Museum holds pasta-themed fundraisers

The Bigfork Museum of Art and History has a pair of pasta-themed fundraisers planned.

The first is Meatballs for the Museum night, scheduled for 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Swan River Community Hall. The meal features spaghetti, meatballs, salad, garlic bread, cookies by Brookies Cookies, and lemonade and coffee.

Tickets are $15 each and are available at the museum or at the door. Children 10 and younger get in for free.

At the event, the museum will raffle a five-course Italian dinner for eight by Derek Vandeberg, owner of Frame of Reference. Vandeberg — who is making the sauce and meatballs for the Oct. 25 dinner — learned to cook recipes handed down through generations of his Italian ancestors.

Vandeberg offered an Italian meal to the Bigfork museum for its 2011 fundraising auction. That five-course dinner for eight brought in $2,000.

His most recent dinner offer will be raffled. Fifty tickets will be sold for $50 each.

The winner, who will be announced at the Oct. 25 dinner, will work with Vandeberg to plan a menu for himself and seven guests. The meal will be served in the winner’s home, and will include multiple appetizers, a pasta or risotto course, and entree with multiple sides, salad and dessert. Dinner also includes wines to match the food.

For additional information or to purchase raffle tickets, call the museum at 837-6927.