Whittier Solidarity Network

Whittier Alliance Community Dinner
2025-06-12 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-05-08 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-04-10 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-03-13 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Chicago) | Whittier Recreation Center, 425 W 26th St, Minneapolis, MN, 55405, United States
Join the Whittier Alliance for the Whittier Community Dinner on the second Thursday of every month. Share a meal, meet your neighbors, and learn what’s happening in Whittier.

Whittier Really Really Free Market
2025-06-07 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-05 13:00 - 16:00 | Whittier Park, 437 W 26th St, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 55404, United States
Bring art, clothing, books, vegan/vegetarian food, a skill, anything you want to share. Take what you need. No money, no barter, no trade.

WSN Urban Design Meeting
2025-06-01 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-05-04 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-04-06 15:30 - 17:00, 2025-03-02 15:30 - 17:00 | Bob’s Java Hut, 2651 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55408, United States
Interested in urban design in your neighborhood? Join the monthly WSN Urban Design meeting, hosted on the first Sunday of every month at 3:30 PM.

Whittier Really Really Free Market
2025-05-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Whittier Park, 437 W 26th St, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 55404, United States
Bring art, clothing, books, vegan/vegetarian food, a skill, anything you want to share. Take what you need. No money, no barter, no trade.
Volunteers Needed! If you can help make this event a success, please sign up here.

Whittier Bike Ride
2025-04-20 10:00 - 11:00 | Near Wheel Fun Rentals, 3000 E Bde Maka Ska Pkwy, Minneapolis, 55408, United States
Want to enjoy a casual bike ride with others from the Whittier area? Meet us a for a bike ride Sunday morning 10:00 AM. We will meet near Wheel Fun Rentals on Bde Maka Ska, and go from there. Bike as long as you want, or peel off when you want to. (Event may be cancelled or rescheduled due to weather.)

Our Streets Street Smarts Book Club
2025-04-17 17:30 - 19:00 | Urban Growler, 2325 Endicott St, Saint Paul, MN, 55114, United States
Join the Street Smarts Book Club to discuss our latest book, Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown. Since its release in 2017, the book has become a movement bestseller. It is a guidebook for getting into the right relationship with change, using our own nature and that of creatures beyond humans as our teachers.
Learn more and sign up at the Our Streets event page here.

Our Streets Home is Here: Heritage Park
2025-04-15 17:30 - 20:00 | MN
Join Our Streets, Harrison Neighborhood Association, and New Urban Mobility Alliance for a dynamic community discussion about the future of Olson Memorial Highway. Community members are invited to share priorities for reimagining the highway, identify concerns and existing strengths, learn about options, and contribute to a vision where any reinvestment made in a redesign of Olson Memorial directly benefits current residents and keeps current residents in place.
Learn more and sign up at the Our Streets event page here.

Our Streets Home is Here: Harrison
2025-04-15 17:30 - 20:00 | MN

Bike MN: Rally for Bus and Bike Lanes on Lyndale Ave
2025-04-12 14:00 - 15:00 | W 27th St & Lyndale Ave S, W 27th St & Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55408, United States
Whether we walk, roll, bike, or bus, we all want to feel safe and included on our community streets. Right now, Hennepin County is creating the final design for the reconstruction of Lyndale Avenue South—and we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make this critical Minneapolis corridor welcoming and livable for all.
Join Livable Lyndale for our final push! Rally with us to show Hennepin County: We need a Lyndale Avenue that includes dedicated space for both bus and bike lanes!
Learn more and sign up at the Bike MN event page here.

Our Streets Volunteer Doorknocking
2025-04-12 10:30 - 13:00 | Bryant Square Park, 3101 Bryant Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55408, United States
Interested in urban design? Our Streets is organizing a volunteer doorknocking event to increase awareness of the Highway Justice Act. Sign up at the Our Streets event page here.

Our Streets Highway Justice Day at the Capitol
2025-03-20 11:00 - 17:00 | Capitol Administration Building, 50 Sherburne Ave, St Paul, MN, 55103, United States
Join Our Streets for a day at the Capitol as we advocate for transformative policies prioritizing people-first transportation in Minnesota. Our 2025 legislative priorities aim to address the inequities perpetuated by current transportation infrastructure and ensure communities are not further harmed by highways or neglected by the Minnesota Department of Transportation.
Engage with your legislators and make your voice heard on the Highway Justice Act, which would give impacted communities opportunities to meaningfully be a part of transportation decisions, prevent pollution, and increase funding for transit, walking, and biking infrastructure.
Register and find more information at Our Streets.

Twin Cities Pride Queer Career Fair
2025-03-08 11:00 - 14:00 | DoubleTree Park Place, 1500 Park Pl Blvd, Minneapolis, MN, 55416, United States
The Queer Career Fair provides a safe and accepting space for the community to network with professional individuals, organizations, and local businesses. The career fair provides community members with access to professional recruiters to review their resumes, run through interview questions and answers, provide intel on job hunting, meet with hiring employers and more. Having access to accepting and professional resources is incredibly important and something everyone has a right to. It also provides our community with access to our zero cost, gender affirming wardrobe with a size and style inclusive range of professional clothing.

Our Streets Volunteer Doorknocking
2025-03-08 10:30 - 13:00 | Walker Library, 2880 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55408, United States

South Minneapolis Tenants United Dinner
2025-03-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Whittier Recreation Center, 425 W 26th St, Minneapolis, MN, 55405, United States
Join the South Minneapolis Tenants United for their March dinner. Meet your neighbors! Learn about organizing! Eat breakfast for dinner!

WSN Urban Design Meeting
2024-12-01 15:30 - 16:30, 2024-11-03 15:30 - 16:30 | MN

Whittier Bike Ride
2024-11-30 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-11-23 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-11-16 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-11-09 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-11-02 10:00 - 11:00 | Near Wheel Fun Rentals, 3000 E Bde Maka Ska Pkwy, Minneapolis, 55408, United States
Want to enjoy a casual bike ride with others from the Whittier area? Meet us a for a bike ride every Saturday morning at 10:00 AM. We meet near Wheel Fun Rentals on Bde Maka Ska, and go from there. Bike as long as you want, or peel off when you want to. (Event may be cancelled or rescheduled due to weather.)

Whittier Free Market
2023-04-01 13:00 - 16:00 | Whittier Park, 437 W 26th St, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 55404, United States
Spring is here again, so pack up some things to share and join us next Saturday in Whittier Park!
Volunteers are always appreciated for setup, cleanup, and everything in between. Setup begins at 11:45 and cleanup goes until the park is clean—about 4:45.
See you there!

Really Really Free Market
2022-11-05 13:00 - 16:00 | Whittier Park, 437 W 26th St, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, 55404, United States
The Really Really Free Market is an experiment in community and giving, a window into an actual gift economy. Everything here is FREE: offer what you’d like to give and take what you would like to receive. Food, music, and conversation are as welcome as objects.
If you bring things, please be prepared to take them back if no comes who wants or needs them.
For more information please visit the RRFM facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TwinCitiesReallyReallyFreeMarket/
