Northfield Arts Guild

Crazy Daze @ the Guild
2018-07-26 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
The Guild will join the fun once again this year during Northfield’s Crazy Daze on Thursday, July 26, with free Inspiration Station art making from 9:00am to 12:00pm, and Crazy Daze pricing on selected fine art, art supplies, costume hats and theater season tickets throughout the day.

Opening Reception for Woven Lives: Beyond the Classroom
2018-07-20 18:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Woven Lives: Beyond the Classroom
July 19-August 25, 2018
Please join the participating artists on a Talking Tour of the exhibition on Friday, July 20 from 6-7 pm, then stay for the Opening Reception from 7-9 pm. Refreshments will be served.
Featuring Current Northfield Area K-12 Art Educators
John Bade, Angie Ekern, Rafael Estrella, Karna Hauck, Chris Holmquist, Ren Kurtz, Jill Luoma-Overstreet, Erica Ness, Katherine Norrie, Vicki Stanley & Kate Woodstrup.
Students, past and present, will enjoy seeing the artwork of their teachers! In addition to inspiring young people as current K-12 Art Educators in Northfield Schools, the participants in this exhibition are active artists. These colleagues often interact in their professional capacity as art teachers, but this exhibition gives them the platform to showcase the work they create outside of the classroom.
Many of these artists have shown their work independently; this exhibition represents the second time that this particular group of artists has displayed collectively. The intent is that this will exhibition of artwork by a group of current area art educators will happen every three years. Visitors to the exhibition will experience ceramics, prints, drawings, paintings and mixed media.

Collective Artist Statement:
As art teachers, we are GIVERS. We give of our time, our energy, our compassion and our ideas. We are also CREATORS. We value time in the studio considering our own thoughts and passions, and how we want to communicate these ideas through the visual language. The creative process fills our cups, just as we see it fill the cups of many young people on a daily basis.
Our lives are woven together through this show and the many ways that we have the privilege to interact because of our rich history of experience together growing creativity in young people. It is a privilege and an honor for us to do this life work in the classroom and to share this work that we do beyond the classroom with you. Our thanks to the Northfield Arts Guild for creating a space for us to shine and be recognized as the artists that we are.

Woven Lives: Beyond the Classroom Sponsored by:

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Great Shot! at the Cow
2018-07-19 18:00 - 20:00 | The Contented Cow, 302 Division Street B, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Great Shot!
An Artwork Photographing Opportunity and Artist Mixer

Need to have affordable, professional photos taken of your artwork? Here’s your chance! Please join us on Thursday, July 19 from 6-8 pm for Great Shot! an Artwork Photographing Opportunity and Artist Mixer.
Dan Iverson of Anthologie will have his professional setup at the Cow, ready to photograph artwork (measuring up to 60 x 60”) for a super rate of $15 per final, edited photograph.
Space is limited, interested artists must reserved their 15 or 30 minute slots by Monday, July 16 by emailing heather@northfieldartsguild.org, or by calling (507) 645-8877. Don’t have work to photograph, but want to watch the process? That’s great! Artists are encouraged to hang out and network with other artists while Dan is photographing their artwork.

Young Peoples' Theater Workshop: Session 2 Begins
2018-07-16

Audition: Pop 485
2018-07-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
AUDITION for
POPULATION 485 by Michael Perry
Based on Perry’s bestselling book by the same title, this newly released stage version picks up when Perry, returns to his childhood town of New Auburn, Wisconsin and joins the volunteer fire and rescue department. This is a sometimes comic, sometimes heartbreaking bestselling memoir of life, death and hilarity. A true story- it looks at the questions: What draws a person back home? and What happens when you get there?

Audition Dates and times: Monday, July 9 and Wednesday, July 11 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Potential call back times as needed.
Sign up for a 5-10 minute audition time. Please contact mburnsedwards@me.com if interested in auditioning, but unavailable to attend audition nights.
A 15 minute audition time will be selected for you after you register.
Audition Location: Northfield Arts Guild Dance Studio, 304 Division Street S., Northfield

Audition Requirements: Please prepare a short introduction or life story, no more than 1 minute, you may be asked to cold read from the script.

