Category: Events

We have a full week in the Cleveland Neighborhood, we hope you’ll be able to join us for some of the fun.

• Cleveland Conversations – Tuesday night, April 30 6-8:30pm, we’ll have a pizza dinner and conversation about our community and what the future of the neighborhood looks like. There are just a few spots left, so we hope you can join us with a quick RSVP today!
• Youth Committee – Thursday night, May 2nd 6:30-7:30pm, the CNA Youth Committee will meet to discuss the upcoming summer programming. A great chance to meet other youth and families and play a role in making sure Cleveland is a great community for our young people. More details here.
• Open Mic at the Lowry Cafe – We’ll be back at the Lowry Cafe on Friday evening for a great community event featuring local artist and neighborhood residents sharing their art with the community. The open mic will feature a family Open Mic from 6-8pm and an adults-only open mic from 8-10pm. The Lowry Cafe will be open with a full menu, so bring the family, grab some dinner and enjoy some great performances.

Put May 3rd on your calendar, it’s the first evening The Lowry Cafe will be open this spring (besides our Cleveland gathering April 30th), and we’re helping them kick it off with a collaboration with Voices Merging to host an Open Mic event at the Cafe from 6-10pm. From 6-8pm is a family friendly, all ages open mic and the Cafe will be serving it’s full evening menu. From 8-10pm will be an adults only 21+ venue with a similar full menu.

More details to follow, but mark your calendar, it’ll be a great chance to get out in the neighborhood, enjoy the warmer weather and hang out with some neighbors. We’ll see you there!

Questions about the event can be directed to the office 588-1155 or contacting us.

Live on the Drive 2013 is right around the corner and we have an AMAZING line-up for you this year. You are not going to want to miss it. Check out LiveontheDrive.org for our concert line-up.

If you or a business you know or work with is interested in sponsoring Live on the Drive 2013, today is the deadline for notifying us if you’d like to be included in our print advertising. What a great opportunity to support a community event, get your business in front of a large crowd of potential customers, and be a part of something we’ve all come to love. This year we’re partnering with Movies in the Park to host movie nights after each concert, allowing for even more opportunities for our sponsors to be recognized.

We’re also encouraging individual residents to contribute this year. There’s no deadline for individual donor contributions.

Finally, a big thank you to our current sponsors. Our founding partner, North Memorial, who continue to support the community now in our sixth year of Live on the Drive. Thank you to the Minneapolis Parks for partnering with us this year to bring you both a concert and a movie three times this summer. Also, Thank You, to our recent sponsors: Victory Neighborhood Association, Camden Music School, Washburn-McReavy, Max Checking, and resident John Helgeland. We’re looking for your name here too! Sponsor Today!

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Spring is almost here, summer is around the corner, and that means we are gearing up for Live On The Drive! If you haven’t put it on your calendar already the dates are June 13th, July 11th, August 8th from 6-8pm on Victory Memorial Parkway. Like it on Facebook to get all the updates. This summer, like we kicked off last year, we’ll be partnering with the Minneapolis Parks to bring you Movies in the Park after the concert each evening this summer. Which movies will be showing? That’s up to you!

Leave your suggestions in the comments. We’ll be using the suggestions to form a list of about 5-10 movies that will be part of our Audience Choice voting for each of the upcoming Live on the Drive – Movies in the Park features.

Stay tuned for a lot more info about Live on the Drive soon, but for now share with us that movie favorite you’d love to watch with your neighbors on the Parkway this summer!

March Mayhem is this Sunday, 1-4pm at Cleveland Park and we’re dubbing it the Snow Fort Flash Mob! Come join your friends and neighbors and have one last day of fun in the snow. We’ll build the biggest snow fort we can at Cleveland Park to enjoy before the snow melts away.

Bring your friends, bring your neighbors and join us for some winter fun. If the weather is frightful, we will be in the Cleveland Office (south end of Lucy Craft Laney School) to play board games and card games. Refreshments will be served.

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For more info or Questions call the office 612-588-1155

We have an exciting year planned for Cleveland residents in 2013 and we want you to be involved. Come join us for dinner and we’ll tell you about the Neighborhood Adventure League, a great opportunity for you and your neighbors to have fun, get to know one another and build up your community. We’d love to have every block in Cleveland involved, so if you’re not interested in participating but know someone else on your block who might be, please let us know. Please shoot a reply email letting us know if your able to attend or interested, we’ll be doing our best to follow up with everyone by phone as well. Dinner is on us! This is a great opportunity for you and your neighbors and we don’t want anyone to miss out! Call us at 612-588-1155 or Email at cna@clevelandneighborhood.org

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Spring into Daylight Savings! Join your Cleveland neighbors and friends for an afternoon of winter fun on March 10th from 1pm to 4pm at Cleveland Park. There will be family friendly activities like sledding, snow sculptures, and more.  If the weather is frightful, we will be in the Cleveland Office (south end of Lucy Craft Laney School) to play board games and card games. Refreshments will be served. RSVP on Facebook or by calling the office 612-588-1155 or emailing cna@clevelandneighborhood.org.

Join the CNA Board on February 23rd for a workshop entitled New Conversations about Race and Racism, presented by the St. Paul Foundation. This is a great opportunity to come together with your neighbors in a comfortable and safe environment to talk about a difficult topic. The workshop will take place Saturday, February 23rd from 9am to 12:15am (RSVP for directions). There is limited space available so we ask that you RSVP if you plan on attending, email us at cna@clevelandneighborhood.org or call 612-588-1155

If you know of others that are interested in participating please forward this page on to them. Thanks!