The Arts and Culture News for January 2024 | |
Rolling in to 2024... We welcome a new year! | |
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Are you ready to roll in to 2024? It is always hard to believe when a new year sneaks up on us...feels funny writing 2024 instead of 2023, and realizing that time keeps marching on!
Enjoy this history of Auld Lang Syne, and this lovely arrangement sung by James Taylor. Go here for even more info on this song and the beautiful tradition of both looking back and looking forward...
Like many of our local organizations, WCAB is spending these cold winter weeks in planning for our upcoming events and projects. We have our dates mostly set, and details are in the works for all of our upcoming schemes...We also have some new stuff that we are excited to share. So you should immediately get out your brand new 2024 calendar (old fashioned paper calendar, or use your device calendar...) and mark all of these dates down so you don't miss a single opportunity to get creative!
WCAB 2023 DATES
March 16: The Annual Irish Wake at HH Hinder Brewery!
April: Poetry Month with various poetic events!
April 20: the Arts Hub Gala, at the Waupaca Country Club, April 20
May: The Return of the Community Piano to the Historic Bandstand! (Date TBD)
June 1-2: Jazz and Cocktails: NEW!!! 2 days filled with jazz at 3 venues, featuring the best regional jazz musicians!
Summer Nights Concerts: Save the Date! We are super stoked to bring this fantastic talent to Waupaca's South Park (Kickoff at the ICC)
- 6/12- Kickoff at ICC with Copper Box and Baba Ghanooj
- 6/26- Tae and the Neighborly
- 7/10- MoJoe plus
- 7/24- Kelly Jackson Band
August 10-16: ARTicipation Week
August 16-17: Arts on the Square
Annual Friends of WCAB Campaign: Mid October-Mid November
October 6-14: Bach Festival
December 5-8 WAACN's Yuletide Parade and Celebration
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Regular Waupaca Local Live shows are planned with excellent musicians...See below for more info on the new Thursday Night Music Club!
- We will be celebrating the creation and installation of the SHINE Community Art Project, date and location TBD!
Enjoy this newsletter, it is chock-full!!!! As always, we encourage you to browse through: see all the happenings and many opportunities in our community, and if you feel curious, click on the bright blue links to take a deeper dive and get more details!
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Coming in February...a new format:
The Thursday Night Music Club!
Waupaca Local Live radio show will be joining forces with the Grand National Lounge!
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Join the Thursday Night Music Club on the third Thursdays of most months, and enjoy the live music in the most intimate and personal way!
6:00pm: Waupaca Local Live show, live in the 96.3FM studio at 111 S. Main St Waupaca
7:30pm: Then follow the musical guests to the Grand National Lounge at 106 W. Union St Waupaca, for another 90 minutes of great music!
Experience live radio, get to know the musicians, and enjoy a fantastic mocktail or cocktail!
We are setting up our 2024 schedule now, and plan to begin the Thursday Night Music Club format in February!
Clear your calendars...sneak peak:
February 15: Little Baba
March 21: Daddio
April 18: Son Rei Project
Stay tuned to our WLL FB Page for more information!
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The Grand National Lounge: creating a music room!!! | |
View previous programs from the past 5 years here! Great musicians, interesting dialogue and great music!
Waupaca Local Live Archives
Waupaca Local Live is collaborative venture between the WCAB, Waupaca's 96.3 FM radio and WAUP 99.1 fm radio.
We seek to bring local and regional musical excellence to the airwaves!
Waupaca Local Live
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Starting off 2024 with fresh Haikus! | |
Add your Haiku to the FB comments on the first Wednesday of January, specifically: January 3!!
A Haiku has 3 lines, with the following number of syllables: 5-7-5.
WCAB FB Page
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The Waupaca Community Arts HUB
a program of the Waupaca Community Arts Board
720 Demarest Avenue, Waupaca
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Our Winter Semester starts the week of January 8 for our music students, (now over 85 students!!!) and the week of January 29 for our Art and cooking classes, with lots of great stuff for all ages, and a few new things, like:
- Cooking Classes, youth and adult
- Fun Adult classes at HH Hinder and the Grand National Lounge!
