Join us for Walker|West Music Academy’s monthly Jazz Jam Session on Thursday, September 19th from 6-8pm at 760 Selby Ave. The night will kick off with an opening set by one of our talented Youth Jazz Ensembles, then stick around for an open jam session hosted by Walker|West Teaching Artists.

Whether you’re a seasoned player or just love jazz, come be part of this welcoming, creative community. All are welcome—let’s make some music together!

The Powderhorn Art Fair features over 200 exhibiting local and regional, juried artists and over 20 food trucks with a variety of flavorful cuisine.

This year, the fair celebrates 34 years of loving community and hyper-local art, embodying the iconic artsy and eclectic Powderhorn community.

Join HEYARLO at Berlin on the last Thursdays of June, July, and August for their Shifting Forms series. As the summer goes on, the group will expand—shifting in size, sound, and sonic depth. The series will culminate in the release of HEYARLO’s highly anticipated debut EP.

On Night 2, HEYARLO evolves into a dynamic quartet with the addition of Sam Rosenstone on piano and keyboards. Rosenstone’s rich textures and expressive playing open the door to deeper musical conversations, giving the new material room to ignite spontaneous interplay between bandmates.

Join us for a series of Free Wednesday night concerts outdoors on the Cedar Plaza! July 30 features The Buddha Prince: In Concert. Celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday with music, dance, and storytelling. Feel free to bring your own chairs - limited seating is available on the planters. Concessions will be available for purchase from The Cedar, and food from local vendors.

Craft and create with your library community. All skill levels welcome. Bring your own work in progress and join your neighbors in an afternoon of creating and chatting. For adults 18 and up.

The Basilica Music and Arts Immersion Camp is a shared ministry of The Basilica, Church of the Ascension, and Plymouth Congregational Church.

Children of diverse abilities and cultures will join together to create a musical, using music, drama and choreography, Orff (mallet) instruments, handbells, percussion, and art, all through the light of the Christian faith. Campers will also work with local artists and visit local arts organizations during the week.

Experience Mythical Magic at The Park, as Unicorns and Llamas take the track for enchanting races, in between Live Racing. Don't forget to enjoy all other Pepsi Family Day activities including exclusive Meet & Greets with the Llamas!

Pillsbury House + Theatre is proud to announce the creation of a new community arts and economic development hub with a renewed vision and a new name encompassing the extended campus: Pillsbury Creative Commons (PCC). This expansion initiative, opening July 26, with a community celebration, is poised to enliven South Minneapolis by harnessing the power of the arts community to uplift, connect and support residents.

Join us for a celebration of the Mississippi River! Together, we will connect, learn, pray, engage, play, celebrate, and honor the spirit of water. This year’s event will take place over two days.

Now in its third year, this event is designed to highlight the care and responsibility involved in protecting and sharing valuable water resources, like the Mississippi River. Too often, infrastructure and institutions hide our water resources. Our focus centers on themes of gratitude, celebration, unity, coming together, the commonality of water as a presence in our life, reverence, respect, and honor for our water and all that is sacred.

Bring your projects and join fellow crafters in the garden for knitting, crocheting, and crafting in community. All experience levels are welcome.

Some chairs provided. No registration necessary, meet at the Visitor Shelter.

Mark your calendar for the 2025 Aquatennial Torchlight Parade on July 23, 2025. Enjoy great floats and performances at this signature Aquatennial event. We can’t wait to gather together for another fantastic evening in the heart of downtown as we kick off the 2025 Aquatennial.

The Minneapolis Aquatennial Torchlight Parade has been a longstanding Aquatennial tradition. As a flagship Aquatennial event, the parade continues to grow. The Torchlight Parade is the largest nighttime parade in Minnesota.

​​Hear from Forecast Change Lab Fellow, Paula Castillo, about her report on her research on climate change and public art. Castillo will share insights from her many interviews, as well as recommendations for how to continue moving forward public art projects that address climate change.

This conversation is from Forecast’s Change Lab. Change Lab Research Fellows go deep into an area of critical importance, and apply findings to collectively develop a national public art policy platform rooted in justice, health and human dignity for Black, Brown, and Indigenous people.

A demonstration in the art of wood turning will be given by one of the members of the American Association of Woodturners. Learn about the craft and visit their current gallery exhibit.

Amez Dance, Analog Dance Works, and Ruby Josephine Dance Theater are coming together in a synergistic collaboration presenting new explorational contemporary dance works with a shared cohort of local movers. Each piece is tied to a different realm of the sciences. Move through the psychology of nostalgia with Nieya Amezquita's piece What could have been but wasn't. What was and now isn't, biology and plant agency with Brenna Mosser's piece, The Other Kingdom, and astrophysics and planetary chaos with Ruby Josephine Smith's 9 Body Problem.

The Grand Opening of FilmNorth marks more than the unveiling of a new space – it’s a celebration of the people and partnerships that made it possible. At the heart of this milestone are our members and community partners, whose collaboration and support have been crucial in shaping who we are and what we strive to achieve. This event is an opportunity to honor those relationships and the shared vision that drives us: empowering artists to tell their stories, fostering creativity, and sparking social change through media arts.

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.

