July 18, 2016, Monday - "Music in the Park" at Nicollet Island

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Nicollet Island Park

Tonights entertainment: (See website to verify any programming changes.)

2016 Music:
July 18, Vicky Emerson
July 25, Mosaica
August 1, The UnderGroove
August 8, Little Diamonds
August 15, She Has Issues
August 22, The Brandon Projekt
August 29, Rob Meany

What to bring: Blanket or chair, sunblock and bugspray, picnic basket.

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!

July 17, 2016, Sunday - Mill City Summer Opera: Sweeney Todd in Mill City Museum Ruins Courtyard

Mill City Summer Opera returns for their fifth season with Sweeney Todd. See their Facebook page for Barber Seat features on performers.

Future shows:

Tuesday, July 19

Thursday, July 21

Friday, July 22

Sunday, July 24

Ticket info.

July 17, 2016, Sunday - Milwaukee Avenue Historic District Walking Tour with Preserve Minneapolis

Time: 10:00am

Location: Meet at Milwaukee Avenue and East Franklin Avenue

Milwaukee Avenue Historic District Walking Tour with Preserve Minneapolis

In the late 19th century, the narrow street that became Milwaukee Avenue served as the first home in Minneapolis for immigrant families of Northern European workers who labored in the nearby Milwaukee Railroad yards and industrial shops.

A 1970s public agency’s renewal plan called for demolishing approximately 70% of the houses in the 35 block Seward West neighborhood, including all of the houses on Milwaukee Avenue. However, a neighborhood organization, the Seward West Project Area Committee (PAC), thwarted that plan, instead established rehabilitation of the houses as a principal development tool. PAC’s research led to Milwaukee Avenue’s local and national historic district designation.

The neighborhood organization’s 1970s redevelopment process rehabilitated 34 of the original 46 houses facing the street, and converted the once narrow street into a landscaped pedestrian walkway. The street’s unique architectural character renders a human scale quite different from the surrounding neighborhood. Milwaukee Avenue was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The tour will walk 1/4 mile. The tour guide is Bob Roscoe.

July 17, 2016, Sunday - Minneapolis Sister Cities Day Celebration on Nicollet Island

Time:  1:00pm–5:00pm

Location: Nicollet Island Pavilion

Join us as we celebrate all 12 of the Minneapolis Sister Cities with a FREE Ice Cream Social & gathering on Nicollet Island Pavilion, Minneapolis. This family event features multi-cultural entertainment, children activities, ice cream and refreshments. The event highlights all of Minneapolis’ International Sister Cities, with a special spotlight this year on the 25th anniversary of our Sister City with Tours, France!

Sister Cities Day 2016 program:

1:00  Welcome Remarks

1:05  Japanese Entertainment Group (Ibaraki City, Japan) 

1:25  Sounds of Hope 

2:00  Official Program 

2:20  French Entertainment Group (Tours, France) 

2:45  The Hongde Lion Dance Association (Harbin, China) 

3:10  Aztec Dancers (Cuernavaca, Mexico)

3:35  Somali Dancers (Bosaso, Somalia) 

4:00  Vikarbyns Lilla Spelmanslag (Uppsala, Sweden) 

4:25  Ballet Folklorico (Cuernavaca, Mexico)  

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Make your own ice cream sundaes (while supplies last), entertainment and activities for the family! An afternoon celebrating the Sister City relationships between the city of Minneapolis and 12 Sister Cities.

More information 

July 16, 2016, Saturday - Free Yoga in Gold Medal Park

Time: 9:00am - 10:00am

Location: Gold Medal Park

Saturday yoga in Gold Medal Park returns! Grab your mat (or a towel) and a neighbor and meet us by the letters. The sessions are free of charge and sponsored by Friends of the Mill District. We will meet every Saturday through September 3rd. Come salute the sun and enjoy the beauty of our neighborhood with your friends and neighbors.

July 16, 2016, Saturday - Streets.pic at Boom Island Park

Time: 8PM

Location:  Boom Island Park, 724 Sibley Street NE

Streets.picnic hosted by Streets.mn

As we have done the last few years, we will be having a quasi-potluck, quasi-writer appreciation type picnic for the streets.community. This year we will be at Boom Island Park, which is a little bit more centrally located and easier to get to than Minnehaha Falls. Watch for more information!