Directed by Misha Edwards
Mishia Edwards is grateful and excited to director for the Guild again. Previous directing experiences with the Guild include Little Women The Musical, Proof, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Crimes of The Heart, Little Shop of Horrors, It’s A Wonderful Life, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and God Girl last season. Mishia also works with The Chameleon Theatre Circle where she has served as a Board and Committee Member. Additionally, she directs the St. Olaf Summer Theatre Camp.

Rehearsal information: Rehearsals will begin in July for individual actor meetings and mid- August for the full cast, There will only be one individual meeting per actor.
Mandatory tech week dates: begin the week of September 16th

Performance dates: September 21-23 and 28-30 at The Guild Theater.

Character information to be posted soon.

First Friday Art Night
2018-07-06 17:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
First Fridays are a popular celebration in many communities–from Phoenix to Boston to Kansas City. The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation is bringing this monthly art experience to Downtown Northfield, beginning June 1, 2018! The fun will continue throughout the year on the first Friday of each month from 5-9 pm.

Join us for First Friday Art Night on July 6!
From 5-9 pm, the Northfield Arts Guild will feature:

Freeform in our Main Gallery:An exhibition featuring sculptural work by 19 regional artists:David Allen, Barbara Bend, Jim Bohnhoff, Paul Briggs, Bud Bullivant, Bob Christy, Christie Clarke, Ruth Crane, Robbin Firth, Mac Gimse, Jim Haas, Tim Lloyd, David Peterson, Claudia Poser, Josh Torkelson, Laura Sathre, Nick Swearer, Rick Swearer, and Jennifer Wolcott.
Picture Rice County in our Up Gallery:a photo exhibition by Christopher Casper.
Featured Artists Dale Brown showing art photos and fused glass and Ann Madland showing hand-forged sterling and gemstone jewelry in our Upstairs Studio

Freeform Sponsored by:

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

YPTW: Session 1 Performance
2018-06-28 17:30 - 19:30, 2018-06-27 17:30 - 19:30 | Arcadia Charter School, 1719 Cannon Rd, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Participants in the Young People’s Theater Workshop take part in writing, rehearsing, and performing an original script after three weeks of preparation in creative drama and dance classes led by a staff of theater artists. The session 1 program culminates with the following live performances for the public on the last three days of their session.

Performances:
Wednesday, June 27, 5:30 pm
Thursday, June 28, 5:30 pm
Friday, June 29, 10 am

Tickets are now available!

Artist Mixer @ Imminent
2018-06-28 17:00 - 18:30 | Imminent Brewing, 519 Division Street S. #2, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Brand new artist?
Been an artist for a long time?
Embarking on a new technique?
New to Northfield?
Lived here forever?
All of these are great reasons to join us at our next Mixer! Enjoy appetizers & connecting with visual artists from our area. Bring a friend, all visual artists welcome!
Please RSVP by June 27 to heather@northfieldartsguild.org, or by calling (507) 645-8877

CASTastrophe Auditions
2018-06-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057

Lysistrata
2018-06-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 Third Street W, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
by Aristophanes
Part of our 2017-18 Striking Conversations Theater Season
The original burlesque comedy about
just wanting to live in peace!
A hit since 411 B.C., this social spoof offers a surprisingly contemporary take on anti-war sentiment and the creative spirit. The comedy glorifies the power of women in the face of battle, and playwright Nicholas Rudall’s new translation captures the splendid variety of Aristophanes’ astute theatricality and poetic wit.
Athens and Sparta have been at war for years with no end in sight. Peace-loving Lysistrata has a solution – she unites the women of both city-states to withhold sexual relations to encourage their soldiers to come to their senses. Putting the plan into action, however, proves more difficult and hilarious than anyone imagined. This production contains mature comedic content and language.
Nicholas Rudall says of the play, “What the women are saying is, ‘We will produce no more children for men to use as the fodder of war.’ This is a play about fertility and survival, rather than sex, frustration, and gratification.”
Be prepared to laugh! Without apology, this production contains zestfully mature comedic content and language.
Performances:
Friday, June 22, 2018 at 7:30pm (Opening Night Reception)
Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 7:30pm
Sunday, June 24, 2018 at 7:30pm (Pre-show Discussion at 7:00)
Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 7:30pm
Friday, June 29, 2018 at 7:30pm*
Saturday, June 30, 2018 at 7:30pm

