August 3, 2014, Sunday - Swing Brunch at Aster Cafe

Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm, Free

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Today: Swing Brunch with Patty and the Buttons

Patty and The Buttons preach the gospel of hot rhythm and happy feet. The band is similar to what you would find in a dance hall, cafe or nightclub anywhere around the world between 1920-1940. Despite being an ensemble firmly rooted in tradition, the band presents their music without being shackled to history. They play their own compositions as well as takes on music of the era.

August 3, 2014, Sunday - Engineering the Falls Tour with History Player William de la Barre at Mill City Museum

Time: 1pm

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 costumed History Player William de la Barre, the Austrian engineer who spent half a century developing Minneapolis flour milling and waterpower. Participants will visit the Minneapolis Riverfront, the west-side milling district and the Stone Arch Bridge, and hear about the many ways the falls has changed over the years.

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 31, September 20

August 2, 2014, Saturday - How'd They Do That Workshop at The Guthrie: Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Time: 9:00am - 11:00am

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

What was the inspiration for the set? Was the play rewritten in rehearsals? Aren't those wigs itchy? Through these eye-opening workshops, you can learn how the Guthrie's artists and staff create a production - from early development and designs to rehearsal, costume fittings and staging of the play.

$15 per person per workshop.

Vonya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

August 2, 2014, Saturday - Yoga Rocks the Park at Marquette Plaza

Time: Meet at 10:30a - Class begins at 11:00am

Location: Marquette Plaza
 
Each weekly event features an OUTDOOR ALL-LEVELS 75-MINUTE YOGA CLASS (BEGINNERS WELCOME!) featuring the areas most inspiring local and national yoga teachers and kids yoga program, Camp YRP (for your little yogis), accompanied by LIVE MUSIC or DJ with some of the top and emerging musicians in the country.

THE 2014 LINE UP

August 2, 2014, Saturday - Women’s Work: History Player Eva Valesh Tour at Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Women’s Work: History Player Eva Valesh Tour at Mill City Museum

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

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

A costumed actor portraying labor writer Eva Valesh will lead a walking tour highlighting the factories whose working conditions were exposed by Valesh in series of newspaper articles in 1888 and 1889. Jobs available to women in the 19th and early 20th century and some of the key events in women’s labor history in Minneapolis will be discussed. Valesh was a labor writer and orator who was also known by the pen name Eva Gay. Among the riverfront factories singled out by "Eva Gay" was the North Star Woolen Mill, still standing two blocks from Mill City Museum. Valesh served as labor editor for the Saint Paul Globe and the Minneapolis Tribune. She went on to national acclaim, working for Samuel Gompers as assistant editor of the American Federationist.

The tour includes 1.5 miles 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.

For more information visit http://www.millcitymuseum.org/tours.

August 2, 2014, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market:  Kids in the Kitchen Day!

At the Market this Saturday, you will find: Arugula, basil, beets, blueberries, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, celery, chickweed, chives, cilantro, cucumbers, dill, dried beans, fennel, garlic, green beans, green peppers, head lettuce, herbs, kale, kohlrabi, lemon thyme, mushrooms, nettles, onions, oregano, peas, pac choi, potatoes, purplette onions, radishes, raspberries, rhubarb, salad mix, scallions, snow peas, spring onions, sugar snap peas, summer squash, sweet corn, Swiss chard, tarragon, tomatoes, totsoi, turnips, zucchini, and much more!

Mill City Cooks Demo, sponsored by UCare, 10 am: Don't miss this special cooking demo with Market Chef Heather Hartman and 'Kids in the Kitchen' cooking contest winner and birthday girl -  Vanessa Reyes-Romero, (age 9 on Saturday)! Vanessa will be showing us how to prepare her winning recipe: Fresh Mexican Flag salad.

Live Music, 11 am - 1 pm: MCFM welcomes Light of the Moon Trio! The Trio serves up a wide range of roots music from the American South, ranging from Appalachian tunes and Old-time country, Country Blues and Swing...on banjo, guitars, harmonicas, feet, voices, tinwhistle, and more!

Kids Activity, 8 - 10 am: Bring your kids, nieces, and nephews in for a fun veggie + art activity with Monica from Budding Farmers!

Picnic Operetta, 10 - 10:45 am: Check out a preview for this summer's rendition of King Arthur: A Picnic Operetta - English baroque gets punked!

