Cellist Charles Asch performs a solo cello recital exploring the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and its contemporary partner in folk music. From his famous G Major Prelude to his lesser-known works, experience Bach and his influence performed on a period cello made while Bach was alive.

The Bach Society presents its new ABC Series—All of Bach’s Chamber works, with the mission of performing the chamber music of J.S. Bach and those he influenced. These concerts will be approximately one hour in length, no intermission, and will have a post-concert reception where you can enjoy light snacks, refreshments, and meeting the musicians.

PSST! Come join Center for People And Craft, the brand new Minneapolis Folk School, for their first OPEN HOUSE! The event includes live music, tea, snacks—bring a project and stay a while. This Arts & Culture Vibrant Storefront is funded, in part, by the City of Minneapolis Arts & Cultural Affairs Department.

Prospect Refuge Gallery presents its second exhibition, The Keep, a solo presentation of new works by New York based artist and designer McKeever Donovan.

A Minnesota native now working in Brooklyn, Donovan returns to the Midwest with a collection that explores the intersection of theater, architecture, and domestic space. For this exhibition, Donovan draws inspiration from medieval keeps—fortified towers that functioned both as protective refuges and as stages for ceremony. His sculptural furniture, mirrors, and lighting pieces embody this duality of defense and display.

This year’s Kolshorn Lecture, Think Before You Leap: Considering Conservation Strategies in the Anthropocene, is by Selina Heppell, Professor and Department Head in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University. Dr. Heppell will talk about evaluating when and how to intervene to mitigate climate change impacts on species, using transdisciplinary approaches that integrate modeling, field trials, and participatory science.

For people at all skill levels. Make new friends while creating your own handmade masterpieces! Drop in or stay the entire time. Learn how to knit or practice new techniques.

Bring your own needles and yarn, please. Other needlecrafts welcome!

Open Circuits is Your Weekly Electronics Hang at Twin Cities Maker. Join fellow electronics enthusiasts—whether you're a pro or just starting out, this is the place to tinker, learn, and collaborate.

You can bring your own project for show-and-tell, to get help, or to just plan on making progress. You can also contribute to community projects, learn how to use the E-lab equipment, connect with fellow Twin Cities Makers, and more.

When we feel our agency to make meaning, what other interpretations are possible? By transforming the interplay of what our eyes sense and what our brains perceive, we’ll consider the ways we are constantly making meaning of a world of lines and shapes.

Through a series of exercises, participants will source text and images from books and magazines to restructure into your own poems and collages. How can we take pieces from existing things and enact our agency to make them into something else?

Come here Minneapolis-based artist Alexandra Beaumont discuss “Chorus,” her new textile work honoring the freedom and power of the dance floor. The artwork invites us to embrace the euphoric force of collective social dancing, as we honor the potential revolutionary power of our bodies.

Join Bayou Constellation for “Water Whisperers - Fall Edition.” What is Water Whisperers? It's an opportunity to rest and relax in Nature! A chance for us to come together and build our connections with the River, ourselves, and each other!

Share a story with the River and listen for what the River has to share with you. Why are we sharing our stories with the River? To continue to build a relationship with the Water that keeps us alive and well. Most of the region's drinking Water comes from the Mississippi and sharing an important story from the lives we live from this Water is a beautiful way to say thank you.

A space where flow and accountability dance together ✨ We’ll gather, do a brief check in, tend our individual projects (creative, work, otherwise) alongside each other, and then close. Come for a bit or the whole thing.

​There will be coffee, tea, and sweet humans.

Convening is a form of world-building. By slowing down and infusing intention into the planning process, we can tend to human connection, set conditions for emergence, and foster new ways of being together through event design. 

BIPOC zine meetup before Midwest Queer Trans Zine Fest. A chance to gather, hang out with people who like zines, and PANIC FOLD before the fest.

Meeting at WIP in South Minneapolis: there are staplers, bone folders, photocopiers, and scanners available if you need to do some last-minute zineing. (You pay for paper and copies, see wipmpls.com for prices, accessibility, and equipment.)

Dive into the book collection at the Walker Art Center’s library—it contains a comprehensive collection of books and periodicals, including artists’ monographs and catalogues from exhibitions held worldwide from the 1940s to the present, as well as files of small format ephemera and clippings for over 5,000 contemporary artists.

Something sweet is coming to Saint Paul! Presented by the Hive Collaborative and Twin Cities theatermakers Destiny Davison and Ross Flores, The Honey Jar is a new monthly improv variety show that brings the funniest troupes in town together for a night of laughs and fresh comedy!

The Honey Jar is hosted once a month on a Tuesday and features 2-3 troupes per night. Join us after the show for a community hangout to meet the performers, connect with other improvisers, and catch up on the latest buzz!

Join the Minneapolis American Indian Center for the annual Indigenous People’s Day Powwow.

Indigenous Peoples' Day is an official city and state holiday in various localities in the United States that celebrates and honors Indigenous American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures. It is celebrated on the second Monday in October.

Join us for a celebration of the pivotal leaders and movements that have contributed to the rich legacy of Twin Cities hip-hop.

UPDATE: This event is now sold out.

Join Springboard for the Arts for an anniversary and community appreciation party featuring artist-led activities, live performances, food, and creative fun for all ages.

Fall Fest is for you—whether you’re an artist, a neighbor, or someone who believes that art and creativity make our world a better place. Join us to celebrate the power of our creative community!

Minneapolis-based mail-artist and stand-up poet Musicmaster is hosting a madness-infused art and variety show called Decades of Mailing It In. The centerpiece to this exhibition is a collection of 1000+ pieces of correspondence-art from 40,000+ of mail yakked up by Musicmaster's mailbox since 1972. In this surreal retrospective, 99% of the works are not by him but are pieces sent to him.

