A local celebration of international World Water Day, a day to celebrate fresh water, will be help at Dahl Arts Center. This free event will include a concert, a silent auction with unique items to bid on, and delicious snacks from Breadroot Coop. Vibrant, foot-stomping performances by musicians and spoken-word poets will be interspersed with brief information sharing about how South Dakotans can protect our precious water supplies.

The River Liffey Boys will begin the celebration with throbbing bluegrass and Celtic rhythms, followed by performers Steve Thorpe, and then Linda Boyle whose songs that will inspire your deepest connection to the land and water. Spoken word poets from Pine Ridge will illuminate the connections between clean water and Indigenous rights, which will weave together past resistance to oppression with future tasks, and singer Anna Robbins will celebrate the spirit of water in all of us to inspire your inner water protector.

A silent auction featuring textiles, photos, paintings, quilts, jewelry, two baskets of music CDs featuring local musicians, and a basket featuring local food products will be held. Artists will be present with items for sale including Jean Roach, silver work artist, Lily Mendoza from Bird Cage Bookstore, Galen LaRouche’s landscape stitched photographs and Sylvia Lambert, a talented nature photographer from Interior, will be selling whimsical greeting cards. Booths will provide additional information about protecting the region’s water from depletion and pollution caused by toxic mining.

In honor of World Water Day, we’ll also celebrate the closing of the Crow Butte ISL uranium mines in Nebraska and Wyoming. Over the years, the Oglala people, lawyers and allies have worked tirelessly to protect their ground water from the pollutants that are the inevitable result from such mining.

Admission to this event is free, and all ages are warmly invited.

Europe in water drops – Elements furnished by NASA