The Great Northern Festival

Friday, Jan 31, 2025 at 4:00pm

Various Venues in Minneapolis, MN

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.

The Great Northern Ice Bar
4:00 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.

Expanding Landscapes & Impossible Futures
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Schwartz School of the Arts at Augsburg University
Augsburg University's Schwartz School of the Arts hosts an evening of narrative, performing, and visual arts that explore the impact of climate change on our physical and psychological worlds.

The Great Northern Sauna Village: Open Steam Session
5:30 PM – 6:30 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.

Floresta: Soundbath
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM Public Functionary
Inspired by trees' underground communication network, composers/performers Angélica Negrón, Darian Donovan Thomas, and Raquel Acevedo Klein collaborate in an evening of live unfolding soundscapes using voices, violin, plants, flowers, bells, synths, accordion, water, found objects, and mechanical percussion. Floresta also features technology from MIDI Sprout, which will be used during the performance to translate plant biodata into music.

The Great Northern Sauna Village: Open Steam Session
7:00 PM – 8:00 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.


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