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Northeast Calendar call for art
The call for art is open for the 2022 Northeast Calendar, coordinated by the Northeast CDC d/b/a Minneapolis Arts District. Images are sought that represent Northeast in various ways and seasons. The deadline is Sunday, Sept. 12. All art mediums are welcome, submitted through print-ready digital images. Artists/photographers are invited to include brief background on […]
Find out more »Dining hosts and escorts at Eldercare
Catholic Eldercare seeks volunteers for dining hosts and dining escorts on Saturdays and Sundays at 10 a.m. Residents can use your help serving beverages or bringing them to/from their rooms. Call or email Diane Lucas, Director of Marketing & Communications, if interested: 612-362-2492, dlucas@catholiceldercare.org.
Find out more »Ongoing
Community Adopt-a-Drain Challenge
Andover, Blaine, Columbia Heights, and Fridley are competing to see who can get the most drain adoptions and cleanings from now to Oct 31. Help the City of Columbia Heights win by adopting a drain today at www.adopt-a-drain.org. If you adopt a drain, make sure to give it an awesome name; the best drain name […]
Find out more »Immersive Van Gogh
"Immersive Van Gogh" takes the Dutch artist's paintings and projects them on the floors, walls, and ceilings at Lighthouse Minneapolis, 1515 Central Avenue NE. Exhibit visitors will be immersed in 60,600 frames of video, 90,000,000 pixels, and 500,000+ cubic feet of projections, and curated selections from Van Gogh's 2000+ lifetime catalog of masterpieces. Designed and […]
Find out more »Columbia Heights Library Events
For more information, contact Brianna Belanger, Youth Services Librarian, 763-706-3683, bbelanger@columbiaheightsmn.gov Family Storytime: Mondays, Sept. 20-Nov. 20, 10:30-11 am. Share books, songs, and rhymes with your children at this storytime designed to promote school readiness in 2- to 5-year-olds. Librarians, caregivers, and children will sing, talk, read, write and play together to build early literacy […]
Find out more »Hold Your Hand Out in the Dark
Dreamsong, a new contemporary art gallery at 1237 4th St NE, presents "Hold Your Hand Out in the Dark," works by Lee Noble, through Oct. 2; opening reception Aug. 19, 5-8 pm. Littered with masked intruders, retrospectively poetic B-movie titles, and eerily magnified CCTV footage, transitory figures appear in Lee Noble’s paintings like missing person […]
Find out more »Karian Amaya: light under the stones
CIRCA Gallery presents light under the stones, Karian Amaya’s first solo show with the gallery. Amaya, Guadalajara, Mexico, explores the delicate condition of matter through an eco-sculptural lens. Using primarily copper and found marble fragments, Amaya reflects on the ecological changes that occur after minerals are extracted from their natural environment. Sculptural forms evoke the […]
Find out more »Adventure Club
Adventure Club programming facilitates a variety of activities for kids Pre-K to grade 5 to promote learning beyond the classroom including arts and crafts, guided group time, themed activities, dramatic play, cooking, games, outdoor play, science and more. 2:20-6 pm during regular school days; 6:30 am-6 pm non-school days. Programming is available at Highland, North […]
Find out more »Northeast Library Events
Northeast Library, 2200 Central Ave. N.E., 612-543-6775 / Online events at www.hclib.org/northeast HelpNow: Free online tutoring for all ages. Get help from a tutor in English or Spanish. Online every day from 1 to 11 pm. Available on computers in the library or at home with your Hennepin County Library card. Visit https://apps2.hclib.org/auth/BrainFuse. Ask Us […]
Find out more »8:00 am
“Absence”
Kolman & Pryor Gallery presents a performance art, painting, and technology installation by its first Project Space grant recipient, James Holmberg. "Absence" includes six canvases that Holmberg painted, scraped off, washed with mineral spirits, and painted again 12 times, while he recorded the process on video. Each canvas is accompanied by a QR code, allowing viewers […]
Find out more »10:00 am
Free virtual gardening and cooking series
The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board will offer free virtual gardening and cooking classes this summer for ages 18 and up from its Creekview Recreation Center. Courtney Tchida with the Minnesota Horticulture Society will share gardening tips and plans for the early, middle, and late parts of the season. Beth Jones, co-owner of Cooking With […]
Find out more »Art in the Park
HeightsNext presents the first annual Art in the Park festival, taking place at Kordiak Park, 1845 49th Ave NE on Saturday, Sept. 11, 10 am-6 pm featuring dozens of local artists, performers, and vendors. Art in the Park strives to create an environment of respect, caring, compassion and creativity. This means that the art festival […]
Find out more »Learn to install a raingarden using native plants and shrubs
On Saturday, Sept. 11, 10-11 am. you can contribute to clean water by learning how to install a raingarden at Trillium Park, 2800 Highway 88 in St. Anthony Village. Meet at the site of a newly installed Raingarden. Class will be held rain or shine. Participants willing to plant a native perennial in their yard, […]
Find out more »Art in the Park
Columbia Heights' first art festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 11, 10 am-6 pm at Kordiak Park, 1845 49th Avenue NE. The event will include 50 artists, ranging from painters to woodturners. A performance area will feature a singer/songwriter, tap dancers and bellydancers. Food trucks will be on hand, and there will be an arts […]
Find out more »St. Anthony East Clean Sweep
St. Anthony East Neighborhood Association will hold Operation Clean Sweep to tidy the neighborhood before winter sets in, Saturday, Sept. 11, 10 am-noon. Meet at St. Anthony Park at the corner of Jefferson and Spring Streets. Supplies will be provided. Learn about the Adopt-a-Drain NE Storm Drain Challenge, too.
Find out more »Classes at Potekglass
Potekglass will host one class and two open studio events on Saturday, Sept. 11 at 2505 Howard Street NE. Register at https://potekglass.com/classes. Open Torch 1:30–5:30 pm. 4 hours on their equipment with a set of student tools. Certification needed to participate. Not certified? Sign-up for a Try-iT! Class. Lots of experience - just not at […]
Find out more »12:00 pm
‘Bodies of Resistance’
"Bodies of Resistance", a collaborative art show celebrating women’s stories and experiences of resistance through photography, paint and printed word, opens with a reception Friday, Sept. 3, 7 -10 pm at ArtSpace Jackson Flats, 901 18 ½ Ave NE. The exhibit combines photographer Suzanne Shaff’s black-and-white nude portraits of nine women in self-defined poses of […]
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