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May 2025 Events

Written by the alley on 30 April 2025

Indian Health Board Block Party
Thursday, May 1
12 – 3 PM
2020 Minnehaha Avenue
Free
This year’s American Indian Month Kickoff Parade will end at the Indian Health Board’s Minnehaha Avenue location where the IHB will host a community lunch and concert by acclaimed Anishinaabe hip-hop artist Thomas X. Vendor tables and raffle prizes will also be in the mix! Visit IHB’s facebook page for program details.

MAIC 50th Anniversary Open House & Powwow
Minneapolis American Indian Center
1530 E Franklin Avenue
Thursday, May 1
3 – 7 PM
Free
Join MAIC for an Open House and Powwow kicking off American Indian Month and celebrating their 50th Anniversary. Enjoy an afternoon of dancing, drumming, culture and connection. Doors open at 2 and Grand Entry starts at 3. Everyone is welcome!

South High School Spring Art Show
May 1 – 14
Exhibit hours:
Monday – Friday 4 – 7pm,
Saturday and Sunday,
noon – 4 pm
Modus Locus Gallery
3500 Bloomington Ave S
Free
The annual showcase of South High School students’ artwork features a diverse array of media, including ceramics, drawing, painting, photography, comic art, design, sculpture, and more. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience the vision and vibrancy of South Minneapolis’ youth through their art!… Read the rest “May 2025 Events”

Grow With Us Invitation – MPLS Edible Boulevards

Written by the alley on 30 April 2025

By MICHELLE SHAW

If you live in one of these Neighborhoods: Cedar-Riverside, Ventura Village (Phillips), Phillips West, Midtown Phillips, East Phillips, Seward, Cooper, Hiawatha, Howe, Longfellow, or Powderhorn Park, you are invited to apply to be a Minneapolis Edible Boulevard Participant.

Mpls. Edible Boulevards (a small NGO-Non-Profit) helps neighbors grow safe, healthy food right where they live – at home, outside a school, a business, or a place of worship.

Mpls. Edible Boulevards focuses on partnering with Residents of Green Zone Neighborhoods, the first six Neighborhoods above are the Southside Green Zone; and then, any adjacent Neighborhood Residents that are interested.

A Green Zone is an area identified as having the worst environmental injustices and health disparities in Minneapolis. There are two: the Southside and Northside Green Zones.

Minneapolis Edible Boulevards offers Participants:
Free soil testing,
Garden instruction
Garden resources for participants
Free monthly cooking classes

Youth-created tools like the
Plant-Based Directory
Soil Test Data Map
Community Garden Map
The 2025 Application is on Facebook, Instagram, & website. Apply early—spaces fill quickly! There will be four in-person cooking classes in Minneapolis this summer. Everyone’s invited, also on Zoom.
Questions?: email MinneapolisEdibleBoulevards@gmail.com or visit
www.minneapolisedibleboulevards.org .