Bugs & Birds Camp
2024-10-11 09:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Children’s Museum of South Dakota, 521 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006
Ages 6-12 | Drop Off | Registration Required | $65 ($52 members)
Join us for a full day of all things bugs and birds! We dive into the fascinating world of nature, discovering the secrets of our feathered friends and multi-legged creatures. Through hands-on activities and exploration, campers learn about the important roles bugs and birds play in our ecosystem while having fun and sparking their curiosity about the natural world. Please bring a sack lunch.

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

Referred Law 21 Informational Meeting
2024-10-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Good Roots Farm and Gardens, 3712 Medary Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006
Get the facts about Referred Law 21, which is on the Nov. 5th ballot. RL21 is being called a “landowner bill of rights,” but it will undermine county ordinances and allow the state Public Utilities Commission to have the final say over whether these proposed projects are built.
Dakota Rural Action members and staff will present an overview of the bill, including a history of how we got here. Join us, and our hosts Lawrence Novotny and Cathy Hoss, at Good Roots Farm & Gardens to learn more about how this referred law will negatively impact our local control and our lives.

Pottery Wheel Lesson (10/10 and 10/24)
2024-10-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Brookings Arts Council, 524 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Join a local ceramicist to learn how to use a pottery wheel.

Note that this is a two session class, one for making and one for glazing.
Ages 9+, 12 and under should be accompanied by an adult.
No prior ceramic experience required.

Making: Thursday, October 10th
Glazing: Thursday, October 24th

South Dakota State University Pheasant Forever Chapter 3rd Annual Banquet
2024-10-10 17:00 - 22:00 | Dacotah Bank Center, 824 32nd Avenue, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE!! We are thrilled to announce that tickets for the 3rd Annual Banquet are now LIVE and ready to purchase.Secure your spot today by purchasing tickets though the QR code or this link: https://pfqf.myeventscenter.com/event/92462

Spark Studio
2024-10-10 10:30 - 11:30 | Children’s Museum of South Dakota, 521 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006
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.

Wall Street Wednesday
2024-10-09 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.

EBC Trivia Night
2024-10-09 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.

Adult Bingo at Strikerz
2024-10-09 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!

Ceramic Gnomes
2024-10-09 17:30 - 19:30 | Brookings Arts Council, 524 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Our crowd favorite is back! Join local artist Rachel Funk as she guides you through the process of making some customizable garden magic!

Note that this is a two session class, one for making and one for glazing.
Ages 9+, 12 and under should be accompanied by an adult
No prior ceramic experience required

Making: Wednesday, Oct. 9
Glazing: Wednesday, Oct. 23

Wellness Wednesdays: Yoga in the Gallery
2024-10-09 17:15 - 18:15 | South Dakota Art Museum, 1036 Medary Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Bring your yoga mat and take care with us! Four free Wellness Wednesdays, open to the public, September 25 through October 16, 5:15-6:15 p.m. Yoga Instructor Mandy Lyons will offer a 4-part series exploring four of the chakras through a yoga practice in the “A Beautiful Despair” gallery, where Anila Agha’s cube casts luxurious shadows in every direction.

Rally at the Rails - SDSU Hobo Day
2024-10-09 17:00 - 21:00 | Downtown Brookings, 400 Main Ave, Brookings, 57006, United States
We’re giving the classic pep rally a Hobo Day twist and taking it downtown! Join us as we welcome Jack, the SDSU Cheerleading Team, President Dunn, and the Bum Band, along with live music from the Matt Guager Band to celebrate SDSU’s greatest tradition. Enjoy a dig-for-worms contest, corn-hole, yard-sized Jenga, and more. Don’t miss out on official Hobo Day buttons for sale, plus a variety of food trucks and vendors. We can’t wait to see you there!

WHEN: 5 – 9 PM on Wednesday, October 9th

WHERE: Downtown Brookings, along 5th street near Wooden Legs and Nick’s Hamburger Shop

Digging Deep: The Secrets of Soil Exhibit Opening Reception
2024-10-09 16:30 - 19:00 | South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, 977 11th Street, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States
Join us for the opening of our newest exhibit, Digging Deep: The Secrets of Soil. At 5:30 p.m., Eli Halverson will be presenting the program, “The Hutton Project: How 100 Years of Cultivation has Changed Soil in South Dakota”. This event is FREE and open to the public and refreshments will be served.

