TaikoArts Midwest proposes a simple, ground-breaking idea: bring the best North American and Japanese female taiko artists together for a two-week artist residency to collaborate and create a one-of-a-kind performance. Envisioned as a catalyst to fuel movement towards gender equity in taiko, this project celebrates and puts women center stage in a collaborative, unique performance.
Join us in Sunburg Sunday, May 19th, 2024 for the 19th Annual Syttende Mai Celebration (Norwegian Independence Day)!
The Annual Syttende Mai Celebration offers a variety of family-friendly activities:
Come for the tractor pull, quilt raffle, boutique at the Community Center, Sunburg Trolls Car Club Car Display, Sunburg Lakers Baseball Game, parade and more!
Strings take center stage as noted cellist and conductor Paul Watkins joins us for a luminous cello concerto, Britten's idyllic musical portrait and Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.
Our festival provides the opportunity to push the art form of tap dance forward while connecting and learning from some of the best professional tap dancers from all over the world!
Don't miss out on having the opportunity of taking classes from these leading teachers, artists and performers in the tap industry! Registration is now open!
Swift Water Rescue Class - Course Objectives – To introduce and practice river rescue skills in moving water.
This course is designed for anyone interested in learning river safety skills; rec boaters, troop leaders, professional rescue personal.
The Swift County Fair is held in the middle of August at the fairgrounds in Appleton, Minnesota. With plenty of rides in the Midway and FREE entertainment and beer gardens in the Chuck Brown Building and the grandstand hosting two demolition derbies on Friday and Saturday evening there is something for everyone! With so much going on you’ll want to reserve your camping spot today. Bring the kids for fun and enjoy the company of your neighbors and friends.
Ahhh, Spring! Enjoy long sunny days and soft snow as the sweet water starts pumping through the veins of the sugar bush. The environmental conditions that push the North Shore maples into producing the finest maple syrup in the world coincidentally are the best conditions for spring corn snow skiing.
Bring that special someone to spend an afternoon on an easy snowshoe trail in Afton State Park, just half an hour east of the Twin Cities. Allow a St. Croix River Association trail guide lead you through the peaceful snow-covered floodplain forest as you learn about Minnesota’s winter wildlife. Enjoy some hot beverages and community at the end of the snowshoe.
Important reminders:
The first Sweetheart Days Festival was held on June 27th 1952, honoring "The Lady by the Lake" Lucette Diana Kensack. A few years later the date was changed to include the second Wednesday in July and the little town of Hackensack has been celebrating ever since.
As everyone knows, or should know Lucette is the Sweetheart and wife of legendary logger Paul Bunyan. Lucette stands on the shore of beautiful Birch Lake at the City Park waiting for Paul to return home from a hard day working in the woods.
The Superior Spring Trail Races 50KM, 25KM & 12.5KM are extremely hilly, rugged and technical trail-races which traverse the Sawtooth Mountain Range via the Superior Hiking Trail in far Northern Minnesota. The 50KM and 25KM races are run out and back, starting and finishing at Caribou Highlands Lodge in Lutsen Minnesota and the 12.5K is point to point, finishing at Caribou Highlands Lodge. The race is approximately 4.5 hours North of Minneapolis.