Sponsor booth, all day: Because UCare is "health care that starts with you", visit UCare's booth for a free tote bag, our new 1 cup portion bowl and other wellness items and information from our LivingWell program.

Art Market, all day: Featuring Aprilierre, Sunrise Artists, and Annika Kaplan.

Member Specials 8/2/2014!

Become a Market Member and get a $5 off coupon at the Wedge Community Co-op, a free package of Mrs. Kelly's  Tea of the week,

weekly specials at the market all season long, and a $5 market token good for anything at the market! This Saturday's specials include: 

Black Cat Natural Foods: Buy one, get one 1/2 off (of equal or lesser value) before 10 am!    

Barkley's Bistro: But the "treat fleet" and get 1 pint of bones du jour for FREE!

Birchberry Native Arts and Food: $1 off any $10 purchase;

Bliss Granola: $1 off any bag of granola or muesli! 

Northern Lakes Wild Rice: $1 off 1 lb of wild rice; 

Loon Organics: $1 off any $10 purchase;

Mrs. Kelly's Tea: $1 off a $10.50 purchase;

Kiss My Cabbage: $1 off Lemon Coriander Leek Kraut; 

Verdant Tea: a free drink with purchase of $25+ loose leaf tea!

Sassy Knitwear: $3 off any children's item! (Limit one discount per person);

Seed to Seed Farm: $1 off 1 lb of broccoli!

Birchberry Native Arts and Food: $1 off any $10 purchase;

Singing Hills Goat Dairy: $1 off on any 2 chevre or any 2 feta; 

Stones Throw Urban Farm: Basil - buy two bunches and get 3rd for half price and kale - $3 or 2 bunches for $5!

The Bolt: $1 off any beverage!

Zula Juice: $1 off a bottle of juice or 10% off a 3 Day Cleanse. 

Just show your "I'm a Member" bag! 

August 2, 2014, Saturday - Kräftskiva 3.0 at The Bachelor Farmer

Time: 5:00pm – 10:00pm

Location: Second Avenue North between Azine Way and First Street North (alongside The Bachelor Farmer)

The Bachelor Farmer is celebrating the August Swedish tradition of Kräftskiva with a "crayfish party".

August 2, 2014, Saturday - Common Room Tours with the Soap Factory

Time: Tour starts at 2:30am (thus the name, Overnight Tour)

Location: The Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

Now in it's seventh season, Common Room began as a month-long series of interactive art events, out of a refurbished art deco office at The Soap Factory. Since 2011, Sergio Vucci and Andy Sturdevant have taken the Common Room concept outside the four walls of The Soap Factory and into the city, activating public spaces and redefining our relationship with our surroundings.

August 2 - The Overnight Tour - Tickets $10

When the bartenders announce last call in downtown Minneapolis on a Saturday night, there's countless others who are just beginning their work days. On this first-ever early morning Common Room tour, we'll walk from the Soap Factory across the 3rd Avenue Bridge and through the heart of downtown, visiting hospitals, bakeries, cab companies, afterparties, hotels, corporate security desks, police stations and restaurants, and meeting some of the people that work the overnight shift.

Tour starts at 2:30 am and will conclude around 5:00 am with breakfast at a surprise location. Free coffee provided throughout the night.

REGISTER at The Soap Factory

River City Revue is presented by the Mississippi River Fund, the National Park Service,Works Progress Studio, and artist Andy Sturdevant.

Future tour:

Wednesday, August 6 - The Trespass Tour

August 2, 2014, Saturday - WordSong with Florestan Recital Project at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

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

WordSong with Florestan Recital Project

Join Co-founder and Artistic Director of WordSong Boston Howard Frazin along with the Florestan Recital Project (Alison d’Amato, piano & Aaron Engebreth, baritone) as they present the inaugural WordSong Twin Cities event as part of the Source Song Festival. An interactive song program, Alison and Aaron will present 5 songs by 5 composers on Langston Hughes’ “Harlem.” Complete with conversation between performers, composers, and audience, you won’t want to miss this engaging event!
 
WordSong believes that contemporary American society has lost the connection to artistic experience as an effective means of personal and social reflection. Composers today have, in large part, failed to engage listeners in an appealing and thought-provoking way; they have traveled down wonderful yet often very foreign roads of musical expression and simply expected audiences to follow without question. As a result, new music is often simply played at the audience, when it needs to be presented with the audience as an active participant. WordSong will help begin to bring about this change.
 
