The event is owned and operated by the team behind the Minnehaha Falls Art Fair, which was voted by artists in the Sunshine Artist Magazine as the 49th Best Art Fair in the United States and 2nd Best Art Fair in Minnesota! The event will feature approximately 150 artist booths, along with a botanical market, music, crafts, food, and more.

Step into the world of polka with our energetic and fun-filled dance class, taught by Jimi Jimi Jimi “The Polka Dancing Pirate!”

The Germanic-American Institute is a cultural language and education center, Kinderstube German Immersion Preschool, Goethe-Institut Kulturgesellschaft providing language education, proficiency exams, cultural programs and annual events large and small.

This evening of animation celebrates independent artists making highly unusual work. These artists represent, to this curator, the breadth of artists whose work exists outside of, and in defiance to, the status quo often demanded from animators. These films delve into personal relationships, micro explorations of the body, macro explorations of capitalism, journeys into the past, and dreams of the future.

Open Shop is a time for you to bring in any projects or crafts you are working on and have access to the tools and the space. While we will have an instructor on staff to help open shop run smoothly and make sure tools are being used safely, this is a self-directed work time NOT class time. Open shop is capped at 8 participants and needs 6 participants to run.

Join us for a free public tour of “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys” and gain deeper insight into the pieces in the collection. This groundbreaking exhibition marks the first major showcase of the Dean Collection, owned by renowned musicians and cultural icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys.

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, “Giants” highlights nearly 100 significant works by Black diasporic artists, including Gordon Parks, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lorna Simpson, Amy Sherald, and more. The exhibition reflects the Deans’ passion for supporting established and emerging artists while fostering important dialogues about art, culture, and identity.

Join us for an unforgettable evening where literature comes to life! Amazing actor Matthew Peter-Carter will bring some of the most powerful and thought-provoking poems to life, immersing us in the beauty of language and emotion. Through the selection of poems we will explore the dynamic between mind and heart, logic and inner voice and will discuss the following pieces:

Join us for a powerful evening of poetry and literature while supporting a great cause: helping kids learn to be peacemakers. Writers will read work that touches on the importance of bridging divides, fostering kindness and creating a more peaceful world. In partnership with Hamline University Creative Writing Programs. Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Get ready for the FRNNG’s 5th Annual Minnehaha Creek Duck Race on Saturday, May 3, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.! Ducks dive into the creek at 11 a.m. from the bridge at 12th Ave. & Minnehaha Pkwy. Cheer them on until the end of the race, which culminates in a community festival with food trucks and free live music, face painting, inflatable for kids, activities and more at 17th Ave. & Minnehaha Pkwy.!

In a new series of deer hide wall works and a site-specific installation combining river rocks with glass beaded clusters, Lakȟóta geometric semiotics translate dream fragments, while doubling as graphic scores for sonic performance. The single-channel video Pȟehíŋ kiŋ líla akhíšoke. (Her hair was heavy.) highlights one of Kite’s earliest works in her decade-long practice of developing body interfaces and machine learning across sound, video, and performance. 

Art brings connection and understanding – everyone can learn from each other! Mother-daughter duo Nirmala and Shruthi Rajasekar and their wonderful friends explore how art is passed onto the next generation through the magic of stories and South Indian music.

Artists have always been part of the resistance. In times of struggle, war, heartbreak, and injustice, art interrupts and exposes, mocks and disarms, and pushes for collective action. Screen printing is a medium with close ties to activism, with posters, banners, and t-shirts that provide voice to the people, challenging others to think, question and reimagine.

“Art of Resistance” is a show hosted by Supercharged Printmakers that provides space for artists to use their craft to engage viewers and encourage the community to claim their roles in the resistance.

Join The George Morrison Center for Indigenous Arts at the University of Minnesota for an artist talk with Jonathan Thunder in celebration of the show Jonathan Thunder: The Artist as Storyteller, a one-person gallery exhibition of paintings by the acclaimed Minnesota-based artist.

The exhibition includes fifteen artworks spanning the period from 2016 to 2024 plus a new large-scale painting commissioned for the exhibition and produced in 2025. Thunder is known for his surreal paintings, digitally animated films, and installations in which he addresses personal experience, mythology, history, and social commentary.

The Department of Music & Theatre at University of Northwestern at Saint Paul invites you to a beautiful concert of music provided by the Con Brio Men’s Chorus in the beautiful Nazareth Chapel.

Noise Party has returned. The beloved local showcase of ambient, drone, noise, and experimental music celebrates its 10th offering, bringing strange yet soothing sounds to The Cedar. Vol. 10 will feature ask SERPENT, Boy Dirt Car, MAKR AN ERIS, Sawtooth Witch, Sophia Deutsch, and White Dune performing thirty-minute uninterrupted unique sets and help create a tapestry of unique sound that will only exist within Noise Party Vol. 10. All of this with a background of live experimental visuals to guide the way.

Celebrate the Opening of Our New Home. Join us for a weekend of music, food, and fun as we celebrate the opening of our new facility and embark on a journey to build a lasting legacy for music education.

