March 21, 2015, Saturday - The Soap Factory and Northern Lights.mn present: Art(ists) on the Verge 6 Opening Reception

Time:  7:00pm - 11:00pm

Location: The Soap Factory, 514 2nd Street SE

The Soap Factory and Northern Lights.mn are pleased to announce the 6th installment of our annual collaboration.

Join us for an opening reception on March 21st from 7pm-10pm . This exhibition features new work from five Minnesota-based artists. AOV6 is an intensive, year-long, mentor-based fellowship program for emerging artists working experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture.

AOV6 Artists: Molly Balcom Raleigh, Meridith Lynn, Ryan Aasen, Claire Barber and Daniel Dean.

March 21, 2015, Saturday - Print Your Own Poster: "The Places We Love" Workshop at MCBA

Time: 10:00am - Noon

Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Print Your Own Poster: "The Places We Love"

For families with children ages 6 and up.

The theme and inspiration for this class is "The places we love." Come to class with ideas for images of your favorite place and create a pressure printed poster. Participants will use the sign & Vandercook printing presses to make multiple copies. Leave with unique artwork to hang in your home!

Adult/child pair: $40 ($36 members) + $8 supply fee
Additional participant (adult or child): $20 ($18 members) + $4 supply fee

March 21, 2015, Saturday - Childish Films at Central Library

Time: Doors open at 10 am for seating, snacks, and hands-on activities. Live pre-show performances begin at 10:30 am.

Location: Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

Today's feature: Comedy Carnival
 
Student performers from Xelias Aerial Arts warm up the crowd before two carnival-themed films featuring physical comedy genius, Buster Keaton.

•Coney Island, Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, 1917, 24 min. Two of the greatest physical actors in American History, Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle, in a vaudevillian comedy shot on location at Coney Island in the glory days of the famous amusement park and beach.
•Balloonatic, Buster Keaton, 1923, 27 min. A hapless amusement park attendant (Keaton) is carried away from the carnival by a hot air balloon ride to the countryside where he finds an outdoors-woman and more gag-filled adventure.

Doors open at 10 am for seating, snacks, and hands-on activities. Live pre-show performances begin at 10:30 am.
 
Childish Films @ the Library is a free program of children’s cinema and arts for all ages. Each screening features a pre-show activity, an educational introduction, and complimentary healthy snacks. Admission is free with open seating to the public. Most films are best enjoyed by ages 3 and older, but children and people of all ages are welcome to attend. If you have specific questions about the content of a particular film, please e-mail our curators. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Call 612.543.8107 for more information.
 
Sponsors: Patricia Ploetz, Pamela Ploetz, Weston Woods, Minnesota Parent, Whole Foods Market and CRASH+SUES.

March 21, 2015, Saturday - Baking Memories: The Rise of Convenience Foods at Mill City Museum

Time: 2:00pm

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Fee: Programs included with museum admission of $11 adults, $9 seniors and college students, $6 children ages 6-17; free for MNHS members.

The postwar years of the late 1940s and 1950s ushered in a new era of kitchen conveniences. Did housewives want these easy-to-use products and appliances or were food companies creating a market for their goods by exaggerating the drudgery of home cooking? Using the example of the cake mix, this demonstration will answer this question, highlighting the dramatic changes in cooking habits during this era and how those innovations affect our lives today. Visitors will learn about food history, sample cakes made from scratch and from mix and take home a recipe.

March 19, 2015, Thursday - Must Talk TV at Republic

Time: Social time 6:00pm, discussion 7:00pm-8:30pm

Location: Republic – 7 Corners, 221 Cedar Avenue South

Must Talk TV - The Bletchley Circle

Must Talk TV is a new live event series akin to a book club, like Books & Bars, but without all that pesky reading. Join the live event interactive audience discussion of the hottest TV series of the moment, hosted by Jeff Kamin (of Books & Bars).

Binge-watch the assigned show in advance and bring your thoughts, questions, opinions. Or plan to sit comfortably with a beer while others sound off.

