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Earth Day at Franconia

Midsummer Pride Party

Saturday, June 20, 2026, 4pm-8pm

Celebrate Pride with the St Croix Valley community at Franconia Sculpture Park’s Midsummer Pride Party! This family friendly event will feature free art-making workshops led by Edson Rosas, Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo, and Franconia staff, two drag shows from Tooth & Nails Productions, face painting and temporary tattoos, and a dance party to end the evening! Deep Roots Concessions and Friso Pops will be onsite selling food all day.

SCHEDULE

 

4:00-8:00PM
  • Flower Crowns
  • Temporary Tattoos & Face Painting
  • Blooming Intentions Workshop with Edson Rosas
  • Wet Felting Workshop with Franconia Staff
4:00-6:00PM | Pulse Remembrance Workshop with Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo

 

5:00PM | All Ages Drag Show by Tooth & Nails Productions (Part I)

 

6:15PM | All Ages Drag Show by Tooth & Nails Productions (Part II)

 

7:00PM | Club EXILE Dance Party with Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo

Collaborators

Tooth & Nails is a drag family production that recently celebrated 2 years as a company. Performing across the Twin Cities, their goal is to give queer artists a stage to share their art and stories. Puppet shows and live vocals, skittering bugs and joyful dance, you never know just what you’re going to get! This will be Tooth & Nails’ second time performing at Franconia, and they hope to see you there! 

Drag shows will take place at 5:00 and 6:15PM and run approximately 40 minutes. Don’t forget to bring cash to tip performers!

Edson Rosas is a queer Mexican-American artist and educator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a printmaker, installation artist, soft sculpture maker, and casual writer. His autobiographical work is focused on exploring his Mexican roots and how they play a role in his everyday life emotionally, physically, and politically. The work is often honest and open, making the personal become universal.

Join artist Edson Rosas for a Blooming Intentions Workshop from 4-8pm during the party. Drop in and create a huggable flower sculpture from scrap fabric and hide a handwritten intention for the season inside your creation. Try out hand sewing techniques with instruction from Edson. All ages are welcome, with little ones encouraged to collaborate with an adult on their creation! 

Sebastian Duncan-Portuondo participates in multi-directional cultural traditions and investigates silenced histories to propose conditions for cross-identification. Stained glass channels both a sacred and Cuban-American heritage in his work. Speculative spaces implicate collective memory and hybrid identities; lyrical artworks navigate ideas of home, queerness, and displacement. Through architectural intervention, public art, performance, and object-based work he re-envisions traditions in stained glass, mosaic and light-based media.

Collaborate with Sebastian to create a colorful window installation memorializing the 49 victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida. Tiles will be created Friday and Saturday afternoon and installed Saturday. Make one to include in the memorial or to take home! 

Sebastian will also perform a DJ set as part of his nomadic project, Club EXILE, combining lively Cuban-American culture with music and memory as a means to embody the joy and creativity of the queer community.

This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the East Central Regional Arts Council with funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature from its general fund.