Minnesota Salsa Fiesta!

The annual Minnesota Salsa Fiesta returns to Mill City Museum with a full evening of music, dance, food, and more outdoors in the iconic Ruin Courtyard and indoors in Mill Commons.

Minnesota Beethoven Festival

Winona welcomes world renowned artists
The Minnesota Beethoven Festival is an annual, three-week classical music festival in Winona, presenting nationally and internationally recognized artists in performance each summer.

Since 2007, the Minnesota Beethoven Festival has celebrated the music and legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven, in an unequaled environment of performance, discovery, and community, nestled in the quaint bluffs of southeast Minnesota.

Minnesota and the Negro Baseball League

Keeping with our baseball theme, Richard Bogovich will discuss an important, but often overlooked part of sports history in America: The Negro Baseball League. Learn about the St. Paul Gophers and the connection to Olmsted County on Thursday, June 19th at 7:00 pm at the History Center of Olmsted County. Richard Bogovich is a contributor to the Society for American Baseball Research and has published several books and biographies. The lecture is free for members and $5 for non-members.

Minnesota African Cultural Festival 2025 (FREE PARK EVENT)

*Get Ready for the 2025 Minnesota African Cultural Festival*

SAVE THE DATE SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 2025!!!

Bigger, More Awesome, More Exciting and More Extravagant!!!!

All Africans and Friends of Africa are invited to celebrate with us to display and showcase our Traditions, Cultures, Language, Food, Arts, Fashion and much more…… and be proud of who you are!!!

TIME: 10:00 A.M.- 4:00 P.M.

Mill City Farmers' Market

YEAR-ROUND Farmers Market
OUTDOORS: Saturdays May-October*, 8am-1pm
*OCTOBER START TIME 9am

INDOORS*: First & Third Saturdays** Nov-April, 9am-1pm
*inside the Mill City Museum on 2nd Street

Midnight Mayhem: The Toxic Avenger

Saturday, August 2 at 10pm

Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas.

Before you see The Toxic Avenger remake with Peter Dinklage, Elijah Wood and Kevin Bacon this August, watch the original Troma classic about how a 98 pounds of solid nerd becomes a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength! The health club horror-comedy about the only wholesome example of toxic masculinity, the first superhero from New Jersey.

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Midnight Mayhem: The Craft

Saturday, June 7 at 10pm

Midnight Mayhem featuring your host Chaz Kangas.

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Sarah has always been different. So as the new girl at St. Benedict's Academy, she immediately falls in with the high school outsiders. But these girls won't settle for being powerless misfits. They have discovered "THE CRAFT," and they are going to use it.

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Midnight Mayhem: Happy Gilmore + Eegah

Saturday, July 5 at 10pm

Midnight Mayhem Double Feature: HAPPY GILMORE + EEGAH

Featuring your host Chaz Kangas.

This July Midnight Mayhem becomes an indoor drive-in with a double feature driving range of laughs! First, revisit Adam Sandler's original golf classic Happy Gilmore before the sequel arrives later this month - then tour to the next hole, a bonus film also starring "Jaws" Richard Kiel - the 60s drive-in caveman classic EEGAH!

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HAPPY GILMORE (1996)

Michael Shynes and DGS

Michael Shynes and DGS team up for a theater show that promises to immerse you in song, storytelling, and vast sonic landscapes. Pairing multi-platinum songwriter Michael Shynes, whose music has been enjoyed all over the world by hundreds of millions of listeners on Spotify and YouTube, and looping violinist DGS who has been a featured musician on Good Morning America, the Grand Ole Opry stage, and Radio City Music Hall, this is sure to be an unforgettable night.