Weekly Calendar of Upcoming Events and Performances
To have your event added to The Arts and Culture Calendar contact
info@KetchikanArts.org
907-225-2211
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Social Justice Reading Group
Each week participants will discuss a short reading. Call 225-3331 for more information.
Ketchikan Community Concert Band Rehearsal
The Ketchikan Community Concert Band meets each Monday evening from 7 to 8:30 pm. Directed by Roy McPherson, the Band performs 3 times annually. If you are interested in being in the band pleas call Roy at 907-225-3650.
The Spring performance is January 12th at the Kayhi Auditorium at 3pm. Tickets are $15 for adults and youth under 18 are free.
Ketchikan Community Chorus Rehearsal
The Ketchikan Community Chorus meets each Tuesday from 7 to 9pm at the Presbyterian Church. The next performance of the Chorus is December 8th and 9th at the Presbyterian church. Tickets will be available as the concert date approaches.
Fellowship of the Pen
Bring your writing project and work alongside colleagues to refine and grow your writing skills!
CALLS for ARTIST: Applications Open for 2020 Bear Gallery Exhibition
Each year, the Fairbanks Arts Visual Arts Committee invites artists to submit portfolios for review. Portfolios are chosen solely on the merit of the work samples entered and are reviewed by a panel of professional Alaskan artists.
Fairbanks Arts Association invites artists, artisans, and curators from Alaska to submit for review a digital portfolio of artwork for solo, curated, or group exhibition in the Bear Gallery for the 2020 exhibition year.
Solo Exhibit: One Artist
Group: Separate works of more than two artists
Curated: Curator selects theme, conceptual focus, and included artwork.
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) at the Ketchikan Public Library!
Join the Library during November for a month of writing: NaNoWriMo! Participants in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) are encouraged to write 50,000 words in 30 days. (Or, you could be a NaNo Rebel and write a short story, script, poetry, or revise an existing project). There will be weekly prizes for participants, a Grand Prize drawing at the end of the month, and lots of peer support and encouragement. The kick-off event will be Thursday, Nov. 1. Stop in any time between 3:00 – 6:00 pm to WRITE, SIGN UP for our Participation Program, and PERUSE through a selection of handouts specially picked to help you navigate through NaNoWriMo. Ongoing gatherings every Thursday, except Thanksgiving, and every Sunday in November.
Plus join the Library on November 17th for "A Night of Writing Dangerously" from 5 to 8pm.
Open Craft Night at the Totem Heritage Center
Work on your Northwest Coast art form in the company of fellow artists. Free! All are welcome!
Opening Reception - "Manifest X"
November 2-30, 2018: Manifest X
A collaboration by artists Jackson Polys & Robert Mills to create “new activations of ceremonial items” as “Indigenous people negotiating the complexities of settler colonialism”.
Main Street Gallery Openings are free and open to the public.
First City Players presents: Mamma Mia!
"Manifest X" - Main Street Gallery exhibit
November 2-30, 2018: Manifest X
A collaboration by artists Jackson Polys & Robert Mills to create “new activations of ceremonial items” as “Indigenous people negotiating the complexities of settler colonialism”. Main Street Gallery Openings are always the first Friday of the month and are free and open to the public.
Main Street Gallery
330 Main Street
Ketchikan, Alaska
Hours:
M, T, W, F - 9 am to 5 pm
Th - 10 am to 5 pm
Sat - 11 am to 3 pm (except for the last Saturday of the month)
Introduction to Cedar Bark Weaving
Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri, 6-9pm
Sat 10-4:30pm
Registration Fee: $175/$150 Materials: $45
Early notice required for additional dyed materials
Renowned Haida weaver and expert instructor Holly Churchill will guide beginning students in learning and practicing foundational cedar bark weaving methods. Students will learn basic twining as well as alternating color design and overlay techniques as they weave an open face cedar bark basket. Churchill has created cedar bark and spruce root pieces for museums and collection across the globe, and has shared her knowledge with weavers of all ages in Ketchikan and communities throughout the world for over twenty years.
This class is a perquisite for all upper level weaving classes.
Heart of Courage - Author Presentation
The Ketchikan Public Library & Ketchikan Museums invite you to a presentation and reception with author John Tippets, whose book "Hearts of Courage" recounts the 1943 Gillam plane crash in Misty Fjords.
First City Players presents: Mamma Mia!
For the 2018 Fall musical First City Players presents "Mamma Mia!" the ULTIMATE Feel-Good show!
Image Credits
TOP ROW (L-R)
Stephen Jackson, Seward Shame Pole, Saxman, Alaska, 2017 - Ketchikan Community Concert Band, image credit Felix Wong - Evy Posey, "Cosmic Wyvern", Mixed UP the 35th Annual Wearable Art Show, 2021 – Ricardo Búrquez, "My World", 2016 - Evon Zerbetz & Rich Stage, "A Trip to the Library", 2012 - Terry Pyles, "Yeltatzie Salmon", 2015
BOTTOM ROW (L-R)
Kathy Flora, Marcie Pungowiyi, New Path Dancers, "Thunder”, ShapeShift the 26th Annual Wearable Art Show, 2012, image credit Ernie Meloche - Rhonda Green, Tongass Historical Museum entry gate, 2021 - Ketchikan Theatre Ballet, Spring Gala "The Four Seasons" May 2021 - Nathan Jackson, "New Thundering Wings", 2016 – First City Players, "39 Steps", Jack Finnegan, 2021, image credit Jeff Fitzwater - Jackie Keizer "Sailing Off Into A Tequila Sunrise", Mixed UP the 35th Annual Wearable Art, image credit Jeanette Sweetman 2021 - Shawna Hofmann, Andiamo Dance Company, image credit Jeanette Sweetman, 2021- Ricardo Búrquez, “Pipe Junction” 2021 - Isreal Shotridge, Chief Johnson's Totem Pole, Ketchikan, AK. 1955
