 The Arts This Week Ketchikan, Alaska May 06 - May 12, 2002 May 06, 2002
Ketchikan Theatre Ballet will present their Spring Gala performance at Kayhi on May 10th and 11th, 2002. Featuring KTB's youngest dancers on Saturday at 2 pm, and the intermediate/advanced ballet, tap and jazz dancers at 7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday night. Tickets on sale at KTB, the Arts Council, Heavenly Creations, McPherson Music, and at the door. For more information, call 225-9311. Ketchikan Community Concert Band will present their Debut concert, Tuesday, May 14th, 7 pm, Kayhi. Featuring performances by the Community Concert Band as well as the Windjammers and Lush Life. Information at 225-3650. Ongoing exhibits: The Creative Process: a group show curated by Jackie Keizer, is on display at the Arts Council's new Mainstay Gallery, 716 Totem Way. Continues through the last Friday of the month. Sponsored by the Arts Council. Call 907-225-2211 for more information. Notable Folks: A History of Ketchikan is on display at the Tongass Historical Museum, 629 Dock Street, through September 29th. Information at 225-5600. Art Camps and summer programs for kids: Sitka Fine Arts Camp June 17 - July 1, 2002, At Sheldon Jackson College Campus. Join an outstanding group of instructors and talented, fun-loving students at the 27th annual Sitka Fine Arts Camp June 2002. The Fine Arts Camp offers exciting, high quality, professional instruction in visual arts, music, dance, theater, creative writing and Alaskan Native Arts to students from all over Alaska. Last year 120 students from 23 different communities attended the camp. Camp offers students a variety of arts opportunities not usually available in their own communities. Students work in small groups with professional artists in shared creative experiences. Students who are entering Grades 7-12 in the Fall are eligible to apply. For more information contact: Sitka Fine Arts Camp, P.O. Box 3086, Sitka, AK 99835. Tel/fax 907-747-3085.
ARTSCool Arts Camp: 4 weeks of visual and performing arts for kids ages 8-16. July 15th through August 10th. Sponsored by the Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council and First City Players. Stay tuned for more information - complete course descriptions will be available and registration will begin in mid-May. For more information, call 225-2211. Children's SeaAlaska Culture Week: a week-long camp sponsored by the Totem Heritage Center, June 17th-21st. Call 225-5900 for more information or to register. Classes, workshops, etc: UAS-Ketchikan will offer Introduction to Creative Writing (English 261/361; 3 credits): The class will run from 9:00am - 3:00 pm, on May 11th, 18th, 25th, and June 1st & 8th. Wrap up session to be scheduled in August. We express ourselves in so many ways - through what we wear, how we behave in social situations, the kind of cars we drive. Writing often remains a private act, though. Since the advent of email we may write more frequently, and to a more varied audience, but this type of writing is often more technical than imaginative, more business than pleasure, and more spontaneous than considered. This summer, Professor Rod Landis offers you the chance to get at some of what makes you tick through exploring the part of you that usually stays inhibited, unknown. Using the text, LET THE CRAZY CHILD WRITE!, Landis will lead a series of Saturday workshops in May and early June that will culminate in several original pieces. If looking into your "creative unconscious" through the act of writing sounds like fun, register for this class. Tuition is $330. For more information, call 228-4547. Cedar Bark Gathering: Instructor to be announced. Date of class depends on when the bark is ready to be harvested. Call the Totem Heritage Center at 225-5900 for more information. Creating Watercolors that Sparkle: The Ketchikan Watercolor Society presents a 5-day workshop with internationally recognized painting instructor Judi Betts, on September 18th - 22nd, 2002 (Wed, Thurs and Sat: 9am - 4:30 pm; Fri and Sun: 1 - 8:30 pm). $375 for KWS members, $425 for non-members. Space is limited, register by August 30th. For more information, contact Sandy Shepard at 247-8149. Upcoming auditions, contests, artist opportunities, etc: Call for writers/poets/artists: for Inside Passages, Ketchikan's literary magazine. The editors are looking for poems (100 lines, maximum), short stories and essays (up to 2500 words), and artwork suitable for grayscale reproduction. Publication is in July or August of each year. Writers/poets/artists selected for publication will receive one copy of Inside Passages (additional volumes will be available to participants for $5/copy). Inside Passages is published annually by the Writers Forum, which is a program of the Arts Council. For more information, please contact the Arts Council at 225-2211. Requirements: A self-addressed, stamped envelope and an information sheet with your name, address, phone number, the titles of your work, and 4-line biography must be included with your entry. Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked by Friday, May 10th. Submit entries to Inside Passages, Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council, 716 Totem Way (our address as of May 1st), Ketchikan, AK 99901. Call for choreographers and dancers, for the 5th Annual Gigglefeet Dance Festival, which will be August 2nd and 4th at Kayhi Auditorium. Registration Forms and guidelines for participants are available at First City Players, 716 Totem Way (at the Mainstay Gallery). Deadline to register: It would be nice to know that you're planning to participate as soon as possible; the final deadline to register your participation and be included in the printed program is Friday, July 13th. QUESTIONS? Contact Deb Turnbull at 225-4792 or Email: firstplay@worldnet.att.net. Sponsored by First City Players, the Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council, and Ketchikan Theatre Ballet. Auditions for The Fish Pirate's Daughter will be held on June 11th & 12th at 7 pm at the Mainstay Gallery, 716 Totem Way. Directed by Elizabeth Nelson. Ketchikan's original musical melodrama, now in it's 37th season. Join in the tradition. Performances every Friday in July. Information at 225-4792. Meetings and Gatherings: First City Toastmasters meet Tuesdays at noon at the Youth Court chambers in the Plaza. The Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council Board of Directors meets the third Tuesday of every month at 6pm at the Mainstay Gallery, 716 Totem Way. Rainy Day Quilters meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month, at 6:45 pm, at Holy Name. Parlons Chez Nous. If you enjoy speaking French, put the French Club on your calendar. There will be a picnic at Rotary Beach on July 14th at 5:00pm. Call 225-7486 or 225-2592 for more information.
Mystery Authors at the Library: Have your brown bag lunch with Dana Stabenow, Sue Henry, John Straley, and Fr. Brad Reynolds, S.J., on Thursday, May 16th, from noon - 1pm, at the Ketchikan Public Library. Pastport to Ketchikan History: Celebrate International Museum Day, May 18th, from 10 am - 4 pm. Find out about Ketchikan's rich history through it's buildings and people. Call 225-5900 for more information. First City Players' production of We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! will run June 13th - 15th. This political farce by Dario Fo will be directed by Elizabeth Nelson. A sidesplitting satire! With the price of groceries rising every day, what's a poor girl to do? Stuff bags of food up her sweater and pretend to be pregnant, of course! Laughs are on special when 1997 Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo opens the can on shoplifting. We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! is a sidesplitting satire that'll have you rolling in the (grocery) aisles. Tickets and information at 225-4792. The opening reception for
Paper Trails and
Paintings from Provence,
a dual show of handmade paper creations and plein air paintings
by Ketchikan artist MJ Turek, will be on Friday, June 7th, from
5-7pm, at the Mainstay Gallery, 716 Totem Way. The reception
is free and open to the public. The exhibit continues through
the last Friday of the month. Sponsored by the Arts Council.
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