ALASKA WORLD ARTS FESTIVAL - September 6-19, 2019 A 2-Week Celebration of Worldwide Arts
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ALASKA WORLD ARTS FESTIVAL HOMER, ALASKA September 6—19, 2019 A 2-Week Celebration of Worldwide Arts 100 Events in 50 Venues AlaskaWorldArts.org
ALASKA WORLD ARTS FESTIVAL PRESENTS IN HOMER, ALASKA JAZZ IN JULY July 22 @ 8pm Alice’s Champagne Palace A FUNDRAISING EVENT FOR THE ALASKA WORLD ARTS FESTIVAL FEATURING THE NORTH ATLANTIC JAZZ ALLIANCE with Marshall Hawkins, Paul Kreibich, Markus Berger, Jan von Klewitz, James Linahon ...who have worked in the company of Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Woody Herman, Anita O’Day, Herbie Hancock, Joe Pass, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Sinatra, Bill Evans and Carmen McRae Buy Tickets Online $35 Advance / $40 At Door AlaskaWorldArts.org
Welcome to Homer A Stunning Backdrop for the Alaska World Arts Festival Art is our greatest means of expression and helps us to understand each other’s history, traditions and values. It honors the differences between cultures, and at the same time allows us to put aside our differences to learn from each other, work together creatively, and share our dreams. Art is a potentially metamorphosing treasure and an asset to all of humanity that brings us together as a world community. Welcome to Homer, where we all speak the common language of arts. SALLY OBERSTEIN, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER THE ALASKA WORLD ARTS FESTIVAL Welcome to Homer, Alaska, USA, world- Celebrate the inaugural Alaska World famous for peonies, fishing, and the Arts Festival with us in Homer— arts—recognized by Coastal Living Alaska’s Cosmic Hamlet by the Sea. We Magazine as one of America’s happiest have a diverse economy of mariners, seaside towns. I’m proud to be tradespeople, and artists, supporting associated with a place of unsurpassed a small and growing community. We beauty and so many talented and civic- invite you to enjoy the arts, fine dining, minded residents. Whether you’re a local, an Alaskan, or seaside accommodations, and the stunning beauty of our visiting from afar, we’re happy you’re here and hope you’ll Kachemak Bay—all of which create memories to last a enjoy the Festival and the best of our small town. lifetime. KEN CASTNER, MAYOR DEBBIE SPEAKMAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HOMER, ALASKA HOMER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITOR CENTER AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 1
Festival Staff Carbon Offsets Inspiration: Mary Langham The Alaska World Arts Festival cares Director/Producer: Sally Oberstein about climate change. Please join us Finances: Linda Gorman in our effort to invest in projects that Assistant Director/Producer: Barb Seaman will help mitigate the impact of our Admin. Assistant & Volunteer Coordinator: Pam Van Hoozer participants’ air travel to and from Events Coordinator: Sally Oberstein Alaska. Purchase carbon offsets at Live at Lunch: Cindy Brinkerhoff AlaskaWorldArts.org. Treasures Fine Art Show: Susan Pacillo Craftmasters Arts & Crafts Fair: Susan Pacillo Artist Housing: Chris Laing Workshops Organizer: Kiirsten Styvar Marketing/Social Media Manager: Chris Mann Fringe Theater: Pier One Theatre Gallery Openings: Karin Marks Our Sponsors World Arts Welcome Gala: Homer Chamber of Commerce Alaska Marketing Consultants: John Woodbury, Homer Chamber of Commerce, Terrilynn Dale International Marketing Consultant: Jill Frechtman , MASTERPIECE Chris Mann, Terrilynn Dale Land’s End Resort Advertising & Festival Guide: Sally Oberstein KBBI Homer Public Radio Program Coordinator: Christina Whiting Homer Chamber of Commerce Feature Event Producers: Jim Stearns/Salmonfest, Ken Castner/Homer Nutcracker Productions, KBBI Public Radio Sponsorship and Development: Linda Gorman, ART LOVER Barb Seaman, Sally Oberstein North Wind Home Collection Writers/Readings Coordinator: Nancy Lord Jay-Brant General Contractors, LLC Festival Guide Editor: Linda Manning Grant Writer: Barb Seaman ENTHUSIAST Logistics: Linda Manning Homer Art & Frame Co. Dr. Brent Adcox FisherPoets: Nancy Lord, Steve Schoonmaker, Jon Broderick Homer Dental Clinic Salmon Sisters Theater Performances Coordinator: Pier One Theatre Ann and John Anderson Homer Theatre Press Agent: Sally Oberstein SPARC (South Peninsula Athletic & Recreation Center) Poster Distribution: Holly Ambrose (Homer), Suzette Mashburn (Anchorage) ADVOCATE Production Consultant: Ken Castner Kathleen Dose Koehl Luana Stovel Native Arts Coordinator: Sara Jackinsky Linda Eisenberg Don Devoe Burning Basket: Mavis Muller Pioneer Land Co., LLC Jessie Dabney Family Cultural Show Coordinator: Cathy Stingley Homer Electric Association Heather Tonga Festival Photographers: Chris Mann, Tim Steinberg, Lisa Linegar, Fiona Linegar Art in Plain View (2020): Cindy Brinkerhoff Website and Festival Guide Design: Debi Bodett Pottery Exposé and Studios Tours: Cynthia Morelli Homer Documentary Film Festival: Jamie and Lyn Sutton, Homer Theatre Artists’ Transportation: Pat McNary and Brian Bergey Other Festival Volunteers: Lilia Delgado, Linda Manning, Shelley Rainwater, Michael McKinney, Bobby Copeland McKinney, Dharti Patel, Kathleen Dose Koehl, Suzette Mashburn, Patrice Krant Alaska World Arts is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. 2
