Kindred Area Arts Partnership

05/13/2026

See you tonight to celebrate our students in the arts!

05/13/2026

🗓Fine Arts Night & Dessert
May 13 @ 6:30- 8:30 pm
KPAC
Kindred, ND
*free - no tickets needed
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Join us at Fine Arts Night - a celebration of students in Kindred Fine Arts including art, speech, theatre, yearbook and awards. The art and dessert night includes performances and visual art displays from the culmination of the 25-26 school year. Thank you to Melissa Pratt's Piano and Woodwind Studio students for providing music in the commons.
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Opening the event in the Kindred Performing Arts Center (KPAC) is KHS student band The Rip-Offs performing their first public gig. Members include Carson Gette, Max Bernier, Thor Patenaude and Isaac Johnson. The KHS jazz band and show choir will also perform. You won't want to miss it!
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Enjoy cheesecake from Stephanie at Morning.Glory and cookies from Kristal's Kookies! Love our local bakers 💖

05/11/2026

The Kindred Area Arts Partnership is excited to announce an opportunity for our community to enjoy a theater experience together again this summer at the Trollwood Performing Arts School rendition of "Frozen" led by the Nesler family!
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🗓Join us for "KAAP Community Night@Trollwood" Wednesday, July 29th - cheering on our own KHS student's BECCA FIESEL, PARKER BUBACH, MALORY MOLINE and ELLIOTT WOLF in the show!
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OPTION 1: $15 a person. This price includes a seat in the reserved section and a special tour of the grounds and backstage before the show. *backstage tour starts at 7:30 pm. (please note there is no picnic supper this year)
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OPTION 2: $10 a person. This price includes a seat in general admission. *show starts at 8:30pm
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Join us and wear your Kindred Viking gear! Limited tickets available at https://www.kindredkaap.org/event-details/26-kaap-night-trollwood

05/08/2026

Chilly Chalkfest ’26 for grades 5-8 is in the books! Thanks to all the teachers, students and Mr. Morin's high school art club who set up and participated to make this years event a success!

🎨Thank you to Kindred Parks & Rec for the addition of “Kitefest” this year
🎨Thank you to RDO and Kindred Ambulance for bringing equipment over for the students to see
🎨Anytime Fun inflatables were a hit - thanks Kindred Booster Club for sponsoring
🎨We so appreciated our First Community Credit Union volunteers again this year - thanks for helping!
🎨Tea and hot chocolate was a hit thanks to Joy at Twisted Jz’s
🎨Thanks to local blacksmith and mayor Darrel Kersting for his blacksmith demonstration and Viking shield exhibit
🎨The karaoke and jam out station were busy all day - thanks for set up Mr. Nesler
🎨Photo credits to seniors Ben Pfeifer and Dexter Lee

Thank you to Anna Paige from The Forum (who was just a KAAP Artist in Residence in 3rd grade with her Young Poets progam) for supporting rural arts and covering the event on Wednesday! https://www.inforum.com/lifestyle/arts-and-entertainment/photos-kindred-gets-colorful-during-annual-chalkfest

05/07/2026

See student band The Rip Offs LIVE in concert!

KHS student band The Rip Offs will perform their first public gig in the KPAC (Kindred Performing Arts Center) located in the Kindred High School. Members include Carson Gette, Max Bernier, Thor Patenaude and Isaac Johnson.

Fine Arts Night
May 13 @ 6:30 pm
KPAC
Kindred, ND
*free - no tickets needed

Fine Arts Night is a celebration of students in Kindred Fine Arts including art, speech, theatre, yearbook and awards. The art and dessert night includes performances and visual art displays from the culmination of the 25-26 school year. Dessert will be served as people mingle and enjoy the evening together!

More info at kindredKAAP.org

05/05/2026

KAAP was proud to support these forty KHS music students with a "team meal" Friday night before their performance at State Music on Saturday! Thanks for making our community proud!
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⭐Star rating: 16 performances

OP or "Outstanding Performance” rating: 3 performances
💫“Non so piu, cosa son, cosa faccio”
Girls Vocal Solo
Becca Fiesel
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💫“Ain’t Judgin’ No Man”
Mixed Vocal Ensemble
Lyla Kittelson, Becca Fiesel, Sydney Stock, Clare Weber,
Ava Bergh, Malory Moline, Elliott Wolf, Carson Gette,
Parker Bubach, Thor Patenaude, Max Bernier, Sam Bernier
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💫“Sing to Me”
Mixed Vocal Ensemble
Lyla Kittelson, Clare Weber, Carson Gette, Thor Patenaude

View photos and performances at https://www.kindred.k12.nd.us/!

05/03/2026

Congratulations everyone 🥳

⭐️Congratulations to Mrs.Roesler and her crew of Vikings who brought home stars for 16 of their 21 entries at State Music today! 🎵🎶🎵
Outstanding Performances are announced at a later date…stay tuned🤞🏼

05/01/2026

Good luck to our KHS students at State Music this weekend 🥳

05/01/2026

Thank you to ANNA PAIGE of Young Poets for spending twelve weeks in Kindred as a poetry Artist in Residence with our third graders! This residency was sponsored by a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts. Two special guests, musician Steve Stine and dancer/poet Katie Bruckbauer, Word Dances, were also able to join us through a grant from the Kindred Area Community Foundation.
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“Founded in 2012, Young Poets encourages students to express themselves through poetry. In collaboration with the Kindred Area Arts Partnership (KAAP) and the North Dakota Council on the Arts, we were able to expand the program into North Dakota, with Kindred Elementary being our first school! The Young Poets program aims to make poetry fun and accessible while teaching creative writing and critical thinking skills. Students share their perspective through writing and reading their original works out loud. It’s been my honor to bring this program to Kindred.” —Anna Paige, instructor and co-founder, Young Poets
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The third grade published anthology of poems can be found in the community collection at the Kindred Public Library on Elm Street!

04/25/2026

CONGRATULATIONS to the KHS Speech team! KAAP is so proud to cheer you on in another successful year 🥳

Mark your calendars for Fine Arts Night in the Kindred Performing Arts Center! You'll experience a chance to celebrate these students through a sampler of the Kindred High School arts including speeches and a debut by our own student band "The Rip Offs."

04/23/2026

🫟Reminder: Art Show is TOMORROW in Kindred, ND at the KPAC (Kindred Performing Arts Center) from 4-7 pm!

View the Kindred grade 6 paper mache creations from Artist in Residence Tami Sirek and the curated artwork on display and for sale by Fargo Fine Art (Kate Baldock and Laura Rettig Art studios).