Join us for ten days full of outdoor activities, live music, art, dining experiences, and community conversations.
Schedule of Events:
The Great Northern Sauna Village: Open Steam Sessions
5:30 PM Malcolm Yards
Visit our pop-up sauna village in the heart of Minneapolis. Our Community Steam sessions are a self-guided sauna experience. Book 60- to 90-minute sessions and explore various traditional wood-fired saunas, including barrel, backyard, and mobile units, just steps away from the Malcolm Yards food hall.
Mending Workshop: Stitching Together Community and Climate Action (Morning Session)
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM American Swedish Institute
This session is sold out. Join our waitlist and get notified if more space becomes available.
Join us for a hands-on mending circle with Curiosity Studio as part of The Great Northern's Climate Solution Series, where participants will build community, learn climate-resilient skills, and engage in dialogue to develop collective actions rooted in relationships.
Our Winter Weather Future: Understanding, Preparing For, and Navigating Winter In the Midst of Climate Change
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM American Swedish Institute
Join the University of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership (MCAP) to learn about what our future winters might look like, drawing from their MN CliMAT tool, and highlighting local efforts of how communities are already adapting to climate change.
The Great Northern Sauna Village: Family Day
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Malcolm Yards
Join us for a special sauna session that the entire family (5 years and up) can enjoy.
The Great Northern Sauna Village: Sound Bowl Sauna
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Malcolm Yards
Sauna sound bowls is a new Thermaculture™ experience that combines the best practices of sauna steam aromatherapy with powerful sound bowl vibrations designed to activate the body's parasympathetic nervous system.
Britt Wray and Leah Thomas in conversation
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM American Swedish Institute
Dr. Britt Wray, Director of CIRCLE at Stanford Psychiatry and author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, joins Leah Thomas, Founder of Intersectional Environmentalist, to discuss navigating climate anxiety by fostering hope through taking action and building meaningful community.
The Great Northern Sauna Village: Open Steam Session
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Malcolm Yards
Visit our pop-up sauna village in the heart of Minneapolis. Our Community Steam sessions are a self-guided sauna experience. Book 60- to 90-minute sessions and explore various traditional wood-fired saunas, including barrel, backyard, and mobile units, just steps away from the Malcolm Yards food hall.
The Great Northern Sauna Village: German Aufguss
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Malcolm Yards
In this guided sauna session, sauna guides pour essential oils onto hot stones, creating waves of soothing and aromatic steam. The session is enhanced with rhythmic towel movements, infusing the air with fragrance and intensifying the heat.
Unraveling Textile Waste: Hidden Costs and Solutions
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM American Swedish Institute
This session will explore the hidden costs of textile production and disposal, examining environmental and health impacts, innovative recycling initiatives, and the role of waste management systems, with insights from experts on reimagining textiles, enhancing material reuse, and the benefits of second-hand markets.
Mending Workshop: Stitching Together Community and Climate Action (Afternoon Session)
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM American Swedish Institute
This session is sold out. Join our waitlist and get notified if more space becomes available.
Join us for a hands-on mending circle with Curiosity Studio as part of The Great Northern's Climate Solution Series, where participants will build community, learn climate-resilient skills, and engage in dialogue to develop collective actions rooted in relationships.
The Great Northern Ice Bar
2:00 PM – 9:00 PM Union Depot
The Great Northern and Minnesota Ice are teaming up to bring you a 50-foot ice bar with a menu curated by Steady Pour—featuring specialty drinks from Minneapolis and St. Paul mixologists, breweries, and distilleries.
Emerging Climate Careers
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM American Swedish Institute
Are you interested in a career focused on climate action, clean energy, or sustainability? Join us for a series of “spark talks”—short presentations by experts in their field—that highlight a wide range of climate-related career options.
The Great Northern Sauna Village: Open Steam Session
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Malcolm Yards
Visit our pop-up sauna village in the heart of Minneapolis. Our Community Steam sessions are a self-guided sauna experience. Book 60- to 90-minute sessions and explore various traditional wood-fired saunas, including barrel, backyard, and mobile units, just steps away from the Malcolm Yards food hall.
The Great Northern Sauna Village: BIPOC Community Steam
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Malcolm Yards
The Great Northern invites members of the BIPOC community to a steam session focused on wellness, respite, and an embrace of the winter season.
Chasing Time - Film Screening
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM The Main Cinema
Thoughtfully helmed by acclaimed director Jeff Orlowski-Yang (Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral, The Social Dilemma) and first-time filmmaker Sarah Keo, Chasing Time is a meditative exploration of time and mortality, following James and his crew as they bring the decades-long project to a close, cataloging more than one million images in the process.
