Celebrate the Mississippi River Gorge at the annual Longfellow River Gorge Festival! This family-friendly, community celebration will include free ice cream and popsicles, canoe rides, live music and naturalist tours. Our Gorge Leadership Team will lead [...]
Our Events and Engagement Committee works to engage with the community with meaning and purpose through events and programming. We assist with outreach efforts to ensure all neighbors feel welcome and supported. We help plan and implement large and small LCC events. Find our agendas and see what we’re up to! The Events & Engagement [...]
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 the candidates to answer. The forum starts at 7 followed by a meet and greet at 8pm. Help us welcome people at the event: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e49a8ab2aa2f9c16-ward1#/ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Arbeiter Brewing, Blackbird Revolt, and KRSM - 98.9 FM are teaming up to put on the brewery's first, Culture and Craft event! It's a full day of fun, family, culture, [...]
A South Minneapolis music festival featuring 12 local bands across 3 porches that transform into stages on September 16th from 4-10 PM along 17th Avenue from 32nd to 34th Streets! [...]
This fall marks the end of a year of shows at the Vine Arts Center with artwork from community members, gallery members and an artist from Iowa. Our members are preparing to celebrate that with [...]
Our Board of Directors discusses the objectives and programming of Longfellow Community Council and votes on grants and projects. Look at our agenda for a more complete picture of what we’re doing [...]
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. [...]
Beat invasive Buckthorn at the park at our Upcoming National Public Lands Day VOLUNTEER BUCKTHORN BLITZ on Saturday, September 23 from 9:00-12:00. National Public Lands Day 2023 is a statewide event that provides unique opportunities for Minnesota Master Naturalist Volunteers to participate in our largest single day of service. Locations across the state will have [...]
The LoLa Art Crawl is back! The Popular Longfellow Art Tour Returns September 23-24. After a long winter of work in basements, studios, dining rooms and the like, Longfellow artists are ready to bring back the much-loved LoLa Art Crawl. The 13th annual neighborhood-based tour of local art was first organized by the League of [...]
