Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Coffeehouse Concert in the Fireside Lobby: Small Forest
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2017
Small Forest is a progressive folk rock trio featuring Jeanne Kuhns, Marybeth Mattson and Patrick Palmer. This Door County based band performs original progressive folk/rock featuring the soaring harmonies of Jeanne Kuhns and Marybeth Mattson. These mother/daughter songwriters take you into their hearts on a musical storytelling journey, singing songs influenced in part by their life experiences in Door County. Strong rhythm and fingerpicking styles on acoustic guitar , an occasional Djembe heartbeat, are all made the richer by Patrick Palmers innovative bass lines and vocals. Special guest George Sawyn on Lead Guitar.
Series Sponsor: The Cordon Family Foundation
Coffee Service Provided by: Base Camp Coffee Shop
St. Norbert College Distinguished Lecture Series: Name it, Claim it! Finding Identities in the Cultural Landscape
Featured St. Norbert’s College Lecturer: Professor Parisa Meymand
Date: Saturday, January 28, 2017
Identities are found everywhere in the cultural landscape. When identities are placed on maps, they create spaces of belonging for cultural groups – and at times are contested by competing groups/interests. We will illustrate examples of cultural place names from around the globe, with a special focus on “Tehrangeles” – a Persian American ethnic enclave in Los Angeles.
Sponsored by: Dahl Law Firm and Ross Estate Planning
Lodging Provided by: Homestead Suites
Coffee Service Provided by: Base Camp Coffee Shop
Movies at The Door: Genghis Blues
Date: Friday, January 27, 2017
The extraordinary odyssey of a U.S. musician of Cape Verdean ancestry to Tannu Tuva, in central Asia, where nomadic people throat sing more than one note simultaneously, using vocal harmonics. A bluesman, Paul Pena, blind and recently widowed, taught himself throat singing and was by chance invited to the 1995 throat-singing symposium in Kyzyl. Helped by the “Friends of Tuva,” Pena makes the arduous journey. Singing in the deep, rumbling kargyraa style, Pena gives inspired performances at the festival, composes songs in Tuvan, washes his face in sacred rivers, expresses the disorientation of blindness in foreign surroundings, and makes a human connection with everyone he meets.
Sponsored by: Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik
Community Partner Event: Door County Library presents Door County Reads Kick-off
Date: Monday, January 23, 2017
DCA 2017 Winter Weekends – January 27th thru February 3rd
Step Afrika!
Date: Friday, January 20, 2017
An energetic exploration of the human form, Step Afrika! performs a riveting mix of dance, body percussion, and spoken word certain to inspire audiences of all ages. Step Afrika!, founded in 1994, is the first professional dance company dedicated to the tradition of stepping, a unique art form created at African-American fraternities and based in rich African dance traditions. Incorporating intricate rhythmic patterns of kicks, stomps, claps, and chants, the dancers of Step Afrika! use their bodies as instruments. The dancers’ stomping feet and chanting voices will transform the DCA stage into a rare and joyful space – one where bodily movement is celebrated as a deep well of power, humor, and grace.
Passport Program Partners:
Friends of Gibraltar, RocketDSD.com/IceCreamSource.com, Grasse’s Grill
Coffeehouse Concert in the Fireside Lobby: Belle & The Bohemian
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2017
Belle and the Bohemian is the side project of Copper Box musicians, Danny & Michelle Jerabek. Featuring an eclectic mix of American Folk selections, Belle & The Bohemian brings the same sensibilities and charm to the stage that Copper Box audiences enjoy. Belle & The Bohemian make their DCA debut and will kick-off the 2017 Fireside Coffeehouse Series.
Series Sponsor:
The Cordon Family Foundation
Coffee Service Provided by:
Base Camp Coffee Shop
St. Norbert College Distinguished Lecture Series: #FeesMustFall: Student Activism in South Africa
Featured St. Norbert’s College Lecturer: Dr. Jeremy Doughty
Date: Saturday, January 14, 2017
On the surface, it appears that South African university students are protesting tuition increases. In reality, students are calling for the decolonization and transformation of higher education. Dr. Jeremy Doughty will discuss the #FeesMustFall student activism movement in South Africa, including his own experiences with protests at the University of the Western Cape. Dr. Doughty also will explore parallels between the #FeesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter movements.
Sponsored by:
Dahl Law Firm and Ross Estate Planning
Lodging Provided by:
Homestead Suites
Coffee Service Provided by:
Base Camp Coffee Shop
Movies at The Door: Uke Jam, Winter Luau, & Screening of Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings
Date: Friday, January 13, 2017
Following the successful Uke Circle and Wisco Luau prior to Jake Shimabukuro’s 2016 DCA concert, DCA is hosting a winter luau and screening the PBS Documentary Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings. The documentary is the portrait of an musician whose virtuoso skills on the ukulele have transformed all previous notions of the instrument’s potential. Through intimate conversations with Shimabukuro, the film reveals the cultural and personal influences that have shaped the man and the musician. On the road from Los Angeles to New York to Japan, the film captures the solitary life on tour: the exhilaration of performance, the wonder of newfound fame, the loneliness of separation from home and family.
Sponsored by:
Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik
