Use a variety of hand built pottery techniques to sculpt bowls, vases, creatures, and more! Register your child for a morning class and an afternoon class and we will provide lunch and supervision free of charge from 12-1 pm. When signing up for the morning class, you will be able to choose the option “Stay for free lunch and recess from 12:00 – 1:00 pm” as you complete your registration. To ensure that our high-quality enrichment classes are accessible to all families, Minneapolis Community Education offers fees on a sliding scale. The class fee is the average cost of offering a class. Families are asked to pick the class fee or the price that they are able to pay. When families participate as they are able, at all levels of our sliding scale, the whole program becomes self-sustaining. Thank you for your consideration as you sign up for summer programs!

When life feels fast and isolated, what we need is to slow down and connect with the people in our lives. Join us as we use our own hands to make crafty cards to send to people who are important to us. Reach out and touch someone with a card crafted with care using different cardstocks, watercolors, paints, cut paper, markers, pens and... more -- all provided. As an added bonus, you will connect with some really cool, crafty people in class, too! Trading cards with classmates is allowed, encouraged even. Bring five addresses of people important to you and five stamps and be prepared to write a short message to each. When the class is over, we'll mail your cards for you. No experience necessary!

1.5 hour seminar on Hand-Poured Candle making at Kobi Co., a Black Women-Owned company in downtown Minneapolis

1.5 hour seminar on Hand-Poured Candle making at Kobi Co., a Black Women-Owned company in downtown Minneapolis

Don’t miss this once a year opportunity to experience the world of cured meat (salumi) produced by Lowry Hill Provisions and Keepsake Cidery spontaneously fermented ciders and wines in a curated event by the makers. A selection of 5 specially prepared meat and cider/wine pairings will take you on a deep dive into testing and trusting your pallet, learning more about nuances and layers of flavor, and educate you on the time honored processes that go into making these products. Meet Erik Sather - owner / operator of Lowry Hill Provisions in Northeast Minneapolis - who throughout his life has had a strong connection to food from his youth spent on a southern MN farm to years of cooking in some of Minneapolis' best restaurants. His connection to land, food and people led to opening his salumaria, which has been a process of passion, luck, and community. Collaborating on this day with friend Nate of Keepsake Cidery who has made it his life’s work to produce spontaneously fermented natural ciders and wines from regional fruit, the two together will knock your socks off on this journey of flavor. Go home with your own selection of cured meats and ciders and wines with 10% off purchase from that day included as a benefit to attending. Enjoy all the Keepsake Tasting Room has to offer before and after the event with their local food menu, afternoon live music and orchard strolls. Keepsake Cidery is located at 4609 135th St E, Dundas, MN 55019. If event is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available. NOTE: After you can either transfer your registration to another guest or receive $45 refund if we are able to fill your spot.

Are you a Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin? Create the magic of Hogwarts as we practice potions, herbology, charms and more! Register your child for a morning class and an afternoon class and we will provide lunch and supervision free of charge from 12-1 pm. When signing up for the morning class, you will be able to choose the option “Stay for free lunch and recess from 12:00 – 1:00 pm” as you complete your registration. To ensure that our high-quality enrichment classes are accessible to all families, Minneapolis Community Education offers fees on a sliding scale. The class fee is the average cost of offering a class. Families are asked to pick the class fee or the price that they are able to pay. When families participate as they are able, at all levels of our sliding scale, the whole program becomes self-sustaining. Thank you for your consideration as you sign up for summer programs!

Want to make terrific thin-crusted, crispy pizzas in your home oven? You don’t need much equipment—just a plan and a few simple techniques! In class, you’ll make 12” pizzas that bake in about 6–7’”. You’ll trick your oven into giving your dough the highest-possible heat, learn to prep and dress your dough so it doesn’t stick to your countertop, use a wooden peel to load your dough into the oven on a baking steel (or cast-iron griddle without sticking to the peel), and finish your pizzas when they come out, bubbly and fragrant. Bring a small cardboard box for taking home any pizza you don’t devour in class. Extensive handout provided. If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist as we will likely add additional sections.

