Northfield Year of Water is a 12-month celebration of the importance of water for drinking, boating, fishing, swimming, and playing. Cannon River Watershed Partnership is working with a dozen community organizations to host a “We Are Water” traveling museum exhibit in June and July, as well as hosting a community art and water festival, speaker presentations, art shows, poetry readings, fishing events, insect safaris and other hands-on family-friendly clean water events.
The current schedule is below, check back as we update this calendar.
For more information contact Kevin Strauss at kevin@crwp.net or at 507-786-3913
All activities are open to the public. Registration/tickets are required for some events. Visit listed website for more information.
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Cannon River Art & Water Festival
May 11, 10:00 am-4:00 pm Riverside Park, Corner of 8th St. West and Poplar Street, Northfield
Family-friendly art and river activities. Live music, live animals, information about how you can help keep our rivers, lakes and drinking water clean.
Activities:
10 am-4 pm Family-friendly hands-on art and water activities, including the “River Insect Safari,” “Fishing Printing,” and “Water Windsocks”
10 am-2 pm Free Nitrate Well Testing by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture
Performances:
10 am Irish Folk Musician Laura MacKenzie
10:55 am Louis and Dan & the Invisible Band
11:30 am MN Zoomobile “Minnesota Animals Show
12:30 pm Irish Folk Musician Laura MacKenzie
1:25 am Louis and Dan & the Invisible Band
2:00 pm MN Zoomobile “Minnesota Animals Show
3:00 pm The Cannon River Currents
Cannon River Mill Talk
May 16, 6:30-8:00 pm
Northfield Historical Society
http://www.northfieldhistory.org/
States of Water
Reception May 21, 5:00-6:00 pm
Water-Themed Art at Northfield City Hall
Seeing Our Cannon River
June 17-July 26
June 25 Opening Reception
Photography Exhibit by Mary Ellen Frame
https://northfieldartsguild.org/
Nibi Walk Orientation Training
June 30, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Weitz Center for Creativity at Carleton College, 320–3rd St., Northfield, MN
Learn how to participate in the Nibi Walk program of the Indigenous People’s Task Force, led by Sharon Day. She will lead us in a Nibi walk: an Indigenous-led, extended ceremony to pray for the water July 12-15.
To learn more and register, https://mnhum.org/we-are-water-mn/nibi-walks/
Fishing the Cannon River:
An Introduction to Fishing
Ames Park, Downtown Northfield
June/July, Date and Time TBD
Opportunity for Northfield youth to learn how to fish and to receive free fishing equipment
We Are Water: Watershed
June 14-July 27
The Guild, Northfield
Water-themed visual art show by local and regional artists.
https://northfieldartsguild.org/visual-arts/galleries/
We Are Water Exhibit
June 20-July 28
Interactive, family-friendly exhibit that celebrates about how important clean water is in Minnesota for fishing, swimming, drinking, canoeing and boating. Learn about the health or area rivers and lakes and what we can do to help clean up and protect our rivers, lakes, and drinking water.
https://mnhum.org/we-are-water-mn/
Cannon River Historic Photo Exhibit
June 27-July 9
Northfield Historical Society
http://www.northfieldhistory.org/
Grand Opening for We Are Water Exhibit
June 29, 10:00 am-2:00 pm
Carleton College, Weitz Center
Music, art walk from The Guild to the Weitz Center, presentation by MN State Agency staff, local officials, Water Bar, family-friendly water activities.
We Are Water: Watershed Artist Reception
June 29, 10:00 am-12 noon
The Guild, Northfield
https://northfieldartsguild.org/
Books and Stars
June/July
Northfield Public Library events
The Guild’s Inspiration Station with Fish Printing
https://northfieldartsguild.org/
Outdoor Movies, Reception for Mary Ellen Frame Seeing Our Cannon River Photography Exhibit
July 12
https://northfieldartsguild.org/
Northfield Rain Garden Tour
July 13-14
“We are Water” is the theme of the Northfield Garden Club annual garden tour July 13 – 14 from 11 AM – 4 PM. The proceeds go toward beautifying downtown Northfield. Tickets are $10 and available at Eco Garden, Knecht’s Nursery, or at one of the gardens on the weekend of the tour. Go to www.TheNorthfieldGardenClub.org for more details.
Lunch and Learn about Clean Water and Art
July, Dates TBD
Wed., 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Sat. 11:30 am-12:30 pm
The Guild, Northfield
Teddy Roosevelt Presentation
August 7, 10:00 am-4:00 pm Central Park Encampment, 7:00 pm
Meet Outdoorsman, Conservationist, and 26th President Teddy Roosevelt. Hear why Roosevelt worked so hard to protect our land and waters.
Hosted by the Northfield Historical Society
Cannon River Watershed-Wide CleanUP
Saturday, September 21, 9:00 am-12:00 pm
11th Annual River/lake cleanup at 10 locations across the watershed
Cider on the Cannon
October, Date TBD
CRWP event and award ceremony
Mills of the Cannon River Paint Night
November 7, 6:30-8:30 pm
Northfield Historical Society
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We Are Water MN is a collaboration of the Minnesota Humanities Center, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Minnesota Historical Society and the Minnesota Departments of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources. This exhibition was developed with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.
Northfield Project Partners and Event Hosts:
The City of Northfield
Northfield Arts Guild
FiftyNorth
Carleton College
St. Olaf College
Northfield Historical Society
Northfield Public Library