The free event includes a local whos-who of mail artists, assemblage artists, comedians, spoken word artists, musicians, and more. Come join the semi-controlled chaos!

I Promise to Burn Forever brings together the alternative archival practices of London/Berlin-based artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Minnesota-based artist, Agartuu Inor in response to a growing technological presence that reduces and divides our memory.

They ask, how will you see yourself in this story? 

Join us for Queer Book Club! We’ll be discussing Blood Orange by Mx. Yaffa. Anyone is welcome to join whether you’ve read the whole book or just skimmed a few pages. We meet the second Wednesdays of every month!

“Blood Orange” is a highly emotional, important and timely poetry collection by Mx. Yaffa (They/She), a trans Muslim displaced Indigenous Palestinian. Their writings probe the yearning for home, belonging, mental health, queerness, transness, and other dimensions of marginalization while nurturing dreams of utopia against the background of ongoing displacement and genocide of indigenous Palestinians.

In Snake Snake Snake Butterfly, Kaia Burg’s wildly energetic drawings transport the viewer into a world defined by expressive marks and charged colors. In her work, Burg distills personal experiences and interests into simplified shapes, arranging them in dramatic compositions that stretch to the edges of the image plane. A number of recent drawings depict butterfly people (figures with big, colorful wings) and heart people (with roughly heart-shaped bodies or heads), grinning amidst houses, waterfalls, spaceships, and animals.

Interact is a progressive visual arts studio and theater company committed to artistic excellence and radical inclusion. Our work challenges perceptions of disability, and over 70 visual artists currently call Interact their studio. Our gallery aims to advance the recognition of their work through exhibitions, partnerships, and collaborative opportunities.

Thirty-five years ago, Northern Clay Center opened to the public. Since then, countless artists, students, and community members have crossed through its doors, communing amongst clay. NCC has steadily grown its archival collection since its early days, and its story of binary gender in collections is a familiar one, but not an unchanging one.

Still Forming: 35 Years of Clay, Collection, and Change tells the story of the collection’s past, present, and future through ceramic objects and the artists who composed them. It’s a story of history’s collective patriarchy, the turn toward feminist collecting, and an achievable, equitable future.

Learn to make two beautiful brooms on sticks: Cobbwebber and Stitched Besom broom. In this 4 hour class we will make a round besom broom and stitch it. We will also plate a cobwebber broom. Students will leave with material to stitch their cobwebber broom at home once it is dry. Leave feeling confident and inspired to explore the world of broom making.

Please wear closed toed shoes. The materials fee for this class is $37 and is included in the admission cost.

* We do require masking indoors, whatever your vaccination status *

TELL presents Assembly of the Forgotten—a collaborative exhibition by Joshua McGarvey and Emily Jane Kuntz. Through assemblage, McGarvey and Kuntz transform discarded and overlooked materials into carriers of memory, intimacy, and layered meaning. Their works explore the tension between preservation and decay, past and present, beauty and loss.

Hosted at TELL SPACE — a riverside townhouse living room turned gallery.

In honor of Veterans’ Voices Month, the Minnesota Humanities Center invites you to join us for an engaging evening focused on stories of community, consolation, and courage. For Objects of War, participants are asked to bring an item connected to an experience of war and conflict — which could be dog tags, a service member’s good luck charm, or a family heirloom — and share the story of this item during the evening. Moderated by trained facilitators, the conversation will help participants understand why we hold on to certain objects, and how these objects help us better understand the human impacts of war.

It all begins with a single stitch. And long before there were machines to assist, our hands did all the work! The workshop covers the most valuable and most basic techniques of sewing. Students will learn 5 to 6 fundamental stitches, how to securely sew on a button and snap, seams and edge finishing, various decorative stitches, and what are the best tools for the job. With these basic skills you will be free to sew and mend anywhere life takes you.

The Cherry Pit presents an open jam for musicians and music lovers in the Twin Cities. It’s a social hub for Twin Cities creatives, a training ground to refine musicianship, and a vehicle for high-vibrational improvisation. This is not a free-form basement jam or strictly a jazz jam. Our goal is to find an equilibrium between freedom/fun and excellence. Even if you don’t play an instrument, stop by to experience the warmth and wonder of the show; you never know who might take the stage.

Poetry Lab with Mimz is a safe space to honor the craft of poetry. Join us as we practice writing, performing and collaborating. Your voice matters!

Irreducible Grace Foundation (IGF) is a non-profit focused on fostering the holistic wellness of BIPOC youth in community. Through creative and culturally-based holistic programming, leadership & employment opportunities, therapies for emotional healing and housing, IGF will achieves it's mission through supporting BIPOC youth in building the skills to thrive in the world as healthy, well-adjusted adults. 

Join Telling Queer History and the Minnesota Historical Society in conversation with LGBTQIA+ storytellers about resistance, love, and identity formation. Hear about the Twin Cities’ LGBTQIA+ spaces where people found community. Explore the exhibit Going Out, Coming In: LGBTQ+ Spaces in Downtown Minneapolis before the event.

Oysterfest is back! With an adjustment in our schedule to move out of the target zones for our first snows in this new climate, the only thing certain is change. Adaptation is key - so this year the street party returns, celebrating 15 years with fresh look, music, and a day packed with bivalve love and appreciation.

Open Copy provides time, space, and equipment access for self-publishing, zinemaking, book arts, comics, chapbooks, collage, and print/book experimentation. Walk-ins and first time visits are encouraged! During Open Copy, visitors can make copies, use binding equipment, and plan print projects. Projects that benefit from access to a photocopier, adjustable working height tables, and binding/collating equipment are a good fit for Open Copy.