Community Calendar

Get ready for TWO DAYS of shopping, sipping, eating, and treasure hunting at the Swanky Chic Junk Boutique! 🎉🛍️ Swanky is basically a twice a year Vendor Party…uh, we mean Vendor Show! 😉 We pack the Marriott Event Center in South Sioux City with some of the BEST vendors around and turn it into one big, lively indoor market filled with handmade goods, vintage treasures, boutique finds, repurposed and refurbished pieces, rustic and primitive décor, retro goodies, home décor, unique gifts, and plenty of things you didn't know you needed until you saw them! But Swanky isn't just about the shopping. Grab your girlfriends, bring your favorite shopping buddy, and make a day of it! We'll have LIVE MUSIC 🎶, Bloody Marys 🍹, delicious food trucks 🌮, and two days of shopping from an incredible lineup of small businesses and vendors. Join us Friday, October 16 from 2 PM to 8 PM and Saturday, October 17 from 9 AM to 4 PM at the Marriott Event Center in South Sioux City, NE. Come hungry. Come thirsty. Come ready to shop. And maybe clear a little extra room in the trunk! 😂 We can't wait to see you at SWANKY! 💕

The National Music Museum presents an extraordinary evening with world-renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine on Saturday, October 17th, at 7:00 p.m. in Vermillion, SD.

Hear Pine perform on two of the museum’s most treasured instruments: the 1668 Jacob Stainer violin—not played publicly since it arrived at the NMM in 1989—and the 1693 ‘Harrison’ Stradivari, last heard in 2003. The concert will also debut the 2025 ‘Harrison’ Strad 2.0, a faithful replica created by leading violin-making schools.

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear history brought to life, as centuries-old craftsmanship meets world-class artistry.

Travel from the ballrooms of Vienna to the grandeur of ancient Rome in an evening of dazzling orchestral color. Ravel's La Valse whirls the Viennese waltz to its glittering breaking point, while Respighi's Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals unleash the full might of the orchestra — from hushed catacombs to an ancient army on the march — in one of the most thunderous finales in all of music.

On October 18, 2026, at 2:00pm the Betty Strong Encounter Center welcomes talented guitar player/singer Mark Buckingham. Admission is free, but freewill donations are encouraged.

Mark Buckingham started playing guitar at age of 12. Playing rhythm guitar with his dad, a Honky-tonk piano player, Mark has played in many different places. While serving in the US Army, Mark started playing banjo. He has been in a variety of band types, including Bluegrass, Americana, and Country.

Currently, Mark plays at various places: assisted living homes, nursing homes, music festivals, and more. Mark plays a variety of instruments, including piano, guitar, bass, harmonica, lap steel guitar, banjo, and penny whistle. Mark is looking forward to playing a variety of music styles, from Country to Bluegrass to 60s/70s and gospel.

Macramé is back! Now you can learn (relearn) it and make a beautiful creation to hang proudly in your home or give away as a treasured hand-made gift! This is a 2-part session because of the technique and care that you will want to take with your project. The great thing about Macramé is that if you’re good at tying knots, you’re going to be a natural! With professional instruction, you’ll leave with your very own work of art!
Registration with “What’s on Wednesday, Mom’s Time Out” is required.

The Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center Betty Strong Community Center is hosting Barbara Clifton Gross on October 21, 2026, at 6:00pm. She will be reading from her new novel Nine Lives of Pshrr. Local readers and literature enthusiasts are encouraged to attend. Admission is free, but freewill donations are encouraged.

Barbara Clifton Gross has worked as a radio disc jockey, a TV reporter and anchor, an advertising copywriter and brand manager, the owner/operator of a B&B on the California coast, a bookseller, a librarian, and a foster mom for rescue dogs.

Throughout her varied career, she has been writing fiction. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in The Briar Cliff Review and Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. Nine Lives of Pshrr is her second novel. Barbara lives near Sioux City, Iowa, with her husband, two dogs, one cat, sixteen hens, and four hives of honeybees.

Notable individuals who shaped local history will be featured in the Sioux City Public Museum’s free Logan Park Cemetery Walking Tour on Saturday, October 24. Starting from the cemetery entrance at 3901 Stone Park Boulevard at 10 a.m., the 90-minute tour will be led by Tom Munson, the Museum’s Archives Manager, and Haley Aguirre, Archival Records Clerk.

The Siouxland Polar plunge raises money for our local Sioux City Knights team so we can provide opportunities for our athletes to participate in 15 sports year round. It helps with costs for travel to state games, facility rentals, uniforms and equipment.

Get into the Halloween spirit at the National Music Museum on Saturday, October 24! Enjoy haunting melodies performed on the NMM's 200-year-old Dieffenbach pipe organ (NMM 04905), followed by a chance to discover how pipe organs work through the NMM's “Organ Experience,” featuring the assembly of a miniature pipe organ. Performances at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Admission is free, thanks to the Margaret Ann Martin Everist Foundation. Visit nmmusd.org.

A workshop focusing on knowing your rights, where they come from, and how our legal system interacts with them.