June 12, 2012, Tuesday - DMNA Board Meeting at Central Library

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Central Library, Room N-202, 300 Nicollet Mall

Downtown Minneapolis Neighborhood Association and Agenda.

June 12, 2012, Tuesday - Music in the Park at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park

Time: 7:00pm

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

Tonights entertainment:  Asker - Powerful indie-rock band

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

Enjoy Music and Movie combo nights:
Tuesdays at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park
Fridays at the Lake Harriet Bandshell (beginning June 9th).

Questions or comments? Email us at concerts@minneapolisparks.org

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!

June 10, 2012, Sunday - 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

The Riverwalk Tour explores the Mill District and St. Anthony on Main in Northeast Minneapolis.  You'll enjoy the afternoon sampling a variety of food at historical landmarks, as well as visit the Mill City Museum, stroll by the Guthrie, and enjoy gorgeous views of St. Anthony Falls while crossing 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.  Taste and chat with other food-loving guests, and leave the tour with an appreciation for these distinct neighborhoods.

Reservations.  
 
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June 10, 2012, Sunday - Pedal Pub Races at Surdyk's

2012 Pedal Pub Races

-  Teams will race in either the 12:00pm-3:00pm slot or the 3:00pm-6:00pm slot.  Each pub will race 2 or more times in their slot.

- The cost to reserve a pedal pub is $150

- The race will occur at East Hennepin and University Avenues – check in @ the Surdyk’s parking lot.

- The race will be a sprint from 1^st Ave NE to East Hennepin and back again.

- Team members need to be present throughout their slot.

- Free SUNGLASSES to every participant

- You must have between 8-10 people on the pub – no more / no less.

- Each team must have at least 4 females on their team.

- Food and beverages will be available.

- This event will have limited availability – registration is first come / first served.

- All participants must be at least 18 years old.

- Teams are encouraged to be creative.   Consider costumes, themes, and team spirit.

June 10, 2012, Sunday - Railroad History Tour at the Mill City Museum

Time: 1:00pm

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Beginning with the arrival of Minnesota’s first rail line in 1862, Minneapolis boomed in population, flour milling, lumber production and warehousing as a rail network extended throughout the Upper Midwest. Take a guided tour to discover the impact of railroads on the Mill City, visiting railroad landmarks such as the Stone Arch Bridge, Milwaukee Road Depot and the Minneapolis Eastern Railway engine house and trestle. Along the way find clues to the vanishing railroad landscape and learn about the future of Twin Cities rail. 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.

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

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

June 10, 2012, Sunday - Yoga in the Park at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park

Time:  10:00am - 11:00am

Location: Father Hennepin Bluffs Park (intersection of SE Main and SE 6th Avenue, on the East Bank of the Stone Arch Bridge).

Looking for a way to take your sun salutations outside so you can truly salute the sun? The Downtown Minneapolis CorePower Yoga invites you to join them each Sunday for CorePower Yoga’s, “Yoga in the Park.” CorePower encourages yoga practioners to open their minds and join their breath and movements to the sound of music and nature all around us. All levels of yoga students are welcome and their hope is that you take this opportunity to not only practice yoga, but to find even deeper connections within your community!

These free classes will be held every Sunday starting June 3rd and running through August 26th.  All classes are 10:00am – 11:00am at Father Hennepin Bluffs Park.  Please call CorePower Yoga Downtown Minneapolis at 612-375-9642 with questions.
 
Items of note:
- Attendees should arrive 15-30 minutes prior to class starting for sign in purposes.
- Students are asked to bring their own mat, towel, water and SUNSCREEN! There is limited shade at the park.
- Classes will be lead by certified yoga instructors from downtown Minneapolis’ CorePower Yoga.

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Northern Spark: Captured Dreams at The Loft

Tme:  9:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Performance Hall

Northern Spark: Captured Dreams 
 
Captured Dreams will take place from 9:00pm to 5:30am (Jun 9–10) on the second floor of Open Book.

Paper Darts and the Loft invite you to forget what makes dreams unreal for one playful night. Ignore your friends who complain when you talk about your dreams, and instead revel in the notion that the world at large wants to read about what fantastic things go on deep inside that mysterious head of yours. The overnight activities will broken down into four parts: Voices of the Dream, Scribe of the Dream, Story of the Dream, and Record of the Dream (see below for descriptions).

Voice of the Dream
“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.”
—T.S. Elliot, “Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Over the course of the night, a hand-selected group of poets, storytellers, and performers will recite works from the field of dreams—both private and practical, both their own and the creations of others—to help attendees get their minds prepped for a trip to the astral plane. Readers will follow some of the common thematic threads that weave together our universal dreamscape: recurring, fantasy, nightmares, and the surreal.

