How concerned should I be about Hantavirus and Ebola? Should we still be wearing masks? And will a doctor be available at the show to check out this rash?

In this live show, we’ll discuss the ins and outs of infectious disease with Dr. Michael Osterholm, a world-renowned epidemiologist and the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota.

Grab your friends or family and experience the #1 watercraft rentals in St. Paul! With so much to do, it’s no surprise Como Lake is THE place to unwind according to Twin City residents. Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Como while commandeering a kayak, pedal boat, canoe or stand-up paddleboard. Plus, with pet-friendly rentals, your furry friends can join in on the lakefront fun!

The Loring Park Art Festival has been celebrating art and community since 2000. Set in the heart of Minneapolis at beautiful Loring Park, the festival transforms the gardens and ponds into a vibrant, two-day showcase of creativity, live entertainment, and local flavor.

Visitors can enjoy strolling musicians, live music on the Westminster Stage, special performances on the Neighborhood Stage, hands-on activities for families, a Culinary Arts Market, and a wide selection of food and beverages.

Queering Indigeneity is a multi-year, multi-generational project that celebrates the vision and diversity of 2-Spirit, Native queer, gender expansive artists in the Upper Midwest.

In seeking out and amplifying voices of Indigenous artists and culture bearers, the M, guided by Penny Kagigebi, hopes to influence the types of artists who are supported, seen, and centered at the museum, and to show both Indigenous and non-Indigenous visitors a more comprehensive and complex story of this region’s art and artists.

Have you heard of forest bathing? Forest bathing is a practice of intentionally slowing down and connecting with nature through the senses. Join us at the Bell’s Learning Landscape with LugnLed to slow down and experience the benefits of being present and immersed in nature. This program is open to ages 12+.

Learning Landscape programs will remain on the flat, paved sidewalk just outside of the museum. During this program, participants will also be invited to sit on yoga mats on the grass, lawn chairs will also be available.

Join us and take pollinators under your wing at this free celebration.

Bees, scientists, beekeepers, musicians, artists, food purveyors and a host of exhibitors come together to celebrate the life and work of honey bees, native bees and other pollinators.

In this class, we’ll make a staked side table. It’s a perfect companion when you’re sitting and carving, knitting, or just sipping your morning coffee. It’s also plenty strong enough to double as a stool - or as spring board if you have any young, aspiring gymnasts in your home. 

Through this project, we’ll cover all of the fundamental skills of staked furniture, as well as how these skills can be used to make a world of other pieces for your home. Everything from chairs, to dining tables, to bed frames can all be made in this style.

Join us at Mother Co. Plants for the Community Art Social, a chill hangout to create, share, and celebrate local art together!

Hennepin County Library announces its next Cargill Gallery exhibit, “Weaving Culture: The Vietnamese Story in Minnesota.” This exhibit offers a multifaceted look at Vietnamese culture, delving into the personal journeys of Vietnamese refugees who fled the horrors of war to find refuge in America.

It celebrates the successes of Vietnamese Americans through traditional folks art, photographers, and authors connected to Minnesota, along with paintings, books, and traditional household objects reflecting Vietnamese Minnesota culture. The exhibition also highlights notable businesses and their contributions to the Minnesota community and emphasizes valuable partnerships formed with other cultural communities throughout the years.

Is opera for white people? What makes music “Black”? If jazz is Black American music, then why is every university jazz department run by white people? What difference can music make in the face of state violence? Does the sound of my voice matter and what do I sound like to others?

In this book club we explore these questions and the history, politics, and liberatory legacies of Black music. Challenging the sonic color line that often defines genre, this event explores the power of music to either reproduce or destabilize violent categories of race, gender, ability, sexuality, and class.

The Story Orchard is the dream-come-to-life of North Minneapolis resident and educator, Lesley De Paz. What began with a custom bike and a personal mission to get books into the hands of neighborhood kids has evolved into a community-wide campaign to bring the ingredients for literacy—classroom resources, quality instruction, adult support, and of course, books—to Minneapolis residents.

The exhibition soulforce: the movements of memory explores the collaboration and connection between Black, Indigenous, and Chicano communities and their movements for autonomy, self-determination and liberation in the post-civil rights era in Minneapolis, the Twin Cities and the Nation.

These three movements sought to address the societal and structural inequalities facing these diverse communities and neighborhoods with more immediacy. The North side of Minneapolis is primarily where all three groups' struggles intersected against the structural forces that sought to disenfranchise them.

JazzWire presents the Twin Cities Summit Opening Night Faculty Concert at Icehouse, kicking off a weekend of music, learning, and community for adult jazz players in Minneapolis. This special concert features the outstanding 2026 Twin Cities Summit faculty.

Together, these internationally respected performers and educators bring a wide range of voices, backgrounds, and musical experiences to the stage for an evening of creative, swinging, and deeply connected jazz. This is the heart of the Twin Cities Summit in action: great musicians playing together with joy, generosity, and purpose.

Featuring duets from Minnesota-based experimentalists Davu Seru & deVon Russel Gray, Michael Gallope & Mary Hanson Scott, and Dameun Strange & Leyna Marika Papach, this night is all about deep, introspective listening, with an emphasis on presence, texture, and sound.

What does it mean to create beauty in the face of injustice? During the Harlem Renaissance, Black poets, musicians, and artists answered that question with works of brilliance. In Genius Child, Cantus honors that legacy through two evocative song cycles: H. Leslie Adams’ Nightsongs and Ricky Ian Gordon’s Genius Child.

