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Updates from the Events Committee of the Cleveland Neighborhood Association

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National Night Out almost here – August 6th

National Night OutNational Night Out is a great chance to get out and meet the neighbors on your block. It’s a fun evening when the whole city steps out of their houses for a bit and come together to share some food, fun and put names with faces to create a better neighborhood. We’ll be out in full force stopping by all the great parties that are happening throughout the neighborhood. And we want to help you make your block party the best it can be. If you’ve never done a National Night Out event before but really want to, let us know! We can help. Just be sure you register before Tomorrow’s deadline with the city!

Here is some of what we can help with:

  • Creation of flyers for your event
  • Printing flyers for your event
  • Distributing flyers to neighbors for event
  • Provide CNA materials, clipboard, sign-in sheets, pens, etc
  • Additional supplies, materials for other unique ideas/activities you’d like to do at your event (just ask!)

Where here to help any way that we can to help Connect Neighbors. Give us a call 612-588-1155 or shoot us an email cna@clevelandneighborhood.org and let us know what we can do to help make your National Night Out block party great!

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Community Puppet Show this Saturday!

Join your neighbors and community for a fun Saturday afternoon puppet show on the parkway. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair and join us, fun for all ages.

1pm, Saturday, July 20th, on Victory Memorial Parkway between 34th and 35th Avenue

All are welcome!

Open Eye Theater Presents: Molly and the Magic Boot!

Molly grew up in the city and is excited to finally be old enough to spend a whole week at her Grandma’s farm! Grandma tells her to
play outside, but only gives her one old boot to wear. Molly wonders what’s wrong with Grandma until her boot magically leads her to discover all the fun to be had in the country.

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Chastity Brown at Live on the Drive Thursday

The amazing Chastity Brown and her band bring a stirring mix of gospel, roots and soul, blues and country, and jazz music to Live on the Drive on Thursday, July 11th from 6 to 8pm.  The free concert is held outdoors on the scenic Victory Memorial Drive at 34th Avenue North in Minneapolis, one of the most beautiful concert settings in the city. The concert will be followed by a free outdoor movie, Gremlins.

Chastity Brown moved to Minnesota from Tennessee seven years ago and has been making her mark on the music scene here ever since.  She’s regularly featured on The Current, at the Dakota Jazz Club, and at many other clubs and events throughout the city including the Current’s recent Rock the Garden Afterparty at First Avenue. chastity website background

Last year Brown toured London and Germany to rave reviews, and performed at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville where one reviewer wrote, “…My favorite song I heard all weekend was from Brown. …With an addictive banjo riff and a slow-burn voice, her tune “After You” knocked me out during her showcase.”

Brown’s recent CD, Back-Road Highways, was described as “the soul album of the year” and “Classy country-soul with a hefty dash of the Blues to send a shiver down your spine.”

Check out this rising musical star on 7/11!  And be sure to pack a picnic, invite your neighbors, bring your friends and walk or roll to the concert.

Live on the Drive is presented by founding partner, North Memorial, with the Cleveland Neighborhood Association, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, North End Hardware and The Lowry Café, Camden Music School, NorthNews, Victory Neighborhood Association, Camden Pet Hospital, Washburn-McReavy, Max Checking, 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. (sponsors to date)

For more information, call 612-588-1155 or visit www.liveonthedrive.org

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Your Ideas Make Cleveland Better

I WantOur community is full of creative and interesting people, just like you! Tonight, neighbors will gather together to enjoy some pizza and talk about ways to make our community even better. We’ll talk about ideas big and small, and we’ll choose a few small projects we want to take action on.

We’re looking for a few resident driven ideas to fund that will improve our community. Here are some questions to get you thinking:

How would you build community and improve your neighborhood? What ideas do you have to highlight your community’s assets, nurture or define community identity, serve the common needs of groups, foster frequent and meaningful human interaction, create improved accessibility, draw a diverse population and/or reinvigorate an area? What changes could create good public spaces, promote safety, health and comfort, and ultimately encourage happiness and well-being?

We’ll have an opportunity to apply for $5000 in funding to support the ideas you come up with and implement them this fall through a grant from the Pohlad Foundation. Have a great idea for the community you’d like to see become a reality? Join us tonight at the Lowry Cafe at 6pm for dinner and a chance to share your brilliant ideas and take the lead on making them happen. We’ll see you tonight! RSVP online.

