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ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA UPCOMING EVENTS

The Festival of Trees 2024: Vintage Christmas

Brookings Arts Council 4th Street, Brookings, South Dakota, United States

Every year the Brookings Arts Council is transformed into a winter wonderland of holiday splendor created around beautifully decorated trees and displays each with their own theme and style. From whimsical to elegant and everything in between, this year promises to be no different! The celebration’s special events this year include a local artisan holiday [...]

Imagined Horizons

Dahl Arts Center 713 7th St, Rapid City, SD, United States

Featuring Hot Springs painter, Gayle Tescher, this exhibition will be on display in the Bruce H. Lien Cultural Café & Gallery from November 7 to December 30, 2024. Admission is free. After retiring from the South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs in 2009, Tescher returned to her love of art, a passion that began in [...]

2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism

Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, Pierre, SD, United States

What's your favorite part of January? If you're like us, it's the annual South Dakota Governor's Conference on Tourism. Attendees from across South Dakota and the United States come eager to network and learn about what’s new. At Travel South Dakota, we especially look forward to getting together with all the new and returning industry members [...]

The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System

Washington Pavilion 301 S Main Ave, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

When the class gets lost on the way to the planetarium, Ms. Frizzle saves the day by blasting into outer space for an epic interplanetary field trip! But when rivalries both old and new threaten to tear the students apart, our young heroes must learn to pull together or risk getting forever lost in the [...]

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The Festival of Trees 2024: Vintage Christmas

Brookings Arts Council 4th Street, Brookings, South Dakota, United States

Every year the Brookings Arts Council is transformed into a winter wonderland of holiday splendor created around beautifully decorated trees and displays each with their own theme and style. From whimsical to elegant and everything in between, this year promises to be no different! The celebration’s special events this year include a local artisan holiday [...]

Imagined Horizons

Dahl Arts Center 713 7th St, Rapid City, SD, United States

Featuring Hot Springs painter, Gayle Tescher, this exhibition will be on display in the Bruce H. Lien Cultural Café & Gallery from November 7 to December 30, 2024. Admission is free. After retiring from the South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs in 2009, Tescher returned to her love of art, a passion that began in [...]

2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism

Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, Pierre, SD, United States

What's your favorite part of January? If you're like us, it's the annual South Dakota Governor's Conference on Tourism. Attendees from across South Dakota and the United States come eager to network and learn about what’s new. At Travel South Dakota, we especially look forward to getting together with all the new and returning industry members [...]

Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman – Yankton’s Prolific Lyric Poet and Race Writer

Brookings Public Library 3rd Street, Brookings, SD, United States

Born in Mound City, Illinois in 1870, Katherine Chapman moved to Yankton as a child. Being very sickly, her schoolteacher mother homeschooled Kate. Enjoy Kate’s poetry as Jefferson interprets Mrs. Tillman’s work as if she were living today. (Chautauqua)Scholar: Joyce JeffersonSponsored by: Brookings Public LibraryFor more information, contact: Mikaela Neubauer <mneubauer@cityofbrookings-sd.gov>

Poetry on the Road

Muddy Mo's Coffee House Broadway Avenue, Yankton, SD, United States

Poetry on the Road returns for another year!  South Dakota’s State Poet Laureate, Bruce Roseland, along with other South Dakota State Poetry Society (SDSPS) member poets and special guests, will be visiting towns across South Dakota monthly through April 2025. At each location, SDSPS members will give poetry readings and host a Q&A session along [...]

AUDITIONS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

The Matthews Opera House – Theatre 612 Main St, Spearfish, SD, United States

WHO: ACTORS WHAT: Auditions for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM WHERE: Matthews Opera House Theater 612 N. Main Street, Spearfish WHEN:  Thursday, February 27 and Friday, February 28 from 6-8 pm WHY: Because everyone loves a classic FAIRY tale. HOW: No experience necessary! You will be asked to read with other participants from sections of the [...]

Chorus rehearsal

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

The Festival of Trees 2024: Vintage Christmas

Brookings Arts Council 4th Street, Brookings, South Dakota, United States

Every year the Brookings Arts Council is transformed into a winter wonderland of holiday splendor created around beautifully decorated trees and displays each with their own theme and style. From whimsical to elegant and everything in between, this year promises to be no different! The celebration’s special events this year include a local artisan holiday [...]

Imagined Horizons

Dahl Arts Center 713 7th St, Rapid City, SD, United States

Featuring Hot Springs painter, Gayle Tescher, this exhibition will be on display in the Bruce H. Lien Cultural Café & Gallery from November 7 to December 30, 2024. Admission is free. After retiring from the South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs in 2009, Tescher returned to her love of art, a passion that began in [...]

2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism

Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, Pierre, SD, United States

What's your favorite part of January? If you're like us, it's the annual South Dakota Governor's Conference on Tourism. Attendees from across South Dakota and the United States come eager to network and learn about what’s new. At Travel South Dakota, we especially look forward to getting together with all the new and returning industry members [...]

AUDITIONS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

The Matthews Opera House – Theatre 612 Main St, Spearfish, SD, United States

WHO: ACTORS WHAT: Auditions for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM WHERE: Matthews Opera House Theater 612 N. Main Street, Spearfish WHEN:  Thursday, February 27 and Friday, February 28 from 6-8 pm WHY: Because everyone loves a classic FAIRY tale. HOW: No experience necessary! You will be asked to read with other participants from sections of the [...]

The Festival of Trees 2024: Vintage Christmas

Brookings Arts Council 4th Street, Brookings, South Dakota, United States

Every year the Brookings Arts Council is transformed into a winter wonderland of holiday splendor created around beautifully decorated trees and displays each with their own theme and style. From whimsical to elegant and everything in between, this year promises to be no different! The celebration’s special events this year include a local artisan holiday [...]

Imagined Horizons

Dahl Arts Center 713 7th St, Rapid City, SD, United States

Featuring Hot Springs painter, Gayle Tescher, this exhibition will be on display in the Bruce H. Lien Cultural Café & Gallery from November 7 to December 30, 2024. Admission is free. After retiring from the South Dakota Department of Veterans Affairs in 2009, Tescher returned to her love of art, a passion that began in [...]

2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism

Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, Pierre, SD, United States

What's your favorite part of January? If you're like us, it's the annual South Dakota Governor's Conference on Tourism. Attendees from across South Dakota and the United States come eager to network and learn about what’s new. At Travel South Dakota, we especially look forward to getting together with all the new and returning industry members [...]

Poetry on the Road

Outside of a Dog Books & Games Court Street, Vermillion, SD, United States

Poetry on the Road returns for another year!  South Dakota’s State Poet Laureate, Bruce Roseland, along with other South Dakota State Poetry Society (SDSPS) member poets and special guests, will be visiting towns across South Dakota monthly through April 2025. At each location, SDSPS members will give poetry readings and host a Q&A session along [...]

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