2024 Schedule of Performances and Art Actions

2024 Schedule of Performances and Art Actions

While every shanty is open during all public hours (Saturdays & Sundays, 10am – 4pm), the Performances + Art Actions pop up at different times throughout the village: at the Performance Stage, at specific shanties, interspersed between shanties, roving, or at expansive spaces like the Town Square and Ice Field.

Village maps coming soon!

Image of Pollinator Frenzy by Max Haynes

A person wearing a beehive hat and wings dances with a group of people following along

PROGRAM UPDATE AS OF 1/19/24

Art Shanty Projects was scheduled to launch our 20th Anniversary season on January 20 on the frozen water of Bdé Umáŋ / Lake Harriet in South Minneapolis.  As of Thursday, January 11 there was still open water on the lake but incoming subzero temperatures gave the possibility of a deep freeze. Construction to essential park infrastructure remains incomplete,  impacting our back of house / event operations space and public accessibility. Due to these two factors combined we have postponed our opening date to January 27th. The program will end as scheduled, on February 11 with no extension.


WE WILL BE ON ICE starting January 27!

Opening weekend performances have been rescheduled! See the full she-bang below.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27

10am – 4pm: Birds & Bees: Stories from Our Sex Talks @ Art Shanty #1

Noon: Klezmer on Ice @ Town Square

Noon – 4pm: Lake Harriet Winter Kite Festival – on the whole lake!

1pm: Pollinator Frenzy @ Town Square

1:30pm: Queer Puppet Clash! @ Performance Stage

1:30-3pm: Lady Bear Returns!roving

2pm: Klezmer on Ice @ Town Square

2pm:frogahhh: yoga for the planet and the people @ Ice Field

3pm: Taiko on Ice @ Performance Stage

SUNDAY, JANUARY 28

10am – 4pm: It’s a Good Day to be Indigenous! @ Art Shanty #1 and roving

11am – 2pm: Ladies of the Lost Continent – roving

1:30-3pm: Lady Bear Returns!roving

Noon: Kith + Kin on Ice @ Performance Stage

Noon – 3pm: OPM Winter Painters Present: Still Life Painting when Life Won’t Stand Still – interspersed

1pm: Pollinator Frenzy @ Town Square

1:30 & 2:30pm: Latins on Ice @ Performance Stage

2-4pm: Community Sing on Ice @ Free Store Shanty

2:30-4pm: Mr. Shim on Ice – roving

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3

10am – 4pm: Birds & Bees: Stories from Our Sex Talks @ Art Shanty #1

Noon: Klezmer on Ice @ Town Square

1pm: Pollinator Frenzy @ Town Square

1:30pm: Klezmer on Ice @ Hot Box: Disco Inferno

1:30pm: Kith + Kin on Ice @ Performance Stage

2pm:frogahhh: yoga for the planet and the people@ Ice Field

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4

10am – 4pm: Shantoseismology: Songs of the Shanty @ Art Shanty #1

11am – 2pm: Ladies of the Lost Continent – roving

11:30am: Winter Life Outta Sight @ Town Square

Noon: Queer Puppet Clash! @ Performance Stage

Noon – 3pm: OPM Winter Painters Present: Still Life Painting when Life Won’t Stand Still – interspersed

1pm: Pollinator Frenzy @ Town Square

1:30 & 3pm: Three Ring Goose Circus @ Performance Stage

2-4pm: Community Sing on Ice @ Free Store Shanty

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10

10am – 4pm: Past, Presence, Future @ Art Shanty #1

11am: The World’s Only Wearable ArtContraptions Parade on Ice – roving

11:30-1pm: Hula Hoop Hoopla @ Town Square

Noon – 4pm: Thakápsičapi by Twin Cities Native Lacrosse @ Ice Field

12:30pm: The World’s Only Wearable ArtContraptions Parade on Ice – roving

1pm: Pollinator Frenzy @ Town Square

1:30pm: Queer Puppet Clash! @ Performance Stage

2pm:frogahhh: yoga for the planet and the people @ Ice Field

3pm: Winter Life Outta Sight @ Town Square

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11

10am – 4pm: Past, Presence, Future @ Art Shanty #1

11am: Atop the Above – roving

11am – 2pm: Ladies of the Lost Continent

11:30-1pm: Mr. Shim on Ice – roving

12-4pm: Thakápsičapi by Twin Cities Native Lacrosse @ Ice Field

12:30pm: Atop the Above – roving

1pm: Pollinator Frenzy @ Town Square

2pm: BIPOC frogahhh: yoga for the planet and the people @ Ice Field

2pm: Atop the Above – roving

3pm: Prairie Fire Choir @ Performance Stage

A group of people in snowsuits dance together in front of a boom box shaped shanty
Scene from a yoga class on the frozen lake. People are in a warrior pose.
A person reaches up high before striking a large drum as a crowd watches
A choir dressed in fiery winterwear sings on a red open air stage while a small group of kiddos eagerly listen and watch

Images (clockwise from top left): Klezmer on Ice, frogahhh: yoga for the planet and the people, Prairie Fire Choir, Taiko on Ice