The Guild is offering ASL translation for the June 29th performance with advance notice to the office no later June 8th: 507-645-8877 or theater@northfieldartsguild.org

Venue: Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 Third Street W, Northfield
(The show was previously slated for Central Park, but all performances have been moved to the theater.)

Artist Reception for Freeform exhibition
2018-06-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Freeform

June 14-July 14, 2018
An exhibition featuring sculptural work by 19 regional artists:
David Allen, Barbara Bend, Jim Bohnhoff, Paul Briggs, Bud Bullivant, Bob Christy, Christie Clarke, Ruth Crane, Robbin Firth, Mac Gimse, Jim Haas, Tim Lloyd, David Peterson, Claudia Poser, Josh Torkelson, Laura Sathre, Nick Swearer, Rick Swearer, and Jennifer Wolcott.
This exhibition promotes established regional artists working in small and large-scale sculptural and functional works in bronze, ceramic, fiber, mixed media, silver, steel and wood.
Please join us for an Artist Reception on Friday, June 22 from 7 – 9 pm; Refreshments will be served.

Freeform Sponsored by:

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

Free Workshop: Preserving Your Artistic Legacy
2018-06-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Free Workshop: Preserving Your Artistic Legacy
Join with fellow artists and supporters on Thursday, June 14 at 6 pm in The Guild’s Art Studio for a free workshop Preserving Your Artistic Legacy. This panel discussion will address considerations for both artists and collectors for determining how your life’s work is preserved for the future, including how to document your artworks, determine values, and make strategic plans for gifting/bequeathing your artworks to individuals and institutions.
The workshop will be led by panelists Jane Becker Nelson (Director, Flaten Art Museum), Mary Griep (Professor Emerita, Art History, St. Olaf College), Jonathan Reppe (Attorney, Reppe Law Office, PLCC) and Guild Executive Director, Tim Peterson. This special workshop is free and open to the public, made possible by a grant awarded from the Bruce Kramer Collaborative Foundation.
For questions and to secure your space in this workshop, please RSVP to heather@northfieldartsguild.org by June 13, 2018.

Young Peoples' Theater Workshop: Session 1 Begins
2018-06-11

First Friday Art Night at the Guild
2018-06-01 17:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
First Fridays are a popular celebration in many communities–from Phoenix to Boston to Kansas City. The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation is bringing this monthly art experience to Downtown Northfield, beginning June 1, 2018! The fun will continue throughout the year on the first Friday of each month from 5-9 pm.
Join us for (the first) First Friday Art Night on June 1!
From 5-9 pm, the Northfield Arts Guild will feature:

Dep(ART) From the Norm: the Honors Art Student exhibition in our Main Gallery, and
We Are Your Neighbors:a photo exhibition by local Latino youth sharing their lives with our community in our Up Gallery.