- Improv class for 5-8
- Digital Art Classes via Art Camp,:2 kid age groups and now also for adults!
- Uke groups for kids and for adults
- Strings Chamber group
- Watercolor class: like, really learning to paint with watercolors!
GO HERE to sign up, things are starting to fill up! Again, some classes start at the end of January, and some have sign up deadlines. Check it out!!!
The Community Arts Hub
AS ALWAYS....
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Meet Kelvin Kaspar!
The Arts Hub is delighted to add Guitarist Kelvin Kaspar to our group of music educators! Kelvin began playing music professionally when he was sixteen. He formed a band with high school friends and played all over Wisconsin performing a variety of popular music. His love for music then led him to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point where he graduated with a Jazz Performance degree on guitar. Since graduation in 2008, Kelvin has a wide variety of sideman performance credits including Wayne Newton and Saturday Night Live cast members. Kelvin has also performed alongside a variety of touring musicians such as vocalists Typhanie Monique, Raquel Rodriguez, Janet Planet, B3 organist Ben Paterson and trombonist Natalie Cressman. Music has brought Kelvin all around the United States but locally he can be seen performing with The Pocket Kings, Tae and the Neighborly, Stephen Cooper and Nobody Famous, Stuck on Blue, The Celebration Church Worship Team and many other small ensembles.
Kelvin works regularly as a session musician on guitar and many other string instruments throughout Wisconsin. His credits as a performer and arranger can be found on works from NBC’s The Masked Singer, Janet Planet’s Grammy Nominated “Just Like A Woman”, Blue Dream Studios (Los Angeles, CA) and jingle writing for Narrator Tracks (Oshkosh, WI). Along with performing and recording, Kelvin is current on staff at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point for Jazz Guitar.
GO HERE to register for lessons with Kelvin.
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Improv Class for kids 8-14
Since "improvisational" means things are made up on the spot, improv comedy cannot be rehearsed, but it can certainly be learned!
Performers in this class will practice valuable techniques for thinking on their feet. They will work together to create imaginative worlds as they perform scenes and play improv games that are sure to make others laugh.
The final project will be an improv show for a community audience.
This class for middle school students, grades 5-8, introduces participants to the basics of improvisational theater.
GO HERE to sign up!
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Adults meet at HH Hinder for this fun craft class, and enjoy a glass of craft beer! GO HERE to register! | |
Adults, this Uke class is awesome! We have a great group and would love a few more to join. Purchase a punch card, good for 6 sessions in a 12 week period. GO HERE to sign up! | | | | |
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Festive Marshmallow Treats
Young chefs will learn how to make festive marshmallow treats with a variety of different add-ins. With techniques learned, young chefs will need minimal help to make these yummy goodies at home.
GO HERE for registration!
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The Waupaca Area Arts and Culture Network
(WAACN)
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You are cordially invited to attend the
5th Biennial Waupaca Arts Summit!
Thursday, January 25 | 6:30-8:30p
Par 4 Resort
201 Foxfire Ct, Waupaca
5:00 pm: Cash Bar and Dinner (on your own)
6:30-8:30 pm: Interactive Presentations
This is a free event but RSVP appreciated!
Please RSVP by Monday, January 22nd.
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The WAACN is a group of organizations and Arts and Culture minded people who gather regularly to collaborate, network, and cross-promote. Open to all!
This year the Waupaca Area Arts and Culture Network, in partnership with the
City of Waupaca, is hosting another exciting Arts Summit.
We invite all *Arts Stakeholders to attend!
Building on the vision of the Arts and Culture Plan launched in 2018, we are excited to continue to build our Arts Economy. And we want YOU to join us!
Our theme for 2024 is
“The Power of Collaboration and Promoting Your Events
through Free Resources and Technology.”
Featuring:
- Tips and Tricks for Grant Writing
- Update on Waupaca Public Art Policies
- Resources available through the Waupaca Area Arts and Culture Network
- Best Practices for Media promotions
- Local options for getting the word out
- Social media 101: Beating the algorithm! Bring your laptop or phone!
