Category: in-person event

Picnic In-person on July 20th

Photo by Nur Tok

FREE to attend, Sun. July 20, 2025

Bring your favorite picnic foods, beverages and utensils for a low-waste event. Share food and beverages with others if you wish. Register separately for each location so that we can contact you in case of cancelation due to weather.

Lincoln Park, Duluth
11:00-2:30 — REGISTER

Lincoln Park, outdoor playground pavilion. Head up Lincoln Park Drive from the intersection of 25th Ave West and West 3rd street.
Look for the picnic tables under the shelter. Park in the small parking lot or on the street. Map for Lincoln Park Playground Shelter

Read about the Park on Duluth’s Parks and Recreation site

Lincoln Park Pavilion. Photo Duluth Parks and Recreation.

Como Park, St. Paul
3:00-6:00 PM — REGISTER

Look for TCCN’s banner at the picnic area on the west side of the park located at 1300 Midway Parkway, east of Hamline Avenue, near the mini golf course and children’s playground. Bathrooms are located near the picnic shelter. Picnic parking is first come first serve. Map of west picnic shelter location.

Picnic shelter at Como Park's west picnic grounds
Como Park picnic shelter, west picnic grounds. St. Paul, MN.

National Cohousing Week 2025

April 28 – May 4

Get a feel for a variety of cohousing communities by attending in-person and virtual local and national cohousing open house events the week of April 28.

✅ Check the map for cohousing week events anywhere in the U.S. at cohousing.org

✅ Consider registering for one or more regional cohousing updates, each event includes a discussion on a topic of importance for cohousing.

CohoUS Regional Update
Midwest Spotlight + Cohousing Adjacent Models

Hear regional updates from Midwest and West communities, then dive into a discussion on adjacent housing models and affordability.

Features Becca Brackett, volunteer with TCCN and Cedar Cohousing, LLC. in Minneapolis, MN.

Tuesday, April 29, 3:00-4:30 PM.
Registration is required to attend this virtual event.

Register

✅ Drop in to chat with TCCN volunteers during our virtual cohousing open house event. Learn about TCCN and talk informally about cohousing in Minnesota in these times.

Twin Cities Cohousing Network Virtual Open House

Saturday, May 3, 1-3 pm
No need to register. Use the link below to drop in.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85471068592

✅ Let TCCN publicize your local open house or virtual tour in TCCN New

  1. Create an in-person or virtual event to inform people about your cohousing community, or plans to create one, anywhere within TCCN’s service area.
  2. Email TCCN News editor Becca Brackett by April 10 (Becca@tccoho.org ) with details for your date, time, location, and how to register for your event to include it in the April edition of TCCN News.
  3. If you have a CohoUS membership, you can upload your event to CohoUS to make it visible on their site. (See if you qualify to register through TCCN)
  4. Also let Becca know if you are available to provide an update during TCCN’s next event, Seniors in Cohousing on April 19 on Zoom from 10-11:30 AM.
Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing, Seattle, WA, 2019 open house. Photo credit: Lynn Englund

Picnic July 20 in St. Paul or Duluth

Families, friends, and children are welcome! Come early to play at the park, then socialize in-person with others interested in learning about the characteristics of living in a cohousing community and what it takes to create one.

Bring your favorite picnic foods, beverages and utensils for a low-waste event. Share food and beverages with others, if you wish. Register separately for each location so that we can contact you in case of cancelling due to weather.

FREE to attend, Sat. July 20, 2024

Como Park, St. Paul
10:30 AM to 1:00 PM — REGISTER

Look for TCCN’s banner at the picnic area on the west side of the park located at 1300 Midway Parkway, east of Hamline Avenue, near the mini golf course and children’s playground. Bathrooms are located near the picnic shelter. Picnic parking is first come first serve. Map of west picnic shelter location.

Shelter photo by St. Paul Parks and Recreation

Memorial Park, Duluth
4:30 to 8:30 PM — REGISTER

Look for the picnic tables under the shelter. Park in the small parking lot or on the street.
Map to Memorial Park location.

Google maps image

A child making a giant bubble at the Como Park picnic shelter at a previous picnic.

Dialogue with Alan O’Hashi on Cohousing

For those drawn to intentional community and cohousing, they will delight in viewing Alan O’Hashi at 7:00 p.m on May 8, 2024, on Zoom. 

A Meet the Professionals speaker event

O’Hashi is a newspaper journalist turned documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, author, nonprofit leader and activist. He works with groups and organizations to help them tell their stories.  For this event, Alan will speak from his experience as a board member of the US Cohousing Association and his time living in Silver Sage Village, a cohousing senior community in Boulder, CO. There will be time for Q and A.

Meet the Professionals:
Alan O’Hashi

Wednesday, May 8, 2024
7:00 to 8:30 PM on Zoom

Register for zoom

Registration is required to receive a Zoom link. Limit: 100 participants.

Register for hybrid group zoom

Group Zoom viewing at Unity Church Unitarian in St. Paul, space is limited. 

Alan O’Hashi
  • Cultural competency training and facilitation
  • Cohousing Community Process Consultant
  • Positions held: Cohousing USA Board of Directors; previously Boulder Planning Board, former Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity St Vrain Valley – Longmont, Colorado.

Alan’s presentation will include material from this book. It is available for purchase at Fellowship for Intentional Community and other booksellers.

Book cover for "True Stories of an Aging do-Gooder" by Alan O'Hashi. Text over an image of rolling green hills.

Picnic in the Park

Socialize in-person with others interested in cohousing at TCCN’s annual picnic held in St. Paul, MN.

FREE to attend
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Como Park picnic shelter
6:00-8:00 PM

Image shows a gathering of people at a hexagonal gazebo picnic shelter at Como Park near trees, grass, picnic tables and grills.
Shelter photo by St. Paul Parks and Recreation

Bring your favorite picnic foods, beverages and utensils for a picnic with Twin Cities Cohousing Network volunteers and other cohousing supporters and share in an evening of connection and fun at a quaint open-sided picnic shelter in St. Paul’s Como Park. (Map of west picnic shelter location.)

Look for TCCN’s banner at the picnic area on the west side of the park located at 1300 Midway Parkway, east of Hamline Avenue, near the mini golf course and children’s playground. Bathrooms are located near the picnic shelter. Picnic parking is first come first serve.

Families, friends, and children welcome! Meet and greet others with an interest in building and living in cohousing communities in Minnesota.

Register

So we know to expect you and can alert you in case of inclement weather.

Event Schedule

5:30 — Begin to gather at picnic shelter #50. Bring your own food, beverage, and utensils. Water will be available. (Share food items with others if you feel comfortable.)

6:00 — Picnicking and conversation. Discuss existing cohousing and efforts to start new cohousing communities.

8:00 — Clean up.

A child making a giant bubble at the Como Park picnic shelter 2021 event.

Rental costs for the picnic shelter were provided by our supporters. Twin Cities Cohousing Network is registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization.