Neighborhood Events
LNA hosts several community events throughout the year. From Free Fest to Wheels & Bike Rodeo to neighborhood clean-up days, there are all kinds of ways to meet your neighbors and stay connected.
Check out our upcoming meetings and events on our Google Calendar, or scroll down to learn more!
Thanks Walk
Every November LNA’s Crime & Safety Committee writes and hand delivers thank-you letters to neighbors and businesses throughout the Lyndale neighborhood, and you get to participate!
Lyndale Cookie Exchange
Join us for a delicious neighborhood cookie exchange! This year, in addition to cookies and recipes. Coffee and apple cider will be provided. All are welcome!
Boo'tiful Lyndale Halloween Walk
Join LNA’s Crime & Safety Committee for a neighborhood Halloween walk. Costumes are encouraged and all are welcome, including children and dogs!
Harvest Bash & Board Elections
Come mingle with neighbors and enjoy fun treats and family-friendly games while learning about your new LNA board candidates. There will be light snacks (provided by Caffrey's Deli & Subs), loads of games, and a board member meet and greet. Costumes are encouraged by not required.
Fall Litter Outta Lyndale
Join us for our Fall Litter Outta Lyndale event, where neighbors come together to clean up our beloved neighborhood. We’ll meet at the SNAC Office (3537 Nicollet Ave) armed with gloves, trash bags, and enthusiasm to tackle litter in our streets, sidewalks, and green spaces.
Nicollet Open Streets
Walk, bike, and roll down Nicollet Avenue on Saturday, September 26 from 11am-5pm. From Lake St to 46th St, it’s a two-mile celebration of our main street, with pop-up activities, live music, and fresh food and drink!
LNA Community Gardener Salsa Showdown
Try salsas from a wide range of cultures and featuring an array of different flavors and spice levels! Many of the ingredients in these salsas will come directly from gardeners’ community garden plots.
National Night Out
Hosting a NNO event gives you and your neighbors a reason to have a social gathering and get to know each other. These relationships are important for building community safety. Click here to learn more.
Community Garden Tour & Neighborhood Foraging Walk
The garden tour is switching up this year! We're adding foraging expert Tim Clemens from Ironwood Foraging. Join us to explore Lyndale through the eyes of an urban forager. Learn about the benefits of using the whole plant, their edible qualities, and the importance of community gardens in Lyndale.
Monarch Conservation Workshop at Pillsbury Garden
Join us with guest presenters from Monarch Joint Venture to learn about monarch butterflies in Minnesota—their life cycles, habitats, and migration patterns! This will be a multi-lingual (English, Spanish, and Somali accessible) event that is free to participate in and fun for the whole family.
Lyndale Plant Sale & Garden Tool Swap
Join us at our annual plant sale and garden tool swap! Purchase your favorite native pollinator plants, donate gardening tools you no longer need, and take home new tools. All proceeds benefit the Lyndale Neighborhood Association.
Wheels & Bike Rodeo
This event is for the whole family, with caricature art, a bike skills course, free basic bike repairs by Perennial Cycle, the Tacos El Primo food truck, free electric cargo bike test rides by the Minneapolis Cargo Bike Library, DJ tunes by KRSM Radio, an ARTrageous Creation Station, and the Out & About Book Bus!
Garage Sales Day
Get ready to hunt for treasures, South Minneapolis! The Lyndale Neighborhood will be buzzing with the annual Lyndale Garage Sales Day. Grab your friends and family to join in the fun.
Fix & Repair Clinic
After you attend Litter Outta Lyndale, keep the Earth Day (Weekend) festivities going by attending the Midtown Global Market Fix-It Clinic! This event is run and sponsored by LNA, in collaboration with a couple of repair and eWaste based organizations in Minneapolis.
Spring Litter Outta Lyndale
Join us for our Spring Litter Outta Lyndale event, where neighbors come together to clean up our beloved neighborhood.
Lyndale Book Fest
Browse through a treasure trove of secondhand books without spending a dime. Whether you’re a fan of fiction or non-fiction, or looking for children’s books, there’s something for everyone.
Lyndale Free Fest
We're switching from our usual format to a free, in-person mutual aid resource event. All items are still free for anyone that needs them.
Lyndale Cookie Exchange
Join us for a festive and delicious neighborhood cookie exchange! Coffee and apple cider will be provided. All are welcome!
Please bring at least four bags of six cookies each (24 cookies total), plus a few extra to share and enjoy at the event.
Thanks Walk
Join LNA’s Crime & Safety Committee for a neighborhood walk to deliver thank you letters to your neighbors! We'll meet at Painter Park and then walk the neighborhood dropping off letters as we go.
Express your gratitude for a neighbor or local business by writing a Letter of Thanks to be delivered during the Thanks Walk. No postage required!