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North First: Networking and Talk about Transit June 11th

lrt-micahNorth First Summer 2013 is a great evening on the northside for anyone interested in getting to know their neighbors and supporting a better future together. The evening is mostly a chance to network and mingle and meet neighbors and organization staff working in the community. We’ll have some delicious food from Banana Blossom, a great Information Exchange room with a variety of tables with information of interest to you. One additional feature of the event is our Presentation time were we’ll step into the beautiful Capri Theater for some flash presentations. We value your time and so we’ve put together just a handful of great presentations on a variety of Transit related topics for this North First event. The presentations are only 3 minutes long, so if it’s something you get excited about you’ll want to stop by the info tables after the presentations to learn more. Here’s a list of the Presentation Titles for June 11th:

  • The ABC’s of Bicycle Maintenance
  • Would you trade your parking spot for a park?
  • The train is moving down the tracks… with or without you & your input!
  • History of Major Taylor
  • The Art of Biking
  • Street Forum: The Public Meeting That Comes to You!

We want to make sure there’s enough food for everyone, so please, RSVP today and spread the word!

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Community Invited to the Lucy Laney School Carnival – May 23rd

Our neighbors, Lucy Craft Laney school, are holding their big end of the year Carnival fundraiser. A fun family event and a great way to support the school:

Come out and enjoy music,fun, Food, and prizes Block party Style. We will have our staff Dunk tank, Face painting, Staff VS Students TUG-O-War, and the chance to win a brand new bicycle for your son or daughter…  This is a Party you Do Not want to miss!!!laney carnival

Where:  Lucy Laney 3333 Penn Ave North

Time: 4:00-6:00 P.M.

Each ticket is .25cents and can be purchased from Ms. Nash or at the event call for questions @612-290-9810.

 

 

 

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What Movie Do You Want To See On The Parkway? June 13th

First Vote

Cast your vote in the Viewer’s Choice Movie in the Park poll for after Live On The Drive on June 13th. We’ve got a great selection for you to choose from! Voting will end on June 6th, one week before the showing. Movies start at dusk and take place on Victory Memorial Parkway near 35th Ave. Bring a blanket, some popcorn and your neighbors out for a family fun evening. And don’t miss an amazing concert by Bruce Henry at 6pm before the movie. It’s going to be a great summer!

Help us spread the word and you could win $25 to the Lowry Cafe!

 

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Book Fiesta Support Community Literacy! – June 8th

BookFiestaYou know the saying: “The Community that reads together stays together, is safer, more connected, more caring, and just a better place to live.” (Really? You haven’t heard that one before?). This summer we’ll kick-off a project to promote literacy in the Cleveland community as a tool to connect neighbors with one another.

The Book Fiesta is a great community event for the whole family. We’ll have music, food, games and prizes all in a concentrated effort to promote reading, writing and building community. The event will take place at Lucy Laney school from 10-2pm the Saturday after school let’s out. Be sure to stop on through or if you’re interested, we’d love to have you volunteer! Contact the office for more info.

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Bruce Henry Band Kicking-Off Live on the Drive on June 13th

brucehenryThe summer concert series we all love, Live On The Drive, is right around the corner, hope you’re as excited as we are! In one month, on June 13th at 6pm, the Bruce Henry Band will be playing along with special guest Debbie Duncan. We’ll also be showing a movie after dusk in partnership with Minneapolis Parks. Vote for your Family favorite today! You can also help us get the word out by inviting your friends and win a great giveaway while you are at it. This year we’ll have food trucks and sponsor North Memorial will be on-site offering free screenings. We’ll continue to bring you the great music you love and so much more for this wonderful community event, see you in June!

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This is What Community Looks Like

Community Conversations
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A wonderful group of residents turned out on Tuesday evening for pizza and conversation about their community. The topics ranged from Business and Commerce to Community Gardens to how to get neighbors involved in their community and in the schools. Residents joined the topic that was most interesting to them and were free to move around from table to table as their interest and passion guided them. The result was a couple rounds of great conversation, a collection of notes and a lot of new connections between neighbors.

In the coming weeks we’ll share report backs from the different conversations here on the website and encourage more resident input. The purpose of these conversations is to have residents drive the conversation about what they’d like to see happen in their community and form action plans for moving us there. The next Community Conversation event will be June 25th and will build off of Tuesday’s meeting with more topics of discussion driven by residents and then a “pro-action cafe” that will focus on next steps to reaching the goals and vision the community wants. RSVP for the June Conversation today.

This event was made possible through a grant from the Bush Foundation. We would also like to thank the amazing staff at The Lowry Cafe for the delicious pizza and discounted space rental. Be sure to stop by for their first open evening this Friday for the Open Mic.

(Coming soon at the bottom of this post: Notes from yesterday’s event)

April 30th – Community Conversation Notes

Thanks to our funder’s for making this event a reality!

 

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