Jellybean Johnson playing an electric guitar at Imagine 6th Avenue North in 2022. Jellybean is a man with brown skin, wearing a purple short-sleeve button up shirt over an orange long sleeve undershirt. He is wearing a black fedora. Behind him, his bandmate, who has white skin, is also wearing a fedora and a printed pink button up short sleeve shirt. He is playing a white electric guitar.

Imagine 6th Avenue North

October 10 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Imagine 6th Avenue North is a big, family-friendly block party for neighborhood connection and community organization. This free event is a fantastic way to experience artists, musicians, and local businesses from the neighborhood and imagine a better future together.

  • People perusing the local businesses at the makers market
  • Person in stylish hat playing an electric guitar at Imagine 6th
  • people looking at the Bring Back 6th Mobile museum
  • three teens posing with State Rep Ilhan Omar at Imagine 6th
  • aerial view of someone putting dot stickers on preferred street design alternatives
  • People from Million Artists Movement showing off the community quilt activity

When the Minnesota Highway Commission (now the Minnesota Department of Transportation or MnDOT) routed and constructed Olson Memorial Highway over historic 6th Avenue North in the late 1930s and 1940s, it destroyed a vibrant Black and Jewish community corridor, often called the “Beale Street of Minneapolis.” Homes, businesses, jazz clubs, synagogues, churches, and community centers were demolished to make way for the highway.

Join us as we joyfully organize around the future of 6th Avenue North.

About the Imagine Series

Bethune Arts Elementary School

919 Emerson Avenue N
Minneapolis, MN 55411