Dep(ART) from the Norm Sponsored by:
Kevin Ely and Jerry Fox who encourage you to shop at the Northfield Community Action Center’s Clothes Closet

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

CVRO Latin Inspirations
2018-05-19 16:30 | Paradise Center for the Arts, 321 Central Ave N,, Faribault, MN, 55021, United States
Part of our 2017-18 Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra Concert Series

Latin Inspirations Concert

Featuring new work for ReInaldo Moya
with soloist Manny Laureano from the Minnesota Orchestra
Friday, May 18, 7:00 pm
St. Dominic’s Church, 104 Linden St N, Northfield
and
Saturday, May 19, 4:30 pm
Paradise Center, 321 Central Ave N, Faribault

Manny Laureano is an American trumpet player and conductor. He is currently the Principal Trumpet of the Minnesota Orchestra, as well as the Co-Artistic Director of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies. Laureano began his musical studies in the New York City public school system and received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School in 1977. He was appointed Principal Trumpet of the Seattle Symphony, where he performed various solo works, including the rarely played concerto by Michael Haydn. He held this post he held for four years before serving in his current position as principal trumpet with the Minnesota Orchestra. He has appeared numerous times with the Minnesota Orchestra as soloist playing concertos by Haydn, Hummel, Arutunian, and Tomasi. He also performed the American premiere of the concerto by Viennese composer Friedrich Wildgans along with Leonard Slatkin conducting in Minneapolis in 1983. He has performed as soloist with a variety of ensembles throughout the United States including the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the South Dakota Symphony, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs in Colorado.
As a conductor, he has worked with a variety of ensembles, ranging from having been Music Director of the Calhoun-Isles Community Band in Minneapolis, Music Director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, to several appearances in Young People’s Concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra. He has been in demand as a clinician for young orchestras throughout the state of Minnesota. In 2002, Manny and his wife Claudette were invited to guest-conduct the National Suzuki Youth Orchestra Festival Orchestra and were invited to serve again in 2004. Manny has served as Co-Artistic Director of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies (MYS) since 1988. He is the conductor of the MYS Symphony Orchestra, and is the brass coach for the MYS Repertory Orchestra, conducted by Co-Artistic Director Claudette Laureano. Laureano served as Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra during the 2005-06 season and served as conductor of the 2008-2009 Minnesota All-State orchestra. In recent years he has appeared regularly as guest conductor at Indiana University, as well as the Eastern Music Festival, St. Olaf College, and Bethel University.
Another comment: Born in 1955 in Manhattan of Puerto Rican parents, Laureano was introduced to the trumpet in junior high school. He’s now one of the orchestra’s better-known personalities. A spirited player in love with his work, he’s not timid about the exercise of his gifts or the potential of the Minnesota Orchestra. Young people also captivate him through his role as a co-director with his wife Claudette of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies.
ReInaldo Moya, composer, is a graduate of Venezuela’s El Sistema music education system. Through El Sistema, he had access to musical training from an early age and was a founding member of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra touring throughout Europe, North and South America.
Moya is the Composer-in-Residence at the Schubert Club. He is the recipient of the 2015 McKnight Composers Fellowship, the Van Lier Fellowship from Meet the Composer and the Aaron Copland Award from the Copland House.
He graduated from The Juilliard School with both masters and doctorate degrees, under the tutelage of Samuel Adler and Robert Beaser.
Moya recently completed the opera Memory Boy, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, which was commissioned by the Minnesota Opera for its Project Opera and premiered in February of 2016. Excerpts from his opera Generalissimo (about the life, death and afterlife of a fictionalized Latin American dictator) have been performed in New York at Symphony Space and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
His orchestral piece Siempre Lunes, Siempre Marzo was performed by the New Jersey Symphony and The Juilliard Orchestra. In the fall of 2016, his Passacaglia for Orchestra was chosen by the audience and the musicians of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra as the winner of the Earshot Composers Competition sponsored by the American Composers Orchestra.
His music has been performed in Germany, Colombia, Australia, Argentina, Venezuela and throughout the United States by performers such as the Juilliard Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Attacca Quartet as well as musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, among others. Mr. Moya has taught at St. Olaf College and Interlochen Arts Camp, and is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.

This activity made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and culture heritage fund.