Future events:

Game of Thrones – April 16
Mad Men – May 14

March 19, 2015, Thursday - Community Event at Our Lady of Lourdes

This community event at Our Lady of Lourdes regarding the proposed development at the Nye's site includes:   

6:30 Reception in the Great Hall (located in the lower level of the church) with good food and beverages

7:30 Presentation, Questions and Answers

For those interested, evening Prayer will be in the Church at 5:30pm, followed by a 6:00pm concert by award-winning organist Christopher Ganza.

March 18, 2015, Wednesday - Teen Anime Club at Central Library

Time: 4:30pm–6:00pm

Location: Central Library, RKMC Meeting Room, 300 Nicollet Mall

Teen Anime Club
For teens. Watch anime, discuss manga and share artwork. Something different every time!

Future dates:
Wednesday, April 15, 4:30pm–6:00pm
Wednesday, May 20, 4:30pm–6:00pm

March 17, 2015, Tuesday - Minneapolis St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Time:  Begins 6:30pm

Location: The parade route will start at Nicollet and 11th Street and end at 5th Street.

The Minneapolis St. Patrick’s Day Association welcomes your family to join us this year in celebrating St. Patrick’s Day 2015.

The Blarney Blast Party at The Normandy Inn & Suites is the official Minneapolis St. Patrick's Day party. 

The history of the parade dates back to 1969 when Duff’s Bar and the Bradford’s Pub initiated the first St. Patrick’s Day Parade for Minneapolis. It was a short caravan between the two pubs, and ironically, was prompted by friendly jibing of some gentlemen of other ethnic backgrounds. The first parade consisted of one float, provided by the Sons and Daughters of Ireland. It was a social event, including wild members of the Minnesota Vikings Football team riding motorcycles into Duff’s bar to commemorate the parade.

March 15, 2015, Sunday - March Slow Flow Somayoga at Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery

Time: 9:45am - 11:00am

Location: Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery, 1430 Washington Avenue South

Join us for a Slow Flow Therapeutic Yoga class at Town Hall Brewery on Sunday March 15th. Increase your mobility, stability, strength and function while increasing your awareness of mind and body! Complimentary award winning house beer after class to quench your thirst! Bring your own mat, water and small blanket/beach towel. Cost is $15. Town Hall will be open for lunch after class, stay and have a bite to eat!

Class is limited to 15 students, hope to see you! Registration for this class is required due to limited space, please see link on event to register online. Feel free to share this event with those who may be interested! Namaste!

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March 14, 2015, Saturday - Tooting, Strumming Banging Books Workshop with Ellen Ferrari at MCBA

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Tooting, Strumming, Banging Books with Ellen Ferrari

For families with children ages 2 and up

Meet the orchestra in Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin by Lloyd Moss and then star in your own orchestra -- an orchestra of musical book structures! Build an accordion book drum. Create a donut book castanet. Make a rubber band binding guitar. Roll a scroll flute book. Class ends with a concert!

Join Ellen Ferrari for family book arts fun! Each workshop starts off with a story and game to warm up your creativity and then dives into a book arts project. Workshops accommodate a range of developmental levels so that adults and children (or) adult/child teams may choose to work together or side-by-side. Each participant receives supplies to use during the workshop, but may choose to bring one set home if working with his or her partner. Ellen will provide older children with suggestions for extending their learning.

Adult/child pair: $30 ($27 members) + $6 supply fee
Additional participant (adult or child): $15 ($13.50 members) + $3 supply fee

March 14, 2015, Saturday - Webster Elementary Meet & Greet at MFT Building

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Address: Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Building, 67 8th Ave NE (67 Plymouth Avenue NE)

Webster Elementary is opening August 2015 as a prekindergarten through second grade school. The school will add a grade each year, growing to a PreK-5 school. At Webster, all students and staff will construct knowledge, skills, and understanding through problem-solving, collaborative work, individual interests, and community partnerships. Students will be nurtured and challenged to be courageous, inquisitive, persistent, autonomous, caring, and self aware.

