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48th Annual Blueberry Arts Festival!!!!
The Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council's Annual Blueberry Arts Festival is always the first weekend of August. 2023 will be the 48th Blueberry Arts Festival in downtown Ketchikan, AK.
The Festival kicks off Friday with the Pet and Doll Parade, continues with the opening of the Blueberry Arts Festival Art Exhibit, and the Best Blueberry Dish Contest at the Main Street Gallery. The Festival continues on Saturday with artist booths, slug races, music on the Mainstage, pie eating, and more! Sunday finishes up the Festival with the Annual Handmade Human Powered Blueberry Boat Race in Thomas Basin, and the Blueberry Poetry Slam at the New York Cafe.
Check back for more details as we get it all organized for another fabulous Blueberry Arts Festival!!!!
Handmade Human Powered Boat Race
Have you used enough duct tape to keep your vessel sea-worthy? It's time to see if your ideas float! Prizes awarded for Fastest Adult, Fastest Youth (16 and under), most artistic, and most likely to sink! Check-in is between 1:30 - 1:50 pm. The race starts at 2:00 pm!
Poetry Slam!
What: The Annual Richard Brautigan, Dick Whittaker, and Lillian Ference Memorial Trout Fishing in America Poetry Slam, and Bawdy Limerick Contest!!!
When: Sunday, August 6th!
Where: In, or around, or very close to the New York Cafe!
Gigglefeet Dance Festival
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.
In 2018 Founders Day will be preceded by a feast presented by the Wolf Clan on August 4th. On August 7th, Founders Day begins at 9 am with a marathon, then a parade and field events. The Hot Dog Feast is from 5 to 6 pm, and fireworks will be at 10:30 pm.
Food booths and a few artist booths will be open on the field. More artist booths will be open in the Artist Village.
The Ferry will be running to Metlakatla for Founders Day!!!
Main Street Gallery "48th Annual Blueberry Arts Festival Art Exhibit"
An open call exhibit to all artist, all ages, working in all mediums. Prizes awarded in age groups!!!
Music on the Dock - Gateway Trio
Summer SLAM
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.
Music on the Dock - Scatterted Sunshine Trombone Choir
Music on the Dock - The String Beings
Square Dance!!
Newsies Jr. - First City Players
Newsies Jr. - First City Players
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