2024 Women in Leadership: October Half Summit
2024-10-09 08:00 - 13:00 | Dacotah Bank Center, 824 32nd Avenue, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 (8:00 AM – 1:00 PM) (CDT)

Description

Beyond Grit: Embracing Passion and Perserverance to Gain the High-Performance Edge
Cindra Kamphoff
Author & Certified Speaking Professional with the National Speakers Association
This keynote will help you embrace passion and purpose in our life and work. Based on almost twenty years of research and consulting with the world’s best, Dr. Kamphoff will share the 10 practices of high performance to help you combat burnout and stress. In this keynote, Cindra will discuss tools to help us see the opportunity, practice self-leadership, savor the good, and commit to leading with grit for the future. Expect a high-energy, inspiring keynote where you will gain strategies to help you live and work more fully.
Key Takeaways:

10 practices of female game-changers based on research in performance psychology that allows people to thrive.
Specific strategies to build confidence and decrease Imposter Syndrome.
Learn strategies to find your purpose and passion for 2024 and beyond.
Practical tools and strategies to think like a high performer and thrive.

Cindra Kamphoff, Ph.D., CMPC, PCC, is an award-winning keynote speaker and certified professional coach for leaders, professional athletes, and championship teams. Her clients range from Verizon Wireless, Target, and Bobcat to the Minnesota Vikings.
She has provided mental training for the Minnesota Vikings for four years, working one-on-one with the players. Cindra also worked with the United States Olympic Track and Field team while they were in Tokyo.
She is also the founder of The Mentally Strong Institute which provides one-on-one coaching services to purpose-driven leaders like you to help them multiply their confidence, increase their influence, and get to their goals quicker.
Cindra is the author of an Amazon bestseller, Beyond Grit: Ten Powerful Practices to Gain the High Performance Edge and a follow-up book, Beyond Grit for Business: Ten Powerful Practices Boost Performance, Leadership, and Your Bottom-line.
Her podcast, the High Performance Mindset, is ranked in the top .5% of all podcasts. Cindra resides in Minnesota with her husband who is a school principal and their two teenage boys.

Pricing
PLEASE READ: Before you register, please make sure the organization you are with is a Chamber member. If your employer is a Chamber member, so are you! If you do not know, please drop the Chamber an email at info@brookingschamber.org. We want Chamber members to benefit from the discounted Member ticket. Season Passes are only available to Chamber members as well. If you purchased a Season Pass, you must still register for each event.
$125 (Chamber) Member ticket
$150 Non (Chamber)-Member ticket
$25 SDSU Student ticket
$600 Chamber Member table
$800 Non-Member table

Share the Warmth
2024-10-09 | Old Sanctuary Reception, Lecture & Banquet Hall, 910 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006
Share the Warmth is a one-day event to provide free winter outerwear items to people in Brookings County. This extraordinary effort is made possible thanks to local donations and volunteers.
Donate new or gently used and washed winter outerwear items such as coats, snow pants, boots, hats, gloves and scarves! All items are given away for free to those in need during our event on October 9, 2024.
Registration required. Registration is open until the evening of Oct. 4. Register here.
Want to Volunteer? Visit the Salvation Army’s website here.

Trivia Tuesday
2024-10-08 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+.

Puppet Show
2024-10-08 19:00 - 19:45 | Brookings Public Library, 515 3rd Street, Brookings, SD, 57006-2022, United States
Join us for an entertaining puppet show performed by the Brookings Public Library Puppet Club.

Pottery Wheel Lesson (10/8 and 10/24)
2024-10-08 17:30 - 19:00 | Brookings Arts Council, 524 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Join a local ceramicist to learn how to use a pottery wheel.

Note that this is a two session class, one for making and one for glazing.
Ages 9+, 12 and under should be accompanied by an adult.
No prior ceramic experience required.

Making: Tuesday, October 8th
Glazing: Thursday, October 24th

Coteau’s Community Meal
2024-10-08 16:00 - 18:30 | Children’s Museum of South Dakota, 521 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006
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:
– Cheese Pizza with Diced Fruit
– 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!

Story Time
2024-10-08 10:30 - 11:00 | Children’s Museum of South Dakota, 521 4th Street, Brookings, SD, 57006
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.

