Join 331 Club with this monthly review of local musicians. For the full list, see their website.

The Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery (MAAHMG) preserves, documents and highlights the achievements, contributions and experiences of African Americans in Minnesota. 

This mission is carried out through exhibits, programs and events that educate and inform the public about the history, culture, and art of African Americans in Minnesota. Opened in 2018, the museum is also a community gathering place where people meet and celebrate Black history. The museum is free and accessible to all.

zAmya Theater Project invites you to a Creative Expression Session! The Sessions are a fun space for people looking to learn performance skills, create skits and songs, use creative play, and tell their story. Open to all ages and abilities, including people with disabilities. People bringing the lived experience of homelessness are especially encouraged to attend.

Interested in learning how to sew or hoping to brush up on your sewing skills? Stop into Sewing Circle to learn tips and tricks, participate in peer learning, and get assistance from sewing expert volunteers.

Bring a project in at whatever stage you are at, add to a community project, or start something new! All skill levels are welcome.

The Minnesota Humanities Center often hosts Headscarf Story Circles – a series of offerings that recognize the strength and resiliency of women. Our Twin Cities community is pleased to announce that we will gather through shared connections of the headscarf and its complexity.

Guests are encouraged to wear a headscarf or head dress that is symbolic of anything from a fashion statement, cultural identity, health related, or memories, and beliefs.

The community event host is Julia Freeman, Director of Community Engagement, Voices for Racial Justice.

The popular Bach & Friends Workshop is a day-long musical event where enthusiasts of all skill levels can come together to explore the works and historical context presented by expert leaders. Participants will then have the opportunity to perform these compositions as a group. All voices and instruments are welcome!

Bach and Friends workshops are aimed at the many amateur musicians in our communities. In a single day, singers and instrumentalists gather to learn and perform Baroque masterpieces. Sectional rehearsal in the morning, followed by lunch, then combining forces to make glorious music.

All are invited to join the group and sit in silence with neighbors and friends every Friday morning until the cold returns.  It is a wonderful way to begin the day and monitor the changes as we cycle through the seasons.

We gather at 7:00AM; bell rings at 7:15AM; meditation period 30 min.  Friends, chairs, coffee and good cheer are provided and an occasional poem too.  What more is there to want? Meditation instructions available upon request.

The Minneapolis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the McKnight Discussion Series, featuring Adriel Luis, curator and artist, in conversation with McKnight 2023 fellows Kaamil A. Haider, Keren Kroul, and Mark Ostapchuk. This event is free, but ticketed. All are invited to attend; tickets available February 27.

This program pairs a visiting critic with three McKnight Visual Artist Fellows and offers attendees an opportunity to learn more about the fellowship recipients as well as how their work intersects with broader contemporary art ideas and concerns. This event is generously supported by the McKnight Foundation.

The discussion series is co-presented with the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Fellowships are generously funded by the McKnight Foundation and administered by the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Founded in 2023 by Brad McGinty, Odd Mart is the “store of the strange” located in the Uptown district of Minneapolis. Emerging out of GLORP Gum, a small business featuring “the only gum that comes with free t-shirt”, Odd Mart has mutated into a hub for many of the Twin Cities’ new and emergent approaches to underground comix, illustration, Zines, and more.

Part of the Insights 2025 Design Lecture Series. Speakers include: Xiomar Luna, Monster Matt, Brad McGinty, Torrie Oehrlein, Sam Richards/Weird Punk Books, and Leda Zawacki. Copresented by the Walker Art Center and AIGA Minnesota.

In this 6-week workshop for 12–19 year-olds will learn how to utilize video and audio equipment to turn a poem of their choosing into a motion poem! Youth will learn script writing, storytelling, production and postproduction skills. The Motion Poem will tell a story using creative media.

Motion Poem is presented in collaboration with Hennepin County Library and the St. Paul Neighborhood Network

Learn how to weave, knot, and tangle! In this class you will learn how to make yarn out of t-shirts and then use it to create some beautiful braiding to take home. We will provide t-shirts, but feel free to bring your own stash if you would like. Each registration is for one participant, space is limited so reserve your spot today.

The First Hmong Pioneer was planted in America 50 years ago! In celebration to 50 years of growth, Zooxis Conservatory & Botanical Garden is hosting it’s first annual seed swap gathering.

Enjoy an opportunity to exchange seeds/plants and prep for the Spring to flourish. The seed swap is hosted by Indigenous Roots Cultural Center, a group dedicated to building, supporting and cultivating opportunities for Native, Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples through cultural arts and activism.

