33 Northern Wilds Calendar of Events august Thru Aug. 8 Lake County Fair Two Harbors, Gunflint Trail’s Biggest Blueberry Contest thelakecountyfair.com Gunflint Trail, visitcookcounty.com/events Aug. 6-7 Thru Aug. 15 BrewHa Craft Beer Festival Prince Arthur’s Landing, Thunder Bay, brewhafestival.com Hazel Belvo & Marcia Cushmore Exhibit Aug. 20-Sept. 12 Johnson Heritage Post, Grand Marais, City on the Hill Music Fest Bayfront Festival Reid Thorpe Exhibit (Reception Aug. 20 at WEEKLY EVENTS johnsonheritagepost.org Park, Duluth, cityonthehillmusicfest.com 7 p.m.) Johnson Heritage Post, Grand Marais, Tuesdays Thru Aug. 29 Aug. 6-8 johnsonheritagepost.org Downtown Farmers’ Market 11 a.m. Fountain Scandi Bijou: Norwegian Rosemaling Kraus-Anderson Bike Duluth Festival, Aug. 20-21 Plaza, Duluth, downtownduluth.com Exhibit by Tara Austin Nordic Center, Duluth, Spirit Mountain, Duluth, bikeduluthfestival.com Free Range Film Festival 7 p.m. Free Range Film nordiccenterduluth.org Ely Farmers Market 5 p.m. Whiteside Park, Ely, Day Out with Thomas Duluth Depot, Barn, Wrenshall, freerangefilm.com facebook.com/elymnfarmersmarket duluthtrains.com Thru Aug. 31 Aug. 20-22 Chester Creek Concert Series 6:30 p.m. But It Was Still There Exhibit: Moira Bateman, Aug. 7, Saturday Chester Park, Duluth, duluthmn.gov/parks International Ukulele Carnival Silver Creek Music Annie Hejny, Moheb Soliman & Nick Wroblewski Virtual Presentation & Film Screening: Pavilion, Two Harbors, twoharborsukulelegroup.com Wednesdays Studio 21, Grand Marais, grandmaraisartcolony.org Reverence 1 p.m. Grand Marais Art Colony, grandmaraisartcolony.org Duluth Superior Film Festival Zeitgeist Theatre, Free USFS Nature Program 2 p.m. Thru Sept. 5 Duluth, facebook.com/dsfilmfest Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center, Gunflint Trail, Aug. 8, Sunday gunflinthistory.org John A. Spelman III Exhibit: Artist & Printmaker: Aug. 21, Saturday From Appalachia to Minnesota’s North Rod & Al 1 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Thunder Bay Country Market 3:30 p.m. John Schroeder Day: Community Celebration Shore Johnson Heritage Post, Grand Marais, Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com CLE Dove Building, Thunder Bay, tbcm.ca johnsonheritagepost.org 8 a.m. Schroeder, crossriverheritage.org Concerts on the Pier 5 p.m. Glensheen Mansion, Aug. 10, Tuesday GGTA North Shore Bike Ride 9 a.m. Gooseberry Kwewog Giiwednog: Women of the North Mural Duluth, facebook.com/glensheenestate Thunder Bay Art Gallery, theag.ca Skate & Sip Munger Trailhead, Duluth, Falls State Park, Two Harbors, ggta.org northshoreinline.com Artist Talk: The Fragmented Landscape as Print Live Music in the Park 6 p.m. Thru Sept. 6 & Drawing 10 a.m. Grand Marais Art Colony’s Studio City Park on River Street, Cook, MN Aug. 11, Wednesday Chesley Antoinette: Tignon Duluth Art Institute, 21, grandmaraisartcolony.org Thursdays Duluth, duluthartinstitute.org Live from the Waterfront: Parkade Sessions & Virtual Performances 7 p.m. Thunder Bay, Aug. 21-22 Bird Banding Demonstrations 7 a.m. Thru Sept. 12 thunderbay.ca/live Art in Bayfront Park 10 a.m. Bayfront Festival Park, Sugarloaf Cove Nature Center, Schroeder, Tia Keobounpheng: Defuse Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, artinbayfrontpark.com sugarloafnorthshore.org Duluth, duluthartinstitute.org Aug. 11-12 Local Food Market 4:30 p.m. Cook County Dakobinaawaswaan (Baby in a Cradleboard) American Red Cross Blood Drive Noon, Aug. 22, Sunday Community Center, Grand Marais Exhibition Thunder Bay Art Gallery, theag.ca Miller Hill Mall, Duluth, facebook.com/millerhillmall Taste of the Trail BBQ Picnic Adventure 12:30 p.m. Finland Farmers Market 5 p.m. Gunflint Trail, northshorehealthcarefoundation.org Aug. 12, Thursday Clair Nelson Community Center, Finland, Thru Sept. 27 Music by the Lake with WunderDogs 4 p.m. finlandfarmersmarket.com Billy Johnson 8:30 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Karlyn Atkinson Berg: Nature Re-envisioned and Skyport Lodge, Grand Marais, skyportlodge.com Live Music on the Patio 6 p.m. Skyline Social & Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com Reality Transformed Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, Games, Duluth, skylinesocialandgames.com duluthartinstitute.org Aug. 24, Tuesday Aug. 13-14 Date Night at the Winery with Live Music by Skate & Sip Munger Trailhead, Duluth, Gordon Thorne 7 p.m. North Shore Winery, Thru Sept. 30 Simons Dance Rave 9 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, northshoreinline.com The Art of