July 16, 2016, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market:  MISSISSIPPI RIVER DAY!

Celebrate our Mighty Mississippi River at the Market on Saturday, July 16! After you pick up your local groceries, stop by our local community groups to learn about the river's ecology and value to Minnesota agriculture from: The University of Minnesota Raptor Center, Mississippi Park Connection, Friends of the Mississippi, Great River Coalition, and Big River Magazine.

Produce Planner: Arugula, beets, berries, baby bok choi, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cilantro, collards, cucumbers, dandelion greens, fennel, garlic scapes, green beans, green onions, hakurei salad turnips, herbs, kale, kohlrabi, lavender, lettuce, mint, microgreens, mushrooms, mustard greens, Nappa cabbage, oregano, pac choi, parsnips, radicchio, radishes (red and french breakfast), rhubarb, oregano, potatoes, raspberries, sour cherries, spring onions, squash blossoms, salad mix, snap peas, snow peas, spinach, strawberries, Swiss chard, thyme, zucchini and much more!

Cooking Demo, 10:30am: Market Chef Nettie Colón will prepare a seasonal market meal in our FREE cooking demonstration.

Community Booths: The University of Minnesota Raptor Center, Mississippi Park Connection, Friends of the Mississippi, Great River Coalition, Big River Magazine.

Live Music, 11am-1pm: Enjoy live music from guitarist Ben Glaros in the green music tent by the Guthrie stairs.

Kids Activities: Power of Produce (PoP): A seasonal vegetable tasting club for kids ages 3-12, located at the Info Booth tent. Kids are empowered to buy their own vegetables with a $2 market token after tasting a seasonal fresh veggie sample.

Meet Your Vegetables: Sample fresh, seasonal veggie recipes created and prepared by Nutrition students at our Meet Your Vegetables booth, located at the top of the Chicago Mall–grab a recipe and a sample and chat with medical professionals fromAllina Health, the program’s sponsor.

Art Market: This Saturday’s featured local artists include Annika Kaplan Jewelry, Anna Metcalfe Ceramics, Ink Orchard, Stangler Works, Aprilierre, ArtAndes, Jeanne Beatrice Market Baskets, Larissa Loden, Sassy Knitwear, and Milkweed Editions. Find them in the train shed and the Chicago Expansion!

July 16, 2016, Saturday - Disgraced opens at the Guthrie

Time: 7:30pm

Location:  Guthrie Theater, McGuire Proscenium Stage, 818 Second Street South

Disgraced

by Ayad Akhtar

directed by Marcela Lorca

July 16 -- August 28,

Amir Kapoor, a successful Pakistani-American lawyer, is happy, in love and about to land the biggest promotion of his life. But ethnicity collides with ambition when Amir and his wife, Emily, host a dinner party at their Upper East Side apartment. Friendly conversation soon turns confrontational and Amir makes a costly decision. A 2015 Tony Award nominee for Best Play and winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, this 90-minute one-act has been described as a “blistering social drama about racial prejudices” (Variety) and a “combustible powder keg of identity politics” (Bloomberg). Don’t miss this conversation-starter from one of the most promising playwrights in theater today.

July 15, 2016, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm  Cover: $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight: Vicky Emerson & Matt Hannah (Folk/Singer-songwriter)

July 15, 2016, Friday - Twin Cities Food Tours' Historic Northeast Minneapolis Food Tour

Times: 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.

July 15, 2016, Friday - Running Aces at MVI

Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Location: Minneapolis Visitor Information on Nicollet, 505 Nicollet Mall

Running Aces at MVI

Running Aces Casino & Racetrack will be at Minneapolis Visitor Information on Friday, July 15 from 4pm-7pm. They will be hosting Blackjack and Minnow Race games for prizes.

