Cleveland Neighborhood Association
It looks like we’ll have to wait one more week to kick off Live on the Drive! Due to weather we’ve rescheduled Debbie Duncan’s concert to June 18th. Location and time (6-8pm) are the same. The movie in the park is not currently set to be rescheduled. You can get the latest on the movie status here on their twitter account.
There are great things happening on the northside and sometimes many residents don’t even know what’s out there. In 2014, we launched the Northside Summer Community and Arts Guide, a comprehensive listings of community and arts events for youth and families in north Minneapolis. This guide was created so you would know about the concerts, festivals, camps, and activities happening in your community. We believe in the value of connecting neighbors to one another and to the great resources and opportunities in their community. Thanks to the amazing work of Juxtaposition Arts Graphic Design Lab in putting together this years summer guide. The 2015 Summer guide features 12 pages of events and is made possible by our many sponsors: Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, North Memorial, North End Hardware and Rental, The Lowry Cafe, Kris Lindahl Team,Victory Neighborhood Association, Washburn-McReavy Funeral Chapels, Cemeteries and Cremation Services,Hawthorne Neighorhood Council, Camden Lions, Insight News,Northnews, Juxtaposition Arts, Project Sweetie Pie, The Loppet Foundation, Capri Theater, West Broadway Business & Area Coalition, and Faith Baptist Church.
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We hope you are ready for a beautiful kick-off to summer with Debbie Duncan at Live on the Drive 2015. Duncan’s beautiful jazz melodies will fill the parkway on June 11th from 6-8pm and we hope you and your neighbors are available to hear it.
This year we’ll bring back the great food vendor selection, so come with an appetite! We’ll have food from The Lowry Cafe, Mama Donato’s Woodfired Pizza, Sandy’s, and Nona Rosa’s.
The evening doesn’t stop when the music does, we’ve got a movie on the parkway at dusk. Diary of a Wimpy Kid will be showing about 8:30pm after the concert. Stay the whole evening and enjoy the show.
Please help us get the word out by RSVPing and Sharing on Facebook. You can also RSVP for the movie and share that event as well. Thanks!
We are still looking for help distributing movie posters and fliers. If you are able to help us with distribution or volunteer to help with our Social Media please contact the office at 612-588-1155 or email cna@Clevelandneighborhood.org
Live on the Drive is presented by the Cleveland Neighborhood Association with our founding partner, North Memorial, and partner Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Thanks to our sponsors North End Hardware and The Lowry Café, Westphal Auxiliary Legion, Insight News, Healy Creative, North News, Victory Neighborhood Association, Washburn-McReavy, A-Sign 4 U, Hawthorne Neighborhood Council and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. This activity is funded, in part, by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund, and its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
Live on the Drive brings people together from across the Northside and throughout the greater Twin Cities to hear extraordinary music and to celebrate summer, good health and Northside city living. Last summer, over 4,500 people attended, and we expect even more will come out to see this summer’s incredible slate of Minneapolis-based musicians: jazz vocalist Debbie Duncan (June 11th), Hip-Hop Artist Toki Wright (July 9th), and Guitarist Javier Trejo (August 13th). Food vendors and Movies in the Park are back to finish out each concert night: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (June 11th), We Bought a Zoo (July 9th), and The Blind Side (August 13th). Our Artist Spotlights during intermission and more will round out what has become a staple of summer on the Northside.
For more information, call 612-588-1155 or visit LiveOnTheDrive.org
We’ve got a great event tomorrow, Wednesday, 6-8pm, called Community Conversations. We’ll be talking about what makes and can make Cleveland a great neighborhood to live in. Livability is the term often used to simply describe how livable or unlivable a place is. Tomorrow’s conversation will be based on what you want to talk about and we’ll use a format called Open Space to ensure that you only pick the topics and conversations you are interested in participating in.
We’re excited to have elected officials: Council President Barb Johnson and Senator Bobby Joe Champion joining us for this gathering. We’ll have table conversations about those topics you feel are most important for your community, from transit to gardening, litter to safety. We’ll also make time for a Q and A and some action planning to ensure all of our input moves from a conversation to tangible actions that resident can take to continue to make the community a great place to live.
Can you join us? Families and children are welcome. It should be a great event. We hope to see you tomorrow!
RSVP for Community Conversations
Residents, families, friends and volunteers all gathered together on Saturday, May 9th to pick up litter, helping to make the Cleveland Neighborhood sparkle. We had enthusiastic men, women and children working together; block by block to make Cleveland the beautiful place we all know it to be. We had a great time getting to know one another, hearing valuable input, concerns and suggestions from individuals all while giving back to the community. It was a good time had by all which ended with a celebration lunch provided by the gracious members of the Luther Memorial Lutheran Church. The Cleveland Neighborhood Association sends out a HUGE thank you to all the neighbors who volunteered their time to make this happen!