WordSong is a new concert format in which one text is presented in multiple, newly composed settings and is the focus of directed conversation among composers, performers, and audiences. WordSong’s goal is to reconnect musicians and listeners through shared, active artistic experiences. It is a public conversation about intuitive musical understanding.
 
Composer Howard Frazin is the Co-founder and Artistic Director of WordSong. He teaches composition at the New England Conservatory of Music where he is also the director of the CPR [Composer- Performer-Repertory] Ensemble. He recently served as the Boston Classical Orchestra’s Composer-in-Residence at the Boston Arts Academy. His music has been performed throughout the U.S. and abroad, including festivals at Tanglewood, Aspen, Banff, Rockport, Monadnock, Bowdoin, and Yellow Barn. Recent commissions include those from Triple Helix, A Far Cry, the Claremont Trio, the Boston Classical Orchestra, the Fromm Foundation, World-wide Concurrent Premieres, the PALS Children’s Chorus, and Andover Chamber Players. The Claremont Trio’s premiere of Mr. Frazin’s piano trio on Dallas Chamber Music’s concert series was praised by the Dallas Morning News as “... [a] genuinely touching triptych, which wastes not a note,” and the performance made Scott Cantrell’s Top 10 Performances list for 2010. Mr. Frazin’s work is published by Peters Editions.
 
Pianist Alison d'Amato is a dynamic and versatile musician, committed to performing and teaching in the full spectrum of solo and chamber music genres. A member of several pioneering organizations, she is Artistic Co-Director of Florestan Recital Project and Founding Faculty Artist of the Vancouver International Song Institute (http://www.songinstitute.ca/). In 2011, she joined the faculty at Eastman School of Music as Assistant Professor of Vocal Coaching. Alison enjoys a variety of interdisciplinary projects that energize the relationships and communication inherent in music. She is a Program Director of Art Song Lab (http://www.artsonglab.com/), an intensive workshop that presents new works in collaboration with composers, poets, and performers. In addition to traditional masterclasses in collaborative repertoire, Alison has shared classes with musicologists, English professors, singers, and instrumentalist partners. She has performed at venues across North America, including Boston’s Jordan and Symphony Halls and New York’s Weill Recital Hall. http://www.alisondamato.com/.
 
Acclaimed for his “exemplary diction and rich baritone voice,” baritone Aaron Engebreth enjoys an active solo career in opera, oratorio and recital, and devotes considerable time to the performance of new music. Featured in performances from Sapporo Japan's Kitara Hall and Boston's Symphony Hall to Le Theatre de la Ville in Paris, Washington's Kennedy Center and the AmBul festival of Sofia, Bulgaria, he has been a guest of the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Monadnock Music Festivals, as well as many symphony orchestas, among them Portland, San Diego, Virginia and Charlotte. As a recording artist, he is featured on two operatic recordings with the Boston Early Music Festival and Radio Bremen, each nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Operatic Recording. His 2013/14 season's performances include concerts with Newport Chamber Festival, Radius Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, his debut at Carnegie Hall, and guest vocal recitals at Minneapolis' Antonello Hall and the University of Wisconsin.

August 1, 2014, Friday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm $10

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  Winterset

Minneapolis dream pop band Bora York released their debut album Dreaming Free through their singer Chris Bartels’ own record label Anthem Falls Music in late March 2013. The album is made up of large synth and electric guitar-driven orchestration, deep ambient textures, and immediately catchy melodies. Prior to and since the release, the album has garnered favorable attention from numerous radio stations, blogs, and publications, locally and around the world. 

August 1, 2014, Friday - Open Source: An Evening with Libby Larsen at MacPhail

Time:8:00pm – 9:00pm

Location: MacPhail Center for Music, Antonello Recital Hall, 501 S 2nd St

Open Source: An Evening with Libby Larsen at MacPhail

The opening event of Source is sure to be a memorable one!  Join host Libby Larsen as she offers you an evening of what song means to her, through her own music.

