August 9, 2015, Sunday - Paint Nite at Mattie's on Main

Time:  7:00pm

Location: Mattie's on Main, 43 Main Street SE

Paint Nite

Artist:  Anna Hoover

No experience required! Just follow along while our Social Painting Instructor guides you step-by-step through the featured painting in about two hours. If you’re feeling creative, change the colors to suit your décor or go completely rogue. We provide all the painting supplies: a 16”x20” canvas, acrylic paint, brushes, smock, music, and a good time.

Come out early to enjoy dinner or cocktails before we get started, just let them know you’re with Paint Nite. Secure your seats 15 minutes before start time, especially if part of a large group. Food and drinks are available for purchase from the venue and NOT included in the ticket price. Outside food and drink are not allowed - NO BYOB. Events are for adults, 21+ only.

August 9, 2015, Sunday - Swing Brunch at Aster Cafe

Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Today: Swing Brunch with Patty and the Buttons

August 9, 2015, Sunday - Washburn A Mill Tour at Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Tour includes museum admission.

Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.

Take an in-depth look at the historic Washburn A Mill complex and the award-winning Mill City Museum building. A museum interpreter 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 non-public spaces. The tour includes admission to the museum gallery, Baking Lab, Water Lab and Flour Tower show.

August 9, 2015, Sunday - Twin Cities Polish Festival

Time: 11:00am - 5:00pm

Location: Old Main Street across from Riverplace and St. Anthony Main

Polish Culture in all of its Glory!

http://www.tcpolishfestival.org/

FREE ADMISSION

August 9, 2015, Sunday - CorePower Yoga 'Take it Outside' at Aster Cafe

Time: 9am

Location:  Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street

2015 CorePower Yoga 'Take it Outside' Series 

Join us at the Aster Cafe and enjoy coffee or mimosas with brunch afterward! Bring your own mat. Free.

August 8, 2015, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Food Tours Minneapolis Riverwalk Tour

Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm

Location: Begins at Gold Medal Park (10th Avenue South & 2nd Street South), next to the Guthrie Theater - ends in Northeast Minneapolis

Hungry for an off-the-beaten path Minneapolis food experience? Join us as we explore one of the city's trendy and historical neighborhoods, Mill District and St. Anthony on Main in Northeast Minneapolis. You'll enjoy the afternoon sampling food at the first Thai restaurant in Minnesota, drinking local Minnesota brewed craft beer at the oldest restaurant in Minneapolis, and enjoy a local favorite - the cheese curds.  You'll also enjoy mouth-watering pasta located in the historical Chase building, home-made gelato, and nosh on savory European style baked bread as we stroll through the local Farmers Market.

Along with sampling food we will also visit the Mill City Museum, stroll by the Guthrie, and enjoy gorgeous views of St. Anthony Falls as we walk along the Stone Arch Bridge into historical St. Anthony on Main.  You'll learn about the history of both these neighborhoods including a stroll along the oldest street in Minneapolis.  You'll taste and chat with other food-loving guests, and leave the tour with an appreciation for these distinct neighborhoods that most tourist never see!

Reservations.

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August 8, 2015, Saturday - Twin Cities Polish Festival

Time: 10:00am - 10:00pm

Location: Old Main Street across from Riverplace and St. Anthony Main

Polish Culture in all of its Glory!

http://www.tcpolishfestival.org/

2015 Twin Cities Polish Festival Hours:
Friday, August 7: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday, August 8: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Sunday, August 9: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

FREE ADMISSION

August 8, 2015, Saturday - Free Yoga at Gold Medal Park

August 8, 2015, Saturday - I Hate Myself, Will You Please Love Me? at Southern Theater (thru Aug 16, 8 performances)

Time:  See schedule below

Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South

I Hate Myself, Will You Please Love Me? Presented by Mathew Janczewski's ARENA DANCES

This ironically dark comedy and cautionary tale of The Carpenters explores insecurities through the dancers’ sly irreverence combined with mellow grace, set to the Songbook of The Carpenters’ easy pop. Beautiful and idiosyncratic, Janczewski’s work has a fresh attention to character and precision, and an electrifying range of motion and emotion with music by The Carpenters, American Music Club, Johnette Napolitano & Marc Moreland and Fourtet.

August 8, 2015, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market: Youth Day at the Market

Produce Planner:
Aronia berries, arugula, basil, beets, bell peppers, blueberries, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, chives, cilantro, cucumbers, dill, fennel, garlic, green beans, green garlic, green shallots, kale, lettuce, mache, melons (multiple varieties), mesclun mix, mushrooms, mustard greens, Napa cabbage, new potatoes, oregano, pac choi, parsley, parsnips, radicchio, radishes, raspberries, sage, salad mix, scallions, shiitake, snow peas, sorrel, spinach, spring onions, sugar snap peas, summer squash, sweet corn, Swiss chard, tarragon, thyme, turnips, watercress, watermelon, zucchini, and much more!!
         
Mill City Cooks, 10 AM:

Join Market Chef Heather Hartman in the kitchen today at 10 AM for a special demo with her daughter Josephine, focusing on fun and easy recipes for kids! 

Live Music, 11 AM - 1 PM:
MCFM welcomes back  Orange Mighty Trio  to the Market. Listen to this delightfully adventurous ensemble as you shop!

Sponsor Booth all day:
Say hello to our day sponsor UCare on Saturday!

Community Booths, all day: 
Stop by and see our awesome community booths this week: Oink Outings and Minneapolis Public Schools Food Truck.

Mini-Farm, all day:  
Say hello to your furry and feathered friends from Oliver H. Kelley Farm this Saturday!

Power of Produce, all day:
Kids ages 5-12 get a free $2 Token to be spent on a fruit or veggie of their choosing just for trying a raw veggie! Stop by the PoP Booth for more information.

Art Market, all day:
Featuring Spring Finn &  Co., Fresh Mud Pottery, Made by Liz P., and Old World Cabinet.

Stop by the Info Booth on Saturday for a free "I ♥ Farmers Markets" temporary tattoo while supplies last and enter FMC's #MoretoMarket Instagram Contest! Entrants are encouraged to get inky and show off their market pride by posting photos of themselves, farmers, shoppers, puppies, babies - anyone! - with a tattoo and hashtag#MoretoMarket on Instagram throughout July and August. Fun prizes will be awarded to the markets featured in the winning photos!

August 8, 2015, Saturday - I Am Chris Farley at St. Anthony Main Theatre

Time:  7:00pm

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

The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul presents  I Am Chris Farley

Chris Farley lived his life full speed and committed to make everyone around him laugh out loud, and I Am Chris Farley will tell his hilarious, touching and wildly entertaining story for the first time ever - from his early days in Madison, Wisconsin, and at Marquette University, through his work at the legendary Second City to his rapid rise to the top of the comedy world on “Saturday Night Live” and in hit films like Tommy Boy and Black Sheep.

The film showcases the performer’s most memorable characters and skits from television and film, paired with iconic photographs, home movies and family snapshots, to fully round out the story of this comedy legend – a bear of a man who nevertheless had remarkable grace and physicality. Clips from Farley’s most memorable performances fill the documentary, from his breathtaking Chippendales audition alongside Patrick Swayze, to his comically ill-fated salesman in Tommy Boy, to his diatribes as Matt Foley, the motivational speaker who “lives in a van down by the river!”

Sharing insights into the beloved funnyman are such co-stars and colleagues as Christina Applegate, Tom Arnold, Dan Aykroyd, Bo Derek, Pat Finn, Jon Lovitz, Lorne Michaels, Jay Mohr, Mike Myers, Bob Odenkirk, Bob Saget, Adam Sandler, Will Sasso, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Brian Stack and Fred Wolf, and family members including his brother Kevin, a comedian and actor, and his brothers Tom Jr. and Johnny, with sister Barbara.

August 8, 2015, Saturday - Engineering the Falls Tour with History Player William de la Barre at Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Engineering the Falls Tour with History Player William de la Barre

Fee: $14 adults, $12 seniors and college students, $10 children ages 6-17 and MNHS members. Includes museum admission.

Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.

Take a walking tour of St. Anthony Falls, led by a costumed museum interpreter portraying William de la Barre, the Austrian engineer who spent half a century developing Minneapolis’ flour milling and waterpower. Visit the Minneapolis Riverfront, the west side milling district, and the Stone Arch Bridge, learning the many changes to the falls over time.

