Bainbridge Performing Arts will celebrate 60 years of storytelling and launch its 2016–2017 60th anniversary season with a two-day lineup of special events on Aug. 5 and Aug. 6.

BPA is inviting fans and followers to complete an online survey about how BPA and the arts have influenced their lives at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org/pages/60th-survey.

Drop by Aug. 5 for an open house and the First Friday Art Walk, along with live music, small bites and a beer garden.

All that BPA’s directors, designers, actors, musicians, artists, educators, students and audience members have undertaken and realized throughout six decades of passionate performance will be commemorated.

Photographs, set pieces and costumes from six magical decades of theatre, music, dance and comedy will adorn the BPA Gallery walls as visitors enjoy a lively evening of art, food and friends. Interested parties are requested to RSVP by emailing Dominique Cantwell at dcantwell@bainbridgeperformingarts.org. Friday admission is free, and the gallery exhibit continues throughout August at BPA.

Aug. 6 will see special anniversary-themed ticketed performance by The EDGE Improv at 7:30 p.m. Don’t miss the troupe’s uproarious BPA roast and improvised evening of on-the-spot comedy; tickets, $16 for adults and $12 for seniors, students, youth, military and teachers, may be purchased online at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org, by phone at 206-842-8569 or in person at BPA (200 Madison Ave. North).

Find out more about BPA at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org.