Minneapolis Public Schools

Come to this fun and upbeat barre class where you’ll be sure to sweat it out using ballet inspired movement to cardio infused beats! Bring a mat, tennis shoes, and plenty of water!

Improve your coordination, musicality and core strength and flexibility while learning the basic steps of belly dance. ***THERE WILL BE NO CLASS MAY 9TH, DESPITE WHAT THE BROCHURE SAYS*** 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 belly dance technique and movements through basic steps, isolations and layering. Choreography will also be taught that you can perform for friends. The dates have changed from the catalog. The dates listed online are correct. If class is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will contact you if a space becomes available.

Improve your coordination, musicality and core strength and flexibility while learning intermediate steps of belly dance. 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.

Join us in community at North Community High School for Bingo & Popcorn nights. This popcorn night will also have some Bingo fun and prizes to take home. Tell a friend or coworker and make this a fun filled event by including others in your community.

Join us in community at North Community High School for soulful smoothies and bingo nights. We will be creating smoothies that are healthy for our bodies and soul. This experience will also have some fun included with Bingo. Tell a friend or coworker and make this a fun filled event by including others.

Enjoy a high-energy workout with fun and lively music. Bodyshaping is a system of strength training and flexibility exercises that combines the best elements of free weights and yoga. Use of your own exercise/yoga mat and hand weights suggested.

Get a great cardio workout while punching your way into shape. Learn to jab, upper cut and throw hooks in this non-person-to-person contact class. Participants will be able to make contact with punching bags and participate in padwork with the coach.

Get a great cardio workout while punching your way into shape. Learn to jab, upper cut and throw hooks in this non-person-to-person contact class. Participants will be able to make contact with punching bags and participate in padwork with the coach.

This class is for those that want to learn about the different techniques of boxing. Learn how to jab, upper cut and throw hooks both left and right handed. Have no fear no one will be punching you and we will not make you go nine rounds against anyone in class. Sign up for this class to challenge yourself maybe challenge a friend to attend as well. .

Join this intro level Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class and learn the basics of BJJ.

Join this intro level Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class and learn the basics of BJJ.

Join this intermediate level Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class and learn skills & techniques of BJJ.

In the spring of 1861, writer/philosopher/poet/naturalist Henry David Thoreau traveled to Minnesota for the first and only time. Seven years prior, Thoreau published his landmark book “Walden,” which championed nature, the woods, and the act of staring at a body of water for internal and spiritual self-awareness. The next year, Thoreau would die from his lifelong bout with tuberculosis, at 44 years old. Other than botanical notes, Thoreau never had a chance to write about his Minnesota visit. What would he have had to say about our great lakes and big river? Thoreau fan and writer/songwriter/author Jim Walsh has long wondered as much; now in the spring of 2024, join Walsh as he leads a tour of Twin Cities landmarks visited by naturalist/writer/poet Henry David Thoreau during his trek to Minnesota in the spring of 1861. 12:45 pm Board Coach Bus 1:00 pm Bus Departs 4:00 pm Return to Southwest High School PICK UP LOCATION: Southwest High School - 3414 W. 47th Street, Mpls, MN 55410 Park & meet in the Chowen Ave. lot on the West side of the school between 46th & 47th Streets. NOTE: The correct price for this 3-hour bus our is $69. If tour is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will let you know if space becomes available.

Enjoy the roads of central Wisconsin, full of scarlet maples, yellow birch, and deep red sumac as we travel to Warrens, Wisconsin. Warrens Cranberry Festival is the world's largest cranberry festival. There is something for everyone - 2024 will mark the festival’s 52nd year! The festival boasts over 850 arts and crafts booths, 350 flea market booths, and 100 farm market vendors. The festival also has over 100 food vendors. We will tour the cranberry museum and have a delicious cranberry ice cream cone at the museum. A tour of a cranberry bog is also included. If interested, you’ll have a chance to watch the grande parade, with Wisconsin’s largest collection of high school bands. Our motorcoach bus will have plenty of space underneath to store any purchases. NOTE: Lunch is on your own at the festival as well as a fast food stop on the way home. TIME: 7:45 am Board Bus 8:00 am Bus Departs Southwest High School 8:30 pm @ Return to Southwest High School PICK UP LOCATION: Southwest High School - 3414 W. 47th Street, Mpls, MN 55410 NOTE: Only transfer of registration available after August 29th. No refunds. If tour is full, please enroll for the waitlist. We will notify you is a spot becomes available.

