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ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA UPCOMING EVENTS

Event Series A Christmas Celebration

The Turn of The Screw

The Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center, 1601 University Blvd, Brookings University Boulevard, Brookings, South Dakota, United States

A young woman is hired to care for two recently orphaned children in a lovely secluded English manner in 1872. As time goes by, the woman begins to see the specters or ghosts of the former governess and her lover. Are these ghosts in her mind or are they appearing to haunt the children? As [...]

NSU Theatre Presents: TBA

Johnson Fine Arts Center Lobby 101, Johnson Fine Arts Black Box 112, Johnson Fine Arts Center Vestibule 100

Event Locator: 2024-ACBARN The Northern State University Theatre Program invites you to their production of TBA.

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 [...]

Event Series A Christmas Celebration

The Turn of The Screw

The Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center, 1601 University Blvd, Brookings University Boulevard, Brookings, South Dakota, United States

A young woman is hired to care for two recently orphaned children in a lovely secluded English manner in 1872. As time goes by, the woman begins to see the specters or ghosts of the former governess and her lover. Are these ghosts in her mind or are they appearing to haunt the children? As [...]

NSU Theatre Presents: TBA

Johnson Fine Arts Center Lobby 101, Johnson Fine Arts Black Box 112, Johnson Fine Arts Center Vestibule 100

Event Locator: 2024-ACBARN The Northern State University Theatre Program invites you to their production of TBA.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Event Series Make-n-Take Tuesdays

Make-n-Take Tuesdays

Children's Museum 4th Street, Brookings, South Dakota, United States

All Ages | Come-and-Go | Family Style | Museum admission required Make-n-Take Tuesdays offer a rotating lineup of creative activities, perfect for the whole family. Each week, dive into a new hands-on project like clay sculpting, tie-dye, shrink dinks, printmaking, and more. The fee adjusts based on the activity, ensuring a fresh and fun experience [...]

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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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 [...]

Humanities Café – Guests/Topic TBA

VIRTUAL EVENT

Guests to be determined. Scholar: Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85001125966?pwd=c1B3NnhQK1AzUVhBQVFTcE1QTVdGUT09Sponsored By: South Dakota Humanities CouncilPlease let us know what you thought of the program!https://sdhumanities.wufoo.com/forms/r10zvgvg124kfm2/

White Spruce Midwinter Concert

Avera McKennan Prairie Center East 23rd Street, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

We had so much fun with last year's clarinet trios that we decided to do it again! This year, we are featuring the Horovitz Clarinet Sonata and trios for clarinet, cello, and piano by Louise Farrenc, Paquito d'Rivera, and North Dakota composer Jonas Fisher. We will have three performances of our midwinter concert: Thursday, February [...]

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 [...]

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