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Paramount Presents Minneapolis Guitar Quartet
2022-05-15 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Chicago)
The Paramount Center for the Arts in St. Cloud is presenting the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet.
Virtuosic yet contemplative, propulsive yet intimate, the Minneapolis Guitar Quartet has captivated audiences throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. From J.S. Bach to Piazzolla to Prince, MGQ’s inventive and eclectic programs are enlivened by a bravado and synchronicity that have been honed through decades of classical training and concert experience.
The foursome builds an uncommon rapport with its audiences through its engaging stage presence and distinctive humor. The Minneapolis Guitar Quartet, along with guest flutist Linda Chatterton, will offer an exciting program on Sunday, May 15th starting at 3 p.m.
The concert is free, but you should secure your tickets ahead of time online.

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Modern Architecture and Concrete Repair Focus of Class at Mississippi River Home
2022-05-14 09:30 - 12:00
Do you own a mid-century modern home? Struggling with your casement windows? Got concrete that needs help?
Learn about all this at Mid-Century Modern: Concrete and More. The workshop will be held at a one-of-a-kind poured concrete structure home built in 1938-39 by St. Cloud residents, Colie and Naomi Guy. This early twentieth century art deco wonder is the perfect setting for a class on modernist architecture and concrete. Experience polished concrete floors, floor-to-ceiling round windows and a spiral staircase that leads to a large rec room in the lower level. Artists and horticulturalists, the Guys designed their home on the banks of the Mississippi River to be the “House-of-Tomorrow.”
This class will increase your knowledge of modernist architecture, its challenges and benefits, and will empower you to tackle a wide variety of repair and maintenance projects on your own.
The tour and class Saturday, May 14th, 9:30 am to noon.

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General admission for each class is $25. A Pay What You Can option is also available. Register at https://www.rethos.org/classes

Hops & History – “WWII: Pin-ups, Anchors, and Hearts”
2022-05-12 17:30 - 19:00
You’re invited to join the Stearns History Museum for Hops & History – “WWII: Pin-ups, Anchors, and Hearts” with Mitch Bender.
Join them in sipping on some local brews as Bender shares his knowledge on the influence of tattooing on American history. He is a professor at St. Cloud State University, where he has been teaching environmental studies since 2002.A s a pastime, Bender studies tattoo history and collects tattoo art and paraphernalia. His favorite era of American tattoo history spans WWI to the Vietnam War.
The next Hops and History will be at Third Streeet Brewhouse in Cold Spring on Thursday, May 12th starting at 5:30 p.m.

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Make sure to register ahead of time by calling the Museum at 320-253-8424 or emailing info@stearns-museum.org.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota’s 2022 Spring Showcase
2022-05-11 18:30 - 20:00
You’re invited to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota’s 2022 Spring Showcase & Donor Appreciation Event!
Whatever It Takes to Create is an exhibit and performance that reveals the strength and endurance of our youth during the pandemic. Their creative expressions in dance, visual arts and spoken word provide a strong message of hope and opportunity for our community.
Join them on Wednesday, May 11th at 6:30 p.m. at the Paramount Center for the Arts, or visit the exhibit in-person throughout the month of May.
This is a free event for the community.

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Breakfast Club with Ames Sheldon
2022-05-11 09:00 - 10:00
The Stearns History Month is hosting Breakfast Club witj author Ames Sheldon.
Sheldon is an award-winning author and she’ll be discussing her book Lemons in the Garden of Love. Sheldon writes the personal stories of two women, generations apart, but each struggling with how best to navigate decisions about how to live ones’ life. Coffee and rolls will be provided for attendees.
This program is at Stearns History Museum on Wednesday, May 11th from 9 -10 a.m.

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St. Cloud Municipal Band Concert
2022-05-09 19:00 - 20:30
The Paramount Visual Arts Center is hosting a concert with the St. Cloud Municipal Band.
Join the St. Cloud Municipal Band for an evening of toe tapping and hand clapping. Bring the family and enjoy music for kids and kids of all ages. You’ll hear songs from the radio, TV and movies as well as tunes for all to enjoy. The band is glad to be back at the Paramount once again!
The concert is Monday, May 9th starting at 7 p.m., students and children can attend for free, there is a cost for the general public.

