May 5, 6 and 7
Location: The Loft Literary Center, at Open Book (Loft Classroom), 1011 Washington Ave
Children's and Young Adult Literature Conference 2016
Genre: Children's and Young Adult
Pricing:
• Regular: $275.00
• Member: $247.50
Time: 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Wander North Distillery, 771 Harding St NE
Riverscape: a conversation on riverfront revitalization
Hosted by Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership
Free event, but please register
The Minneapolis Riverfront is a constantly evolving landscape of parks, homes, offices, and industry. That landscape has been undergoing dramatic change in recent decades - first in the Central Riverfront downtown, and more recently in the Upper Riverfront above St. Anthony Falls.
How is this riverfront evolution progressing? What areas are seeing healthy change? What areas need more attention? What areas might act as a model for future revitalization efforts? What might we do to accelerate positive change?
Join us at Wander North Distillery for great local drinks, as we launch into an in-depth exploration of riverfront change through the lenses of economic health, riverfront access, community engagement, and natural resources. Come with your ideas and questions.
Time: 4:00pm
Location: The Depot Minneapolis, 225 Third Avenue South
Treehouse presents: Life, Transformed: A Journey of Grace
Reserve your space at the 2016 TreeHouse gala today, benefitting Treehouse, Inc., and featuring musical guest Susan Boyle.
TreeHouse brings living hope to hurting youth and families leading to life transformation.
TreeHouse programs are designed to meet social, emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual needs of at-risk teens. TreeHouse provides a safe environment as well as mentoring for teens to receive support, guidance and practical skills in making better choices today to live as healthy adults tomorrow.
Time: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
2nd Annual Minneapolis Public School & True Food Chef Council Jr. Iron Chef Contest!
Sign up & get more info here.
Presented by Minneapolis Public Schools & True Food Chef Council. Wedge Community Co-op will be stocking the Junior Iron Chef Pantry, and Solar Arts by Chowgirls is providing the event space.
Time: 11:00am – 3:00pm
Location: Central Libray, 300 Nicollet Mall, 2nd Floor
Over 700 Twin Cities Metro Area Youth Expected to Attend 10th Annual Minneapolis Teen Job and Opportunity Fair on Saturday, April 30
On Saturday, April 30, over 700 teens are expected to attend the 10th annual Minneapolis Teen Job and Opportunity Fair taking place at the Hennepin County Library - Minneapolis Central from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The event is free to attend and pre-registration is not required.
The Minneapolis Teen Job and Opportunity Fair is a great way for teens aged 14 to 19 to connect to job-search resources and find out more about available volunteer, internship, training, and employment opportunities. More than forty businesses and organizations are expected to exhibit including TJ Maxx, Mall of America, Lunds and Byerlys, and Home Depot.
Teens should come dressed to impress, prepared to network with potential employers, and distribute resumes. Hennepin County librarians will be on hand with laptops, a scanner, and a printer, as well as support in finding resources to support the teens’ job/career/opportunity searches. A complete list of exhibitors can be found available on the City of Minneapolis website. The event can also be followed on social media by using the hashtag #levelup2k16.
Agenda
12:00 p.m.
“Get a Job Now” workshop by Renisha Gray, EMERGE Community Development
“Pro Up to Glow Up” Fashion Expo for Youth from Aveda Institute and the Minneapolis Youth Congress
1:00 p.m.
“Who We Hire: How Job Candidates Get Noticed and Get the Job” employer panel facilitated by Minneapolis Youth Congress
2:00 p.m.
“Get a Job Now” workshop by Renisha Gray, EMERGE Community Development
“Pro Up to Glow Up” Fashion Expo for Youth from Aveda Institute and the Minneapolis Youth Congress
The Teen Job Fair is produced by City of Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development Department, Hennepin County, Hennepin County Library, AchieveMpls, Minneapolis WorkForce Centers, Lunds and Byerlys, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, Minneapolis Youth Congress, Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board, EMERGE and East Side Neighborhood Services, and Aveda Institute.
Time: 9:00am – Noon
Location: Boom Island Park, 724 Sibley Street NE
Boom Island Brewing’s new volunteer program, Boom Gives Back, is an initiative to get their fans out into the community to give back. They’re looking for individuals interested in donating their time and energy to join The Boom Crew and become a part of Boom Gives Back.
Once a month, Boom Gives Back will have a volunteer opportunity available. After each activity, volunteers will be treated to a special Boom Crew happy hour back at the taproom. The first volunteer project is assisting the Minneapolis Parks & Recreation board with spring clean-up on Saturday, April 30. Reserve your spot through Eventbrite Volunteer Sign Up.
If you're interested in hearing about future volunteer activities, email info@boomislandbrewing.com with the subject line "Volunteer" to be added to the Boom Crew volunteer email list.
Saturday, April 30, 10:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday, May 1, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Minneapolis & St. Paul Home Tour
This year’s tour includes three A-Mill Artists Loft units and tour of the A-Mill Artist Lofts project.