Community Sap Tap Project is back for a 7th year! For $20, residents will get a kit that can be used to tap sap from any privately owned non-boulevard tree in the maple family (including box elders). Then we'll have a sap boil in March at ML King Park at which participants and other curious residents can watch the transformation of the mostly watery sap to a concentration of sweet syrup.

The all-day boil-downs are an opportunity to bond with other neighborhood residents and learn more about how sap is turned into syrup. A collaborative program of the Kingfield Neighborhood Association and Martin Luther King Jr. Park.

Local Comedian and Writer Devohn Bland introduces a group of artists of different backgrounds and practices to perform 10 minutes Monologues with a single prompt: a day that began bad but got better.

This show is set up to create a space for folks to talk about very specific scenarios, in hopes that the personal can connect shared universal experiences. More than comedy, more than poetry, but mostly ending in something better.

The Vanguard New Music Series presents local new music group Zeitgeist’s annual Sounding ground Composer Showcase, featuring a program of newly-created works by Minnesota composers May Klug, Leyna Marika Papach, and Sarah M. Greer with special guest composer JC Sanford.

The Vanguard New Music Series brings together local musicians and composers through a series of concerts hosted by Zion Lutheran Church in Saint Paul. Started in 2022, the series has grown to present multiple concerts with different Minnesota musicians from a variety of backgrounds and premieres new works regularly. Marc

Calling all artists at heart. Join us for a cultural program of Hmong Needlework (paj ntaub). Participants will learn unique patterns and the rich history of the Hmong paj ntaub (“flower cloth”). Local artist Mandora Young will lead participants in selecting a pattern and creating their own paj ntaub. Materials provided. 

Brookdale Library will display the completed pieces in May in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

UPDATE: This event is sold out.

Come celebrate the end of Lunar New Year with us at the XIA Gallery and Café in Saint Paul on February 15th at 6pm! Featuring poetry by Kevin Yang, Kristen Jewel, Mollie Lacy, Lior Hardin, Chavonn Williams Shen, and Tu the Judoka.

XIA Gallery & Cafe envisions an artist led space that produces economic and cultural value and strength to all artists & makers, regardless of background. A creative space where arts & culture increases visibility, uplifts communities, and creates positive impacts. ​

Young Rembrandts offers art classes for kids. Their classes are built to be fun, but children who participate in local Young Rembrandts drawing classes increase academic skills, fine motor skills, social skills, hand and eye coordination and confidence.

They partner together with your local schools and community centers to bring you easy afterschool clubs and activities.

Elayna Waxse Movement Project (EWMP) proudly announces its inaugural performance, Creatures of Loss, at The Southern Theater. This multimedia contemporary dance work, choreographed by Elayna Waxse in collaboration with the dancers, emerges from a deep physical exploration of grief. It weaves personal narrative, cultural reflection, and the neuroscience of bereavement into a compelling hour-long performance.

Featuring live music by Joe Strachan and Gabriel Rodreick “Freaque,” immersive media design by Jason Brickman, and dancers Nieya Amezquita, Romero Cannady, Colin Edwards, Sarah McCullough, and Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone, Creatures of Loss confronts the fierce, messy, and metamorphic power of grief.

There's a Crack in Everything returns! A performance of live local original music and live local word stuff, hosted and curated by Jen Scott of Penny and the Bandits. Featuring comedians, storytellers, puppeteers, poets, performers, and more—including stories from Jim Robinson, Taj Ruler, and MJ Marsh.

There’s a Crack in Everything is hosted at Resource, a “supply of space that a person can draw upon…What lives here doesn’t have to be anything, doesn’t have to be complete, but it should be shared.”

Groucho and Eliot were pen pals? You bet your life they were. Watch the sparks fly when two 20th century titans sit down for dinner. It started with a fan letter. It ended with “never meet your heroes.”

Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot met once in 1964 over dinner in London. Groucho, who starred in Animal Crackers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, and You Bet Your Life, was a pen pal with T.S. Eliot, the author of The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Cocktail Party, and Murder in the Cathedral. 

A dinner of jokes, jostling, insecurities, and insults. Be let in to an evening of poetry, vaudeville, war, wives, Gilbert and Sullivan, Shakespeare and Freud’s jokes. Groucho Marx Meets T.S. Eliot written by Jeffrey Hatcher with Creative Consultant Evan Hatcher. Directed by Michael Robins and staring Jim Cunningham as Groucho and John Middleton as T.S. Eliot.