To ensure delivery, letters must:
Be fully addressed, including the apartment number
Have a recipient that lives or operates within the boundaries of the Lyndale Neighborhood (Lake Street to 36th St and 35W to Lyndale Ave).
Letters can be dropped off at the SNAC Office (3537 Nicollet Ave) Tuesdays or Thursdays from 9am-6pm.
LNA is happy to provide up to five thank you cards to anyone that needs them. To pick them up, please reach out to info@lyndale.org.
Halloween Harvest Bash
The Halloween Harvest Bash will have family-friendly games, pumpkin decorating, plenty of apple cider, and seasonal treats from Butter Bakery Cafe. Costumes are encouraged! Have you chosen your costume yet? We hope to see you (and it) there!
Boo'tiful Lyndale Halloween Walk
Join LNA’s Crime & Safety Committee for a neighborhood Halloween walk. Costumes are encouraged and all are welcome, including children and dogs!
Developers & Nonprofits New Nicollet Mixer
Join us to meet and mingle with other developers and nonprofits at Centro (2412 Nicollet Ave). There will be a short presentation by the City of Minneapolis Team responsible for the redevelopment of the New Nicollet site (located at Nicollet Ave and Lake St [the old Kmart site]), and then a chance to connect with other organizations interested in the growth and stabilization of our city.
Phase 1 of the New Nicollet redevelopment will include mixed-use buildings with affordable housing above ground-floor spaces for retail, nonprofit service, and Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board program space. For this reason, we feel it is important to connect developers to established nonprofits interested in growth, and nonprofits to developers interested in working with the community to develop a new community-serving space.
The City will require developers to have a letter of interest from a nonprofit as part of their application to the RFP.
E-Waste Collection Event
Lyndale Neighborhood Association, Kingfield Neighborhood Association, and Tangletown Neighborhood Association are partnering with Repowered — with support from the City of Minneapolis — to make it easy for neighbors to safely recycle unwanted data-bearing electronics such as cell phones and laptops. The event is FREE and open to the public.
Accepted items:
Cell phones
Tablets and e-readers
Laptops, computers and monitors
External hard drives
Associated cables and cords
Keyboards and personal printers
To ensure data security, this event ONLY accepts the items listed above. All other e-waste will be turned away, as it can be recycled or disposed of for free or low-cost through the City of Minneapolis or Hennepin County. Questions? Email: info@tangletown.org.
This event is supported by the City of Minneapolis Division of Solid Waste & Recycling
Fall Litter Outta Lyndale
Join us for this biannual litter clean-up event! We’ll meet at the SNAC Office at 10am to divide up neighborhood blocks and gather supplies*. Then we’ll head out ready to make our streets and green spaces shine!
*Gloves and trash bags will be provided.
Crime & Safety Committee Meeting
The Crime & Safety Committee is responsible for making recommendations to the LNA Board of Directors related to safety issues affecting the Lyndale Neighborhood.
They typically meet on the third Tuesday of the month from 6:30-8:30pm at the 5th Precinct Community Room. Contact info@lyndale.org for details.
Enagement Committee Meeting
The Engagement Committee creates events that inspire neighborly connections, celebrate diversity, and empower residents to actively shape Lyndale’s future.
They typically meet the second Thursday of the month at 12pm via Zoom. Please email info@lyndale.org for the link to join.
Environment Committee Meeting
The Environment Committee actively supports projects in the neighborhood related to food, green space, and community gardens as well as renewable forms of energy.
They typically meet on the first Thursday of the month from 6:30-7:30pm. Contact environment@lyndale.org for details.
Housing Committee Meeting
The Housing Committee makes recommendations to the LNA Board of Directors regarding housing and economic development programs, zoning requests, and Lyndale’s overall built environment.
They typically meet the first Wednesday of the month from 6:30-7:30pm. Contact housingLNA@lyndale.org for details.
Crime & Safety Committee Meeting
The Crime & Safety Committee is responsible for making recommendations to the LNA Board of Directors related to safety issues affecting the Lyndale Neighborhood.
They typically meet on the third Tuesday of the month from 6:30-8:30pm at the 5th Precinct Community Room. Contact info@lyndale.org for details.
Enagement Committee Meeting
The Engagement Committee creates events that inspire neighborly connections, celebrate diversity, and empower residents to actively shape Lyndale’s future.
They typically meet the second Thursday of the month at 12pm via Zoom. Please email info@lyndale.org for the link to join.
Environment Committee Meeting
The Environment Committee actively supports projects in the neighborhood related to food, green space, and community gardens as well as renewable forms of energy.
They typically meet on the first Thursday of the month from 6:30-7:30pm. Contact environment@lyndale.org for details.
Housing Committee Meeting
The Housing Committee makes recommendations to the LNA Board of Directors regarding housing and economic development programs, zoning requests, and Lyndale’s overall built environment.
They typically meet the first Wednesday of the month from 6:30-7:30pm. Contact housingLNA@lyndale.org for details.