The tour includes one mile of moderately paced walking on uneven surfaces. Please call ahead to make arrangements for guests with limited mobility. The tour will begin and end at Mill City Museum, where participants can visit the museum’s gallery, included in the price of the tour. Tours are held rain or shine.

Future dates: August 30th, September 19th

August 7, 2015, Friday - Twin Cities Polish Festival

Time: 5:00pm - 10:00pm

Location: Old Main Street across from Riverplace and St. Anthony Main

Polish Culture in all of its Glory!

http://www.tcpolishfestival.org/

2015 Twin Cities Polish Festival Hours:
Friday, August 7: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday, August 8: 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM
Sunday, August 9: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

FREE ADMISSION

August 7, 2015, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Street SE

Tonight:  Tex Pistols

The Tex Pistols Band couldn’t be much further from Texas, and nobody in the band is from Texas, but that doesn’t stop these five Minneapolis vets of stage and studio from producing and performing some seriously kick butt music.  The sound is classic yet new all at once.  Shades of Neil Young and John Hiatt,Bonnie Raitt and The Mavericks, throw in some Joss Stone, Beatles and Little Feat and you get “The Tex Pistols Band”.

August 6, 2015, Thursday - National Theatre Live: Everyman at St. Anthony Main Theatre

Times:  Thu, Aug 6 7:00pm
            Sat, Aug 15 1:00pm

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

NT Live at the Film Society of Minneapolis/St. Paul: Everyman

BAFTA winner and Academy Award® nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) takes the title role in this dynamic new production of one of English drama’s oldest plays, directed by the National Theatre’s new Director Rufus Norris (Broken, London Road).

Everyman is successful, popular and riding high when Death comes calling. He is forced to abandon the life he has built and embark on a last, frantic search to recruit a friend, anyone, to speak in his defence. But Death is close behind, and time is running out.

One of the great primal, spiritual myths, Everyman asks whether it is only in death that we can understand our lives. A cornerstone of English drama since the 15th century, it now explodes onto the stage in a startling production with words by Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate, and movement by Javier De Frutos.

August 5, 2015, Wednesday - Public Hearing re: Proposed Concept Design for Water Works at MPRB

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board (MPRB) will hold a public hearing on the proposed concept design for Water Works as a subarea of Mill Ruins Park within the Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park. The hearing will be held on Wednesday, August 5 at 6:30 pm in the Board Room of MPRB at 2117 West River Road in Minneapolis.

Since 2013, the MPRB has been collaborating with the Minneapolis Parks Foundation to prepare a refined and expanded design for the upper portion of Mill Ruins Park, an area being called Water Works in honor of the location’s history. Preparation of the Water Works concept design was performed within the community engagement process conducted for the update to the Central Riverfront Regional Park Master Plan adopted by the Board of Commissioners on April 1, 2015. The key tenets of the Water Works design were recommended for approval by the appointed Central Riverfront Community Advisory Committee and adopted into the master plan by the Board. The Water Works concept plan builds largely from the 25-year old Mill Ruin Park plan but expands the plan to the west side of the parkway, infuses greater recreational interests, clarifies complex site circulation and restoration, and like other signature locations in the Minneapolis park system, establishes a clear point of arrival, place of shelter, and visitor services. 

All are welcome to attend and provide comment on the recommendations regarding the proposed concept design.

Download the proposed concept design...

Watch the design presentation, including a 3D animation flythrough at about the 4min, 40sec mark:

August 5, 2015, Wednesday - Mill City Live at Mill City Museum

Mill City Live returns for its twelfth season with four outdoor concerts on Wednesday evenings in August.

Set in the museum's dramatic open air Ruin Courtyard, "Mill City Live" features four great evenings of outdoor music by top local artists. 

• Time: 6 to 8 p.m.
• Fee: $5 includes concert and museum admission from 4 to 9 p.m., an opportunity to visit Mill City Museum at a significant discount.  Free for Minnesota Historical Society members.  
• In case of rain, Mill City Live goes on indoors! 

Wednesday, August 5th, 6-8pm

PaviElle Neo-soul/R&B

 

 

PaviElle French is a Neo Soul Vocalist, activist, dancer, and actress. In the past, PaviElle has taken the stage professionally as a vocalist, singer songwriter and spoken word artist. Her new endeavor is a musical collaboration with bassist, producer and composer Casey O’Brien and presents ten years of her songwriting, all of it deeply personal and autobiographical. Fear Not, a new independently produced record, presents the captivating work of innovative, potent and dynamic neo-soul singer PaviElle French, and represents her much anticipated return to performing after a five year hiatus.

