River Arts Alliance Member Events

Blue Heron Coffeehouse | 162 W 2nd St. sonnetcontest.org The Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest invites you to celebrate the opening of this year’s contest and National Poetry Month on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, from 6:30 – 9 pm at the Blue Heron Coffeehouse. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open…

Families & Children 10 am – 1 pm | Adults Only 1:30-4:30 pm Winona Arts Center | 228 E 5th St. winonaarts.org All are welcome to attend our Free Ink event to make one of a kind Mother’s Day monoprints for Mom, family and friends. This is a great opportunity to get instruction on printing…

Minnesota Marine Art Museum | 800 Riverview Dr. winonasymphony.org Winona Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Marine Art Museum present “Bach in the Galleries,” a special event in the “Water Music” series. Join us for an immersive experience of the complete Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin of J.S. Bach performed by WSO Artistic Director Erik Rohde…

Winona Arts Center | 228 E 5th St. winonaarts.org The Winona Arts Center is proud to host the World Premier of A Visit From Will Dilg, a new movie created by local riverlorian, Steven Marking. Cost is $10 and the creator and actor in the film will be available for Q & A after the screening. Marking…

Kinstone | S3439 Cole Bluff Lane | Fountain City, WI patinatheband.com Come enjoy Patina at Kinstone on May 5 beginning at noon and playing until 3:00 pm. Patina is a four member Celtic band. Kara Mae Prosen plays fiddle and sings vocals, Connie Dretske plays bass, whistle, flute, and sings vocals. Sue Lee Ringwelski plays…

Central Lutheran Church | 259 W Wabasha St. facebook.com/winonabrassband The Winona Brass Band will conclude their 30th Anniversary Season with a celebratory concert at Central Lutheran Church on Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 pm. The Brass Band and Central Lutheran’s Hendrickson Pipe Organ are each celebrating 30 years of great music. To honor these two anniversaries, the performance…

Old Main Cultural Center | 20869 College Ave. | Galesville, WI oldmaingalesville.com The Fagernes Sons of Norway will help the Old Main Cultural Center in Galesville present a “Classical Norway” concert Sunday, May 5 at 3:00 pm to remember the music program offered by Gale College, operated by the Norwegian Lutheran Church from 1901 to…

Blue Heron Coffeehouse | 162 W 2nd St. The Laureate Writers Series reading at the Blue Heron Coffeehouse on Tuesday, May 7 at 7:00 pm will celebrate the release of the new book Chiaroscuro. The event is free and open to the public. The book features selected poems by Peter W. Denzer with lino prints by…

A free workshop focused on art and technology will be offered Thursday, May 9, from 6-8 pm at the Owatonna Arts Center, 435 Garden View Lane in Owatonna, MN, and online via Zoom. Learn more and register here. This event is part of a series of artist development workshops organized by the Northfield Arts Guild and sponsored by the Southeastern Minnesota…

Blue Heron Coffeehouse | 162 W 2nd St. blueheroncoffeehouse.com A new art show at the Blue Heron Coffeehouse will feature original oil paintings by Angie Malin. This show will run from May 10 through Sunday, June 16, 2024, with an opening reception for the artist on Friday, May 10, from 5-7 pm. The reception is…

Minnesota Marine Art Museum | 800 Riverview Dr. mmam.org On Saturday, May 11, the Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) will hold its Spring Seasonal Saturday event focused on the theme Scenic Splendor, inspired by the exhibition Re/Framing The View: Nineteenth-century American Landscapes, on view now at MMAM through August 4, 2024. On loan from the New…

Central Lutheran Church | 259 W Wabasha St. The Rochester Area Handbells are returning to Winona for a free and fun afternoon of music for the whole family at 3 pm on Sunday, May 12, at Central Lutheran Church. The recently formed Glorioso – Bells of Winona will also make a special guest appearance. Vintage Pops will feature music…

Somsen Hall | Winona State University | 8th & Johnson Streets The Winona Heritage Preservation Commission is partnering with Winona State University to celebrate the centennial anniversary of Somsen Hall with a free public open house on Saturday, May 18th, 2024, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Self-guided tours of the interior will be offered throughout…

Two Fathoms Brewing | 65 E Front St. H3OJazz.com On the heels of their spring performances, the Winona Community Chorale will join H3O Jazz Trio as this month’s Jazz Jam fundraiser recipient. The monthly Jazz Jam takes place outside on the spacious patio at Two Fathoms Brewing Company or in the taproom if weather is…

Various Locations in Winona bachsocietymn.org The annual Minnesota Bach Festival, a month of musical events throughout the state, is bringing a series of Mobile Mini-Concerts to Winona on Thursday, May 23 from 4-7 pm. The concerts are in a pop-up format, featuring Bach Society of Minnesota musician Charles Asch performing a brief solo concert before moving on to the next location.…

Minnesota Marine Art Museum | 800 Riverview Dr. Register Here The dawn of Artificial Intelligence poses a historically profound, alarming, and unprecedented problem for writers, musicians, and artists. AI’s generative powers, often controlled anonymously, are matching human creative ventures and promise to surpass them. What then is “authenticity” as an outcome of human creative processes?…

Acoustic Café | 77 Lafayette St. You’re invited to a River Arts Alliance Art Schmooze on Friday evening, May 31, at the Acoustic Café in downtown Winona. Held periodically throughout the year, our Schmoozes are casual gatherings for artists of all disciplines and arts supporters, open to current RAA members and non-members alike. Join us…

Winona Arts Center | 228 E 5th St. winonaarts.org Ben Cosgrove will perform a free concert at 7 pm on Friday, May 31 at the Winona Arts Center. Doors open at 6:30. The Winona Arts Center is a small venue, so please pick up your free ticket at Music Mart (formerly Hardt’s Music) or reserve…

Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge | W28488 Refuge Road | Trempealeau, WI All are invited to meet and watch area artists create at a multi-day plein air painting event in the Trempealeau National Wildlife Refuge and at Elmaro Vineyard and Winery this coming June. On Saturday, June 1 from 7:30-11 am, artists will be painting along…