The lights stay on and the galleries remain open for Northern Spark, the annual city-wide dusk-to-dawn festival. Join us for a range of indoor/outdoor activities and art projects to engage curious all-night adventurers. The Garden Café by D’Amico and outdoor food trucks provide fuel throughout the night.

Check out several exhibitions, including International Pop, which sets the stage for all-night screenings of 1960s films, live Brazilian and Cuban music, and Pop-themed art-making. Rain Taxi Review of Books hosts a late-night reading with a surprise guest.

Free Exhibitions

Get a late-night glimpse of several Walker exhibitions that feature paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, videos, and more. Free gallery admission all night.

• Art at the Center: Recent Acquisitions
  Burnet Gallery
  Saturday, 9 pm–Sunday, 5:26 am

• International Pop
  Galleries 1, 2, 3
  Saturday, 9 pm–Sunday, 2 am

• International Pop Film Screenings
  Perlman Gallery
  Saturday, 9 pm–Sunday, 5:26 am

• 75 Gifts for 75 Years
  Target and Friedman Galleries
  Saturday, 9 pm–12 midnight

Pop Collab Lab

General Mills Hennepin Lounge and Star Tribune Foundation Art Lab
Saturday, 9 pm–12 midnight
Inspired by Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat’s collaborative paintings, artist Witt Siasoco guides you through the raucous world of working with others using projectors, paint, and a stockpile of everyday images.

Dance Party with Charanga Tropical

Garden Terrace Room
Saturday, 10 pm–12 midnight
Dance to Brazilian and Cuban beats performed by a nine-piece ensemble featuring musicians from throughout the Americas. Known for their harmonically rich Cuban charanga instrumentation, this band knows how to fill a dance floor!

Martian Dawn by Michael Friedman

Cargill Lounge
Saturday, 10 pm–12 midnight
Author Michael Friedman and local actors perform six short scenes from his new book Martian Dawn & Other Novels. This collection of novellas tackles stardom, science fiction, movies, love affairs, twins, French people, writing colonies, parenting, missionaries, murder, holograms, and more. The scenes are set in an art gallery, a space station, an Amazon village, a doctor’s office, and the Minneapolis landmark Nye’s Polonaise Room. Join us for a late night of literature made strange—you might wake up on Mars. Presented by Rain Taxi Review of Books.

Gutless Warrior

Upper Green Space
Saturday, 9 pm–Sunday, 3 am
Scrutinize stereotypes in the media by participating in Gutless Warrior, a live-animation performance/projection by artists Jenny Schmid and Ali Momeni. Arm yourself with drawing tools, masks and green screen technology, then play out clichés like the “Hapless Leader.”