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
Quick Links
K-highlites Dance!
Be sure to catch the final Show for the K-highlites Seniors!!! Tickets are $8 per person, youth under 5 are free!!!
Call or text for tickets 907-821-0488
Open Mic Night
Get your singing on at Open Mic Night every week.
No cover charge.
Alaska Below the Surface: Exploring the World of Nudibranchs
Dive deep into learning about these colorful and strange invertebrates with assistant professor Dr. Charmaine Lewis.
Streaming on Facebook!
Rainy Day Quilt Guild Meeting
Join us for our monthly meeting (regular date subject to change due to the Christmas Holiday and annual Quilt Show).
After Hours Alaska
The wonderful Stephanie Patton hosts the show After Hours Alaska every Wednesday from 9pm-11pm on KRBD. You can find out more information here as she interview musicians on a weekly basis.
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.
Torah Zamora - La Gwelga Lak Adaawx Sessions
Call to Young Artists: 988 Create!!
Hello Partners in the Arts and Health!
The arts and mental health are undeniably connected. Arts are where we lose ourselves, where we heal, and find ourselves all over again.
Through the month of February, the Youth Alliance for a Healthier Alaska will be accepting many forms of art for our 988 CREATE campaign based on the theme: Healing & Support.
Young Alaskan artists could win one of ten $150 prizes (gift cards) – and, more importantly, help change lives for the better!
Contest Overview: What to Share with Young Alaskan Artists!
988 CREATE campaign based on the theme: Healing & Support. Your artwork could win you one of ten $150 prizes (gift cards)
These pieces can be new or past creations and submitted if they fit the theme above.
Submit your unique art for the 988 Create! art campaign by March 1, 2024.
Digital art submissions (jpg, jpeg, mp4, and doc under 25MB) can be submitted here or via email at yaha.alaska@gmail.com.
The winning submissions will be shared on our Instagram page @ak_youth_voice and on the website: 988.alaska.gov/create
For details, please check out the above website and let young Alaskan artists know we’re excited to hear from them!
Administered by the Youth Alliance for a Healthier Alaska (YAHA), with support from the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC), Alaska Department of Health, Division of Behavioral Health, Spirit of Youth, and [your organization name here], along with many of our other statewide suicide prevention partners.
#Alaska988 #youthresilience #988create
In this email you will find the “988 Create” social media graphics and post, and the “988 Create” flyer. Thank you for your help getting this project launched. Please use these to spread the word about our “988 Create” art campaign this month (February 1-March 1). We will be featuring the winning entries on social media, at our Annual Suicide Prevention Conference as well as making them available to schools, and other organizations across the state. Please spread the word!!
Sincerely,
Jenny Baker (She/They)
Adolescent Health Project Coordinator
State of Alaska, Department of Health, Division of Public Health
Section of Women's, Children's and Family Health
3601 C Street, Suite 322. Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone: 907.269.4517 | Fax: 907.269.3465 | E-mail: jennifer.baker@alaska.gov
Dena'inaq ełnen'aq' gheshtnu ch'q'u yeshdu. (Dena'ina)
I live and work on the land of the Dena’ina. (English)
Translation by Joel Isaak and Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart
Call to Artists - Juried Film Festival
SHI is accepting applications for the first Juried Film Festival, which is held during Celebration at the Goldtown Theatre in Juneau, AK. The event is open to Sealaska shareholders and their descendants and Alaska Natives and Native Americans who are members of an Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act corporation or Indian tribe.
Opening Reception - "Burning the Midnight Oil" an Open Call Exhibit
This fun Open Call exhibit invites artists of all skills and mediums to create a work of art within a 24-hour period...who knows whats going to happen!
First City Players presents "Still Alice"
First City Players presents "Still Alice"
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
