Arts & Performance

Join us at Stillwater Public Library on Saturday, December 7 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. for Cookie Decorating Party for Teens. Have fun decorating cookies with your peers. We'll provide the cookies, frosting, sprinkles, and more! Bring your creativity and appetite for this fun day of decorating sugar cookies!  For teens ages 12-18. 

Program is free. Registration is not required but is preferred so that we can bring enough goodies! To register, call 651-275-4338, stop by the Public Services Desk, or visit our website at stillwaterlibrary.org. Read more about Cookie Decorating Party for Teens

Join us at Stillwater Public Library on Saturday, November 23 at 10:30 a.m. for Bullet Journaling - Advanced Workshop for Teens. So you’ve got the nitty-gritty details down, now what? Build off the basics of bullet journaling with a focus on ways you can do more with your bullet journal. Learn about creative ways to track your habits, review your monthly spending and budget goals, or reflect on the month with unique spread ideas to add to your bullet journal. Be sure to bring your bullet journal so you can put some ideas into practice! For teens ages 12 - 18. Read more about Bullet Journaling - Advanced Workshop for Teens

Join us at Stillwater Public Library on Thursday, November 14 at 6:00 p.m. for Teen BINGO Night. Feeling lucky? Bring your good luck charms to bingo night for teens! Prizes include books, candy, mystery prizes, & more. For teens ages 12-18.

Program is free and registration preferred (so we have enough prizes) but not required. To register, call 651-275-4338, stop by the Public Services Desk, or visit our website at stillwaterlibrary.org. Read more about Teen Bingo Night

Celtic band Gaelic Storm returns to the Twin Cities on Tuesday, March 17 for a can’t miss St. Patrick’s Day show at The Fitzgerald Theater!

Doors 6:30PM | Music 7:30PM

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
$46.00 | $41.00
(plus applicable fees)

Reserved tickets available online at suemclean.com or etix.com, charge by phone at 800-514-3849 or in person at First Avenue's ticketing locations.

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Rhythm and blues band Vintage Trouble comes to the Twin Cities on Wednesday, December 4 on their Chapter II World Tour for a can’t-miss show at Amsterdam Bar & Hall!

Doors 7:00PM | Music 7:30PM | 18+

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

$24.00 Advance | $27.00 Day of Show

Standing Room Only

(plus applicable fees)

Tickets available online at suemclean.com or etix.com, charge by phone at 800-514-3849 or in person at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall Box Office.

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The Stillwater Nutcracker, now in its 29th year, is a family-friendly version of the classical ballet, choreographed to the music of Tchaikovsky, and follows the traditional story line of the young girl named Clara and her Christmas dream. Our version includes a live narration and the exuberant dancing of children from the age of five through professional level dancers who grace the show with beauty and spirit.

Tickets $21 for reserved seating

11/29 2p & 7p

11/30 2p & 7p

12/01 1p & 6p Read more about The 29th Annual Stillwater Nutcracker

Join us at the Octagon House Museum, 1004 3rd St, Hudson, WI, for a reading and discussion of “The Holly Tree” by Charles Dickens on Saturday, December 14 at 4:30 p.m. One of Dickens’s annual Christmas stories, “The Holly Tree” is a sweetly sentimental tale within a tale. Dickens relates in entertaining fashion his experiences at the Holly Tree Inn, where he was snowed up while on a melancholy errand.

Board member and guide, Burt Witthuhn will be reading excerpts from each of the “branches” of Dickens' holiday themed novella followed by a discussion. Read more about Reading & Discussion of 'The Holly Tree'

Join us at Stillwater Public Library on Saturday, November 9 at 10:30 a.m. for Wild Things Masks! This class will use Maurice Sendak’s book Where the Wild Things Are as inspiration for making wearable 3-dimensional creature masks. Kids will learn how to realistically draw fur, feathers, scales and other textures to combine the features of various animals into one fantastic and terrifying Wild Thing! Recommended for students in grades K-6.  Read more about Wild Things Masks! (K-6)

Join us at Stillwater Public Library on Saturday, November 2 at 10:30 a.m. for Creative Writing Sampler. Not sure if you’re a poet, a novelist, or a memoirist? Come and sample poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by exploring craft techniques common to all three and experimenting with each through creative writing exercises. Presented by The Loft Literary Center. 

Program is free, but registration is required. To register, call 651-275-4338, stop by the Public Services Desk, or visit our website at stillwaterlibrary.org. Read more about Loft Class: Creative Writing Sampler

Back at the Ordway after last year’s sell-out performance, comedian and Duluth native Maria Bamford stars in the semi-autobiographical Netflix comedy series Lady Dynamite, one of 2016’s must-see shows by Variety and Rolling Stone. She is the creator and star of Maria Bamford: The Special Special Special and of the cult hit web series The Maria Bamford Show. Read more about Maria Bamford