Inside Out 5 Block Party
Photo by Bruce Silcox
RESCHEDULED TO OCT 17TH
1–5 PM
Pillsbury House + Theatre Campus
3501 Chicago Avenue South, Minneapolis
Free and open to all ages
INSIDE OUT 5: A Community Celebration of Vitality
Pillsbury House + Theatre, Pillsbury Creative Commons, KRSM Radio, and community partners invite neighbors from across Minneapolis to gather for INSIDE OUT 5, a free community block party celebrating creativity, healing, wellness, and connection.
This year’s theme is Vitality: what it means, how we nourish it, and how we build it together.
Inspired by community conversations around health, healing, belonging, and resilience, INSIDE OUT 5 brings together artists, healers, community organizations, local businesses, and neighbors for an afternoon of live performance, music, food, creative activities, wellness experiences, health and wellness resources provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and opportunities to connect.
Through a community health survey conducted by Pillsbury House + Theatre, South Minneapolis residents identified mental health, burnout, access to resources, and opportunities for connection as top community priorities. In response, INSIDE OUT 5 will feature community healing and wellness activities in collaboration with Blue Cross, family-friendly programming, local artists, creative experiences, food provided by Cooks of Hope, and access to organizations supporting the well-being of South Minneapolis residents.
Featured Showcase
Makers Series on Screen
A featured component of this year’s event is Makers Series on Screen, showcasing work from PH+T Makers Series artists All at Once, Drag Story Hour, Queen Drea, and Body Watani throughout the Pillsbury Creative Commons building.
Audiences will encounter clips and documentation from these artists’ Makers Series projects, offering a glimpse into a range of interdisciplinary practices spanning performance, puppetry, movement, sound, storytelling, and visual media.
Featured on screen is a clip from Queen Drea’s Born on the Fourth of July: From Mississippi to Minnesota, an immersive interdisciplinary work exploring Black womanhood, migration, caregiving, memory, and legacy across generations through music, poetry, layered sound design, oral history, family archives, and experimental sound practice. Commissioned by the American Composers Forum.
Featured Community Experiences
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Mobile Health Unit
Access physical exams and general wellness checks, blood pressure, diabetes, weight and height screenings, and connections to community supports and resources.
Healthcare Reparations Cooperative’s Imaginarium
Step inside the Healthcare Reparations Cooperative’s Imaginarium, an interactive installation that uses speculative futurities to immerse participants in what healthcare could be.
Through curated storytelling and interactive questions, participants will challenge the status quo of power, economics, and knowledge within today’s healthcare systems while imagining new possibilities for community care.
This dreaming vessel is designed to inspire future, co-created mobile care offerings born from community dreaming.
Community Care Zone
The people providing care in the Community Care Zone came together during the winter of 2025–2026 in response to the I.C.E. occupation. They have continued practicing matriarchal Indigenous care as a way of building a more beautiful future rooted in healing, relationship, and collective care.
What began as a gathering of caregivers has grown into an expanding network of community members and partners who believe caring for one another is how we strengthen our communities and shape the future we want to live in.
The Community Care Zone will include bodywork, energy work, and healing professionals representing a variety of modalities.
Brass Solidarity
Brass Solidarity is a collective of musicians, activists, and community members using their sound as a voice for justice. We perform as a sonic occupation to heal, spread joy, inspire hope, and share love while dismantling white supremacy and oppressive constructs.
We were birthed from the movement for Black Liberation in George Floyd Square, meeting there weekly as a continuous offering to the community. The music is by the people and for the people as a passionate campaign to celebrate community, educate, and uplift marginalized groups.
Event Activities
Throughout the afternoon, enjoy:
- Community healing and wellness activities presented in collaboration with Blue Cross
- Live DJs and music from KRSM Radio
- An artist marketplace featuring local makers and creatives
- Community organizations and resource partners
- Nourishing food and beverages provided by Cooks of Hope
- Games, family activities, and creative experiences
- Block Party Bingo with a chance to win a bicycle from Full Cycle and other raffle prizes
Community Partners & Support
INSIDE OUT 5 is presented by Pillsbury House + Theatre and Pillsbury Creative Commons in partnership with KRSM Radio, Full Cycle, Healthcare Reparations Cooperative, Justice for the People Legal Center, American Composers Forum, Cooks of Hope, and additional community collaborators.
Funding for this project is provided in part by the City of Minneapolis, Minneapolis Forward, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, and the City of Minneapolis 2026 Great Streets Business District Support Program.
Thank you to our partners
Accessibility
For questions or accessibility accommodations, please contact info@pillsburyhousetheatre.org.
About Pillsbury House + Theatre
Pillsbury House + Theatre’s mission is to co-create enduring change toward a just society through arts. Through its Mainstage season, community engagement programs, and artistic partnerships, PH+T illuminates the differences that make each person unique and the similarities that bring people together within an artistic environment that promotes understanding and inspires action.
As part of Pillsbury United Communities, PH+T serves as a creative and cultural anchor for South Minneapolis, supporting artists, neighbors, and community members through innovative programming that builds personal, social, and economic power.