Step into the world of Artropolis, a three-part artist symposium at the Walker Art Center, where art is not just seen but experienced, boundaries dissolve, and new futures take shape. Over three nights in July and September, this symposium is a convergence of artistic minds—filmmakers, visual artists, musicians, and thought leaders—who dare to reimagine the urban landscape as a living, breathing canvas and celebrate our city’s unique art scene.

At Blackbird Revolt, we work to understand the realities of intersectionality in order to better support folks in our community that are disproportionately targeted by systems of oppression and violence. We unapologetically center these voices and work to ensure that we find ways to build power within our community. 

Our Creative Director will lead attendees through creating their own protest type similar to her process in creating the SKBP font.

zAmya Theater Project invites you to a Creative Expression Session! The Sessions are a fun space for people looking to learn performance skills, create skits and songs, use creative play, and tell their story. Open to all ages and abilities, including people with disabilities. People bringing the lived experience of homelessness are especially encouraged to attend. Creative Expression Session participants will be invited to work towards creative monologues and skits.

Each year French people celebrate Bastille Day ou le 14 juillet, on July 14th. Their National Holiday celebrates the moment when the French people stormed the Bastille prison in 1789 in order to get gun powder. This revolt is considered a major step towards the following events leading to the French Revolution. In France, la fête nationale is celebrated everywhere through numerous balls, live music, games, fireworks and a big parade on the Champs Elysées in Paris.

"Alebrijes: Keepers of the Island" brings 16 vibrant, large-scale Alebrije sculptures to the heart of Saint Paul in a stunning outdoor exhibit celebrating Mexican folk art, culture, and imagination. Created by master papier-mâché artists in partnership with the Minnesota Latino Museum and Mexican Cultural Center DuPage, this fantastical installation invites visitors of all ages to explore a world where myth, color, and creativity come alive along the Mississippi River.

Located on 730 East Lake Street in Minneapolis, the Urban Art Village is a FREE, vibrant, pop-up community space made from repurposed shipping containers. In this creative hub, art, culture, and community come alive!

Urban Art Village is a community-based art-activation created to uplift and support BIPOC, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, immigrant, disabled, and emerging artists in Minneapolis.

We Outside is two evenings of curated cinema, showing films made by Black, Indigenous, Latino, and Arab filmmakers, highlighting stories of lineage, memory, and liberation. Right in the middle of a corridor that raised so many of us.

There will be food trucks, a live DJ interlude between screenings, live printed merch, and space to stretch out, post up, vibe and exhale. Bring your cousins, your chosen fam, your blanket, snacks and lawn chair. Or come solo and find your corner of joy. We Outside and you’re invited.

Visual art residing in and visiting the Twin Cities can provide powerful prompts for your writing! In this adventurous class, writer and Loft Executive & Artistic Director, Arleta Little, will invite participants to explore ekphrastic writing through discussion, exercises, and workshops while learning about visual art and artists from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Come make art with us! Mia provides free art activities for all ages at these Minneapolis park events. Join us to celebrate the warm weather and try our various art projects.

Tapestry Folkdance Center and the City of St. Paul Parks & Recreation are collaborating to bring the community Dancing in the Park—a free summer series offering the chance to learn new styles of dance with the help of an incredible lineup of instructors and live music bands. Today features a Family Dance with Robin Nelson & musicians.

Celebrate Mexican cultural craft through fiber art! Explore the history of Alebrijes, a folkloric spirit animal which originated in Mexico, and create unique patterns with a fabric version of Papel Picado. Youth ages 7-12 yrs will create works using a variety of fiber art techniques from traditional embroidery to needle felting and more!

En este taller, exploramos la historia de los alebrijes, los animales espirituales folklóricos originarios de México, y crearemos patrones únicos utilizando una versión de tela de Papel Picado. Los participantes crearán obras de arte empleando una variedad de técnicas, como bordado tradicional, fieltrado con aguja, ¡y más!

Join us for a low-key chat about the craft, business, and community of video game creation! Our meetup will be at Dogwood Coffee in St. Paul, accessible right from the Green Line (we liked it so much the first time we're doing it again!) We want to build a friendly community of local video game developers, and at this event we'll have a chill time talking shop and drinking coffee and tea. If you're interested, we'd love for new people to join us, we're a friendly bunch and you can help shape the community with your presence.

"Minnesota Nice" is sent packing at the monthly event where independent short filmmakers are left celebrated or humiliated by the power of mob rule! That's the premise of SCREAM it off SCREEN, the film party where audience members wield Gong Show-like editorial powers via their screams of praise or dissatisfaction — and each month, the merits of 15 short films are weighed via trial-by-verbal-combat, as their creators compete for cash prizes. We’re big, big fans of SIOS; don’t miss it!

Bockley Gallery is pleased to announce Grace Rosario Perkins’ (Diné/Akimel O’odham) debut solo exhibition with the gallery and in the Midwest. Fruits of the Spirit features Perkins’ signature gestural, densely layered, abstract paintings that exude the methods and intentions of their becoming: the artist’s intuitive conjuring of ritual and family – generations past, present, and future – to transmute hope, grief, and expansive feeling. Interested in disassembling her personal narrative through layering words, objects, colors and signs, she has referred to her practice as pictorial storytelling and scenographic placemaking.