Cleveland Neighborhood Association
Watch the short video from our Step-Up Achieve as they introduce themselves. They are helping launch Street Forum this summer. Street Forum amplifies your voice on challenges & opportunities facing our community. It’s like a public meeting that comes to you! Keep an eye out for their team through out the neighborhood. And follow them on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or at StreetForum.org
On a lovely weekday afternoon this summer you’ll receive a flyer from some great high school students inviting you to a block party on your block. We hope you’ll take the opportunity to introduce yourself and pass on your contact info so we can stay in contact with you from the neighborhood association and connect you with others on your block. The students are part of our Summer Step-Up Team a summer employment program with a team of 6 students and a supervisor who will be doorknocking and hosting pop-up block parties throughout the Cleveland Neighborhood all summer long. Pop-Up’s are all about connecting you with neighbors. We’ll skip the blocking of the street and grilling out, but we’ll have snacks, lemonade, and plenty of games and prizes. Come out for a few minutes, meet some neighbors and join your block club so you can stay in touch all summer long.
If you are a Block Club Leader or a Cleveland Connector we’d love to touch base with you about how we can support you and building a strong block. Below is our tentative block party schedule (we’ll cancel if it rains) and we hope you are able to make it out when we roll down your street. Reach out to us if you’d like to be a part of planning the pop-up on your block! See you this summer!
| Date | Block Party |
| 24-Jun | 32-3300 Upton |
| 25-Jun | 32-3300 Thomas |
| 29-Jun | 32-3300 Sheridan |
| 30-Jun | 32-3300 Russell |
| 1-Jul | 3500 Vincent and Upton |
| 2-Jul | 34-3500 Thomas |
| 6-Jul | 34-3500 Sheridan |
| 7-Jul | 34-3500 Russell |
| 8-Jul | 34-3500 Queen |
| 9-Jul | Live on the Drive |
| 13-Jul | 34-3500 Penn |
| 14-Jul | 36-3700 Penn |
| 15-Jul | Party in the Park |
| 16-Jul | 36-3700 Queen |
| 20-Jul | 36-3700 Vincent |
| 21-Jul | 36-3700 Upton |
| 22-Jul | 36-3700 Thomas |
| 23-Jul | 36-3700 Sheridan |
| 27-Jul | 36-3700 Russell |
| 28-Jul | 32-3300 Xerxes+Washburn |
| 29-Jul | 34-3500 Xerxes+Washburn |
| 30-Jul | 36-3700 Xerxes+Washburn |
| 3-Aug | |
| 4-Aug | National Night Out |
| 5-Aug | |
| 6-Aug | |
| 10-Aug | Step-Up Final Party |
| 11-Aug | |
| 12-Aug | Party in the Park |
| 13-Aug | Live on the Drive |
We avoided the rain last week and we have an AMAZING concert and beautiful weather lined up for you tonight! 6-8pm on Victory Memorial Parkway at 34th Ave. Join us for the beautiful music of Debbie Duncan and her band, enjoy some delicious dinner from our many food vendors, and join together with friends and neighbors to celebrate this beautiful community we live in.
We’ll have food from The Lowry Cafe, Mama Donato’s Woodfired Pizza, Sandy’s, and Nona Rosa’s.
Please help us get the word out by RSVPing and Sharing on Facebook. Thanks!
Live on the Drive is presented by the Cleveland Neighborhood Association with our founding partner, North Memorial, and event partner, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, with support from North End Hardware and The Lowry Café, Westphal Auxiliary Legion, Healy Creative, KBEM, Insight News, North News, Victory Neighborhood Association, Camden Lions, Washburn-McReavy, Hawthorne Neighborhood Association, 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 18th), 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: 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
There is a chance of rain Wednesday evening, but if the skies are clear we will be having our first Party in the Park event at Cleveland Park. We’ll be kicking off the Cleveland Park Summer Program and the beginning of a great summer in the Cleveland Neighborhood. This event is put on by the Cleveland Neighborhood Association’s Youth Committee and run by the amazing Cleveland Step-Up Team.
We’ll have Elpis Enterprises out with a Bird Feeder construction project, the North Vegans serving Vegan Strips and the PYC Summer Park program serving a community dinner. We hope you can join us for this great event!
The event will be held at Cleveland Park this summer and reaches residents in the Cleveland Neighborhood and surrounding area.
If you are interested in tabling for the July or August events you can sign up to do so here:
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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.
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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
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.
