Arts A’Fair

Arts A’Fair

Arts A’Fair strives to showcase the best of the vibrant performing arts community throughout the state of Minnesota and aims to present a wide and exemplary range of genres, cultures, ages and expertise. Arts organizations and individual performing artists are selected each year to entertain fair guests in pop-up showcases throughout the fairgrounds.

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2024 Arts A’Fair Schedule:

Aug. 22-23

• 9:30, 10:15, 11:45 a.m., 12:30 p.m.: Colombia Live
• 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30 p.m.: Youth Performance Company
• 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30 p.m.: Collide Theatrical Dance Company

Aug. 24-25

• 9:30, 10:15, 11:45 a.m., 12:30 p.m.: Ragamala Training Center
• 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30 p.m.: Twin Cities Trapeze
• 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30 p.m.: Shakespeare & Company

Aug. 26-27

• 9:30, 10:15, 11:45 a.m., 12:30 p.m.: New Native Theatre
• 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30 p.m.: The State Fair Fitness Fanatics Comedy Show
• 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30 p.m.: Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre

Aug. 28-29

• 9:30, 10:15, 11:45 a.m., 12:30 p.m.: Interact Theater
• 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30 p.m.: Rhythmically Speaking
• 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30 p.m.: An Afternoon with Benjamin and Thom and Thom and Benjamin

Aug. 30-31

• 9:30, 10:15, 11:45 a.m., 12:30 p.m.: Continental Ballet Company
• 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30 p.m.: Keane Sense of Rhythm
• 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30 p.m.: The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company

Sept. 1-2

• 9:30, 10:15, 11:45 a.m., 12:30 p.m.: CAAM Chinese Dance Theater
• 10:30, 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30 p.m.: Open Eye Theatre
• 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:30 p.m.: Mexica Yolotl

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For further information, please email artsafair@mnstatefair.org or call 651-288-4395.

Past Arts A’Fair participants include:

• Ballet Minnesota
• Black Storytellers Alliance
• Bucket Brigade Theater
• CAAM Chinese Dance Theater
• Captain Willy DeWitt – Comedy Stunt Show
• Carly Wicks
• Children’s Theatre Company
• Chicks on Sticks
• Collide Theatrical Dance Company
• Dreamland Arts
• Duniya Drum & Dance
• Green T Productions
• Grupo de Danzas Colombianas in MN
• HUGE Improv Theater
• Ifrah Mansour
• In the Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theatre
• Interact Theater Company
• James Sewell Ballet
• Keane Sense of Rhythm
• Little Coyote Puppet Theater + Pinwheel Arts and Movement Studio
• Live Action Set
• Lyric Arts Main Street Stage
• Mexica Yolotl
• Minnesota Centennial Showboat
• Minnesota History Theatre
• Mixed Precipitation
• Mu Performing Arts
• Open Eye Theatre
• Rubber Chicken Theater
• Rhythmically Speaking
• Shakespeare & Company
• Skylark Opera Theatre
• Sod House Theater
• South Asian Arts & Theater House
• Stages Theatre Company
• Street Sweeper Cirkus
• Students of the Ragamala Training Center
• Summerset Theatre
• TaikoArts Midwest
• That Clown Show
• The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company
• Theater for the Thirsty
• Theatre Elision
• Theatre of Fools
• Theatre Unbound
• TigerLion Arts
• Twin Cities Trapeze Center
• Voice of Culture Drum & Dance
• Yellow Apple Circus
• Z Puppets Rosenschnoz
• Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre