AHA Basic Life Support Course
2023-10-18 17:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | Ambulance Station & Education Center, 2300 Yorkshire Drive Brookings, SD 57006
Covers adult, infant and child CPR as well as ventilation using a barrier device, AED, and choking relief for adults and infants.
The American Heart Association BLS Course is recommended for health care providers and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support. The class uses realistic scenarios and simulations to cover adult, infant and child CPR as well as ventilation using a barrier device, Automated External Defibrillation and choking relief for adults and infants.
The class uses QCPR training manikins which give the American Heart Association Certified BLS instructor real-time information about how a student performs chest compressions and airway ventilation. This feedback allows instructors to relay quality information to students and offer suggestions on how to improve their technique. This reassures students they can perform high-quality CPR that will save lives.
COST: $50
REGISTRATION: Closes 1 day prior to class.
HEALTH PRECAUTIONS
• One student will sit per table
• All surfaces and mannequins are disinfected prior to each class
• Hand sanitizer/soap & water is available
PARKING: Please park across the street in the Home Health & Hospice/Yorkshire Eye Clinic lot to ensure the ambulance can exit quickly in an emergency.
* The American Heart Association strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in CPR and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Course materials are not necessary nor provided, but can be purchased on-line at Amazon, etc. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the American Heart Association. Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the Association.

EBC Trivia Night
2023-10-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Eponymous Brewing Company, 126 Main Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Trivia Night at EBC is a time to test your knowledge against your fellow beer lovers! As always, the game is free to play and offers many fun prizes to our star teams of the evening. The game will start at 7pm and will wrap up by 9pm. We also ask that you limit your team size to less than 6 individuals.
Every week is a different topic and many weeks it is random trivia to test all your knowledge.

Wall Street Wednesday
2023-10-18 19:00 - 22:00, 2023-10-25 19:00 - 22:00 | Wooden Legs Brewing Company, 309 5th Street, Ste 100, Brookings, SD, 57006
Drink like a capitalist at this dynamic draft beer stock exchange at WLBC! Opening bell rings at 7 PM, all draft prices start to fall and only rise when a beer is ordered. You set the price at Wall Street Wednesday – the most dynamic happy hour in Brookings! Closing bell rings at 10 PM.

Spooky Season Watercolors
2023-10-19 17:30 - 19:00 | Brookings Arts Council, 524 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Let’s get spooky! Have fun with local watercolorist Eileen Binkley with this casual and customizable watercolor scene!

No experience necessary, perfect for beginners as well anyone who wants to brush up on their painting foundations

All supplies included, but feel free to bring your own from home if you’d like to learn to use them!

Children welcome, under 13 should be accompanied by an adult

Costumes/spooky attire encouraged!

Date
Thursday, October 19th
Time
5:30 – 7pm
Register here!

Beginning Knitting Classes
2023-10-19 18:00 - 20:00 | South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, 977 11th Street, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States
Join the Brookings Fiber Guild for beginning knitting classes! Participants will learn long-tail cast on, knit and purl stitches, and bind off. The minimum age for this class is 15, but please tell the museum if you have someone younger interested in classes – we may add a class for kids and/or teenagers if there is interest.
The cost for these classes is $25 and it covers all supplies and all three class sessions.
Space is limited. Register online at https://www.agmuseumstore.com/beginning-knitting-class-58876983.html.

Improvanopolis at Wooden Legs Brewing Company
2023-10-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Wooden Legs Brewing Company, 309 5th Street, Ste 100, Brookings, SD, 57006
Get your comedy fix with Improvanopolis…buy tickets now and save!!
General Admission – $12 + fees online before the show!!
$15 cash at the door (If we aren’t sold out!?)
**Wooden Legs is a bar, so you must be accompanied by a legal guardian if UNDER 21.
No drink minimum.
Any questions please e-mail us at info@improvanopolis.com.
Doors to the event side room open at 6:00 pm.
No assigned seating…come as you will.
How the night will go…we start at 7 pm and run for about 35-40 minutes. We’ll take an intermission and come back for our last set. We usually finish the night around 8:30-ish.
Improvanopolis brings you a comedy show like NO OTHER…literally. Every show is a one-of-a-kind experience since the script is actually made up on the spot. Through a series of short-form improv games, akin to Whose Line is it Anyway & Improv-A-Ganza, this ensemble will keep you interjecting, intrigued, and in-stitches for the entire show. Come and be part of something unique and have a laugh with us. Improvanopoplis was founded in 2006 in Los Angeles by William Landsman and a wide-eyed troupe of improvisors. It has always been a dream to bring some improv back to his home state. We now have team members in Singapore, Melbourne, and South Dakota!!

