Time: 10am-4pm
Location: The Fire Museum, 664 22nd Avenue NE, Minneaspolis 55418
*The museum is FREE to the public that day
*Home Depot will be there with a FREE wooden fire truck workshop for families
*FREE treats
*FREE fire truck rides
*Drawing for FREE door prizes
If you have questions, please contact Casidy Anderson at 612-919-7790 or casidy.anderson@ci.minneapolis.mn.us
Times: Noon and 2:00pm
Location: Mill City Museum
Guest Chef: Ana Micka, 'The Fresh Girl's Guide to Easy Canning and Preserving'
Rediscover the lost art of canning with Ana Micka, author of "The Fresh Girl’s Guide to Easy Canning and Preserving," who will demonstrate recipes from her book. Canning allows Minnesotans to eat fresh, locally grown food year round. Micka also gives canning demonstrations for the Minnesota Horticultural Society and on her website. The book will be for sale and she will be available to sign copies.
This event is part of “Greening the Riverfront,” a series of programs exploring our relationship with nature, past, present, and future.
Fee: Programs included with museum admission of $10 adults, $8 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for MHS members.
Time 7:00pm
Location: Target Performance Hall at The Loft, 1011 Washinton Avenue South
Cost: Free
Holy Cow! Press and the Loft present a publication reading for the anthology When Last on the Mountain: The View from Writers over 50, edited by Vicky Lettmann and Carol Roan.
The perspective of the over-fifty writer takes on the hues of both past and future, tinted by memories of first love, stained by memories of war and loss, and made more poignant by the knowledge that this spring’s blooms or this morning’s cup of coffee with a beloved may be the last and must be savored fully. These essays, stories, and poems were chosen from more than two thousand submissions of previously unpublished work. Some of the contributors—a poet laureate, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, a former foreign correspondent—have long literary histories; others—a social worker, a civil service employee, a clergywoman—began to write later in life. Sometimes humorous, sometimes heart-wrenching, this gathering of new work by writers over fifty is always honest.
These contributors are scheduled to read:
•Beverly Cottmann
•Georgia Greeley
•Carla Hagen
•Mara Hart
•Ilze Mueller
•James Stanton
•Joyce Sutphen
Time: 1pm
Location: Mill City Museum
Get 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. Also covered will be the challenges of preserving the 120-year-old, fire-damaged building; its art, architecture and interior design; and the St. Anthony Falls Historic District.
Although many parts of the mill can be explored during regular museum visits, this is the public's only opportunity for a guided tour through the entire museum building.
Fee: $12 adults, $10 seniors and college students, $8 children ages 6-17 and MHS members. Tour includes museum admission.
Reservations required, please call 612-341-7555
Tour Time: 30 Minutes before sunset until 10:00pm or Later
This Midwest Photo Safari tour begins at the Third Avenue Bridge on Historic Main St. We begin by walking parts of the St. Anthony Heritage Trail and practice early evening light photography. We will learn the principles of low light settings on your digital SLR's or the various "scene" mode settings of your digital point and shoot.
Pricing:
1 Person - $59.00 each
2 Persons - $56.00 each
3 Persons - $53.00 each
4 Persons - $50.00 each
Time: 6:00pm - Midnight
Location: The Soap Factory, 514 2nd Street SE
The fourth year of Haunted Basement is bursting with new talent, mind-bending phobias, and a longer run than ever before. Taking its theme as "Distortion," the disturbing masterminds behind the project will have both new and returning participants reeling from the cold genius and the unforgiving luster of each new terror. There are a limited number of tickets for sale each night. Book early!
Runs every Thursday, Friday Saturday and Sunday in October 6:00pm - Midnight.
Time: 5:30pm-6:30pm
Location: Please meet on Main Street Southeast, across from the Pillsbury A Mill.
Islands, caves, springs and the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi River: Over centuries, all these shaped the experiences of many peoples living near and traveling through this area. The waterfall itself received many names: to the Ojibwe, Kakabika – severed rock; to the Dakota, Minirara – curling water, or Owahmenah – falling water. We will walk down to the water’s edge, learn more about the area experienced by indigenous peoples and see how this site helps tell the national story of changes in the land. National Park Service Ranger David Wiggins, with decades of experience leading walks along the Mississippi River, will share his deep background in history, ecology and our changing relationship with our Mississippi and our lands.
This program is part of the Our River, Our Neighborhood Wednesday Walks Series, led by the Minneapolis Riverfront Corporation. Programs are limited to twenty people, so please register today: Cordelia.pierson@gmail.com with your name and the number of people in your group. Confirmation will be sent by email. Program is free; donations are welcome to the Minneapolis Riverfront Corporation, a charitable organization.
Time - 6:30pm–7:30pm
Location - 300 Nicollet Mall (parking ramp entrance on 4th)
Cost - Free
Tour this stunning Cesar Pelli structure with a green roof, an art gallery, special collections, four-story atrium and much more!
Register online or call 952.847.8000
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Location: Pracna on Main, 117 Main Street SE
You are invited to learn more about how we might create a more vital, world-class riverfront destination on the East Bank that will honor our past and welcome visitors for generations to come. Some questions to address: Restoring the East Channel falls tumbling over limestone faces: is it feasible? Improving access for people and ecological health of Father Hennepin Bluffs Park: how can we protect and restore the powerful nature, while improving access for people walking? Come meet East Bank Falls team members, learn more about this local gem in our national park, and find out how you can help.
This event is presented by the Minneapolis Riverfront Corporation. Please register today: Cordelia.pierson@gmail.com with your name and the number of people in your group. Confirmation will be sent by email. This event is free; donations are welcome to the Minneapolis Riverfront Corporation, a charitable organization.