Friday, September 6 4-7 PM Ptarmigan Arts - Take Your Best Shot Featuring photographs taken by local residents using mobile devices. We’ve all been in the “right place at the ART GALLERY OPENINGS right time” without a camera and pull out our phone or tablet to take that perfect shot. Get a glimpse into local life through this collection of photos. FREE Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Marine Debris Art Exhibit View large-scale sculptures constructed from local marine debris by Homer youth and adults. Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Headquarters Building, 708 Smokey Bay Way FREE Painting by Gail Priday Pratt Museum - All Alaska Biennial A traveling exhibition celebrating the contemporary work of Alaskan artists. This series of juried exhibitions began more than 30 years ago to encourage the creation of new works by Alaska artists in all media curated by the Anchorage Museum and funded in part by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. FREE Art Shop Gallery - Cultural Threads: Alaska Native Dolls Heidi Catlett presents a collection of dolls from different parts of Alaska. Painting by Marian Beck FREE Kachemak Bay Campus - Kenai Peninsula College Homer Council on the Arts - Artforms Around the World Paintings by Marian Beck Council on the Arts will be showcasing art from many Halibut Cove artist Marian Beck shows her most recent countries and diverse cultures gathered from private work expressing the world as she sees it - lively, beautiful, collections in the Southern Kenai Peninsula. colorful, and Alaskan. FREE FREE Jars of Clay Pottery featuring functional and decorative, Grace Ridge Brewing - Where the Land Meets the Sea gas and high-fired pottery by Ruby Haigh, plus wreaths A collaborative show with artists Britni Siekaniec and of local roots, shells and pottery. Jen DePesa, featuring oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed- FREE media paintings, including the use of salt harvested from Kachemak Bay by the Alaska Salt Co. These paintings Fireweed Gallery - Abundance capture the power of the sea and the grandeur of Alaska’s Mother and daughter Debora Deal and Heather Taushek mountain ranges. A portion of sales will be donated to exhibit paintings on canvas, glass and other media. the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies. FREE FREE AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 3
Friday, September 6 4-7 PM - ART GALLERY OPENINGS 8-10 PM Bunnell Street Arts Center Two Short Live Theatre Productions Solo Exhibit, Sonya Kelliher-Combs Through the use of synthetic, organic, traditional and 1. Picasso at the Lapin Agile - by Steve Martin modern materials and techniques, Kelliher-Combs Directed by Jennifer Norton and Tom Custer. builds upon the traditions of her people, the Inupiaq This long-running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places and Athabascan. Growing up in Nome, Alaska, she spent Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in summers at the family’s camp where they worked, hunted 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed and gathered food and supplies for the winter. It was physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated there she learned to listen, listened to learn from family, painter set the art world afire with cubism. Martin plays community members and nature. Through observation fast and loose with fact, fame, and fortune as these and the practice of time-honored traditions - skin sewing, two geniuses muse on the century’s achievements and beading, and food preparation – she realized her role as prospects, as well as other fanciful topics, with infectious Woman, Daughter, Sister, Wife and Artist. The intimacy dizziness. of traditional women’s work has allowed her to examine the connections between Western and Indigenous 2. Breaking the Ice - by Kieran Lynn cultures. She is inspired by the relationship of her Directed by Ken Landfield ancestors to their environment - how they used skin, fur Frank Montgomery is the Chief Scientific Advisor to the and membrane in material culture. Kelliher-Combs work Arctic Council. He’s in Alaska to give a speech that will examines identity and the subjects of her work include tilt the scales. The only problem is he has spilled yogurt history, family and culture. on his suit, left his speech behind, and been kidnapped FREE by militant activists. Can he make it back to the podium before it’s too late? 5:30-7 PM One Ticket for Both Shows Pier One Theatre (Show details @ PierOneTheatre.org) Adult Jazz Dance Workshop - with Jocelyn Shiro $20/Discounts for Raven’s Club Members and Youth Explore musical genres from lyrical to Latin to pop, TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE with warm up, pop, stretch and core strengthening, intermediate level jazz dance technique and 8 PM choreography. Harbor School of Music & Dance Jazz at Bunnell Street Arts Center - with Jeffrey Lee Mills 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 Mills is a NY-born jazz pianist/composer based in Berlin, $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in Germany. A baby-boomer raised on Wonder® bread, he TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE was an Eagle Scout, played piano and trumpet, and was influenced by the Brady Bunch, The Beatles and Zappa. He studied in NYC under Ken McIntyr. His influences are Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Bob Marley, Zoe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Keith Jarrett. He has toured Europe with the international musical clown theater, “Three Wheel Circus”; comedian Gary Edwards at improv theater “Mister Monkey Music School” and “Baby Boomers Beatles en Vogue”. Mill’s performances creatively rocks, jazz and grooves. His latest project is called Beatle Jazz. His originals and arrangements engage the audience on a journey of surprises. Sponsored by Bunnell Street Arts Center and the Alaska World Arts Festival $15 in advance / $20 at the door Jeffrey Lee Mills TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 4 2019 Alaska World Arts Festival
Friday, September 6 9 PM 10 PM Alibi Bar & Cafe - Live Music with the KP Brass Band Justin Cole’s Down East Saloon KP Brass Band brings that NOLA flavor to Alaska. Dance Film - Outdoor 16mm projection of Fritz Lang’s the night away to the sounds of Soul Rebels, Hot 8, Metropolis - 1927 (1 hour 20 minutes.) Youngblood Brass and Lucky Chops, and the traditional Live Music Accompaniment Mardi Gras sounds of Rebirth and Olympia Brass. by John Cottingham and friends FREE Metropolis is a stylized, visually stunning, melodramatic silent film set in the dystopic, 21st century city of Kharacters Alaskan Bar - Live Music Metropolis - a dialectical treatise on man vs. machine and FREE class struggle. Sponsored by Down East Saloon, Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association, Michael Walsh Alice’s Champagne Palace - Live Music and the Alaska World Arts Festival. Sets by featured Festival artists including Australia Tom 3125 East End Road Carty, Anchorage singer/songwriter/circus performer $5 cover at the door Fiona Rose, and Homer’s talented Robert Toner. FREE Saturday, September 7 9:30-10:45 AM 11 AM-12:30 PM Youth