Arts

Nominate poems celebrating parks

02/04/13 - 1:51pm

The Poems in Place Project seeks nominations for poetry to be placed at state parks in Ketchikan and near Fairbanks. Alaska State Parks, the Alaska Center for the Book and a steering committee of Alaska writers and poets are collaborating on the Poems in Place Project, a statewide project to celebrate the natural beauty of Alaska’s state parks with poetry.

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First Friday — low key but diverse

02/04/13 - 1:50pm

With several galleries closed for February, art openings for First Friday are scattered. What First Friday lacks in quantity it makes up for in diversity. Several venues fill in the gap with First Friday events a little beyond the usual.

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Homer Bookstore holds World Book Night

01/24/13 - 4:32pm

The Homer Bookstore participates in the second annual World Book Night on April 23, with the sign-up deadline extended to Jan. 25. Plans are already in motion on several fronts to match and exceed the successes of the campaign’s first year, when 25,000 volunteer book givers went out in 5,800 towns and cities across America and personally gave a total of a half-million paperbacks to members of their communities, many without means or access to printed books.

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Visiting writer speaks at KBC

01/24/13 - 4:31pm

Award winning fiction writer Alan Heathcock will read from his work and hold a craft talk at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday as part of Kachemak Bay Campus’ annual visiting writers’ series. He is the author of “VOLT,” a collection of stories named a 2011 best book by numerous magazines and newspapers as well a New York Times Editors’ Choice. His fiction has been published in many of America’s top magazines and journals, including GQ, Publishers Weekly, Salon, the Chicago Tribune and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

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National Geographic holds casting call

01/24/13 - 4:29pm

The National Geographic Channel holds an open casting call for Russian Old Believer families working in the fishing and boat building industries interested in appearing in an upcoming “docu-reality” television series. A meeting about the series is 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Nikolaevsk School in Nikolaevsk. National Geographic producers will be at the meeting and in town Jan. 28 to Feb. 1 to meet with prospective families.

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HCOA announces Art Awards

01/24/13 - 4:28pm

The Homer Council on the Arts announced the winners of the 2012 Art Awards. The awards are given annually for achievements in the arts. The winners are:

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Arts Leadership/Advocacy: Bunnell Street Arts Center

• Arts Education: Carol Swartz

• Artist of the Year: Marian Beck

• Youth Artist of the Year: Drew Turner

• Lifetime Achievement: Gaye Wolfe

• Business Arts Patron: Era Alaska.

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Cultural talk looks at link between names, clans and lands

01/24/13 - 4:27pm

What is the link between a land and a name?

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Dolls reflect artist’s heritage, viewers’ impressions

01/24/13 - 2:20pm

“First Alaskans” is artist Pamela “Asiak” Nolcini’s name for her exhibit that debuted as a First Friday exhibit at Photo Depot this month. Not ‘First Alaskans’ as in pioneers of the state’s oil industry. Not ‘First Alaskans’ as in homesteaders looking for a piece of land where they could build a home. Not ‘First Alaskans’ as the rush of individuals who journeyed north with dreams of gold.

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Big Read about Vietnam War novel starts this month

01/24/13 - 1:15pm

BY MICHAEL ARMSTRONG

STAFF WRITER

For the next two months, in messenger bags, backpacks, briefcases and purses, Homer readers will be carrying cell phones, laptop computers, gum, cough drops, wallets, faded photographs, thumb drives, lip stick and lip balm, gloves, pens, pencils, notepads, worry beads, rosaries, sea glass, beach stones, and, oh yeah, a thin little novel about the Vietnam War. Among the things they will carry is “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien’s 1990 novel.

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Andersen brings blues to Alaska — Canadian style

01/24/13 - 11:03am

Listen to Matt Andersen’s music, and you hear a deep, growling voice that could come from blues country in Chicago or the Mississippi Delta. There’s also a bit of Appalachia twang — Johnny Cash crossed with B.B. King. Backing his strong voice is Andersen’s equally powerful slide guitar.

“You know it hurts so bad
every time she cries / wishin’ I was there
to wipe the tears from her eyes,” he sings in “When My Angel Gets the Blues.”

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