SDSU Softball Pitching Camps
2024-10-07 19:15 - 20:15 | 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

SDSU Softball Developmental Hitting Camp
2024-10-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Jackrabbit Softball Stadium, 1505 Jackrabbit Ave, Brookings, SD, 57007, United States
The Developmental Hitting Camps are for beginner to intermediate softball players just learning how to hit. The camp will be run indoors with a maximum of 20 hitters. Please bring turf shoes or running shoes or molded cleats. You will learn some individual fixes to help you become a better hitter, learn drills that our SDSU players do weekly, and learn more about your own hitting 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

Good Roots Wood Fire Pizza Nights
2024-10-06 16:30 - 19:30 | Good Roots Farm and Gardens, 3712 Medary Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006
Our weekly wood-fired pizza nights are every Sunday evening, 4:30-7:30 PM, starting early June – mid Oct. This year, enjoy our farm fresh pizza with family and friends by placing a pre-order! Pre-orders for the upcoming Sundays will be open Tuesdays from 3 pm with the new menu.
To place your order visit goodrootsfarm.square.site, order up to 6 pizzas of your fancy, and select the time you’d like your pizzas to be ready the following Sunday! Our menu will be updated often to reflect the seasonal produce available.
Please note: If the pick-up time you’d prefer to reserve is not available, it has been reserved by another group. If there are no pick-up times available for that particular Pizza Night on The Farm, we are full.
On the night of, we welcome you to enjoy the evening on the farm with your family and friends. Our food is served picnic-style and we have plenty of space to spread out and make the evening special, safely. We encourage you to bring your own yard games, lawn chairs, blankets, and plates to enjoy our farm, food and animals. Friendly, non-barking dogs on leashes are welcome.
Q & A-

Do I need a reservation? We highly encourage it! To ensure your pizza is hot, fresh, and ready in a timely fashion we ask that you pre-order your pizzas. Visit goodrootsfarm.square.site to place your order.

What can I expect? Specialty, hand-crafted, wood-fired pizzas and a beautiful evening on the farm with space to enjoy your friends and family. You can spend the entire evening on the farm and when your pizzas are ready, we will display your order number by the Pizza Ovens.

Do I need to bring drinks? No, we’ve got you covered! We sell select beers, wine, and signature lemonades. Bring your own water or we will have some bottled you can purchase.

What should we bring? Our pizza is served picnic-style and delivered to you hot from our wood-fired oven in a pizza box. Please bring your own utensils, napkins, lawn chair, and yard games, if you like.

Fuddy Meers
2024-10-06 14:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-05 19:30 - 21:00 | Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center, 1601 University Boulevard, Brookings, SD, 57007
It’s one harrowing and hilarious turn after another on this roller coaster ride through the day of an amnesiac trying to decipher her fractured life. Claire is abducted by a man who claims her husband wants to kill her. Audiences will view the ensuing mayhem through the kaleidoscope of Claire’s world!

Tee'd Off 6 Year Anniversary
2024-10-06 13:00 - 15:00 | Tee’d Off Golf Simulators, 2508 Wilbert Ct, Brookings, 57006, United States
We are celebrating 6 years of service to the Brookings area.
Please join the fun at the indoor/outdoor tournament Oct 4-5 and customer appreciation party Oct 6 from 1-3 with free simulator time and tasty treats from Homestead Meats!

Fear Asylum
2024-10-05 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.

Thomas Nichols LIVE at The Comedy Room
2024-10-05 19:00 - 22:00 | 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: October 4th and 5th at 7pm
Where: Wooden Legs Brewing Company – 309 5th St Ste 100, Brookings, SD 57006
Headliner: Thomas Nichols
NO DRINK MINIMUM!
Sean Leary is a Midwest bred; Los Angeles based comedian changing the game in stand-up comedy. Sean has cultivated a major following with his 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 can make it into an incredible show. Sean has produced specials & tapings with SIRIUS XM COMEDY RADIO & has been featured on Fox’s Laughs, HULU, Fusion, competed in AGT Season 10, Yahoo Sports Comedians Against the Spread & has even opened a comedy club in his hometown of Brookings, SD which he runs remotely from Los Angeles. In 2022, Sean inked a one-year sponsorship deal with Michelob Ultra.

Jacks Club Hockey vs. MSU-M
2024-10-05 18:00 - 22:00 | Larson Ice Center, 924 32nd Ave, Brookings, SD, 57006, United States
Cheer on the Jacks Club Hockey as they take on MSU-Moorhead at the Larson Ice Center in the First Bank & Trust Rink.

Bluestem Saturday Cruise
2024-10-05 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.
