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Area arts, business, and community leaders will gather Saturday, November 3, 2018 at the Lanesboro Community Center to celebrate Lanesboro’s role as a living lab for community arts strategies at the Lanesboro Arts Fall Gala. Featuring silent and sealed bid auctions of fine art and unique experiences, the event benefits Lanesboro Arts’ year-round rural arts programs and creative placemaking efforts. In lieu of a live auction, this year Lanesboro Arts will again invite attendees to ‘Reach for the Arts!’ during a presentation following a gourmet sit-down dinner prepared and served by Emily Torgrimson’s Eat for Equity Catering. Dynamic Minneapolis quintet Miss Myra and the Moonshiners will perform vintage jazz and blues music. The event will also feature Jess Abrahamson and Tom Overlie of KTTC News, a cash bar, and storytelling.
The event begins at 6:00 p.m. with a cash bar, butlered appetizers, jazz music, and the sealed bid and silent auctions. The sit-down dinner will follow around 7:00 p.m. and the ‘Reach for the Arts’ presentation will begin at 7:50 p.m., followed by desserts and dancing until the event wraps up at 10:30 p.m.
Proceeds from the event benefit the year-round programming of Lanesboro Arts, serving as a regional catalyst for artistic excellence and educational development in providing meaningful and diverse art experiences for people of all ages. In the heart of historic downtown, Lanesboro Arts hosts music, drama, and film events at the St. Mane Theatre, and houses two galleries featuring work by more than 90 regional artists. Lanesboro Arts programming also includes the annual Art in the Park fine art festival; the Lanesboro Artist Residency Program; classes and workshops, Surprise Sculpture, and Lanesboro Arts Campus Initiatives. The Fall Gala is sponsored by KTTC Television, F & M Community Bank, Preble Farmers Mutual Fire Ins. Co., POET Biorefining, O’Leary’s B&B of Lanesboro, Merchants Bank, and the City of Lanesboro.