If so consider making a small gift of $5-10 to KFNA to keep this musical community event going. Venmo @kingfield_kfna or text the word ‘porchfest’ to 44321. KFNA keeps the music going all summer by kicking off ‘On Thursdays We Sing!’, on July 1!
Kingfield PorchFest Coming 6/17/21 (That’s Thursday!)
Check out the map of the 20 stages throughout the neighborhood!
PorchFest is an evening of acoustical music held at multiple outdoor venues throughout Kingfield on a single evening. PorchFest is a chance for musicians to share their music with their neighbors and a chance for neighbors to walk the dog, stroll the baby, or pack a cool beverage and meander with their sweetie from home to home enjoying the talent of our amazing neighborhood!
Kingfield Chalk and Walk Weekends!
This weekend the weather is clearing….just in time to show off your sidewalk chalk drawing skills! Please join our Kingfield neighbors in creating Chalkscapes every weekend in April. Draw a simple hopscotch game, an obstacle course, inspiring Art, silly Scribbles or a fancy chalk portrait of your pet! Use your imagination! Then dust off your hands and knees and take a walk around to view your neighbor’s art.
All weekends in April will include Walk-n-Chalk fun! Now get out there and draw, walk and enjoy this beautiful Spring weather.
Kingfield Block Contact ‘100 Days of Community’ Gathering
Reminder: Monday March 22, 7:00-8:00 PM
Online, Register Here
Also, if you want to serve as a Block Contact for your street, please sign up here.
Kingfield Block Contacts are invited gather and share ideas and strategies around KFNA’s 100 Days of Community Campaign! Kingfield Block Contacts are invited gather and share ideas and strategies around KFNA’s 100 Days of Community Campaign! [Read more…]
Kingfield Empty Bowls (Virtually!) Kicks Off Today!
For ten years, Kingfield Neighbors have gathered together on a cold February evening to dine together on delicious soups and breads, and raise funds for community’s affordable housing partners. Although this year will need to look different, it was felt by the planning team that this year, maybe more strongly than any other year, we NEED this hold this event.
So how do we hold a community dinner when we can’t gather as a community? Empty Bowls is about more than soup!
What REALLY goes into the “soup” at Kingfield Empty Bowls?
- Strengthening local businesses
- Supporting affordable housing
- Building community!
We can still do these things, AND have soup too! See the Menu of Actions Below!
Empty Bowls Action #1: Visit Butter Bakery Café or The Lowbrow for Soup!
Bring one of your own bowls from a past Empty Bowls event to show your support (or feel free to make donation and take a new one of ours!) When you order soup at Butter Bakery or The Lowbrow they will also donate the price of your soup to support affordable housing options in our community! You can even choose to eat it at the restaurant (make a reservation) or get it to-go!
Empty Bowls Action #2: Donate directly to KFNA by texting the words ‘Affordable Housing’ to #44-321 to Support This Work in Our Community!
Donated funds for bowls and soup will be divided between three partners: Nicollet Square, City of Lake Community Land Trust, and KFNA, to support ongoing work like we did this past summer with the unhoused folks at MLK Park. Please also support these amazing local partnering businesses by purchasing something extra with your soup (like a hot coffee, cold beer, or delicious dessert!) so they also benefit from you visit.
Empty Bowls Action #3: Share a photo with Your Community here!
Send a photo to KFNA of your family making soup, enjoying soup from a local participating restaurant, or eating soup at home. You can also take a photo of your favorite soup recipe, Grandma’s Borscht or Auntie Mae’s Fiery Corn Chowder, and share that as well. KFNA will be creating a virtual “bulletin board” of you images to show the engagement and activity in our community!
Empty Bowls Action #4: RSVP to attend the Empty Bowls (Virtual) Community Dinner & Trivia Event
RSVP here to save your household’s spot at the table for the Kingfield Empty Bowls Virtual Community Dinner & Trivia Event. Trivia will be hosted by Tane Danger and Heather Meyer, both Kingfield neighbors and members of the Theater of Public Policy!
Set the table, ladle out the soup, and plug in your laptop to enjoy a special show about Kingfield presented by our hosts Tane and Heather. Be sure to have your cell phone handy so you can also participate in the online Kingfield-centric trivia, focused on the history of Kingfield’s residents and dwellings. Tane says, “it’s going to be a super fun, interactive online trivia event, where YOU can play with, and against!, others in the neighborhood!”
And did we say prizes? We should have, as there will be prizes too!
Any questions about Kingfield Empty Bowls should be directed to KFNA Executive Director Sarah Linnes-Robinson.