David Huckfelt at Season Finale of Granite City Radio Theatre
2022-05-04 19:30 - 21:30
The season finale of KVSC’s Granite City Radio Theatre features musical guest David Huckfelt on Wednesday, May 4th live at the Pioneer Place Theatre in St. Cloud. You may know him from the critically acclaimed band The Pines. Since 2019 Huckfelt’s been creating and producing his own music.
David Huckfelt’s latest album ‘Room Enough, Time Enough’ is described as lyrical poetry, a new record of folk, Native Americana songs of activism that illustrate the power of song, inspiring perseverance.

May 4th show tickets are now on sale.
Granite City Radio Theatre is produced for a live audience and live for radio on 88.1FM and streamed online.
Granite City Radio Theatre host Jay Terry along with Heather and Mackenzie will have you laughing with their irreverent sketches, and the Shades Brigade drama is welcoming a new cast member, Shannan Paul, as they traverse the globe in a quest to stamp out evil doers. Dan Barth’s trivia challenge will have you both laughing and scratching your head at the same time.

A Walk Together – Uniting Against Sex Trafficking
2022-04-30 08:30 - 12:00
“A Walk Together – Uniting Against Sex Trafficking” is a fundraising/awareness walk that is taking place on Saturday, April 30th. This 4th annual event helps raise money for and bring awareness to the work of the Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center.
The Center provides services to survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation and other forms of sexual violence including child sex abuse. St. Cloud has been identified by survivors and local law enforcement as a “training hub” for prostitution in Minnesota. The Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center provides a safe environment where people of all ages and genders can heal from their trauma.
Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. on the day of the walk at Shear Dynamics Salon in Waite Park. At 9 a.m. walkers will begin the 3-mile course. Following the walk there will be educational tables, speakers and live music by back at Shear Dynamics.

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“Good People: A Photographic Exploration of Morrison County” Exhibit
2022-04-30 - 2022-08-31
The Morrison County Historical Society is presenting the exhibit: “Good People: A Photographic Exploration of Morrison County.”
Through photography, Anthony Marchetti examines questions that lack concrete answers. In 2018 he began photographing in Morrison County. Located in Minnesota’s geographic center, Morrison presents a stark contrast to the Minnesota he has known. In both 2016 and 2020, Trump’s margin of victory here ranked highest in the state. Monthly trips led to connections and preliminary photographic work. As he gained trust of residents on both sides of the political divide, he learned more about their lifestyles and values, passions and fears. To date, the work consists of portraits and photographs of place such as small towns, quarries and pastoral landscapes.
The exhibit will be on display at the museum until December 31.

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St. Cloud Area Genealogists Event at Stearns History Museum
2022-04-18 19:00 - 20:30
You’re invited to join the St. Cloud Area Genealogists for a presentation from Mary Kircher Roddy called “FamilyBrowse: A New Way to Use FamilySearch.org.”
Kircher-Roddy is a certified Genealogist, is also a Certified Public Accountant. She lectures across the US, and is a regular presenter for Legacy Family Tree webinars.
She’ll show participants how to effectively use the online catalog (FamilySearch.org) and browse records that are not easily found through conventional methods.
The presentation is Tuesday, April 19 at 7 p.m. at Stearns History Museum. The presentation will be offered synchronously online.

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To sign up/register, please contact Brendon Duffy at duffyroots@gmail.com or 320-237-3023.

Breakfast Club with Stearns History Museum
2022-04-13 09:00 - 10:00
The Stearns History Museum is taking their Breakfast Club program on the road.
They’re heading to the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at St. John’s University in Collegeville to connect with Tim Ternes. He’s the director of programming and the St. John’s Bible. You’ll hear and see first-hand about this project that has captured world-wide attention.
Breakfast Club is Thursday, April 13th starting at 9 a.m.

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Nature Interrupted Exhibit with Erik Jon Olson
2022-04-13 - 2022-05-31
The Paramount Center for the Arts is presenting the exhibit Nature Interrupted with featured artist Erik Jon Olson.
Olson uses quilted plastic waste to examine the effects that consumerism, mass consumption and particularly the use of plastic have on our climate, water ways and wildlife. Each piece is constructed of eight to twelve layers of machine quilted and surged, previously used, single-use plastic. The “batting” consists of used pallet wrap. The thread is left-over from garment manufacturing. By layering environmental issues with social justice messaging, his art emphasizes our alienation from the environment and each other, our willingness to waste, and our subsequent need for healing.
The exhibit is on display Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Paramount’s Lobby through the end of May

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Volleyball Camp at SCSU for Girls and Boys
2022-04-12 - 2022-06-14
The St. Cloud State volleyball team is hosting a series of summer camps for boys and girls.
The Huskies Skills camp for boys and girls grades 4-9 will focus on the development of the six basic skills of volleyball. Campers will have the opportunity to apply the skills learned through instruction during camp with various games, competitions and 6-on-6 play and will be separated based on skill level.
The Elite Positional Camp is for high school students grades 9-12. The elite camp is designed for campers with varsity and/or club volleyball playing experience or are thinking of playing at the collegiate level and will include specific time for positional work while also working in a team setting to work on teamwork and general skills in team competition.
The Team camp is an opportunity for high school teams to improve their skills both as a collective unit and individually, as the camp provides structured drills both in a team and individual setting.
The camps are taking place in late July.

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What's Our Story? Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Minnesota
2022-03-29 18:30 - 19:30
KVSC radio along with campus partners at St. Cloud State University are welcoming author Chris Stark and her presentation What’s Our Story? Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Minnesota.
Stark is an educator and author, who’s recent book Carnival Lights has been nominated for a Minnesota book award. She serves on the governor’s task force on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in Minnesota and is an educator in gender violence prevention.
Her book explores inter-generational love that allows a family and other Native people to survive and overcome attempted genocide.
The presentation is free and open to the campus and community on Tuesday, March 29th beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Atwood Memorial Center’s Theater. Co-sponsors include the Women’s Center, American Indian Center, the Multicultural Resource Center and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education.

For George: Portraits of the Movement Exhibit
2022-03-28 - 2022-05-09
The College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University are presenting For George: Portraits of the Movement.
This is a collection of portraits and interviews by South Minneapolis photographer John Steitz. Living less than a mile from what would later come to be known as George Floyd Square, Steitz spent much of the Summer of 2020 at the intersection of 38th and Chicago, listening to the stories of those who gathered there to mourn and demonstrate. This project seeks to celebrate and amplify the voices of the individual people who joined together in difficult times to build community and demand change.
The exhibit is now on view at the Benedicta Arts Center Gorecki Gallery at CSB during gallery hours through May 9th.

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Shannon Curfman Joins KVSC's Granite City Radio Theatre
2022-03-23 19:30 - 21:30
Electric and commanding performer Shannon Curfman is our musical guest for the spring episode of Granite City Radio Theatre at the Pioneer Place Theater on Wednesday, March 23rd at 7:30 p.m. Come join the show full of blues-rockin’ music, radio noir drama, laugh out loud skits and the trivia challenge!
Between Curfman’s songwriting, her saucy, bluesy and demanding vocals and her scorching lead guitar Shannon is not to be missed. She has performed and toured with everyone from Willie Nelson and Carlos Santana to The Indigo Girls and Keb Mo’ to John Mellencamp and Koko Taylor and is a sizzlin’ guitarist and singer with Kid Rock’s band.The world’s best back-up band, Collective Unconscious, is back bring you the bluesiest, rockiest show!
Granite City Radio Theatre host Jay Terry along with Heather and Mackenzie will have you laughing with their irreverent sketches, and the Shades Brigade drama is welcoming a new cast member, Shannan Paul, as they traverse the globe in a quest to stamp out evil doers. Dan Barth’s trivia challenge will have you both laughing and scratching your head at the same time.

Radio: We have a link to ticket information at KVSC.org, visit the Area Events page.
March 23 show tickets are now on sale.

Huskies Job & Internship Fair
2022-03-23 12:00 - 15:00
The Huskies Job and Internship Fair will be held on Wednesday, March 23rd at St. Cloud State University.
The fair attracts employers from various industries including business, healthcare, communication, government, non-profits, science, technology and more!
Employers are eager to collaborate to create pathways to post-graduation employment and career success for our students.
The Job Fair is free to all students and alumni – all majors and no registration required. It will take place in the Atwood Center Ballroom from noon to 3 p.m.

Radio: We have more details on the Area Events page at KVSC.org.

Women on Wednesday: Beyond the Label: Women & Disability
2022-03-23 12:00 - 13:00
St. Cloud State University’s Women’s Center is featuring the Women on Wednesday series this semester. An upcoming presentation is Beyond the Label: Women & Disability.

