Calendar
*Events which SMAC panel members and/or SMAC Board members can attend for evaluation are in green italics.
Remaining September SMAC Funded Events:
September 18, 5 pm, SMAC Equipment & Facilities Improvement grant panel meeting by conference call. Questions? Contact SMAC staff: 800-622-5284, 507-537-1471, www.swmnarts.org, https://www.facebook.com/swmnarts/, info@swmnarts.org.
September 18, 5:30-7:30 pm, SMAC Grants information Session, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council, 114 N 3rd St, Marshall. SMAC Staff will be there to answer your questions in person about our grant programs and application process for ALL our grants. Session is free, but registration is required, you can do so here. Contact our office with questions or to register, info@swmnarts.org, 800-622-5284.
September 20, 5-7 pm, Artist Reception for Kerry Kolke-Bonk, Marshall Fine Arts Council, 109 N 3rd St #1, Marshall. “You Know What You Can Do”, artwork by Kerry Kolke-Bonk, exhibit runs September 4 through October 12, 2018. MAFAC gallery hours are T-Fr 12-5:30 pm. www.mafac.net, 507-532-5463, mafac.arts@gmail.com.
September 25, 7 pm, SMAC Board Meeting, 114 N 3rd St, Marshall. Grant awards to be determined: Equipment & Facilities Improvement grants. Questions? Contact SMAC staff: 800-622-5284, 507-537-1471, www.swmnarts.org, https://www.facebook.com/swmnarts/, info@swmnarts.org.
September 29, 9-11 am, Marshall Area Farmers Market Performance, 200 S A St, Marshall. This Saturday features Red Hat Gypsy, which consists of Sue Schreier, Santiago Costanza, Rick Johnson, and James Vanderwaal. They play Toe tapping music from the 20’s and30”s, and some bit newer . Contact: 507-537-1416.
September 29, 1-4 pm, Southwest Minnesota Arts Council (SMAC) hosts An Arts Day in Ortonville, various studio locations, Ortonville. As part of SMAC’s Annual Celebration being held in Ortonville, we are also working with the town for some studio arts tours! Please click here to learn more. Be sure to check out the annual celebration below~we would love to see you at both events!! Contact our office with questions, info@swmnarts.org, 800-622-5284.
September 29, 1-8 pm, SMAC Annual Celebration, Off the Green Restaurant & Bar, 145 Golf Course Rd, Ortonville. Social Hour begins at 4:00pm at OFF THE GREEN, the clubhouse at the picturesque Ortonville Golf Club. At 5pm SMAC will host a brief annual meeting, an award ceremony for 2018 SMAC Prairie Star Travis Erickson and Prairie Disciple Leann Atchison, and you will have the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for our annual “Spirit of the Region” raffle. Stick around to enjoy a delicious meal served by OFF THE GREEN catering. During dinner enjoy the musical talents of “Brothers 2,” Lee & Don Kanten, who have been inducted into the MidAmerica Music Hall of Fame. Socialize and celebrate with artists and arts supporters across the Southwest Minnesota region and learn about the grants and activities SMAC has funded in the past year. You must pre-register for the meal, which costs $25 a ticket. All other events are free. Click here for more information and to register! You may also contact our office with questions or to register, info@swmnarts.org, 800-622-5284.
October SMAC Funded Events:
October 1, 4:30 pm, SMAC Monthly Organization Grants Due. Art Legacy Project Planning grants, Arts Organization Development grants, and Arts Organization Start Up grants. Questions? Contact SMAC staff: 800-622-5284, 507-537-1471, www.swmnarts.org, https://www.facebook.com/swmnarts/, info@swmnarts.org.
October 2, 5:30-7:30 pm, SMAC Grants information Session, Willmar Area Arts Council/The Barn Theatre, 321 4th St SW, Willmar. SMAC Staff will be there to answer your questions in person about our grant programs and application process for ALL our grants. Session is free, but registration is required, you can do so here. Contact our office with questions or to register, info@swmnarts.org, 800-622-5284.
October 5, 6 & 7, Upper MN River Meander Art Crawl, Various Locations along the Upper MN River. October 5th: 12-6 pm, October 6: 9am-6pm, October 7: 9am-4pm. The Meander Upper Minnesota River Art Crawl is a tour of artists’studios and galleries in Chippewa, Big Stone, Swift, Yellow Medicine, and Lacqui Parle counties. The three-day event involves the nine communities ofClinton, Ortonville, Odessa, Appleton, Danvers, Milan, Dawson, Montevideo, andGranite Falls. For more information: http://www.artsmeander.com/
October 6, 9-11 am, Marshall Area Farmers Market Performance, 200 S A St, Marshall. This Saturday features DaMakotaYouth Drummers and Dancers – A group of youth from the Upper Sioux who perform in traditional dress. Contact: 507-537-1416.
