Locally Grown Northfield » Beaux Arts Ball http://locallygrownnorthfield.org The people, issues, and events of Northfield, MN Thu, 24 May 2012 12:52:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Guest photographer: Steve Engler’s Beaux Arts Ball photo album http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14894/ http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14894/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:02:43 +0000 Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14894/ NAG Board member Steve Engler took dozens of photos at the Beaux Arts Ball on Saturday and gave me a disk of them yesterday. I put on my editor’s hat, tossed/cropped a few, and am now pleased to present them here.

Above: Locally Grown’s propriety guidelines prevent me from publishing the rest of

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]]> NAG Board member Steve Engler took dozens of photos at the Beaux Arts Ball on Saturday and gave me a disk of them yesterday. I put on my editor’s hat, tossed/cropped a few, and am now pleased to present them here.

Steve and Lynn Engler Steve and Lynn Engler Steve and Lynn Engler
Above: Locally Grown’s propriety guidelines prevent me from publishing the rest of the series of photos of Steve with his wife, Lynn.

See the album of 60 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:

]]> http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14894/feed/ 0 Photo album, video: NAG’s Beaux Arts Ball http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14879/ http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14879/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:18:30 +0000 Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14879/ Last night’s Beaux Arts Ball, part of Northfield Arts Guild’s 50th Anniversary season, was spectacular. I ratcheted back on the number of photos I took, once I saw that David Henke from the Northfield News and Steve Engler, NAG board member, were also taking lots of photos.  I’ll link to their albums when they

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]]> Last night’s Beaux Arts Ball, part of Northfield Arts Guild’s 50th Anniversary season, was spectacular. I ratcheted back on the number of photos I took, once I saw that David Henke from the Northfield News and Steve Engler, NAG board member, were also taking lots of photos.  I’ll link to their albums when they get them posted. If you were there and have photos, add a comment below with a link.

See the album of 3 dozen photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:

Here’s a 40-second video clip of the dancing:

]]> http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14879/feed/ 4 Photo redux: Sesquicentennial Governors Ball. Shades of next week’s Beaux Arts Ball http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14672/ http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14672/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:40:47 +0000 Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14672/ Northfield’s last big ball was the 2005 Sesquicentennial Governors Ball. Next week will rival it: NAG’s Beaux Arts Ball, part of Northfield Arts Guild’s 50th Anniversary season. I’ll be there with my sweetie, hopefully 1) not stepping on her dancing shoes; and 2) taking better photos than this one.

You can purchase

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]]> Sesquicentennial Governor’s Ball Northfield’s last big ball was the 2005 Sesquicentennial Governors Ball. Next week will rival it: NAG’s Beaux Arts Ball, part of Northfield Arts Guild’s 50th Anniversary season. I’ll be there with my sweetie, hopefully 1) not stepping on her dancing shoes; and 2) taking better photos than this one.

You can purchase tickets online here.

See the album of 147 Governors Ball photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:

]]> http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/14672/feed/ 1 NAG offers ballroom dance classes to prep for Beaux Arts Ball http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/13629/ http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/13629/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000 Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/13629/   Doug Bratland has a Beaux Arts Ball-related calendar listing on Northfield.org titled: Get Ready for the Ball with Dance Lessons!  Here’s the link to the ballroom dance lesson info and registration page on NAG’s website. Tomorrow’s lesson:

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Doug Bratland has a Beaux Arts Ball-related calendar listing on Northfield.org titled: Get Ready for the Ball with Dance Lessons!  Here’s the link to the ballroom dance lesson info and registration page on NAG’s website. Tomorrow’s lesson: Tango.

]]> http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/13629/feed/ 0 Photo album: Ramping up for the NAG’s Beaux Arts Ball http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/13351/ http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/13351/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:02:14 +0000 Griff Wigley http://locallygrownnorthfield.org/post/13351/ BAMG/NEG head honcho Rob Shanilec invited me to a party at Jennifer and Chris Sawyer’s house on Monday to kick off the promo blitz for the big event of the Northfield Arts Guild’s 50th Anniversary season, the Beaux Arts Ball, coming up on Dec. 19 at Carleton College’s Great Hall.

Rob is co-chair

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]]> Rob Shanilec, Beaux Arts Ball co-chairBAMG/NEG head honcho Rob Shanilec invited me to a party at Jennifer and Chris Sawyer’s house on Monday to kick off the promo blitz for the big event of the Northfield Arts Guild’s 50th Anniversary season, the Beaux Arts Ball, coming up on Dec. 19 at Carleton College’s Great Hall.

Rob is co-chair of the event, as he was for the last big ball, the 2005 Sesquicentennial Governors Ball (photo album here, 2007 blog post summary here)

Dan Freeman, tuxedo guy, freelance undertaker, The event will feature music by the Bend in the River Big Band and information about ballroom dancing lessons will soon be leaking out.

Dan Freeman was at the party with his undertaker face and tuxedo on. It’s not too early to contact Dan about a tuxedo for the event.

And you can now purchase tickets online for the Beaux Arts Ball. Don’t wait too long, tho. Only 500 will be sold.

See the album of 21 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:

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