
2022 Events

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

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

Hockeyland screening
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.

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

Dimitri Chamblas: Slow Show
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.

Winter Hiking 101
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.

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

Unlock It: Keller Regional Park
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.

City of Lakes Loppet
The Loppet Foundation’s City of Lakes Loppet Winter Festival encompasses a variety of unique outdoor activities in and around Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis.

Black Light a re:Search performance by Alanna Morris and Collaborators
A natural world-inspired performance of interwoven local and global identities by Minnesota-based dancer-choreographer Alanna Morris and collaborators. Copresented with The Cowles Center and Northrop.

Molly Joyce: Perspective
One of the "most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome" (The Washington Post), Molly Joyce's Perspective is an ongoing multimedia project featuring words and stories of disabled interviewees set within a complimentary soundscape.

Jovan C. Speller & Andy DuCett: Conservatory
A physically immersive and visually captivating experience designed to center Black life. Surrounded by solid ice, a thriving greenhouse garden wedged between two buildings in a downtown Saint Paul alley will flourish with hundreds of deeply hued plants.

Saint Paul Winter Carnival
The Great Northern founding partner Saint Paul Winter Carnival has brought family-friendly events and community pride to Saint Paul and the Twin Cities metro area since 1886.