This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Special Events!
Keep the Arts Alive in Faribault
Your Support Makes It All Possible
At Paradise Center for the Arts, we greatly appreciate and rely on generous donors like you to continue offering high-quality arts programming, performances, classes, and exhibits year-round. As a non-profit, fundraisers are essential to our mission—ensuring the arts remain vibrant, accessible, and inspiring for our entire community. Every gift, big or small, helps us keep the curtain rising!
Thursday, August 27th at 7:00 PM
Join us for music trivia with Muck & Tracey! Gather three of your friends and get ready for a fun evening at the Paradise Center for the Arts. Do you think your team has what it takes to win? Teams of four will compete for the title of champion in Paradise's music trivia event! Enjoy yourself while helping raise funds for the Paradise and winning fabulous prizes!
$100 per Team! ($25 Per Person!)
Celebration of the Arts in
Central Park featuring Mixed Precipitation: Pick-up Opera Volume 6 –
Tales of Hoffmann
Thursday, September 10 | Free Event
Join us for an evening of creativity, community, and live performance in Central Park!
5:00 PM – Art-Making Activities
Get hands-on with free, all-ages art activities, including drawing led by Kate Langlais and a wool felting project led by Char Johnson.
7:00 PM – Live Performance
Experience Mixed Precipitation’s
Pick-up Opera Volume 6: Tales of Hoffmann.
Celebrating 18 years of inventive outdoor performances, Mixed Precipitation brings a bold, futuristic twist to The Tales of Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. Follow the adventurous poet Hoffmann as he searches for love and creative inspiration in a world overtaken by technology. Along the way, he encounters ghosts, robots, magicians, and shape-shifting demons in this imaginative, high-energy production.
Blending classical opera with 1990s grunge and R&B, this “Pickup Truck Opera” is a truly one-of-a-kind theatrical experience—accessible, surprising, and fun for all ages.
Community Impact
This event is presented in collaboration with the Community Action Center and the City of Faribault, with support from the Charitable Gambling Advisory Board. Guests are encouraged to bring a canned food item to support the Community Action Center.
PEO Fundraiser: Film, Fun, Fundraiser Movie Night ‘The Post’ (2018)
Friday, September 25th, Social Hour starts at 6:00 PM, Movie starts at 7:30 PM.
Tickets: $21.50 (Includes a $1.50 Processing Fee)
Event Description: Join us for a special showing of The Post, a newsroom drama following Katharine Graham—the first female publisher of a major U.S. newspaper—as she and editor Ben Bradlee race to catch up with The New York Times in an unprecedented First Amendment fight to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets. Social hour at 6 PM, movie at 7:30 PM. A fundraiser for P.E.O. - a sisterhood of women who are passionate about celebrating, supporting and motivating women through education - proceeds go to P.E.O. Chapter AR’s almost 30-year tradition of providing scholarships to Faribault’s female graduates pursuing post-secondary education.
STARTING AT 7PM $12 entry fee per person (Includes a $1.50 Processing Fee) Join hundreds of costumed crawlers this October 30 in historic downtown Faribault for the third annual Fari “BOO” Bar Crawl – a fundraiser for the Paradise Center for The Arts! Registration for the Fari “BOO” Bar Crawl begins at 7 PM at the Paradise and is $12 per person. Between 7-11pm, participants must visit all of the participating bars to be judged for the costume contest. Winners of the costume contest will be announced at 11:30 PM in the Paradise auditorium. Must be 21 and older to participate in this ghoulishly fun-filled event! This event is presented in collaboration with the Historic Downtown Faribault Committee
HOLIDAY DESSERT AUCTION
WITH HANDMADE POTTERY
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 STARTS AT 5PM
The Paradise Center for the Arts invites you to a festive Dessert Auction before and during intermission of Mick Sterling Presents: A Grand Ole Opry Christmas on Friday, December 18. Bidding begins at 5:00 PM and features delicious homemade desserts paired with handmade pottery, generously donated by local businesses, community members, and PCA Pottery Artists. Proceeds support PCA’s performances, visual arts, and educational programs. You do not need to attend the show or be present to win. We hope to see you there!
Sponsored by Fleur de Lis Gallery
