Using the symbology of our shared past to look forward into an uncertain future of climate change, this supergroup concert debuts the first material generated through The Meta Simulacrum, an interdisciplinary, alternate-reality digital platform designed by composer William Brittelle. The performance features newly composed songs for an electro-acoustic ensemble of dynamic musical polymaths.

Live from the First Avenue stage, CJ Camerieri joins forces with Shara Nova, Jake Luppen, and Trever Hagen to celebrate and perform Camerieri’s self-titled debut solo record CARM. After the performance, Camerieri will discuss and highlight the community of local musicians involved in the project and how the music took shape.

Outpost, a performance series created in 2018 by Twin Cities musicians Sam Bergman and Carrie Henneman Shaw, comes out of hibernation with a brand new winter show featuring world premieres by Dameun Strange, Daijana Wallace, and Aida Shirazi, new music by Du Yun and Marcus Norris, and words by Safy Hallan Farah, Maggie Koerth, and Brandi Brown.

A series of virtual panels engaging perspectives on climate solutions. In partnership with Greater MSP, MBOLD, Project Drawdown, Minnesota Design Center, Minnesota Humanities Center, MPR News, Climate Generation, and The Nature Conservancy.

World premiere storytelling, photo sharing, semi-improvised new music event by renowned photographer Alec Soth and drummer/composer Dave King (The Bad Plus).

Tracing the arc of misinformation and propaganda in the United States from 9/11 to this year’s elections, theater maker and Emmy Award–winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker (Gasland) Josh Fox offers a riveting solo performance that confronts us with the truth about the climate crisis in a “post-truth” world.

Walk or snowshoe over Theodore Wirth Park’s groomed ski trails alongside candle-lit luminaries outlining a serene landscape of glowing ice celebrating winter in the Bold North.

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 over the course of two weekends.

Mizna, City Pages’ “Best Nonprofit 2020,” is a Twin Cities-based critical platform for contemporary Arab/Southwest Asian and North African film, literature, and art. In the still and dark of winter, Mizna invites storytellers to muse on seasonality, nature's rhythms, and the things that get us through.

Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, New York Times bestselling author, and National Humanities Medalist Krista Tippett interviews poet, teacher, birder and conservationist J. Drew Lanham, author of The Home Place—Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature (Milkweed Editions) for a special episode in partnership with The Great Northern.

A dynamic podcast episode featuring Sean Sherman (The Sioux Chef, Minneapolis) and Mikkel-Lau Mikkelsen (VILD MAD, Copenhagen) on getting outside and connecting with nature through foraging.

Saint Paul Winter Carnival has brought family-friendly events and community pride to Saint Paul and the Twin Cities metro area since 1886. Most activities are free and open to the public, take place in downtown Saint Paul, the Landmark Center and at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.

UNWEAVING is a temporary outdoor sculpture installation by multi-disciplinary artist Tia Keobounpheng that explores the ways that tradition, culture, communities, and individuals are unwoven when they are disconnected from their foundation of ancestral history, or when truths are suppressed or not acknowledged.

For the inaugural collaboration of The Great Northern and MSP Film, we will present films that speak to essential issues in the climate conversation based around the 4 elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire.

A documentary featuring two well-known Quebecois poets who tell a story about Quebec through maple syrup. Presented by Arts Midwest as part of The Great Northern in partnership with Alliance Française MSP, Québec Government Office in Chicago, and MSP Film Society.

The Great Northern partners with food culture publication Meal Magazine on their second issue, featuring a commissioned story on Sean Sherman, who is leading a revitalization of Native American foodways and cuisine here in the North and beyond; and a conversation about foraging, wintertime food sourcing, and the impacts of climate change from three distinctly Northern food figures with very different backgrounds: chef Yia Vang, Mikkel-Lau Mikkelsen, and Wendy Geniusz.

A limited run winter blanket designed by award-winning visual artist Dyani White Hawk (Sičáŋǧu Lakota) launches as part of The Great Northern in partnership with American Craft Council. The blanket is skillfully manufactured by Faribault Woolen Mill (Faribault, MN), one of the last vertical woolen mills in America.