2016 guides are available online and at Hennepin or Ramsey County libraries.
Time: 4:00pm-8:00pm
Location: Logan Park, 690 13th Avenue NE
Help plant 130 new trees in Logan Park! Event features free food for kids, beer garden, food trucks and much more.
Join the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB), Northeast Minneapolis neighbors and tree lovers of all ages at the 2016 Minneapolis Arbor Day Celebration at Logan Park on Friday, April 29, 4-8 pm. This spectacular celebration of trees offers something fun for the whole family and the opportunity to help plant more than 130 new trees at Logan Park.
The party starts at 4 pm with landscape-scale yard games like giant checkers using tree cookies, tree-sized ladder golf and giant Kubb, bucket truck rides and rope-and-saddle tree climbing supervised by professional arborists. For kids, there will be a tree-themed nature play zone, bounce house and free dinner sponsored by Minneapolis Public Schools from 4 pm to 6 pm (people aged 18 and under while supplies last).
Arborists will lead waves of tree planting excursions throughout the park beginning at every half hour interval between 4:30 pm and 6:30 pm. Family-friendly kickball games and a free concert by Your Community Band begin at 5 pm, and a special tree planting ceremony is scheduled for 6 pm. The MPRB Forestry Department will leave a large pile of free woodchips at the park for the public to take home and use in their yards and gardens.
The MPRB is also partnering with Brewing a Better Forest to offer a beer garden featuring local breweries 612 Brew, Fair State, Dangerous Man and Sociable Cider Werks, and coffee from Matchbox Coffee Shop. The Bacon-Me-Crazy and Simply Steve’s food trucks will be cooking up and selling delicious treats along 13th Avenue beginning at 4 pm.
Activities: Kickball, tree planting, bucket truck rides, bounce house, tree climbing, yard games, nature play zone, free woodchips, Adopt-A-Tree program through Brewing a Better Forest.
Music: Your Community Band, a large brass marching ensemble borne out of Powderhorn’s infamous May Day Parade, will perform beginning at 5 pm.
Food/Drink: Food trucks, free healthy dinners for kids under 18 provided by Minneapolis Public Schools, beer garden featuring local craft breweries and coffee
Volunteer: Volunteers are needed to help run the many activities planned. Please email volunteers@minneapolisparks.org to sign up for a 90-minute shift!
Fun Fact: The 45th parallel, which marks the exact halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole, runs directly through Logan Park.
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Dowling Studio, Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South
Continuing the conversation between Minnesota veterans, military families and the Minnesota community at large, The Telling Project returns with Telling: Minnesota 2016 – a new play with a new cast of local veterans and military family members, performing their own experiences. Telling: Minnesota 2016 will be an opportunity for area military veterans to speak, and their fellow citizens to listen. These free, live performances are a forum for necessary person-to-person conversations, deepening our community’s connection to our military and military families, to each other, and through these ties, to and our nation, and our world.
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
Kid Simple: a radio play in the flesh Presented by Swandive Theatre
April 29 - May 22
Moll, a girl who invents things, wins the science fair with a machine for hearing sounds that can't be heard. But when a shapeshifting Mercenary steals the invention (and her heart), she must embark on a quest to save noise as we know it. Accompanied by the last boy-virgin in the eleventh grade, Moll crosses chasms and rafts rivers into a world where sound is always more than what meets the ear. A quirky fable of innocence and experience, featuring live sound effects, mutinous onomatopoeia, and a host of woodsy temptations.
This year, hundreds of restaurants in the Twin Cities, Duluth and Mankato are participating in Dining Out for Life® by donating a percentage of their April 28 proceeds to The Aliveness Project.
Founded in 1985, The Aliveness Project is a local nonprofit organization and community center providing on-site meals, food shelf options, integrative therapies, and vital services for individuals living with HIV/AIDS throughout Minnesota. 75% of their members live in poverty and depend on them for daily meals.
In our downtown and riverfront neighborhoods, participating restaurants include (but are not limited to) Haute Dish, J.D. Hoyt's, Sawatdee, Wilde Cafe and Spirits, Day Block, Kramarczuk's, The Bulldog, Red Cow, Red Stag Supperclub, Republic Seven Corners, Ginger Hop and The Draft Horse.
Time: VIP: 6pm – 10pm (General Admission: 7pm – 10pm)
Location: International Market Square, 275 Market Street
City Pages Best of the Twin Cities®
We're celebrating all our Minnesota favorites at this year's City Pages Best of the Twin Cities® Party on Thursday, April 28th at International Market Square from 7–10pm. Honoring the biggest City Pages issue of the year, this soiree will bring the 2016 Best of the Twin Cities® content to life! Pose on the red carpet, indulge in complimentary food samples from Best Of award-winning restaurants and dance to live music and other entertainment.