Join Dakota artists Marlena Myles and Graci Horne as we travel through Southwestern Minnesota exploring Dakota history and culture. Stops include Traverse des Sioux & Treaty Site History Center in St. Peter, the 46th annual Wacipi (Powwow) at the Lower Sioux Agency with visits to their Cultural Arts Incubator & Historic Sites, Pipestone National Monument and Jeffers Petroglyphs. Marlena and Graci's stories will connect us with the history, the land, the people, the present, and future from as told from their Dakota perspective. SATURDAY: 7:45 am Board Motorcoach Bus 8:00 am Bus Departs Meet Motorcoach at Southwest High School located at 3414 W 47th Street, Mpls, MN 55410. Park in West lot located on Chowen Ave. between 46th & 47th Streets. SUNDAY: Bus returns @ @ 6:30 pm Price includes transportation, lodging, meals, and all admissions. Ages 18+. ACCOMMODATION OPTIONS: Single Occupancy * Royal River Casino & Hotel - Includes Breakfast Double Occupancy * Royal River Casino & Hotel - Includes Breakfast NOTE: Only transfers available after May 15th. If tour is full, please add your name to our waitlist. We will contact you if a spot opens up.

Travel down interstate 35 south a little over 2 hours. We’ll cross the border into Iowa and spend a fascinating day touring a different “Twin Cities”: Mason City and Clear Lake Iowa. In Mason City we will partake in a walking tour of the Rock Glen neighborhood which is full of prairie-style architecture. Mason City has some Frank Lloyd Wright structures. We will tour two of them: the Stockman House and the Park Inn Hotel -- the last remaining Frank Lloyd Wright hotel. We will tour the Meredith Wilson home and neighborhood, as well as, the nearby YWCA that is being restored at an arts venue and artist residence. Enjoy time on your own for lunch and to explore downtown Mason City. In Clear Lake we will visit rock ‘n’ roll icon the Surf Ballroom. This ballroom has been an important historic landmark since the 1930s. Created to resemble an ocean beach club, murals were hand-painted to depict pounding surf, swaying palm, trees, sail boats, and lighthouses. Buddy Holly played his last concert here before his fatal plane crash in 1959, forever known as the day the music died. Learn the story of major recording stars that have visited the Surf Ballroom, or played a concert here at some point during their career. Includes Motorcoach tours of Mason City and Clear Lake, all museums, tours, and attractions plus a bakery stop. Lunch in Mason City is on your own. TIME:- 7:15 am Board Bus 7:30 am Bus Departs Southwest High School 6:30 pm @ Return to Southwest High School Pick-Up & Drop Off Location: Southwest High School - 3414 W. 47th Street, Mpls, MN 55410 NOTE: Only transfer of registration available after May 22nd. No refunds. If tour is full, please enroll for the waitlist. If there is enough interest, we will move to a bigger bus.

The Twin Cities, one of the most racially diverse urban areas, is a smorgasbord of ethnic delicacies and foreign cuisine with food from many nations and ethnic groups. Enjoy a multi course, progressive dinner of delectable, finger foods, appetizers, salads, main courses and desserts at the best and most unique ethnic restaurants covering Cambodian, El Salvadorian, Palestinian, and Kurdish cuisines. The tour will take you to the crossroads of the world, presenting unique spices, international flavors, and specialty foods shaped by each country’s geography, plant lore, and agricultural customs and eating preferences. Don’t miss this chance to fill your curiosity, as well as your stomach! Ages 21+. TIME: 1:45 pm Board Bus 2:00 pm Bus Departs Southwest High School 6:30 pm @ Return to Southwest High School PICK UP LOCATION: Southwest High School - 3414 W. 47th Street, Mpls, MN 55410 NOTE: After September 15th, only transfer of registration is available. If tour is full, please add your name to the wait list. We will notify you if space becomes available.