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ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA UPCOMING EVENTS
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February 12, 2025
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ARTS SOUTH DAKOTA ARTIST EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND
Opens August 19, 2024
2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, Pierre2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, Pierre2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, PierreThe Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System
Washington Pavilion 301 S Main Ave, Sioux Falls2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, PierreKatherine Davis Chapman Tillman – Yankton’s Prolific Lyric Poet and Race Writer
Brookings Public Library 3rd Street, Brookings2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, Pierre2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, PierreAberdeen University-Civic Symphony presents: Rhapsody in Red, White, and Blue
Johnson Fine Arts Center Lobby 101, Johnson Fine Arts Harvey and Cynthia Jewett Theatre 300, Johnson Fine Arts Stage 301, Johnson Fine Arts Center Vestibule 1002025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Ramkota Hotel & Conference Center 920 West Sioux Avenue, PierreDakota Wesleyan University Mid-Winter Concert
Dakota Wesleyan University - Sherman Center West University Avenue, MitchellWeek of Events
Amber Hanson Exhibition
Amber Hanson Exhibition
Event Locator: 2024-ACBART Join the Northern State University Art Department in welcoming an exhibit by Amber Hanson.
Imagined Horizons
Imagined Horizons
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
2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
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
Imagined Horizons
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
2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
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
Imagined Horizons
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
2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
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 [...]
2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
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
Imagined Horizons
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 [...]
Imagined Horizons
Imagined Horizons
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
2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
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
Imagined Horizons
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
2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
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
Imagined Horizons
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
2025 South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
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
The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System
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 [...]
Humanities Café – Fighting Climate Change & Caring for the Land: We’re All in this Together
Humanities Café – Fighting Climate Change & Caring for the Land: We’re All in this Together
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/
Poetry on the Road
Poetry on the Road
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 [...]
Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman – Yankton’s Prolific Lyric Poet and Race Writer
Katherine Davis Chapman Tillman – Yankton’s Prolific Lyric Poet and Race Writer
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>
AUDITIONS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
AUDITIONS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
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
AUDITIONS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
AUDITIONS: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
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 [...]
Poetry on the Road
Poetry on the Road
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 [...]
Aberdeen University-Civic Symphony presents: Rhapsody in Red, White, and Blue
Aberdeen University-Civic Symphony presents: Rhapsody in Red, White, and Blue
Event Locator: 2024-ACBARX Join the AUC Symphony with featured guest pianist, Jeffery Biegel as they perform Rhapsody in Red, White, and Blue. "Biegel, a prolific pianist with an extraordinary record of commissioning new works for piano and orchestra, commissioned Boyer to compose this new work in celebration of the centennial of George Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody [...]
Dakota Wesleyan University Mid-Winter Concert
Dakota Wesleyan University Mid-Winter Concert
Join the DWU community for a performance by the Ron and Sheilah Gates Department of Music, featuring: Wesleyan Treble Choir, The Highlanders, Dakota Wesleyan Community Choir, Wesleyan Band, Wesleyan Jazz Band, Wesleyan Bells.