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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Senior ArtsCool - First City Players
Senior ArtsCool is for rising 7th-12th Graders. Full and half day options are available.
Sophmore ArtsCool - First City Players
Sophmore ArtsCool is for rising K-2nd Graders. Mornings only!!! 9am to 12pm
Blueberry Arts Festival: Human-Powered Boat Race!
Enter your hand-made boat into the race! Whoever's vessel makes its way across the basin first wins!
1:00 - Check in Starts
2:00 - Race Begins
Sponsored by KPU Telecommunications
Blueberry Arts Festival - presented by the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council
Blueberry Arts Festival: 33rd Annual Richard Brautigan, Dick Whittaker, Lillian Ference & Phoebe Newman Memorial Trout Fishing in America PoetrySlam
33rd Annual Richard Brautigan, Dick Whittaker, Lillian Ference & Phoebe Newman Memorial Trout Fishing in America Slam.
All ages welcome to participate & attend.
Sponsored by Star Gallery, Chinook and Company, Parnassus Books & Gifts, and the New York Cafe
Gigglefeet Dance Festival
The Gigglefeet Dance Festival is a collaborative program of First City Players, Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council, and Ketchikan Theatre Ballet.
This dance performance features local adults and youth dancers and is a wonderful performance to experience! Tickets available at the link below.
Music on the Dock - Misty Sirens
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!!!
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.
Call to Musicians - Coffman Cove
Call to Vendors: Arts in the Cove Festival
Arts in the Cove
August 9 & 10!! Lots of fun! Open Mic Available Friday night for Poetry, Karaoke, or any kind of music! Please join us for all the fun both days!
Square Dance!!!!
Square Dancing!
Friday August 9th @ 7pm!!
Square Dance to Live Music by the Free Radicals, or just Enjoy listening to the music and watching the Square Dance.
No experience necessary. All dances are taught.
Always a Fun Time!
Enjoy Fun Cocktails
Senior ArtsCool presents - Mean Girls
"I Know Who I Am" Culture Camp - KIC
KIC Tribal youth are invited to join us for
Senior ArtsCool presents - Mean Girls
Aperitifs and Appetizers Fundraiser - Andiamo Dance Company
Enjoy a night out in support of Andiamo Dance company's upcoming 2025 travels!
Click below for more information!
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