In this adventurous class, writer and Loft Executive & Artistic Director, Arleta Little, will invite participants to explore ekphrastic writing through discussion, exercises, and workshops while learning about visual art and artists from the 20th and 21st centuries.

In this class, participants will respond to “GIANTS - The Dean Collection” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, a new show celebrating an international panoply of work from Black artists on tour from the groundbreaking collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys.

The Rainbow Beard Show is for kids of all ages and always covers a simple theme using puppets, games, stories, videos, and visits from special guests! This show will be all about NOISE! Where does it come from and why do we make it?

The Rainbow Beard Show celebrates curiosity, play, and creating collective human experiences.

Weinstein Hammons Gallery is pleased to present Advice For Young Artists, an exhibition of fourteen photographs by the internationally renowned artist Alec Soth. The new artworks stem from his visits to numerous undergraduate art programs across the United States between 2022 and 2024.

Advice For Young Artists contemplates the relationship between photography, time, and aging, with images that range from formal classroom studies to more expressive compositions. This body of work marks an evolution in Soth’s practice, offering a fresh perspective two decades after the release of his acclaimed series Sleeping by the Mississippi.

Singer-songwriter Gaelynn Lea and storyteller-playwright Kevin Kling combine their talents in an original musical fable, which weaves together storytelling and song to create a unique theatrical experience celebrating Disability Culture.

Invisible Fences celebrates Disability Culture with music, heart, and humor.

The purpose of the St. Anthony Civic Orchestra is to provide continued musical education and performing opportunities for area musicians and to enhance, enrich, and expand the musical experiences available to the citizens in the area. They’re celebrating their 50th year with an afternoon concert at the St. Anthony Village Community Center.

The St. Anthony Civic Orchestra has played over 400 concerts; playing a variety of music each season including classical concerts in fall and spring, Christmas concerts, and summer pops concerts.  Members of the orchestra are adults from all walks of life, including: consultant, engineers, teachers, nurses, dentist, psychologist, accountant, lawyer, judge, massage therapist, computer programmer, and homemakers.  They all have the common interest of making music.

The Minnesota Chorale is joined by Adrianna Tam, Shohei Kobayashi, and Paolo Debuque (A Thousand Tongues) to present a concert examining Asian-American activism, solidarity, and identity formation. Despite centuries of Asian diasporic presence in the US, the term “Asian-American” was only coined in the late 1960’s, with the express purpose of fostering solidarity between pan-Asian activists amid a growing multi-ethnic struggle for self-determination across the country.

Together, we will explore the history of that now-familiar term and consider the still-relevant lessons from our forebears through the lens of A Grain of Sand (1973), a seminal folk album of the early Asian-American movement.

In Sweden, preschoolers build a deep connection with nature, which is integral to their early education and development. This connection is fostered through various approaches including outdoor learning. Swedish preschools emphasize outdoor activities, often holding classes in forests, parks, and nature reserves.

This March, American Swedish Institute will embrace this approach as we invite preschoolers and their favorite grown ups to join us at Silverwood Park. Join ASI at Silverwood Park for a morning of creative exploration in the great outdoors – close up! Young people will use tools to zoom into tiny details of the natural world, build miniature terrariums, and experience stories about Swedish traditions related to their discoveries.

2024 MacArthur Fellow and 2024 Doris Duke Artist Award winner Shamel Pitts performs in Touch of RED, a multidisciplinary duet inspired by the rapid-fire footwork of boxing, the African American jazz dance style Lindy-Hop, Gaga movement language, and nightlife culture.

Set in a stylized “boxing” ring designed by the MacArthur Fellow Mimi Lien, with the audience seated onstage surrounding it, this powerful dance duet examines the way Black men are perceived and perceive themselves in contemporary society, and how masculinity and vulnerability can be reconsidered and reconciled in a non-combative, compassionate, and healing way.

Southside Preservation Society is a new gallery advancing art, music, and creative culture in South Minneapolis. Their inaugural show “Time Capsule” features murals by over a dozen local artists that will be purposely buried behind drywall.

The new headquarters of Burlesque Of North America, the studio bought this 5500 square foot warehouse building in South Minneapolis to house their design and print operation and exhibit local artists to foster the creative energy of the Twin Cities. Southside Preservation Society is a home for design, screen printing, music, learning, performance, large outdoor murals, and more.

Reach out directly to the gallery to schedule a visit.