Join us at the Edge Center for the Arts Theatre for a play reading. Plum Thicket is a radio play written by Jerald Barber set in an imaginary town similar to our Northwoods home.

What is a play reading?

The EdgeWild Players invite anyone in our community to join.

Think book club, but with scripts and aloud together!

No pressure to "perform" on stage in front of others. Just reading to hear the characters and stage directions come to life and get our brains imagining what it COULD look like as a full production.

Join us at 6pm as an active or passive participant. This is not a performance and there will be no audience.

Join the Minnesota Humanities Center, Danger Boat Productions, and Edge Center for the Arts for the Sketches of Minnesota civic improv comedy tour! These free events use laughter and comedy to celebrate Minnesota communities, promote dialogue, bridge divides, and help find ways to work constructively across differences in today’s political environment.

Beginning with a catered meal, these gatherings invite audience members to share what makes their town great, what they think people get wrong about it, what local divisions concern them, and what future they imagine. An improv comedy troupe listens in on the conversations, takes everything they heard from residents, and brings it to life on stage through entirely unscripted improv comedy theater.

• 5:00–6:00 PM: Doors open / Community hour

• 6:00–7:15 PM: Dinner

• 7:15–8:00 PM: Performances

• 8:00–8:30 PM: Talkback

Host Partner: Edge Center for the Arts

The work of the Minnesota Humanities Center is to create a stronger Minnesota by increasing our understanding of the beauty, wisdom and stories of its people. Through partnerships, we facilitate the spaces, like Sketches of Minnesota, that seek to build connections and deepen understanding of ourselves and our communities in pursuit of a more just society.

Registration

This event is free but registration is required.

Registration Questions: registrations@mnhum.org

Register Now

Come and join us at the Edge for a FREE movie night!

Showing: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968)
Written , Produced, Edited, and Directed by George Romero

"One of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made." - Pauline Kael

Paul LaJeunesse received his MFA in painting from Bowling Green State University in 2006. He is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields grant, the Fulbright grant, the Minnesota State Arts Board grant, and has exhibited nationally and internationally in Iceland, Saitama and Tokyo, Japan, and numerous states throughout the U.S. He is a muralist and public artist with permanent works in Minnesota and Tennessee as well as numerous group and community murals. He has taught at Western Oregon University, Georgia State University, The College of St. Scholastica, The University of Minnesota - Duluth, Anderson Ranch Studio, and The Grand Marais Art Colony. He currently resides in Duluth, Minnesota.

The show, entitled Anima Mundi, brings together a collection of drawings and paintings created by Paul LaJeunesse. The term anima mundi is a Latin phrase which suggests the presence of a world soul, or “breath of the world,” connecting all living beings. This concept weaves through LaJeunesse’s works as he captures the personality of place by combining observation, memories and identity to create truly memorable art.

Sam Miltich at the Edge Center on Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 7 p.m.

"Miletići: New Music From The Old Country" is Sam Miltich's newest musical project. The name Miletići is the plural of Sam and Matthew Miltich's traditional Croatian last name Miletic', and the name of the village where Matthew's father was raised as a child.

This new ensemble focuses on music from Dalmatia, The Balkans, and the broader Eastern and Central European region. The band draws their repertoire from traditional Tamburitza and Romani Cocek music from the Balkans, Klapa music from Dalmatia, and Jewish Klezmer and traditional Slavic folk songs from Central and Eastern Europe. 

The band is composed of Sam Miltich as the leader playing both guitar, tamburitza, and vocals, Matthew Miltich on upright bass and vocals, Gary Schulte on violin, Mark Kreitzer on mandolin and guitar, and Tony Balluff on clarinet. What sets this ensemble apart from other traditional folk ensembles is that all of the band members are full time jazz musicians.  Miletici puts new twists on old music by infusing the band's love of improvisation into traditional music. You may hear Klezmer songs played in a swing rhythm, or open improvised solo sections on a Romani Cocek from Macedonia. It is this spirit of improvisational exploration that truly sets this ensemble apart.

We hope you will join us and enjoy a new modern take on traditional classics from the eastern half of Europe.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children and are available at the door.  The Edge Center is located at 101 2nd Avenue, Bigfork, MN.  For more information, call 218-743-6670, or email holly@edgecenterarts.org. 

Title: JAWS (1975)

Starring: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw.

Time/Place: Edge Center Theater, Bigfork. Thursday, September 11 at 6:30. FREE.

Show Title: Wandering Through Wonder

Artist Reception Thursday, Sept 4th 5-7pm at Edge Gallery - Free refreshments

Show runs Sept 4th-Oct 4th

John Perkins… with Sandy Perkins: Sunday, August 24, 2 p.m. present:

The Poetry of Nature & Life Put to Music

John and Sandy’s summer home is here in the Chippewa National Forest… winters are in the Smoky Mountains.  His songs explore the beauty and depth of our world, from the whispers of the wind to the intricate tapestry of human emotions. His music resonates deeply with audiences who appreciate both artistic expression & meaningful connections. John delivers a unique blend of musical styles from acoustic folk to electric slide-guitar blues. John is a master of story songs about homesteading, logging, Native American chiefs and more. This is John’s 16th concert to benefit the Edge Center for the Arts!

