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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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Neighborhood Conversations at The Lowry Cafe – June 25th

I Want

A community gathering you do not want to miss! Mark your calendars for June 25th 6-8:30pm. The Cleveland Neighborhood Association will be hosting its second Neighborhood Conversations at The Lowry Cafe for all residents in the Cleveland Neighborhood. We’ll enjoy a delicious meal together and spend an evening talking with our neighbors about what the future of the Cleveland Neighborhood could be. Conversations will center around the theme “I Want _____ In My Neighborhood.” The conversations will be hosted by renowned facilitators Dave Ellis and Barbara Epps.

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Summer Park Program Kicks-Off June 17th

PlaygroundThe Cleveland Park Summer program is a FREE Drop-in program for kids of all ages in the Cleveland Neighborhood. The program runs from June 17th through August 9th, Monday through Friday from 10am to 4pm at Cleveland Park (3232 Queen Ave N.).

This Staffed program provides Breakfast and Lunch for free for any youth under 18 regardless of if they choose to participate in the program (Breakfast at 10, Lunch at 1pm). Additional activities include:

  • Sports and Games
  • Mornings with TPT’s Electric Company Camp
  • Guest Artists from Camden Music School
  • Great Books to Read
  • Fun People to hang out with
  • 7 Field Trips throughout the summer And MUCH MORE!

Download the enrollment form here, call our office, 588-1155 or come by the park after June 17th to enroll your youth.

* This is a drop-in program, and children may come and go from the program as
they please. Youth can come 1 day…10 days…or everyday- whenever they’re
looking for something fun to do!

** Youth under age 5 must be accompanied by a responsible sibling or adult.

A program of Plymouth Christian Youth Center, generously supported by The Pohlad Family Foundation.
For more information please contact Jessie at PCYC by Phone 612-643-2026 or email jbester@pcyc-mpls.org

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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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North End Community Garden – Volunteer Together!

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Interested in getting your hands dirty and contributing to a thriving green community? Join the North End Community Garden and volunteer to help with the communal plot, more info from Garden Guru Chris:

Those involved in the communal plots share in the preparing, planting (including deciding what to plant), weeding, watering, and of course harvesting.  All of the round and and many of the raised bed plots in the garden are the communal ones.  So is the big U-shaped trellised area — that will be for tomatoes.  We try to arrange a time during the week when several of us can be there, so that we can garden together.  For those involved in the communal plots, there is the recommended fee of $20 for the year (same as people with individual plots), and this can be reduced or waived for anyone with financial need — we don’t want it to keep someone from being involved in the garden.  Anyone interested in more info or in being part of the garden can contact me via our garden email address — northendcommunitygarden@gmail.com.  If someone does not have email access, they can call me at 612-529-8628

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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.