Events

Challenge your friends and neighbors in a game of trivia and raise money for your neighborhood organization! Join Longfellow Community Council at Eagles 34 for a trivia night fundraiser including a silent auction, food, and drinks on Thursday, Aug. 3 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Silent auction starts at 5:30 p.m. and trivia will get going around 6 p.m. There will be prizes for the top three trivia winners.Trivia registration is $10 per person in advance, $15 at the door. Register online: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/longfellow-community-council-trivia-night-fundraiser-registration-667154094857

The silent auction will have items from small area businesses, autographed Twins merchandise, and more! All proceeds benefit LCC. Can’t make it? Donate directly on the website: https://longfellow.org/donate/. LCC is the neighborhood organization for the Greater Longfellow Neighborhood (Cooper, Howe, Hiawatha, and Longfellow). 

 

Becketwood will host a free outdoor exhibit of the street art boards that were created during the uprising following the killing of George Floyd on Saturday, Aug. 5, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The boards are provided by Save the Boards Minneapolis whose founder, Kenda Zellner-Smith, will give a presentation at 12:30 p.m.

Save the Boards’ vision is to uplift local artists and serve as a safe space for community education, reflection, and storytelling, allowing viewers to connect with art through their own experiences, voices, and personal journeys. The band Brass Solidarity, which was founded in 2021 in response to the movement for Black lives, will also perform. 

 

BIPOC Shared Space is held on the fourth Tuesday of the month, 5 p.m., at the Ivy Arts Building (2637 27th Ave.). BIPOC residents and business owners are invited to join to the BIPOC Shared Space. The goal of this space is to create and facilitate a healing space for BIPOC community members where joys, struggles, expression, and ways of being are not just welcome, but centered; an environment where BIPOC can be their full, authentic selves without fear.  

On Tuesday, Aug. 29: Massage/Bodywork from Oshun Center for Intercultural Healing with food from India Kutir. On Tuesday, Sept. 29: Arts and crafts with food from Habanero Taco. On Tuesday, Oct. 24: A two-hour transformative healing session led by Creatve Kuponya with food from Galapagos. 

 

The Vine Arts Center (2637 27th Ave. S.) is pleased to present a show of art by Jennifer Fisher Jones open July 8 to Aug. 5. After the opening on July 8, the gallery will be open on Saturdays July 15, 22, 20 and Aug. 5 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. "Big Dogs: Large Stories" is an evolving traveling collection of large format oils on can-vas which represent a unique collaboration between dogs, their human companions and contemporary artist.