Scribe of the Dream
“... this world gives no room
to be what we dreamt of being.”
—Adrienne Rich, “Pieces”

The reading and dreaming space of The Loft at Open Book’s transformed Target Performance Hall will be filled with blank tablets to fill with your Kafkaesque experiences and anecdotal advice for navigating the nonphysical realms visited during sleep. Loft staff will provide writing prompts, ideas, and dream interpretation stations to help decode your subconscious. Take a micro-nap and use the dream interpretation stations to decode your subconscious and help divine where your dreams will take you. Write it all down as a poem, story, lyrics, or essay and submit it to Paper Darts before you leave.

Story of the Dream
“...no one wants to hear what you dreamt about/ unless you dreamt about them/ don’t let that stop you / tell them anyway / and you can make it up as you go.”
—Built to Spill, “Made Up Dreams”

One of the Loft’s classrooms will be converted into a darkened viewing room where a film comprised of recorded dream stories, submitted by participants before the event, will be combined into one joyous, fearful, and exquisite loop of odd storytelling, and played for the entirety of the event. Make of them what you wish: clues to the collective unconscious? Prophetic revelations? Souls’ portals into another realm?

Record of the Dream
“Dreams are featherweights,
And memory can shake them off with ease.”
—Wistawa Szymborska, “The Real World”

Paper Darts will have a workstation set up in the commons at the Loft. This area will be committed to translating your dream writing into one cohesive magazine capturing the events of the evening in its pages. Once your dream-themed compositions are complete and you are ready to re-enter the mundane physical world, your stories, poems, essays, and tidbits may be submitted for copyediting and inclusion in this one-of-a-kind publication, which will be available via a print-on-demand model at the conclusion of Northern Spark.

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Wilderness Inquiry Mississippi River Day Trip: Summer Picnic Paddle

Time: 9:30am – 3:00pm

Location: Meet at East River Flats

Wilderness Inquiry Mississippi River Day Trip: Summer Picnic Paddle

Day trips are a great way to experience the great outdoors right in your own backyard. We'll provide voyageur canoes, staff, all equipment and shuttles. These trips involve and engage everyone regardless of their age, ability, or previous outdoor experience. Bring your picnic lunch and enjoy a great time on secluded shores of the Mississippi River--right in town! Our 24' Voyageur canoes will carry you down to the 34th Street Flats where you'll enjoy a sandy beach, a great view and the company of new friends! $45 per person; youth 17 and under: $30.

Information and registration.

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Mill City Farmers Market

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: 704 South 2nd Street

Today at Mill City Farmers Market:  Come learn all about food that’s good for brain health today at Mill City Farmers Market! Stop by early to receive a FREE bike helmet courtesy of our new neighbor American Academy of Neurology!

Produce Planner:
Asparagus, arugula, baby lettuce, beets, carrots, kale, chard, rhubarb, spinach, turnips, nettles, herbs, snow and sugar peas, cherry tomatoes, radishes, pea shoots, and much more, including the first fruits of the season– STRAWBERRIES!

Mill City Cooks, 10:00am:
Chef Heather Hartman demos food that will keep your mind sharp. Don't miss samples of poached wild salmon and arugula walnut pesto! 

Live Music/Entertainment 11:00am to 1:00pm:
Light of the Moon Band. Today’s local bluegrass band is not to be missed!

Sponsors, all day:
Thank you to today’s sponsor American Academy of Neurology!

Community Booth:
Commuter Connection. This local organization promotes a sustainable transit and transportation system that supports a vital and growing downtown Minneapolis.

Art Market, all day:
Featuring: Plantworn, Anna Metcalfe, Annika Kaplan, and Stirsby.

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Dog Day 5K (...will not be here this year)

We are disappointed (make that really disappointed) that the 2012 Dog Day 5K will not take place in the Mill District.  It has been moved to downtown Waconia, and will run in connection with the Lake Waconia Half Marathon & 5K. 

This is our Dogs Eye View video from the 2011 Dog Day 5K: 

See our 2011 Dog Day 5k photos on Flickr: ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/millcitytimes/sets/72157626939089942/

We will lobby to bring this cool event back to the Mill District in 2013!

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Roman Holiday Preview Performance at Guthrie Theater

Time: 7:30pm

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

Music and lyrics by Cole Porter
Book by Paul Blake
Based on the Paramount Pictures motion picture
Directed by John Miller-Stephany

More than 50 years after the making of the romantic comedy film, the story returns – this time to the stage – in a musical based on the iconic motion picture, featuring a full scoring of the songs of Cole Porter, including "Easy to Love," "Begin the Beguine," "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" and "Riding High." Princess Ann is on a widely publicized tour of several European capitals, including Rome. One night she rebels against the strenuous demands of her official duties and goes out alone to experience the city. She meets an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her true identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love. For the hopeless romantic, Roman Holiday is not to be missed!

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Live Music at Aster Cafe

Time: 9:00pm  Cover: $5

Location: Aster Cafe, 125 Main Stree SE

Tonight:  sleep study w. actual wolf (eric pollard of retribution gospel choir & low)

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Northern Spark

Northern Spark 2012: Explore a constellation of urban arts and discover the city in a new light. 

