Cleveland Neighborhood Association
Join the Cleveland Neighborhood Association and Free Poet’s Press for a local workshop on collage making, Saturday August 24th at 1pm. As part of our Critical Literacy Project we’re hosting community space to explore literacy and the arts. Keegan Xavi, a multidisciplinary artist from Minneapolis, will be teaching the art of collage. Teens and young adults from all ability levels are welcome. Please RSVP by calling 612.558.1155
This workshop will take place at 2400 Lowry Avenue
Join us as we celebrate learning and encourage our community students as they head back to school. August 21st from 5:30-7:30pm we’ll have food, games and school supplies to give away to students. Thanks to a partnership with Juxtaposition Arts we’ll be offering custom designed backpacks for each student who comes to the giveaway. A great way to head back to school with your own unique style.
There’s a chance of rain, but we’ll do our best to make the event happen and we’ll still be giving away backpacks regardless so come on by!
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Questions: Call 612-588-1155
(We’re still looking for volunteers! check in with us about it if you’re available)
Thanks to a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Cleveland Neighborhood Association will be collaborating with Juxtaposition Arts over the course of the next year to bring high quality arts programming and marketing to the Cleveland Neighborhood. Our collaboration will allow us to create high quality print materials and utilize the Juxtaposition Textile Lab to create some custom Cleveland Neighborhood T-shirts for staff and volunteers and for our Live on the Drive summer concert series. We’ll bring in Juxta artist for our Party in the Park Back to School event in August to do some arts program for neighborhood youth. Stay tuned for more details!
“This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.”
Cleveland Neighborhood Association will be hosting a Back to School Summer Nights event at the Cleveland Neighborhood Association on Thursday, August 21st from 5:30pm-7:30pm. There will be food, games, prizes, and music!!! Cleveland is also partnering with Juxtaposition Arts to provide art inspired backpacks for the first 100 students who attend. School supplies will also be provided to students. Enjoy a summer evening while enjoying music, dinner, and getting to know some neighbors! For more info or if you are interested in volunteering please contact CNA at 612-588-1155. We need volunteers to help make this a great event!
“This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.”
If you were wondering about the potential rain cancelling our Live On The Drive concert tonight, never fear! The Concert, Food trucks, bike ride, Youth art gallery, and movie are all still a GO. Maybe pack an umbrella just in case, but don’t miss tonight!
Come check out the great art work from neighborhood youth during Live on the Drive on Thursday, August 8th. Youth created their own master pieces during one of our summer block parties and they’ll be on display in our pop-up art gallery during Live on the Drive. Just look for the white canopy. If you have a youth who’d like to display their art in the gallery just bring it to the concert and we’ll hang it for the show.
P.S. Don’t forget, the amazing Lucy Michelle is playing from 6-8pm, There’s bike ride, food trucks, and the movie Elf after the concert! Don’t miss it! (In case of rain the concert will be rescheduled. Check the website for details the day of the event.
Join your neighbors and friends as we take a leisurely bike ride through the Cleveland Neighborhood to Live On The Drive on Thursday. We’ll meet at the CNA Office, right between Lucy Craft Laney School and Cleveland Park at 5pm. We’ll take a nice 4 mile route through the neighborhood. And we’ll get to the Concert with plenty of time to rest up, get a good set and grab some lemonade. Send the whole family, come yourself, or just wave at us as we pass by your house. A great opportunity for young and old to join the bike parade, get some exercise, and have some fun together. We’ll see you out there!
P.S. Don’t forget, the amazing Lucy Michelle is playing from 6-8pm, There’s a youth art gallery, food trucks, and the movie Elf after the concert! Don’t miss it!
The Cleveland Neighborhood Association will be hosting a Back to School Summer Nights Event at Cleveland Park Thursday, August 21st from 5:30pm-7:30pm. There will be food, games, prizes, and a live DJ! Our goal for the event is to provide 100 students with backpacks and school supplies for the 2013-2014 school year.
CNA is partnering with Juxtaposition Arts to provide art inspired backpacks yet we are still in need of school supplies to fill the backpacks. We are asking that community members donate school supplies (notebooks, folders, pencils, crayons, glue sticks, scissors, etc.) to help make our event a success. Office Max, Office Depot, Staples and others all have great deals, here’s a great list of sales. Please take a few minutes during your shopping this weekend and pick up some school supplies for area youth. Cleveland staff will be out during National Night Out and can collect supplies then or you can contact the office to drop off or have your supplies picked up. Thanks!
Please call the Cleveland Neighborhood Association office (612-588-1155) to coordinate the drop off of donations. We’re also looking for volunteers for our Back To School event, so please contact us if you’re interested in volunteering as well.
Thank you!
From LiveOnTheDrive.org:
Lucy Michelle and her band will rock our Live on the Drive season to a close on Thursday, August 8th 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.
Lucy Michelle is a singer/songwriter as serious as they come. Her most recent and first ever solo album, “Attack of the Heart,” takes listeners on a journey of American pop music – from a New Orleans shuffle, to countrified California, to Detroit R&B and jazz. Get ready to hear this delightful combination of musical styles, Ms. Michelle’s unique vocal stylings and more at this last, luscious, Live on the Drive concert of the year.
Lucy’s band for this concert is absolutely stellar, too. Members include Chan Poling (keyboard) who founded the seminal Punk/New Wave band The Suburbs and now fronts The New Standards; John Munson (upright bass), also of the New Standards and an original member of Trip Shakespeare and the chart-topping Semisonic; Chris Koza on guitar, Richard Medek on drums and Max Ray on sax.
Don’t miss the music and the party on 8/8! Our final concert will also feature a break-time set by the a capella quartet, “St. Anthony Main,” a youth art gallery, free health screenings, a bike ride before the show, food trucks and a movie after the concert. Check LiveOnTheDrive.org for more details. 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.
National 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:
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!