Thank you to Kevin Gregory, Cleveland Resident and Crime and Safety Co-Chair, for leading the event. Micha McDonald and Anne Reirdon for cooking homemade sloppy joes, North Vegans for contributing vegan sloppy joes, Luther Memorial Church and Pastor Bee Vang for bringing a bunch of volunteers and graciously opening up their kitchen and dining hall for our post-clean-up celebration! Also to the Cookie Cart for donating cookies for the event, Lucy Craft Laney K 8 Elementary School for donating May Day basket giveaways, Juxtaposition Arts for screenprinting our t-shirts, U of M Master Gardeners for bringing knowledge and resources and the City of Minneapolis for providing clean-up supplies and resources about recycling.
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The annual Northside summer concert series Live on the Drive returns for its eighth year. The soulful Debbie Duncan and her band kick off the concert series on Thursday, June 11th, from 6 to 8pm. This will be the first of three concerts held outdoors this summer on the scenic Victory Memorial Drive at 34th Avenue North in Minneapolis, one of the most beautiful concert settings in the city.
Debbie Duncan began her musical career in her hometown of Detroit, where she studied classical voice and recorded back-up vocals for Mitch Ryder and Bob Seger (among many other musical experiences). She then moved to L.A. for a successful run before coming to Minneapolis to front the 10-piece band at Rupert’s Nightclub in the ’80s. Lucky for us, this has been her home ever since. Indeed, she is our “First Lady of Song.”
Come with an appetite and enjoy dinner from food vendors The Lowry Café, Mama Donato’s Woodfired Pizza, Sandy’s, and treat yourself with gelato from Nona Rosa’s. Stay into the evening for a movie in the park, featuring Diary of a Wimpy Kid at dusk right at the Live on the Drive concert site. Our “green” events feature recycling and composting, diverting 93% of materials out of the waste stream last year. Be sure to invite your neighbors and bring your friends to this family-friendly, all-ages event!
Live on the Drive is presented the Cleveland Neighborhood Association with our founding partner, North Memorial, Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, North End Hardware and The Lowry Café, Westphal Auxiliary Legion, Insight News, Healy Creative, North News, Victory Neighborhood Association, Washburn-McReavy, A-Sign 4 U, Hawthorne Neighborhood Council and the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council. This activity is funded, in part, by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State’s general fund, and its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
Live on the Drive brings people together from across the Northside and throughout the greater Twin Cities to hear extraordinary music and to celebrate summer, good health and Northside city living. Last summer, over 4,500 people attended, and we expect even more will come out to see this summer’s incredible slate of Minneapolis-based musicians: jazz vocalist Debbie Duncan (June 11th), Hip-Hop Artist Toki Wright (July 9th), and Guitarist Javier Trejo (August 13th). Food vendors and Movies in the Park are back to finish out each concert night: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (June 11th), We Bought a Zoo (July 9th), and The Blind Side (August 13th). Our Artist Spotlights during intermission and more will round out what has become a staple of summer on the Northside.
For more information, call 612-588-1155 or visit LiveOnTheDrive.org
Victory Memorial Drive is one of the largest WWI memorials in the country . On May 21 at 7pm, bring your lawn chair or blanket to the Victory Memorial Drive flagpole area near 45th and Xerxes to hear the Robbinsdale City Band perform patriotic music appropriate to honor our veterans. All are invited to attend. If you know of a veteran from any era invite them to attend so that we may honor them for their service.
Brought to you by the Victory Neighborhood Association.
What makes your neighborhood “livable”? What do you love about your neighborhood? What would you like to see changed? Join us on May 27th from 6-8pm as neighbors come together and discuss important issues about the livability of the Cleveland Neighborhood. We’re excited to have elected officials: Council President Barb Johnson and Senator Bobby Joe Champion joining us for this gathering. We’ll have table conversations about those topics you feel are most important for your community, from transit to gardening, litter to safety. We’ll also make time for a Q and A and some action planning to ensure all of our input moves from a conversation to tangible actions that resident can take to continue to make the community a great place to live.
The gathering will take place at Lucy Laney School’s Media Center, 3333 Penn Ave N. from 6-8pm.
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Tomorrow is the big day, don’t miss a chance to join your neighbors and head out for a morning of cleaning up the neighborhood together. If joining your neighbors to do something good isn’t enough maybe a delicious homemade lunch after cleaning will win you over? And if lunch doesn’t do it, you ought to come just to get one of these awesome t-shirts, screenprinted by Juxtaposition Arts, making you an official part of the Cleveland Green Team.
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We are still in need of Team Captains for Queen, Russell, Upton, Washburn and Xerxes Avenues. It’s a simple job: You’ll come down to the CNA Office, 3333 Penn, at 9am and pick-up supplies for your team and then meet them at the intersection of Lowry and your street at 10am. Let us know if you’re willing to take on that responsibility by giving us a call 612-588-1155 or emailing us.