Additionally, you can register to win prizes from Running Aces, including the Grand Prize which includes:
Two (2) ticket to the P.O.D. & Drowning Pool Concert at Running Aces on August 4th
One (1) Bluetooth Speaker
One (1) Bluetooth Headphones
Two (2) $25 Food Coupons for Running Aces
Two (2) Free Aces for the Blackjack Tables at Running Aces
Running Aces T-Shirt
Running Aces Hat

July 15, 2016, Friday - Mill City Summer Opera: Sweeney Todd at Mill City Museum Ruins Courtyard

Time: 8:00pm – 10:30 pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Mill City Summer Opera: Sweeney Todd

July 15, 17, 19, 21, 22 and 24

Mill City Summer Opera brings another summer of performance and music to the museum's dramatic Ruin Courtyard with Sweeney Todd. After 15 years of unjust imprisonment in a penal colony, the barber Sweeney Todd returns to the gas-lit streets of Victorian London to claim vengeance on those who wronged him. Sondheim’s stunningly inventive score contains intense drama, macabre humor, lyrical purity and an unforgettable final scene. Don’t miss this thrilling American masterpiece! $35-200/MNHS member discount Get Tickets Online.

July 15, 2016, Friday - Fasting & Feasting at A-Mill Artist Lofts

Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm

Location: A-Mill Artist Lofts, 315 Main Street SE (Enter at Performance Space on Main Street)

Fasting & Feasting 

Ragamala Dance invites you to join them along the Mississippi River at the historic Pillsbury A-Mill Artist Lofts for this summer celebration. In India, food is symbolic of Annapurna—the goddess of food and nourishment—and is an integral part of ritual and festival. Guests at Fasting and Feasting will enjoy a delicious meal prepared by James Beard Award-winning Twin Cities chef Raghavan Iyer, who will discuss the interconnectedness of food, art and ritual in India. His talk will also focus on the traditions surrounding the board game of Paramapadam, which is a central inspiration for Ragamala’s in-development work, Written in Water.

Before dinner, guests will enjoy drinks and appetizers overlooking the river, gather to play Paramapadam, watch the premiere of a new short film on the creation of Written in Water and go on tours of the building, which includes an art gallery, music, painting and dance studios, and a roof deck with stunning views of the city. This event is made possible by an Engaging Dance Audiences grant administered by Dance/USA and made possible with generous funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Only patron tickets to this event are tax-deductible. For information and tickets: https://squareup.com/store/ragamala-dance 

July 14, 2016, Thursday - Pizza for Peace at Pizza Nea

Time:  7 p.m. until 12:30 a.m.

Location: Pizza Nea, 306 E Hennepin Ave

Pizza for Peace

Eating pizza has a greater purpose, when a portion of its proceeds goes to support the victims of Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. 

Please join us for an evening of community and fundraising as we take action on gun reform, and bring together the local LGBTQ community.

Enjoy local DJs and a silent auction featuring generous donations from local artists and businesses...from wine baskets to gift certificates for local goods and services. 

Pizza Nea has graciously offered to donate a portion of the night’s proceeds – 30% of in-house sales and 40% of to-go orders – to the Pulse Victims Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety.

July 14, 2016, Thursday - A Hill in Natchez at Southern Theater (4 nights)

Time: 7:30pm

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

A Hill in Natchez presented by Joseph Horton

Beautiful and unsettling, A Hill in Natchez is a meditation on the strange gravity of power that transforms a scenic hill into a bazaar where people stroll idly past humans for sale. Through a hallucinatory mix of music, visuals, and dance, director Joe Horton tells the story of a woman and man caught in this gravity and the myriad ways they are touched by power. Seen through their eyes, the New World is an ever-evolving mosaic of symbols, violent and seductive, dictating laws they are bound by yet can't quite understand. 

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Preview on Thursday, June 14th:  Live Filming

Thursday's presentation of A Hill in Natchez will double as a live taping. The film team will make every effort to be as unobtrusive as possible to give audience members an unbroken experience. Tickets to the live taping are available at a special discounted price.

July 14, 2016, Thursday - Northeast Farmers Market at The Grain Belt

Time: 4:30pm - 7:30pm

Location: The Grain Belt Apartments, 1215 Marshall Street NE

Northeast Farmers Market at The Grain Belt

Thursdays thru August 25th

A dozen vendors providing the neighborhood with fresh fruits and vegetables, locally made art, specialty foods, and live music every Thursday!

