Frozen River Film Festival Celebrates 20 Years with New Film Series
2025-11-23 - 2025-11-30, 2025-11-24 - 2025-12-01, 2025-11-25 - 2025-12-02, 2025-11-26 - 2025-12-03, 2025-11-27 - 2025-12-04, 2025-11-28 - 2025-12-05, 2025-11-29 - 2025-12-06, 2025-11-30 - 2025-12-07 and 2 more dates | MN
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This year the Frozen River Film Festival (FRFF) will be celebrating 20 years of bringing documentary films and filmmakers to Winona. The festival begins Sunday, February 9, (You can still get home in time to watch the Super Bowl!) and runs through Sunday, February 16. This year’s event will feature the World Premiere of FRFF’s self-produced documentary, Beneath the Ice: The Frozen River Film Festival Story. Learn more.

AMERICAN NOMAD – TRUMPET & ORGAN CONCERT
2025-11-23 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Central Lutheran Church, 259 W Wabasha St., Winona, MN, 55987, United States
November 23 | 3;00 pm
Central Lutheran Church
Winona, MN
Acclaimed Minnesota Orchestra and former Canadian Brass trumpeter Charles Lazarus teams up with organist and former Director of the National Lutheran Choir, David Cherwien for an afternoon of exciting and virtuosic music making. The free concert takes place at Central Lutheran Church on Sunday, November 23, 2025, at 3:00 pm.
At the center of the genre-jumping performance by the will be American Nomad, a classical/jazz hybrid concerto for trumpet written by Emmy Award-winning composer, Steve Heitzeg. The program will include selections from Lazarus’ latest recording of modern takes on hymns and spirituals along with Cherwien / Lazarus originals and classical favorites.
The performance is free and open to all. Cash and check donations to support the Winona Overnight and Day Shelter will be gratefully accepted.
For more information, please contact A. Eric Heukeshoven, Director of Worship, Music & Arts at 507-474-7144 or aeheukeshoven@centrallutheranchurch.org

Call to Artists: Between the Bluffs Plein Air
2025-11-23 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-24 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-25 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-26 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-27 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-28 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-29 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-11-30 18:00 - 21:00 and 2 more dates | MN
Demonstrations: Sat. Oct 11 9 – Noon
Show: Oct 17, 18, 19
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Colleen Shore is a member of the River Arts Alliance. To learn more about the benefits of membership, please visit: riverartsalliance.org/membership/.

Commonweal Theatre Presents A Sherlock Carol
2025-11-28 13:30 - 16:00, 2025-11-28 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-11-29 13:30 - 16:00, 2025-11-29 19:30 - 22:00, 2025-11-30 13:30 - 16:00 | Commonweal Theatre, 208 Parkway Ave. N, Lanesboro, MN, United States
Preview Dates
Saturday, Nov 8 | 7:30-10:00 pm
Sunday, Nov 9 | 1:30-4:00 pm
Thurs-Fri, Nov 13-14| 7:30-10:00 pm
Full Run Dates Listed on RAA Event Page
Commonweal Theatre Company
208 Parkway Ave N, Lanesboro, MN
commonwealtheatre.org

Join the Commonweal Theatre Company for Mark Shanahan’s merry and mysterious mashup, A Sherlock Carol. The worlds of Charles Dickens and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle collide in the ultimate Christmas crossover! Learn more.

Unwind on Black Friday with H3O Jazz Trio
2025-11-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Blooming Grounds Coffee House, 50 E 3rd St., Winona, MN, 55987, United States
November 28 | 6 -8 pm
Blooming Grounds Coffeehouse
50 E. 3 rd St.
After a busy shopping day, why not stop by Blooming Grounds Coffeehouse from 6 -8 pm for a relaxing evening as part of H3O Jazz Trio’s popular Unwind Friday series. Unwind Friday offers mellow jazz to end the week, gather with friends, and time to chill out.
Come and enjoy a full menu of delicious offerings, beer and wine, coffee drinks, and amazing desserts … all with no cover charge!
Unwind Friday with H3O is scheduled on the last Friday of the month throughout the year. An up-to-date schedule is always available at H3OJazz.com. More information about Blooming Grounds can be found at bgcoffeehouse.com
Eric Heukeshoven is a member of the River Arts Alliance. To learn more about the benefits of membership, please visit: riverartsalliance.org/membership/.

