Every Lowry Hill News story tagged Performing Arts.

Crews broke ground May 4 on an 8,000-seat riverfront amphitheater in north Minneapolis run by First Avenue and the Minnesota Orchestra, as Loring Park prepares for its free Peace in the World concert.

The summer festival pairs 150 artist booths with multiple performance stages.

The Walker Art Center has treated graphic and industrial design as collectible art since its founding, a stance that dates to its first director and runs through its current in-house design studio.

The Walker Art Center's "Show & Tell: An Exhibition for Kids" runs through April 5, 2026, turning a set of galleries into a hands-on space built for children.

The famed New York experimental troupe headlines the museum's winter performance calendar.

The genre-crossing instrumentalist headlines an intimate evening in the Walker's winter season.

The Walker Art Center's cinema keeps a year-round film calendar a short walk from Lowry Hill, with current screenings ranging from Julie Dash's "Daughters of the Dust" to Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep."

The shoreline of Lake of the Isles records more than a century of decisions, from the late-1800s dredging that turned a marsh into open water to recent shoreline restoration.

The season's clown programming is less comedy than confrontation.

A November program co-presented with Northrop revives postmodern dance landmarks for one night.

The performance lineup makes room for speculative work reaching toward other futures.

A Minneapolis council item moves from a subject-matter committee, where the public can testify, to a Thursday vote of the full council.

The downtown stretch of Hennepin Avenue was rebuilt years before the Uptown corridor, a separate 2019-2022 project with its own design for a denser theater-and-office district.

The Hennepin Avenue South rebuild ran in two phases over two construction seasons, from Lake Street to 26th in 2024 and from 26th to Douglas in 2025.

The Walker Art Center is showing Robert Rauschenberg's set and costumes for "Glacial Decoy," the Trisha Brown dance it commissioned and premiered in 1979, through May 24, 2026.

Bryn Mawr's Sip and Stroll returned Oct. 9, 2025, sending residents on a free evening walking circuit of 13 neighborhood businesses, from Big Hill Books to La Mesa.

The City of Lakes Art Fair headlines a crisp October weekend on the water.

The free Minneapolis Sculpture Garden and its Spoonbridge and Cherry have become the region's default backdrop for weddings and milestone photos.

Lynne Woods Turner's Portland exhibition traces its origin to a 1979 film of Trisha Brown's "Spanish Dance" performed at the Walker Art Center.

The contemporary museum pairs new shows with live programming.

The Walker Art Center's 2025-26 performing arts season, which opened Sept. 13, runs from experimental clowning to jazz titans and a Wooster Group return after 25 years.

The Neighborhood Super Sale, a coordinated one-day event of more than 100 yard sales across six lakes-area neighborhoods, runs each September from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Walker Art Center's live performances unfold largely in the McGuire Theater, a 385-seat hall that opened with the museum's 2005 expansion and is built for experimental work.

The Uptown Farmers Market opens its 2026 season Thursday, June 11, at a new spot two blocks north at Lagoon and Girard, after construction displaced its previous location.

The two-day fair has anchored the neighborhood's summer arts calendar since 2000.

Free readings add the spoken word to the museum's warm-weather mix.

The Walker revives a beloved summer series scoring silent cinema in real time.

A summer gathering frames joy as a catalyst for community at the Walker's Wurtele Upper Garden.

Siama's Congo Roots brings feel-good guitar to the neighborhood branch.

Saturday markets, a free bandshell concert and the restored trolley fill a summer weekend.

Thousands spread blankets for a warm evening of music by the lake.

The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra kicks off its run on the last weekend of June.

The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra plays weekend evenings from late June through late July.

Weekend programs run through the back half of June and into July.

Screenings, poetry, music and art-making fill the warm-weather calendar at no charge.

The restored trolley carries riders along the old line near Lake Harriet.

The neighborhood branch lines up concerts and family events.

A sculpture-garden art fair, free orchestra night and Saturday market headline the weekend.

The riverfront market runs Saturdays from May through October.

A shoreline cleanup, a free branch concert and Saturday markets fill the calendar.
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