SDSU Softball Pitching Camps
2024-10-21 19:15 - 20:15 (America/Chicago) | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium, 1505 Jackrabbit Ave, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States
The Softball Pitching Camps are for beginner to intermediate softball pitchers just learning how to pitch, wanting to learn more pitches, or find out ways to gain more velocity. The camp will be run indoors with a maximum of 20 pitchers. Please bring turf shoes or running shoes or molded cleats, and all pitchers MUST BRING THEIR OWN CATCHER. You will learn some individual fixes to help you become a better pitcher, learn drills that our SDSU pitchers do weekly, and learn more about your own pitching style.
Location
Sanford Jackrabbit Athletic Complex – Indoor 1015 Campanile Ave Brookings, SD 57006
(Enter from the NE Doors)
Additional Information
If a camper will require any accommodations due to special needs, we ask that you notify us via email or in writing of those needs a minimum of two weeks prior to the camp start date so we can make the accommodations.
Questions Contact
Assistant Coach Joshua Bertke | joshua.bertke@sdstate.edu

Story Time
2024-10-22 10:30 - 11:00 | Children’s Museum of South Dakota, 521 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
All Ages | Free with paid admission | Family style
With every story, an adventure awaits! Join us on Tuesdays at 10:30 for an interactive Story Time, where tales come to life through engaging activities and creative fun. Perfect for young imaginations, this weekly event invites children to dive into new worlds and exciting experiences with every turn of the page.

Coteau’s Community Meal
2024-10-22 16:00 - 18:30 | Children’s Museum of South Dakota, 521 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Join us for a $5 community meal!
We’ve designed these meals as a way to bring the community together to share a simple, healthy, prepared meal for low cost. Invite a friend and dine with us!
On the menu:
– Grilled Cheese and Tomato Basil Bisque
– Gluten free option available
Café Coteau is open to the public.
The Children’s Museum of South Dakota is open until 7 pm on Tuesday nights!

Author Signing with Kristi Hemmer
2024-10-22 17:00 - 18:30 | the Nook, 314 Main Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
October 22nd | 5:00 – 6:30 pm
The Nook | Downtown Brookings
When author Kristi Hemmer, M.Ed. was eight, she was the Connect Four champ; nobody wanted to play with her. When she was twelve, she was on the Future Problem Solvers of America Championship Team; Kristi was told that if she was too smart, boys wouldn’t like her. When she was thirty-three, and principal of an all-girls school, a city council member told her she was too young.
The underlying message is one that every female of every age is told again and again: You’re too much. Quit being you. Wait your turn. Be quiet. Be nice. Quit Being So Good.
Let’s smash the expectation to shrink, to apologize, and to do it all by yourself. Learn three steps to be unapologetic so you can #bewhatshecansee. Because when women lead, the world is a safer and more equitable place. For everybody.

World Languages and Cultures Film Festival
2024-10-22 18:00 - 21:30 | Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center, 1601 University Boulevard, Brookings, SD, 57007
More details coming soon.

SDSU Volleyball vs. South Dakota
2024-10-22 19:00 | First Bank & Trust Arena, 1165 Jackrabbit Ave., Brookings, SD, 57006, United States

BHS Girls Varsity Volleyball vs. Sioux Falls Roosevelt
2024-10-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Brookings High School Auxiliary Gym, 530 Elm Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006
Cheer on the Bobcats as they host Sioux Falls Roosevelt.

BHS Orchestra Fall Movie Music Concert
2024-10-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center, 1601 University Boulevard, Brookings, SD, 57007
Enjoy an evening at the Oscar with the Brookings High School Orchestra

Trivia Tuesday
2024-10-22 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+.

Ofrenda Crafting Night
2024-10-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Brookings Public Library, 515 3rd Street, Brookings, SD, 57006-2022, United States
Help the library build an ofrenda (an altar made to honor deceased loved ones during Dia De los Muertos or the Day of the Dead )! Come craft marigolds and butterflies, “sugar skulls”, and picture frames to display in the library!
Those who wish to have their friends or relatives featured on the ofrenda can email a photo and their loved one’s name to mneubauer@cityofbrookings-sd.gov. The display will be available to view starting October 28.

Adult Bingo at Strikerz
2024-10-23 19:00 - 21:00 | The Lanes, 722 Western Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
The Strikerz Bar & Grill hosts weekly bingo just for the adults!

EBC Trivia Night
2024-10-23 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
2024-10-23 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.