VENDORS
Kiss My Cabbage
Fieldstone Family Farm, LLC
Lil Momma Cakes
Creature Comfort Hot Sauce
Superior Switchel Co.
Whole Sum Kitchen
The Moral Omnivore
The Green Hare Farm
Paul Ronyak Wood Work
Violett's Blossoms Fresh Flower and Vegetables
HipNoses Handcrafted Candles
Desdamona Doolittle Leather Work
Teresa Audet - Object Maker
FrioFrio MN Ice Popsicles
The Caramel Jar
The Bitter Buffalo

July 14, 2016, Thursday - Hennepin Island Hydropower Tour with the Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm, approx. 1.5 miles

Location: Meet at 125 Main Street SE (at the green awning between Pracna on Main and the Aster Café).

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

Future Date:  July 28

Mill City Museum and Xcel Energy will partner on a series of weekday walking tours highlighting the story of waterpower at St. Anthony Falls, including rare access to an operating power plant.

During the early 20th century, more than two dozen mills and hydroelectric plants used the water power from St. Anthony Falls. Today just one is left: Xcel Energy's Hennepin Island Hydroelectric Plant.

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.

Hennepin Island Hydropower Tour is presented by Xcel Energy.

July 14, 2016, Thursday - River Rats Water Ski Show

Time: 6:30 PM

Location: 1758 N West River Rd

River Rats Water Ski Show

Join the River Rats for some excitement on the river! The show will feature pyramids, barefoot skiers, ballet line, swivel skiers and much more!

Development show at 6:30, main show at 7:00.

Bring blankets or lawn chairs and enjoy this free waterski show for the whole family along the banks of the Mississippi River.

Future shows:  July 21, 22, 27

July 13, 2016, Wednesday - Warehouse District Walking Tour with Preserve Minneapolis

Time: 6:30pm

Location: Meet at Edina Realty Office - Corner of Washington Avenue N and 3rd Avenue N

Minneapolis Warehouse District Walking Tour with Preserve Minneapolis

The Minneapolis Warehouse Historic District is the state's largest commercial district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  Spread over a 30 block area, the district includes 140 buildings and structures.  The district is historically important as an area of early commercial growth during the development of the city of Minneapolis and as the city's warehouse and wholesaling district that expanded during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Minneapolis became a major distribution center in the upper Midwest.  Wholesalers were attracted to the area northwest of the downtown business district where land values were relatively low and railroad lines nearby.  The leading wholesale lines included groceries, fruits and produce, hardware, dry goods, glassware, and most importantly, agricultural implements. 

The district is also architecturally significant for its remarkably intact concentration of commercial buildings designed by the city's leading architects including Cass Gilbert, Long and Long, Harry Wild Jones, Kees and Colburn, and Hewitt and Brown.  Stylistically, the buildings represent every major style from the period including Italianate, Queen Anne, Richardsonian Romanesque, Renaissance Revival, and the Commercial Style. 

The warehouse district has retained its sense of time and place with original bridges still in place, streets paved with bricks, and with trains passing through daily on the tracks beds around which the area first developed. The tour will discuss the overall history of the district, the history and architectural styles of individual buildings, and the architects who designed them. 

The tour will walk one mile. The tour guide is Rolf Anderson.

July 13, 2016, Wednesday - Friends of the Mississippi River presents Brown Bag Lunch: Reconnecting North Minneapolis to the Mighty Mississippi

Time: 11:30am – 1:00pm

Location: McKnight Foundation, 710 Second Street S., #400

Friends of the Mississippi River presents:

Brown Bag Lunch: Reconnecting North Minneapolis to the Mighty Mississippi

With the Mississippi Riverfront in North Minneapolis slated to become parkland in the coming years, it's important to ensure that it be a true, accessible, community amenity for North Minneapolis residents. To do this, connections between the community and the riverfront parkland must be improved. Friends of the Mississippi River (FMR) invites you to a brown bag lunch for a presentation and discussion about the barriers and opportunities to reconnect North Minneapolis neighborhoods and the Mississippi River. The lunch will include a presentation by FMR’s's UMN CURA Research Assistant Eric King on his connections research throughout the spring 2016 semester. A discussion about the existing barriers and opportunities as well as projects that are in the works to improve connections will follow. Beverages and dessert provided. Please RSVP using the above link.