This session considers the labors of women and non-binary people living with disabilities. Panelists will offer their experiences navigating both invisibility and hypervisibility, working through labyrinthine systems and expectations to access basic support resources, and carrying the weight of educating everyone from peers to supervisors to care providers.
Panelists from Beyond the Label, a disability advocacy and outreach program created by Student Accessibility Services with the goal of fostering a climate of disability awareness and inclusion on campus
Women on Wednesday is March 23rd in the Atwood Center Theater from 12 – 1 p.m. Please follow campus safety protocols when you attend.

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Ring of Kerry Concert
2022-03-19 19:30 - 21:00
The Paramount Center for the Arts is hosting their annual concert with Ring of Kerry, to help celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.
The concert is called “Just Post Paddy’s Concert” and will feature the Eilís Academy of Irish Dance.
Ring of Kerry is partly known for its musical arrangements which are developed to be interesting, driving, sometimes gently evocative, other times made for dance, and now and again push the limits of the traditional instruments on which they are played. Eilís Academy of Irish Dance features world champion step dancers who roar onto stage in full Celtic costume.
The concert on Saturday, March 19th starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Paramount Center for the Arts.

Radio: We have more information on the Area Events page of KVSC.org.

BONGA: A Fur Trade Family Saga
2022-03-19 11:00 - 12:00
The Morrison County Historical Society is hosting BONGA: A Fur Trade Family Saga.
In the 1790’s, Pierre BONGA, on record as the earliest person of African descent in Minnesota, worked for the Northwest Fur Company in Grand Portage, MN, a few miles south of the Canadian Border, and in the Red River Valley. He married an Ojibwe woman. Their son George was born in 1802 at present-day Duluth. Like his father, he spoke several Indian languages, as well as English and French, and acted as an interpreter.
Join historical reenactor Joel Brown on Saturday, March 19th at the Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum at 11 a.m. as he presents the thrilling saga of BONGA, a fur trade family of mixed heritage.
This event is free, but registration is required.

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Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus with GREAT Theatre
2022-03-19 10:00 - 15:00
GREAT Theatre is presenting the musical Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.
To bus or not to bus? That is the question. The answer to that question can be found in the production of Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! The Musical! An energetic, hot-dog filled production about a determined Pigeon- who never gets to do ANYTHING! But when Pigeon’s friendly, neighborhood Bus Driver is troubled by something that threatens to make their passengers late, maybe Pigeon CAN do something.
The show is on Saturday, March 19th at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m, both in-person and live streamed.

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The Queer's Guide to Country Music
2022-03-15 19:30 - 21:00
St. Cloud State University’s departments of Communication Studies & Theatre & Film Studies
For a queer kid from the South, country music can be a contentious thing—you love it and hate it. You learn from it yet resent it. It is family and tradition and all the complicated feelings that come with. Country music is home.
This is a one person show created and performed by Dr. Colin Whitworth, a visiting Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Communication.The Queer’s Guide to Country Music wrestles with the history of the genre to ask what it means, how it’s understood, and who is left behind by popular conceptions of country music history. Conversation with Dr. Whitworth will follow the performance.

The performance is Tuesday, March 15 at the Arena Stage of the Performing Arts Center starting at 7:30 p.m,. It’s free and open to the public.

Hops and History with Stearns History Museum
2022-03-15 17:30 - 19:00
The Stearns History Museum is hosting their next Hops and History event with a theme of Prairie Madness.
Join Caitlin Carlson and Eric Cheever at Pantown Brewing in St. Cloud as they dig into the history of prairie madness to find out how common it was, or even true, during the homesteading years of the Great Plains.
Hops and History starts at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 15th. Participants are asked to pre-register.

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Call 320-253-8424 or email info@stearns-museum.org

“Violin 101” with Elizabeth York at the Paramount in St. Cloud
2022-03-13 15:00 - 16:00
The Paramount Center for the Arts in St. Cloud is hosting Elizabeth York and “Violin 101.”
Come and enjoy a free concert with violinist Elizabeth York. York will perform works for solo violin and talk about the pieces chosen for this program and about the featured composers. The performance run time is about 60 minutes with no intermission. Please call the Paramount Box Office to reserve your seat: 320-259-5463.
York lives in St. Paul and is active as a performer and teacher across the region. She is currently Associate Concertmaster of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and performs on baroque violin with the Lyra Baroque Orchestra. She is on faculty at the College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University.
“Violin 101” is Sunday, March 13th starting at 3 p.m.

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The performance run time is about 60 minutes with no intermission. Please call the Paramount Box Office to reserve your seat: 320-259-5463.

