Events
Midtown Global Market will bring a taste of China to South Minneapolis when it hosts a Chinese New Year celebration on Friday, January 30, 2009, in conjunction with the Market's Friday Family Night.
Beginning at 4 p.m., members from the Chinese Senior Citizens Society and the Chinese Heritage Foundation will be on hand for fortune telling and distributing red envelopes that help usher in good luck for the New Year.
Children can take home a drawing of their name printed in traditional Chinese calligraphy.
A traditional Chinese lion dance will commence at 7 p.m., circling the Market with graceful movements and magnificent colors, to help ring in the year of the Ox.
5:00-8:00 pm FREE! Please join us for family night every Friday night. We will have live music, a children's play area, free balloons and we will put out crayons and coloring sheets appropriate for all ages.
We'll validate your stub if you park in the 10th Avenue Parking Ramp, FREE for up to three hours!
Saturday mornings 9:00 am - 11:00 a.m. FREE! Anyone who wants to write is welcome. Full information at writers.meetup.com/609 We, who would like to write very often, spend too much time thinking about writing. This group serves to support you in actually writing. We do it longhand. Bring pen and paper and get ready for a really good time! The group meets by the Lake Street windows across from the Fish Market. Facilitator: Gaia Richards
We'll validate your stub if you park in the 10th Avenue Parking Ramp, FREE for up to three hours!
Lake Street Council is holding a Home Based Business Resource Fair on Saturday, January 31! 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Midtown Global Market, 920 E. Lake St. It will give you a terrific chance to network with the home based business community as we network amongst ourselves.
Areas of interest include:
-How to Get a Good Start on Your Work Day - we'll have yoga instructors and life coaches available
-Bookkeeping, Accounting and Taxes - we'll have representatives from the IRS
-We have asked local business supplies and services providers to join us - Office Max, Target and Kinko's
Hot mixture of blues, boogie and rock n roll featuring Cadillac Kolstad's pulsing piano rhythms.
Please come to the Second Annual Soup Cook-Off at Midtown Global Market! Sample soups created by Midtown Global Market Vendors and Vote for your Favorite.
Donations to Perspectives' Kid's Café.
Stacy Halter is a Twin Cities area singer/songwriter with a sound that is somewhat similar to artists such as: Sarah McLachlan, Colbie Caillat, Jewel, and the likes. Her songs lean toward the pop/rock/folk genres with a touch of soul. Stacy also enjoys sharing her renditions of your favorite popular songs in those same genres, and has been doing so for the past 8 years.
Free Latin dance lessons every Sunday from 11 am - Noon with Veronica Vida Sana in Suite 123 in the Southeast corner of the market.
We'll validate your stub if you park in the 10th Avenue Parking Ramp, FREE for up to three hours!
Hamilton has been performing, both solo and with backup musicians, in the Twin Cities, 5-state region and select cities around the US for more than ten years. He performs an eclectic mix of acoustic styles that includes pop, blues and folk; Hamilton has 3 CDs on the market and has been a finalist in local, regional, national and international songwriting contests and music festivals (see his bio at waynehamilton.com) and a leader in the metro music scene.
Every Monday. FREE & open to all levels of play. Rated and non-rated events and chess lessons available at $20 per lesson. Contacts: Peter Mwaura, Simba Craftware at 651-492-2858 or DeWitt Green, Uplift Chess at 612-825-0371. upliftchess@yahoo.com We'll validate your stub if you park in the 10th Avenue Parking Ramp, free for up to three hours!
Free lessons with Twin Cities Steppers dance expert Kevin Johnson. A two-hour lesson in the main plaza of the market. We'll validate your ticket if you park in the 10th Avenue Parking Ramp, free for up to three hours!