St. Croix ArtBarn
Looking Back/Moving Forward 2008 Season
note: the children's play starts with ArtBarn ActCamp JULY 14-25!

SEASON 2008 WEATHERVANE

October 23-25 ArtBarn Theatre presents Jeff Daniel’s hunting comedy, Escanaba in da Moonlight, THEATRE 7:30. When the Soady clan reunites for the opening day of deer season at the family’s  Upper Peninsula camp, history of the Soady’s never to bag a buck.  A hunting story to beat all hunting stories, it is a hilarious take   of humor, horror, & heart as Reuben goes to any & all lengths to remove himself from the wrong end of  the family record book. 
November 7,8
November 14,15
November 21,22
ArtBarn Theatre continues run of the hunting comedy, Escanaba in da Moonlight, by  Jeff Daniels. All shows at The SPACE, 156 High Street, New Richmond, WI  21, 22  Call 715-246-3180 or visit www.thespaceforcreativity.com  theatre tickets at the space $15.
December 20, 21  Traditional Christmas Show.  Join weaver, Emily McGuire & painter, James Wilcox Dimmers for their annual art show in the ArtBarn Gallery. Hours:  Saturday & Sunday, 10 AM-4 PM
ArtBarn’s mission is to provide a home in the St. Croix Valley for artistic excellence and a focal point for the exploration and enjoyment of the arts. ArtBarn is acommunity based 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.  Check Back for updates.  All program changes will be posted here.
Theatre  prices:  $12 adults, $10 seniors (65) , $8 students At ArtBarn.  Dinner theatre and tickets at THE SPACE to be determined.
ArtCamp fees:  $100 per week or $85 per week with a tax-deductible $35 family membership. ArtExplosion! Day donation:  $5 per person/no family rates.
ArtBarn ActCamp Two-week camp fees are $100 for ArtBarn members with a tax-deductible $35 family membership; $150 for non-members.  NOTE: THE $100 OR $150, COVERS BOTH WEEKS ATTENDANCE.  THERE IS NO SINGLE WEEK OF CAMP OFFERED.
Class fees vary depending on the course and materialAll events are held at St. Croix ArtBarn, 1040 Oak Ridge Drive, one block east WI State Highway 35, across from the Osceola Middle School unless otherwise noted.  Please visit the ArtBarn website at www.stcroixartbarn.com or call 715-294-2787 for ticket information, event changes and updates as well as membership and volunteer opportunities. 
ArtBarn mailing address is PO Box 37, Osceola, WI   54020 
 
 

ArtBarn 2007  Imagine CALENDAR
PICTURES OF PAST EVENTS
SEASON 2007 WEATHERVANE



 

St. Croix ArtBarn
Looking Back/Moving Forward 2008 Season
note: the children's play starts with ArtBarn ActCamp JULY 14-25!

SEASON 2008 WEATHERVANE

quick print season brochure

NOTE: BELOW IS THE FULL CALENDAR

March 10 St. Croix ArtBarn Theatre, Osceola, will hold auditions for the intergenerational musical, Smoke on the Mountain, on Monday, March 10, at 6:30 PM, in the ArtBarn lobby
April 8  ArtBarn WorkDay & Meeting begins 3:30 PM with meeting at 6 PM.  Learn about the 2008 seasonpress release
April 24, 25, 26 
May 1,2,3
ArtBarn Theatre presents Smoke on the Mountain, a musical adventure, written by Connie Ray & conceived by Alan Bailey, 7:30 PM. The year is 1938. It's Saturday night in Mount Pleasant, NC, & the Reverend Oglethorpe has invited the Sanders Family Singers to help him provide an upliftin' evening of singin' & witnessin'. More than two dozen songs & hilarious stories from the more or less devout singers provide an entertaining evening that will have audiences clapping, singing, laughing & cheering.
Smoke on the Mountain PICTURES
April 26-27 11th Annual Friends Show.   Join jewelers, Dina & Leo Lisovskis; weaver, Emily McGuire; & painterJames Wilcox Dimmers for their annual art show in the ArtBarn Gallery. Hours:  Saturday & Sunday, 10 AM-4 PM
April 30 ArtBarn Theatre AUDITIONS for Sara De Luca’s award winning, intergenerational childhood memoir, Dancing the Cows Home,
6:30 PM.   Evening rehearsals; performances mid-late June.
May 6 The B.O.W.L. Project Heifer Celebration 7 PM. Join 27 Osceola High School students as they present their findings after participating in the week-long Heifer International Global Passport program, where they experienced hunger & poverty, as millions in the world do. Students will present in various forms: artwork, music, technology. Free will donation to benefit Heifer International
May 7 The B.O.W.L. Project: 7th Annual Empty Bowls Event, Osceola High School Commons, doors open at 5 PM. Over 500 Osceola students involved! Donate a minimum of $10 & receive a pottery piece made by Osceola students. Rice meal served at 5:15 PM, presentation in OHS auditorium at 6 PM. T-shirts, silent auction of artwork and raffles. Let your pottery bowl be a reminder of all the Empty Bowls in the world. All proceeds benefit Heifer International & Osceola Open Cupboard.
May 11 ArtBarn Theatre auditionsfor The Book of Liz, 6:30- 8 PM
Evening rehearsals; performances in July at ArtBarn and The SPACE, New Richmond
May  TBD Osceola High School Give Back Day Community Service Project, 9 AM-3 PM.
June-August Art classes for teens & adults will be offered.  Classes will be posted on this calendar when information is available.
June 2-27  5th annual ArtBarn ArtCamp 2008, 12 PM-4 PM.  ArtBarn hosts four weeks of art & camping adventures!  Each week experienced artists will offer a different full range of techniques &  processes including ceramics, painting, sketching, mural work, singing, dancing, & more! Each activity is an opportunity to learn something new, improve a skill, and make new friends.  Space is limited!  Register early!   ArtBarn members $85 per week with a tax-deductible $35 ArtBarn family membership; non-members $100 per week. This year ArtCamp is available for students entering grades 2-7.  Registration form