The next "Meet and Greet" is March 14th.  Join Principal Ginger Kranz and other staff to connect, learn about Webster, enroll (if you haven't done so yet), enjoy some light refreshments, and learn about the latest work going on. New and old families, friends, community members--all welcome!

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March 14, 2015, Saturday - Team Ortho Foundation's Get Lucky! 7K Race

Start times: 9:00am, 9:15am and 9:30am

Starting Point: South 2nd Street near Portland Avenue South

The Team Ortho Foundation's Get Lucky! 7K course travels along downtown Minneapolis and the Mississippi River.

We will start you in waves according to your estimated minute per mile pace.
- Elite, 7 minute, 8 minute and 8:30 minute pace will start at 9:00am.
- 9 minute pace to 10 minute pace will start approximately at 9:15am.
- 11 minute pace, 12 minute pace, and recreational walkers will start approximately at 9:30am.

March 13, 2015, Friday - Live Music at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm

Location: Crooked Pint Ale House, 501 Washington Avenue South

Tonight: Salsa del Soul

March 13, 2015, Friday - Mentor Series Reading: Kao Kalia Yang at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

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

The 2014–15 Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose presents nonfiction mentor Kao Kalia Yang reading along with program participants Rhea Davison-Edwards (poetry) and Kinzy Janssen (nonfiction).

Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer, is the co-founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. Yang is a graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University. She is currently working on her second manuscript, Still, Fluttering Heart: The Second Album. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kao Kalia Yang is a teacher, public speaker, and writer.

Rhea Davison-Edwards has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from Minnesota State University-Mankato. In her writing, she seeks to write honestly and openly about real-life struggles, while also creating and sustaining hope. She has primarily worked in nonfiction and fiction, but she’s thrilled to have the opportunity to focus on the art and craft of poetry, with the help of great mentors and the company of fellow mentees.

Kinzy Janssen is an editor, blogger, and poet living in Saint Paul whose work has been published in Wisconsin People & Ideas, Volume One, and Innisfree Poetry Journal. She is currently social media editor at The Riveter Magazine. She’s always in the mood for karaoke and craft beer, and fancies herself a gardener after one semi-successful year. She loves musing about the Midwest and its boundaries, regionalisms, and weather.

March 13, 2015, Friday - “How Futures Research Might Lead Us to a More Resilient Mississippi River” at McKnight Foundation

Time:  8:00am – 9:30am

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

“How Futures Research Might Lead Us to a More Resilient Mississippi River”

Many of us consider our work to be in service of a “big-picture” better future for the Mississippi River and Minnesota’s natural resources. And yet…..How many emails await your attention right now? How many meetings do you have between now and next Wednesday? Though we may wish to contribute to a healthier long-term future for our beloved natural resources, many spend most of each day attending to short-term, immediate needs. Do we miss strategic and creative opportunities when we are scrambling to make it through each day’s to-do list, especially now that the pace of environmental change is so rapid? Futurists investigate how social, economic and technological developments are shaping the future—and apply anticipatory thinking to society’s greatest challenges. Might taking a “futurist” approach to our work help enrich environmental protection, planning and policy efforts?

Join us for this thought-provoking conversation that will invite you to think far outside your daily routine. Presenter George Kubik is President of the Anticipatory Futures Group, LLC, a former Strategic Futurist and Assistant Regional Director for Strategic Planning with the U.S. Government, and is President of the Minnesota Chapter of the World Future Society. Light breakfast provided. Free.

RSVP to lark_weller@nps.gov. Please be prepared to sign in at McKnight's front desk and get a visitor pass.

March 12, 2015, Thursday - Larry Millett at Mill City Museum

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street
  
Join author Larry Millett at the Mill City Museum for an illustrated presentation based on his new book "Minnesota’s Own: Preserving Our Grand Homes." From Duluth to Bemidji, Red Wing to the Twin Cities, Millett and photographer Matt Schmitt look at homes from across the state that have been lovingly preserved and saved so that they can remain jewels among the state’s living architecture.

