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September 2022
Twin Cities Ukrainian Heritage Festival
Enjoy Ukrainian entertainment, delicious homemade foods like varenyky (pierogi), holubtsi (stuffed cabbage rolls), and borsch (beet soup), have fun, and support Ukraine. Saturday, Sept. 17, 12-5 pm, Ukrainian American Community Center, 301 Main St. NE. The 21st annual Ukrainian Heritage Festival will feature an art auction and photo exhibit with proceeds going to Protez Foundation, which provides prosthetics for Ukrainian amputees. Highlights include: Performances by Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, featuring dancers of all ages including a newly formed adult group…
Find out more »Music from Poland and Bohemia
On Saturday, Sept. 17, 7:30 pm, La Grande Bande will perform “Sonatas from Bohemia and Poland” at Holy Cross Catholic Church, 1621 University Ave. NE. This program highlights music written by some of Eastern Europe’s most prominent composers. With works by Czech and Polish composers, this program showcases some of the virtuosic sonatas, artfully crafted fugues, and chamber works written in the era’s most popular and fantastic style, the stylus phantasticus. While several composers on this program gained fame while working…
Find out more »Charlie Maguire: 50 years of songwriting
Songwriter/performer Charlie Maguire will celebrate his 50 years as a singing park ranger, Minnesota State Parks troubadour, composer and visiting songwriter Saturday, Sept. 17, 8 pm, at Ginkgo Coffeehouse, 721 N. Snelling Avenue, St. Paul. $20 tickets in advance at ginkgocoffee.com
Find out more »St. Maron Lebanese Festival
St. Maron Maronite Catholic Church's annual Lebanese Festival will take place Saturday, Sept. 17, 1-8 pm, and Sunday, Sept. 18, 11 am-6 pm at 602 University Ave. NE. Authentic Lebanese cuisine, beer and wine, live music, Cedars Dabke dance group, silent auction, gift shop and children's games and activities. www.stmaron.com, 612-379-2758.
Find out more »Minnesota Tool Library Fix-in
The Minnesota Tool Library, 1620 Central Ave., #126, has scheduled four “Fix-ins” for this fall. They’re based on the idea of a sit-in or a love-in, except participants are invited to bring items that need fixing to the Library and learn to repair them themselves. From a jacket with a broken zipper to a chair with wobbly leg, there will be experts on hand to guide you through the process. Sundays, Sept. 18 and Oct. 16, 4-7 pm and Nov.…
Find out more »Our Time: In conversation with original Broadway company members of Merrily We Roll Along
Theater Latté Da announced a special online panel discussion–Our Time: In conversation with the original Broadway company members of "Merrily We Roll Along Monday, Sept. 19, 7 pm. Host Phillip Gainsley will be joined by original cast members Ann Morrison, Jim Walton, and Abby Pogrebin, along with conductor Paul Gemignani, Thomas Z. Shepard, producer of the original cast recording, and Theater Latté Da Artistic Director Peter Rothstein to reflect on the show and their experiences with the Broadway production. The event will…
Find out more »Racism in Real Estate
The Twin Cities Metro area has the lowest rate of Black homeownership in the United States, with just 19% of Black Minneapolis residents owning their home in 2019 (APM Research Lab). Racist real estate practices including redlining, racial covenants, and single-family zoning have been used for decades to segregate neighborhoods and bar residents from homeownership. How were these policies enacted and how do they continue to affect non-white residents today? Instructors Denise Pike, public historian, and Jackie Berry, Realtor, will dive…
Find out more »East Side Old Timers reunion
The East Side Old Timers 67th Annual Reunion will be held Thursday, Sept. 22, 6:30 pm at Holy Cross-Kolbe Center 1620 4th St. NE. Food and refreshments will be served, admission is $5. The Old Timers are inducting Rick Jaede, Jay Doetkott, Rick Eskola, and Jeff Moritko into the East Side Hall of Fame. Dawn Ginnaty and Claudia Stephens, two female athletes who were able to compete in team sports when Title IX was enacted, will also be inducted. Hall…
Find out more »Edison Class of ’67
The Edison Class of 1967 will hold its 55th Class Reunion Sept. 23-25. Friday, Sept. 23 is a golf outing at Columbia Golf Course, 3300 Central Ave. NE, 10 am shotgun start. Saturday, Sept. 24 the class will meet at Elsie’s, 729 Marshall St. NE, 6-11 pm. $25. Sunday, Sept. 25 is a class picnic at Dan and Suzette Malasko’s farm in Milaca, Minn. Contact Cathy Ballot 612-619-0984 for more info.
Find out more »St. Anthony Library book sale
The St. Anthony Village Library, 2941 Pentagon Dr. NE, will have a used book sale at the store space next door to the library, 2933 Pentagon Dr. NE, on Friday, Sept. 23, 10 am-2 pm and Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 am-2 pm. The sale will include hundreds of adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback, many priced $1 or less. Most books are withdrawn from the Hennepin County Library system or donated by the public. Funds raised will benefit the library. Info: 612-543-6075.
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