Gathering to watch Love Island Reunion, guests encouraged to bring a craft project they are working on while watching. Will also provide crafts for those who don’t bring anything. Crafts will include Origami, Paper fans and Draw Yourself poster. First hour will be for guest to mingle and try out crafts.

Reunion will start at 8pm; should be about 60-90mins max.

Beat Excavation is a free, intergenerational and intercultural space for Twin Cities community members to connect and build with one another around their love for vinyl records and music. This event is intended for vinyl enthusiasts and collectors interested in trading, buying, selling and playing records. Rooted in deep appreciation for music, arts and culture, the Excavation aims to restore the essence of human connection and the joy of live music in a predominantly digital age.

Each Beat Excavation event features a group of DJs playing some choice selections from their record collections as well as vendors selling records.

Join us on August 28th for another installment of The Living Room ft. Jandeltha Rae.

Jandeltha Rae (Jan-DEL-The Ray) is a multi-hyphenate storyteller from the southside of Minneapolis. Her art forms include but art not limited to music, poetry, songwriting, painting, nail artistry and more. Her work centers around culture, identity, black liberation, love, healing and womanhood. Much of the passion behind her work is driven by the advancement of black and brown individuals, and also women’s healing and breakthroughs. It is her desire to amplify ethnic and urban experiences through her gift. She is a modern griot with stories to tell, with music being her most recent medium.

The Living Room is an intimate, live concert series at ZOMA House that takes place on the last Friday of every month. Each session fosters a warm, acoustic experience by encouraging artists to strip their music down to its rawest form. It invites guests to listen and connect, and it invites the performing artist to share the stories that bring their music to life. Each performance will be followed by an audience Q&A. The goal is to inspire connection, creativity, and respect for the artists who share their work.

Tickets are $12 presale and $15 at the door.

Event Schedule ​

8:00pm - Doors Open

​9:00pm - Concert Start

​9:45pm - Q + A

​10:30pm - Event End

Join us at ZOMA House for a 2-day cultural celebration and immersive film experience in partnership with LouMade Culinary Co. On August 7th, Chef Louis will curate a three course meal inspired by Aya of Yop City and the interconnectedness between the Ivory Coast and his home country, Ghana.

The culinary experience for this film screening is built on the living bridge between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire, two nations whose coastlines, migrations, and food ways have intertwined for centuries. Long before borders, the Akan, Nzema, and Ebrié peoples shared cassava fields, palm groves, fishing traditions, and fermentation techniques that shaped the dishes we know today.

This event celebrates that interconnectedness by pairing Ivory Coast’s iconic dishes — the foods that define its modern identity — with revived heritage dishes that once held meaning in village kitchens but have faded from everyday life. Together, they form a layered culinary narrative: one part celebration, one part remembrance.

Each course becomes a scene in a story about coastal memory, ancestral technique, and the shared West African spirit of gathering around food. This experience honors the past, elevates the present, and spotlights the cultural heartbeat that connects Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.

Join us at ZOMA House for a 2-day cultural celebration and immersive film experience in partnership with LouMade Culinary Co. On August 6th, we’ll have a FREE screening of Aya of Yop City as a precursor to the intimate dinner experience inspired by the film.

Set against the colorful and spirited backdrop of the Ivory Coast in the 1970s, Aya of Yop City is a vibrant, beautifully animated adaptation of the best-selling series of graphic novels by co-director Marguerite Abouet.

Preliminary short film screening for OBSCENE: A Multi-disciplinary Exhibition on the Spectrum of Human Intimacy. Films shown were created by Imani during her travels abroad while cultivating work for the upcoming gallery, opening Aug 28th.

This event and forthcoming gallery are 18+

Week 5: True open deck with planned sets

• Implementing skills learned in class

Our last class will be an open deck! People can socialize, show off their skills, and implement the ideas we covered during the previous class. Anyone will be able to join, but priority will be given to people who came to previous classes.

ZOMA House is taking its programming outside with THE BACKYARD: An afternoon of art, food, and music. Join us for an outdoor open mic, yard games, and curated arts and crafts.

Join us at ZOMA House for a family friendly evening of painting, crafting, and art making for artists of all ages. We'll have a wide variety of art supplies available for use.

Week 4: Networking and advertising yourself, how to stand out (Guest Teacher: TBA)

• Curating spaces for your own events

• Utilizing social media to build a brand

• How to meet people at events

• Creating an EPK (Electronic Press Kit)

This class will focus on networking as a DJ. We'll go over the different ways you can make yourself stand out and the steps it takes to get your first booking. Topics will include social media, presenting yourself at event spaces, and creating an EPK.

Week 3: Organizing and planning sets, coordinating events, and working with staff, other DJs, and MCs (Guest Teachers: Awa Mally and Kwey)

• Different event B2B styles

  • Knowing how to play within each hour in a club setting

• Playlist organization

• Crate digging

• DJ etiquette with event planners

• Building chemistry with other DJs and MCs

This class will focus on the prep work that goes into DJing. The conversation will be focused on the different types of events you may play, how to prepare for an event, and how to add flavor to your set lists. We'll then talk about working with other staff members at events, such as organizers, MCs, and other DJs.

