UPCOMING EVENTS
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Lady Day - the Blues and Music of Billie Holiday
Presented by Rapid City Arts Council Friday, September 21 | 7:30pm John T. Vucurevich Event Center The JAS Quintet is joined by special guest Jami Lynn to explore the life and music of Billie Holiday. Hosted by Katrina Lehr-McKinney, we will discuss the life and blues, and play the music, of the iconic Lady Day. Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills, which made up for her limited range and lack of formal music education. The Jazz Curators series is dedicated to exploring the life, music, and history of the acclaimed jazz masters. The ensembles include musicians from the widely respected JAS Quintet, along with other premiere regional musicians, performing authentic takes on the master’s music while also sharing stories about the featured artist’s life and influence. Tickets: $25 non-members | $20 RCAC members | $10 students with ID >PURCHASE Event generously sponsored by DeMersseman Jensen Tellinghuisen & Huffman, LLP with support from Best Western Ramkota Hotel, HomeSlice Media Group and KEVN Black Hills FOX. |
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Fall Colors Art Studio Tour
Presented by the Fall Colors Art Studio Tour Committee Saturday, September 22, 10am - 6pm & Sunday, September 23, 10am - 4pm Nemo - Rapid City - Silver City - Hermosa - Keystone - Custer Fall Colors Art Studio Tour is a free, self-guided tour that will enhance your awareness of talented local artists while enriching the cultural life in the Black Hills. This juried art event, offers a unique opportunity for artists to gain further recognition, open their studio doors to the public, and to show and sell their work. Fall Colors Art Studio Tour fosters a greater understanding of the artistic process by providing the public with a unique opportunity to enter the world of the visual artist and experience how, why and where art is created. Read more about the participating artists and get the map downloads HERE. Supported in part by the Rapid City Arts Council. |
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Warrior Women
Presented by Warrior Women Sunday, September 23 | 1:30 - 5:30pm John T. Vucurevich Event Center Please join us for the first screening of Warrior Women in the Oceti Sakowin Homelands. The whole Warrior Women Film Team will be there with an awesome reception to follow! Robby Romero will also be sharing his long-form music video "Born on the Rez" before the film. In the 1970s, with the swagger of unapologetic Indianness, organizers of the American Indian Movement (AIM) fought for Native liberation as a community of extended families. Warrior Women is the story Madonna Thunder Hawk, one such AIM leader who cultivated a rag-tag gang of activist children - including her daughter Marcy - into a group called the "We Will Remember" survival group. Together, Madonna and Marcy fought for Native rights in an environment that made them more comrades than mother-daughter. Today, with Marcy now a mother herself, both women are still at the forefront of Native issues, fighting against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. Through their story, the film explores what it means to balance a movement with motherhood and how activist legacies are passed down from generation to generation in the face of a government that has continually met native resistance with mass violence. |
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WAVI Power of Purple
Presented by Working Against Violence, Inc. Wednesday, September 26 | 11:30am - 1pm John T. Vucurevich Event Center SAVE THE DATE! Join us for our annual Power of Purple event which kicks off October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. This is a free event to connect with community partners and agencies, build awareness, and educate the community about domestic violence. For more information call 605.341.3292 or email kristinas@wavi.org |
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Exhibit Closing Reception
Presented by Rapid City Arts Council Friday, September 28 | 5 - 7pm Ruth Brennan Gallery Join us in celebrating the finale of this wonderful exhibit! From the Heart: Land is a landscape photography exhibition from award-winning US photographer, Chuck Kimmerle. Kimmerle is most well-known for his black and white, stark and balanced images of subjects ranging from the western grasslands to the northern plains and the deserts of the southwest. More info HERE. |
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That's How We Roll 7
Presented by Rapid City Arts Council Friday, September 28 | 6:30 - 9pm John T. Vucurevich Event Center Lucky number seven - The Rapid City Arts Council's time honored, counter-culture art show, That's How We Roll Skateboard Art Show + Auction returns for it's seventh year! This one-night-only show will have 40+ skateboards re-imagined by local artists on display, and going up for auction with proceeds going to benefit youth arts education programming. North-Side legend, DJ Micah will return from taking out sucker DJ's and receiving his doctorate in North Dakota to lay down a wild set on the turntables. Nationally respected B-Boy duo Fernanrich will be on hand to perform, and our homegirl Crissy from Homeslice Media will be emceeing the event. All ages welcome. Admission is free! Bar is not. Don't forget - All skateboard decks returned by the deadline on Friday, September 21, by 5pm, will be included in the event! |
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October 4 Paint Party
Presented by Rapid City Arts Council Thursday October 4 | 6:30 - 9:30pm BankWest Classroom Spend three hours creating your masterpiece, with drinks, music and friends, as a local artist guides you and your crew step-by-step. It's okay if the last thing you painted was your walls, because fun is our only requirement! We provide the supplies; you bring your sense of humor and a few good friends. Registration $35. Register HERE. |
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Opening Reception: Painting the West | Aaron + Jenny Wuerker
Presented by Rapid City Arts Council Friday, October 5 | 5 - 7pm Ruth Brennan Gallery Husband and wife artists, Aaron and Jenny, have been painting the Wyoming landscape together for nearly 25 years. Though their approach is different, their search to define the iconic American landscape is the same. Join us for a reception highlighting the artists and their work. Artists' talk will take place at 6pm. More info HERE. |
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Frankenstein: Book Discussion
Presented by South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Wednesday, October 17 | 6 - 7pm | FREE Bruce H. Lien Cultural Cafe To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, students studying Gothic Literature at SDSM&T will lead a book discussion of the novel. All are welcome to attend from the well-read to the curious. If you've read the novel we hope you'll bring your copy along! We'll start at 6pm, but come a few minutes early to participate in Frankenreads, a reading of the novel. For more info, contact Laura Kremmel at 412.760.8442 or email laurarkremmel@gmail.com |
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October 18 Paint Party
Presented by Rapid City Arts Council Thursday October 18 | 6:30 - 9:30pm BankWest Classroom Spend three hours creating your masterpiece, with drinks, music and friends, as a local artist guides you and your crew step-by-step. It's okay if the last thing you painted was your walls, because fun is our only requirement! We provide the supplies; you bring your sense of humor and a few good friends. Registration $35. Register HERE. |
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The Goods
Presented by Rapid City Arts Council Friday, November 9 | 6 - 9:30pm Dahl Arts Center The best art party of the year! A festive and fanciful affair in support of the RCAC’s art programs, featuring an anonymous art exhibit and lottery drawing and artist reveal, art raffle, food and wine pairings, and entertainment! Sneak peek and sign up for artwork begins at 12 noon on Friday, October 26. |
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Holiday Art Market
Presented by Rapid City Arts Council Friday, November 16, 4 - 7pm & Saturday, November 17, 10am - 4pm Dahl Arts Center Back for the seventh year, the Holiday Art Market features over 30 vendors! So take a break from crowded stores and visit the Holiday Art Market at the Dahl Arts Center for a variety of unique, hand-made items from regional artists. This fun, festive event includes jewelry, scarves, greeting cards, books, pottery, fiber arts, paintings, photos, Native art, Christmas cards, ornaments, and more! Don't miss Pottery Row... by the Dahl's very own Open Pottery Studio participants! By shopping at the Holiday Art Market you are supporting our talented local artists and makers, as well as the Rapid City Arts Council’s programs. On Friday evening you’re invited to a joint opening reception for two fabulous exhibits; Dancing Demons by Charles Keeting Lassiter, and Unwrapped, a juried collection of small artworks by local artists, priced for gift giving. |
Weekly Events!
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Emerging Artists @ the Lien Cultural Cafe
FREE Every Friday | 5:30 - 7 pm Bruce H. Lien Cultural Cafe (Dahl Arts Center's Kansas City Street entrance) Kick-start your weekend! LIVE MUSIC, FREE admission, cash bar - Every Friday, 5:30 – 7pm in the Bruce H. Lien Cultural Café @ the Dahl. Celebrating the talents of Emerging Artists, and providing a nurturing place for them to be seen, to be heard, and to grow. See who is performing this week HERE |