Bucket Brigade’s Spring Giving Campaign 2025: Let’s Grow!

Living things grow. They just do. It’s a beautifully natural process—a wonder to behold each spring as slumbering seeds wake to send tenacious sprouts up and steadying roots down. And, given the right conditions, those seedlings can flourish—spreading glorious evidence everywhere. Evidence that life goes on and on and on.

Art is similarly alive—pulsing with creative energy. Starting with a seed of an idea, and with care, attention and hard work, growing into something beautiful. We’ve experienced that miraculous journey over and over again through Bucket Brigade as we’ve written, developed and produced original theater with professional artists and student-artists for the past 14+ years.

This spring celebrate the growth and development of our newest piece of original theater, Shanty Boys of Pine County: Stories, Songs and Legends of Northwoods Lumbermen! Fresh off the success of our original show about the Hinckley Fire, it’s a musical telling the story of northwoods lumbermen though traditional Irish and lumber camp songs– featuring two storytellers, two musicians, a stack of songs, a heap of of stories, and a pile of lumber that creatively transforms as the rollicking adventure unfolds.

Join us on this journey of growth and creative possibility!

Here are two ways you can help us grow good things:

• Help us reach our Spring Fundraising goal of $12,500 by giving now through May 26th, so we can bring our new show, Survivors of the Fire, back to the Hinckley Fire Museum this fall to commemorate the 131st anniversary of the Fire! And, so we can premiere our even-newer show, Shanty Boys of Pine County, at the Hinckley Fire Museum (and hopefully Saint Paul) next Spring, 2026!

• Come celebrate with us at our 7th Annual Spring Smorgasbord, Thursday, May 22nd 7:30pm, at Art House North! You’ll be the first to see our brand-new-show-in-development, Shanty Boys of Pine County: Stories, Songs and Legends of Northwoods Lumbermen! It’s a musical telling the story of northwoods lumbermen featuring two storytellers, two musicians, a stack of traditional lumber camp songs, a heap of unforgettable stories, and a pile of lumber that creatively transforms as the rollicking adventure unfolds. Plus, you’ll enjoy a mini-charcuterie with all sorts of savory delights, an assortment of sweet treats from our neighborhood bakery, Brake Bread, freshly brewed coffee, and delicious mocktails.

Let’s grow good things. Together.

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