In a dramatic attempt to bring awareness to the changing continent, an international expedition led by renowned explorer Will Steger embarked on the first-ever coast-to-coast expedition across Antarctica in 1989.

Capping off The Great Northern 2022 is a showcase of ACF’s most recent cohort of McKnight Composer Fellows: Ashley DuBose, Ritika Ganguly, George Maurer, and Mary Prescott.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Minnesota Orchestra as part of The Great Northern 2022. This one-hour Relaxed Family Concert is designed for audiences of all ages and abilities.

Join St. Paul-based artist Aaron Dysart for a conversation about his current exhibition, Passage, on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art through Feb 27, 2022.

Ojibwe mother, singer, songwriter, and visual artist Annie Humphrey curates an evening that includes her own music and special guests Corey Medina and Brothers

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with the Minnesota Orchestra as part of The Great Northern 2022.

Senior boys from rival towns—one a growing dynasty, the other with a fabled past—skate for a last chance to etch their names into local lore.

Walk, ski, or snowshoe on Lake of the Isles alongside candle-lit luminaries outlining a serene landscape of glowing ice.

Dancer/choreographer Dimitri Chamblas’ Slow Show is a 20-minute collective dance whose visible repercussions are minute, precise, and concentrated. In this iteration, 50 local participants will respond to their immediate environment on a frozen Como Lake.

This conversational event featuring founder of @BrownPeopleCamping Ambreen Tariq will introduce the basics of winter hiking so that more people can benefit from being outdoors during Minnesota’s signature season.

Get together, get moving, and build some midwinter heat with this all-abilities movement class offering a fun and inclusive approach to dancing.

This self-guided, outdoor orienteering experience gives map-based challenges to unlock scrambled letters that form a keyword earning participants the opportunity to win prizes.

LA-based musician Naeem Juwan’s “Minneapolis period” was artistically formative, and supported the development of his critically lauded 2020 release Startisha, “a spacious, sonically curious record that sees him exploring new emotional and sonic ground” (Interview Magazine). Performance details and special guests to be announced.

A master class providing the latest information on the negative impacts of our clothing, including the actions that we—as citizens, media, or brand small and large—can take to address them and do our part to create a thriving industry that exists within planetary bounds.

Canadian Minister of Northern Affairs Dan Vandal leads a virtual conversation discussing actionable steps to address climate change adaptation and mitigation supporting healthy ecosystems in the Arctic and North.

Artist Kim Heidkamp and choreographer/dancer Mathew Janczewski (ARENA DANCES) discuss their collaborative interdisciplinary installation Thermal ahead of its month-long premiere at American Swedish Institute in March 2022.

An event exploring utility programs for integrating electric vehicles and renewable energy credits.

Join environmentalist/composer Gabriela Lena Frank and writer/birder/conservationist J. Drew Lanham for a conversation on collaboration, sustainability, birds, and music.

Singer, composer-producer, and performance artist Lyra Pramuk performs songs from her debut album Fountain, “a journey through experimental sounds and electronically reshaped vocals” (Metal Magazine)

Join The Great Northern at Allianz Field to watch the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team (USMNT) take on Honduras in a World Cup qualifying match.

Meet Titi and Zakiya—scientists, best friends, and co-hosts of Spotify's Dope Labs, a weekly podcast that turns the scientific lens on all things pop culture.

Driven by a devotion to the sonic afterlife, memory, and material curiosity, “one of the most exciting young composers in North America” (The Guardian), Kara-Lis Coverdale makes her Upper Midwest debut at The Great Northern 2022.

Emily Ford sets out with Diggins, a borrowed Alaskan Husky sled dog, to become the first woman and person of color to thru-hike the 1,200-mile Ice Age Trail in winter.

As Black History Month begins, this event focuses on the importance of creating more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and just spaces for climate solutions—with an eye toward the past, present, and future. Featuring McKnight Foundation’s Ben Passer and Project Drawdown’s Matt Scott.

This work-in-progress conversation explores choreographer/dancer Ashwini Ramaswamy’s Invisible Cities’—a reinterpretation of Italo Calvino’s metaphysical/philosophical novel, with interactive projections created by internationally renowned artist Kevork Mourad.

Admirers of each other's work and leadership in climate action, tribal attorney Tara Houska and owner of Minnesota-based Solar Bear Robert Blake will each prepare three questions for a wide-ranging mutual interview, ending with audience Q&A.

Join atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe as she shares high-impact solutions to climate change in Minnesota and beyond.