Contemporary Jazz Dance Workshop Adult Jazz Dance Workshop - with Jocelyn Shiro with Jocelyn Shiro Explore musical genres from lyrical to Latin to pop, Dancer core strengthening followed by jazz technique with warm up, pop, stretch and core strengthening, floor crossings, and choreography. Experience intermediate level jazz dance technique and recommended. choreography. Ages 12 to 15 Harbor School of Music & Dance Harbor School of Music & Dance 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 12 NOON-4 PM 10 AM-4 PM Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Jars of Clay Pottery Studio Marine Debris Art Workshop Raku Fire your own pot. Glaze a piece of your own Use plastic items commonly found on beaches around pottery or a purchased piece and watch it be magically the world to help create a two-dimensional sculpture. transformed in 30 minutes with raku. Work with marine debris educator Henry Reiske. You may 3675 Main Street (off Pioneer Avenue) also drop in to work independently Monday - Friday, 9 FREE am-5 pm. Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies 11-12 NOON Headquarters Building, 708 Smokey Bay Way FREE World Playground Music Program A fun-filled interactive outdoor live music experience for kids and parents, with special guest Tom Carty. Bishop’s Beach Pavilion FREE AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 5
Saturday, September 7 12 NOON-4 PM 12 NOON-4 PM POTTERY EXPOSÉ ART GALLERY OPENINGS Homer Clayworks - Demos on the Deck The Shop | Kachemak Bay Art Space With artists Ahna Iredale, Cynthia Morelli, and Lisa Wood Open call Exhibition Homerites. 4306 Homer Spit Road Curated by local artists Austin Parkhill FREE and Mandy Bernard 60388 Bear Creek Court Paul Dungan and Dave Kaufmann Studio FREE Pottery demonstrations and light refreshments 57725 Icy Bay Drive (907) 299-8557 Station Twelve FREE Dan Coe and Suzanne Radcliff Station Twelve is a unique event center nestled on top Jeff Szarzi Pottery Studio of Baycrest. Here you will find the art of Dan Coe and Demonstration Suzanne Radcliff highlighted by this former Ranger 34750 Greentree Circle (907) 235-9713 Station’s expansive views, now a sanctuary for artists and FREE art lovers to connect and find inspiration from Alaska’s vastness. 12 NOON-4 PM 3751 Sterling Highway FREE ART GALLERY OPENINGS Exotic Eye Tattoo Animal Visions Inua - The Spirit of Alaska Featuring owner RachelG’s animal eyes visionary art Meet the Artists of Bering Sea Designs with other resident tattoo artists works of art. RachelG’s Come see their jewelry and learn how their creations are artwork is inspired by the way animals perceive this made from ancient mammoth tooth, mammoth tusk world. Come witness the window into the animal’s and fossilized walrus tusk. Designers Catrin and Tisha visions. Lovett transform materials of the past into traditional and Located on the Homer Spit contemporary pieces of Wearable Art. FREE 4287 Homer Spit Road FREE Diamond Ridge Art Studio Watercolor Painting Exhibit and Demonstration The Dean Gallery Specializing in fine art by local artists and unique gifts Origins - 36 years of Commission Proposal Drawings from Alaska including photography, pottery, native An exhibition of proposal drawings by Jeff Dean from Alaskan carvings, jewelry, and wearable art. over 36 years of commission work. Finished sketches, Located on the Homer Spit along with stages in their evolution, will be juxtaposed FREE with images of the finished artworks. This gallery also features works by Ranja, Jeff, and M’fanwy Dean, Sea Lion Fine Art Gallery including large focal point artworks in engraved and An Across Time Exhibition of Alaskan Art Featuring Women heat-tinted steel, bronze and wood sculptures, carved From Native basketry, dolls and weaving to modern wood panels, and specialty prints on wood, metal and day wall art, jewelry and statuary, come celebrate the paper. This unique gallery, with its freestanding, timber influences of our great State and the Women who are frame walls, will give you a little taste of what people see inspired. on a Dean Family Farm and Art Studio tour. Located on the Homer Spit The Dean Family Farm and Art Studios FREE 40374 Waterman Road (5 miles out East End Road) (907) 299-4124 FREE 6 2019 Alaska World Arts Festival
Saturday, September 7 1-3 PM Live Music at Homer Farmers Market With New Zealand storyteller/singer/songwriter Roger Lusby and Anchorage singer/songwriter/circus performer Fiona Rose. FREE 4 PM Fab Four The Ultimate Tribute to The Beatles HHS Mariner Theater. TheFabFour.com TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 5-7 PM Music Jam at Grace Ridge Brewing Bring your instruments and jam or simply enjoy a beer! FREE September 7, 4 & 8 PM 5:30-9 PM The Emmy Award-Winning Fab Four is elevated far above every other Beatles Tribute due to their AJ’s OldTown Steakhouse & Tavern - Live Music precise attention to detail. With uncanny, note- Sunrise Kilcher Sjoeberg plays piano in dining room. for-note live renditions of Beatles classics such as FREE “Can’t Buy Me Love”, “Yesterday”, “A Day In The Life”, “Twist And Shout”, “Here Comes The Sun”, and “Hey 8 PM Jude”, the Fab Four will make your feel as if you’re watching the real thing. Fab Four The Ultimate Tribute to The Beatles HHS Mariner Theater. TheFabFour.com TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 9 PM Improv Comedy Troupe - Scared Scriptless Bringing theater and comedy together in energetic and libi Bar & Cafe - Live Music with the KP Brass Band A fast-paced games in the style of “Whose line is it anyway?” The 49th State First Brass Band is bringing that NOLA since the year 2000. Their shows develop live, based on flavor to Alaska. Come dance the night away to the audience suggestions the troupe will improvise with. sounds of Soul Rebels, Hot 8, Youngblood Brass and Anchorage-based, Scared Scriptless will present two Lucky Chops and the traditional Mardi Gras sounds of acts; audience suggestions to tell true-story monologues, Rebirth and Olympia Brass. and a rapid-fire, short-form style they’re known for! FREE For more information visit PierOneTheatre.org Pier One Theatre On the Homer Spit Kharacters Alaskan Bar - Live Music TBA TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE FREE J ustin Cole’s Down East Saloon - Live Music TBA FREE Alice’s Champagne Palace - Live Music TBA FREE AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 7
Sunday, September 8 9:30-10:45 AM Youth Contemporary Jazz Dance Workshop with Jocelyn Shiro Dancer core strengthening followed by jazz technique floor crossings, and choreography. Experience recommended. Ages 12 to 15 Harbor School of Music & Dance 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 10 AM-2 PM The Shop | Kachemak Bay Art Space Natural Dyes Workshop Learn how to extract color from local flora in the 12 NOON-4 PM Kachemak Bay area. Learn the basics of dyeing fiber and mark making with natural dyes. Take home a beautiful silk POTTERY EXPOSÉ scarf and swatch samples! Materials included. Bring a lunch or snack. Cynthia Morelli Studio/Back Porch Sculpture and 60388 Bear Creek Court Drawing Gallery - Wood-Fire Kiln Tour $100/person 60159 Lookout Ridge Avenue (1 mi Ohlson Mt Rd) TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE (907) 235-2846 FREE 11 AM-12 NOON Ahna Iredale Rare Bird Pottery World Playground Music Program 2015 Bayridge Road A fun-filled interactive outdoor live music experience for (907) 235-7687 kids and parents, with special guest Tom Carty. FREE Bishop’s Beach Pavilion FREE Paul Dungan and Dave Kaufmann Studio Demonstrations and light refreshments. 57725 Icy Bay Drive 11 AM-12:30 PM (907) 299-8557 FREE Adult Jazz Dance Workshop - with Jocelyn Shiro Explore musical genres from lyrical to Latin to pop, Jars of Clay Pottery Studio with warm up, pop, stretch and core strengthening, Raku Firing Demo intermediate level jazz dance technique and 3857 Main Street choreography. FREE Harbor School of Music & Dance 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 Jeff Szarzi Pottery Studio $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in Demonstration TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 4750 Greentree Circle (907) 235-9713 FREE POTTERY EXPOSÉ maps available at HomerPotters.com 8 2019 Alaska World Arts Festival
Sunday, September 8 Burning Basket Build Workshop - Day 1 by Mavis Muller Tom Bodett, author and humorist, at the Mariner Theater 12 NOON-8 PM 7 PM Burning Basket Build Workshop - Day 1 Tom Bodett at the Mariner Theater Join in the experience of creating a large, outdoor True Stories About Home sculpture of an intricately woven basket using locally Returning to the Mariner Auditorium stage, where he gathered natural materials—site-specific, community launched his storytelling career over 30 years ago, former interactive, impermanent art with renowned installation Homeroid, Tom Bodett hosts an evening of storytelling artist Mavis Muller, who has lead over 40 community on the theme of Home, with special guests from National basket burning enactments worldwide. Drop by when Public Radio. you can and help with the construction. No experience necessary. All hands welcome! “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they For more information, call (907) 299-1478 have to take you in,” according to the Bard of Vermont, or visit Facebook.com/BurningBasketProject Robert Frost. After living 16 years in Vermont, Bodett Mariner Park on the Homer Spit hopes Homer will take him in even if they don’t have FREE to. He brings with him from the Lower 48, Moth star and story coach Peter Aguero who will also direct the 2-3 PM event. Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! producer and creator of the Everything Is Alive podcast, Ian Chillag also joins Photography Workshop Bodett, along with Dameon Wilburn from Detroit and Award-winning photographer Amy Gulick Alaska Native Daughter Marjorie Tahbone. From Snapshot to WOW Shot: Learn how to improve your photography skills from an award-winning nature HHS Mariner Theater photographer. Sponsored by SalmonState. TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE Islands & Ocean Visitor’s Center FREE YOUR STAY 4-6 PM Homer—where the land meets the sea in most World Arts Welcome Gala directions and there’s never a shortage of Hosted by Homer Chamber of Commerce spectacular vistas of mountains, glaciers, ocean, Homer Chamber of Commerce harbor, forest or quirky architecture. 201 Sterling Highway FREE AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 9
Monday, September 9 4-6 PM Beer Park Music Jam - Homer Brewing Company Bring your instruments and join in the fun. FREE 5-6:30 PM Improv Theatre Workshop - Monday thru Friday Fresh Produce, Homer‘s performing and teaching improv theatre troupe (since 1985) is offering a 5-day workshop for anyone interested in learning and practicing basic improvisational theatre skills. The only requirements are a willingness to laugh and an openness to playfulness. No experience necessary. Expect collaborative play, learning, and fun. Contact PeggyEllen at (907) 399-7473 or Martty at (509) 294-0451 for more information or to sign up. Limited to 15 participants. Ages 14 through 100 The Art Barn (behind 1060 East End Road) singer/songwriter Tom Carty FREE 12 NOON-1 PM Live-at-Lunch - Cosmic Kitchen Join Australian singer/songwriter Tom Carty for a lunch- hour acoustic guitar performance. FREE 12 NOON-8 PM Burning Basket Build Workshop - Day 2 Radiate - Basket of Remembrance and Unburdening An onsite, community interactive workshop, with renowned installation artist Mavis Muller. Drop by when you can and help with the construction. No experience necessary. Mariner Park on the Homer Spit FREE 1-4 PM Youth Showcase Spectacle The Shop | Kachemak Bay Art Space 7-9 PM Egg Tempera Workshop What is egg tempera? Join Lorri Davis to explore the Youth Showcase Spectacle materials and techniques of egg tempera and create your Enjoy an evening of music, dance, readings, theater and own painting. Materials included. wit as some of Homer’s young superstar entertainers take Ages 15 and up the stage. $70/person Alice’s Champagne Palace TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE FREE 10 2019 Alaska World Arts Festival
Tuesday, September 10 12 NOON-1 PM Live-at-Lunch - Two Sisters Bakery Join Neck & Neck with Frank DeLapp and Mike Patch for a lunch-hour musical performance. FREE Amy Gulick, Photographer 7-8:30 PM Photography Slideshow The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind Amy Gulick is an award-winning nature photographer and writer. She will present a slideshow of images from her new book and share her experiences exploring, documenting, and celebrating the relationships between Alaskans and salmon. Her images and stories have been featured in Outdoor Photographer, National Wildlife, Audubon, Sierra, and other publications. Her books are Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rainforest and Burning Basket Build Workshop - Day 3 by Mavis Muller the new The Salmon Way: An Alaska State of Mind. 12 NOON-8 PM AmyGulick.com Alaska Islands & Ocean Visitor Center Burning Basket Build Workshop - Day 3 FREE Radiate - Basket of Remembrance and Unburdening An onsite, community interactive workshop, with 8-10 PM renowned installation artist Mavis Muller. Drop by when you can and help with the construction. No experience Performance Piece - The “of relation” works necessary. by Enzina Marrari Mariner Park on the Homer Spit A one-night showing of a modified version of the FREE performance “of relation,” originally held at the 4th Avenue Market Place in Anchorage, Alaska. “of relation” is a progressive performance presenting the experience YOUR STAY of relationship through three vignettes; the relationship to the self, to the other(familial), and to the partner (romantic). The performance features movement, Homer—Susan Haynes describes in Coastal Living, wearable and fiber art, dance, large scale installation, and “The town greets you like a giant pop-up card: sound. Tickets are limited due to the size and intimacy of forbidding mountains, alpine glaciers, dense the work. evergreen forests, a fast-moving sea, the 4½-mile- The Shop / Kachemak Bay Art Space long sand spit, and a thriving community.” $25/person TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 11
Wednesday, September 11 12 NOON-1 PM Live-at-Lunch - K Bay Caffé Join Homer musicians Frank DeLapp and Mike Patch in Neck & Neck for a lunch hour performance. FREE 12 NOON-8 PM Burning Basket Build Workshop - Day 4 Radiate - Basket of Remembrance and Unburdening An onsite, community interactive workshop, with renowned installation artist Mavis Muller. Drop by when you can and help with the construction. No experience necessary. Mariner Park on the Homer Spit FREE QUIXOTIC Cirque Nouveau 7 PM QUIXOTIC Cirque Nouveau - Performance Art A collective that fuses imagination with technology, dance, projection, and live music to create fully- immersive, multi-sensory experiences, branded by the New York Times as an “innovative circus performance.” Men’s Journal declared them “one of the best contemporary [cirque] acts.” HHS Mariner Theater TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE Ka Pa Hula o Ka Lei Lehua Hawaiian Hula Dancers 9 PM 7-9 PM Theater Fringe Festival A collection of new, comedic plays and writings, 1 to 10 Hula Dance Workshop minutes each, performed by local actors and audience Ka Pa Hula o Ka Lei Lehua Hawaiian Hula Dancers volunteers. You’re invited to submit performance pieces. Homer United Methodist Church (downstairs) Alice’s Champagne Palace $10/person or FREE (with Festival Member Badge) $10 suggested donation at the door TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE FREE (with Festival Member Badge) 12 2019 Alaska World Arts Festival
Thursday, September 12 12 NOON-1 PM 6:30-9 PM Live-at-Lunch - Alice’s Champagne Palace Groove It - Music Improv Workshop Join traditional Turkish musicians North Sun for a lunch- with visiting keyboard/composer Jeffrey Lee Mills hour performance. Explore and enhance your musical prowess with Jeffrey, FREE from Berlin, Germany. Free yourself creatively from written notes and connect with your musical inner 12 NOON-8 PM voice. Surf on rock, jazz, blues, funk, reggae or classic grooves. Basic music fundamentals on one’s instrument is Burning Basket Build Workshop - Day 5 required. All instruments welcome. Radiate - Basket of Remembrance and Unburdening Homer Council on the Arts An onsite, community interactive workshop, with $35/person renowned installation artist Mavis Muller. Drop by when TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE you can and help with the construction. No experience necessary. 7-9 PM Mariner Park on the Homer Spit FREE An evening of Art Trivia - Alice’s Champagne Palace FREE 7-9 PM Salty Dawg Saloon Shanties Sing Along with the Rubber Bootleggers at the Salty Dawg Saloon on the Homer Spit. Join local singers honoring this quaint fishing village at the end of the road, for an informal evening of songs about the sea. FREE Marimba Players Workshop African Drummers lead a workshop for Marimba players. Must have your own instrument. The nine best, most entertaining and provocative Homer United Methodist Church (downstairs) documentaries in the world for 2019. $20/person Come see the best documentaries films in the world. TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE HomerDocFest.com 9 PM 6-10:30 PM Justin Cole’s Down East Saloon John Cottingham plays live music. Gala Opening Event - Homer Documentary Film Festival 3125 East End Road The Red Carpet is out! Enjoy reindeer sausage and the FREE full, real Alaskan BBQ, a preview of the week-long Festival Films and a showing of the premier movie; Free with the purchase of a Doc Fest Pass. Movie showtimes September 13-19 are 2, 4, 6, and 8 pm. Film description, trailers, and schedule can be found online at HomerDocFest.com. Docfest Passes available for advance purchase at the theater box office and The Homer Bookstore. Individual tickets available at the door. Homer Theater AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 13