Explore the North Loop and all that we have to offer on Date Night.
On the last Thursday of every month from 5-8pm enjoy horse and carriage rides to your shopping & dining destinations along with special events, amusements and discounts at all participating stores.
Time: 10:00am reception, 10:30am concert
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 2nd Street South
Thursday Musical’s 2015-2016 Thursday Morning Artist Series
The Thursday Morning Artist Series has been presented since 1892 at 10:30 am on Thursdays. It is the organization’s longest-running recital and chamber music series with a legacy of featuring some of the most talented classical musicians in Minnesota. Programs are currently being held in the acoustically impressive Antonello Hall at MacPhail Center for Music and inside the beautiful architecture of the Wayzata Community Church, Wayzata. Free coffee and donuts are provided in the lobby starting at 10:00 am served by members of Thursday Musical. Detailed program information will be announced throughout the season.
Next performance:
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Elizabeth Kleiber, flute - Young Artist Scholarship Competition Winner 2015
Amy Morris, flute
Robin Helgen, soprano
Elliott Wilcox, piano
Time: 8:00am
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 Second Street S
Preserve Minneapolis presents: Breakfast With a Preservationist: Unbuilt Minneapolis
The city is full of living landmarks and the ghosts of buildings past, but we often forget about the grand plans that never came to fruition at all. Join Preserve Minneapolis to learn about a Leroy Huffington skyscraper, early plans for Block E and many city icons that never made it off the drawing board, and to discuss if and how these icons of the imagination would have changed Minneapolis as we know it.
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE
Lighten Up: Lifting the Burden of Ingrained Gender Stereotypes
The hosts of the Professional Humans Podcast have teamed up with the MPLS MadWomen to spark a conversation and dig into the ingrained, gender-specific perceptions about “strength” and “weakness” and how they show up in the workplace. We have hauled these biases around with us long enough, and it’s time to take a look at them in a new way and maybe start to lighten up from the burden they bring. Guests include Alison Beattie of MPLS MadWomen, Erin Farrell of Space 150, and Chad Gillard of GoKart Labs & Midwest Pantry and the conversation will be facilitated by Professional Humans Elli Rader and Josh Berg.
Find more information on both informations at:
http://www.prohumans.com/
http://www.mplsmadwomen.com/
Doors open at 5:30. Tickets must be purchased beforehand.
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm (presentations at 4pm and 5pm; come anytime)
Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall
The proposed concept for Hennepin Avenue being presented April 25 is available here (see page 12).
Please come and share your thoughts!
Time: 6:00pm
Location: North Central University Trask Worship Center
EAST DOWNTOWN DISTRICT BRANDING INITIATIVE COMMUNITY MEETING
* * * MESSAGE FROM THE EAST DOWNTOWN COUNCIL * * *
Dear People and Organizations of Elliot Park and Downtown East and the DMNA,
The leadership of the East Downtown Council invites you to attend a special multi-organizational meeting on Monday, April 25, 6pmat North Central University’s Trask Worship Center located at 910 Elliot Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404. This meeting will provide an overview of the multi-year district branding process, present a distilled slate of three potential names for our district, and solicit feedback from the audience. The featured presenter of the meeting will be Kelly O’Keefe, Professor, Creative Brand Management at Virginia Commonwealth University, a national voice who has worked on brand initiatives with cities, universities, businesses, non-profits, and neighborhoods.
Still wondering what this initiative is all about? There has been a great deal of media coverage on our initiative with the Star Tribune providing the following concise statement of intent:
“With so many different uses popping up at once, developers and community leaders are left wondering whether this is becoming a tourism district or an up-and-coming residential neighborhood, a place to relax and recreate or a place for diverse-income housing and human services. The East Downtown Council says that it can be all, but that a larger umbrella name is needed to describe the district so that one portion of it doesn’t hijack the identity or fall short of capturing all that it offers.”
There is on street and ramp parking near NCU’s Trask Worship Center. Thank you for your passion for East Downtown our district and all that our businesses and neighborhoods do to create a vital community amidst unprecedented period of growth.
East Downtown Council Board of Directors
Time: 9am - 1pm
Location: East Side Neighborhood Services, 1700 Second Street NE
Northeast Minneapolis Farmers Market 9th Annual Pancake Breakfast
Every year the Northeast Minneapolis Farmers Market launchs the season with thier famous locally sourced pancake breakfast!
-Whole-grain pancakes
-Gluten free pancakes
-Locally-made sausage
-Vegan sausage
-Organic o.j.
-Fair-trade coffee
-Real maple syrup
This year it will be held on Saturday, April 23rd at East Side Neighborhood Services. It's an annual tradition that provides opportunity for neighbors to build community and make friends while enjoying a delicious, zero-waste breakfast that supports the continuing operation of our farmers market.
Join us for this fun fundraiser! It's the best breakfast deal in town!
$10 Adults
$5 Kids
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