Cleveland Neighborhood AssociationNews and updates related to north Minneapolis wide activities
Join us tonight for our Back to School Party in the Park event at Cleveland Park starting at 5:30pm. We’ll be grilling hot dogs, receiving school supplies, custom designing backpacks (first 50 students) with Juxtaposition Arts, Making bird feeders with Elpis Enterprises, enjoying Vegan samples from North Vegans, learning about back to school resources from Prepare and Prosper and even more. We’ll see you out there! RSVP on Facebook
There are more parties then even we can keep track of this week and you don’t want to miss a single one! Join us at least once this week for something you are interested in and ready to connect with your neighbors around:
If you don’t already have August 13th on your calendar stop what you are doing and put it down (and mark off Aug 20th as our rain date too, just in case). Our final Live on the Drive concert of the summer is just one week away, 6-8pm on Victory Memorial Parkway in north Minneapolis. The talented Javier Trejo will bring us home with a great concert followed by a movie in the park featuring The Blindside.
There are a hundred reasons to come out and join your neighbors for this great concert series, the best our in pictures, check out these amazing photos from Toki Wright’s concert in July, taken by Scottie Tuska of Alleycat Photography
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The annual Northside summer concert series Live on the Drive finishes out its eighth year with singer and songwriter Javier Trejo. The final concert will take place on Thursday, August 13th, from 6 to 8pm. A wonderful live music show on the scenic Victory Memorial Drive at 34th Avenue North in Minneapolis, one of the most beautiful concert settings in the city.
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Born in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico and raised on St. Paul, Minnesota’s “Westside,” Trejo is a local artist with international roots. Javier’s musical influences range from old-school country and Tejano music to R&B and Rock ‘n’ Roll. His self-titled album presents Bossa Pop original songs inspired by the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jerry Garcia, Manu Chao, Arto Lindsay, Flaming Lips, David Gray, and RL Burnside. Javier Trejo’s songs transcend genres to create an intimate sound that seduces the listener.
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, Jazz88 KBEM, 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. Already this summer nearly 3000 people have come out to see our 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
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Minnesota Sinfonia performs two free outdoor concerts Thursday at Webber Park
The Minnesota Sinfonia is excited to put on two free outdoor concerts July 30 at Webber Park. First, students from the Lundstrum Center for the Arts will join the Sinfonia at 11 am to perform in the children’s concert. In the evening, Maria Jette, soprano, will take the stage at 7 pm to perform a number of lighter selections in the family concert. Bring a chair or blanket, sit back and enjoy a great day full of wonderful music.
In addition to the concerts, Park Board staff is hosting an open house at the new Webber Natural Swimming Pool on July 30; 4-6:30 pm. Come early to the evening concert and tour the first public natural swimming pool in North America.
Please note concert rain site: North United Methodist Church (4350 Fremont Ave. N, Minneapolis 55412)
The FLOW Northside Arts Crawl is a big and amazing community event this Saturday July 25th. The Cleveland Neighborhood Association will be out sharing Community Ballpit project, “Take a Seat, Meet a Neighbor” at the Penn and Broadway intersection.
Come out and join us and be sure to check out the many great art all along Broadway Avenue on Saturday. More details at the FLOW Website and on Facebook.
Since 2006, FLOW Northside Arts Crawl is both a community celebration and premier art event in North Minneapolis. FLOW is a non-juried, self-guided tour of studios, galleries, theaters, commercial and vacant spaces over a mile and half of the West Broadway corridor. From b-boys to ballet, graffiti to graphite, rap to rhapsody, fine artist to artisan, practicing to professional, FLOW showcases the great art being made every day on the Northside. FLOW is a program of the West Broadway Business and Area Coalition.
What do Raptors, Vegans and Tickets to the Twins game all have in common? They’ll all be at the Party in the Park Wednesday night!
Party in the Park is a great community dinner and gathering at Cleveland Park put on by the Cleveland Neighborhood Association’s Youth Committee.. The event will feature a presentation from the Raptor Center at 6:30pm with live Hawks and the The North Vegans will be serving Vegan Strips, as well as a free dinner from the PYC Summer Park program. And we’ll have games and prizes, like a chance to win tickets to a Twins or Lynx game later this summer. We hope you can join us for this great event!
Maybe you’ve thought homeownership wasn’t possible, or you didn’t know where to start. Maybe you thought your credit wasn’t good enough or you haven’t saved enough for a down payment. We can help!
The City of Minneapolis is partnering with Minnesota Housing and the Minnesota Homeownership Center to provide access to down payment assistance, quality, affordable mortgages and free, non-biased housing experts that can help you become a successful home owner!
Down Payment Assistance – Homeownership Opportunity Minneapolis
The City of Minneapolis wants to make affordable homeownership a reality for you. The City is providing up to $7,500 to qualified buyers to cover down payment and closing costs when purchasing a home anywhere within Minneapolis city limits. To qualify for this program, you must meet the following income eligibility requirements:
HousingResource Center™ – North
2148 44th Ave North, Minneapolis, MN 55412
Phone: 612-588-3033
Fax: 612-588-3028
HousingResource Center™ – South
3749 Cedar Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55407
Phone: 612-722-7141
Fax: 612-722-6367
Quality, Affordable Mortgages
Minnesota Housing, the State’s Housing Finance Agency, offers mortgage loans for first-time homebuyers with affordable interest rates. Minnesota Housing loans work seamlessly with down payment assistance products like those offered by the City of Minneapolis.
Free Homeownership Advisors
Talking one-on-one with a FREE non-biased, non-profit housing expert can provide that extra boost of confidence you need to become a successful homebuyer. We’ll connect you with a Homeownership Advisor and specialized workshops for first-time buyers to make sure that YOUR questions get answered… and you have the tools and knowledge necessary to own your future!
Homebuyer Education
If you are a first time home buyer, the City of Minneapolis requires all first time homebuyers (for this program or any of the City of Minneapolis’ assistance programs) to attend home buyer education. Low cost home buying workshops are available from Home Stretch or Framework in multiple languages. Counselors will work with home buyers to determine affordability, credit issues, and make lender referrals. More information
More Information
Own Your Future Own Your home website
651-659-9336
Program Brochure (pdf)
We’ve got a LOT of reasons for you to be out at the Toki Wright Concert Tonight, here are a few…
Amazing Music from local artist, and Patrick Henry Alumni, Toki Wright
Awesome T-shirts for you to purchase
Temporary Tattoos!
You could win a free bicycle!
Delicious food from our amazing food vendors!
Free Lemonade!
A Movie after the concert (We Bought a Zoo)
FAMILY!
Just one week away on July 9th we’ve got an amazing show for you, Toki Wright will be playing at Live on the Drive from 6-8pm on Victory Memorial Parkway. You won’t want to miss it. And you’ll want to stay late for the movie in the park, We Bought a Zoo. Bring an appetite and enjoy dinner from our food vendors and buy some exclusive Live on the Drive 2015 t-shirts (all proceeds support future events). We’ll see you out there! Please help us get the word out by RSVPing and Sharing on Facebook. Thanks!
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