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Fundraiser helps support Art programs
Published Saturday, September 13, 2008
Petersen
Talk of the Town is just around the corner and we want everyone to know that everyone and anyone is invited to attend.
This is one of our most spendy events of the year but it’s worth it. We have a great time eating and socializing and raising money for A Center for the Arts and a lively arts community here in Fergus Falls. Cary Aasness always joins us for the live auction — but there are many wonderful silent auction items as well.
This year we’re calling Talk of the Town: A Feast for the Senses. The dinner will be fabulous with recipes by celebrity chefs. We have a couple of guest actors coming to act out the roles of these celebrity chefs. Fun and entertaining personalities will introduce the menu! We’re thrilled that crooner Simone Perrin — rich vocals with accordion accents — will help us wend our way through the evening.
Each dinner course includes an arts-related sensory sensation as well. Between Julia Child’s potato and leek soup and Tyler Florence’s spring green salad, followed by Emeril Legasse’s bacon wrapped turkey tenderloin, Rachel Ray’s sugar snap peas w/barefoot contessa’s smashed sweet potatoes, topped off by Travis Tommerdahl’s German kouga — you’ll be entertained by A Chamber Orchestra, A Children’s Choir, Norwegian Musicians and Dancers, Trumpet and Piano, Ballet and Modern Dancers — and, of course, Simone Perrin on accordion. Not to mention the entertainment provided when Cary Aasness takes the microphone. Tickets are $100 (of which $70 is tax deductible).
Auction items include catered dinners, a night out in Fargo, artwork, birthday parties, kinetic sculptures, dance tickets to Minneapolis dance companies, ticket and dinner packages around the area, personalized voice messages by famous people, and many other great gift and arts ideas.
It’s just a lot of fun to be together socializing and supporting the arts. Tickets can be purchased from board members (Kay Brown, Paul Beithon, Chuck Christianson, Stephanie Davis, Bonnie Denzel, Art Johnson, Linda MacFarlane, Ann Newell, Steve Rufer, Ben Schierer, Jeani Trosvig, Scott Wagnild, Kris Warhol, Anna Wasescha), or at A Center for the Arts.
Some businesses and groups are teaming up to purchase a table of eight.
Our Center Saturdays are also becoming feasts for the senses and this month on Sept. 20, we’re celebrating the great outdoors with the humor of Patrick McManus, (indoors at The Fergus Theatre) coupled with “wild game hors d’oeurves” served prior to the performance.
Tickets include the pre-show appetizers served in the lobby of A Center for the Arts by Union Café.
Our Fall Film Series starts this weekend with the film, “The Visitor.” “In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life.
In Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award-winning directorial debut, “The Station Agent,” Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.”
This film will run for the next two weeks, and Rena has others in the works.
Early childhood music classes start Sept. 20 for infants and toddlers at 9 a.m., 4- and 5-year-olds at 10 a.m., and the whole family at 11 a.m.
Give us a call today or stop in and get a newsletter; 218-998-ARTS(2787) or 124 West Lincoln Avenue in Downtown Fergus Falls.
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Rebecca Petersen is the director of A Center for the Arts in Fergus Falls.
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