Belle Thalia Creative Arts Space

05/30/2026

Come that night for the Sister Song Concert but ALSO CELEBRATE with JOY ~~~20 years of art making by the Mask & Rose Women's Theater Collective as were founded in 2006 !! We added up the art offerings for community and in collaboration with many local groups as well as some of our favorite collaborations with Minneapolis / St. Paul and even NYC art organizations & here is what we are celebrating !
DRUM ROLL !! Here are the numbers over 20 years , and we have been busy !
Full adult theater productions - 17
Youth productions / camps- 8
Original theater works - 8 one taken to NYC
Supporting staged readings of other artists' original works - 5
Collaborations with groups such as BSU , Jaycees , Long Lake Theater , Walker Theater By the Bay , Theater Unbound , Ten Thousand Things Theater , Tiger Lion Arts , Mixed Precipitation , zAmya Theater , Taos Khazem, the Coldharts , DeFrost Project out of NYC - 10
& Concerts and other items such as a "She Wrights" and "Little Black Ink" women's playwright festivals .
Two festivals - "Taste of the Arts" and "Bikes and Arts Fest" as well as a celebration of the theater community with the "Oxcars" were also produced by the Mask and Rose!

Cake celebrating 20 years and beverages will be served before the concert 6:00 PM . Donna Alena Hrabcakova 's original wearable fashions will be displayed and for sale in the Fleur de Lis Gallery at 5:00 PM that night as well !

05/25/2026

June 27th at 6:30 PM out at Belle Thalia Creative Arts Space ! Always a wonderful concert and 2 scholarhips given to two female artists ! The Mask and Rose Theater on the campus of Belle Thalia Creative Arts Space is presenting its 6th Sister Song Celebration Concert on Saturday , June 27th at 6:30 PM in an outdoor concert (moving inside the Wild Rose theater in inclementweather ) . Two $500. musical scholarships will be awarded to two up and coming female musical artists. Other artists presenting are Miriam Tell , Maren Eichman , Mary Overlie ,Makafui Kossivi and many others soon joining the lineup . The scholarship concert will be MCed by Artistic Director of the Mask and Rose , Cate Belleveau . Please bring your own chairs or blankets , water bottle , and bug spray . The entrance is sliding fee $5.00 - $15. pay what you are able to support future scholarships & concerts .The location is 24011 Highway 89 NW Puposky .The Fleur de Lis Gallery is featuring the art work & wearable art original fashions of Slovakian artist Donna Alena Hrabcakova , and she will be on hand to speakabout her work and her ancestral home only 27 miles from Ukraine . [email protected] with questions . “This activity is made possible, in part, by a grant provided by the Bemidji Area Arts Endowment, a component fund of the Northwest Minnesota Foundation.”

05/12/2026

Not too far away ! The Sister Song Celebration Concert 2026 out at the Belle Thalia outdoor stage ( inside if it rains ) . Put on your calendars . Here is a link to a concert a few years back . Always a joy ! Two scholarships will be awarded to some local female musicians to move them ahead in which ever they need to move ahead . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOzjpJbaBdc&feature=share...

04/20/2026

Be there !! Looks too be a in the mid 70's glorious spring Earth Day ! Dance , music , poetry , and readings as we REDIDICATE ourselves to make EVERY DAY EARTHDAY ! 5:00 PM April 22nd at the Beltrami County Courthouse Stage ( bring a chair ! ) Free ill offering for Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness !

03/11/2026

With our personal love of the Boundary Waters Canoe and Wilderness Area , and the threats it currently faces , we are pleased to announce that we have locked in a one night only performance of the Root Beer Lady theater production way out on Sept. 5th at the Wild Rose . Stay tuned at www.maskrose.com
https://www.mprnews.org/.../sweet-treat-a-onewoman-play...

11/20/2025

https://www.givemn.org/story/Ah96lf

Help the Mask & Rose purchase lithium batteries for our unique off grid solar only performance space

09/27/2025

Hope you will get this brilliant night celebrating the arts on your calendar AND SUPPORT BEMIDJI AREA ARTS ENDOWMENT !! BAAE supports so much GREAT art happening in our community . They are getting QR code in on the poster soon , but wanted you to get this on your calendars .

09/15/2025

For Immediate Release :

Cate Belleveau
[email protected]

The Mask and Rose Theater continues its modern dance film series on :

September 26th at 7:00 PM . At the Wild Rose Theater - 24011 Highway 89 NW
Puposky , MN 56667
Sliding fee pay what try are able $5.00- 10.00 .

Our featured modern dance film is :

FEÛ - Fouad Boussouf

Description :

Fire and femininity collide in this electrifying performance by choreographer Fouad Boussouf, captured with rare intimacy by director Luc Riolon. ��Inspired by Boussouf's Moroccan roots and the elemental force of fire, nine female dancers unleash a genre-blending ritual of movement that is powerful , urgent, and unrelenting. Shot in a 360-degree space, the camera draws viewers into the circle as bodies ignite, collapse, and rise again in relentless motion. Each dancer channels fire's many forms: eruption, ember, and smoke, fusing hip-hop, contemporary, and North African styles into a hypnotic, communal trance. ��Driven by François Caffenne's pulsing score, this primal meditation on strength, memory, and transformation blazes with cyclical energy. What remains is not just a performance but a living force that is defiant and fiercely alive.

“This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota, through a grant from the Region 2 Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund."

09/14/2025

09/14/2025

We so loved playing host today to the Mixed Precipitation opera company ! A late summer day celebrating the arts with fellow creatives in the meadows of Puposkyzstan!