See and be seen! As a part of the second annual Twin Cities Northern Spark festival, a dusk to dawn nuit blanche or “white night” event, ASI welcomes you with free parking for bikes and cars, and glowing luminaries lighting the way into our castle courtyard. Whether traveling by bike, car or foot, we urge you to use your own crafty vibes to yarn-bomb your bike (or body!) with glow-in-the-dark beads, yarn and other glittery things for extra sparkle. For additional glow-on-the-go, make a simple paper luminary to take home.

We’ll be serving organic hot dogs, served Swedish-style with creamy mashed potatoes, cold beer, pop, and wine at our romantically-lit outdoor food bar. While engaging in these deLIGHTful activities, you can also listen to the forward sounds of the Eclectic Ensemble, an ambient experimental group that draws on jazz style free-form improvisation, Asian harmonic structure, African, Middle Eastern and Indonesian interlocking rhythms, and ambient texture schemes. The Eclectic Ensemble seeks to spark the imagination of audiences and provoke new interactions through its distinctive sound—an unusual arrangement of rhythm, texture, timing, and presentation.

For more information on Northern Spark, visit www.northernspark.org. To listen to music by the Eclectic Ensemble, visit www.theeclecticensemble.com/.