Mr. Millett will sign copies of the book which can be purchased in the Mill City Museum store.

March 12, 2015, Thursday - Poetry Out Loud State Competition at Central Library

Time: 11:30am

Location:  Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

The Loft Literary Center is excited to be managing Poetry Out Loud for the state of Minnesota as part of our mission to inspire a passion for literature. One high-school student from this state competition will go on to represent Minnesota at the 2014 Poetry Out Loud National Finals this April in Washington, DC.

March 12, 2015, Thursday - CouchTrippin' 2015: Minneapolis with The Lagunitas Brewing Company at Aria

Time: 7:00pm to 11:00pm

Location: Aria, 105 1st Street N

Lagunitas is hittin’ the road to Minneapolis with our friends at O+, killer bands, freaktacular entertainment from our Beer Circus, and even some couches from our Loft. It wouldn't be a party without a few of our brews, so expect a delicious lineup on draft too!

RSVP now to hear Delta Spirit, Hippo Campus, see live art by Josh Reisz, and take in a whole truckload of fun!
 
Parties are 21+ over only. So if you’ve got a valid ID, RSVP now. Then be sure to show up early ‘cuz RSVP only gets you on the list … once the party’s full, it’s full.

REMINDER INFO
  • 21 and over only (must have valid ID).
  • You must RSVP here.
  • Tickets: Bring your paper ticket or have email handy.
  • Arrive Early! Entry is on first-come first-served basis.
  • Doors at 7pm.
 
www.LAGUNITAS.com/couchtrippin

March 11, 2015, Wednesday - A Sip of Science at Aster Cafe

Time: 5:30pm

Location: Aster Cafe (River Room) 125 SE Main Street

February Sip of Science - The Fargo-Moorhead Flood Diversion Project

RSVP for Sip of Science

With Miguel Wong, Barr Engineering, and Chris Ellis, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota

For decades the cities of Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota, have been plagued by flooding from the Red River of the North and its tributaries.  As part of a team of consultants hired by the two cities, Barr worked with the USACE St. Paul District to develop and compare solutions to the problem—and provide relief to an area that, in the past 16 years, has experienced six of the 10 largest flood events since 1897. Expedited after the flood of record in 2009, the fast-track feasibility study for this large and complex undertaking was completed in just three years, and the project is now in final design. The ultimate goal of the project is construction of a 36-mile-long diversion channel to direct floodwater around the Fargo-Moorhead metropolitan area. This presentation will highlight work on two unique project features: the Maple aqueduct and spillway structures, and the artificially constructed meandering low flow channel.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Born and raised in Peru, Miguel Wong obtained his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering there. He earned his master’s in hydraulic engineering from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands, and his PhD from the University of Minnesota. His doctoral work at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory yielded a proposed modification to a well-established bedload-transport equation that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers subsequently incorporated into its HEC-RAS modeling software. Miguel, who now has more than 20 years of experience, has acquired the last nine as a senior water resources engineer at Barr Engineering Co., consulting on hydrologic modeling, hydraulic design, river-mechanics analysis, and water management.
 
Chris Ellis is a Senior Research Associate at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. With over 30 years of experience, Chris is engaged in fundamental and applied water and wind related research. He is one of the Lab’s primary resources for experimental and measurement design and implementation including scientific/engineering systems design, facility design and fabrication, and high speed automated data acquisition and analysis.

March 10, 2015, Tuesday - Field Hearing: Committee on Transportation and Public Safety at MPRB

Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Location:  Minneapolis Park and Rec Board Offices,  2117 W. River Road N 

All are invited to attend this upcoming Minnesota Senate Transportation Committee hearing. This meeting will be both informational and provide members of the transportation committee with an opportunity to hear from the public about the transportation needs in North Minneapolis and surrounding areas.  

If you would like to testify, please sign up by contacting Suzanne Sobotka, Committee Administrator for the Senate Transportation Committee: suzanne.sobotka@senate.mn or (651) 296-1738. The hearing will be two hours in length, so testimony may be limited.