After school programs for youth at Minneapolis Public Schools locations
Promoting families healthy growth and development through education, support and community building.
Minneapolis Kids provides year-round, fee-based, school-age childcare for families with youth enrolled in High Five/Minneapolis Kids Jr through 5th grade during the school year (entering grades K-7 during the summer).
Classes for Summer Youth Programs will be visible and open for registration February 23 at 5pm.
Adult Enrichment Academics
Adult Enrichment Health, Wellness & Safety
Adult Enrichment Writing
Adult Enrichment Yoga & Mind-Body Practices
Adult Aquatics
See the best of our Minneapolis outdoor athletic facilities as we offer summer sports camps for youth. Young athletes will get a taste of a high school field experience. Don’t miss it as it comes through your neighborhood.
Spend quality time with your child learning and playing together. Parent discussion will examine topics through the lens of fatherhood. Explore the joys and challenges of being a dad.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from Afghanistan.
An opportunity to provide a culturally and linguistically specific ECFE experience to families from India.
Here's your chance to spend some uninterrupted time together participating in toddler-friendly activities that support growth and development.
Come experience the romance of the Mississippi on a singular cruise featuring a fabulous combo that brings all of the classic love songs in the Great American songbook to life. As you drift along the river you can relax and enjoy the music and watch the moon from the deck. There may even be an opportunity to perform a number yourself! Plus, you'll learn about the history and lore of some the nations most cherished songs sung by some of the most legendary crooners.
Meet at the Watergate Marina, 2500 Crosby Farm Road, Saint Paul Minnesota, 55116. Crosby Farm Road is at the intersection of Shepherd Road and Gannon Road.
Transportation to the Watergate Marina is on your own.
Beverages will be available to purchase on board the boat. You may bring your own food.
Note: There is a ramp down to boat. Lower level of boat is enclosed and accessible to all.
Ages 21+.
If the tour is full, please add your name to the waitlist. If enough interest, we will try to schedule a second cruise.
A veteran of theaters, clubs, ballrooms and cabarets Raymond’s work spans nearly every musical style and format, but he is best known for his work in Music Theater.
You’ve probably heard him and not even known it!
Often tucked into the darkened orchestra pit at the Ordway Center, Raymond has been involved with over 34 shows on site, serving in varying capacities as Music Director, Conductor, Arranger and Performer. His arrangements have been published by both Music Theatre International and Rodgers and Hammerstein groups, featuring vocal charts for Forever Plaid- Plaid Tidings and the Andrew Sisters musical Sisters of Swing. His years as a jingle writer included a wide array of clients ranging from McDonald’s and Target to Volvo, Perkins and more. A recipient of two Ivey Awards as Best Music Director (Love, Janis Ordway and Urinetown Jungle Theater) Raymond is known for his fabulous piano accompaniment.
A youngster named Jamie Alexander made his recording debut, singing a few lines on FRANK SINATRA'S WATERTOWN album, produced by Bob Gaudio of The Four Seasons. Shortly after that, he headed to Los Angeles to make a series of masters at the legendary Gold Star Studios, home of The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes, and Darlene Love. This started a musical career that took Jamie Alexander, now James A. Rocco, to The Kennedy Center, Théâtre Du Châtelet, tours with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Larry Coryell, and The Duke Ellington Orchestra. In between singing gigs, Rocco starred on Broadway in CATS, all over the USA in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, and he holds the distinction of being the first man to play The Witch in INTO THE WOODS. Behind the scenes, he has directed over 200 productions, including THE WIZARD OF OZ with Eartha Kitt and Mickey Rooney and a re-envisioned stage adaptation of SINIGIN' IN THE RAIN. He is the co-creator of the cult hit, NITE CLUB CONFIDENTIAL and the creator of THE SONGBOOK EXPERIENCE live and virtual "Edu"-tainments that tell the stories behind the songs that have become the soundtrack to your life. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rer7ixUf9pM) In 2012, his single, AND THE NIGHT STOOD, STILL hit the FMQB Top 40, followed by the EP, COLD ENUF 4 U?. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNlCUweti8M), Jamie sings the role of Sloan on the Angel/Nonesuch recording of George and Ira Gershwin's STRIKE UP THE BAND, conducted by John Maceri and can also be heard on the Painted Smiles Revisited Series singing Rodger's and Hart, Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, and Everyone Else! as well as numerous soundtracks, jingles, and pop recordings.
Kersten Rodau has been a Twin Cities theater artist since moving here over 25 years ago. She’s traveled the country in national tours, as well as gracing the stages in productions at the Guthrie, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Park Square Theatre, Jungle Theater, Artistry, and singing with the Minnesota Orchestra.
James Rocco , Kersten Rodau , Raymond Berg