Northern Spark is an active celebration of the creativity of artists and the creative programming of cultural organizations. Last year, during the night of June 4, 2011, there were 50,000 visits to 100 projects by more than 200 artists in collaboration with 60 cultural organizations and sponsors at 34 venues in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Northern Spark was a one-night creative explosion.

It will take place from sunset (8:58pm) on the evening of June 9 to sunrise (5:26am) the morning of June 10.

Visit the website for full details on locations, artists, activities, etc. 

June 9, 2012, Saturday - The Ten Second Film Festival at The Soap Factory

Time: 10:00pm

Location: Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE

(NEW LOCATION: Outside, adjacent to The Soap Factory on Main Street.)

An outdoor screening of the top 100 ten-second films, now screening during Northern Spark.

The Soap Factory’s Ten Second Film Festival celebrates innovative and spontaneous filmmaking. Voted Best Festival in 2011 by City Pages, The Ten Second Film Festival is a celebration of micro-cinema and the everyman—a chance for anyone to be a cinematic god, if only for 10 seconds.

This year The Ten Second Film Festival is changing nights! In 2012, The Ten Second Film Festival takes place on a new night—June 9th—as part of Northern Spark, the dusk-to-dawn arts festival in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

Festival emcees this year will be the Twin Cities’ newest sketch comedy troupe, The 3rd Kind featuring Ian Fishman, Hannah Wydeven, Sidney Oxborough, Dave Christians, Kevin Albertson. For the third consecutive year, MPLS.TV will also be bringing the love. Selected from nearly 300 film submissions in 2012, the top 100 films are assembled into 10 incredible categories including: Best Screenplay, Stunt Double, and Eye Candy. Come early to snag a good spot, people watch, and enjoy this mainstay of summer, The Ten Second Film Festival.

Check out films from previous years on our YouTube channel.

The Ten Second Film Festival is produced in collaboration with MPLS.TV

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Washburn A Mill Tour at Mill City Museum

Times: 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: recommended, 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 on this guided tour. 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. Also covered will be how the mill ruin was converted to a museum and office building.

Although many parts of the A mill can be explored on a self-guided basis during a regular museum visit, 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 as well as the Flour Tower show.

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Cloudy Waters: Dakota Reflections on the River at Mill City Museum

Time: 9:00pm to Midnight

Location:  Mill City Museum, 704 South 2nd Street

Cloudy Waters: Dakota Reflections on the River at Mill City Museum

As part of the 2012 Northern Spark Festival on June 9, Mona Smith will present a special version of "Cloudy Waters: Dakota Reflections on the River." This is a multi-media piece that depicts the Mississippi River from the perspective of the Dakota, using ambient nature sounds interwoven with Dakota voices and projections of video and still images onto the Washburn Crosby West Engine House.

June 9, 2012, Saturday - Taste Twin Cities Food Tours Heart of Minneapolis Tour

Time: 2:30pm - 5:30pm

Location: Begins at LaSalle Plaza (800 LaSalle Plaza), located on Hennepin Avenue between 8th & 9th Street; ends at Metro Building (80 9th Street South).

Weave your way through the skyscrapers of downtown Minneapolis on a food adventure!  Enjoy VIP service at some of the newest and hottest award winning restaurants and learn the art of local beer making.  Visit quaint eateries that have pride in local ownership, including a favorite since 1932.  You'll leave the tour with a tasty experience of the best food finds Minneapolis has to offer while learning the history of downtown and soaking in the local culture.
 
Sites you will enjoy:  Broadway Theatre District, Mary Tyler Moore Statue, the tallest building in Minneapolis, a building modeled after the Washington Monument, the largest structure ever moved on rubber-wheeled dollies and much more...

Reservations.

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June 9, 2012, Saturday - Bike Helmet Giveaway at American Academy of Neurology

Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm

Location: American Academy of Neurology, 201 Chicago Avenue South  (across from the Guthrie)

Bike Helmet Giveaway  

In celebration of the grand opening of it's new headquarters, the American Academy of Neurology will be hosting a free bike helmet giveaway in front of the headquarters at 201 Chicago Avenue South. 

The Academy is donating 1,000 bike helmets to adults and children in the area.  The event will coincide with the hours of the Mill City Farmers Market, 8:00 am - 1:00pm, which is also planning brain health activities for that day. 

Mayor Rybak of Minneapolis has proclaimed June 9 as Brain Health Awareness Day in the city.

June 8, 2012, Friday - Guided Tour of Open Book

Time: 12:00pm until 1:00pm

Location: Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave. South

One of the most vibrant, creative art centers in Minnesota, Open Book has stories to tell. Our first FREE tour will be held Friday June 8 at 12:00PM. We ask that you register, Space is limited.

June 8, 2012, Friday - Official Minneapalooza Music Festival Pre Party at Crooked Pint

Time: 9:00pm  $6 Cover

Location: Crooked Pint, 501 Washington Avenue South

Come party with us at the Crooked Pint before the big Minneapalooza Music festival featuring some of the great artists at the festival.