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“Toft Point: A Nature Lover’s Dream” Guided Hike

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The public is invited to join the Climate Change Coalition of Door County for “Toft Point: A Nature Lover’s Dream,” the second of two guided hikes through this pristine old growth forest in Baileys Harbor, on Tuesday, Aug. 27, from 10 am to noon. Charlotte Lukes and Nick Anderson, two of the people who know this […]

PenArt Exhibition is More than a Sum of its Parts

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Peninsula School of Art’s (PenArt) latest exhibition The Future of the Collage opens August 16th and runs through October 5th, 2019 at PenArt’s Guenzel Gallery, 3900 County Road F, Fish Creek, Wisconsin. The exhibition features works by seven contemporary collage artists including B. Basch (WI),Tim Abel (IL), Tanya Hartman (KS), Andy Ducett (MN), Carol Emmons (WI), Melissa Oresky […]

Peninsula Players Theatre Opens ‘Silent Sky’ August 21

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Peninsula Players Theatre, America’s oldest professional resident summer theater and Door County’s theatrical icon, is excited to announce the opening of Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson. Silent Sky tells the story of unsung astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt, whose discoveries at Harvard Observatory in the 1890s opened the galaxies above. Silent Sky performs August 21 through September […]

Midsummer’s Music Welcomes New Musicians

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Midsummer’s Music draws on the extraordinary talent of musicians from the Chicago Symphony, Chicago’s Lyric Opera, Milwaukee Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Aspen Music Festival, China National Symphony and the Ravinia Festival, among others. Each year, in order to provide complete instrumentation for pieces ranging from solos to octets and larger ensembles, Artistic Director […]

Fishstock Concert Series Features Jazz Vocalist Janet Planet on Sun., August 18

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The 2019 Fishstock Concert Series will feature a performance by acclaimed jazz vocalist Janet Planet and band on Sunday, August 18. Based in Oshkosh, Planet has been a mainstay of the Wisconsin jazz scene throughout her roughly 30-year career. As noted in Isthmusby music writer Katie Mohr a few years ago, “{Janet’s) voice is simple, elegant and backed […]

Northern Sky Theater Announces Grand Opening of the Creative Center and Barbara & Spencer Gould Theater

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Northern Sky Theater announces the Grand Opening of its Creative Center and their newest show, Dad’s Season Tickets, set to premiere in the Barbara and Spencer Gould Theater this fall. The Gould Theater, a first of its kind in Northern Door County, will be a professionally equipped, intimate 248-seat venue that will serve as an ideal home for the […]

Fishstock Concert Series Features Folksingers Joe Jencks and Carolyn Carter on Sun., August 11

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The 2019 Fishstock Concert Series will feature a performance by folksingers Joe Jencks and Carolyn Carter on Sunday, August 11. Joe Jencks is a veteran of the international folk music circuit, an award-winning songwriter, and a celebrated vocalist. Merging conservatory training with his Irish roots and working class upbringing, Joe delivers engaged musical narratives filled […]

Meet Peninsula Players’ Actor Will Skrip ‘Ghost The Musical’s’ Sam Wheat

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Peninsula Players Theatre is thrilled to bring “Ghost The Musical” by Bruce Joel Rubin, Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard to Door County audiences.  This musical romantic-thriller about the power of love performs through August 18 and is based on the Academy Award-winning film by Bruce Joel Rubin. Will Skrip, an actor, singer and dancer, is thrilled […]

Door County Scrimshanders’ Announces Their Final Season

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2019 will be the last season for the Door County Scrimshanders in North Ephraim.  The proprietors, Dawn and Gary Kiracofe, plan to retire after 40 years in business.  The Kiracofes opened their first Scrimshaw Shop on Mackinac Island’s Main Street in 1979.  Larger schools for their children was the incentive to move to Door County and open Door […]