Find your inner power! Train and tackle evil like a true hero in this imagination class. Grades are the year your student will be entering in the fall. A lunch is available to all students. Please select this option when you register. Community Education uses a sliding scale model for program fees so our summer programs can be financially sustainable and more equitable. The different prices reflect the average cost of offering a class as well as discounted options and options that help us cover our administrative costs. Families are asked to pick the price that they are able to pay. If you need further financial assistance, please contact the lead coordinator of the Super Summer Program at lissa.gordon@mpls.k12.mn.us or call 612.668.4922.

Join us for a bus tour featuring “Points of Light of the Northside” with participants led by historian Susan Curnow Breedlove traveling through Camden and Near North Minneapolis, going from what was once known as Finntown on Glenwood Avenue to the site of early African American homesteaders on the border of Brooklyn Center.Stops will be made where you will experience the presence of luminaries, people and places that bring light to the Northside. We will visit long-time establishments including a store begun in 1898 known for its selection of shoes by NFL players, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, and local folk. We will tour a health center founded by community members in 1968 as one of 13 National Service Programs linked to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.You will be treated to a visit at an all-service hardware store located in the community since 1947, wherein the co-owner will share his life-long history as a part of the Northside.The director of the Carl Kroening Nature Center within Minneapolis’s North Mississippi Regional Park will share the history and proposed plans for the enhancement of the site.Bring binoculars and cell phone with the free Merlin app for bird watching if you choose to take a short group jaunt down the path to the Mighty Mississippi. We will light up your life with short stops of local businesses including a chocolatier, and a natural apothecary where you may purchase items while supporting local businesses.Lunch will be catered at a newly established Hispanic market and restaurant for tour participants that wish to purchase items.

Slide into the history of America's Pastime. Learn the stories that made baseball what it is today and how that history reflects and has shaped our country. Through videos and discussion, chart the course of the sport from Abner Doubleday to Shohei Otani.

Please join us for our first private tasting dinner at Vinai! Enjoy our 5-course tasting dinner and learn about Hmong Food from the chefs of Vinai. Hear the stories behind the inspiration of Vinai, the restaurant. Vinai the restaurant (pronounced VEE-nye) is named after the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp in Thailand— the place where Chef Yia Vang’s parents met and the place he was born. Ban Vinai, the refugee camp, served as a place of safety, reunification, and restoration. Vinai, the restaurant, serves as a love letter from Yia to his parents. It serves as an homage to Hmong culture and history. And it serves as a place of restoration, a place where we invite you to celebrate, honor, and illuminate stories of your own through the universal language of food. Hmong food draws on the flavors of the Southeast Asian countries that the nomadic Hmong people traveled through. Our menu features modern interpretations of the Hmong family dishes Yia grew up eating including large shared mains, bright veggie sides and bold sauces. Vinai is located at 1300 NE 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55413. If event is sold out, please add your names to the waitlist. We will contact you if tickets becomes available. NOTE: After Feb 15th you may transfer your registration. Refunds less $15 if we are able to fill your spot from our waitlist. Check out these articles and accolades on Vinai: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/best-new-restaurants-in-the-world-hot-list-2025 https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263151/vinai/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/dining/best-restaurants-america.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/dining/hmong-minnesota-food.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/dining/hmong-cuisines-minneapolis.html https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/restaurants/a62875489/best-new-restaurants-america-2024/ https://www.eater.com/2024/11/13/24295681/vinai-open-fire-cooking-hmong-chef-yia-vang-minneapolis https://www.startribune.com/restaurant-review-vinai-yia-vang-hmong-american-cuisine/601166955 https://twincities.eater.com/2024/12/3/24299782/eater-awards-winners-twin-cities-minneapolis-st-paul-2024-restaurants https://mspmag.com/eat-and-drink/foodie/restaurants-of-the-year-2024/ https://www.minnesotamonthly.com/featured/homepage-feature/the-best-new-restaurants-of-2024/ https://midwestdesignmag.com/featured/minneapolis-restaurant-vinai-is-a-place-of-joy/