August 20th, 2022
Fargo City Hall, thru Sept. 30
Fargo City Hall, 225 4th St. N.
A powerful mini-exhibition coupled with community engagement, conversations about race are front and center in City Hall through the end of September, that’s IF you participate. Sponsored by YWCA Cass Clay and the City of Fargo, the…
August 17th, 2022
Fargo Brewing Company, 610 University Dr N, Tuesday, August 23, 5pm
Rev up your motorcycle, gas up your scooter, or shine up your bicycle. We are celebrating all two-wheel riders! Fargo Brewing Company, NTRL Moto Collective, and Jade Presents are holding Two-Wheel Tuesdays at Fargo Brewing Company every 4th Tuesday of the month through September. This all-ages event is FREE…
August 17th, 2022
August 25, 6pm-7pm,
Plains Art Museum
Artist Torey Erin discusses her work, her career, and her latest project “Love Letters to the Earth.” The new piece, which is one part performance and one part ecological work of art, is located in a garden at Rabanus Park in Fargo, aka…
July 20th, 2022
July 29-30
Newman Outdoor Field
Summer doesn’t get much better than when you’re Blues Festin’ out on the ballfield where the RedHawks play. Thirteen bands over two days. Lotsa food and awesome people. Friday’s lineup, starting at 1pm, includes 3rd Street Blues Band on the side stage, Lightnin’ Malcolm (1:30pm), Veronica Lewis (3pm), Gabe Stillman (5pm), Toronzo Cannon (7pm), and headliner Tab Benoit (9pm). Gates open at 11am Saturday with Blue Wailers on the side stage, followed…
July 20th, 2022
Saturday, August 6, 7pm to Sunday, August 7, 7pm
ACRC Arena
The Ashley Community Rodeo Club (ACRC), in Ashley, McIntosh County, hopes to bring our western heritage back to Ashley with many events. It is a celebration of Ashley, not just rodeo events, with games for all ages and a huge street dance. And not just a rodeo either, but a championship PRCA-sanctioned event with professional riders and performers. New event:…
July 20th, 2022
August 13-21
Grand Forks Fairgrounds
If there was ever a musical designed to appeal to non-musical theater fans, “Hands on a Hardbody” is it. Phish frontman Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green (who also wrote “Bring it On” with Lin-Manuel Miranda) collaborated on a score that blends the familiar sounds of country, rock and gospel. The tale of a group of working class people competing to win a pickup by keeping their hands on it for days at a time is weird and fun, as these contests…
July 20th, 2022
“In commemoration of The Hjemkomst Voyage’s 40th anniversary in 2022, Hjemkomst is undertaking a major redesign of the Hjemkomst Ship Gallery. The Ship Gallery Grand Opening event will celebrate the new look of the Ship Gallery and some of the original crew members of the Hjemkomst, along with their families who will be present. This event is free and open to the public. 1pm: Ribbon-cutting and brief remarks; 1-3pm: light refreshments (while supplies last); 3pm: Crew…
July 8th, 2022
July 14-16, All Day
Downtownfargo.com
This is your one chance to join the throngs of nearly a couple hundred thousand people as you meander up and down Broadway and take in the annual downtown street fair. With three full days of food, fun and frolic, you’ll at the same time get intimately familiar with Fargo’s absolutely amazing, constantly reinvented downtown. Hundreds of vendors from the upper Midwest and Canada will tantalize you with their creative offerings. Live music and…
June 28th, 2022
Monday, July 4, all day
Ulland Park
2401 47th Avenue South
https://www.gfsertoma.org/4th-of-july-celebration
Grand Forks hosts the biggest Independence Day bash in the region–and it’s an all-day affair. Come early for yard games, a watermelon feed, inflatables for the kiddos and a beer garden for the adults. Listen to live music all day and eat at over a dozen food trucks selling everything from ice cream, mini donuts and lemonade to complete meals featuring cuisine from all over the…
June 16th, 2022
Monday, June 20, 2pm https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062149572-0
“A live, virtual discussion with Grace Atwood. Part of Barnes & Noble’s MIdday Mystery Virtual Event Series. The best-selling author’s twisted domestic thriller dives deep into the psyches and motivations of two women and their unwavering quest to seek justice for the past and rewrite the future. Julie takes you “straight into the collision course of two dynamic, complicated women,” says…
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