Events
Now with two times on Thursdays, the Center’s weekly fiber arts group, Sit-n-Stitch, offers time slots for everyone!
This class focuses on the basics of calligraphy and will prepare you to make your own beautiful, one of a kind Christmas cards.
Cynthia will guide you as you paint a Barn Quilt on composite aluminum that will be ready to hang when you get home.
Come to the Cultural Center and try Art for Lunch! Bring your lunch–we provide a beverage (coffee, water or pop)–and enjoy a short 45-minute art project!
Curtis and Loretta are in many ways the quintessential folk duo: finely honed vocal harmonies of multidimensional intrigue, abundant talent on an array of stringed instruments, deep traditional roots, great originals, and equally strong strains of gravity and playful irreverence.
Learn the basics of needle felting while making a small felted creature!
A short, sweet and beautiful workshop! Elizabeth will bring all the materials for you to create a small, one of a kind mosaic piece.
Enjoy this family friendly afternoon celebrating harvest, apples and art!
Chris Koza is a performing artist who utilizes his comforting and raw vocals to sway you into his compositions.
Feelin’ Alright! is an entertaining multi-media musical variety show that pays tribute to Woodstock 1969 – a historic event that defined a culture but could never be duplicated.
Join the fun as Cheryl Bannes shows you how to use a variety of objects to make jewelry; paper, broken old jewelry, rocks, wire and who knows what else?!
Join us on Saturday, September 14, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. at the NYM Sculpture Park for a one-of-a-kind outdoor music theater experience featuring a new adaptation of Mozart’s opera, La Clemenza di Tito, with high stakes sports drama, natural disasters, and ‘80s new wave music!
Bring your lunch–we provide a beverage (coffee, water or pop)–and enjoy a short 45-minute art project!
Good Morning Bedlam has become an innovative force in the midwest folk scene. Their shows are known for their contagious energy!
Come join the fun of artists painting in the street, outdoor games, sidewalk chalk, food, drinks & music, and inside gallery exhibit and kids’ art activities.
Event Link: https://www.kulcher.org/2019-great-american-think-off-question/
Event Phone Number: 218-385-3339
The Cultural Center in New York Mills is pleased to announce the 2019 Great American Think-Off Question:
This is the 27th annual Think-Off topic—a clearly debatable, timely yet timeless philosophical quandary meant to inspire thinkers from all walks of life.
Do you remember a teacher telling you that it is your duty to vote?
Have you heard someone say that they don’t vote because they don’t think their one vote will make a difference?
Do you have an internal debate on Election Day about whether or not to vote?
Even though we are inundated with information and encouraged to do our civic duty, the fact is, almost half of us don’t vote. The question is, does it matter? We want to know what YOU think!
All are invited to submit their answer in essay form for a chance to win $500 and participate in the live debate this June.
To enter, submit a 750 word essay by April 1, 2019. Four finalists will be selected to receive $500 each, plus travel expenses and a chance to win the title of America's Greatest Thinker at this year's annual debate held on June 8, 2019 in New York Mills, MN.
Essays can be submitted in 3 simple ways:
Online at www.think-off.org (preferred)
Email to info@think-off.org
Mail to Great American Think-Off, c/o Cultural Center, P.O. Box 246, New York Mills, MN 56567.
For additional contest details, visit www.think-off.org or call the Cultural Center at 218-385-3339.
Click here to submit your essay now!
For more information please visit www.kulcher.org or call 218-385-3339
Enjoy the rare opportunity to hear Arna Rennan, Georganne Hunter and Loretta Kelley performing music from Telemark and Ballads from the Middle Ages!
This exhibit is comprised of students that competed in a variety of categories including Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Media Arts, Crafts, Print Making, Ceramics, 2D Mixed Media/Collage and Graphic Design.
These workshops are open and FREE to everyone (16+) who is craving a cultural dynamic right here at home!
Event Link: https://www.kulcher.org/2019-great-american-think-off-question/
Event Phone Number: 218-385-3339
The Cultural Center in New York Mills is pleased to announce the 2019 Great American Think-Off Question:
This is the 27th annual Think-Off topic—a clearly debatable, timely yet timeless philosophical quandary meant to inspire thinkers from all walks of life.
Do you remember a teacher telling you that it is your duty to vote?
Have you heard someone say that they don’t vote because they don’t think their one vote will make a difference?
Do you have an internal debate on Election Day about whether or not to vote?
Even though we are inundated with information and encouraged to do our civic duty, the fact is, almost half of us don’t vote. The question is, does it matter? We want to know what YOU think!
All are invited to submit their answer in essay form for a chance to win $500 and participate in the live debate this June.
To enter, submit a 750 word essay by April 1, 2019. Four finalists will be selected to receive $500 each, plus travel expenses and a chance to win the title of America's Greatest Thinker at this year's annual debate held on June 8, 2019 in New York Mills, MN.
Essays can be submitted in 3 simple ways:
Online at www.think-off.org (preferred)
Email to info@think-off.org
Mail to Great American Think-Off, c/o Cultural Center, P.O. Box 246, New York Mills, MN 56567.
For additional contest details, visit www.think-off.org or call the Cultural Center at 218-385-3339.
Click here to submit your essay now!
For more information please visit www.kulcher.org or call 218-385-3339
Come meet our current Artist in Residence, Jeffry Young, a composer, violinist, and electronic musician from Brooklyn, NY who specializes in experimental, rock, and classical music
This is a :copper enameling” workshop. Copper enameling is the ancient, well-known process which includes applying a thin layer of powdered glass to metal.
The Lost Forty is native to the cold Midwest winters and understands how truly grueling they can be. Add them and their love for American Irish music to your wintery mix!
Peltoniemi Brothers concert for St. Urho's Day!
These workshops are open and FREE to everyone (16+) who is craving a cultural dynamic right here at home!
Join us for an evening of fabulous live music at the Cultural Center in New York Mills! Lehto & Wright have a sound that is a unique blend of traditional and modern styles.
Dag T. Straumsvag is a contemporary writer and translator living in Trondheim, Norway. Though far away, he has a deep connection to Minnesota through his work with our state’s most established and respected poets.
What is SongBlast? It’s all about great songs, wonderfully performed…and having a BLAST!
Join us for this free concert as the world turns toward the longer days of spring!
We are featuring two artists who showcase culture, movement, and beauty in their work.
In this intimate and “unplugged” version of their 2018 holiday show, SimpleGifts puts community celebration ahead of commercialization – pulling the audience into the sublime side of traditional repertoire in a truly meaningful Christmas event. Expect modern arrangements with an “Old-world” feel highlighting Billy’s signature acoustic-guitar, angelic three-part harmony vocals, bagpipes, Celtic whistles, violin, piano and tasty atmospheric percussion
Born in Duluth, and raised in Bertha, T-Roy's songs resonate with the history of the area, to tell stories of floods, love lost, and the gritty blue-collar life and struggles of the Small Family Farmers.
This solo performance is about history, art, and literature – presenting aspects of Walt Whitman’s life and work that are fascinating for our time. We celebrate Whitman as an important artist for our era; a poet who loved America, and used his writing to strategically transform what he believed needed to be changed.
