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ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA UPCOMING EVENTS

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 [...]

Terry Brooks and Joel Shotwell

Trio Jazz Club 340 S Main Ave, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

https://www.fellowshipjazzcenter.orghttps://www.triojazzclub.com#fellowshipjazzcenter #triojazzclub #siouxfalls

Event Series SUPPORT MOVIE MAGIC IN VERMILLION

SUPPORT MOVIE MAGIC IN VERMILLION

Coyote Twin Theater 10 E Main St,, Vermillion, United States

Your local nonprofit theater now features a top-of-the-line laser projector in our side 1 auditorium. To celebrate—and help pay for!—this gorgeous upgrade, join us for exclusive screenings of movies about movies that span the age of cinema. Each ticket includes a small popcorn and themed beverage. What's different about laser projection? The laser experience immerses [...]

Cinema Paradiso – Laser & Legacy Fundraiser Film Series

Coyote Twin Theater 10 E Main St,, Vermillion, United States

Your local nonprofit theater now features a top-of-the-line laser projector in our side 1 auditorium. To celebrate—and help pay for!—this gorgeous upgrade, join us for exclusive screenings of movies about movies that span the age of cinema. Second in our lineup is Cinema Paradiso, an Italian film that centers on the friendship between a young [...]

$20

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 Creatures Big & Small Art Exhibit

Creatures Big & Small Art Exhibit

Serendipity Studio Gallery & Gifts 230 S. Phillips Ave., Suite 204, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

Creatures Big & Small "Creatures Big and Small" is an immersive art exhibition that explores the vast spectrum of animals, real and imagined, that inhabit our world — from the tiniest insects to the most colossal beasts. Highlighting the interconnectedness of life on Earth, our collective imagination, and the urgent need to protect the biodiversity [...]

Free

Steel Groove

Trio Jazz Club 340 S Main Ave, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

https://www.fellowshipjazzcenter.orghttps://www.triojazzclub.com#fellowshipjazzcenter #triojazzclub #siouxfalls

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 Creatures Big & Small Art Exhibit

Creatures Big & Small Art Exhibit

Serendipity Studio Gallery & Gifts 230 S. Phillips Ave., Suite 204, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

Creatures Big & Small "Creatures Big and Small" is an immersive art exhibition that explores the vast spectrum of animals, real and imagined, that inhabit our world — from the tiniest insects to the most colossal beasts. Highlighting the interconnectedness of life on Earth, our collective imagination, and the urgent need to protect the biodiversity [...]

Free

I Believe II: Arts & Incarceration Exhibit, Reception and Gallery Talk

Waterfront Gallery for the Arts 207 E Missouri Ave, Pierre, SD, United States

I Believe II: Arts & Incarceration will be coming to the Waterfront Gallery for the Arts, 207 E. Missouri Ave., Pierre, SD. This touring art exhibition showcases the creative works of inmates from the South Dakota State Penitentiary and Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield. Funded by a South Dakota Health Department Innovation Grant and [...]

Free

Backcountry Film Festival & Soup Feed

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

The 20th Annual Backcountry Film Festival is hitting the road! Grab your friends, come on out and immerse yourself in a night of films that celebrate the power and spirit of humans in winter. Adventure, travel, ski culture, ice, pain, suffering, laughter, DEEP POWDER!—you’ll find it all in this year’s lineup. Join us at the [...]

Chorus rehearsal

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

Denham

Trio Jazz Club 340 S Main Ave, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

https://www.fellowshipjazzcenter.orghttps://www.triojazzclub.com#fellowshipjazzcenter #triojazzclub #siouxfalls

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 Creatures Big & Small Art Exhibit

Creatures Big & Small Art Exhibit

Serendipity Studio Gallery & Gifts 230 S. Phillips Ave., Suite 204, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

Creatures Big & Small "Creatures Big and Small" is an immersive art exhibition that explores the vast spectrum of animals, real and imagined, that inhabit our world — from the tiniest insects to the most colossal beasts. Highlighting the interconnectedness of life on Earth, our collective imagination, and the urgent need to protect the biodiversity [...]

Free

From Poetry to Prose

Fryxell Humanities Center (Augustana), 2001 S Summit Ave, Sioux Falls Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States

How to make the jump in genres and why. This workshop is a hybrid writing workshop which features an informal conversation with Reese, an award-winning working writer. Reese provides workshop prompts to get you started writing and to delve into what matters most to you. Scholar: Jim Reese Sponsored by: Augustana University For more information, [...]

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