SDSU Women's Volleyball vs. St. Thomas
2023-10-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Frost Arena, 1165 Jackrabbit Ave, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States
Cheer on the SDSU Jackrabbits as they take on St. Thomas!

Fear Asylum Haunted House
2023-10-19 19:00 - 22:00, 2023-10-20 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-10-21 19:00 - 23:00, 2023-10-26 19:00 - 22:00 | Fear Asylum
South Dakota’s #1 Haunted Attraction and Halloween event is located right here in Brookings. This Nationally ranked production runs every weekend in Oct. Open to all ages, you are absolutely going to have a great time!

Jon Pardi: Mr. Saturday Night World Tour
2023-10-19 19:00 - 22:30 | Dacotah Bank Center, 824 32nd Avenue, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
ACM and CMA Award-winning Singer/Songwriter/Producer Jon Pardi announced his first official headlining run across the globe, the 2023 Mr. Saturday Night World Tour, produced by Live Nation, taking the stage at the Dacotah Bank Center on Oct. 19 in Brookings, SD. Named after his latest critically-acclaimed album, Mr. Saturday Night, the tour kicks off in Belfast on Aug. 25 followed by multiple dates across the U.K. plus stops in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Oslo, and Stockholm. Pardi then returns for the North American leg of the Mr. Saturday Night World Tour, and rolls through Knoxville, Savannah, St. Louis, Fort Worth, Las Vegas, and more including dates in Ontario and B.C. Opening acts include Midland, Jackson Dean, Randall King, Ella Langley, and DJ Highmax on select dates.
Tickets are available at LiveNation.com or JonPardi.com, the Active Heating Box Office or at Ticketmaster.com.
Since first hitting the country landscape, Jon Pardi has long since separated himself from the pack, carving a lane that was all his own by producing, writing, and singing songs he created from the melodies up, and earning praise for it. “Jon Pardi cut a path through modern country’s embrace of pop, hip-hop and EDM” (The New York Times) with “an emboldened work… a distilling of his sound into a more potent form that draws both vitality and assurance from his anything-but-sterile relationship to his tradition’s modern era” (NPR). With his “state-of-the-art blend of traditional instrumentation and progressive grooves that point to country’s future” (Rolling Stone), Pardi is “a leader among a growing number of artists bringing back fiddle, steel and twang” (People). “Even when he’s singing sad songs, he wants people to have a good time” (Associated Press).
Pardi’s current single off Mr. Saturday Night, “Your Heart Or Mine,” is Top 30 and climbing on country radio airplay charts. Featured by NPR, Paste, Billboard, The Tennessean and more, Pardi’s album Mr. Saturday Night proved Pardi has “blazed his own trail over the past decade” (Billboard), with Taste of Country noting, his “refusal to chase sets Mr. Saturday Night apart” and Nash News raving, Mr. Saturday Night “proves he might be the most successful at combining the old-school sound with today’s need for hooks.” Mr. Saturday Night reunited the producing team of Bart Butler, Ryan Gore and Pardi- the same team behind the boards of his critically-acclaimed album, Heartache Medication. Pardi’s CMA and ACM Album of the Year nominated project. Heartache Medication debuted among the top albums on Billboard’s Country Albums chart and was named in 2019 Rolling Stone’s “Best Album of the Year” and by the Los Angeles Times as one of the (Top 10) “Best Albums of the Year.” Heartache Medication followed his breakthrough Platinum-selling album, California Sunrise, which featured the multi-platinum, chart-topping hits “Dirt On My Boots,” “Head Over Boots,” “Heartache On The Dance Floor” and “Night Shift.”
Named a “hero in the making” (Variety), Pardi has earned five No. 1s on country radio and is noted for his “long-lasting mark on the genre” (MusicRow) and his impressive ability to carve out his own path creating “the kind of country music multiple generations came to know, and love can still wok on a mass scale” (Variety). Filled with fiddle, twang and steel guitar, Pardi continues to “apply new ideas to country’s old sounds” (Los Angeles Times) and “bring authenticity back into Country music” (People).

