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Sinfonia Concerts at Webber Park 11am and 7pm

sinfonia concertMinnesota 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)

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Party in the Park – Healthy Living this Wednesday night!

Cleveland Party In The Park_party_flyer_4x6 copyJoin us this Wednesday evening for our second Party in the Park event with the theme Healthy Living. We’ll have free health screening available from the “Q”mmunity Helath Mobile, resource tables from Hennepin Teen and Child Check-ups, Center for Energy and Environment and more. This event is put on by the Cleveland Neighborhood Association’s Youth Committee.

The event is held near our office in the green space between Cleveland Park and Lucy Craft Laney School near Penn and Lowry Avenues north and reaches residents in the Cleveland Neighborhood and surrounding area.

This year we’ve chosen themes for the Party in the Park events. In June we had Summer Fun and Safety, July 16th we’ll have Healthy Living, and August 20th we’ll round it out with Back to School themes. We’d love for you to join us at the events as a resident or come as an organization. Come for Dinner, stay for the community!

RSVP on Facebook for our July 16th Event!

Would you like to Table at the event? Register Here!
(Sponsor Letter PDF)

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Northside News Youth

Cleveland Party in the Park 2014

Cleveland Party In The Park_party_flyer_4x6 copyThe Cleveland Neighborhood Association’s Youth Committee is excited to be hosting our second annual series of Party in the Park events  on the third Wednesday of June, July and August as a way to connect neighbors with one another and resources and opportunities in their community. The event is held near our office in the green space between Cleveland Park and Lucy Craft Laney School near Penn and Lowry Avenues north and reaches residents in the Cleveland Neighborhood and surrounding area.

This year we’ve chosen themes for the three Party in the Park events. June 18th we’ll feature the theme of Summer Fun and Safety, July 16th we’ll have Healthy Living, and August 20th we’ll round it out with Back to School themes. We’d love for you to join us at the events as a resident or come as an organization. Come for Dinner, stay for the community!

RSVP on Facebook for our June 18th Event!

Would you like to Table at the event? Register Here!
(Sponsor Letter PDF)

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Events Northside News

We’re Kicking off Live on the Drive with Thomasina Petrus

thomasina profile picThe annual Northside summer concert series Live on the Drive returns for it’s seventh year. The soulful Thomasina Petrus and her band kick off the concert series on Thursday, June 12th, 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.

Thomasina Petrus is a premier jazz/gospel/rhythm and blues vocalist who has performed on stages both local and abroad. Her singing and acting career has spanned the past 20 years, as she has cultivated her talents through mentorships and friendships of some of the Twin Cities most beloved artists, including Jevetta Steele, Prince, and T. Mycheal Rambo.

Come with an appetite and enjoy dinner from food vendors The Lowry Café, Mama Donato’s Woodfired Pizza, Gramsky’s Sandwiches, and treat yourself with gelato from Nona Rossa’s. Stay into the evening for a movie in the park, featuring Remember The Titans 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 by founding partner, North Memorial, with the Cleveland Neighborhood Association, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, North End Hardware and The Lowry Café, Hennepin County, Westphal Auxiliary Legion, Healy Creative, North News, Victory Neighborhood Association, Washburn-McReavy, 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 Thomasina Petrus (June 12th), rock and classical fusion act Clocks & Clouds (July 10th), and folk/indie rock band Bomba de Luz (August 14th). Food vendors and Movies in the Park are back to finish out each concert night: family-friendly movie Remember the Titans (June 12th), Black Film Festival pick Soul Food Junkie (July 10th), and Black and White classic Psycho (August 14th). Our Bike to the Drive event in August, 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 www.liveonthedrive.org

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Submit Event info now for Northside Summer Community and Arts Guide

draft coverThe Cleveland Neighborhood Association is developing a Northside Community and Arts Guide for summer 2014! The guide will feature all community and arts activities occurring on the Northside between June and September. We are seeking out organizations hosting summer events to list in our guide. The Northside Community and Arts Guide will be 5.5″ tall by 8.5″ long and have a print run of 5000 copies that will be distributed at local northside businesses and organizations, community events and door to door through neighborhood organizations. The summer guide will also be available to the many people that attend Live On The Drive.

