20-05-2025
Walker Art Center unveils slate of free summertime events
The Walker Art Center is ready for the move to outdoor events.
In addition to unveiling dates for its Skyline Mini Golf late last month, it has revealed its slate of free summertime events, which includes the return of Sound for Silents.
The annual movie event on the Walker's hillside commissions a new score for silent films, which are performed in the late summer outside the institution.
On Aug. 14, filmmaker Philip Harder (who was behind Prince's "Cinnamon Girl" and the Low documentary Cue the Strings—a Film About Low) will collaborate with the ensemble of singer/songwriter Matt Arthur to present new music to films from the Walker's Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection.
Other events throughout the summer include events for the Walker's Free Thursday Nights, which opens the museum to all visitors every Thursday from 5–9 p.m.
It'll also host events around its ongoing Free First Saturday series, which opens the galleries and puts on family-friendly events on the first Saturday of each month.
Here's the full calendar of free summer events at the Walker Art Center:
June 7: Free First Saturday: Summertime Sounds
June 12: The Social Soundtrack: Part 1 at the Wurtele Upper Garden
June 13: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
June 19: The Cookout: Joy as a Catalyst for Connection at the Wurtele Upper Garden
June 19: Rooftop Comedy with FAWK on the Walker rooftop
June 20: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
June 20: Teen Media Workshop with SPNN at the Art Lab
June 26: Green Roof Poetry, Body at Wurtele Upper Garden
June 27: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
July 5: Free First Saturday: Building Our Community
July 10: The Social Soundtrack: Part 2 at the Wurtele Upper Garden
July 11: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
July 17: Artropolis Symposium: Tangential Futures & Emerging Crossroads
July 18: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
July 24: Art Club: Summer Edition at Wurtele Upper Garden
July 25: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
July 31: Artropolis Symposium: Part 2 at Wurtele Upper Garden
Aug. 1: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Aug. 2: Free First Saturday: Pollinator Power
Aug. 8: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Aug. 14: Sound for Silents 2025: Film + Music on the Walker Hillside at the Wurtele Upper Garden
Aug. 15: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Aug. 16: Middle School Movie Club: Summer 2025 at Walker Cinema
Aug. 21: Green Roof Poetry, Nature at Wurtele Upper Garden
Aug. 22: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
Aug. 29: Friday Art-making in the Garden Summer 2025 at Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