Sonnets from the Portuguese
      I.  I Thought Once how Theocritus Had Sung
      II.  My Letters!
      III. With the Same Heart, I Said, I’ll Answer Thee
      IV. If I Leave All for Thee
      V. Oh, Yes!
      VI. How do I Love Thee?
                            Tracey Engleman, soprano | Ruth Palmer, piano

The Curious Case of Dr. H.H. Holmes
      I. State My Case
      II. As a Young Man
      III. I Build My Business
      IV. Thirteen Ladies and Three Who Got Away
      V. Evidence
                                             Florestan Recital Project
                          Aaron Engebreth, baritone | Alison d’Amato, piano

Tickets

August 1, 2014, Friday - 2nd Annual Riverfront Fest at Sheridan Memorial Park

Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm 

Location: Sheridan Memorial Park (click here for map)

Join neighbors and friends for the second annual Riverfront Fest at the new Sheridan Memorial Park!

- FOOD TRUCKS (Stanley's, Undead Franks, Scratch, Tin Fish, and El Taco Riendo)
- LIVE MUSIC
- CRAFT BEER
- KID'S ACTIVITIES
- WATER ACROBATICS FROM TWIN CITIES RIVER RATS
- BIKE TUNE UP CORRAL
 
Sponsored by the Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership, the East Minneapolis Exchange Club, and the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board.

August 1, 2014, Friday - BOWER: Éireann Lorsung, Katrina Vandenberg, and Ben Weaver at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

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

BOWER: Éireann Lorsung, Katrina Vandenberg, and Ben Weaver

A midsummer night's dream of words and music, featuring Éireann Lorsung, Katrina Vandenberg, and Ben Weaver.

Éireann Lorsung is the author of Music For Landing Planes By (Milkweed, 2007), Her Book (Milkweed, 2013), and Sweetbriar (dancing girl press, 2013). Recent poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Burnside Review, Colorado Review, and Women's Studies Quarterly. She is now at work on a novel about archives and earthquakes, pieces of which can be found in Two Serious Ladies, DIAGRAM, Bluestem, and Mandala. She edits 111O and co-runs MIEL, a micropress (miel-books.com).
 
Katrina Vandenberg is the author of The Alphabet Not Unlike the World (2012)  and Atlas: Poems (2004), both published by Milkweed Editions. With poet Todd Boss, she is the co-author of the chapbook On Marriage (Red Dragonfly Press). Her essays and poems have appeared in The American Scholar, Blackbird, Poetry Daily, The Southern Review, Orion, The Iowa Review, The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, Poets and Writers, Post Road, and other journals, as well as several anthologies, including Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry (Borealis). She is an Assistant Professor in the MFA and BFA Creative Writing Programs at Hamline University.

Ben Weaver is an American singer-songwriter. His albums include, "El Camino Blues," "Living in the Ground," which was recorded in one five-hour-session, "Hollerin' at a Woodpecker," which, released in 2002, was critically acclaimed in Britain and the United States, including being named No.3 Americana album of the year by Mojo magazine, "Stories Under Nails," and "Mirepoix and Smoke." He is also a poet and fiction writer whose short story, "Humanesque," was included in the 2009 anthology Amplified: Fiction from Leading Alt-Country, Indie Rock, Blues and Folk Musicians, and whose poem "Devastations" won the 2009 What Light Grand Jury Prize.

August 1, 2014, Friday - Brodini Comedy Magic at Central Library

Time: 2:00pm

Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet Mall

For families. Magician Graylyn Morris will raise spirits and test kids' powers of concentration as he manipulates ropes, scarves, balls and other magician's props in a perplexing "now-you-see-it, now-you-don't" performance!

 Sponsored by Friends of the Minneapolis Central Library.

July 31, 2014, Thursday - Live Music at Mattie's on Main

Time: call to confirm, 612-886-2121

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

Tonight: George Scot McKelvey and Friends

Upcoming Events:
Erin Schwab & Jay Fuchs Fri Aug 1, 2014
BLINGO Sun Aug 3, 2014
Karaoke with Jamie Moore and Always Moore Karaoke Wed Aug 6, 2014
Tom Goss Fri Aug 8, 2014
Jazz Brunch with Emily Jane Davis & Robert Bell Sun Aug 10, 2014
BLINGO Sun Aug 10, 2014
Karaoke with Arzu Wed Aug 13, 2014
George Scot McKelvey and Friends Thu Aug 14, 2014
Erin Schwab & Jay Fuchs Fri Aug 15, 2014
Sophia Shorai Sat Aug 16, 2014
BLINGO Sun Aug 17, 2014
Karaoke with Jamie Moore and Always Moore Karaoke Wed Aug 20, 2014

July 30, 2014, Wedneday - Common Room Tours with the Soap Factory

Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm

Location: The Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

Now in it's seventh season, Common Room began as a month-long series of interactive art events, out of a refurbished art deco office at The Soap Factory. Since 2011, Sergio Vucci and Andy Sturdevant have taken the Common Room concept outside the four walls of The Soap Factory and into the city, activating public spaces and redefining our relationship with our surroundings.

