Longfellow Event Calendar & Board Meetings

Dowling Community Garden 80th Anniversary Celebration

Dowling Elementary School 3900 W River Parkway, Minenapolis, MN, United States

Join Dowling Community Garden as they celebrate 80 years! Tomato tasting, Garden tours, kids activities and more from 11am to 2pm on Saturday, August 19th at the Gardens.

RISE: Rallying in Solidarity for Equity

Brackett Park 2728 S 39th Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Join us for a free health equity event on August 20th at Brackett Park. From 11am to 3pm we will have free health screenings, a resource fair, as well as music, art, yoga, book buggie, and free food. Spanish version at the bottom - Hay una versión en español al final de la página web. [...]

Free the Deeds at the Midtown Farmers Market

Midtown Farmers Market 2225 Lake Street E, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Free the Deeds will be at the Midtown Farmers Market! We'll be there with information on racial covenants as well as help residents look up their properties and check for covenants. We'll have applications to Just Deeds to start the process of removing racial covenants. There will also be great produce and vendors as always. [...]

BIPOC Shared Space: Massage & Bodywork

Ivy Arts Building 2637 27th Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Welcome to our BIPOC Space! Our goal is to create and facilitate a healing space for BIPOC community members where our joys, struggles, expression, and ways of being are not just welcome, but centered; an environment where BIPOC can be their full, authentic selves without fear. We meet every fourth Tuesday of the month at [...]

Free Community Narcan Training from Southside Harm Reduction

Bench Pressed 2010 26th Ave S #1, Minneapolis, MN, United States

There will be opportunities this fall for free community Narcan Trainings at Bench Pressed, 2010 26th Ave S #1, Minneapolis, MN 55406. The first one is Saturday, September 2nd from 2 to 3pm. Learn this important lifesaving step to help stop an overdose. Can't make it? There will be another one in November. Questions? Email 

Art Drop & Shop

Moon Palace Books Lot 3024 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Join Visit Lake Street in Downtown Longfellow on Friday, September 8 from 4:00 - 8:00 pm for an evening celebrating the Lake Street community through art, food trucks, drinks, live performances, and fun! Participate in free art activities like painting, button making, sewing, and more! Plus shop from the artists featured in the Lake Street Art [...]

East Side Neighborhood Service Free Produce Giveaway

East Side Neighborhood Service 1700 2nd St NE, Minneapolis, MN, United States

East Side Neighborhood is having a free produce distribution on September 8th from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in their parking lot (1700 2nd St NE Minneapolis 55413). This giveaway is for EVERYONE! [...]

Fall Plant Walk at Minnehaha Park Glen with a Naturalist

Minnehaha Park 4801 S Minnehaha Drive, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Enrich and expand your knowledge of the wide variety of fall plants, shrubs, trees, berries and late blooming wildflowers in Minnehaha Park Glen. On Saturday, September 9, at 10:00am, join [...]

Gather on the Green

St. Peder's Lutheran Church 4600 E. 42nd Street, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Come together with community at St. Peder's Lutheran Church, 4600 E. 42nd St from 4 to 7pm ! Gather on The Green is a chance to make new friends and [...]

Ward 12 Candidate Forum

Longfellow Recreation Center 3435 36TH AVE S, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Meet the City Council Ward 12 candidates as they discuss important issues for our neighborhood. You have the opportunity to ask questions too! Email with questions you would like [...]

Community Ownership in Minneapolis: Envisioning the People’s TOPA Department

Powderhorn Park 3400 S 15th Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Share a meal with the Housing Justice League coalition as we kick-off a new renter-centered initiative to build power for community ownership in Minneapolis on Thursday, September 14, 2023, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center, 3400 15th Ave S, Minneapolis MN 55407. There will be free dinner and childcare! [...]

Plant Trees in the Sand Flats

Mississippi Gorge Regional Park 3349 W River Pkwy, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Join Friends of the Mississippi River and help plant native floodplain trees in the sand flats on Saturday, September 16 from 9-11 am. Meet near 34th and West River Parkway (Registrants will be emailed directions to meeting spot). FMR and neighbors have been working on removing invasive buckthorn in this area and are now get [...]