We hope you are ready for a beautiful kick-off to summer with Debbie Duncan at Live on the Drive 2015. Duncan’s beautiful jazz melodies will fill the parkway on June 11th from 6-8pm and we hope you and your neighbors are available to hear it.
This year we’ll bring back the great food vendor selection, so come with an appetite! We’ll have food from The Lowry Cafe, Mama Donato’s Woodfired Pizza, Sandy’s, and Nona Rosa’s.
The evening doesn’t stop when the music does, we’ve got a movie on the parkway at dusk. Diary of a Wimpy Kid will be showing about 8:30pm after the concert. Stay the whole evening and enjoy the show.
Please help us get the word out by RSVPing and Sharing on Facebook. You can also RSVP for the movie and share that event as well. Thanks!
We are still looking for help distributing movie posters and fliers. If you are able to help us with distribution or volunteer to help with our Social Media please contact the office at 612-588-1155 or email cna@Clevelandneighborhood.org
Live on the Drive is presented by the Cleveland Neighborhood Association with our founding partner, North Memorial, and partner Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Thanks to our sponsors 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
We’ve got a great event tomorrow, Wednesday, 6-8pm, called Community Conversations. We’ll be talking about what makes and can make Cleveland a great neighborhood to live in. Livability is the term often used to simply describe how livable or unlivable a place is. Tomorrow’s conversation will be based on what you want to talk about and we’ll use a format called Open Space to ensure that you only pick the topics and conversations you are interested in participating in.
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.
Interested in applying or know someone who might be? We are looking for a Summer Step-Up Supervisor. See the job descriptions below and please pass this along to anyone you think might be interested.
Have you ever wanted to take a more active role in your community but weren’t sure how? Our community truly thrives when residents lead the way in building a strong and connected community. Join us for our Connector Academy focused on leadership training starting in April with a workshop around neighborhood history, organizing and power. This is the first of what we hope will be a series of workshops made available throughout the year for residents to grow in their knowledge, skills and abilities to serve their community and beyond. The workshop will take place at the Cleveland Neighborhood Association and be led by staff and residents. We have a limited amount of space for this event, so please contact us today if you are interested.
When Clover wandered by the office this winter braving the cold with a Community Engagement survey in his teeth we knew this is just the sort of community-commitment we wanted on our team. Clover’s been in training all winter and now we are proud to announce him as our new Newsletter Delivery Dog! For the price of a few small dog treats, this cute little guy will deliver our newsletter (which launches