Annual Pie and Pumpkin Oktoberfest at the Landmark Center this Saturday, Oct. 9 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. featuring fresh baked pie, pumpkin painting, Scribblebooth activities with the Scribbletastic Fun-O-Matic Command Post, and Live Bluegrass music by The Skally Line. 

This free event is funded in part by a Thrivent Action Team project, and by the Caryl Lewis Music Fund. Space is still available for Barn Quilt Painting workshop on Sunday, Oct. 10 from 1-5 p.m. An $80 registration fee includes all paint, tape, designs, instruction and a pre-primed aluminum board to create your custom quilt for display indoors or outdoors. Please RSVP by calling 548-5760 in advance as space is limited.

Artists Bill and Mimi Seykora will host a one-day RAKU ceramics event on Saturday, Oct. 16 outside the Landmark Station area. A $35 registration fee includes a pre-made ceramic pot of your choice, and all materials and instruction needed to burn designs into this pot using horsehair and feathers. Space is limited to 24 people and will be divided into two firing groups of 12, meeting at 10 a.m. or 1 p.m. Four pots will enter the kiln at a time for heating to 1800 degrees You will then have only a few minutes to burn-in your designs. Call 548-5760 soon to RSVP while space remains, we are already half full. 

“This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Lake Region Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage fund.”

The Mary Smith Basket Weaving Workshop will be re-scheduled for April 2022. 

Beverage and a Book readers group will meet from 2-4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26 to discuss “Angela’s Ashes.” Copies of this book are available at Landmark for those wishing to join the discussion. 

Former Landmark Director, Sharon Thalmann, is producing and directing a Shakespear Play entitled “The Lion in Winter”and will bring it to Henning in October. The Landmark Center will host this production at the Trinity Center with a single evening performance scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. 

Tickets are $15 for adults, and $10 for youth. Please call the Landmark Center at 548-5760 to reserve your theater tickets.