Arts

It's not what you think—really! This Peep(s) Show is a first-time themed, juried exhibition hosted by Crossing Arts Alliance. Stop by the Q Gallery in the Franklin Arts Center, 1001 Kingwood in Brainerd, Minnesota, and take a peek (or a peep) for yourself.

The Central Lakes College Adventures ’N Theatre musical “A Winnie the Pooh Christmas Tail” will be staged in Dryden Theatre on the Brainerd campus Dec. 16 and 17. Performances are 7:30 p.m. both days, with a 2 p.m. matinee on Saturday.

No matter what your taste in music, there seems to be something for everybody in Lake Country's upcoming slate of performances. Check out these concerts and you're sure to find something to enjoy.

Grassroots Concerts, held at the Live Well Nightclub and Coffee Bar at Journey Church in Nisswa, offer live performances in an intimate setting.

Just in time for Halloween, the Children's Theater presents "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," based on the book by Washington Irving, at the Duluth Playhouse, 506 W. Michigan Street.

Three Lake Country communities—Hackensack, Longville, and Walker—work together each fall to provide a variety of enjoyable experiences for their residents and guests. Foremost among their "Fall Has It All" activities are several arts-related events.

During August, Brainerd's Tornstrom Auditorium will be filled with the strains of classical music. Performances of the Lakes Area Chamber Music Festival are scheduled throughout the month, from Aug. 7 to the 21.

The Central Lakes College European Tour Band, under the direction of Steve Anderson, will perform its 2011 Tour Concert on Saturday, July 16, 2011, at 6 p.m. on the south lawn of the Brainerd campus. The concert is free and open to the public.

For more than two decades the speech team from Walker-Hackensack-Akeley High School has reigned supreme at the Section 8A speech competition. The team recently won its 21st consecutive sectional championship.

The Minnesota Orchestra will visit Brainerd, Minnesota, on April 6, as part of a three-city “2011 Minnesota Tour.” Led by Associate Conductor Courtney Lewis, the concert features Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Tchaikovsky’s beloved Symphony No. 6, Pathétique, and Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 2, performed by Principal Horn Michael Gast.

Does poetry matter? Do the arts in general matter? Think about it.

If you find you feel strongly one way or the other—and can defend your position—enter the Great American Think-Off, America’s premier amateur philosophy contest, hosted by the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center.