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Trollwood Performing Arts School is grateful to receive grant funding from a number of organizations that will support its arts education and performance programming and fund the Trollwood Students at Risk (STAR) program. Trollwood is incredibly grateful to each of the following organizations for supporting its 2022 programming through grant funding: The Arts Partnership: $5,000 for general operations The FM Area Foundation: $3,000 for general operations Fargo-Moorhead Sertoma Club: $2,500 for the STAR program The Kiwanis Club of Fargo: $2,500 for the STAR program Shiloh Masonic Lodge #1: $500 for the STAR program Xcel Energy Foundation: $3,500 for the STAR program [...]

Thank you very much to every single student, staff, volunteer, and anyone else involved with making this summer at Trollwood Performing Arts School one to remember! With all of our summer programming wrapping up this week, we can't call this summer anything but a rousing success. But none of it could have possibly happened without every single person in the Trollwood family. Thank you! We at Trollwood absolutely love providing these programs and opportunities for our students to learn and grow as artists. We love seeing our students' progress throughout the summer and from year to year and nothing beats seeing [...]

Our final summer programs are wrapping up this week as we saw amazing performances from Trollwood Children's Theatre and The Trollwood Players. Seussical Kids had two great performances on Tuesday, while The Best of Trollwood Sketch Comedy had performances on Wednesday and Thursday. We can't believe how fast this summer went, but time flies when you're having fun! Read about and check out pictures from the final week of Trollwood's summer programing in this week's edition of Trollwood Weekly! Click here to view Trollwood Weekly Issue 10

A big huge CONGRATULATIONS to everybody involved with the Totally Trollwood Musical on a tremendous run of Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition! What a huge success the show was. You all should be incredibly proud of the production you all put on! Bravo! Check out the newsletter for photos from the show. Coming up right around the corner this week, we've got the Trollwood Children's Theatre production of Seussical Kids and the Trollwood Players production of The Best of Trollwood Sketch Comedy! Seussical Kids performances are at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. this Tuesday, August 9 at Discovery Middle School. The Best [...]

The performances of the Totally Trollwood Musical The Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition are just days away! The TTM team is in the midst of dress rehearsals and is working hard to put the final touches on their incredible show. Wizard of Oz performances are next Tuesday and Wednesday, August 2-3 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Rehearsals for the Trollwood Children's Theatre production of Seussical Kids and The Trollwood Players' production of The Best of Trollwood Sketch Comedy are wrapping up their second week and their performances are also quickly approaching! The fifth and final week of ArtSpark wraps up with four performances on Friday. It [...]

Things really picked up at Trollwood this week and we've got programs spread out all over the Fargo-Moorhead metro! Totally Trollwood Musical rehearsals are already in full swing at North, while Trollwood Children's Theatre and The Trollwood Players both had their first week of rehearsals at Discovery Middle School and South High School, and ArtSpark returned to the Trollwood campus for its first week of July sessions. Click here to view Trollwood Weekly Issue 7

Totally Trollwood Musical held its first rehearsals this week! The TTM kids have been hard at work this week doing character work and learning their music, blocking, and choreography. The start of Trollwood Children's Theatre and The Trollwood Players is just days away! Both programs hold their first rehearsals next Monday, July 18. TCT (for students in grades 5-6) will rehearse Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to noon at Discovery Middle School in Fargo. TTP (grades 8-12) rehearse Monday-Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Fargo South High School. There are STILL OPENINGS for students to participate in ArtSpark sessions July [...]

It's been a lot quieter around the Trollwood campus this week without all of our students here for classes! But it hasn't been totally lonely this week; Totally Trollwood Musical kicked off with its orientation on Wednesday in the Scheels Living Room. TTM is in the midst of auditions for Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition on Thursday and Friday. Once auditions are wrapped up, TTM will start rehearsals next Monday, July 11 at Fargo North High School! Tickets for Wizard of Oz: Youth Edition are ON SALE NOW! Performances are August 2 & 3 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. We are using a new ticketing [...]

Trollwood Family & Friends, June classes wrapped up with a successful grand finale of Sun Celebration on Wednesday, June 29. We all had so much fun, the last month absolutely flew by! Now we're looking forward to our July programming as Totally Trollwood Musical, Trollwood Children's Theatre, and The Trollwood Players are set to kick off and ArtSpark returns for weeks four and five. Totally Trollwood Musical begins with orientation next Wednesday, July 6 while Trollwood Children's Theatre and Trollwood Players begin rehearsal on Monday, July 18. Check out all details and photos in this week's Trollwood Weekly! Click here to view Trollwood Weekly Issue [...]

The end of summer classes is right around the corner, but it feels like we just got started. It's going too fast! During Week 3 of Trollwood Academy and Totally Trollwood Academy, the students continued building their skills and showing off their talents. Each class spent time this week preparing performances for Share Day on Thursday and Friday to show their peers what they have been working on. And they are looking forward to sharing their accomplishments with the public at Sun Celebration next Wednesday, June 29! The second group of ArtSpark students performed last Friday at Carl Ben Eielson Middle [...]