Walker Art Center Artist Pass

“The Mn Artists Pass program offers local artists especially affordable, year-round access to the Walker Art Center. Active Mn Artists members working in all disciplines are eligible to apply for the $25 annual pass, which includes the following benefits:

Unlimited free admission to the Walker Art Center galleries

Discounts on select Walker and Mn Artists events

Tuition discounts for Mn Artists workshops and lectures

Special ticket offers to select Walker lectures, workshops, and performing arts events

Subscription to Mn Artists’ bi-monthly newsletter

Please note: The Mn Artists Pass does not include the full complement of mailings, discounts, or events that accompany a Walker membership.”

Please visit Walker Art Center website for more details.

Hastings River Place Project

Please Help to Support the Hastings River Place Project

Excerpt from Hastings Area Rotary Club:

“We are within 10% of reaching our goal….PLEASE DONATE BY APRIL 1st!

The Ruth Gale and George Doffing Charitable Fund will match up to $100,000 for donations received by April 1, 20215. The math is easy, $100,000 in donations means $200,000 toward the project.

We envision this beautiful venue located on the great Mississippi River as a central location in Hastings for outdoor performances and gatherings.

PLEASE HELP AND SPREAD THE WORD!”

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Hastings Family Service Seeks Proposals for Recognition Wall

Hastings Family Service (HFS) issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the creative design and construction of a donor recognition wall for the campaign: Bring the Mission Home.

The project includes a permanent installation of campaign donor names as well as an interchangeable component to recognize annual donors to the agency.

RFPs are due by February 27th.

For more information please contact Amy Sutton, Resource Development Director at (651) 437-7134 or e-mail her at amysutton@hastingsfamilyservice.org.

RFP details: HFS_Donor_Wall_RFP

LeDuc History Book Group

“A book group for local history lovers. This is a partnership between the Pleasant Hill Library and Dakota County Historical Society.”

For more information, please call 651-438-0200.

Meeting times
First Thursdays, 6:30 p.m., LeDuc Historic Estate in Hastings, MN

Reading list

March 2015 / Hanel, Rachael / We’ll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down

February 2015 / Kline, Christina Baker / Orphan Train

February Special Event : Fiber Art

Want to see Great Fiber Art???

Fiber Art

Like: Knitting, Crochet, Weaving, Felting, Rug Hooking, Quilting, and More???

Come to the Orange Dragon Gallery:

Exhibition Opening Reception: February 6^th, 5 pm

Weekends:

Feb 7 & 8 (11-5 pm)

Feb 14 & 15 (11-5 pm)

If you want to participate in exhibiting your fiber art, please contact Mary at (715) 262-3718 for more information.

Join The Little Colony Art Group

Excerpt from Prescott Community Education catalog:

Join others for coffee and creativity once a week on Thursdays.
We’ll share good company, discussion, water color painting, drawing and/or oil painting.
Perhaps you have a craft project you’d like to work on during this time.

Feel free to join the group at any time throughout the months they meet (January-May)
Questions or comments: contact group organizer and landscape painter, Tom Blanck 651-308-5554.

More information

Show your Garden

HPAAC is planning our 2015 Art in the Garden Tour.

We are looking for gardens that have not been seen before in Prescott and Hastings.

Would you be interested in showing your garden in late June or early July?

Do you know of someone who has a wonderful garden they would like to share?

If you do, please contact Debbie Saunders at hastingsprescottarts@gmail.com

Journeys: Riding the Orphan Trains

Hastings Reads 2015

Journeys: Riding the Orphan Trains

Please visit Hastings Reads for full details of upcoming Events.

Book discussion: February 5, 6:30 pm (LeDuc Historic Estate)
Kick-Off: Renee Wendinger, President of Train Riders of New York
February 7, 1:00 pm (Pleasant Hill Library)
Author visit: Christina Baker Kline
February 24, 6:30 pm (Hastings Middle School Auditorium)

Hastings musicians buy old church for school, arts center

Excerpt of article by Nick Ferraro (01/20/2015 11:21:10 AM CST):

The sounds of hammers, electric saws and screw guns are ringing out at the former Guardian Angels Catholic Church in Hastings.

Soon, though, the church will be filled with the sounds of music.

Travis and Sarah Lockwood, both musicians, bought the church last month from a developer. The Hastings couple is renovating the inside and converting it into a music school and arts center.

Sarah Lockwood said that when a real estate agent showed her the church for the first time, she felt a sense of duty to save it.

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Barefoot in the Park

A headstrong free spirit marries a meticulous type “A” neat freak. Find out how they make it work in Barefoot in the Park.

This DINNER THEATER experience takes place at The Onion Grille. Performances begin on Friday, February 13.
Please visit Black Dirt Theater’s website for all dates and tickets.