Time: 5:30pm-8:00pm, 9:30pm - Midnight
Location: Mill District City Apartments, 225 Portland Avenue
Club Relo is hosting an event at the newest luxury apartment community in downtown Minneapolis. This will be a fun filled night of hanging out, networking and soaking up the urban energy Mill District City Apartments.
Time: 5:30pm
Location: The Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street, St. Anthony Main
The rhetoric surrounding agriculture in the state of Minnesota almost invariably invokes a future of sacrifice. Some fear that maintaining the status quo will damage our ecosystems, while others are concerned that alternative approaches to agriculture will lead to economic woe and inadequate food supplies.
Nick Jordan, professor of agronomy and plant genetics at the University of Minnesota, wants to change the terms of the dialog from sacrifice to shared opportunity. Jordan wants to facilitate the adoption of land-use practices that take local agriculture in a new, multifunctional direction. Join Jordan, local farmer Tony Thompson, Warren Formo from the Minnesota Agricultural Water Resources Coalition, and Jim Kleinschmit and Anna Clausen from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy for a discussion of a new vision for local farmland use, and how we might get there from here.
It will be an evening of science, policy, music, and art. Nick Jordan, featuring images by Anna Clausen and music from Mother Banjo
A SIP OF SCIENCE bridges the gap between science and culture in a setting that bridges the gap between brain and belly. Food, beer, and learning are on the menu in a happy hour forum that offers the opportunity to talk with researchers about their current work, its implications, and its fascinations.
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: The Bulldog NE, 401 East Hennepin Avenue
Save-A-Bull Rescue is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and re-homing of American Pit Bull Terriers and other Bull breeds.
Images and stories of local rescued dogs on display. Free mini cupcakes! Silent Auction. Cash Bar. Ollu has donated a gift basket for the silent auction.
Time: 7:00pm
The Poor Nobodys "Eclectic Rustic Folk Music"
Brought to us by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. You can also find them on Facebook and Twitter.
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Guthrie Theater, 818 Second Street South
The Guthrie will screen Roundabout Theatre Company’s critically acclaimed Broadway production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest on Monday, June 6. The production, directed by and starring Brian Bedford, also features Guthrie alum and 2004 University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program graduate Santino Fontana as Algernon Moncrieff.
"The Importance of Being Earnest: Live in HD" will screen in venues around the globe throughout June and, as previously reported, will include a backstage tour hosted by Tony Award-winning actor and Guthrie veteran David Hyde Pierce, in addition to an intermission chat with Alfred Molina and Oscar Wilde expert Michael Hackett.
Time: 7:00pm
Bob Frey "Regular in Cities Folk Scene"
Brought to us by the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. You can also find them on Facebook and Twitter.
Start Time: 7:00am
Starting Location: The Depot, (corner of Washington Ave S and 5th Avenue South)
Join us for one of the best marathon experiences you'll have all season: The 2011 Minneapolis Marathon & Half Marathon Sunday, June 5th. The Minneapolis Marathon course starts and ends near the Depot Hotel and follows the beautiful banks of the Mississippi River to Historic Fort Snelling State Park where the Mighty Mississippi meets the Minnesota River. Imagine just how beautiful that will be on a crisp June morning in Minnesota.
Team Ortho Foundation wants the best for all athletes our events: we do free half and full marathon training, pacers on race day, inspirational quotes at each mile-marker, a flag for each state represented by a runner, and of course, we have great running gear for participants; including 2011 stained glass medals you don't want to miss out on.
Times: Sunday 7:00pm; Monday 7:30pm
Location: Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Avenue South
All-Beethoven program.
Named “best new chamber ensemble 2009” by the Star Tribune, Accordo returns for a second season in the Southern’s intimate space.
The ensemble features principal players from the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra including Steven Copes, Ruggero Allifranchini, Maiya Papach, Ron Thomas and Tony Ross with special guests Rieko Aizawa (piano) & Sabina Thatcher (viola).
All-Beethoven program includes:
Piano Trio in Eb Major, Op. 70 #2
Theme & Variations from the Magic Flute, WoO 46
String Quartet in f minor, Op. 95, ‘Serioso’
Time: Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 8:00; afterdrinks after.
