Insomnia Salon, Volume 3: The River Night Circus
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Sunday, Aug 23, 2026 7pm - 9pm
Location & Parking
Raspberry Island
2 Wabasha St.
Details
Insomnia Salon Vol. 3: The Night Circus is a two-hour sunset-to-twilight pop-up experience on Raspberry Island, the iconic Mississippi island tucked just beneath downtown Saint Paul. Guests of all ages can expect a surreal, cabaret experience unfolding all across the island over two hours, as the sunset sets and night descends. Let the Insomnia Salon of 45+ collaborating artists dazzle your senses!
Find yourself welcomed into the River Carnival: aerialists dazzle you as the mysterious emcee guides you onto the island, where food trucks, aerialists, art stations, free tarot card readings, strolling musicians and dancers, and mysterious interactive characters like the Perfume Woman and the Walking Void draw you into a riotous sunset carnival. Will the perfume woman create a magical fragrance just for you? When you peer into the Camera Danscura, what fantastic dance mysteries will be created just for you? Is that singer
singing something you heard last night in your dream?
You won’t have time to wonder before 18-foot-tall, blue-and-red, fabulously sequined river spirits, the emcee, and puppets presented in collaboration with Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater guide you to the Big Top Schubert Bandshell at sunset. There, performers including Vox Medusa, musician Eddie Estrin, belly dancers, dance duo Mariusz Kujawski and Emma Fitzsimmons, and guitarist Liz DeYoe, and more, present a short cabaret. As night descends, follow the fire and water spirits down toward the river for a luminescent ritual to end your night.