Tickets: $10 Adults, Children, free.

You can access his Soundcloud & YouTube channels from John’s website at www.jfp123.com

On Saturday, August 16 at 7 p.m., Third Coast Chamber Collective (TCCC) and guest artists will present the opening concert of the 5th edition of TCCC’s chamber music festival in Northern Minnesota titled “It Takes Five”. The program features single movements from piano and string quintets in a beautiful journey through the quintet repertoire. For this concert, the TCCC’s core members Evgeny Zvonnikov, Pedro Oviedo, and Magdalena Sas will be joined by violinist Irina Mueller, pianist Satoko Hayami and cellist James Rosamilia. The repertoire features works by women composers Grazyna Bacewicz, Amy Beach and Ethel Smyth and will be concluded with Franz Schubert’s famous and beloved string quintet for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos.

We are thrilled to welcome Satoko and James back to our community for TCCC’s celebratory “It Takes Five” festival. Both artists were part of TCCC’s Adult Chamber Music Retreat in June and have been featured on previous TCCC concerts. Japanese pianist Satoko Hayami concertizes worldwide and currently is on faculty at the Osaka University of Tourism in Japan. A native of Minnesota, James Rosamilia, actively performs as chamber musician alongside his career as a recording engineer and regularly plays with the Itasca Orchestra. TCCC would like to thank our “It takes Five” festival sponsors and partners: Arrowhead Regional Art Council, Loggy Dome, Kiesler Center, Edge Center for the Arts, and the Itasca Orchestra.

If you would like to join in the celebration and support “It Takes Five” and TCCC’s future music programming in our community, you can do so by dedicating a work on these concerts to the memory of a loved one. Your dedication will be printed in the festival programs to commemorate the impact of someone special in your life and you will receive a recording of the dedicated piece. For information on dedicating a work, please visit www.thirdcoastchambercollective.com

Tickets $10 for adults

Children FREE

Tickets available at the door.

A juried art show is organized in a time-honored way. An independent juror is chosen because of their involvement in the visual arts—either as a working artist, a gallery or museum curator, an art teacher, or all of the above. The juror is paid to select from submitted artwork, the pieces they think are the strongest. Inevitably, some submitted pieces are rejected. The local gallery committee has no input in selection or awards, and the juror’s decisions are final.  

Come and Meet the artists, Visit with the Juror and Vote for the People's Choice Award

Awards Ceremony at 6:15 p.m.

JUROR: Susan Maguire, Professor of Visual Arts at UW-Superior

21 Artists

Arne Mostad-Jensen, Becca Mulenburg, Cathryn Peters, Beth Vander Heiden, Chuck Hartell, David Swanson, Eric Zuccola, Heidi Phillips, Iryna Khmelovska, Jennifer Zuccola, Keiller Breva, Kristen Anderson, Lena Ocain, Liliana Benge Briggs, Keshia Hunter, Nadezhda Duitsman, Sandra Grindle, Sandra Thompson, Sandy Melander-Schildt, Susan Klann, Teresa Lagerlof

AWARD SPONSORS

Best of Show Kocian's Family Market $300

2 Awards of Excellence

First State Bank of Bigfork $200

Arvig Communications $200

People's Choice $100

On Thursday, August 7, at 11 a.m., TCCC in partnership with the Bigfork / EOW AGE to age program will present a free musical workshop for all ages at the Edge Center for the Arts: Interlocking Rhythm with Emotion in Music. TCCC Cellist Magdalena Sas and Violinist Irina Mueller will present an engaging workshop for the young and the young at heart exploring the role of rhythm in music. Participants will learn fundamentals of rhythm through use of percussion instruments. After learning basic patterns, participants will join Magdalena and Irina as they perform a variety of works exploring how these rhythms are incorporated into music. The group will discuss how these different types of rhythms generate contrasting feelings in the music. Finally, participants will have a chance to apply what they learned about rhythm’s role in music by creating an emotions collage in response to a longer piece of music.

This event is FREE for all attendees and includes a light lunch following the workshop.

Contact Holly at 218-743-6670 to reserve your spot!

1:30-3pm

Meet at Edge Center Gallery. Nature Sketching. Connecting with nature. Learn to see and draw simple nature sketches. Materials will be provided. Brief demo in the Gallery before heading out to sketch nature in the Edge of the Wilderness. Will be held inside in case of rain.

FREE WORKSHOP - Pre-Register by contacting Edge Admin - holly@edgecenterarts.org or 218-743-6670

Join us at the Edge Center for the Arts Theatre for a play reading. Plum Thicket is a radio play written by Jerald Barber set in an imaginary town similar to our Northwoods home.

What is a play reading?

The EdgeWild Players invite anyone in our community to join.

Think book club, but with scripts and aloud together!

No pressure to "perform" on stage in front of others. Just reading to hear the characters and stage directions come to life and get our brains imagining what it COULD look like as a full production.