Location: The Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street, St. Anthony Main
As we left our heart in Minneapolis (no offense, SF!), we thought best to retrieve it in a summer month, which is why we're making a glorious, talent-rich return to the Twin Cities (and more specifically Aster Cafe) for an unforgettable night of literary and comedic lore-making!
The night will feature a breathtaking trio of judges, including music-makers Jeremy Messersmith (The Alcatraz Kid & The Reluctant Graveyard) and performative mastermind Mark Mallman (City Pages' Best Live Artist, 2010), along with FM107's Colleen Kruse!
They'll oversee a brilliant foursome, including recent Minnesota Book Award champ Lightsey Darst (author of Find the Girl), Best American Short Story 2009 includee Ethan Rutherford, young-adult fictioneer Geoff Herbach (author of Stupid Fast), and poetess Jessica Fox-Wilson (author of Blameless Mouth).
Hosted by LDM creator Todd Zuniga. Produced by Sarah Moeding.
Cost: $8 — tickets available at the door.
Time: 8:00am - 1:00pm
Location: 704 South 2nd Street
Today at Mill City Farmers Market:
3rd Annual Grazefest Minnesota with the Sustainable Farming Association
Grazefest is all about grazing and pasture-raised foods that result in healthy animals and healthy people. In addition to the health benefits of pasture-raised foods, there are also the positive environmental impacts of grazing, the economic benefits of local foods, and the improved living and working conditions for farmers and rural communities. Pastured foods produced in Minnesota include grassfed beef and lamb, pastured pork, and dairy products from sheep, goats and cattle, including some award winning artisan cheeses.
The Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota hosts:
* Local author, Catherine Friend, who will do a signing of her new book, “Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep & Enough Wool to Save the Planet”.
* Grass-based farmers to answer your questions about pasture products – everything from chicken to beef to cheese – and the environmental benefits of this natural system of raising livestock.
* And, a wealth of information on local foods and family farms, as well as future events, like Festival of Farms, the “on-farm” GrazeFest events, and MN Garlic Festival.
Mill City Cooks, 10:00am – Noon
Join Market Chef and hostess-for-the-day, Heather Hartman for a cooking demo series featuring guest chefs paired with local pasture-based farmers. Guests include:
- Chefs Mary Jane Miller, Joe Hatch-Surisook of Sen Yai Sen Lek
- Jason Blair of the Red Stag Supper Club
They will be preparing products raised by Larry Donner at MN Valley Organics (Belview, MN), Shannon Malzahn of the pasture-based pork farm, Sweet M’s Farm (Osage, MN) and Sylvia & Dave Toftness of the holistic beef farm, Bull Brook Keep (Amery, WI). Have a seat in the Market Cafe, learn from the farmers “why grassfed?” and how to best prepare it from the chefs!
Pasture-based Farmer’s at MCFM:
■Singing Hills Goat Dairy
■Prairie Hollow Farm
■MN Valley Organics
■Shepherd’s Way Farms
■Real Foods
■Braucher’s Sunshine Harvest Farm
■Wild Idea Buffalo
Mini Farm, all day: Come visit the animals on their urban adventure from Gale Woods Farm and the Three Rivers Park District
Live Music, 11:00am – 1:00pm: Light of the Moon Band
Art Market, All Day: Featuring Hmong ABC, Matthew Krousey, Spring Finn & Co., and Jim Benson
Northern Spark is a new Minnesota Festival modeled on a nuit blanche or “white night” festival — a dusk to dawn participatory art event along the Mississippi and surrounding areas.
It will take place the evening of June 4 (Sunset 8:55pm) till the morning of June 5, 2011 (Sunrise 5:28am).
Visit the website for full details on locations, artists, activities, etc.
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1011 Washington Avenue South
As a society that faces the collapse of communities how do we continue to form visceral, face-to-face connections? This complex problem inspired The Call and Answer Project, which addresses the need for human connection, the value of touch and the pleasure involved in community-oriented folk dance. As part of Northern Spark, The Call and Answer Project will be hosting an all night Square Dance and book making marathon at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. The goal is to print 2000 booklets on four presses with the help of volunteers while also keeping an all night square dance going. We will have unlimited fiddle music, coffee and homemade pie! Be there and be square!