Friday, September 13 12 NOON-1 PM 5-7 PM Live-at-Lunch - Land’s End Resort Art Demonstrations Join NY-born jazz pianist/composer based in Berlin, In alignment with the variety of media and techniques Germany, Jeffrey Lee Mills for a lunch hour performance. of the Arts from Around the World gallery exhibit, artists FREE will demonstrate tools, techniques and media used in creating these arts. 12 NOON-8 PM Homer Council on the Arts FREE Burning Basket Build Workshop - Day 6 Radiate - Basket of Remembrance and Unburdening 5:30-7 PM An onsite, community interactive workshop, with renowned installation artist Mavis Muller. Drop by when Jazzed for Wine you can and help with the construction. No experience Enjoy an evening of wine tasting with Sommelier Patrick necessary. Driscoll, paired with a few bites by Executive Chef Chris Mariner Park on the Homer Spit Miller and marvel in the sounds of New York born jazz FREE pianist Jeffrey Lee Mills from Berlin Germany. Land’s End Resort Chart Room 2, 4, 6 & 8 PM $60 TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE Homer Documentary Film Festival Showing the nine best documentary films in the world for 5:30-9 PM 2019. Docfest Passes available in advance at the theater, HomerDocFest.com, and The Homer Bookstore. Individual AJ’s OldTown Steakhouse & Tavern - Live Music tickets available at the door. Lindianna (Sarno) at the Piana, in the dining room. Homer Theater FREE 3-5 PM 7-9 PM Literary Readings Family Cultural Show “Writing at the Edge of the World” with Alaskan writers Alaskan Nanwalek Seal Dancers, Ka Pa Hula o and Festival-featured nonfiction writer/environmental Ka Lei Lehua Hawaiian Hula dancers, African activist Kathleen Dean Moore. Kachemak Bay Campus - Kenai Peninsula College drummers, traditional Turkish music by North Sun, Indian FREE dance performance by Dharti Patel, Latin Salsa with Dharti Patel and Alex Roznowski, and a shared marimba 4:15-5:30 PM performance. South Peninsula Athletic & Recreation Center (SPARC) FREE Youth Contemporary Jazz Dance Workshop with Jocelyn Shiro Dancer core strengthening followed by jazz technique 9 PM floor crossings, and choreography. Experience recommended. Alice’s Champagne Palace - Live Music Ages 12 to 15 Seattle band Duende Libre. Harbor School of Music & Dance FREE 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 14 2019 Alaska World Arts Festival
Saturday, September 14 9:30-10:45 AM 11 AM-12:30 PM Youth Contemporary Jazz Dance Workshop Adult Jazz Dance Workshop - with Jocelyn Shiro with Jocelyn Shiro Explore musical genres from lyrical to Latin to pop, Dancer core strengthening followed by jazz technique with warm up, pop, stretch and core strengthening, floor crossings, and choreography. Experience intermediate level jazz dance technique and recommended. choreography. Ages 12 to 15 Harbor School of Music & Dance Harbor School of Music & Dance 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 12 NOON-4 PM 10 AM-5 PM Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Oil Painting Workshop - with Don Kolstad Marine Debris Art Workshop Learn the fundamentals of painting in oil while creating Use plastic items commonly found on beaches around your own piece of art. Supply list available at Homer Art the world to help create a two-dimensional sculpture. and Frame Co. Work with marine debris educator Henry Reiske. You may Ages 16 and up also drop in to work independently Monday - Friday, $135/person 9 am-5 pm. Homer Art and Frame Co. Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE Headquarters Building, 708 Smokey Bay Way FREE 10 AM-1 PM 12 NOON-8 PM Poetry Workshop - Making Poetry of Our Working Lives Join FisherPoet Jon Broderick for a poetry writing Burning Basket Build Workshop - Day 7 workshop. Radiate - Basket of Remembrance and Unburdening Kachemak Bay Campus - Kenai Peninsula College An onsite, community interactive workshop, with FREE renowned installation artist Mavis Muller. Drop by when you can and help with the construction. No experience necessary. Mariner Park on the Homer Spit FREE 12:30-1:30 PM Multicultural Dance Performance Ka Pa Hula o Ka Lei Lehua Hawaiian Hula Dancers, the Alaskan Nanwalek Seal Dancers, and African Dancers. Bring your lunch. Boathouse Pavilion on the Homer Spit 11 AM-12 NOON FREE World Playground Music Program A fun-filled interactive outdoor live music experience for kids and parents, with special guest Tom Carty. Bishop’s Beach Pavilion FREE AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 15
Saturday, September 14 1-3 PM Homer Farmers Market - Live Music Traditional Turkish musicians, North Sun and Aussie singer/songwriter Tom Carty. FREE 1-9 PM Treasures - Homer Fine Arts Show 20 Alaskan artists presenting paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and an array of fine art mediums. Live music, dancing entertainment and snack bar. QUIXOTIC Cirque Nouveau Homer High School Commons 4 & 8 PM FREE QUIXOTIC Cirque Nouveau - Performance Art Craftmasters - Arts & Crafts Fair A collective that fuses imagination with technology, A wide variety of Alaskan hand-crafted goods; clothing, dance, projection, and live music to create fully- jewelry, gifts, bags, accessories, children’s goods, paper immersive, multi-sensory experiences, branded by the goods, candles, and other art. New York Times as an “innovative circus performance.” Homer Elks Lodge Men’s Journal has declared them “one of the best FREE contemporary [cirque] acts.” HHS Mariner Theater 2, 4, 6 & 8 PM TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE Homer Documentary Film Festival 5:30-9 PM Showing the nine best documentary films in the world for 2019. Docfest Passes available in advance at the theater, AJ’s OldTown Steakhouse & Tavern - Live Music HomerDocFest.com, and The Homer Bookstore. Individual Sunrise Kilcher Sjoeberg plays piano in dining room. tickets available at the door. FREE Homer Theater 2-5 PM Writer’s Workshop - “Writing for the Reeling World” Responding to our troubled world with hope, compassion and moral courage with Festival-featured, nonfiction writer/environmental activist Kathleen Dean Moore. Register after July at KBCnoncredit.asapconnected.com Kachemak Bay Campus-Kenai Peninsula College Andrew Vait $35/person 9 PM Alice’s Champagne Palace - Andrew Vait in Concert Spend an evening with Seattle-based singer/songwriter, YOUR STAY multi-instrumentalist. $10 cover charge at the door Homer— if you love the arts, nature and community, it’s a hard place to resist. Justin Cole’s Down East Saloon - Live Music TBA FREE 16 2019 Alaska World Arts Festival
