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ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA UPCOMING EVENTS

All you ever wanted to know with Dick Termes

Hot Springs Public Library Library Drive, Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

A new exhibit by artist Dick Termes opens at the Hot Springs Public Library. The exhibition featuring 10 Termespheres® will be on display from September 18th - October 14th. There will also be two Termespheres at Chautauqua during this time. A Termesphere Virtual Reality experience will be made available to the public at Chautauqua Artisans [...]

Crankies Puppet Show with Linda Boyle at Henry’s Books

Henry's Books 111 E Hudson St, Spearfish, SD, United States

What Is a Crankie? Is a Crankiest a grumpy person? A Crankie or moving panorama is a very old storytelling art form that can be found throughout the world, and in many different forms. An illustration on a scroll is wound onto two spools. The spools are loaded into a box , which has a [...]

Free

Chorus rehearsal

Performing Arts Center 601 Columbus St, Rapid City, SD, United States

All you ever wanted to know with Dick Termes

Hot Springs Public Library Library Drive, Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

A new exhibit by artist Dick Termes opens at the Hot Springs Public Library. The exhibition featuring 10 Termespheres® will be on display from September 18th - October 14th. There will also be two Termespheres at Chautauqua during this time. A Termesphere Virtual Reality experience will be made available to the public at Chautauqua Artisans [...]

All you ever wanted to know with Dick Termes

Hot Springs Public Library Library Drive, Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

A new exhibit by artist Dick Termes opens at the Hot Springs Public Library. The exhibition featuring 10 Termespheres® will be on display from September 18th - October 14th. There will also be two Termespheres at Chautauqua during this time. A Termesphere Virtual Reality experience will be made available to the public at Chautauqua Artisans [...]

Event Series Tis the Season to Feel Inadequate

Tis the Season to Feel Inadequate

Black Hills Community Theatre Columbus Street, Rapid City, SD, United States

​Christmas comes but once a year; chaos never ends! Based on the book by celebrated local author Dorothy Rosby, ’Tis the Season to Feel Inadequate is a collection of humorous essays about holidays and special occasions, ranging from Christmas to Lumpy Rug Day. If you've ever gotten poison ivy during Nude Recreation Week or had [...]

3RD ANNUAL “GETTING OUR ACTS TOGETHER: A NIGHT OF NORTHERN HILLS ONE-ACTS”

WHO: YOU! Taking a journey to Belle Fourche Area Community Theater, the Historic Homestake Opera House, the Mathews Opera House, and for the first time this year, Sturgis Community Theater WHAT: A night of Northern Hills One-Acts (GETTING OUR ACTS TOGETHER AKA GOAT) The performance, aptly named for the collaboration between the Matthews Opera House, [...]

3RD ANNUAL “GETTING OUR ACTS TOGETHER: A NIGHT OF NORTHERN HILLS ONE-ACTS”

WHO: YOU! Taking a journey to Belle Fourche Area Community Theater, the Historic Homestake Opera House, the Mathews Opera House, and for the first time this year, Sturgis Community Theater WHAT: A night of Northern Hills One-Acts (GETTING OUR ACTS TOGETHER aka “GOAT”) The performance, aptly named for the collaboration between the Matthews Opera House, [...]

All you ever wanted to know with Dick Termes

Hot Springs Public Library Library Drive, Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

A new exhibit by artist Dick Termes opens at the Hot Springs Public Library. The exhibition featuring 10 Termespheres® will be on display from September 18th - October 14th. There will also be two Termespheres at Chautauqua during this time. A Termesphere Virtual Reality experience will be made available to the public at Chautauqua Artisans [...]

Native Americans’ Day Celebration at Wind Cave National Park

Wind Cave National Park Visitors Center U.S. 385, Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

Hoop dancing, drumming, and a script reading presented in the Lakota language highlight this year’s cultural demonstrations at Wind Cave National Park on Sunday, October 13th, in honor of Native Americans’ Day. “The National Park Service and tribal artists extend an invitation to learn about the lives and the traditions of tribal members in our [...]

Free
Event Series Tis the Season to Feel Inadequate

Tis the Season to Feel Inadequate

Black Hills Community Theatre Columbus Street, Rapid City, SD, United States

​Christmas comes but once a year; chaos never ends! Based on the book by celebrated local author Dorothy Rosby, ’Tis the Season to Feel Inadequate is a collection of humorous essays about holidays and special occasions, ranging from Christmas to Lumpy Rug Day. If you've ever gotten poison ivy during Nude Recreation Week or had [...]

All you ever wanted to know with Dick Termes

Hot Springs Public Library Library Drive, Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

A new exhibit by artist Dick Termes opens at the Hot Springs Public Library. The exhibition featuring 10 Termespheres® will be on display from September 18th - October 14th. There will also be two Termespheres at Chautauqua during this time. A Termesphere Virtual Reality experience will be made available to the public at Chautauqua Artisans [...]

Empty Bowls 2024

Deadwood Social Club Main Street, Deadwood, S, United States

The 2024 "Empty Bowls" event will be held on Wednesday, October 16 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Deadwood Social Club. Empty Bowls is a soup kitchen type project where artists, along with students from Lead Deadwood High School, Spearfish High School & Black Hills State University, have donated handmade pottery bowls. Participants [...]

$10 – $15

Chorus rehearsal

Performing Arts Center 601 Columbus St, Rapid City, SD, United States

SATURDAY WORKSHOPS AT ONE: BASIC WEAVING WITH MARY BAKER

The Matthews MAKEspace 612 North Main Street, Spearfish, SD, United States

SATURDAY ART & CRAFT WORKSHOPS AT ONE WHO: You with Mary Baker as your instructor! WHAT: WORKSHOP AT ONE Basic Weaving WHERE: Matthews 612 N Main Street WHEN: October 19th at 1pm (Workshops are held on the First and Third Saturday of every month at 1 PM running from September through December) WHY: Immerse yourself [...]

SATURDAY WORKSHOPS AT ONE: BASIC WEAVING WITH MARY BAKER

The Matthews MAKEspace 612 North Main Street, Spearfish, SD, United States

SATURDAY ART & CRAFT WORKSHOPS AT ONE WHO: You with Mary Baker as your instructor! WHAT: WORKSHOP AT ONE Basic Weaving WHERE: Matthews 612 N Main Street WHEN: October 19th at 1pm (Workshops are held on the First and Third Saturday of every month at 1 PM running from September through December) WHY: Immerse yourself [...]

Myth & Magic

Performing Arts Center 601 Columbus St, Rapid City, SD, United States

Black Hills Symphony presents Myth and Magic -- celebrating storytelling. Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Peer Gynt Suite # 2 by Edvard Grieg, Fanfare on Amazing Grace by Hailstork and other stories.

$28 – $38

Rand Higbee Reception

The Matthews Fireplace Room North Main Street, Spearfish, SD, United States

WHO: You! WHAT: A special reception honoring SHS Hall of Fame inductee Rand Higbee WHERE: Matthews Opera House Fireplace Room WHEN: Sunday, October 20th at 2 pm WHY: To celebrate a homegrown playwright and soon-to-be Hall of Famer! HOW: Please join us for this free celebration and reception! Spearfish native Rand Higbee is being inducted into [...]

A CHRISTMAS STORY: AUDITIONS

WHO: Is being a Ralphie right up your alley? Or maybe you are directing your skills towards the Dad doting on an lustful leg-lamp? We need all the actors to bring the action of this family favorite!  WHAT: A CHRISTMAS STORY AUDITIONS  WHERE: Matthews Opera House Theater 612 N. Main Street, Spearfish WHEN: October 23 [...]

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