October 7, 4 pm, 7th Avenue with Chris Rupp Performance, Schwan Community Center for the Performing Arts, 400 Tiger Dr, Marshall. Part of the 2018-2019 Marshall Area Fine Arts Council‘s performance series. Contact: 507-532-5463, karen@mafacarts.org.
October 10, 4:30 pm, SMAC Arts in the Schools Round I Deadline. Questions? Contact SMAC staff: 800-622-5284, 507-537-1471, www.swmnarts.org, https://www.facebook.com/swmnarts/, info@swmnarts.org.
October 12, SMAC Offices and Gallery is closed for staff training.
October 13, 7 pm, Benny Weinbeck Trio, Blue Note Bar & Ballroom, 320 3rd St S, Winsted. Bringing it All Back Home, an evening with the Benny Weinbeck Trio. The trio will perform their original music and Jazz standards. http://winstedartscouncil.org/
October 16, 5 pm, SMAC Monthly Grants Conference Call Panel Meeting, 114 N 3rd St, Marshall. Contact SMAC staff: 800-622-5284, 507-537-1471, info@swmnarts.org.
October 23, 7 pm, SMAC Board Meeting, 114 N 3rd St, Marshall. Grant awards to be determined: Equipment & Facilities Improvement grants. Questions? Contact SMAC staff: 800-622-5284, 507-537-1471, www.swmnarts.org, https://www.facebook.com/swmnarts/, info@swmnarts.org.
October 25, 8am-2pm, Annual Conference for Young Artists, Southwest Minnesota State Unversity, 1501 State St, Marshall. For all students in grades K-8, but must be registered by October 3rd. Register online: https://www.swsc.org/Page/830. This conference nourishes students’ creative and artistic talents by exposing them to a variety of visual, fine and performing arts in hopes to spark interests or open doors to potential higher education and career opportunities. Students are inspired by the talented and knowledgeable presenters who work with them during hands-on learning sessions.
October 25, 7pm, A World of Music, The Estebo Performing Arts Center, Redwood Valley High School, 100 George Ramseth Dr, Redwood Falls. 2-hour public concert featuring original music inspired by many different cultures in the Middle East, Central Asia, Far East and South America performed on over 30 acoustic string, flute and percussion instruments while using a 15-channel looping system for a sophisticated “one-man-band” effect.
October 26, 7:30pm, SMO: Making Music in Marshall, Schwan Center for the Performing Arts, 400 Tiger Dr, Marshall. To celebrate the Southwest Minnesota Orchestra’s approaching 50th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of Dr. Daniel Rieppel being named SMO’s fifth Director of Music, this is a concert to reflect those themes of anniversary and the marking of time. The concert will feature music of Mozart, Whitcomb, Rieppel and Johannes Brahms. https://www.southwestminnesotaorchestra.org/
Early November SMAC Funded Events:
November 1, 4:30 pm, SMAC Monthly Organization Grants Due. Art Legacy Project Planning grants, Arts Organization Development grants, and Arts Organization Start Up grants. Questions? Contact SMAC staff: 800-622-5284, 507-537-1471, www.swmnarts.org, https://www.facebook.com/swmnarts/, info@swmnarts.org.
November 1, 7 pm, A World of Music, Willmar Education and Arts Center (WEAC), 611 5th St SW, Willmar. Public performance with Global Multi-Instrumentalist Todd Green. The public concert will feature original music inspired by many different cultures in the Middle East, Central Asia, Far East and South America on over 30 string, flute and percussion instruments.
November 2-4, Nov. 2 at 2 pm & Nov. 3 & 4 at 7 pm, Eden Valley-Watkins Community Ed production of Snoopy musical, Eden Valley-Watkins School, 298 Brooks St N, Eden Valley. Community musical production in the Peps Neuman Gym.
November 3, 9am, SMAC Arts in the Schools grant panel meeting. Questions? Contact SMAC staff: 800-622-5284, 507-537-1471, www.swmnarts.org, https://www.facebook.com/swmnarts/, info@swmnarts.org.
November 3, 7 pm, Willmar Area Symphonic Orhestra’s “War and Peace” concert, Willmar Education & Arts CEnter, 611 5th St SW, Willmar. The Orchestra will commemorate the events of 1914-1918 with two works created during and in memory of World War I. WASO is pleased to welcome back Minnesota Orchestra Cellist, Pitnarry Shin for a performance of Elgar’s work that is darkly reflective of the human cost of all war and this one in particular. While Holst’s piece has a rather more optimist outlook, created as it was at the beginning of the War. Both works reflect in music the hopes, dreams, and bitter disappointments violent human conflict brings.
November 3, 7:30 pm, Prairie Arts Chorale “Mass Potpourri”, Bunde Reformed Church, 5088 14oth Ave SE, Clara City. The Fall 2018 theme for the Prairie Arts Chorale will be “Mass Potpourri”. Featured will be different sections from Masses written by various composers. https://www.facebook.com/PrairieArtsChorale/ or http://www.prairieartschorale.org