Sunday, September 15 9:30-10:45 AM 12:30 - 1:30 PM Youth Contemporary Jazz Dance Workshop Live-at-Lunch - Boathouse Pavilion on the Spit with Jocelyn Shiro Outdoor concert with traditional Turkish musicians, North Dancer core strengthening followed by jazz technique Sun. Bring your lunch! floor crossings, and choreography. Experience FREE recommended. Ages 12 to 15 2, 4, 6 & 8 PM Harbor School of Music & Dance 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 Homer Documentary Film Festival $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in Showing the nine best documentary films in the world for TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 2019. Docfest Passes available in advance at the theater, HomerDocFest.com, and The Homer Bookstore. Individual 11 AM-12 NOON tickets available at the door. Homer Theater World Playground Music Program A fun-filled interactive outdoor live music experience for 5-7 PM kids and parents, with special guest Tom Carty. Bishop’s Beach Pavilion House Concert - Jon Broderick and Jay Speakman FREE The Haber family invites you for an evening of friendly potluck and concert, celebrating commercial fishing 11 AM-12:30 PM culture with FisherPoets Geno Leech, Jay Speakman and Jon Broderick. These veterans of the FisherPoets Adult Jazz Dance Workshop - with Jocelyn Shiro Gathering in Astoria, Oregon pack decades of commercial Explore musical genres from lyrical to Latin to pop, fishing stories and characters into their refreshingly with warm up, pop, stretch and core strengthening, authentic poetry and song. Bring a potluck dish. intermediate level jazz dance technique and The Habers - 300 Whispering Meadows (907) 299-2363 choreography. FREE Harbor School of Music & Dance 3691 Ben Walters Lane, Suite 2 8-10 PM $75/5 classes or $20 drop-in TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE Burning Basket Event Radiate - Basket of Remembrance and Unburdening 11 AM-4 PM After a week-long collaboration, renowned basket maker and installation artist Mavis Muller, will give a talk at Watercolor Painting Workshop - Don Kolstad 7 pm, followed by the 16th Annual Burning Basket at Learn techniques and fundamentals of watercolor sundown when the torch is lit and the basket is ignited. as Kolstad demonstrates and guides you through For more information: (907) 299-1478 completion of your painting. Supply list available at Facebook.com/BurningBasketProject Homer Art & Frame Co. Mariner Park, Homer Spit Road Ages 16 and up FREE Homer Art & Frame Co. $120/person TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 17
Monday, September 16 10 AM-2:30 PM 5-7 PM Charcoal Portrait Drawing Class - with David Pettibone Music Sharing Session Students work from live models studying proportions, Bring an instrument or simply your voice and join value, shadow and shapes. Supply list available at Homer FisherPoet Jon Broderick and friends for a casual sing Art & Frame Co. around. Circle up, take a turn, play along if you can. Age 16 and up Captain’s Coffee Homer Art & Frame Co. FREE $125/person TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 8-10 PM 12 NOON-1 PM An Evening of Comedy Hosted by Darrel Oliver with Derrick Eason, Dawson Live-at-Lunch - Alice’s Champagne Palace Moore, Evan Boyer, and other comedians. Join NY-born jazz pianist/composer based in Berlin, Alice’s Champagne Palace Germany, Jeffrey Lee Mills for a lunch hour performance. $10 suggested donation at the door FREE FREE (with Festival Member Badge) 2, 4, 6 & 8 PM Homer Documentary Film Festival Showing the nine best documentary films in the world for 2019. Docfest Passes available in advance at the theater, HomerDocFest.com, and The Homer Bookstore. Individual tickets available at the door. Homer Theater SUPPORT THE ARTS SAVE ON EVENTS BUY A MEMBER BADGE AlaskaWorldArts.org 18 2019 Alaska World Arts Festival
Tuesday, September 17 10 AM-2 PM 4-6 PM Still Life Collage Workshop Kid’s Acrylic Van Gogh Painting Class - Elissa Pettibone Create colorful still life art on canvas with papers, textures Paint your own post-impressionist style in acrylics and your imagination with Elissa Pettibone. inspired by your choice of a Van Gogh image. Supply list All ages available through Homer Art & Frame Co. $80/person Kids ages 6 - 12 Homer Art & Frame Co. Homer Art & Frame Co. TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE $30/person TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 7 PM FisherPoets - Alice’s Champagne Palace Celebrating commercial fishing culture with Geno Leech, Jay Speakman and Jon Broderick, and Alaskan FisherPoets. These veterans of the FisherPoets Gathering in Astoria, Oregon pack decades of commercial fishing stories and characters into their refreshingly authentic poetry and song. FREE 7:30-9:30 PM Roger Lusby Rising Sun, and Fire Sculpture 12 NOON-1 PM Gather in the hayloft for refreshments and witness the Rising of the Phoenix at sunset. Watch the igniting of a Live-at-Lunch - Land’s End Resort wooden sculpture behind the gallery for the evening Join New Zealand singer/songwriter Roger Lusby for a finale. lunch hour performance. The Dean Family Farm and Art Studios FREE 40374 Waterman Road (907) 299-4124 $15/person TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 1-4 PM Painting and Drawing Class Work from a live, costumed model for an unencumbered session, with live music and refreshments. The Shop | Kachemak Bay Art Space $20/person 2, 4, 6 & 8 PM Homer Documentary Film Festival Showing the nine best documentary films in the world for 2019. Docfest Passes available in advance at the theater, HomerDocFest.com, and The Homer Bookstore. Individual tickets available at the door. Homer Theater AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 19
Wednesday, September 18 10 AM-2:30 PM 4-5:30 PM Go Nautical with Alcohol Inks - Francine Dufour Jones Youth Poetry and Performing Workshop Create your own nautical theme art as you learn new Write and perform Spoken Word Poetry with FisherPoet, ways to use alcohol inks. Steve Schoonmaker. Ages 16 and up Ages 10 and up Homer Art & Frame Co. Captain’s Coffee $85/person FREE TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE 8 PM 12 NOON - 1 PM International Spectacle of Featured Artists Live-at-Lunch - Latitude 59 Join storyteller Roger Lusby, singer/songwriter Tom Join acoustic guitar player Josh Thomas for a lunch hour Carty, comedian Derrick Eason, jazz player Jeffrey performance. Lee Mills, FisherPoets, Turkish musicians North Sun, FREE and guest singers Britny Bradshaw. Hosted by Sally Oberstein. 2, 4, 6 & 8 PM Alice’s Champagne Palace $10 suggested donation at the door Homer Documentary Film Festival FREE (with Festival Member Badge) Showing the nine best documentary films in the world for 2019. Docfest Passes available in advance at the theater, HomerDocFest.com, and The Homer Bookstore. Individual tickets available at the door. Homer Theater The Dean Gallery & Dean Family Farm and Art Studio Tour Join Alaskan artists, Ranja, M’fanwy, and Jeffrey Dean for this unique, guided tour. You’ll be immersed in our creative Alaskan lifestyle as you meander through a menagerie of art and animals, gardens and architecture. • 40374 Waterman Rd. in Homer, AK. • 907-299-4124 Tours offered May 23 thru Sept 19 • Book Online at jeffreyhdean.com/AlaskaWorldArts • Festival Gallery Hours are 1-6 pm daily. 20 2019 Alaska World Arts Festival
