The Week Ahead: Sept. 29-Oct. 5

The Week Ahead is our hand-picked event guide to the next seven days in Sioux Falls and slightly beyond. For guaranteed placement or to promote your event ahead of time, email [email protected] about a featured event listing.

Sept. 29: Downtown Boutique Crawl

You’ve earned it: Take the day off — or at least a few hours — and head downtown to shop, where 11 boutiques will host a Boutique Crawl that goes all the way from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. You’ll find deals, giveaways, snacks, beverages and boutique bingo, where gathering stamps will give you a chance to win. The participating boutiques are:

• T.H. Grey
• Layered Elements Boutique
• Bloom Room
• Threads by Simply Perfect
• JuLiana’s Boutique La Femme
• Chelsea’s
• M.K. Threads
• Primp
• Lauriebelles
• Great Outdoor Store
• Sticks and Steel
• Terra Shepherd

Sept. 30: “12” at Ipso Gallery

Ipso Gallery at Fresh Produce presents “12,” the latest installment in the gallery’s Mystic October series, with an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at 400 N. Main Ave.

Ipso Gallery’s annual Mystic October show invites the public to encounter serendipitous and subtle experiences of the month. Cody Henrichs, artist and Washington Pavilion’s Visual Arts Center curator, will exhibit work that offers an encounter with mysticism through the repetition of the number 12. 

“What if I just hyper-focus on this concept of 12?” Henrichs said about the conception of the show. “I’ve never been able to just so freely make. By just exploring the practice of simple repetition, I might have just cracked something.”

In “12,” Henrichs looks for these patterns in a myriad of places, from mythologies and world religions to Jedi knights and the aodiac, to conjure his works. The show runs through Oct. 31.

Sept. 30: Tell Us Your Story

This has the potential to be memorable. Stop by The Full Circle Book Co-op, 123 W. 10th St., from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday and snag your five minutes at the mic. Share any story, anecdote or dedication — funny, poignant or challenging. Grab a beverage and listen to multiple life-changing stories.

Oct. 1: Dawley Farms Fall Festival

• Pop-up pumpkin patch from Roger’s Country Produce, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Pop-up petting zoo with Finny Mini Farm Sanctuary, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Mr. Twister Balloons, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• McCrossan’s horse-drawn wagon rides, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• Fall-themed photo booth, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

In addition, The Bouquet Bar will be set up with flower bouquets during the event, and many locations will be having fall sales, sneak peaks, offers and promotions.

Oct. 1: Bark in the Park

Pasley Park goes to the dogs from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday. The park 2301 S Southeastern Ave. will host this annual canine competition. Registration includes participation in either a 3K or 5K, a participant bag and a race shirt. Leashed dogs are welcome, and there will be a virtual option. There are multiple contests after the walk, including costume, best trick and sloppiest kiss. The event raises funds for the Sioux Falls Area Humane Society. Click here to learn more.

Oct. 1: Barktoberfest 2022

Look’s Marketplace kicks off this fun annual event with a toast at 1 p.m. Saturday. Fresh sausages, pretzels and, of course, Octoberfest beer will be served throughout the day. Games will include sack races, keg throwing and stein holding. This is a family-friendly event, so bring the kids and enjoy the fun.

Through Oct. 7: “Dick Termes: The Total Picture”

It’s art like no other. Through Oct. 7, visit the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University to see the work of South Dakota native Dick Termes. While working on a master’s degree at the University of Wyoming and Master of Fine Arts at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Termes developed a six-point perspective drawing system. This enables him to capture complete scenes onto spherical canvases that read correctly to the viewer from every angle.

The public will have two opportunities to hear one of South Dakota’s most iconic artists speak about his work. A keynote lecture will be held from 3 to 4 p.m. Oct. 7 in the Fryxell Humanities Center, Room 123, as a part of the South Dakota Art Educators annual conference. Termes also will speak in the gallery at a reception in the evening from 7 to 9 p.m., with an artist gallery talk at 7:30 p.m., which is open and free to the public.

“The visual world is not limited to a rectangle, so why should our visual art be?” Termes said. “Termespheres, as my work has come to be known, free the artistic mind from the limits of the picture frame and allow for the construction of complete and complex artistic environments — realistic or imagined.”

Termes grew up in the Black Hills and returned to live there after teaching in Oregon and Wyoming. Termespheres have been sold all over the world, and Termes has been in frequent demand for lectures and workshops throughout the United States and abroad.

In the Eide/Dalrymple Gallery exhibition, 24 Termespheres hang at eye level from ceiling motors that slowly turn the artwork, which creates interesting optical illusions to the viewer. Although the image is painted on the outside of the convex sphere, the vantage point continuously changes. The rotation also may appear to reverse direction, giving the sensation that the viewer is inside the painting, viewing the concave surface of the inside of the rotating sphere.