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.

Past Arts A’Fair participants include:

• An Afternoon with Benjamin and Thom and Thom and Benjamin
• 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
• Colombia Live
• Continental Ballet Company
• Dreamland Arts
• Duniya Drum & Dance
• Green T Productions
• HUGE Improv Theater
• Ifrah Mansour
• In the Heart of the Beast Puppet & Mask Theatre
• Interact Theater
• 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
• New Native Theatre
• Open Eye Theatre
• Ragamala Training Center
• Rubber Chicken Theater
• Rhythmically Speaking
• Shakespeare & Company
• Skylark Opera Theatre
• Sod House Theater
• South Asian Arts & Theater House
• Stages Theatre Company
• Street Sweeper Cirkus
• Summerset Theatre
• TaikoArts Midwest
• That Clown Show
• The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company
• The State Fair Fitness Fanatics Comedy Show
• 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
• Youth Performance Company
• Z Puppets Rosenschnoz
• Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre

Interested in performing? Learn more about becoming an entertainer at the fair.