Minneapolis Public Schools

Learn how to bake pita, pizza crust and focaccia. Uncover the specific baking jargon when working with yeast and master some common pitfalls to create delicious food to share. Cost includes a $20 supply fee. Discounts are on tuition only. Call 612.668.4828 to register with a discount.

Enjoy elegant fitness at its best learning classical ballet techniques while developing core strength, flexibility and balance. Perform warm-ups and basic positions, and work on center combinations. Receive individual corrections for alignment and positioning. If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available.

Banjo has a big role in bluegrass music, and is great fun to play. If you're a beginner at banjo, bluegrass, or both, you are welcome to this class and we'll start from zero. We will cover lots of music theory for bluegrass banjo to help you get started, and touch on the basics of how bluegrass jams work. The playing techniques are applicable to any kind of music, but we will focus on songs and tunes that might get played at a bluegrass jam. All you need to bring is a five-string banjo, one thumb pick and two finger picks, and a tuner. If class is full, please enroll in the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available. This class is priced on a sliding fee scale. Please pay the price you are able. This helps to ensure that Community Education can provide quality opportunities for all of our participants.

Learn basic hand sewing techniques including several stitches to do your own mending: stitch up a rip, sew on a button, put on a hook and eye, place a patch or darn those holes. Come as you are – all learning materials are provided. Once the class is full, join the waiting list. When we have enough people waiting, we will open a second section of this class.

An introductory class for the home owner who wants to understand how electricity works in the home and do simple repairs themselves. The instructor will discuss safety procedures when working with and around electricity. Students will learn about the different types of wire, circuit breakers, light switches, and wall receptacles and how to replace them. Information will be presented on tools needed and testing devices, their uses, and how to test circuits.

¡Visita un nuevo lugar con tu pareja/amigos o ven y haz nuevos amigos! Se creativo con nosotros, todo mientras disfrutas de excelentes canciones y una bebida o dos. Esta es una experiencia de pintura donde todos, desde artistas experimentados hasta personas creativamente curiosas, pueden soltarse y volverse artísticos. No te preocupes si no tienes experiencia; Tenemos todo lo que necesitas para aprovechar tu genio creativo. Con un lienzo, pinturas, pinceles y excelentes melodías, todo lo que tienes que hacer es presentarte y divertirte. Explora tu lado creativo: tienes el control total, así que pinta lo que quieras o elige uno de nuestros lienzos guiados. Llévate tu obra de arte: perfecta como regalo o como complemento colorido para tu hogar. Bebidas y snacks disponibles para su compra en el lugar.

If you long to create beautiful, tasty hearth and Pullman pan loaves, here’s the class for you! Join a circle of bread-loving bakers and Jan, a bread baker since 1968, in your quest for sourdough perfection! Class consists for 4 in-class sessions, with a week break between weeks 2 and 3 so you can bake up a storm at home. You’ll acquire a community of fellow bread-baking enthusiasts and a solid grounding in the basics of bread making: grain berries and flours; bolted and whole-grain; gluten and its development; baker’s percentages and scaling; home milling; working with those dark horses, rye and pentosan; maintaining and reinvigorating starters; using commercial yeast; stages of building bread dough: autolyse, fermenting, retarding, shaping, scoring, baking; free-form bread baking equipment: baking vessels, domestic hearth stones, stand mixers, Brotforms, &c: resources on bread history, techniques, global bread traditions. Some materials provided but you'll be given a list items for you to bring to class and use at home as well. Expect to spend $50-$60 for these additional items if you do not have already. These include: bench knife bowl scraper 2-L round Cambros with lids, or equivalents (available at best prices @ Costo Business Ctr—two-pack of 2-L Cambros is currently $12.99) digital scale round banetton or wicker basket with liner or flour-sack cotton towel Danish dough whisk or (for home) stand mixer baking vessel: Lodge Combo Cooker or baking stone plus cover straight-sided .5L and .25L Weck jars for starter parchment paper (for home) bottom-heat source: heating pad, seed-starting pad, Raisenne, or other mild heat source for fermenting dough USA Pans or Chefmate 9” Pullman pan (if making Pullman bread interests you) lame (I recommend Breadtopia’s $11.99 lame) If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available or we are able to add additional sections.