Reciprocity Outdoor Exhibit by Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com Lutsen, northshorewinery.us Aug. 25, Wednesday Sean Connaughty Sugarloaf Cove Nature Center, Aug. 13-15 Fridays Schroeder, grandmaraisartcolony.org Live from the Waterfront: Parkade Sessions Under the Spreading Walnut Tree Art Festival The Wandering Naturalist 1 p.m. Sugarloaf Cove & Virtual Performances 7 p.m. Thunder Bay, Nature Center, Schroeder, sugarloafnorthshore.org Thru Oct. 16 10 a.m. (3 p.m. on Friday) P.K. Anderson House, thunderbay.ca/live Tweed Museum of Art’s Royal Canadian Two Harbors, Facebook: Two Harbors Under the Live Music 5 p.m. Birch Terrace Supper Club, “Mountie” Paintings & Ojibwe Cultural Heritage Spreading Walnut Tree Art Festival Aug. 26, Thursday Grand Marais, visitcookcounty.com/events Exhibits Cross River Heritage Center, Schroeder, Bayfront Blues Festival Bayfront Festival Park, Kenna Rose 5 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Grand Movies in the Park Leif Erikson Park, Duluth, crossriverheritage.org Duluth, bayfrontblues.com Marais, gunflinttavern.com facebook.com/greaterdowntowncouncil Thru Nov. 21 Day Out with Thomas Duluth Depot, Aug. 26-28 duluthtrains.com Saturdays Piitwewetam: Making is Medicine Exhibition Tribute Fest Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, Thunder Bay Country Market 8 a.m. Thunder Bay Art Gallery, theag.ca Aug. 14, Saturday thetributefest.com CLE Dove Building, Thunder Bay, tbcm.ca July 27-Aug. 3 Nice Girls of the North Second Saturday Aug. 27-29 Bay Area Craft and Farmers Market Marketplace 10 a.m. Masonic Lodge, Duluth, 9 a.m. North Shore Adventure Park, Silver Bay, Elise Kyllo’s Fully Felted Finale 10 a.m. North nicegirlsofthenorth.com Lotus Creek Events Craft and Vendor Show facebook.com/finlandproducestand House Folk School: Boat Barn, Grand Marais, 10 a.m. Miller Hill Mall, Duluth, Tori Finnish Marketplace 10 a.m. Finland northhouse.org facebook.com/millerhillmall Cook County Market 10 a.m. Senior Center Parking Heritage Site, Finland, facebook.com/ Lot, Grand Marais, facebook.com/ccfarmandcraft July 31-Aug. 7 finlandmnhistoricalsociety Aug. 28, Saturday Muffin Man Story Hour for Kids 11 a.m. Drury Lane Big Fish Contest Cook County, buckshardware.net Indigenous Food & Art Markets 11 a.m. One Roof Electronic Recycling Day 9 a.m. Cook County Books, Grand Marais, facebook.com/drurylanebooks Parking Lot, Duluth, indigenousfirst.org Aug. 1, Sunday Recycling Center, Grand Marais, Harbor History Tour (Weather Permitting) 1 p.m. Ely Rotary 100 Year Anniversary Celebration & retrofitcompanies.com/eventscalendar Cook County Historical Museum, Grand Marais, Music by the Lake with Southpaws 4 p.m. Auction 1 p.m. Whiteside Park, Ely, elyrotary.org DAV Disabled American Veterans Golf Outing cookcountyhistory.org Skyport Lodge, Grand Marais, skyportlodge.com Michael Monroe’s Log Cabin Concerts 6:30 10 a.m. Gunflint Hills Golf Course, Grand Marais, Tour the North House Campus 2 p.m. North House Aug. 3, Tuesday p.m. Grand Marais, michaelmonroemusic.com grandportage.com Folk School, Grand Marais, northhouse.org Artist Talk with Hazel Belvo & Marcia Cushmore Aug. 15, Sunday Virtual Artist Talk: Trading Post: History, Sundays 5 p.m. Johnson Heritage Post, Grand Marais, Memory & Place 10 a.m. Grand Marais Art Colony, johnsonheritagepost.org Kakabeka Falls Legion Half Marathon & 8k grandmaraisartcolony.org North Shore Geology Walk 10 a.m. Sugarloaf Cove 7 a.m. Kakabeka Falls Provincal Park, Ontario, Indigenous Food & Art Markets 11 a.m. One Roof Nature Center, Schroeder, sugarloafnorthshore.org Aug. 4-6 facebook.com/runkbfalls Parking Lot, Duluth, indigenousfirst.org Free Family-Friendly Presentation 2 p.m. Spirit Valley Days West Duluth, Music by the Lake with New Salty Dog 4 p.m. Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center, Gunflint Trail, spiritvalleydays.com Skyport Lodge, Grand Marais, skyportlodge.com Aug. 28-29 gunflinthistory.org Edna G 125th Anniversary Celebration Aug. 5-6 Aug. 19-28 Weekend Wine Down Music 3 p.m. North Shore 10 a.m. Paul Van Hoven Park, Two Harbors, Winery, Lutsen, northshorewinery.us Feed the Dog 9 p.m. Gun Flint Tavern, Daddy Long Legs Zeitgeist Renegade Theater friendsofednag.org Grand Marais, gunflinttavern.com Company, Duluth, zeitgeistarts.com Aug. 29, Sunday Aug. 5-8 Care Partners Ice Cream Social 2 p.m. Sydney’s Fisherman’s Picnic Grand Marais, Frozen Custard and Wood-fired Pizzas, Grand Marais, facebook.com/grandmaraislionsclub carepartnersofcookcounty.org
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