Schedule of Events:
9:00pm – 1:00am
•Square Dancing- Caller- Ann Carter, Live Band, Be there be square!
•Book Printing- Four letter presses will be running all night with the help of volunteers! Come help us reach our 2000 book goal!
1:00am – 2:00am
•Listen to Poets read text about connection, community, coffee and pie!
•Book Printing with unlimited coffee and homemade pie for all the hard working printers! Printmaking never tasted so good!
2:00am – 4:00am
•Dance Movie Marathon! Starting off with “Bluegrass Roots”- the 1st TV Special (1964) shot documentary style in the Mountains of North Carolina.
•Book Printing with live fiddle music serenading the printers and more coffee!
4:00am – 5:28am
•PUMP IT UP! Let the day begin with your best dance moves! We will have a DJ mixing the best of the best group dance songs yes that includes the chicken dance!
•Printing, Folding and Celebrating the production of 2000 books in one night! Go team work!
The dancing, movies, and poetry will be happening in the gallery on the first floor of MCBA. The printing will be happening on both the first floor as well as in the basement.
Amanda Lovelee
Amanda is a gatherer, an organizer, and a collector of stories and objects. Her work is about the search for connections between people and the search for a utopic social structure where genuine connections thrive. A holder of degrees from Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MFA-Visual Studies) and the University of Hartford (BFA-Photography), she has shown her work at galleries in Minneapolis, Montana, Los Angeles, Connecticut, and Florence, Italy.
Presented by MCBA with support from Forecast Public Art, Jerome Foundation, and MN State Arts Board.
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm (Saturdays and Sundays thru August 28). The last complete tour is at 3:30pm.
Location: Chute Square (Intersection of Central Avenue SE and SE University Avenue - across from Lunds)
Admission is free, no photography allowed.
The Godfrey House is the oldest remaining wood frame house in Minneapolis, first occupied by Ard Godfrey, a millwright, and his wife Harriet Godfrey in 1849. Costumed volunteers from the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis will guide you through this fascinating furnished home and help you glimpse what life was like for early City founders.
When the city of Minneapolis acquired the land for a park in 1903, it was named in honor of businessman Richard Chute, an early University of Minnesota regent and a director of the St. Anthony Waterpower Company.
The House was owned by the Chute family from 1880 until its purchase by the Hennepin County Territorial Pioneers Association in 1905. It was moved to Chute Square in 1909.
Time: Noon and 2:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum, 704 South Second Street
Cost: Included with museum admission of $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for MHS members.
Chef Lucia Watson Explores What is Means to 'Eat Local' at Mill City Museum.
Stop in the Baking Lab for a demonstration by Chef Lucia Watson, owner of Lucia’s Restaurant in Minneapolis. Watson will explore ways for families to connect with local and sustainable food. She will discuss local food sources and provide recipes for guests to make together at home. Samples will be provided. Watson’s books, "Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland" and "Cooking with Freshwater Fish," will be available for purchase, and she will be available for signing following each demonstration.
This presentation is part of "Greening the Riverfront," a series of programs exploring our relationship with nature, past, present and future. The series consists of a variety of programs, including lectures by national figures and local experts, cooking classes and demonstrations, family days, walking tours and an art exhibit.
Chef Lucia Watson is the owner of Lucia's Restaurant, Wine Bar, and Lucia's To Go. Watson has earned three James Beard Nominations for best chef in the Midwest, served on the Organic Advisory Task Force to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture and is a former board member of the Chef’s Collaborative, the Youth Farm and Market Project and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Pohlad Hall, Central Library, 300 Nicollet
Author Talk: Kevin Kling
Kling's collection of essays, "The Dog Says How," is full of captivating stories of growing up, traveling the world and relying on the strangeness of others. You will be bowled over by laughter. There will be a 15-minute Q & A session after an hour of storytelling.