With texts by Langston Hughes, Georgia D. Johnson and others, the music brings to life voices that continue to resonate, urging us to reflect on our shared histories and the enduring power of art to inspire change.

Join the Peacekeepers for staff-led volunteering in the Peace Garden! This fun and friendly group meets twice a week to care for this beloved garden. Activities include planting, weeding, light pruning, and general garden maintenance.

Meet your host Jacob in the parking lot. Gloves, tools and parking passes will be provided. We work in light rain but will suspend or cancel work in severe weather.

On the 12th day of July, Classical Actors Ensemble presents the 12th season of “Shakespeare in Our Parks,” featuring a play about a wizard exiled to a remote island for … 12 years! This year’s tumultuous tragicomedy, “The Tempest,” follows the adventures of Prospero and his family as they shipwreck their enemies and decide whether to enact revenge or seek redemption.

Batten down the hatches and brace yourself for a production that twists and turns through tears and laughter, betrayal and forgiveness, solemnity and whimsy in one of the last plays that William Shakespeare wrote.

Emerging from the lens of South Asian storytelling techniques, this series invites conversation on how creative worldbuilding lives at the intersections of disciplines, cultures, generations, and various abilities. This series seeks to open space for learning, building bridges, and daring to dream in different forms. An intentional space to peel back borders and conversate across artistic worlds.

Join and celebrate the Loft's young writers as they read from works written in a Loft summer youth camp! This reading takes place from 12:30-1:30PM and is open to family, friends, and the public.

The Loft’s Young Writers’ Program offers year-round, high-quality, challenging, fun, enrichment-based creative writing instruction across genres, to all levels, for kids and teens ages 6-18.

"Tucker's Robot" is a story about a boy named Tucker who decides to build a robot with his best friend Todd. Together Todd and Tucker discover the power of their own minds as they travel back in time to save their Robot from a neighborhood bully. The show is 30 minutes in length and accompanied by live accordion. Sponsored by Open Eye Theater.

Hope Arts Center is delighted to launch Summer in the Park, a new outdoor series bringing the arts, wellness, and community together in the green space of the House of Hope on Portland Avenue, lovingly called “Hippo Park” by neighborhood children.

Join in the meadow-making in Theodore Wirth Regional Park!

Stop by the meadow off the entrance drive to the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and join in the weeding and planting fun.

No registration required. Stay for as little or as long as you’d like!

Make a cutting board while learning how to use power tools. We will cover using the electric planer, ripping on the table saw, cross cutting on the miter saw, curved cuts on the bandsaw, and finishing. This is a great chance to get to know, or brush up on the most powerful tools in the shop. Take home your very own cherry or maple cutting board at the end.

“Viewpoint” brings together the distinct artistic lenses of Brian Jensen and Mary Meuwissen to explore how we perceive our surroundings.

Jensen offers a viewpoint rooted in clarity and memory—his precision-based acrylics on wood capture the iconic beauty of Minnesota’s landscapes and lakes with a storyteller’s eye.

In contrast, Meuwissen offers a viewpoint from within. Her abstract, luminous layers of oil and wax paintings strip away the literal to reveal the emotional essence of a place. When looking at her pieces, you witness the joyful shifting of energy in nature.

Suffering from screen fatigue? Rediscover vintage social media with us and establish a fun, new writing practice! We’ll supply stickers, stationery, postcards, fun pens, letter-writing inspiration, and more! Bring an address, a friend, or just yourself.

Sponsor: Friends of the Hennepin County Library.

Get ready for an unforgettable Fourth of July celebration as MNKPOPCONNECT brings the energy of K-Pop to Red, White & Boom with our special Random K-Pop Dance Challenge (RKDC)! Whether you're a dedicated dancer, a casual fan, or simply looking for a fun way to spend the holiday, we invite you to join us for a day filled with music, excitement, and community spirit.

The Red, White & Boom celebration offers something for everyone. Enjoy a full day of activities, explore local attractions, grab a bite from food vendors, and experience the vibrant atmosphere of one of the community's biggest summer celebrations.

The Midway Contemporary Art Library serves to document, present, and preserve the recent history of contemporary visual art in a public context. Founded in 2007, its objectives are to research, collate, and catalog published material in an effort to provide the most comprehensive and accessible resource for research into contemporary art in the region.

Green Roof Poetry brings together some of the Twin Cities’ most dynamic writers for an evening of literary readings.  

Bring your blanket and relax for an evening of moving literary works from a curated roster of poets and writers. Local authors Sun Yung Shin, Ray Luczak, and Jer Loudenback join Minneapolis’ first poet laureate, Heid E. Erdrich, and current poet laureate, Junauda Petrus, for poetry on the hillside. Catch their lively readings exploring the thematic threads of authenticity, collective power, radical honesty, and liberation, plus music stylings by local DJs.

Join Tape Freaks as they present movies they love to audiences who don’t know what they’re in for until the title hits the screen! Shows are at 7 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month. Tickets are $5, and go on sale for three months at a time on the morning after the Tape Freaks screenings of February, May, August and November.

All skill levels and medium are welcome. Prompts and Still Life will be available.

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Hope Arts Center is delighted to launch Summer in the Park, a new outdoor series bringing the arts, wellness, and community together in the green space of the House of Hope on Portland Avenue, lovingly called “Hippo Park” by neighborhood children.

Enjoy live music in collaboration with Tiny Porch Concerts, family-friendly movie nights, a puppet show, outdoor yoga, and opportunities to be involved in planning for the future renovation of the park. Bring a blanket, invite a friend, and spend a summer evening with neighbors enjoying the arts in a welcoming outdoor setting.