 

“Brace yourselves, Twin Cities, because another conquering diva is about to storm our beaches. PaviElle French is poised to own 2015 like Lizzo did a few years back, and it’s time to welcome our brassy new boss. French has been honing her show with a monthly residency series at Icehouse for the last year, blowing away folks who just walked in for a cocktail with a whiplash-inducing voice.”  -Zach McCormick, City Pages

(photo: Bruce Wilcox)

 

Wednesday, August 12th, 6-8pm

Black Diet Garage, Indie, Soul

 

 

Recent winners of Vita.mn’s Are You Local? Showcase and named one of First Avenue’s Best New Bands of 2013, Black Diet is a garage/indie/soul band with a sartorial flair. Indebted to Stax records, they put on shows that look like Baptist church services held at punk houses. Part of a stream of vintage sounding acts coming out of Minneapolis’ Piñata Records, they’re spitting out sharp, testimonial jams for the masses.

 

Wednesday, August 19th, 6-8pm

 

Malamanya Cuban Soul, Salsa, Latin

Malamanya is a six-member Minneapolis-based Cuban Son ensemble, composed of a diverse group of musicians who share a mutual respect and enthusiasm for traditional rhythms and melodies of Latin American and Caribbean music. Their onstage energy and compositions reflect the communal, complex, and celebratory spirit prevalent in these musical genres.

Wednesday, August 26th, 6-8pm      

Davina and the Vagabonds New Orleans Blues, Jazz & Soul  

Davina and The Vagabonds are known for their high energy stage performances and their genre-busting mix of jazz, blues, and roots music. Led by Florida transplant Davina Sower’s powerful and evocative voice this guitar-less, horn-heavy band has the ability to make any crowd happy.

"Davina is the hardest -working Blues woman in Minnesota, but......two things remain consistent at all her shows, though: her throaty but cushiony voice, which has a sort of hardmattress comfort to it that's part Bonnie Raitt, Etta James and a little Amy Winehouse, and her band's rollicking New Orleans flavor, driven home by dueling horn players and a bayou-thick standup bass” – Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune

August 5, 2015, Wednesday - Wake-Up With Jacob! at Matties on Main

Time: 7:30pm - 9:00am

Location: Mattie's on Main at 43 Main Street NE

Join us for "Wake-Up With Jacob!" - a monthly community engagement event with Minneapolis City Council Member Jacob Frey.

August Wake-up with Jacob
Join us for a conversation about engaging voters and minimizing all potential barriers to full, free, and fair participation in elections. We are excited to welcome Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and Minneapolis City Clerk Casey Carl as our guests for this important discussion.

Attendees may purchase bottomless coffee and a pastry item for $5.00. Please RSVP to zack.farley@minneapolismn.gov.

August 5, 2015, Wednesday - Minneapolis Park and Rec Board Meeting

Time: 5:00pm

Location: Minneapolis Park and Rec Board, 2117 West River Road

Agenda

Meeting are broadcasted live on the City of Minneapolis Government Meeting Channel 79, or online at http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/tv/79. Those interested in viewing the MPRB meeting are encouraged to attend at MPRB headquarters, located at 2117 West River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55411, or view during the 10:30 p.m. Monday (12/3) rebroadcast on Channel 79.

August 4, 2015, Tuesday - Music & Movies at Father Hennepin Bluff Park

Time: Music 7:00pm

Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park (East Bank of the Stone Arch Bridge)

Tonights entertainment: (See website in case of scheduling changes.)

Music:
August 04 Compost Sleeping Bag
August 11 Matt Hannah
August 18 The Knotty Pines
August 25 Manny Phesto
September 1 Doug Otto & the Getaways

Movies:
August 04 TCBFF Presents: Little White Lie
August 11 The Hundred Foot Journey
August 18 Million Dollar Arm
August 25 Top Gun

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

Reminders: Watch our facebook or twitter page for weather cancellations of the evening festivities. Post photos of you, your family and friends enjoying the concerts and movies on the facebook page Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.

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!