Weekly Calendar of Upcoming Events and Performances

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info@KetchikanArts.org

907-225-2211

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Junior ArtsCool is for rising 3rd-6th Graders. Full and half day options are available.

The Artsits of Ketchikan Invitational Exhibit celebrates the diversity and spirit of Ketchikan area artists!!!!

Get your singing on at Open Mic Night every week.
No cover charge.

The 2024 Gigglefeet Dance Festival
Sunday, August 4th, 7pm, Kayhi Auditorium

What is the Gigglefeet Dance Festival?

The Gigglefeet Dance Festival is a community celebration of dance co-sponsored by the First City Players, Ketchikan Theatre Ballet, and Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council.

The mission of the Festival is to:

Strengthen the dance community.
Provide performance opportunities for both emerging and established dancers, choreographers, and technical theater personnel in the greater Ketchikan area.
Provide a venue for the works of adult dancers and choreographers.
Provide a supportive environment for a diversity of dance forms, including works that are provocative and challenging.
Encourage participation and appreciation of dance, for artists and audiences alike, by presenting a broad variety of dance forms.
The Gigglefeet Dance Festival takes place on the Sunday of the Blueberry Arts Festival, which always takes place the first weekend in August.

The deadline to apply to participate in the Gigglefeet Dance Festival is Monday, July 15th! Registrations forms include rehearsal dates and times, and the Travel and Costume Grant application. The deadline to apply for a Travel or Costume Grant is Monday, July 8th!!!!

Senior ArtsCool is for rising 7th-12th Graders. Full and half day options are available.

Sophmore ArtsCool is for rising K-2nd Graders. Mornings only!!! 9am to 12pm

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.

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.

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