July 30 - The Weather Tour - Tickets $10

Fish in the Parking Lot, and Other Stories from the Stormy History of the Twin Cities.

Kenneth A. Blumenfeld, Ph.D., Hazardous Weather Research Specialist for Hennepin County Emergency Management, will lead a tour of former sites of some of the city's most notable and damaging weather events, with descriptions of what happened, when, and how what we now see has been shaped by something long forgotten.

REGISTER at The Soap Factory

River City Revue is presented by the Mississippi River Fund, the National Park Service,Works Progress Studio, and artist Andy Sturdevant.

Future tours:

Saturday, August 2 - The Overnight Tour
Wednesday, August 6 - The Trespass Tour

July 29, 2014, Tuesday - "Music & Movies in the Park" at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park

Time: Music 7:00pm; Movies air 15 minutes after sundown.

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

Tonights entertainment: See website.

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.

2014 dates:

July 29 Tortuga!, Jazz/Rock/World
August 05 Charity Huot and the Summit Hill Band, Acoustic Alternative Folk
August 12 War Poets, Rock/Americana
August 19 The Funky United, Instrumental
August 26 Hippo Campus Pop/Rock

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 29, 2014, Tuesday - Minneapolis History Pub Crawl: Old Saint Anthony

Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location: Mill City Museum, 704 2nd Street South

Minneapolis History Pub Crawl: Old Saint Anthony

Fee: $25/$20 for MNHS members. Reservations: required, call 612-341-7555 or register online.

Discover the city’s oldest neighborhoods in this narrated bus tour of the east bank of the Mississippi River. The town of St. Anthony began on the east side of St. Anthony Falls in 1849, several years before its upstart neighbor Minneapolis across the river. A guide will tell the stories of the people who lived and worked on the east side while visiting the location of historic flour mills, churches, red light districts, Victorian residences, pubs, immigrant enclaves, commercial centers, breweries, and more. The tour includes stops at significant historic places and two watering holes in historic buildings. Ages 21 and up only. Drink purchases are not included in the tour price. Drink specials will be made available at participating locations.

The tour includes three blocks of moderately-pace walking on uneven surfaces. If someone in your party uses a cane, wheelchair, walker, or has otherwise limited mobility, please call at least two weeks in advance of your tour so we can do our best to accommodate their needs. Tours are held rain or shine. Please dress accordingly.

July 28, 2014, Monday - "Music in the Park" at Nicollet Island Amphitheater

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Nicollet Island Amphitheater

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 enjoying the concerts on the facebook page. Support the artists by picking up a CD or other merchandise.

Tonights entertainment: See website

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!

2014 dates:

July 28 - Dustin Hatzenbuhler,Pop/Singer/Songwriter
August 4 - Nordic Surf, Instrumental Surf/Rock
August 11 - Bossa Jazz Band, Jazz with a Bossa Twist
August 18 - Standing Waves, Melodic, twisted folk/rock
August 25 - Chico Chavez World Music Band, World fusion jazz

July 27, 2014, Sunday - Family Volunteering Event at People Serving People

5:00pm-5:45pm: Tours of People Serving People
5:45pm-7:45pm: Volunteer Activities & Family Style Dinner

Location:  People Serving People, 614 Third Street South

FAMILIES VOLUNTEERING TOGETHER

Join us for this new family volunteering event!

Event includes:

• Family-friendly dinner hosted by Nipa Bhatt, Next Food Network Star Finalist.
• Family volunteer activity with People Serving People activities staff and shelter guests for adult(s) and children 5 years & older.
• Family playtime in our preschool room for adult(s) with children under 5.

Order tickets here.

Do you have any children’s books you are done reading? Consider collecting board books and books for young readers to donate to our young guests.

Thank you Bond & Devick Financial Network for sponsoring this family-friendly event!  100% of proceeds will directly benefit services for the homeless families at People Serving People.