Disney's Newsies the Musical
2023-10-19 19:30 - 22:00, 2023-10-20 19:30 - 22:00, 2023-10-21 19:30 - 22:00, 2023-10-22 14:00 - 16:30 | Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center, 1601 University Boulevard, Brookings, SD, 57007
October 19-21, 7:30 pm
October 22, 2:00 pm
Stop the presses! The Disney film turned Tony-winning Broadway hit inspired everyone to fight for what’s right and seize the day! Set in turn-of-the century New York City, Newsies is the rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenaged “newsies”. When titans of publishing raise distribution prices at the newsboys’ expense, Jack rallies newsies from across the to strike against the unfair conditions and fight for what’s right!

Stand Up Comedy LIVE at The Comedy Room
2023-10-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Wooden Legs Brewing Company, 309 5th Street, Ste 100, Brookings, SD, 57006
Sean Leary & Wooden Legs Brewing Company are proud to present: The Comedy Room!
Presented by Shane Andersen Brookings Home Team pwrd by Century 21 Krogman & Co.
When: Friday, October 20th 7pm
Where: Wooden Legs Brewing Company – 309 5th St Ste 100, Brookings, SD 57006
Headliner: TO BE ANNOUNCED
NO DRINK MINIMUM!
Sean Leary is a midwest bred, Los Angeles based comedian changing the game in stand up comedy. Sean & his girlfriend/comedian Anna Simeri have cultivated a major following with their successful run of pop up comedy shows at unique locations all over the country. Beach shows, house shows, gym shows, if there is space, Sean & Anna can make it into an incredible show. Sean has been featured on Fox’s Laughs, HULU, Fusion, competed in AGT Season 10, & has even opened a comedy club in his hometown of Brookings, SD which he runs remotely from Los Angeles. Anna & Sean are a powerhouse duo – now taking their talents to Hollywood with Good Aura Comedy – the hottest new show in the Los Angeles comedy scene!

Museum After Dark
2023-10-20 19:00 - 22:00 | Children’s Museum of South Dakota, 521 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006
Experience the Children’s Museum of South Dakota during our adult-only (21+) Museum After Dark party!
In addition to playing in the museum exhibits (yes YOU get first dibs on the Cloud Climber!) additional games and activities will be offered.
We are excited to partner with Wooden Legs Brewing Company for the evening’s beer selection!
Drinks–beer, seltzer, and NA options–are an additional charge and can be purchased on-site (cash/card accepted). Café Coteau will also be serving flatbread pizzas.
Event is 21+. Must present your photo ID to enter. Tickets are transferable but not refundable.

Brookings Farmers Market
2023-10-21 09:00 - 12:00 | Brookings
Support your local producer at the Brookings Farmers Market!​
The Brookings Farmers Market is open every Saturday from the first week of May through the last week of October. Join us on Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on the 300 block of 6th Ave, the street between the Brookings Library and County Courthouse. We are just southeast of the Children’s Museum of South Dakota.
Products available at the market vary on the season. Area producers sell a variety of fruits, vegetables, herbs, meats, jams, honey, bread, coffee, soap, eggs, teas, mixes, and more. Each week offers something new and delicious. Support your local producer by shopping often! To see a list of our recurring market vendors, click here.
Market will occasionally close early due to weather or vendors selling out of products. Be sure to arrive earlier in the day for the best selection.
Free family yoga is offered every Saturday in June, July and August at 9 a.m.
Spend a Saturday with the Brookings Market on special event days. To see our event calendar, click here.
We are proud to accept SNAP benefits. To learn more, click here.

Fall Family Festival
2023-10-21 10:00 - 13:00 | South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, 977 11th Street, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States
Stop by the SD Agricultural Heritage Museum and SD Art Museum for our third annual FREE Fall Family Festival! Both museums will have activities and kids of all ages are welcome to put on their costumes a few weeks early to trick-or-treat for candy at both sites.

SDSU Women's Volleyball vs. Kansas City
2023-10-21 13:00 - 15:00 | Frost Arena, 1165 Jackrabbit Ave, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States
Cheer on the SDSU Jackrabbits as they take on Kansas City!

Bluestem Saturday Cruise
2023-10-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Bluestem Bicycles, 405 Main Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
If you seek a casual bicycle ride centered around having fun, chilling, and seeing different parts of town, this might be the one for you. We pedal from park to park, taking a break at each to chat.
Want to know if we are riding? Call us at 605.692.2453, email us at info@bluestembicycles.com or pop in at our shop at 405 Main Ave.

