2023 Events
Learning from Place: Bdote
Visit and expand your understanding of Twin Cities sites with deep significance to Dakota people through stories and perspectives often left out of our state’s history in this immersive outdoor offering by Minnesota Humanities Center.

Walk & Talk: Winter Water Works
Join Minneapolis Parks Foundation for a dynamic guided walk throughout Water Works at Mill Ruins Park.

Loppet Foundation: City of Lakes Loppet
The Great Northern founding partner The Loppet Foundation’s City of Lakes Loppet Winter Festival encompasses a variety of unique outdoor activities in and around Theodore Wirth Park and Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis.

Iregular: Our Common Home
This arresting, interactive installation by Montreal-based studio Iregular raises awareness and sparks conversation about the universal subject of our impact on the environment.

Seitu Jones: Ice Fishing and Printing
Saint Paul-based multidisciplinary artist Seitu Jones will invite both experienced and novice ice fishers to ice fish along with him on Silverwood Lake, demonstrating the process of Gyotaku—a Japanese printmaking technique used for documenting catches.

U.S. Pond Hockey Championships
The Great Northern founding partner U.S. Pond Hockey Championships have given hockey enthusiasts a premier opportunity to experience hockey the way nature intended since 2006.