*Are you an Arts Stakeholder? If you are involved in creativity, value creativity, support creativity in your business or organization and in your community, you are!!! Join us!!!
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Happenings from our
Waupaca Area Arts and Culture Network (WAACN) Partners
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Waupaca King and In Between | |
We have so many wonderful shops here in Waupaca, with our old favorites as well as new businesses continuing to open. Check out the post-holiday sales and enjoy our beautiful unique downtown! As you stroll our downtown streets, notice all of the creative storefront displays as well as the beautiful art and poetry that adorns our wonderful Main Street!
Waupaca King and In Between!
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Stay tuned for many great programs starting in February 2024!
GO HERE for more information!
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FRANKLIN
Library Exhibit Room
Dec. 16-Feb. 10
Franklin, a traveling exhibition on view at the Waupaca Area Public Library, from December 16 2023-February 10 2024, explores the origins of a beloved Peanuts character.
Charles M. Schulz was a perceptive observer. He was always curious, and with his wit and wry sense of humor, he opened minds and hearts that others could not. Shortly after the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Los Angeles school teacher, Harriet Glickman, believed that the popular comic strip Peanuts could positively influence attitudes on race. Due to their correspondence, Charles Schulz introduced Franklin to his cartoon in the summer of 1968. Franklin has remained an important member of the Peanuts Gang ever since.
Go HERE for more info on exhibit!
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Adult Lego Night
Friday, January 6
Java Jive
120 W Union Street.
Why should kids have all the fun? Join us for an ADULTS only
Lego building competition.
You'll have about an hour and a half to build to our chosen theme (announced that night). At 6:45pm the Java Jive judges will pick the top designs.
Fabulous Prizes including Lego, Puzzles, and COFFEE from Java Jive!
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Lunch N Learn
Wednesday, January 3
Noon-1pm
Join us to hear about PodPaca and more! If you're new to podcasts, bring your smart device and we'll try to get you going before you leave!
Please register ahead if you are able!
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The Waupaca Area Public Library | |
Como Se Dice?
January 4
4-5pm
¿Cómo se dice?/ How do you say?
A time for conversation and practice in each other’s languages.
Un tiempo para conversar y practicar en los idiomas de los demás.
Looking for English and Spanish speaking individuals to participate. Let’s learn together!
Se buscan personas que hablen inglés y español para participar. ¡Aprendamos juntos!
You are welcome any time during that time slot
Eres bienvenido en cualquier momento durante ese horario
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Dystopian Enough?
January 18
3:30-5pm
Dr. Ivan Wayne
Part of the "Insights with Ivan" series....Dissecting 1984, Brave New World and Farenheit 451. Interesting topic!!!!
Go HERE for more info!
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Babygarten
Every Friday
10-11 am
A time for parents with their infants and toddlers. Rhymes, songs, a short story, and social play time for your little ones. We can’t wait to see you!
Check out the many other programs for all ages and services of many kinds offered at our Public Library.
Waupaca Area Public Library
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The Waupaca Historical Society |  | |
The Waupaca area, along with the Chain O'Lakes, were long home to the Menominee Indian tribe and are the ancestral homeland of the Menominee peoples. The Menominee and Ho-Chunk, as well as others of the 12 American Indian Nations of Wisconsin, cared for the lakes, rivers and forests of our state. The Waupaca River's falls and the nearby lakes provided an abundance of water, vegetation and wildlife for peoples here and traveling through. For many years, the Menominee moved around the area as the seasons changed, traveling from their villages, likely on Taylor and Otter Lakes, to camps on the Waupaca River.
By the 1830s, the largely uncharted lands in Wisconsin had attracted the interest of white settlers. In a series of seven treaties, the Menominee ceded their lands to the United States. The final treaty, in 1848, relinquished the last of the Menominee’s land, which included Waupaca.
