Barbette Presents the 11th Annual Bastille Day Block Party

The free block party will take place rain or shine on Sunday, July 14th from 3pm-10pm outside at Barbette. Featuring entertainment by John Mark Nelson, Lucy Michelle, Nadine Dubois & Les Folies Risque, The Suicide Commandos, LEAGUES, The Brass Messengers, MC Foxy Tann, Epitome No Question, Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theater, Live Action Set, Infiammati Fire Circus and a wine spitting contest - Great Expectorations: A Wine-Soaked Spit-acular! Serving organic picnic foods, cold beverages, and featuring a local artist market.

A portion of the event proceeds will benefit People Serving People. The organization provides emergency shelter to 99 homeless families every night in Hennepin County. Located in Downtown Minneapolis, this 10-story building is essentially a hotel whose primary form of hospitality comes in helping families to overcome homelessness. The heart and soul of People Serving Peoples work is the time spent on strengthening the futures of the 200+ children at the shelter every day through early childhood education, healthy meals, volunteer readers and tutors, healthcare, family activities, school transportation, and stabilization of family life. Everyone deserves to have a place to call home and People Serving People depends on the communitys support to help families find their way home. www.peopleservingpeople.org

Eureka Recycling, a local nonprofit waste-reduction organization, is proud to partner with Barbette to make the block party a zero waste event again this year! Through careful planning and the participation of everyone attending, this event can generate no waste. By eliminating, reusing, recycling and composting all the discards generated here, we are greatly reducing our impact on the environment! www.eurekarecycling.org.

Bastille Day Website: www.bastilledayblockparty.com

Barbette Facebook: www.facebook.com/barbettempls

Barbette Website: www.barbette.com

The event is sponsored by New Belgium Brewing, Vita.mn, 89.3 the Current, 45^th Parallel Vodka, 2 Gingers Whiskey, Hendrick's Gin, Lillet, Cristalino Champagne, Crispin Cider, Nice Ride MN, Yelp!, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theater, Thrifty Hipster, and Eureka Recycling.

Barbette is located at 1600 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55408. Reservations 612.827.5710. Open daily at 8am. Serving brunch, lunch, dinner and latenight.

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