Artist Lecture: Signe Stuart, Events in Time and Space
2023-10-21 17:00 - 19:00 | South Dakota Art Museum, 1036 Medary Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Join us for an awesome in-person event with Signe Stuart as she takes us on a journey through her six-decade career as an artist.
The reception for the exhibition begins at 5:00pm, followed by a lecture from the artist at 6:00pm. The reception will have light refreshments and appetizers.
Signe Stuart: Events in Time and Space is a six-decade retrospective of Signe Stuart’s works beginning in the early 1960’s. Her approach to art making relies on experimentation with painting materials and forms, often breaking from the standard rectangle and concepts of framing. Stuart taught at South Dakota State University and has lived and worked in diverse regions of the United States: East Coast, Pacific Northwest, Northern Plains, and Southwest: residing now in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
This in-person event promises to be a thought-provoking experience. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to gain insights from a renowned artist. Mark your calendars, and we’ll see you soon.
Please call the South Dakota Art Museum at (605)688-5423 for questions.

Stand Up Comedy LIVE at The Comedy Room
2023-10-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Wooden Legs Brewing Company, 309 5th Street, Ste 100, Brookings, SD, 57006
Sean Leary & Wooden Legs Brewing Company are proud to present: The Comedy Room!
Presented by Shane Andersen Brookings Home Team pwrd by Century 21 Krogman & Co.
When: Saturday, November 21st 7pm
Where: Wooden Legs Brewing Company – 309 5th St Ste 100, Brookings, SD 57006
Headliner: TO BE ANNOUNCED
NO DRINK MINIMUM!
Sean Leary is a midwest bred, Los Angeles based comedian changing the game in stand up comedy. Sean & his girlfriend/comedian Anna Simeri have cultivated a major following with their successful run of pop up comedy shows at unique locations all over the country. Beach shows, house shows, gym shows, if there is space, Sean & Anna can make it into an incredible show. Sean has been featured on Fox’s Laughs, HULU, Fusion, competed in AGT Season 10, & has even opened a comedy club in his hometown of Brookings, SD which he runs remotely from Los Angeles. Anna & Sean are a powerhouse duo – now taking their talents to Hollywood with Good Aura Comedy – the hottest new show in the Los Angeles comedy scene!

Madeleine Scott: ART IS the Universal Language of Dance
2023-10-24 09:30 - 11:00 | South Dakota Art Museum, 1036 Medary Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Join us for a South Dakota Art Museum Guild gathering featuring Madeleine Scott, South Dakota Ballet Founder, Executive Director, and Artistic Director. At 10:00, following 9:30 coffee and social time, Madeline will share a talk entitled, “ART IS the Universal Language of Dance.
Guild membership is encouraged but not required to attend monthly programs. Dues of $20 per year support Guild programs and contribute to the museum’s Art Acquisitions Fund.

Pottery Wheel Lesson
2023-10-24 17:30 - 19:30 | Brookings Arts Council, 524 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Join us at the BAC to learn how to use a pottery wheel from local ceramicist Jenny Cook!

Only 4 spots open for each class

This class is 2 sessions, each approx. 2 hours long

All supplies included in the cost of the class

No experience necessary

Materials used will generally wash out of clothing, but wear things you’re okay with getting a bit muddy!

Short fingernails are helpful for this class

Ages 10+, under 13 should be accompanied by an adult

Dates
Making: Tuesday, October 24
Glazing: Tuesday, November 7
Time
5:30 – 7:30pm, both dates
Register here!

Trivia Tuesday
2023-10-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Wooden Legs Brewing Company, 309 5th Street, Ste 100, Brookings, SD, 57006
Trivia Night at Wooden Legs is a time to test your knowledge against your fellow beer lovers! As always, the game is free to play and offers many fun prizes to our star teams of the evening. The game will start at 7:30pm and will wrap up by 10pm.
Table are limited so we suggest getting here early to grab yours! Trivia is 21+.

Trick or Treat on Main
2023-10-26 16:00 - 18:00 | Downtown Brookings, 400 Main Ave, Brookings, 57006, United States
Join hundreds of other kids to trick-or-treat up and down Main Ave and side streets. Fill your bag with candy and toys while you enjoy creative costumes from all over the community. Trick-or-treating takes place from 4-6 p.m.

Brushes & "Boos"
2023-10-26 19:30 - 21:00 | Wooden Legs Brewing Company, 309 5th Street, Ste 100, Brookings, SD, 57006
Join us at Wooden Legs Brewing Co. for another paint & sip class with Erik Ritter—try not to get too spooked out!
– Costumes/spooky attire encouraged!
– Supplies will provided, no experience needed
– One beverage included in price of class
– 18+, must be 21+ to drink beer, some N/A options available
Date: Thursday, October 26th, 2023
Time: 7:30 – 9pm