Masters of Soul at Paramount Theatre
2022-03-11 19:30 - 21:00
The Paramount Center for the Arts in St. Cloud is hosting The Masters of Soul.
Masters of Soul is a celebration of the legendary songs and performers that defined Motown and soul music. For many, Masters of Soul is the ultimate stroll down memory lane. For younger generations, the show offers an opportunity to experience an era in our country’s history that produced many of the greatest music acts ever recorded.
The concert is Friday, March 11th starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Paramount in St. Cloud.

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'Junctures' on display in Kiehle Gallery at SCSU
2022-03-10 - 2022-03-30
The Kiehle Visual Arts Gallery at St. Cloud State University is hosting an exhibit called Junctures this month.
“Junctures” by Megan Vossler and her featured works in the exhibit bridge the span between pre- and late-pandemic life, exploring this uncertain time through three different subjects: water, the sky and everyday domestic objects.
For example the work “Untitled (Days)” consists of 365 watercolor paintings, one made each day over the span of one year and is exhibited for the first time in its entirety. The exhibit is on display during gallery hours through March 30th.
**The Department of Art will hold a live-stream viewing event of the Twin Cities artist’s talk in the gallery at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. The talk is open to the public.

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Megan Vossler Artist Talk Zoom Link
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Belle Prairie Seminary: Formal Education in Indian Country in the New Minnesota Territory
2022-03-05 10:30 - 12:00
The Morrison County Historical Society is hosting the event Belle Prairie Seminary: Formal Education in Indian Country in the New Minnesota Territory.
Linda Louise Bryan is an independent scholar with an focus on Belle Prairie, the village just north of Little Falls that was founded at the time Minnesota Territory was also founded. The lives and times of the founding Ayers family are the subject of her research into the complicated history of Ojibwe country in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the mid-19th Century. Bryan will discuss the Ayer school at Belle Prairie and its place within the larger history of white settlement, certain protestant missions, Winnebago and Ojibwe treaties, and the waning Indian trade.
The presentatation is at the Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum on Friday, March 5th starting at 10:30 a.m. This event is free and open to the public, though pre-registration is required. Both in-person and Zoom options are available.

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The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, 2151 Lindbergh Dr S, Little Falls MN, 56345 or via Zoom.
Free, but registration is required. Call (320)632-4007 or email staff@morrisoncountyhistory.org to register.
Masks required at the in-person event.

Paramount Present Irish Band Goitse
2022-03-04 19:30 - 21:00
The Paramount Center for the Arts is presenting the Irish-Gaelic band Goitse (go-witcha).
The popular and multi-award-winning quintet Goitse (go-witcha) was forged in the creative land of Limerick’s Irish World Academy. Named Live Ireland’s “Traditional Group of the Year” the band has become a leader of the new generation of traditional Irish ensembles.
Their distinctive sound lies in the quality of their own compositions interspersed with traditional tunes from the countryside of Ireland and abroad, which make each performance unique.
Their performance is Friday, March 4th at the Paramount Center for the Arts in St. Cloud, starting at 7:30 p.m.

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Reefer Madness: The Musical Auditions
2022-03-02 19:00 - 21:00
Divergent Stars Theatre Company, part of the Central MN Theatre, is proud to present auditions for Kevin Murphy & Dan Studney’s “Reefer Madness: The Musical”
The musical is about how a clean-cut kid from a stand-up American family falls prey to marijuana, his descent into the pit is filled with jazz, sex and violence. This pointed poltical satire will go straight to your head!
The auditions will take place Tuesday, March 1st and Wednesday, March 2nd from 7 – 9 p.m. at The Red Carpet on the Main Stage. You must be 18 and older to audition.

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Canadian Brass with Organist Greg Zelek at CSB-SJU
2022-02-26 20:00 - 21:30
The CSB-SJU Fine Arts Series is presenting Canadian Brass with Organist Greg Zelek.
As one of the most popular brass ensembles performing today, Canadian Brass has truly earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group.”
This virtuoso quintet performs energetic, engaging concerts that take on everything from big brass standards, jazz, baroque, ragtime and pop. Their dedication and musicianship and sheer love of the music shine through their live performances and create an infectious enthusiasm in audiences. This evening will also feature organist Greg Zelek on the newly expanded Saint John’s Abbey Church pipe organ. Zelek is the principal organist for the Madison Symphony Orchestra.
The music starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, February 26th a the Abbey and University Church at St. John’s University.

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