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  • VIDEO: Behind the Curtain of A Door County Summer Theater

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    Behind the Curtain, and takes viewers behind the scenes at life at Peninsula Players, the so-called “summer camp for artists” in Fish Creek.

  • TAP Announces Cast for “The Gin Game”

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    Third Avenue Playhouse (TAP) announces the cast for D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Gin Game, running Sept. 8 – Oct. 16. TAP’s 2016 summer/fall artist-in-residence Drew Brhel is Weller Martin and TAP favorite Claire Morkin plays Fonsia Dorsey. Humor and psychological warfare crackle over a card game between two quick-witted residents of an assisted […]

  • Peninsula Players Presents “Alabama Story”

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    Peninsula Players Theatre continues its 81st season when it presents the Midwest premiere of Kenneth Jones’ Alabama Story, playing now through Sept. 4. Inspired by actual events in 1959, Alabama Story centers on a fearless, no-nonsense librarian, a vocal segregationist senator and an innocent children’s book. In a parallel story, childhood friends Joshua and Lilly, […]

  • Singing Men of Oak Brook Take Sturgeon Bay

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    The Singing Men of Oak Brook are coming to the Sturgeon Bay and Jacksonport United Methodist churches on Aug. 28. They’ll offer a concert during services at Jacksonport United Methodist Church at 9 am, located at 6154 Cave Point Drive in Jacksonport (near the corner of Cave Point Drive and Highway 57), and then at […]

  • Birch Creek Announces 2016 Fall Concert Series

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    Birch Creek Music Performance Center in Egg Harbor will host six evening concerts this fall/winter from Aug. 27 to Dec. 3 as part of its 2016 Fall Concert Series. The Fall Concert Series begins Aug. 27, 7:30 pm, in the Dutton Concert Barn, with a performance from The MC Swingtet. Led by jazz guitarist Steve […]

  • Midsummer’s Music Festival Resumes Aug. 23

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    Midsummer’s Music Festival resumes concerts Aug. 23 with the French Inflections program featuring three piano trios written by French composers. Charles-Édouard Lefebvre’s Ballade unites flute, cello and piano in a fairly short piece that exemplifies the Romantic Movement. Maurice Ravel, who is best known for Boléro, wrote his Basque-inspired Piano Trio in A Minor in […]

  • Colorful Fall Ceramics at Artzy Studio

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    Artzy Studio presents its new autumn line of ceramics in festive fall shapes and colors. There are trays shaped like ceramic leaves in almost every color of apple green, harvest brown and pumpkin orange. There is also a variety of orange pumpkin platters, also a new addition to the line. There is also every color […]

  • Local Artists Included in Door County Wearable Art Show

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    The second of three Door County Wearable Art Shows is Aug. 27, 9 am – 5pm, & 28, 10 am – 4 pm, at the Sister Bay Village Hall. A wide range of styles, sizes and prices are available for one-of-a-kind women who want original designs in contemporary, artist-made women’s clothing, accessories and jewelry. Sue […]

  • Björklunden Workshop for All Poetry Styles

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    A poetry workshop, “Inside the Box, Outside the Frame: Writing Poetry Your Way,” will be held at Björklunden from Sept. 11-16. This poetry workshop is designed for poets of all preferences, styles and approaches, whether their poems usually lean toward the free and easy, the experimental, the playful, or the gracefully structured and intricate. Some […]

  • Beautiful Webs of Silver and Gold at Plum Bottom

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    Plum Bottom Pottery and Gallery is proud to feature the latest work of resident jewelry artist Angela Olson-Luberger. Working in sterling silver and gold, Olson weaves intricate patterns of metals producing beautiful webs of silver and gold. She also features a variety of gemstones in her work, creating matrixes of color within the wirework patterns. […]

  • The Bestseller List: Aug. 16, 2016

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    TRADE PAPERBACK FICTION 1. A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman 2. The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins 3. The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen 4. Me Before You, by Jojo Moyes 5. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, by Fredrik Backman   TRADE PAPERBACK NONFICTION 1. The Boys in […]

  • Baileys Harbor Photographer Included in Madison Exhibit

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    “Atonement” by Arlene Stanger of Baileys Harbor has been juried into the 2016 Photo Midwest Festival Exhibition at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison. The exhibit will run from Sept. 9 through Dec. 5, 2016. Stanger’s images have been juried into galleries here in Door County and have been included in the Hal […]

  • Enter Raffle for Emmett Johns Painting

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    Peninsula Preschool is excited to announce the second-year partnership with The Hardy Gallery as part of the “Art from the Heart” raffle. This summer, Peninsula Preschool and The Hardy Gallery are selling raffle tickets to win an original painting by well-known Door County artist Emmett Johns. Johns’s painting is titled “One Still Moment in Time,” […]

  • Draw Doco Silent Auction Benefits Community

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    Draw Doco presents a figurative drawing and painting exhibition at Base Camp Coffee Bar from Aug. 18 through Aug. 31. Come celebrate the human body while helping others in your community. Artwork will be up for silent auction. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a member of the community in need. The […]

  • Unexpected Pairings at Woodwalk Gallery

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    Woodwalk Gallery is featuring artists Tom Maakestad, Dale Vanden Houten, Tom Jenz and Cynthia Linnabary with an interesting combination of 2 and 3-dimensional works. Experience the pairing of the contemporary infused with organic energy. Diverse mediums juxtaposed to reveal an unexpected harmony and beauty. Tom Maakestad is just returned from working in Austria for a […]

  • Abstract Photography at Art League Gallery

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    Nationally recognized photographer Steve Stanger is The Gallery of the Door County Art League’s self-taught artist of the week beginning Aug. 20. Stanger’s abstract photography has received numerous awards in Door County including the Pulse’s Hal Prize in 2012 and 2014; the Miller Juried Exhibit 2014; the Hardy Gallery Juried Annual in 2014; and a […]

  • Jewelry Artist Joins Cappaert Contemporary Gallery

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    Jewelry artist Shelly Thrall is now represented in Door County at Cappaert Contemporary Gallery in Egg Harbor. Thrall mixes sterling silver, copper, brass and found objects in her jewelry designs that look organic and well worn. She often leaves the marks and imperfections made during the hand-building process to enrich the finished pieces. Thrall uses […]

  • Sculptor Bren Sibilsky Wins Two International Awards

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    Bren Sibilsky, an Algoma artist, received two awards in the recent Manhattan Arts International show, “The Healing Power of ART 2016.” The show’s purpose is to promote the scientifically proven fact that art heals by transforming one’s physiological state and perception. According to the curator, Renee Phillips, “Historically, Manhattan Arts International has attracted the most […]

  • Valmy Thresheree 2016 Schedule

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    August is a time to reflect on the days gone by, and in Valmy, things are cranking up because it’s thresheree time. See first-hand agricultural equipment in operation that was used from the years of 1900 until about 1960. The thresheree runs Aug. 19 – 21. Below is a schedule of events.   Friday, Aug. […]

  • Valmy Thresheree Chainsaw Competition

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    Want to channel your inner lumberjack? The Valmy Thresheree hosts a chainsaw competition on Saturday morning for anyone and everyone looking for a woodcutting challenge. There are anywhere between 10 and 15 divisions, with each division reserved for a specific class of chainsaw. Within these divisions are separate sections for stock, antique, and modified saws. […]