Sketches of Minnesota 2025 Tour Stops
The Sketches of Minnesota Tour, a partnership with the Minnesota Humanities Center, starts next week! Here's a short video that gives and overview of what each event is like.
We're visiting 10 cities throughout Minnesota, do you which ones? Check them out below and register here: https://www.mnhum.org/program/sketches-of-minnesota/
Each event will open with a meal and facilitated conversation, asking audience members to share what makes their town great, what they think people get wrong about it, what local divisions concern them, and what future they imagine. An improv troupe from Danger Boat Productions will listen in on the conversations, then take everything they heard from residents and bring it to life on stage through entirely unscripted improv comedy theater.
Tour Stops
A Minnesota map of Sketches of 2025 tour stops.
August 12 - Braham Area, Arc Retreat Community
August 14 - New Ulm, New Ulm Turner Hall
August 28 - Rochester, Rochester Art Center
September 6 - Minneapolis, Kingfield Neighborhood Association
September 20 - Deerwood, Clearwater Forest Camp and Retreat Center
October 3 - Fergus Falls, City of Fergus Falls
October 10 - Rosemount, City of Rosemount
October 11 - Bigfork, Edge of the Wilderness
October 18 - Fosston, Firefly Center of Art & Wellbeing
October 27 - Otter Tail County, New York Mills Arts Retreat and Regional Cultural Center
When it’s all over…
At the conclusion of the tour, Danger Boat’s sketch writer will weave the best parts of each performance into a final soon-to-be-announced show. This grand finale will offer a whirlwind tour of Minnesota through sketch comedy, song, and story. The aim of Sketches of Minnesota is to foster understanding within and across communities, celebrate the state’s diversity, and showcase what residents cherish most about their corner of Minnesota. Learn more about Sketches of Minnesota at mnhum.org/sketches.
About the Minnesota Humanities Center and Danger Boat Productions:
The Minnesota Humanities Center sparks positive change by increasing our collective understanding of ourselves, our communities, and our histories through stories and experiences. Explore its programming and grantmaking at mnhum.org.
Danger Boat Productions uses comedy and improv to bring “hard thinky” things to life. It is best known as the parent for The Theater of Public Policy, which has been doing policy-inspired improv comedy shows since 2011.
Sketches of Minnesota is funded in part with money from the Clean Water, Land and; Legacy Fund that was created with the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008, by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the Initiative Foundation, a regional foundation.