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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50th Annual Blueberry Arts Festival
The Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council has been producing the Blueberry Arts Festival since 1975! Since that time we have supported artists as they developed their work, highlighted many, many bands, heard thousands of poems, cleaned up so many gallons of slug slime, made a gazillion blueberry pies, seen sooooo many pets and dolls, hung extraordinary art, added space for more artists, added food booths, invited other nonprofits to showcase their organizations, added booths to the Methodist Church parking lot, added booths to Main Street, seen some pretty amazing handmade, humanpowered Blueberry boats!, added booths to the City parking lot....moved to Mission, dock and Main streets.
We are able to place a little over 160 booths, and estimate at least 8000 attend the 3-day Festival.
Please join us! You won't be disappointed.
Magsayawan Ketchikan Dance & Music Classes
Traditional Filipino Dance & Music Classes!!! Details are being firmed up but contact Czarina for more information!!!
Open Mic!
A fabulous night will be had by all!
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Please come visit us on August 6th at 9am!!!!!
Blueberry Arts Festival Art Exhibit
The 50th Annual Blueberry Arts Festival Art Exhibit is an open call exhibit welcoming any artist in any medium of any age! There are categories for winning fabulous prizes and fame and glory for ages 6 to 60!!! For more information about the Open Call exhibit contact Cassia at programs@ketchikanarts.org or give us a call at 907-225-2211!!!!
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Please come visit us on August 6th at 9am!!!!!
Open Mic - hosted by Rick Llyod
Karaoke at the Totem Bar
Magsayawan Ketchikan Dance & Music Classes
Traditional Filipino Dance & Music Classes!!! Details are being firmed up but contact Czarina for more information!!!
The Ukelele Group
Bring your ukulele and have some fun playing with the group.
Meets on Wednesdays at 3:45pm at the Inn at Creek Street!
Metlakatla Founders Day Celebration
The Metlakatla Founders Day Celebration!
On an August 7 about 130 years ago, a group of 826 Tsimshian people from British Columbia followed William Duncan, an Anglican missionary, over the Canadian border to Annette Island.
Now Annette Islands Reserve is Alaska’s only Indian reservation, and, ever since that day in 1887, the Metlakatla Indian Community has celebrated its unique founding story.
There should be artist booths and other activities, call to find out more.
Arts Report on KRBD
Each week at approximately 8:20 am KRBD hosts the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council for their weekly report on arts and humanities in Ketchikan and the surrounding area. Get a synopsis of the local music scene, performances, Gallery exhibits, pop-ups, and Calls to artists. The Arts Report often features special guests from the Ketchikan Theatre Ballet, Artists, and Curators. Tune in weekly to KRBD 105.3 FM Ketchikan, Metlakatla and Saxman, 107.1 FM North Ketchikan, Ward Cove, and Ketchikan, 101.7: Craig, 90.7: North Point Higgins, 90.1: Mountain Point, Hydaburg, Klawock, and Thorne Bay.
If you would like your event to be aired in the Arts Report please let us know by the Thursday prior.
Ketchikan Community Chorus performs during Music on the Dock
Always noon to 1pm, its a great opportunity to take your lunch outside, and hear great music performed by awesome local musicians!
Music on the Dock is a program of the City of Ketchikan administered by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council.
Sea Shanties with Greg Thomas and Friends
Live Music at the Eagles Nest
Arts in the Cove Festival (POW Island)
Our Annual Festival has been going strong for over 15 years! Arts in the Cove, A Festival by the Sea, is a 2 day event held on the second weekend of August in Coffman Cove, AK. We offer artisans from all over SE Alaska a venue to show their work and products. We also offer a fun filled day with a variety of food booths, entertainment, prizes, music and fireworks!
Learn traditional Norwegian Dance from Petersburg Norwegian Dancers
The First Lutheran Church in Ketchikan turns 100! Celebrate by learning traditional Norwegian dance!!!
100 Year Celebration - First Lutheran Church
Big Wave performs during Music on the Dock
Always noon to 1pm, its a great opportunity to take your lunch outside, and hear great music performed by awesome local musicians!
Music on the Dock is a program of the City of Ketchikan administered by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council.
Summer Dance Party - Ketchikan Afterschool Program
Square Dance!!!
$5 at the door - All are welcome!!!
All dances are taught - Live music by The Free Radicals!!!
Senior ArtsCool Performs "Beetlejuice Jr." - First City Players
Celebrate Ketchikan's young performers!!!!
Arts in the Cove Festival (POW Island)
Our Annual Festival has been going strong for over 15 years! Arts in the Cove, A Festival by the Sea, is a 2 day event held on the second weekend of August in Coffman Cove, AK. We offer artisans from all over SE Alaska a venue to show their work and products. We also offer a fun filled day with a variety of food booths, entertainment, prizes, music and fireworks!
Free Organ Concert - First Lutheran Church!
Performance on the First Lutheran Church organ by Brenda Durden! Free
Senior ArtsCool Performs "Beetlejuice Jr." - First City Players
Celebrate Ketchikan's young performers!!!!
Summer Concert Series - Herring Cove
Live Music - Bad Dog Blues Society
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