In June 1849, the first white settlers--five men from Vermont--traveled from Plymouth, Wis., to Waupaca, looking for "the falls." The men claimed land along the Waupaca River at what is now North Main Street in the city of Waupaca. These early settlers came to Waupaca looking for the "The Falls" that they'd heard so much about. Eventually the settlement took its name from a Menominee word “Wāpahkoh” meaning, “Place of Tomorrow Seen Clearly.” The word also denotes a place in the Menominee language, not a person’s name or title.
Waupaca Historical Society
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The Waupaca Fine Arts Festival: Choir and Art Show! | |
ATTENTION Waupaca Singers!
The Waupaca Community Choir will be starting rehearsals on Tuesday January 9. Come be part of this wonderful community production! This year they will be performing a variety of pieces, for their 61st Anniversary Concert with full choir and Orchestra!
The concert will take place at the Waupaca High School PAC on Sunday, April 7th.
For details on rehearsal times, fees and other information, GO HERE!
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ATTENTION ARTISTS!
The 61st Waupaca Art Show will soon be accepting entries!
Show will be held April 20-24th, 2024
Details:
- Artist Registration: Will open in January, check back for more information
- Artist can register online with credit or debit card OR print and mail in a paper copy
Up to 6 pieces of artwork per artist.
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Registration will open soon...
GO HERE for all of the details!
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The Rotary Club of Waupaca will once again be doing curbside tree pick up and is accepting donations for Local & Global Rotary Projects in exchange for disposing of your natural Christmas trees. Leave your tree curbside on
Saturday, January 13 by 7:00 am for pick up.
On the day of pick up we will come to your door to accept donations.
Rotary Club of Waupaca
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Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce | |
......Save the Date!
2024 Chamber Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Plan to come and support area Chamber members who will win awards for different categories....
And as always, check the Waupaca Area Chamber's Community Calendar for events in our community! Add your own organization's event to the calendar!
Waupaca Area Chamber of Commerce
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Coming in January: Win a prize for recreating a photo form somewhere on the River Ridge Trail! A great way to get out and hike a bit, get the blood flowing and meet the winter weather head on!
More info will be coming, on both the City of Waupaca FB page as well as the Waupaca Park and Rec page. Stay tuned, bundle up and get out there, and good luck!
City of Waupaca
Waupaca Park and Rec
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Other Happenings in Waupaca and surrounding areas.... | |
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Join us on Sunday, January 14for some Winter Bingo. 2-4 pm, $1 per card to play. We'll see you here!
More INFO
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Uplift, Relax and Restore
Sunday January 28
2-4pm
GO HERE for more info!
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Choreography Showcase
Saturday, January 13
2pm.
The Choreography Showcase highlights only original choreography from our youth company members.
Saturday, January 13, 2024 @ 2:00 pm
Jensen Center, Amherst
Tickets will be available at the door
$12 general, $10 students & seniors
for more info on the Point Dance Ensemble go here!
The Jensen Center
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Open Mics we know about... | |
We love open mics because they give everyone a chance...people who just want to try singing a song, artists who want to try out new material, folks who want to jam together...all levels. Music, poetry, and more!
Here are the open mics that we know about and love:
Odin and Freja's Place, Open Mic Every Thursday night from 7pm til ?
Scandinavia on Main Street...
Little Wolf Gallery: Jazz Jam/open Mic the first Saturday of the month starting at 5pm....
Iola, Main St....
Familiar Grounds Coffee House: All Acoustic Open MicFirst Sunday from 12-3pm
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Celebrating a very special burthday boy. Ben's 35th. FREE CAKE! Featuring live performances by VoMBoM, Death the Kid (the band) Poison Widow, Clinton Miller, SnailTooth and ZIM's CoRrUpTiON! Asking $10 donation that goes to the bands, gifts aren't mandatory but if you brought benza literally any horror movie on VHS we can guarantee he'll cry tears of joy.
Doors open at 7 PM ZIM's CoRruPtiON! kicks off the Show at 8 PM!
18+ event 21+will need a wristband KARAOKE after the bands
The Atelier
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Comedy at Chain O Lakes Bar and Grill | |
Come on out to the Chain for loads of laughs as our own Ben Warren hosts this monthly Comedy show!