The breakdown of listing options (example pdf link) are as follows:

Basic Listing:  Cost = FREE. Includes 10pt. listing with organization name, event name, location, and date/time, and contact info. (approx. 100 characters)

Bolded Listing: Cost = $25. Includes Bolded listing with banner heading and organization and event details (approx. 300 characters). Include a small photo/logo for additional $25

Half Page Listing: Cost = $150. Includes ½ page feature in the guide that includes photo, organization and event details (approx. 600 characters) and special ‘sponsor’ listing.

Full Page Listing: Cost = $300. Includes 1 full page feature in the guide that includes 1-3 photo(s), organization details, event details, and special ‘sponsor’ listing

Sponsor: If you are a business, organization or individual simply interested in supporting this project, you can make a donation of $100 or more and be listed as a sponsor in the guide by name and with your logo. 

This is an awesome opportunity to share your summer event(s) with the community! If you are interested in taking advantage of this promotional opportunity, don’t hesitate to contact us. If you are ready to make your submission you can do so below. You can also make your payment/donation for your listing or as a sponsor here at Razoo. Submit your listing now. Deadline is April 25th


msab_logo_color_smallLegacy Logo ColorFinal“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.”

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Youth Night, Murals, Talent Shows and Stories

Here are some of the events coming up this week as part of our 30 Days of Community, remember you can get text updates by texting “30 Days” to 612-567-1262

Paint the Pavement – April 2nd
Tonight join us as we discuss what it would take to do a mural on your block. It’s a great community building event for your neighborhood. Tonight, April 2nd, 6pm at 2205 Lowry Ave N. Join us for Paint the Pavement!

Youth Night – April 3rd
Join us from 6:30-7:30pm for the Youth Committee’s Youth Night. Open to youth and adults with kids, we’ll be hanging out and talking about what we want in our community for youth this summer. See you there!

Where: 2205 Lowry Ave N.
When: 6:30-7:30pm
Who: Youth and adults, Family Friendly

Northside’s Got Talent – April 5th
Join us for the North Regional Library Talent Showcase featuring host, Fancy Ray McCloney. Let your star power shine! Come to perform, or come to watch! All ages encouraged to participate. Stay for pizza after the show.

April 5th, 2-4pm at North Regional Library, 1315 Lowry Avetellyourstory

Register your act at the information desk or call 612-543-8450. Registration deadline March, 27.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of North Regional Library.

Tell Your Story! – April 8th
Tell Your Story Northside Tuesday, April 8th; 4:30p.m. – 6:30 p.m. at UROC located at 2001 Plymouth Ave N. Minneapolis, MN.

Want more positive news stories about north Minneapoli? Write your own! Join your neighbor in writing & publishing your own stories about the community you love. All you need is to bring your story idea and yourself.

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You Are Invited to 30 Days of Community

30 Days We have a very exciting project we are just about to launch and you get to be the first to hear about it. We are kicking off spring with 30 Days of Community! We’ll be hosting events every day from April 1st to April 30th in a currently vacant storefront at 2205 Lowry Ave (next to the Lowry Cafe). Over that 30 days the space will transform from a movie theater to art gallery, concert space to garden workshop, and any other ideas you come up with. Each event will be hosted by a neighborhood resident, so if you have a great idea you’ve been wanting to do in your community please contact us and we’ll work with you to make it a reality! We have a small budget for each event and will provide each resident with all the support they need to help make it a success. Text or Call 612-567-1262 or email us at cna@clevelandneighborhood.org

This 30 day event will also be the introduction to our Connector Lab, a innovative way of building up community leaders. The Lab will provide 3 residents with mini-grants up to $500 each to create a community project that will better their neighborhood. Lab members will bring together a team to work on and launch their project with the support of the Cleveland Neighborhood Association. Are you ready to turn your community idea into a reality? Contact us! Text or Call 612-567-1262 or email us at cna@clevelandneighborhood.org

Look forward to seeing you there! If you have any questions please send us a quick reply email.

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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