dec 10 1pm and 7pm

Location: Minneapolis Convention Center, 1301 Second Avenue South

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in concert

About this Concert:
The Harry Potter™ film series is one of those once-in-a-lifetime cultural phenomena that continues to delight millions of fans around the world. This concert will feature the Minnesota Orchestra performing every note from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone™.

Tickets