Friday, January 19, Ben is bringing the stand-up comedian David Shendlinger from the Madison area.
No Cover charge, just come in and enjoy loads of laughs from Ben and his comedic guests!
Chain O Lakes Bar and Grill
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Martin Luther King Day
January 15, 2024
Did you know that Stevie Wonder actively campaigned to have MLK Day be a national holiday? He had a vision of this, wrote the song Happy Birthday in honor of King, and campaigned and toured tirelessly until his vision became the reality he knew it to be. Celebrate this National Holiday: the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, by planning to do some form of community Service. GO HERE for some suggestions!
For more info on Martin Luther King,
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Lessons from the
Art, Iola
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Watercolor Class: Painting of a Sunny Wooded Scene
Monday January 8
9:30am-12pm
with Artist
Carolyn Rosenberger
at Lessons from the Art, Main Street, Iola
Students will be painting a winter landscape featuring birch trees, snowy hills, and the sun rising over a distant woods.
To sign up for the class email Carolyn Rosenberger
For more info on this class, GO HERE
Lessons from the Art also has a wide variety of music lessons including Piano, Organ, Guitar,
Bass, Drum, Mandolin, many ancient folk instruments and more...
Lessons From the Art
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Jazz Coterie presents:
Tierney Sutton
Jan 16 and 17
Stevens Point and Oshkosh
Acclaimed vocalist Tierney Sutton with her long-time pianist Christian Jacob will be at our Wisconsin pop-up jazz club.
Tierney Sutton has received 8 Grammy Nominations for “Best Jazz Vocal Album” as well as a 9th for musical arranging. Ms. Sutton’s 15 recordings as leader have addressed themes such as materialism and the pursuit of happiness as well as paying tribute to the music of Bill Evans, Frank Sinatra, Sting, and Joni Mitchell.
“A serious jazz artist who takes the whole enterprise to another level.”
— The New York Times
Go HERE for details, tickets and more info.
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The Amoco Station and The Filling Station continue their generosity and support of local organizations, by donating 20 cents per gallon/20% of their proceeds on Thursday, January 4 to the Waupaca Youth Basketball and Thursday January 18 to the Wauapca Curling Club. Thank you for your generosity!!!! | |
Waupaca Metaphysical Fair | |
Waupaca Metaphysical Fair
Saturday, January 27
10am-5pm
Par 4 Resort
Join Northwoods Health and Wellness to experience the power of holistic health and wellness in person. Discover new ways to support your mind, body and spiritual wellness. Connect with local hands-on healers, intuitive readers and vendors with unique products such as jewelry, crystals, healing apparel, herbal salves, and other metaphysical wares that promote holistic living and awareness. Interactive Live Workshops every hour.
GO HERE for more information!
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The Center for Living Well | |
Celebrate Connection with
Vision
January 13, 1pm
The Center for Living Well
Downtown Iola
A great time to set new intentions for the new year!
And, check out all the many offerings for January at the Center for Living Well!
The Center for Living Well
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Come and learn to play a new instrument!
2024 is your year to try something new! Learn an instrument, have a LOT of fun, and help us raise funds for music education.
GO HERE for more information!
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Building a community in recovery through creativity, WISHOPE will begin hosting Poetry, art and music events! First one is
Poetry, Art and Music
Saturday Feb. 3
7-9pm
WISHOPE
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WISHOPE Creativity Nights
Consider attending this new, regularly scheduled workshop series. Include creativity in your recovery process/life!
First in the series will be:
Wednesday, January 17
WISHOPE on Main St.
Email James for more details!
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Spread the LOVE in 2024!
Some wisdom from our Finance Director, Tammie Jo Berg:
"There was a post on social media that I resonated with regarding putting never-ending pressure on ourselves for the New Year, and instead offered the idea of promising to be kinder to ourselves and pledge to rest before our bodies need it. Let's strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are. We are looking at another year being gifted to us, that is full of beauty if we look. And if we can only find the beauty, we would also find peace."
Waupaca Community Arts Board
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