Join us at 6pm as an active or passive participant. This is not a performance and there will be no audience. This is FREE to attend.

The Edge Center for the Arts hosts Stages Theatre Company as they present Madagascar Jr.

July 18 & 19 at 7pm
July 20 at 2pm

LEARN MORE: http://stagestheatre.org/madagascar-a-musical-adventure/

BUY TICKETS FOR FRIDAY at 7PM
BUY TICKETS FOR SATURDAY at 7PM
BUY TICKETS FOR SUNDAY at 2PM

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure TYA Edition

July 18-19 at 7pm and July 20 at 2pm

Book by Kevin Del Aguila

Original Music and Lyrics by

George Noriega & Joel Someillan

Directed by Sandy Boren-Barrett

RECOMMENDED FOR: All Ages

"MOVE IT" INTO SUMMER WITH MADAGASCAR!

With outlandish characters, adventures galore and an upbeat score, Madagascar will leave you with no choice but to “Move It, Move It!”. Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto our summer stage in the musical adventure of a lifetime.

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure - TYA Version is presented through special arrangement with

Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

www.mtishows.com

The Edge Center for the Arts hosts Stages Theatre Company as they present Madagascar Jr.

July 18 & 19 at 7pm
July 20 at 2pm

LEARN MORE: http://stagestheatre.org/madagascar-a-musical-adventure/

BUY TICKETS FOR FRIDAY at 7PM
BUY TICKETS FOR SATURDAY at 7PM
BUY TICKETS FOR SUNDAY at 2PM

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure TYA Edition

July 18-19 at 7pm and July 20 at 2pm

Book by Kevin Del Aguila

Original Music and Lyrics by

George Noriega & Joel Someillan

Directed by Sandy Boren-Barrett

RECOMMENDED FOR: All Ages

"MOVE IT" INTO SUMMER WITH MADAGASCAR!

With outlandish characters, adventures galore and an upbeat score, Madagascar will leave you with no choice but to “Move It, Move It!”. Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto our summer stage in the musical adventure of a lifetime.

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure - TYA Version is presented through special arrangement with

Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

www.mtishows.com

The Edge Center for the Arts hosts Stages Theatre Company as they present Madagascar Jr.

July 18 & 19 at 7pm
July 20 at 2pm

LEARN MORE: http://stagestheatre.org/madagascar-a-musical-adventure/

BUY TICKETS FOR FRIDAY at 7PM
BUY TICKETS FOR SATURDAY at 7PM
BUY TICKETS FOR SUNDAY at 2PM

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure TYA Edition

July 18-19 at 7pm and July 20 at 2pm

Book by Kevin Del Aguila

Original Music and Lyrics by

George Noriega & Joel Someillan

Directed by Sandy Boren-Barrett

RECOMMENDED FOR: All Ages

"MOVE IT" INTO SUMMER WITH MADAGASCAR!

With outlandish characters, adventures galore and an upbeat score, Madagascar will leave you with no choice but to “Move It, Move It!”. Join Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, Gloria the Hippo and, of course, those hilarious, plotting penguins as they bound onto our summer stage in the musical adventure of a lifetime.

Madagascar - A Musical Adventure - TYA Version is presented through special arrangement with

Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

www.mtishows.com

Come and meet the artist, enjoy light refreshments and be here for the opening of this exhibit.

Local cowboy performer sings originals and covers.

Join us at the Edge Center for the Arts Theatre for a play reading. Almost, Maine is a 2004 American play written by John Cariani, comprising of nine short scenes that explore love and loss in a remote, mythical almost-town called Almost, Maine.

What is a play reading?

The EdgeWild Players invite anyone in our community to join.

Think book club, but with scripts and aloud together!

No pressure to "perform" on stage in front of others. Just reading to hear the characters and stage directions come to life and get our brains imagining what it COULD look like as a full production.

Join us at 6pm as an active or passive participant. It is FREE to attend. This is not a performance and there will be no audience.

Scripts are available to borrow from the Edge office to read ahead of time, but this is not required.

1 p.m. performance in City Hall – upper level

• 2:30 p.m. movement class in City Hall – upper level (geared for all ages, all ability level:  instructors will be available to lead standing and seated movement class)

• Sponsored by: The Edge Center and the Bigfork AGE to age Initiative

VIDEO: https://www.ragamaladance.org/gallery
ABOUT: https://www.ragamaladance.org/about

FREE EVENT

Feathers, Fins and More - Sculptures by Jim Lutgen

Capture a Moment

Tell a Story

Move the People

Wildlife Photography by Lee Kjos

Artist Reception Thursday, June 5th at 5pm

Gallery Hours: Thurs-Sat 1-4pm

Exhibit: Thursday, June 5 - Thursday, July 3

RSVP by May 1st by emailing holly@edgecenterarts.org

The Edge Gallery is looking for volunteer hosts for the coming season (may to Early December). The gallery is open Thurs-Sat 1-4pm. Come Join us to learn more. If you have been a host in the past, please come and enjoy light refreshments to show our appreciation!