Old Main presents Irving Berlin's White Christmas
2025-11-28 19:00 - 21:00 | Old Main Cultural Center, 20869 S College Ave., Galesville, WI, 54630, United States
Friday, November 28 | 7 pm
Old Main
20869 College Avenue
Galesville, WI

Old Main is an organizational member of the River Arts Alliance. To learn more about the benefits of membership, please visit: riverartsalliance.org/membership/.

Meet the Authors at Paperbacks and Pieces
2025-11-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Paperbacks and Pieces, 429 Mankato Ave., Winona, MN, 55987, United States
Saturday November 29, 2025 | 10 am – 4 pm*
Paperbacks and Pieces
429 Mankato Ave
Winona, MN

Combine shopping for the holidays with an opportunity to visits with the authors on Small Business Saturday at Paperbacks and Pieces Bookstore. Authors will be happy to sign books that are purchased.
C.C. Aune Featuring: The Ill-Kept Oath
Two cousins. A dark family secret. A looming rebellion.In Regency England, a mysterious inheritance draws Prudence Fairfeather and Lady Josephine Weston out of candlelit ballrooms and into the shadows of insurrection.
A lifelong history buff and genealogist, C.C. Aune has been a journalist, an essayist and blog editor, and she was a contributor to the companion book for PBS’s inaugural genealogy series In Search of Our Ancestors (2000). Her recent move to Winona (the land of her pioneer ancestors) has inspired her to launch other history-oriented writing projects.
Ruth Bures Featuring: Musical Chairs: A True Story of Love, Music, and Furniture and I’m So Glad There’s Someone
Musical Chairs is biographical fiction following the true story of four exceptionally talented musicians who launch a ‘classy’ vaudeville act in the early 1900’s then move to a southeastern Minnesota town where they purchase and run a furniture while continuing to pursue their passion for music in ways that have an important and personal and local impact.
I’m So Glad There’s Someone is a children’s picture book about emotions
Ruth Anfinson Bures graduated from Drake University (BME) and St. Mary’s University of Minnesota, (ME, EdD).
Terri Karsten Featuring: A Necessary Death and A Mistake of Consequence
A Necessary Death is a cozy historical mystery in which an impoverished widow and a surly constable work together to figure out what happened to the dead man in the tavern privy. Winner of Readers’ Favorite 5 Star Award
In the historical adventure, A Mistake of Consequence, Callie Beaton is kidnapped off the docks in Edinburgh and sold as an indentured servant in the American Colonies. B.R.A.G. Medallion Winner. Terri Karsten, has written dozens of short stories for magazines and anthologies, including mysteries in The Colored Lens, and Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores,as well as historical fiction, picture books, and non-fiction.
*Ruth will be available from 12-4. C.C. and Terri will be available from 10-4.

NOVELIST KEVIN FENTON TO READ AT BLUE HERON
2025-12-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Blue Heron Coffeehouse, 162 W 2nd St, Winona, MN, 55987, United States
Tuesday, December 2 | 7 pm
Blue Heron Coffeehouse
As part of the Laureate Writers Series, novelist Kevin Fenton will read from his new book, Cyan Magenta Yellow Black at the Blue Heron Coffeehouse on December 2 nd at 7 p.m. The reading will be followed by a Q&A, book signing, and an Open Mic that is open to all.
The event is free and open to the public.
Kevin Fenton is the author of Merit Badges, which won the AWP Prize for the Novel, and Leaving Rollingstone, which Patricia Hampl called “the most important memoir to come out of the Midwest (or anywhere) in years.”
His essays on advertising design have appeared in a wide range of prestigious publications. Fenton graduated from Winona H.S. in 1977. He holds degrees from Beloit College, the University of Minnesota Law School, and the University of Minnesota MFA program. He lives in St, Paul with his wife, Ellen, and his greyhound, Evie.
Charles Baxter says that Cyan Magenta Yellow Black progresses from “darkness and distrust” to “the light of community and generosity.”… This is a beautiful book—smart, tenderhearted, and wonderfully written.”
This event is co-sponsored by the Blue Heron Coffeehouse, Chapter 2 Books, Richard and Sara Ricker, and Laurie Lucas.

Ken McCullough is a member of the River Arts Alliance. To learn more about the benefits of membership, please visit: riverartsalliance.org/membership/.
