Category: Indoor Activities

The Clearing Folk School’s Winter Program continues with forty new classes in February. Classes are offered in the arts, fine crafts and nature studies, all taught by volunteer instructors who share their time and talent with the community.

Dr. Wayne Patterson, Professor of History at St. Norbert College, will present “Recent Trends in Chinese Politics” on Feb. 9 at 9 am, as part of St. Norbert’s Distinguished Lecture Series held at the Door Community Auditorium in Fish Creek.

When I was handed a set of Downton Abbey DVDs on Christmas morning, I was skeptical. When my mother coerced me to watch an episode, I was hooked. Downton Abbey is a guilty pleasure – like Jersey Shore if the characters had impeccable posture and scandal peaked with a man sneaking into a lady’s bedroom.

The fourth annual Door County Short Film Festival will be held at the Sister Bay Town Hall on Feb. 9. There will be workshops throughout the afternoon beginning at noon, and the short films will be shown at 7 pm.

Door County Auditorium (DCA) will once again host the St. Norbert Distinguished Lecture Series on select Saturday mornings this winter. January lectures include “The Presidential Election Campaign of 2012” with Dr. Wendy Scattergood on Jan. 19 and “The Wrath of Achilles/The Will of Zeus: Epics of Homer” by Dr. Tom Bolin on Jan. 26.

The Door County Master Gardeners announce the first two 2013 Continuing Education Programs: “Introspective on Lawn Care” with Jack ‘JP’ Peterson and “A History of Gardens and Landscapes” with Kathleen Blankenburg.

Registration is currently open for winter classes at the Music & Arts School of Door County. The school offers dance classes for all ages. Preschool dance classes (for ages 18 months – 5 years) include toddler tumbling, ballet and tap.

The YMCA and Babler Bus Service, Inc. are launching a new series of bus trips open to anyone with an itch for adventure. A trip is planned for March 24 to see the Passion Play in Appleton and the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Champion.

Astrologers rely on the stars and planets to determine who and what you are, perhaps they should open a coffee shop. (That’s right, your barista may know more about you than you think.)

Begin the year and refresh your spirit by learning something new this winter at The Clearing. Registration is currently open for The Clearing Folk School’s winter classes.

On a mission to live forever, film director Mark Wexler travels the world trying to find out what it means to grow old. On Jan. 10, Greens N Grains Café and the Green Door Film Society invites the community to join in a comical exploration of aging at the screening of Wexler’s How to Live Forever.

Learn something new at Ladies Night Out: Scrapbooking Night at the Sturgeon Bay YMCA on Jan. 11, 4 – 8 pm. Women are invited to show off their artistic side, take a walk down memory lane, and meet new people while putting together creative scrapbooks during the second annual “Ladies Art Night.”

The program “The History of Penny Candy” will be offered at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay on Jan. 5 at 2 pm. Penny candy is a cherished memory of anyone mature enough to remember when candy really cost a penny.

Evidence of climate change is getting harder to ignore, and the time to act is now. How will Door County respond to this global crisis? The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Door County is holding a discussion and planning session on Dec.

Salsa with J-Ro, who offers salsa dance lessons and hosts a free dance social, is offering private salsa dance lessons for two as a holiday gift special.

Greens N Grains and The Green Door Film Society will present a free public screening of Joyeux Noël on Dec. 27. Joyeux Noël tells the true story of a Christmas truce among soldiers during 1914, the first year of World War I.

As far as I know, I was born playing card games with my grandparents. I don’t remember winning my first game of King’s Corners, although my grandma assures me I was a natural.

The hottest weekly dance night in Door County is Friday at Red Oak Winery in Sturgeon Bay. Every Friday salsa dance lessons will be offered along with a free dance social.

In honor of the holiday season, Movies That Matters presents Frank Capra’s 1946 classic, It’s A Wonderful Life, on Dec. 18 at the UU Fellowship in north Ephraim.

A white-haired gentleman sits in the far back corner of the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Library on a Tuesday afternoon. Like other patrons, he gazes into a laptop, a few sheets of paper strewn across the table.