Thank you to our Concert Sponsor:

Thank you to our Media Sponsor:

Many Thanks to our 2017-18 CVRO Season Sponsor:

Artist Reception for Honors Art Show
2018-05-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Dep(ART) From the Norm
Northfield High School’s Honors Art Show
May 16-June 9, 2018

Please join us for an Artist Reception on Friday, May 18 from 7 – 9 pm, with Artist Talks at 7:30 pm. Refreshments will be served.
The Northfield Arts Guild is proud to host this annual spring exhibition of Northfield High School Honors Art Students. This year, the exhibition features 15 amazing junior and senior student artists: Elizabeth Acheson, Emma Brezina, Katie Brust, Jack Fox, Anne France, Keaton Garrity, May Hayes, Amy Miller, Jaclyn Mulcahey, Solomon Noble, Emily North, Hanna Schindlbeck, Nikki Schultz, Caelan Stulken, Mallory Tidona. They have each worked tirelessly to prepare cohesive and professional bodies of thematic work. This year’s group includes illustrators, painters, potters, sculptors, mixed media specialists, and computer illustrators.

Dep(ART) from the Norm Sponsored by:
Kevin Ely and Jerry Fox who encourage you to shop at the Northfield Community Action Center’s Clothes Closet

2017-18 Gallery Season sponsored by:

CVRO Latin Inspirations
2018-05-18 19:00 | St. Dominic’s Church, 104 Linden St. N, Northfield, 55057
Part of our 2017-18 Cannon Valley Regional Orchestra Concert Series

Latin Inspirations Concert
Featuring new work for ReInaldo Moya
with soloist Manny Laureano from the Minnesota Orchestra

Friday, May 18, 7:00 pm
St. Dominic’s Church, 104 Linden St N, Northfield
and
Saturday, May 19, 4:30 pm
Paradise Center, 321 Central Ave N, Faribault

Manny Laureano is an American trumpet player and conductor. He is currently the Principal Trumpet of the Minnesota Orchestra, as well as the Co-Artistic Director of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies. Laureano began his musical studies in the New York City public school system and received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School in 1977. He was appointed Principal Trumpet of the Seattle Symphony, where he performed various solo works, including the rarely played concerto by Michael Haydn. He held this post he held for four years before serving in his current position as principal trumpet with the Minnesota Orchestra. He has appeared numerous times with the Minnesota Orchestra as soloist playing concertos by Haydn, Hummel, Arutunian, and Tomasi. He also performed the American premiere of the concerto by Viennese composer Friedrich Wildgans along with Leonard Slatkin conducting in Minneapolis in 1983. He has performed as soloist with a variety of ensembles throughout the United States including the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the South Dakota Symphony, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs in Colorado.As a conductor, he has worked with a variety of ensembles, ranging from having been Music Director of the Calhoun-Isles Community Band in Minneapolis, Music Director of the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, to several appearances in Young People’s Concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra. He has been in demand as a clinician for young orchestras throughout the state of Minnesota. In 2002, Manny and his wife Claudette were invited to guest-conduct the National Suzuki Youth Orchestra Festival Orchestra and were invited to serve again in 2004. Manny has served as Co-Artistic Director of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies (MYS) since 1988. He is the conductor of the MYS Symphony Orchestra, and is the brass coach for the MYS Repertory Orchestra, conducted by Co-Artistic Director Claudette Laureano. Laureano served as Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra during the 2005-06 season and served as conductor of the 2008-2009 Minnesota All-State orchestra. In recent years he has appeared regularly as guest conductor at Indiana University, as well as the Eastern Music Festival, St. Olaf College, and Bethel University.
Another comment: Born in 1955 in Manhattan of Puerto Rican parents, Laureano was introduced to the trumpet in junior high school. He’s now one of the orchestra’s better-known personalities. A spirited player in love with his work, he’s not timid about the exercise of his gifts or the potential of the Minnesota Orchestra. Young people also captivate him through his role as a co-director with his wife Claudette of the Minnesota Youth Symphonies.
ReInaldo Moya, composer, is a graduate of Venezuela’s El Sistema music education system. Through El Sistema, he had access to musical training from an early age and was a founding member of the Simón Bolívar Orchestra touring throughout Europe, North and South America.
Moya is the Composer-in-Residence at the Schubert Club. He is the recipient of the 2015 McKnight Composers Fellowship, the Van Lier Fellowship from Meet the Composer and the Aaron Copland Award from the Copland House.
He graduated from The Juilliard School with both masters and doctorate degrees, under the tutelage of Samuel Adler and Robert Beaser.
Moya recently completed the opera Memory Boy, with a libretto by Mark Campbell, which was commissioned by the Minnesota Opera for its Project Opera and premiered in February of 2016. Excerpts from his opera Generalissimo (about the life, death and afterlife of a fictionalized Latin American dictator) have been performed in New York at Symphony Space and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
His orchestral piece Siempre Lunes, Siempre Marzo was performed by the New Jersey Symphony and The Juilliard Orchestra. In the fall of 2016, his Passacaglia for Orchestra was chosen by the audience and the musicians of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra as the winner of the Earshot Composers Competition sponsored by the American Composers Orchestra.
His music has been performed in Germany, Colombia, Australia, Argentina, Venezuela and throughout the United States by performers such as the Juilliard Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the Da Capo Chamber Players, the Attacca Quartet as well as musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, among others. Mr. Moya has taught at St. Olaf College and Interlochen Arts Camp, and is currently Assistant Professor of Composition at Augsburg College in Minneapolis.

