Events

Join our Food, Land, and Community team in their Container Gardening Workshop, with facilitator Taya. You will learn how to make a container garden and take home your own plant to start the growing season off right! Free, open to all.

Wednesday, May 13 from 5-7pm
Hope Community, 611 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis.
*Note there is construction on Franklin between Lyndale and Chicago and only one lane of eastbound traffic.

Register here!

Our voices are powerful; our creativity is necessary. 

Please join us together in putting our dissent to practice in the visual form of political poster making. 

Starting May 2026, we are hosting a 4-part Political Poster series at Hope Community. We provide art materials and guidance on collaborative design and screen-printing with various methods. 

REGISTER HERE!

Monday, May 18 from 6-9pm: Kick off Public Event: Power of Political Posters: An Evening with Artist Ricardo Levins Morales (in collaboration with Dio Cramer’s concurrent workshop series).

*Open to the public! Invite your people! If you cannot commit to all sessions, come to this event and get inspired. Register for this single event here. 

Tuesday, May 19 from 6-9pm: Ground as a group, share ideas and discuss design elements for effective poster-making. 

Tuesday, May 26 from 6-9pm: Pair up and design posters that reflect messages we care about. 

Tuesday, June 2 from 6-9pm: Screen print our posters!

We strongly encourage also coming to the final showcase, Thursday, June 11 from 6-9pm. Participants will share their work with the public along with art made with Dio Cramer’s concurrent workshop series. Please note: unlike the prior events, this is held at a separate location– Transmission: 2521 27th Ave S., Minneapolis, MN 55406.

REGISTER HERE! Spots limited to 16 people for the full series.

We hope you join us for this year’s  Spring Open House! This event is for everyone– participants, donors, funders, neighbors, and residents.

You can expect light refreshments, connecting with staff and learning what is up and coming with 2026 programming, and the opportunity to decorate and write a postcard with a message of hope.

RSVP Here!

Tuesday, April 21 from 5-6:30pm
The Commons at Hope Community, 611 E Franklin Ave
Parking and arrival: please check future emails as construction along Franklin Ave will distrupt normal routes and parking and we will send updated information/maps as needed.

Art is critical to movement work, and at Hope we continue to invest in art that speaks the community’s truth and develop artists to do similar, critical work.

At the end of 2025, our Art of Radical Collaboration team, Olivia Levins Holden, Samie Johnson, and Con Rice, made a collaborative screen print called “To Hope is Our Right”. The message of this print continues to be relevant, potent and inspiring here in Minneapolis and beyond.

We now have limited edition original prints available for sale!

Proceeds from print sales will go toward the development of our first dedicated art studio space that will focus on printmaking and mural making. Stay tuned for more on this exciting development later in 2026.

Buy a print here!

A statement from the artists:

Hope is a cultivated practice, a choiceful response to oppression.

In a time when those in power are intentionally attempting to take away our sense of possibility, agency, and power, we need to remember it is our right to dream, to imagine, and create our own solutions. We are inspired by the transformational ways Minnesotans and our global community are pulling together in mutual support, creating the pathways for new ways of relating and conceiving of the collective. 

Please join us for a Spring Open House where we will have each of our community programs tabling with activities and ways to get involved. While you explore the different programs, you can connect in community and enjoy light refreshments.

RSVP here to help us ensure enough appetizers for all.

    Thursday, March 27th
    5-6:30pm
    611 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55404
    *free parking available in the lot off Oakland and on surrounding streets such as Portland. 

Join us for the third annual Black Girl Joy celebration on Sunday June 25^th at the Midtown Global Market! Food, performances, and fun. FREE for all ages.

Register now: https://hope-community.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=1840