Walker|West Music Academy, located in Saint Paul at 650 Marshall Ave., is a vibrant out-of-school time music school for students aged 5 to adult. Thought to be the oldest community music school in the nation founded by African American musicians, we offer affordable, accessible, high-quality instruction in all genres of music including classical, with a special emphasis on jazz, gospel, and improvisational music.

Experience the Spring 2025 St. Paul Art Crawl—Bringing together artists and the community through gallery spaces, music venues, artist lofts, and shared creative spaces.

The St. Paul Art Crawl has evolved from a fun weekend art event to a framework for creating and fostering important, interdependent relationships between the arts community and the city of St. Paul.

Join the Friends of the Institute and celebrate spring at Minneapolis Institute of Art during Art in Bloom! Presented by the Friends, this year’s four-day festival takes place April 24–27, 2025.

Free and open to everyone, Art in Bloom showcases imaginative floral interpretations of selected works of art from Mia’s permanent collection, created by more than 100 individual and commercial florists. Experience the floral beauty and fragrance throughout the museum, take a free guided tour, and enjoy family-friendly activities.

Join students from Concordia University, Saint Paul in their annual dance and theatre review. Dances range in genre such as jazz, hip-hop, modern, and contemporary.

Two lovers are separated at sea. In search of his lost companion, one man crosses an ocean guided only by his yearning and the coaxing of the wind, sun, moon and a trickster fish. Love’s newest fable is an achingly poignant and sometimes funny meditation on the passage of time and the persistence of love — and a hopeful prayer that what we seek finds us.

Visual Artists meet on the third Monday of each month to work on current projects or create new ones! Coffee and snacks provided.

The heart of Art House is to provide "resources that communicate the worth and necessity of all vocations with access to speakers, teachers, and guest artists. All Art House programs promote community, life, and world engagement, helping people become more and more interested in the same things that Jesus is interested in."

Directed by Brazilian recorder player Cléa Galhano, the Macalester Early Music Ensemble focuses on Renaissance and Baroque repertory. Listeners interested in historical performance are invited to attend.

Learn about thru-paddling the Mississippi River with educator and outdoor adventure guide, Cory Maria Dack. An Indigenous Latina who was born in Ecuador and raised in Northern Minnesota, Dack canoed the entire Mississippi River from source-to-sea during the winter months of 2022 and 2023. In this talk, Dack will share experiences and perspectives from her 134-day journey from the headwaters of Itasca all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. The journey highlighted the need to bridge equity gaps in the outdoors for women of color. Dack will share about her adventure, what she learned on the journey, and why decolonizing thru-paddling is important to her.

Join members of Highland Friendship Club with a night of bowling! The Highland Friendship Club helps teens and adults with disabilities make friends, learn new skills, and connect with their community.

Mia has partnered with Public Functionary to curate a five-week series of Meet at Mia programs surrounding our special exhibition “Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.” Following an opening program on March 20, each week correlates with a theme of the exhibition: Becoming Giants, On the Shoulders of Giants, Giant Conversations, and Giant Presence. Programs include music, film screenings, live performances, tours led by the PF Curatorial Cohort, and more.

Join us for Tot's and Trains every first and third Wednesday. Bring your little ones to Jackson Street Roundhouse for a delightful morning filled with stories, hands-on crafts, and endless fun - perfect for our youngest train enthusiasts (suggested ages 0-6)! Whether they're a first-time visitor or a seasoned track explorer, there's something for every tiny adventurer.

Zine Scene is a zine reading at the Minneapolis Central Library sponsored by Twin City Zine Fest. The theme of this Zine Scene is PERSONAL HISTORIES! The reading will feature several artists showing off their work, and our featured artist, Jae, will be reading, and leading a zine workshop at the end of the evening.

The SIT-IN SERIES from the Hard Bop Collective aims to provide a formal opportunity for music students to perform with and learn directly from experienced professional Jazz musicians with the goal of providing students with performance skills and confidence building that is not available in the classroom or open mic jam sessions.

Witness the best of the local rising musical stars in the categories of piano, strings, voice, guitar, brass and woodwinds - the winners of Schubert Club's Annual Student Scholarship Competition.

Audience members can look forward to seeing and hearing the best of the local rising musical stars in the categories of piano, strings, voice, guitar, brass and woodwinds. Many winners from the past have gone on to have very bright musical careers playing with major orchestras and renowned ensembles across the nation. This is a unique opportunity to “hear them first.”

The Center for the Art of Medicine at the University of Minnesota (CFAM) presents The Art of Medicine: Lines We Hold, Lines We Cross, an evening of storytelling and live music by healthcare workers in Minneapolis.  Storytelling direction provided by CFAM and Story Arts of Minnesota, with additional storytelling development by the Nocturnists. 

Join us for an engaging session highlighting the Minnesota Humanities Center’s impactful work supporting educators across the state. Learn about the meaningful Dakota and Ojibwe resources available to help teachers and schools deepen cultural understanding in the classroom.

Participants will also explore a standards-aligned lesson focused on the “Why Treaties Matter” initiative, offering valuable insights for integrating Indigenous perspectives into teaching. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and bring these important narratives into your classroom, school, and district.