The launch party of Daely Social Club, hosting a group of black and brown entrepreneurs.

Join Seat At The Table for an evening of poetry, music, and stories centered on the people and places that raised us. Share a song, poem or story that connects you to home. We invite you to explore what home means to you, as we listen, reflect and share amongst one another.

Week 2: Advanced transition skills, performance skills, and reading the crowd (Guest Teacher: Duke Dubz and/or DJ CH!SME)

• Implementing phrasing

• Understanding Keymatching, advanced EQ, and stem capabilities

• Techniques to manipulate crowd energy

• Open practice

In our second class, we'll build upon the basics from the previous class and introduce more advanced concepts and techniques. We'll talk about song phrasing, key matching, and being creative with EQs and stems. Afterwards, we'll cover live performance skills and how to bring your performances to life.

Catered to artists, organizers, and storykeepers; this hands-on course will guide you through the essential skills needed to begin building your family tree.

Discover how to organize your research, access vital records, and navigate common roadblocks, all while highlighting uniquely Black source material.

Sliding scale tickers: $0-10

​​​Join us on July 2nd for another installment of The Kitchen Table with Tall Paul.

Tall Paul is a hip-hop artist, inspirational speaker, and arts-focused youth worker from South Minneapolis. Ojibwe and Oneida, his ancestral roots flow from the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe in northern Minnesota and beyond. He believes hip-hop can be a tool for Native empowerment and healing, weaving personal narrative, cultural perspective, and historical reckoning into music that speaks to urban Native experiences and broader struggles for justice.

Tall Paul is one half of Native rap duo Red Poets Society, who have opened for major artists such as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Mobb Deep, and Jay Electronica. His acclaimed single Prayers in a Song is the first rap song to incorporate the Ojibwe language for more than sixty seconds, and remains a touchstone for conversations about cultural reclamation and identity. His 2022 album The Story of Jim Thorpe is a ten-track semi-biographical work that lyrically chronicles the life of Sac and Fox and Potawatomi legend Jim Thorpe, while laying bare this country's history of conquest, forced removal, and settler colonialism. He has performed, talked, and facilitated workshops across the world, from Minneapolis to Chemnitz, Germany.

Tall Paul earned his degree from the University of Minnesota, with a BA in American Indian Studies and a minor in Sociology. He is also a co-founder of Right to Remain, a collective of organizers and artists of various mediums using creative media to document and respond to immigration enforcement's impact on Native communities in Minnesota and throughout the U.S. He is a 2025 United States Artist Fellow, a 2025 Tiwahe Foundation Oyate Leadership Network Cohort Member, and a 2024 NDN Collective Abundance Fund Awardee.

The Kitchen Table is an artist talk series that (typically) takes place on the first Saturday of every month. It features a rotating selection of speakers who work in creative industries and invites community members to learn more about each speaker and their work.

​​​Doors open at 6pm and we will have snacks and refreshments for guests. At 6:30pm, the talk will begin followed by an audience Q&A.

​​​Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot.

Week 1: Intro, basic transition styles, and open practice (Guest Teacher: DJ Lakeooo)

• DJ Alt’s background and goal of the class

• Walk through of the board and software

• Beat matching explanation activity

• Live trial

• Transition techniques

  • Drop mix, echo out, and blend

In our first session, we will introduce the class and goals for this course. We'll walkthrough the DJ controller and software, learn how to beatmatch, and learn core transition techniques. The end of the class will be spent doing open practice.

Join us on June 26th for another installment of The Living Room ft Vinny Franco.

Vinny Franco is a Minneapolis based singer, producer, and songwriter who’s music blends neo-soul, R&B, and latin styles creating a sound that feels both intimate and energetic. Outside of performing, Vinny works as a composer and producer for sync, film, and commercial music, bringing a deep love of storytelling and arrangement into every project.

The Living Room is an intimate, live concert series at ZOMA House that takes place on the last Friday of every month. Each session fosters a warm, acoustic experience by encouraging artists to strip their music down to its rawest form. It invites guests to listen and connect, and it invites the performing artist to share the stories that bring their music to life. Each performance will be followed by an audience Q&A. The goal is to inspire connection, creativity, and respect for the artists who share their work.

Tickets are $12 presale and $15 at the door.

Event Schedule ​

8:00pm - Doors Open

​9:00pm - Concert Start

​9:45pm - Q + A

​10:30pm - Event End

Jo Rochelle, a Jamaican-American writer-director originally from Minneapolis, returns for one night for an intimate public conversation on story, craft, artistic voice, and what it takes to build a creative life that can actually move through the world.

Through selected work and conversation, we’ll trace Jo’s path from theater to web series, independent film, and television writing, including her feature Jasmine is a Star, her work on the TV series Good Trouble, and her latest feature, Dead Deer High, which premiered at SXSW 2026.

This conversation is for filmmakers, artists, and storytellers asking how to cultivate and protect the voice inside their work while still getting that work produced, shared, and seen beyond inner circles.  

We’re going deep enough for you to leave with real gems and next moves. This is one to be in the room for. 

Space is limited. RSVP to secure your spot.

Home Theater is a screening series that takes place every other month. Each screening features the work of local filmmakers followed by an audience Q&A. The selected films will be revealed closer to the event date.