Category: Indoor Activities
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“Pretty Woman” Screened for Winter Film Fest
The Donna Film Fest at Third Avenue Playhouse presents Pretty Woman on Feb. 8 at 7 pm. In the film directed by Garry Marshall, a man in a legal, but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets…only to fall in love.
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Upcoming Roundtable and Wisdom Wednesday at YMCA
Upcoming programs sponsored by the Sturgeon Bay YMCA include a Wisdom Wednesday program, and a Workplace Wellness Roundtable. The topic for the Feb. 5 Wisdom Wednesday presentation is “Spring Planting & Landscaping Ideas” with John Meredith, owner of Lakeshores Landscape.
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Baileys Harbor Introduces Kids Activity Days
Looking for a kid-friendly way to spend the afternoon? The Baileys Harbor Community Association and the Town of Baileys Harbor are hosting kids activity days this winter.
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Learn “How Geology Determined Our History” at Crossroads
A history lecture, “How Geology Determined Our History,” will be given at Crossroads at Big Creek on Jan. 27 at 2 pm. This lecture, which is free and open to the public, will discuss how geology did determine and continues to influence life in Door County.
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“Emma Toft: One with Nature” Screening Includes Q&A with Charlotte Lukes
On Jan. 24 & 25, Door Community Auditorium (DCA) will present the second installment of its 2014 lecture, concert, and film series. On Jan. 24 at 7 pm, DCA will present a free screening of Emma Toft: One with Nature.
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Scrapbookers Invited to Landmark Resort
There will be plenty of time and space to work on scrapbooks or journaling at Landmark Resort’s Scrapbook Spectacular weekends, planned for Feb. 7 – 9 and March 7 – 9.
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Time Traveling Back to the Donna Theatre
The Donna Winter Film Festival continues at Third Avenue Playhouse on Jan. 26 at 2 pm with a screening of Back to the Future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, in this movie a teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend Dr. Emmett Brown.
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The Clearing Folk School’s Winter Program classes continue with a few one-day class openings the last week of January and more than 35 new classes starting in February.
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Hunnicutt Addresses Big Question with Small Organisms
David Hunnicutt’s lecture at the Door Community Auditorium will start small, but the questions the microbiologist will pose are much bigger than the bacteria he studies.
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Historic Cana Island Lighthouse Photos Wanted
The Door County Maritime Museum is seeking period pictures of the historic Cana Island Lighthouse in Baileys Harbor to aid with their upcoming restoration efforts.
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“When Billy Broke His Head” at Greens N Grains’ Dinner And Movie
When Billy Broke His Head is the next Dinner and a Movie feature at Greens N Grains on Jan. 23 at 7 pm. The film is an entertaining, irreverent road movie about disability, civil rights and the search for intelligent life after brain damage.
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Traditional Community Dance at Institute Saloon
The Door County Folk Alliance is sponsoring a traditional community dance on Jan. 25 from 7 – 9 pm at the Institute Saloon dance hall on Highway 57 in Institute.
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Door County Short Film Fest Hosts Two Workshops
A collage of entertaining films will be screened throughout Feb. 14 & 15 as part of the fifth annual Door County Short Film Fest. On Saturday, two workshops will be available to the general public: an acting workshop, 10 am – 12 pm, at the Sister Bay Village Hall and a storytelling workshop, 2 – 4 pm, at the Northern Grill in Sister Bay.
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“To Kill A Mockingbird” Screened for Donna Winter Film Fest
The Donna Winter Film Festival continues at Third Avenue Playhouse on Jan. 18 at 7 pm with a screening of To Kill A Mockingbird. Based on the classic bestselling novel by Harper Lee, this movie features Gregory Peck in his Oscar winning performance as Atticus Finch.
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“The Price of Sand” Screened at UUF
The Price of Sand will be shown at the UU Fellowship on Jan. 21 at 4:30 pm. Admission is free and the screening will be followed by a discussion. The documentary tells of the frac sand mining boom in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Baileys Harbor Historical Society Sponsors Community Quilting Bee
“My family jokes that I was born ‘old,’” laughs quilter and folk artist Kristin Peil. “I have been quilting since I was a kid. I love doing it. I want to share that.”
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Winter Programming Begins at DCA
Door Community Auditorium (DCA) kicks off its popular winter event series on January 17 and 18 with the Door County premiere of the acclaimed film Wild Horse, Wild Ride and a lecture about the biology behind bacterial colonization.
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Winter Film Fest Continues with “E.T.”
The Donna Winter Film Festival continues at Third Avenue Playhouse on Jan. 12 at 2 pm with a screening of E.T. The film, directed by Steven Spielberg, is about a child who summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return home.
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Learn About Feeding Birds at Wisdom Wednesday
Learn about attracting birds to your home with appropriate feeders and birdhouses at the Sturgeon Bay YMCA’s Wisdom Wednesday. Brian Sheehy of Havegard Farm will lead the discussion at this Jan.
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Let’s be honest, iPads (and iPhones) are overwhelming – camera, email, and internet browser in one. Then there are the apps – hundreds of thousands of apps – for calculating finances, losing weight, enhancing photos, making music, creating art, playing games, and much more.