Thursday, September 19 10 AM-2:30 PM 7-9 PM Mixed Media Painting - Francine Dufour Jones An Evening of Art Trivia - Alice’s Champagne Palace Explore new texture making techniques using the latest FREE mixed media products from Marabu Arts. Some materials furnished. 9 PM Ages 16 and up $95/person Justin Cole’s Down East Saloon - Live Music Homer Art & Frame Co. Local favorite songwriter and guitarist John TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE Cottingham weaves tales of adventures and life on the road. 12 NOON-1 PM FREE Live-at-Lunch - The Bagel Shop Alaska World Arts Festival Closing Party Join Homer’s acoustic guitar player Dave Gerard for a Alice’s Champagne Palace lunch hour performance. FREE FREE 2, 4, 6 & 8 PM Homer Documentary Film Festival Showing the nine best documentary films in the world for 2019. Docfest Passes available in advance at the theater, HomerDocFest.com, and The Homer Bookstore. Individual tickets available at the door. Homer Theater AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 21
Alaska WorldWORLD ALASKA Arts Festival ARTS Venues — getting FESTIVAL aroundgetting VENUES– Homer around Homer 34 South Peninsula Hospital Homer High School 19 Mariner Theater & Commons 22 Please check your GPS for the following venues: Homer Police Sta. & Fire Dept. • Rare Bird Pottery—2015 Bayridge Road • Bear Creek Winery—60203 Bear Creek Drive 36 • Cynthia Morelli Studio/Gallery 15 60159 Lookout Ridge Avenue 10 • The Dean Gallery—40374 Waterman Road WORLD ARTS FESTIVAL VENUES– getting around Homer 25 26 12 29 38 • Homer United Methodist Church 33 3 770 East End Road 27 24 28 9 • Jeff Szarzi Pottery Studio—34750 Greentree Circle 8 20 4 • Justin Cole’s Down East Saloon 32 Homer High School 19 5 3125 East End Road ner Theater & Commons Harbor School of • Paul Dungan & Dave Kaufmann Studio 30 Alaska World Arts Festival Tickets & Information Music & Dance 57725 Icy Bay Drive 22 Homer Chamber of Commerce & Visitor Center • Station Twelve—3751 Sterling Highway 35 • The Art Barn—1060 East End Road Homer Police Sta. & Fire 17 Dept. • The Bagel Shop—3745 East End Road • The Shop / Kachemak Bay Art Space 36 60388 Bear Creek Drive 23 15 10 31 2 Beluga Lake 25 26 12 29 38 33 1 7 16 3 18 27 11 37 13 9 6 21 Harbor School of tival Tickets &1.Information AJs Steakhouse & Tavern Music 27. &KBBI Dance Homer Public Radio HOMER SPIT 2. Alaska ommerce & Visitor CenterWorld Arts Festival Station THE HOMER SPIT Headquarters Homer 28. Kharacters Alaskan Bar 39. Boathouse Pavilion 40. Captain Pattie’s Fish 14 Chamber of Commerce 29. Latitude 59 46 3. Alibi 30. North Wind Home 41a. Diamond Ridge Art Studio 23 4. Alice’s Champagne Palace Collection 41b. Exotic Eye Tattoo 5. Art Shop Gallery 31. Beluga Ocean LakeHotel Shores 42. Homer Clayworks 6. Bishop’s Beach Pavilion 32. Pratt Museum 43. Inua the Spirit of AK 7. Bunnell Street Arts Center 33. Ptarmigan Arts 1644. Land’s End Resort 8. Captain’s Coffee 34. South Peninsula Hospital 45. Mako’s 13 Water Taxi Kache 9. Center for Alaskan Coastal 35. SPARC 46. Mariner Park 47 Studies 36. Suite 3 (behind AK 47. Pier One Theatre 10. Cosmic Kitchen Wildberry) 21 48. Saltry/Danny J Office 41 4248 11. Driftwood Inn 37. Two Sisters Bakery 49. Salty Dawg Saloon 5140 45 39 43 49 12. Fireweed Gallery 38. Ulmer’s Drug and 50. Seafarer’s Memorial 13. Grace Ridge Brewing Hardware 51. SeaTLion H E Art H OGallery MER SPIT Seaf Mem 14. Homer Airport 15. Homer Art & Frame Co. For accessibility questions, please contact th 16. Homer Brewing Company 46 Center TRAILS Program (inclusive recreation) 17. Homer Council on the Arts HOMER SPIT 18. Homer Elks Lodge 19. Homer High School Mariner Theater & Commons 20. Homer Theatre 21. Homer Farmers Market Kachemak Bay 22. Homer United Methodist 47 Church 23. Islands & Ocean Visitor’s Center 41 4248 45 39 24. Jars of Clay 5140 43 49 25. K Bay Caffé 44 Land’s End Resort 50 26. Kachemak Bay Campus- Seafarer’s Kenai Peninsula College Memorial For accessibility questions, please contact the Independent Living 22 2019 Alaska World ArtsTRAILS Center Festival Program (inclusive recreation) at 907-235-7911
Affordable dining in a family-friendly atmosphere Steaks ~ Seafood ~ Spirits Serving the Top 2% USDA Prime Rib in the Nation 120 W. Bunnell Ave ~ 907-235-9949 KOA HOMER/BAYCREST Open through the Alaska World Arts Festival Mile 169 (907) 435-7995 CABINS YURT CAMPING FULL HOOKUPS FREE WIFI STATE PARK TRAILS / KAYAK RENTALS / FREIGHT SERVICE Salty Dawg Saloon Discover Kachemak Bay (907) 235-9055 Located on the Homer Spit MakosWaterTaxi.com AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 23
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Discover Land’s End… It’s just the beginning This is a place where passions are kindled, a seaside sanctuary where salt-kissed breezes dance to the rhythm of the surf. Where otters, whales and shorebirds frolic outside your window. Savor fresh seafood and house-made desserts in the Chart Room Restaurant. Relax on our beachfront deck. Stroll for miles on the beach just outside your door, or take a short walk to the harbor for world- class fishing, shopping and sightseeing. This is the famed end of the road, and just the beginning of your Alaska adventures. ...just the beginning Information or Reservations call: 907-235-0400 AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org 29
Whether you’re an Alaskan or visiting from afar, we’re happy you’re here and hope you’ll enjoy the Festival and the best of our small town. KEN CASTNER, MAYOR / HOMER, ALASKA ALASKA WORLD ARTS FESTIVAL HOMER, ALASKA AlaskaWorldArtsFestival.org
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