HALLOWEEN PARTY Hosted By Hammell House

Grab your costumes and your cauldrons, your besties and your broomsticks! It’s the second annual Halloween Party thrown by Out and Sober and hosted by Hammell House, located at:

2025 Grand Ave South, Minneapolis, MN 55405

The party is from 6 PM – 10 PM again on Friday night, on Halloween! We have some fun activities you won’t want to miss including: a bonfire in the backyard, bobbing for apples contest (winner gets a prize), a costume contest (winner gets a prize), amazing food and snacks, and a DJ slanging some sick and spooky beats! We had such a fun time last year and we are so excited to be offering this event again for a clean, fun Halloween for all our friends to enjoy sober!

We can’t wait to see you there!!! Please gather all your friends to come to the party and get those costumes ready! It’s gonna be a night to remember.

For any more questions, please reach out to John T at (763) 442-8605.

Celebrate YOUR MOTHERS

Join us this Saturday for an early Mother’s Day Sculpture Walk at the Walker Sculpture Garden. Bring your mother—whether that’s your bio family or chosen family who keep you grounded or the MOTHER OF YOUR HOUSE—and let’s have an afternoon of appreciation for the people who keep us strong, sober and safe!

We’ll meet at Dunn Brothers Coffee in Loring Park at 1 p.m. and walk over to the sculpture garden. 

For questions or more information, email info@outsobermn.org or call Bob McHale at 612-655-2952.

SPEED DATING @ THE MANSION

Thursday, March 14, 2024
5-8 PM
American Swedish Institute
2600 Park Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN

Parking/Admission/Tours: FREE!

Are you nervous? I’m nervous! Are your hands sweaty? Here’s a hanky. LET’S FIGURE OUT IF WE LIKE-LIKE EACH OTHER … YES LIKE THAT!

Dating for Queer folks, especially in recovery can seem overwhelming and daunting, but Out & Sober MN is here to help! Join us for a chill, laid back opportunity to meet other LGBTQ+ people in recovery at a fancy mansion, figure out if you want to get to know each other a little more and go from there!

Parking, admission, and tours are free but food at FIKA is on your own!

For more information, call Bob @ 612-655-2952 or Boston Joe @ 612-274-4596 or email info@outsobermn.org if you communicate better over email!

SNOWTUBING 2024

The weather won’t keep us away … much long!

Join us on SUNDAY, Feb. 25 at Badlands Snow Park in Hudson, WI for our annual SNOWTUBING winter event!

Meet us there at 11 a.m.

(Be sure to select “Session 1,” which is the 10 a.m.-1 p.m. session.)

Join us for an opportunity for fellowship, meeting other LGBTQ+ folks in recovery, and to get out of the house!

If you have any questions, email info@outsobermn.org.

We are excited to see you there!

SPOOKY & GAY: a queer horror storytelling cabaret (Oct. 25)

Join us for this queer Halloween extravaganza!

Spooky & Gay is a queer horror variety fantasia featuring original scary stories, songs and standup performed in total darkness — like Goosebumps, only GAYER!

Written & performed by award-winning Florida performing artist, Bruce Ryan Costella.

Wednesday, Oct. 25

Show at 8:00 PM, doors at 7:45 PM.

Phoenix Theater (A Project of Arts Nest)

2605 Hennepin Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55408

CLAIM YOUR FREE TICKET BY RSVPing BELOW!

The first 10 responders will receive one (1) free ticket!

Tickets are also on sale at:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spooky-gay-a-queer-horror-storytelling-cabaret-tickets-728641806257

(Tickets are nonrefundable. Pre-sale stops day of show, tix $20 at the door (cash preferred).)

Written & performed by award-winning Florida performing artist, Bruce Ryan Costella. https://www.bruceryancostella.com/

​Bruce Ryan Costella (he/they) is a playwright-performer based out of Orlando, Florida. They have been producing and touring as BC Theatricals (with the help of collaborator Melissa Cooper) since 2018. Their artistic practice is interested in exploring the boundaries of the solo performance, focusing especially on spacemaking, subverting theatrical form and the queering majoritarian histories. (That’s fancy talk for he likes making stuff super gay.) When he isn’t performing, Bruce loves visiting haunted attractions, ice cream and his dog Lentilziti.

Walk for Recovery, Saturday September 9th

Come and join Out & Sober MN at the Walk for Recovery this year.

The festivities start at 10am but we’ll be meeting at the state capitol steps at 1:15pm, the walking begins at 1:30pm. We plan on having have various rainbow/pride accoutrements so we should be easy to find.

Here’s a link to the 2023 Walk for Recovery’s schedule of events: https://minnesotarecovery.org/walk-schedule/

River Tubing 2023!

Join us for our annual summer highlight event!

Good recovery centers on making new connections and creating new memories! We’ll be floating down the Cannon River on Sunday, Aug. 27!

Our meet-up time and location for the metro area will be:

10:30 AM

Walgreens @ THE HUB
12 W. 66th Street
Richfield, MN

Join us there if you’d like to carpool, provide a ride for someone else, or just to join the caravan!

We’ll be tubing at Welch Mill:
26389 County Road 7 Blvd
Welch, MN 55089

Tubing Rate: $18 (with ID)

RSVP and let us know you’re coming so we can plan for the carpool and any tube rental assistance by CLICKING HERE:

For more information or questions, email info@outsobermn.org.

WE’LL SEE YOU ON SUNDAY, AUG. 27!

July 4th BBQ

Join us for a July 4th BBQ at Portland Sober House!

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

1-4 PM

Portland Sober House
3351 Portland Avenue
Minneapolis, MN

We would love to see you again, thank you for making the Pride Saturday Walk in the Park a success and for continuing to join us for more fellowship opportunities!

We know that forging and maintaining connections with others in recovery keeps us accountable and surrounded by support, especially on big holidays like the Fourth of July! So come on over to Portland Sober House for a burger, brat or non-alcoholic beverage to keep you cool!

BIG THANKS to the folks at Portland Sober House for partnering with us and being our hosts! 

If you have any questions, please email Jeremy at adventure01@gmail.com!

We’ll see you on TUESDAY!

June 24: PRIDE-A Walk in the Park!

Join us for A Walk in the Park this TWIN CITIES PRIDE Saturday!

We know that forging new connections with others in recovery reinforces our ability to stay sober, especially during Pride celebrations. So we’re inviting you to simply join us as you are, wherever you are, in your recovery journey to enjoy the excitement of Twin Cities Pride weekend in Loring Park!

We’ll gather in the RE/MAX Results parking lot (1609 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN) at 11:30 AM and 2 PM. Look out for our signs! We’ll provide water, fellowship and the opportunity to connect with others in recovery!

We’re so excited to see you this Pride Saturday! If you have any questions, email info@outsobermn.org or call 612-655-2952.

May 13: Walk to End HIV

Join our team for Rainbow Health’s Walk to End HIV!

We will be meeting at 10 AM at Como Midway Picnic Pavilion (1199 Midway Pkwy, St. Paul MN). Participants can join the team and fundraise or meet us at the event, no registration required.

TO JOIN OUR TEAM, visit: https://p2p.onecause.com/mnwalktoendhiv/team/out-and-sober-minnesota

Let us know you’re able to make it by RSVP-ing here: https://forms.gle/FmqJ8D1MaqF2q7xX6

If you have any additional questions, please email info@outsobermn.org.