The word “boring” just isn’t in our vocabulary. Minneapolis is a city that likes to celebrate, and we’re one of the best in the nation at doing it. We have the largest fair in the nation—The Minnesota State Fair—where over 450 different types of food can be found; deep fried, on a stick or even in a bucket. You can step back in time to the days of fair damsels and court jesters with the Renaissance Festival, a seven week ode to the olden times where you can eat oversized turkey drumsticks and cheer on your favorite jouster. In the winter, we light up the streets with the nationally-acclaimed Holidazzle Parade—a three week celebration of the serene beauty of the holiday season.
Whatever the season, whatever the day, you’re bound to find a celebration breaking out in the streets of Minneapolis.
Art Shanty
Art Shanty Projects is a four-week exhibition that is part sculpture park, part artist residency and part social experiment, inspired by traditional ice fishing houses that dot the state's lakes in winter. It is an artist driven temporary community exploring the ways in which the relatively unregulated public space of the frozen lake can be used as a new and challenging artistic environment to expand notions of what art can be.
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