Current Programming

825 In The Neighborhood

Rondo Double Dutch!

Double Dutch is done for 2025, but watch out for popups in the meantime! Check out the Rondo Double Dutch website for more info

Art-B-Qs!

No longer must you wait for summer, Art-B-Q’s are year round! From 6-8pm on the third Tuesday of every month, come to 825 Arts for free food, fun art, and community connection!

Minecraft at 825

Our in person Minecraft program has EVERYTHING: computers for free use, helpers to assist with difficult builds, snacks, and a build space for every type of creative! Come build with us every Saturday from 2-4pm. Excited? Let us know you’re coming at https://tinyurl.com/825MCIP24, as spots are limited (though walk-ins are welcome, space allowing).

This program now has an extension! every Wednesday, from 4-5pm, join us for MINECRAFT CLUB. Build and design, while offering your input on events, themed build days, and other potential adventures. Register at https://tinyurl.com/825AfterSchool25, or just show up!

Can’t make it in person? Join our server from anywhere in the world; just log in to Minecraft and go to 825arts.exaroton.me

In person programming is pay-what-you-can. All proceeds go to 825 Arts, and scholarships are available.

To learn more, go to our Minecraft Page

Theater Tuesdays

Our newest after-school addition is Theater Tuesdays! Every Tuesday from 4:15-5:30, This brand-new program will have kids ages 4-8 making some short scenes, while working on some performance basics (diction, movement) and being creative! Starts September 9th.

Springboard and 825 Arts On Ice!

Save the date! We’re partnering with Springboard For The Arts to go ice skating! February 3rd from 4-6pm, join us at Springboard (262 University Ave W Saint Paul, MN 55103) for skates, cocoa, s’mores, and fun.
Learn more at
https://springboardforthearts.org/events/springboard-on-ice/, and sign a pre-event waiver at https://springboardforthearts.formstack.com/forms/springboard_on_ice_waiver_

BIPOC Improv Jams With Good Camel Comedy

Every last Sunday of the month, join Good Camel Comedy Theater for an evening dedicated to the voices and talents of BIPOC improvisers. Dive into the spontaneity of improv where no scripts are needed, just the magic of the moment!

6:30 PM – 7:45 PM: Warm-up and Prep for BIPOC players only.

8:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Open Improv Jam (Public Show) – All are welcome!

Artist Membership Program

Curious about becoming an artist member? Excited to get involved at 825? Come to our Artist Membership meetings at 825 Arts from 6-8pm on the fourth Tuesday of every month.

Email tyler@825arts.org for more information

January 2026

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  • Minecraft In Person Open Hours
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  • No Starving Artists
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  • Fun Fridays LEGO TIME
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  • Minecraft Club
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  • Fun Fridays LEGO TIME
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  • Minecraft Club
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  • Theater Tuesdays!
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  • No Starving Artists
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  • Fun Fridays LEGO TIME
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  • Ice Palace Competition 2026
  • Minecraft In Person Open Hours
  • Maxxieapolis Sketch Comedy Show
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  • Theater Tuesdays!
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  • Tales from the Neighborhood
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  • Minecraft In Person Open Hours
  • Minecraft In Person Open Hours

Community Trauma Response Program

825 Arts will provide for the acute need for community access to safe, healing, creative spaces through their new Community Trauma Response Program. The goal is for this to be a responsive program available to the public any time there are events that provoke collective grief or trauma. In addition to offering creative resources, 825 will provide the community with information that directs them to low-cost/affordable mental health services, access to emotional and spiritual healers and bodyworkers, and places to find free food for people in need.

Artist of The Month

Every month, we choose an artist from our community to spotlight & uplift! These artists are featured on our website and social media and participate in our monthly Art-B-Q.

January’s Artist of The Month is MAXXEAPOLIS!

Introducing the first artist of the month for January 2026: MAXXIEAPOLIS!

Maxxeapolis is Minneapolis, but BIGGER. They are a brand new sketch comedy group in the Twin Cities, formed by two self-proclaimed “sketch comedy freaks” with decades of sketch writing, directing, performing, and producing between them (Pack Theater, Upright Citizens Brigade, Philly Sketchfest, BlackVerse Comedy Show) and featuring the BEST of the best writers and performers the Twin Cities have to offer. Sketches may include over-the-top situations, consciously stupid jokes, moments of clarity and high brow fun, and one joke about Helen Keller.
On January 24th at 7:30, MAXXEAPOLIS is coming to 825 Arts with a 60-75 minute sketch comedy show! One 10 minute intermission. Positive mental attitude and joyous laughter mandatory for entry. Dress code: casual. Plus ones allowed. Plus twos are better. Recommended ages 18+ due to language, on-stage debauchery, and general absurdity. RSVPs encouraged, but not mandatory. Please, no gifts.
Featuring: Greg Baker, Nina Diatta, Laura Hild, Jamil Jackson, Justin Johnson, Caroline Kraft, Anika Reitman, Alex Stokes, and Nate Weingarden.
Jamil Jackson and Greg Baker were kind enough to answer a few questions about the artistic process at work in Maxxeapolis, which you can read below!
1.) What inspired Maxxeapolis?
Maxxeapolis exists because the universe willed it. We actually met at last year’s Fringe Festival at one of the afterparties – we both went to it to try and find folks who wanted to start a sketch comedy group and then BOOM! We were just standing next to each other at the bar and started chatting. It took about 90 seconds before we found out that we were actually just looking for each other.
Basically, we both moved to the Twin Cities in 2025, and both of us wanted to do sketch after we moved here, but there weren’t any active groups to join. So, we both wanted to form a group, and at large, bring the sketch scene back to the city with such a longstanding history of sketch. We’re not super hippy-dippy or “spiritual” or whatever, but there’s no other explanation than that the universe at large said “there needs to be more sketch in the Twins and these dudes need to meet each other and do it”. And less than 6 months later, we’re doing it.
3.) Where are you located?
We both live in the Twin Cities.
4.) What artistic influences guide Maxxeapolis’s work? What inspires Maxxeapolis, and by extension, you as artists?
We’re guided by the great comics and sketch comics who came before us. We both love Chapelle Show, Key & Peele, In Living Color, and MadTV. Will Ferrell is hysterical, Tina Fey kills 100% of the time, Debra Wilson is too funny. Mitchell and Webb know comedy inside and out. Patrice O’Neal brought the house down. We’re inspired by the world around us, by funny things that happen to us and funny things we think about. The reason we do sketch comedy and the reason we wanted to create a sketch comedy group is simple: when we think of incredibly dumb (and incredibly smart) sketch ideas, we want to put them up in front of people and make them laugh. The things that come up in conversation when you’re getting a drink with a friend are the things we put on stage. Why? Because we go get drinks together and talk about stupid, funny things that we need to share with the world.
5.) Anything else folks should know about Maxxeapolis?
It’s Minneapolis, but BIGGER.
You can get tickets NOW at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/maxxeapolis-sketch-comedy-tickets-1979775222986 Tickets are on a sliding scale from $15-$25. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

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​This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board,
thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.