October Jigsaw Puzzle Race
2024-10-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Mosaic Wine Bar & Small Plates
Grab your friends, family, or local goblins and ghouls and join us for a wickedly fun jigsaw puzzle race on Wednesday, October 23rd!

How it works:Each puzzle race team of up to 4 people will receive an identical 500 piece puzzle, and each team will race against each other to assemble the puzzle as fast as they can! Some awesome prizes will be awarded to our fastest teams!

Each team only needs ONE person to register. Registration is $40 and includes your team registration, the puzzle to play and keep afterwards, and a bottle of wine from the evening’s selections. Teams can be made of up to 4 people. All members must be 21+. Register soon, as spots are very limited!

Please plan to arrive by 7pm to get settled in with your teams and with your food and drinks! The race will start as soon as everyone is ready. Throughout the remainder of the evening we will be selling additional bottles to teams at a discounted price!

Spark Studio
2024-10-24 10:30 - 11:30 | Children’s Museum of South Dakota, 521 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
All Ages | Free with paid admission | Family style
Spark Studio is designed to ignite creativity and imagination through hands-on exploration, including sensory experiences. Join us in our First Floor Art Studio for a facilitated creative session that encourages young artists to experiment with materials, explore textures, sounds, and colors, and discover the joy of making. Spark Studio is the perfect place to unleash creativity and engage in sensory exploration.

A lens into Chinatown and Asian American Communities: Documentary Screening with Producer Curtis Chin
2024-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | SDSU University Student Union, 1421 Student Union Ln, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States
Join acclaimed author and producer Curtis Chin for a screening of his newly released documentary “Dear Corky”, featuring New Yorker photojournalist Corky Lee, who documented his hometown’s Chinatown and Asian American communities around the country for over 50 years. Plus a bonus screening of segments of “Vincent Who”, learning who Vincent is and his monumental significance in both the Asian American experience and the civil rights history of America. Event is free and scheduled on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, from 12-1:00 p.m. in the Pheasant and Crest rooms of SDSU Student Union (SSU 253).

Author Signing with Dann Hurlbert
2024-10-24 17:30 - 19:00 | the Nook, 314 Main Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
October 24th | 5:30 – 7:00 pm
The Nook | Downtown Brookings
Join us at the Nook to meet Author Dann Hurlbert + learn more about his book, ‘Suddenly Rural Girl’. After the discussion, Dann will sign copies of his books.
‘Suddenly Rural Girl’ is a friend and faith-finding journey featuring a strong, female, multiracial protagonist and is loaded with laugh-out-loud characters and gorgeous northern Minnesota beauty.

Women's Soccer vs. Denver
2024-10-24 18:00 | Fishback Soccer Complex, 1100 20th St S, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States

"Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" - Book Reading by Author Curtis Chin
2024-10-24 19:00 - 20:30 | SDSU University Student Union, 1421 Student Union Ln, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States
Join acclaimed author Curtis Chin as he discusses his new book about growing up Asian American in Detroit, coming out in a working-class immigrant community and being a first-generation college student. Gain insights into identity, resilience and the Asian American experience in this inspiring presentation. Named as a top memoir by Time Magazine, the Washington Post, W. Magazine, Goodreads, and the San Francisco Chronicle, and received American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book–Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award, Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of the Year, and Apple Books Best Books of the Year. Event is free and scheduled on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Pheasant and Crest rooms of SDSU Student Union (SSU 253).

Fear Asylum
2024-10-24 19:00 - 22:00, 2024-10-25 19:00 - 23:00 | Fear Asylum
The Fear Asylum is rated South Dakota’s top haunted attraction and is a must-visit in the fall.
The patients are restless, and that’s putting it mildly.
The seemingly now abandoned Brookend Asylum has been overturned by the patients who have come to realize they’re not the only demented and twisted ones onsite; the doctors they thought were there to help them have ulterior agendas. The newly unearthed government-funded C.E.C. – Covert Experimentation Center is where the facility staff has been taking unwitting patients turned test subjects for years. The C.E.C. is packed with the most vile, disturbing, mutilated creatures not even your worst nightmares could concoct. But how does all of this terror and horror go unnoticed? The avaricious caretaker of the Asylum’s graveyard takes no issue with hiding the failed experiments amongst the numerous headstones.
*The Fear Asylum is open to all ages. It is not recommended for very young children and children under 12 should be accompanied by an adult.