Time: Noon–5:00pm Open to the Public
Location: Antonello Hall at MacPhail Center for Music, 501 South 2nd Street
New and previously owned Yamaha pianos will be on sale at MacPhail.
Time - 11:00am–Noon
Location - 300 Nicollet Mall (parking ramp entrance on 4th)
Cost - Free
Tour this stunning Cesar Pelli structure with a green roof, an art gallery, special collections, four-story atrium and much more!
Register online or call 952.847.8000
Time: 10:00am–5:00pm by Appointment
Location: Antonello Hall at MacPhail Center for Music, 501 South 2nd Street
New and previously owned Yamaha pianos will be on sale at MacPhail. If you cannot make the public sale on
October 3, you may schedule a private appointment for Saturday, October 2, by calling
1-866-920-5397. Making an appointment is highly recommended.
Time 7:00pm
Location: Target Performance Hall, The Loft Literary Center, 1011 Washinton Avenue South
Cost: Free
The Loft presents poet Alvin Greenberg reading from Passionate Travelogue: New and Selected Poetic Sequences.
"Al Greenberg is a master of the poetry sequence, a form he has made his own—and made entirely contemporary and immediate. What a gift to have these book-length poems, written over a dedicated lifetime, together in one volume. The range here is remarkable, the intelligence always surprising, and the clarity of voice a great beauty. The humor delights, and the elegaic heart, rinsed of self-regard, is entirely winning. It could borrow Wordsworth's famous subtitle, "growth of a poet's mind," while adding "and his heart." This is a landmark collection by one of our best." —Patricia Hampl
"Alvin Greenberg, in this thrilling new work, leaves the earth through some tiny crack in consciousness, slips away through some gap in the five senses, and, like one of those science fiction voyagers, emerges in some new dimensions and finds a truer earth—the one in front of us that we can't see, the one we've lived on forever yet forgotten, the one we tell ourselves we know but don't, the one we've grown numb to but start, again, to feel. I haven't read poems this daring yet precise, this dreamy yet grounded, in many years—nor do I expect to for years to come." —Walter Kirn
Gathered together in this 350-page volume from Zahik Press are poems from five previous collections plus three new, previously uncollected sequences.
501SPIN is an innovative indoor cycling program. Dawn Doll, in partnership with 501F1T, brings you this new approach to cardiovascular spin training utilizing the Realryder® and Krankcyle®. The Realryder is the first indoor cycle allowing you to steer and lean, simulating the experience of a real road bike. The Krankcycle, a cycle for the arms and upper body, provides a new way to build aerobic capacity and upper body strength while burning calories and enhancing core stability.
Find out more at the 501SPIN Launch Party!
Schedule of Events:
6:30pm 30 minute Demo Class 1
7:00pm 30 minute Demo Class 2
7:30pm Champagne Toast
8:00pm Live Drawing
Location: 501 Washington Avenue South, 3rd Floor
For more information, call 612-767-4415
Starting at 9:00PM -
- The Yoleus
- Bouncer Fighter
501 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis MN
Time: 6:00pm - Midnight
Location: The Soap Factory, 514 2nd Street SE
The fourth year of Haunted Basement is bursting with new talent, mind-bending phobias, and a longer run than ever before. Taking its theme as "Distortion," the disturbing masterminds behind the project will have both new and returning participants reeling from the cold genius and the unforgiving luster of each new terror. There are a limited number of tickets for sale each night. Book early!
Runs every Thursday, Friday Saturday and Sunday in October 6:00pm - Midnight.
Time: 7:30pm
Location: McGuire Proscenium Stage, Guthrie Theater, 818 South 2nd Street
Star Tribune reporter Mark Brunswick and photographer Richard Sennott spent four weeks in Afghanistan in 2009. They were embedded with the Minnesota National Guard's 114th Transportation Co., and with a special team of Minnesota Guard members whose job is to help make the Afghan army capable of defending its own country against insurgents. Their resulting four-part series appeared in the Star Tribune in February. Join Brunswick and Sennott for a post-play discussion on Friday, October 1 as they discuss their coverage of the war, Minnesota's soldiers and the people of Afghanistan.
Time: 10:00am–7:00pm by Appointment
Location: Antonello Hall at MacPhail Center for Music, 501 South 2nd Street
New and previously owned Yamaha pianos will be on sale at MacPhail. If you cannot make the public sale on
October 3, you may schedule a private appointment for Friday, October 1, or Saturday, October 2, by calling
1-866-920-5397. Making an appointment is highly recommended.
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Location: MacPhail Center for Music, 501 South 2nd Street
Join Mill City Commons for No Auditions Necessary: Gospel Sing-Along with J.D. Steele!
Let the spirit move you... right over to MacPhail Center. Raise your voice and clap your hands! Sing to the rafters with your friends and neighbors!
Who better to unleash the soul in all of us than the king of gospel, J.D. Steele! Since arriving on the Minnesota music scene, J.D. and his dynamic vocal siblings, The Steeles, have garnered every major music award and accolade the state has had to offer. The Steeles signed their first record deal with Elektra Records and released "Heaven Help Us All" in 1993. Mr. Steele produced and co-wrote 12 of the 14 songs released on that record. Since then J.D. has produced, performed, and recorded six additional Steeles albums and has gone on to write, produce, perform, and record with Prince, Donald Fagen, George Clinton, Mavis Staples, Kim Carnes, Fine Young Cannibals, The Sounds of Blackness, and many other artists. He has performed on stages all over America, in Spain, Italy, London, Moscow, South America, and many other cities and countries.
This is an exciting and unique event especially for Mill City Commons members, friends, and neighbors! Don't miss it!
Cost: $10/person, payable at the door
For reservations, contact info@millcitycommons.org or 612.455.3329. Please RSVP by Friday, September 24.
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