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Axios
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Twin Cities weekend guide: Art-A-Whirl, Doors Open Minneapolis, peony festival
Happy Art-A-Whirl! The largest open artist studio tour in the country returns Friday for a packed three days celebrating local creatives — and almost every event is free to the public. Not sure where to start? Here are five happenings we're watching out for this weekend. 🌪️ Whirlygig: Indeed Brewing Company's coinciding three-day music/beer festival features live music from Early Eyes, Black Market Brass, Javier Santiago and much more, plus on-the-spot vinyl record-cutting, live painting by Chuck U and plenty of brews. 3-11pm Friday, 11am-11pm Saturday, 11am-10pm Sunday 💃 Artlesque: Mix drag, cabaret, circus and more at Marble Fae Creative Collective's burlesque showcase, featuring six performing artists with "the aesthetic camp and whimsical charm of a live Chappell Roan performance." 9:30-10pm Friday, 7:30-8pm Saturday 🚘 Crush-A-Whirl: Cat-themed auto shop Turbo Tim's is bringing back its live car crushing event alongside an artist market, live music and kids activities. 4pm Saturday 🥽 Free Mini Glassblowing Classes: Step up to the torch at Stone Arch Glass Studio & Gallery, which will offer 15-minute complimentary lessons first-come, first-served — and, you get to keep your creations. 1-5pm Saturday, 1-5pm Sunday 🎶 Needle Drop Dance: In the mood to move? Legacy Dream Space will be playing old 78 and LP records from the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s inside its "multimedia living room," with visitors welcome to explore the room, gather with friends and dance along. 7-8pm Saturday More things to do... 👀 Snoop around Minneapolis this weekend during Doors Open, the annual chance to get free behind-the-scenes access to private clubs, churches, city buildings, restaurants, theaters and more. This year's activities include exploring projection booths at The Main Cinema, riding historic streetcars, sitting on $1.7 million in cash at the Federal Reserve Bank and looking inside sewer holes on Nicollet Mall. Free 🦅 Bring your binoculars to the Twin Cities Bird Festival Saturday along the Mississippi River in Brooklyn Park. Experts will host live raptor meet-and-greets, exhibit tables and guided bird walks, including two for kids. Free 💕 Welcome spring flowers at the inaugural Saint Paul Peony Festival this Saturday afternoon at the Hmong Plaza in Phalen Regional Park.
Axios
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Things to do in the Twin Cities in summer 2025
It's May in Minnesota, which is the unofficial beginning of five months of weekend festivals, concerts and other entertainment, much of it outdoors. Why it matters: We have to cram a lot into our short summers. Let's not find ourselves full of regret this winter that we missed out. Here are some highlights as you make your summer plans. 🇲🇽 May 2-3: St. Paul's West Side Cinco de Mayo celebration is this weekend, with music, food, a car show and a parade. 🎆 May 13: Katy Perry at Target Center. 🎨 May 16-18: Art-A-Whirl in Northeast Minneapolis. 100+ locations with art and music. 🍲 May 17-18: Hmong American Day Festival in St. Paul's former Sears parking lot, with music, food and speakers. 💴 June 1: Grand Old Day takes over St. Paul's beloved street with music and food. 🧑🎨 June 6-8: Edina Art Fair at 50th and France. 🌉 June 14-15: Stone Arch Bridge Festival brings art and food to West River Parkway. 🏳️🌈 June 27-29: Twin Cities Pride at Loring Park 🐢 July 5: Get out of town and head to Duluth for the Bayfront Music Festival, headlined by Trampled by Turtles. 🏙 July 5-6: Taste of Minnesota in downtown Minneapolis. Headliners: Joan Jett and Cheap Trick on Saturday and Ludacris on Sunday. 💦 July 18-20: Minnehaha Falls Art Fair. Art, but also Sea Salt Eatery. 🛥 July 18-20: Minnesota Yacht Club returns to Harriet Island with headliners Hozier/Alabama Shakes, Fall Out Boy/Weezer and Green Day/Sublime. ⚔️ Aug. 16- Sept. 28 (weekends): Minnesota Renaissance Festival in Shakopee.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Indeed unveils packed lineup for Whirlygig music festival during Art-A-Whirl
Art-A-Whirl's sprawling arts weekend across Northeast Minneapolis offers a lot more than open studios and the chance to purchase work from locally-based artists. Indeed Brewing has unveiled its plans for Whirlygig 2025, its annual three-day music festival that coincides with Art-A-Whirl. The brewery's parking lot will feature a diverse bill of performances with rock, hip-hop, and jazz groups hitting the stage, all curated by Room3's Eli Awada. As usual, Whirlygig will be free to attend on all three days. The lineup includes Early Eyes, Thomas Abban, Dilly Dally Alley, rising hip-hop artist Obi Original, Black Market Brass, the raw punk of Anita Velveeta, and Claire Doyle, as well as Javier Santiago headlining a jazz-forward Sunday lineup that also features Aby Wolf and Kavyesh Kaviraj. In addition to the music, Indeed will have food trucks that include Red Cow, KCM Eggrolls, Chef Shack, and Pizzeria Lola, as well as beer and THC drinks. Here's the complete lineup for Whirlygig. Friday, May 16Gifted HandzBarlowThomas AbbanEarly Eyes Saturday, May 17Palms PsalmAnita VelveetaLighter Dally AlleyJuice LordObi Original & the Black AtlanticsDylan Salfer BandBlack Market Brass Sunday, MAy 18MarvelousBAKKWOODDRIFT feat. SolorahClare DoyleSalty DogAby Wolf and Kavyesh KavirajJavier Santiago
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dates set for 30th Art-A-Whirl, Northeast Minneapolis' sprawling arts festival
Art-A-Whirl, Northeast Minneapolis' massive open studio art festival, will celebrate its 30th year from May 16-18, organizers announced this week. In 2025, the festival plans to host more than 1,400 local artists in spaces throughout the Northeast Minneapolis Arts District. The event purports to be one of the largest annual arts festivals of its kind in the country, drawing more than 120,000 people. The annual event not only features artists opening their studios to visitors, but also includes music, food, events at breweries, and other happenings throughout the neighborhood. 'Our anniversary brings us the opportunity to not only celebrate, but also to reflect upon all that NEMAA member artists have contributed to our community throughout the past 30 years," says Anna Becker, Executive Director of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association (NEMAA). To celebrate the milestone, NEMAA is selecting 30 featured artists to highlight during this year's event. Featured artists will be unveiled in April. Additionally, the fest will launch an app-based Art-A-Whirl Passport Challenge, which will simultaneously help visitors navigate the sprawling festival and let them earn points toward prizes.