Week 1 JUNE 2-6: Moving Forward:  This Land is Your Land This week campers will be traveling, camping & creating art at different parks across the United States: Pennsylvania, home of the Liberty Bell; South Dakota's Mount Rushmore; the Great Lakes; an American coastline; New York’s Niagara Falls as well as the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands. 

Week 2 JUNE 9-13: Looking Backward: Traveling Back in Time This week all fair maidens & knights are transported back to the glory, chivalry and valor of  Medieval Times designing & creating crowns, castles, family coat of arms, & prints while defending their domain & slaying dragons. 

Week 3 JUNE 16-20 Moving Forward: Traveling to the Outer Limits Before rocketing off to outer space to  encounter alien forces, campers design & create transporting rockets, helmets & airpacks.

Week 4 JUNE 23-27 Moving Forward & Looking Backward:  You Are The World Campers recognize the international celebrations of the Day of the Dead, Chinese New Year, Carnivals, May Day, &  everyone’s personal favorite—birthdays!

Each week includes ArtBarn’s own ArtAttack & Sketch n’Stretch, music, games, snacks &  ArtExtravaganza! closing program
POSTER

June 14 ArtBarn ArtFair & Savor the Valley, 10 AM-5PM.  Indulge your senses at ArtBarn’s 3rd annual art fair in the ArtBarn gallery & groves as local artists offer original art for sale & area restaurants & food vendors prepare tantalizing treats.  Poster.
Live music throughout the day  2008 ArtBarn  Fine ArtFair Registrations
June 20, 21, 22 Dance again! ArtBarn Theatre restages Sara De Luca’s childhood memoir Dancing the Cows Home, 7 PM. Minnesota Historical Society's award winning bestseller returns to the St. Croix Valley to celebrate Minnesota's Sesquicentennial!  Revisit De Luca’s tender & candid memories of life growing up on a Wisconsin dairy farm. All performances under the big top at Gammelgarden Museum, Scandia, Minnesota.  The author will be present. Dinner available. Call 651-433-5053 or visit www.gammelgardenmuseum.org for more information.
June 25-28  ArtBarn Theatre continues run of Sara De Luca’s Dancing the Cows Home, 7:30 PM, on the ArtBarn stage.
June 24  ArtBarn Theatre auditions for Ole & Lena’s Wedding, 6:30-8 PM, Evening rehearsals; mid-late August & September performances at ArtBarn and The SPACE, New Richmond.
July 10-

August 14

Osceola Mainstreet Chamber Music in the Park Concert Series, 7 PM ON THURSDAYS  Mill Pond Park, Osceola, free admission; concessions available.
July 10-12  ArtBarn Theatre presents the Amy Sedaris & David Sedaris witty & off-beat comedy, The Book of Liz, 7:30 PM. Sister Elizabeth Donderstock lives in a strict religious community of the Squeamish. Although her famous cheese balls have kept the sequestered community afloat for many years, a young upstart insists on commandeering her recipe & taking over. Devastated, Liz runs away & ventures into the unknown outside world where she meets a Ukrainian immigrant with a Cockney accent dressed as Mr. Peanut, a slew of recovering alcoholic restaurant workers & an unorthodox doctor in favor of leech treatments.
July 14-25 ArtBarn ActCamp 2008
July 14-25 Replacing ArtBarn’s traditional children’s musical this year, ArtBarn ActCamp 2008 offers two weeks of theatre camp experiences, 9 AM-noon.  This camp focuses on aspiring young thespians, ages 8 through high school, exploring movement, vocal expression, character development, auditioning, rehearsing & theatre games. In addition to focusing on performance, campers are exposed to basic technical theatre including stagecraft, lighting, sound, costuming & makeup.  No prior theatre experience is needed. The camp culminates with evening performances of The Gillygaloo, July 25-26 & July 31, August 1 & 2 at 7 pm. Two-week camp fees are $100 for ArtBarn members with a tax-deductible $35 family membership; $150 for non-members.

