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Events 2012

May Day Celebrations

May Day Festival

After the long cold winter the people of the Twin Cities are very eager to turn out to celebrate the arrival of spring at the Minneapolis May Day Parade and Festival. Costumes, floats and street performers make up a wonderful creative parade through downtown,...  see full details



Minnesota State Fair

Minnesota State Fair

Dubbed the 'Great Minnesota Get-Together', the Minnesota State Fair is eagerly anticipated by locals every year, taking advantage of the beautiful late-summer weather to attract millions of people for food, music, rides and more fun. The Midway offers dozens of rides and games for...  see full details



Minnesota Rennaissance Festival

Minnesota Renaissance Festival

The Minnesota Rennaissance Festival is a month-long fair recreating life in 16th-century Europe. Held on a 22-acre (89,000 sq metre) field in Jonathan, Minnesota every autumn, the festival offers food, shopping, and entertainment all designed to be as authentic as possible to the era....  see full details



Anoka Halloween Parade

Anoka Halloween Parade

The Anoka Halloween Parade is a big event in a little town. It was the first city to host a Halloween Parade in 1920, and has officially been designated the 'Halloween Capital of the World' by the US Congress. The city's festivities include...  see full details



St Paul Winter Carnival

St Paul Winter Carnival

Back in 1886 a New York journalist described St Paul as being 'unfit for human habitation in the winter'. Locals were not going to take this insult lying down and decided to turn the snowiest spot in the States into a winter wonderland....  see full details


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