Werewolf Night at Wooden Legs Brewing Co.
2024-10-24 19:00 - 22:00 | Wooden Legs Brewing Company, 309 5th Street, Ste 100, Brookings, SD, 57006
Werewolf is a social deduction game of Werewolves vs Villagers. At the start of the game each person will be secretly assigned a role, either a villager or a werewolf. The Werewolves will feast every night on one of the villagers and in the daytime it is up to the players to deduce who are the werewolves and remove a player from the game. The Villagers win if they have eliminated all the werewolves and the werewolves win if there are more werewolves in the game than villagers.

All rules will be explained by our game narrator Seth before the game starts. This is a mature rated game and we ask that players participating are mature enough to play (No Kids).

Duration of the game or games will be determined based on attendance.

"Steamboat Bill, Jr.", Silent Film & Pipe Organ Featuring Ben Model, Silent Film Historian and Organist
2024-10-24 19:30 - 22:00, 2024-10-25 19:30 - 22:00 | Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center, 1601 University Boulevard, Brookings, SD, 57007
In STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (1928), Buster Keaton plays the son of a riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence) who comes home from college to help run the family business. As luck would have it, his girlfriend from school (Marion Byron) also has a father with a steamboat, who is trying to put Steamboat Bill, Sr. out of business. In the film’s climax, Buster faces a windstorm to save his father and his boat and win the heart of his girl. The film is known for what might be considered Keaton’s most famous film stunt: the facade of an entire house falls on top of him while he stands in the perfect spot to pass through the open attic window instead of being flattened. In 2016, the film was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Preceding the feature will be the slapstick comedy short, THE RIVALS (1923), with Bobby Dunn and Slim Summerville.
The program will be introduced and live-scored by renowned silent film accompanist Ben Model on the Oscar Larson Center’s Reuter pipe organ.
Inspired by Woodbine Productions, this presentation is supported by Doug and Sandy Oleson

BHS Marching Band Indoor Show
2024-10-25 17:00 - 22:00 | Brookings High School, 530 Elm Avenue, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
It’s time for our Indoor Show! Mark your calendars and invite your family and friends to come and watch the BHS Marching Band transform their field show into an indoor performance!

There will be two FREE performances again this year. Join us to see our 2024 show “Writings on the Wall.” Take your pick and come at 5:00 or 7:30 p.m. Or watch both!

In between shows, we will serve a fundraiser meal of a “marching” taco (get it?!). Tickets can be purchased in advance at https://www.zeffy.com/…/690f7641-690f-4c34-8fc1….

All proceeds support the Marching Band! Spread the word and let’s celebrate the band’s hard work this season!!

Spooky Season Watercolors
2024-10-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Brookings Arts Council, 524 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Join local artist Eileen Binkley for this fun and seasonal watercolor class. Costumes encouraged!

No experience needed
All supplies provided
8+, students 12 and under should have an adult accompanying or taking the class

Brookings Critical Mass - Costume Ride
2024-10-25 18:00 | SD
A monthly, casual bicycle ride around Brookings!
Meet at the corner of 5th St. & Main Ave at 6pm.
We bicycle around town for about an hour!
Find the “Brookings Critical Mass” Facebook page for routes & more details.
October 25th wear your costumes!!

MADS 'Boo'gie Bash
2024-10-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Madison Avenue Dance Studio, LLC, 2021 Tallgrass Parkway, Brookings, SD, 57006
Grab your friends, get dressed up in your Halloween costume and come boogie with us!
When: Friday, October 25 Time: 6:30 – 8:30PM Where: Madison Avenue Dance Cost: $25 (pay with cash, check or card at drop off) Who: Ages 5-10 (you do not need to be a member of MADS to attend)
Join us for a night filled with: Cute Crafts (we’re making our own chenille-patch Halloween treat bags!) Glitter Tattoos Spooky Snacks Ghoulish Games Bounce House … and Dancing (of course!)
It’ll be SPOOKTACULAR! Pre-registration is required. See you there, BOO-tiful dancers!

Fancakes at Wooden Legs Brewing Co.
2024-10-26 09:00 - 11:00 | Wooden Legs Brewing Company, 309 5th Street, Ste 100, Brookings, SD, 57006
Fancakes is back for the Jackrabbits ’24-’25 Football Season. Fancakes are FREE Blueberry and Apple pancakes we will be offering the morning of Jackrabbit Home Football Games. Each week we partner with local non-profits or organizations with a need in the Brookings area. All free will donations collected for the Fancakes will be donated directly to our weekly partner. Our Partner for October 26th is The Brookings Curling Club.
