Traveling Symphony

In the spirit of the Traveling Symphony from St. John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven, ArtReach St. Croix will kick-off this year’s NEA Big Read with two days of pop-up performances all over the lower St. Croix Valley.

On Sunday, March 31 find the First Clarinet, the First Trumpet and the Trombone presenting “pre-collapse” musical selections in 15-minute Random Acts of Culture.

On Monday, April 1 find a trio of Shakespearean actors from Festival Theatre presenting scenes from “Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits” which will be onstage at Festival’s Black Box from April 12-28.

Watch for us in your town! Here’s a guesstimate as to when we will be where…

Sunday – times are approximate!!

• high noon – Valley Bookseller, Stillwater
• 12:30pm – Croixdale Town Center, Bayport
• 1:05pm – parading through Afton from Historic Society to Selma’s
• 2:10pm – Ptacek’s IGA, Prescott
• 2:50pm – River Falls Public Library
• 3:30pm – The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson
• 4:30pm – Family Fresh Market, Hudson
• 5:30pm – CUB Food, Stillwater

Monday – times are approximate!!

• 12:30pm – St. Croix Falls Public Library
• 1:00pm – Franconia Sculpture Park
• 2:00pm – Brookside Bar & Grille, Marine on St. Croix
• 3:00pm – Stillwater Public Library
• 3:40pm – Friday Memorial Library, New Richmond
• 4:30pm – Osceola Public Library
• 5:00pm – St. Croix Falls location TBD

NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.