This activity made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and culture heritage fund.

Thank you to our Concert Sponsor:

Thank you to our Media Sponsor:

Many Thanks to our 2017-18 CVRO Season Sponsor:

One Person Show
2018-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
The Guild is pleased to host this production.

Auditions: Next to Normal
2018-05-14 18:30 - 21:30 | Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057
The Northfield Arts Guild is committed to building a creative and dynamic theater that celebrates individual differences and diversity and treats everyone with fairness and respect. The Guild encourages all – beginners or established artists – to audition for roles and to volunteer for technical positions.
part of our 2017-18 Striking Conversations Theater Season
Director/Music Director: Eric Parrish
Audition Dates and Times:
Monday, May 14 and Tuesday, May 15
Women: 6:30 pm (Plan to be potentially be called back to match with the men around 8:30.)
Men: 7:30 pm (We’ll start when the women are through.)
No need to register for auditions in advance.
Audition Location:
Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 Third Street W, Northfield
Audition Requirements:

Actors should prepare 36-bars of an uptempo contemporary/rock style ballad–doesn’t have to be musical theater. If this doesn’t demonstrate your ability to belt, the director is open to hearing anything that does.
Bring sheet music for the accompanist.

Rehearsal information:

Rehearsals are tentatively scheduled to begin May 29th, for sure by June 4th. Tech week begins July 20/21 and mandatory dress rehearsals begin July 23.

Performance Dates, Times and Location:

July 27 opening. Fri-Sun, July 27-29 and Thurs-Sun, August 2-5, 2018
Thursday, Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2pm
Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 Third Street W, Northfield

Summary of show:
Next to Normal, with Music by Tom Kitt and Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey, is a contemporary sing-through musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score, this 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner shows how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family’s world intact.
Character breakdown:
DIANA
Delusional, bipolar, and depressed. The sexiness of her yesterdays has only recently begun to soften. She is determined to make her family perfect but is tortured by a death in the family.
Gender: Female
Able to play age: 40 to 45
Vocal range top: F#5 – Vocal range bottom: G
GABE
Diana & Dan’s son. Dashing, athletic, and bright. He is a playful man and everything a mother could imagine.
Gender: Male
Able to play age: 18 to 21
Vocal range top: C5 – Vocal range bottom: B2
DAN
Diana’s husband. He is handsome and genuine. Though a constant in Diana’s tumultuous life, he has grown tired and weary of her antics.
Gender: Male
Able to play age: 40 to 45
Vocal range top: B4 – Vocal range bottom: Ab2
NATALIE
Diana & Dan’s troubled daughter. An accomplished pianist and hardworking student, her struggles are exacerbated by her mother’s behavior. She greatly admires Henry.
Gender: Female
Able to play age: 16
Vocal range top: G5 – Vocal range bottom: G3
HENRY
Natalie’s classmate. The all-around musician, philosopher, and slacker. He has an intoxicating capacity for sympathy and romance.
Gender: Male
Able to play age: 17
Vocal range top: B4 – Vocal range bottom: G#2
DR. MADDEN
Diana’s handsome psychiatrist. Quite assured in his practice and considered somewhat of a rock star.
Gender: Male
Able to play age: 30+
Vocal range top: A4 – Vocal range bottom: A2