This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South
The Same Difference: Writers with Disabilities Reading
This reading features some of Minnesota's most accomplished writers with disabilities. ASL and captioning will be provided, as well as a Q & A and art show featuring members of People Incorporated's Artability program. Featured artists are John Lee Clark, Tara Arlene Innmon, Raymond Luczak and Lynne Nerenberg. Reception to follow.
John Lee Clark was born deaf and became blind in adolescence. His poetry has appeared in many publications, including the Hollins Critic, Pif, Poetry and the Seneca Review. His chapbook of poems is Suddenly Slow (Handtype Press, 2008), and he edited the anthology Deaf American Poetry (Gallaudet University Press, 2009). He is married to the deaf cartoonist Adrean Clark; they run a small press called Clerc Scar that publishes signing community literature. They live in Minnesota with their three sons.
As a young person, Tara Arlene Innmon loved writing almost as much as she loved drawing. She kept an extensive diary. When she started going blind she asked herself, "What will I do when I can't draw anymore?" The answer came down like a bolt of lightning. "You will write." She could have guessed. In 2000, she was a finalist for the SASE Jerome Foundation Fellowship grant. She went to Hamline University, graduating with an MFA in creative writing in 2008. She has published poetry and short prose pieces in numerous literary journals, including Verve, River Image and Wordgathering. She is writing a childhood memoir.
Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of more than ten books, including Road Work Ahead: Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press) and Mute: Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press). His website is www.raymondluczak.com.
Lynne Nerenberg is a Saint Paul native, holds an MA in media studies from the New School of Social Research and is a former journalist. She won first place for her creative nonfiction at Artability's 2010 Art Show and attends People Incorporated's Apollo program for people with mental illness and/or brain injury.
This is a seasonal tour from Photo Safari, running April 1 through October 31.
This tour runs Thursday through Sunday, and begins at the Third Avenue Bridge on Historic Main St. It begins by walking parts of the St. Anthony Heritage Trail and practicing early evening light photography. Learn the principles of low light settings on your digital SLR's or the various "scene" mode settings of your digital point and shoot.
This safari begins 45 minutes before local sunset (your tour confirmation will have an exact time). The Safari runs between 90 minute and 2 1/2 hours.
Time: 4:30pm-5:30pm
Location: Room N-111, Central Library, 300 Nicollet
StoryCorps is visiting Hennepin County Library June 2-16. If you and a friend or relative would like to take this opportunity to record, share and preserve your happiest moments, early memories, life lessons, etc., please register by June 1. A staff member will contact you to set up a specific time of day.
One registration per person, please. Click here to learn more about the StoryCorps project and hear stories previously submitted.
This project is funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Time: 5:00pm–6:30pm
Location: Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, 2117 West River Road
“Our Development Future: The Above the Falls Policy Review and Implementation Study”
Eleven years after a visionary plan for the Mississippi River above St. Anthony Falls was adopted, the transformation of the Minneapolis riverfront is attracting new energy and attention. This focus is critical for Minneapolis - and the region.
Haila Maze and Thomas Leighton, Principal Planners with the City of Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development Department, will provide an update on the findings of the Above the Falls Policy Review and Implementation Study. They will highlight key issues that shape new development along the City’s riverfront above the falls and reflect on the balance point between the visionary and the possible.
This in-depth analysis of land use and development recommendations will clarify expectations about the phasing of transitions in land use over the plan’s fifty-year implementation period. The Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership hosts this public forum series with the Above the Falls Citizen Advisory Committee (AFCAC), an appointed commission charged with supporting riverfront revitalization, including business, environmental and neighborhood representatives.
For more information, please contact Cordelia Pierson at info@minneapolisriverfrontpartnership.org.
Time: 8:00am–9:00am
Location: Mill City Museum, ADM Conference Room, Sixth floor (enter at 710 South Second Street)
Join Preserve Minneapolis for a presentation on the B.L.E.N.D. Award, which was created to "encourage and reward builders, architects and home owners to blend newly remodeled or constructed homes and businesses into the fabric of Minneapolis neighborhoods." The principles of historic preservation foster common objectives with B.L.E.N.D. - stability of community values can be achieved by maintaining traditional environments while embracing the future. Recognizably new structures and landscapes can be designed to be compatible with architectural values of the community.
This event is free to attend.
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