Artists assemble! Fuse simple or complex designs using beads on a template. Work from examples or create your own designs of animals, cars or even your favorite characters like Elphaba and Glinda. The possibilities are endless! To ensure that our high-quality enrichment classes are accessible to all families, Minneapolis Community Education is now offering fees on a sliding scale. The different prices reflect the average cost of offering a class as well as a discounted option and options that help us cover our administrative costs. Fees cover instructor pay, most class supplies, program materials, marketing and scholarships. Families are asked to pick the price that they are able to pay. As always, we will continue to offer additional financial assistance upon request. When families participate as they are able, in all levels of our sliding scale, the whole program becomes self-sustaining. Thank you for your consideration as you sign up for summer programs!

Discover the powerful ways art captures and communicates the legacies of individuals, cultures, and communities. In this 90-minute interactive tour at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, explore select works that inspire reflection on personal and collective legacies. Guided by engaging prompts and group discussions, you’ll uncover the hidden stories behind the art, connect with the values and choices of the artists, and reflect on the mark you want to leave on the world. Highlights include: Exploring works that celebrate compassion, resilience, and change. Interactive reflection stations to imagine your personal legacy. Opportunities to connect with others and share perspectives on art and life. Whether you’re an art enthusiast, a seeker of meaningful experiences, or simply curious about how legacy shapes our world, this tour will leave you inspired and connected to the bigger picture. If event is sold out, please sign up for the wait list. We will contact you if more tickets become available.

Join Jan Grover, longtime Minneapolis Community Education instructor, for a 4.5-hour tour of four independent metro butcher’s shops that can help you up your grilling, smoking, and roasting games! These fine, long-established shops offer personal services, deep knowledge and experience, and hand-cut meats raised locally or regionally. No pre-cut, shrink-wrapped meats here! Each shop’s staff of butchers can custom-cut meat for you, suggest optimal techniques for cooking it, and help you become a better meat cook. Each makes a wide variety of scrumptious sausages and bacons smoked on-site. You’ll drive yourself from site to site, where we’ll meet outside each shop before exploring its meat cases, both fresh and frozen. You’ll find cuts you’ve never seen or used before because these shops cut entire sides of meat animals; the more obscure cuts are frozen after cutting because there’s less demand for them. Some of them are the best!) Because we’re touring in June, remember to bring an insulated bag to keep your purchases cold and safe. Bring your checkbook, if you have one, to save these small shops from the transaction fees that credit cards impose on them. There will be options to buy lunch (sandwiches) at our first two stops. You'll receive an extensive handout on the history and special offerings of each butcher's shop, along with recipes using their meats.  We will start at the farthest meat shop and work our way back to Minneapolis. Group meets at Noon on Saturday, June 21at Hagberg's Meats located at 11325 Stillwater Blvd, Lake Elmo, MN 55042. Transportation is on your own. Group size is limited to 10. If tour is sold out, please add your name to the waitlist. We will contact you if a tickets become available.