Many thanks to our 2017-18 Theater Season Sponsors!

Spring Dance Concert 2018
2018-05-13 17:00 - 19:30
Northfield High School Auditorium, 1400 Division St., Northfield
Tickets: $10/adult, $5/student & free/4 and under

Tickets will also be available at the door.
Northfield Arts Guild dance class participants will perform all levels and styles!

Latino Play Festival
2018-05-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057
The Guild is please to host the 8th Annual Latino (and friends) Play Festival.
Performances:
Friday, May 11, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, May 13, 2018 at 3:00 pm
Friday, May 18, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Venue: Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 Third Street West, Northfield
Tickets: only available at the door
A diverse group of high school students come together in an acting and playwriting class to figure out what their topic is for their final theater production. Social media? Real-life human connections? Does Facebook separate or divide us? Truth and lies? Fake news? They don’t always agree on the answer, but the one thing they all agree on? They need to finish this assignment!
All proceeds benefit the Latino Performing Arts Class at Northfield High School.

Latino Play Festival
2018-05-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 West Third Street, Northfield, MN, 55057
The Guild is pleased to host the 8th Annual Latino (and friends) Play Festival
Performances:
Friday, May 11, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Sunday, May 13, 2018 at 3:00 pm
Friday, May 18, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, May 19, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Venue: Northfield Arts Guild Theater, 411 Third Street West, Northfield
Tickets: only available at the door
A diverse group of high school students come together in an acting and playwriting class to figure out what their topic is for their final theater production. Social media? Real-life human connections? Does Facebook separate or divide us? Truth and lies? Fake news? They don’t always agree on the answer, but the one thing they all agree on? They need to finish this assignment!
All proceeds benefit the Latino Performing Arts Class at Northfield High School.

The Northfield Experience
2018-05-06 17:00, 2018-05-05 17:00, 2018-05-05 13:00, 2018-05-04 18:00 | The Grand Event Center, 316 Washington Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Performances:
Fri, May 4, 2018, 6:00pm
Sat, May 5, 2018, 1:00pm
Sat, May 5, 2018, 5:00pm
Sun, May 6, 2018, 1:00pm
Sun, May 6, 2018, 5:00pm
Veteran Site Artist and Director Stephan Koplowitz is producing The Northfield Experience, a site-specific, immersive performance event using the town of Northfield, MN as its canvas and inspiration. Audiences will experience a series of interlaced performances of theater, dance, visual installations, and digital media taking place at several locations throughout Northfield. This performance event is inspired by the history, architecture, and unique community of Northfield. Koplowitz is collaborating with St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges and the greater Northfield community where the spirit of history, industry, and scholarship thrive and will engage students, alumni, and professors from both colleges, in addition to members of specific Northfield institutions and businesses. The Northfield Experience will be a unique, one of a kind performance event and experience, not to be missed!
This is a progressive venue production. Most locations are within walking distance, but an ADA bus is available upon request.
The production begins at The Grand Event Center, 316 Washington Street, Northfield, MN.

Carleton and St. Olaf students may attend the 6pm Thursday night dress rehearsal for free with student id.