Have you even seen or heard a  Gillygaloo?  What about a Hodag, a Jackelope, or a Splinter Cat?   Inspired by the tales told by the loggers of pioneer days, let your creative minds & imagination run free as you encounter these mythical creatures from the Northwoods of 100 years ago. Registration form
 

July 17-19
July 24-26
ArtBarn Theatre continues run of comedy,The Book of Liz, 7:30 PM, at The SPACE,  a centre for creativity, 156 High Street, New Richmond, WI.  Call 715-246-3180 or visit  www.thespaceforcreativity.com  Tickets, $15.
July 25, 26, 31
August 1 & 2
ArtBarn Theatre presents The Gillygaloo, 7 PM. Have you even seen or heard a Gillygaloo? 
August 1 & 2 What about a Hodag, a Jackelope, or a Splinter Cat?   Inspired by the tales told by the loggers of pioneer days, let your creative minds & imagination run free as you encounter these mythical creatures from the Northwoods of 100 years ago.
August 22-23 
August 29-30
September 12-13
ArtBarn Theatre presents the interactive dinner theatre comedy, Ole & Lena’s Wedding, 6:30 PM.  You’re invited! Ole Olafsson Jr’s family is Norwegian & Lena Handspringinen’s family is Finnish. The service is Lutheran & the dinner is buffet with jello salads, pickles, & hotdish.  Fun for the whole family whether you are Scandinavian or not!  Tickets $25.
September 4 ArtBarn Theatre auditions for the Jeff Daniels hunting comedy, Escanaba in da Moonlight, 6:30-8 PM.  Evening rehearsals; performances late October, November at ArtBarn and The SPACE
September 6 14th AnnualArtBarn ArtExplosion Day, 10 AM-3 PM.  A family hands-on art experience with live music &  food throughout the day—part of the annual Wheels & Wings & Osceola Community Fair celebration. 
Come for an hour; stay for the day!  $5 per person.
September 9 Mitch McVicker in concert. 7 PM. Join this Dove award-winning Christian contemporary performer & songwriter with friends for another helping of hope & inspiration.  $10 donation to this artist's music ministry;  group rates available.  pictures of this concert.
September 19, 20
September 26, 27 
ArtBarn Theatre continues run of interactive dinner theatre comedy, Ole & Lena’s Wedding,, 6:30 PM at The SPACE, 156 High Street, New Richmond, WI  Call 715-246-3180 or visit www.thespaceforcreativity.com  Tickets $25.
October 18  ArtBarn presents 4th annual Bluegrass Festival, 7 PM.  Join ArtBarn for toe-tapping music &  fellowship with:
 7:PM: The Middle Spunk Creek Boys , 8:PM: Sawtooth,   and 9:PM Tangled Roots,  as it celebrates the 104rd birthday of its performance facility.  General admission tickets: $10/students; $13/seniors; $15/adults
October23-25 ArtBarn Theatre presents Jeff Daniel’s hunting comedy, Escanaba in da Moonlight, DINNER 6:00 PM, THEATRE 7:30. When the Soady clan reunites for the opening day of deer season at the family’s  Upper Peninsula camp, history of the Soady’s never to bag a buck.  A hunting story to beat all hunting stories, it is a hilarious take   of humor, horror, & heart as Reuben goes to any & all lengths to remove himself from the wrong end of  the family record book. 
November 7,8
November 14,15
November 21,22
ArtBarn Theatre continues run of the hunting comedy, Escanaba in da Moonlight, by  Jeff Daniels. All shows at The SPACE, 156 High Street, New Richmond, WI  21, 22  Call 715-246-3180 or visit www.thespaceforcreativity.com   theatre tickets at the space $15.
December 20, 21  Traditional Christmas Show.  Join weaver, Emily McGuire & painter, James Wilcox Dimmers for their annual art show in the ArtBarn Gallery. Hours:  Saturday & Sunday, 10 AM-4 PM
ArtBarn’s mission is to provide a home in the St. Croix Valley for artistic excellence and a focal point for the exploration and enjoyment of the arts. ArtBarn is acommunity based 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization.  Check Back for updates.  All program changes will be posted here.
Theatre  prices:  $12 adults, $10 seniors (65) , $8 students At ArtBarn.  Dinner theatre and tickets at THE SPACE to be determined.
ArtCamp fees:  $100 per week or $85 per week with a tax-deductible $35 family membership. ArtExplosion! Day donation:  $5 per person/no family rates.
ArtBarn ActCamp Two-week camp fees are $100 for ArtBarn members with a tax-deductible $35 family membership; $150 for non-members.  NOTE: THE $100 OR $150, COVERS BOTH WEEKS ATTENDANCE.  THERE IS NO SINGLE WEEK OF CAMP OFFERED.
Class fees vary depending on the course and materialAll events are held at St. Croix ArtBarn, 1040 Oak Ridge Drive, one block east WI State Highway 35, across from the Osceola Middle School unless otherwise noted.  Please visit the ArtBarn website at www.stcroixartbarn.com or call 715-294-2787 for ticket information, event changes and updates as well as membership and volunteer opportunities. 
ArtBarn mailing address is PO Box 37, Osceola, WI   54020 
 
 

ArtBarn 2007  Imagine CALENDAR
PICTURES OF PAST EVENTS
SEASON 2007 WEATHERVANE


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