Thank you to Northfield Economic Development Authority (EDA) for their support.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowmanet for the Arts grants impact indiduals and communities, visit 222.arts.gov.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Choir Country
2018-05-06 15:00 - 17:00 | St. John’s Lutheran Church, 500 Third Street West, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester, MN
One Performance: Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 3:00pm
Venue: St. John’s Hall, 500 3rd St. W, Northfield, MN 55057
A celebration of the rich choral traditions of our region

The Northfield Arts Guild will host the Choral Arts Ensemble of Rochester, Minnesota for a Choir Country concert on Sunday, May 6, 2018 at 3:00 pm. This celebration of rich choral traditions will be held at St. John’s Hall, 500 Third Street West, Northfield.
Choir Country is a celebration of Minnesota’s finest composers and the deep roots of exceptional choral singing in our region. Minnesota has a tradition of top-quality choral performance and choral composition. Building on the foundations laid by F. Melius Christiansen, Dominick Argento, Stephen Paulus, Libby Larsen and many others, a richly talented and diverse body of contemporary Minnesota-based composers are creating beautiful new music for choirs. The Choir Country concert features works by thirteen of these vibrant and eloquent composers – including video clips of the composers talking about their craft. Minnesota Public Radio classical music host Steve Staruch conducted the video interviews.
Now entering its 33rd season, Choral Arts Ensemble is an auditioned choir founded by Rick Kvam. Its volunteer members are from Rochester and throughout Southeast Minnesota. Seasonal repertoire includes a cappella works from the Renaissance to the present day, in addition to a variety of choral/orchestral works. Since 1996 Choral Arts Ensemble has commissioned and premiered more than fifty new choral works. Its catalog of fifteen CDs includes Minnesota Voices and Hail, Minnesota! – both featuring works by Minnesota composers.
The Northfield Arts Guild aims to showcase the arts of our region across the spectrum of artistic disciplines. The Guild is pleased to host the Choral Arts Ensemble’s performance in Northfield.
Tickets for Choir Country are $15 for adults and $10.00 for seniors & students. Tickets are available online at northfieldartsguild.org, by calling 507.645.8877, or at the Guild’s Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street South, Northfield.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
For more information please visit www.choralartsensemble.org

The Northfield Experience
2018-05-06 13:00 | The Grand Event Center, 316 Washington Street, Northfield, MN, 55057, United States
Performances:
Fri, May 4, 2018, 6:00pm
Sat, May 5, 2018, 1:00pm
Sat, May 5, 2018, 5:00pm
Sun, May 6, 2018, 1:00pm
Sun, May 6, 2018, 5:00pm
Veteran Director/Choreographer/Media Artist Stephan Koplowitz is producingThe Northfield Experience,a site-specific, immersive performance event in May 2018 using the town of Northfield, MN as its canvas and subject matter. Comprised of a series of inter-laced performances of theater, dance, visual installations, and digital media, this performance event will be inspired by the history, architecture, and unique community of Northfield. Koplowitz is excited to work and collaborate with St. Olaf and Carleton Colleges and the greater Northfield community where the spirit of history, industry, and scholarship still thrive. The Northfield Experience will engage students, alumni, professors and Curriculum from both colleges, in addition to members of specific Northfield institutions and businesses. It aims not only to create a unique artistic experience, but to bring together several academic and public communities united towards the development and creation of this work. An intended outcome is that all involved parties will be more closely aligned and acquainted following this shared collaboration.
This is a progressive venue production. Most locations are within walking distance, but an ADA bus is available upon request.
The production begins at The Grand Event Center, 316 Washington Street, Northfield, MN.

Carleton and St. Olaf students may attend the 6pm Thursday night dress rehearsal for free with student id.

Thank you to Northfield Economic Development Authority (EDA) for their support.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowmanet for the Arts grants impact indiduals and communities, visit 222.arts.gov.

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

Troubadours' Concert
2018-04-29 15:00
The Troubadours’ Spring Concert is Sunday, April 29th at 3:00pm at Bethel Lutheran Church, Northfield.
Guest appearance by the Limestones of St. Olaf!
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.
