Arts and Culture

Cedar bark harvesting course available in Ketchikan

KETCHIKAN — Sign up to learn how to harvest cedar bark for weaving with instructor Gloria Burns on three separate days, two of them field… Continue reading

Girls rock camp 2016 comes to Haines, Sitka

A Girls Rock summer camp is coming to Haines and Sitka, as well as Anchorage and Fairbanks, this summer. Kids can learn a new instrument,… Continue reading

Fundraising for bear mauling, house fire victims

April has been a tragic and trying month for many in Southeast Alaska, but friends and neighbors across the region are helping how they can,… Continue reading

Parallelogramophonograph, a narrative improv group, is the featured act at the Alaska State Improv Festival this year.  PGraph will be performing two different shows at AS IF - French Farce and Villainy. Photo by Koichi Enomoto.

Alaska’s improv fest brings narrative, hip hop, TV improv to Juneau

Improv is a word that might bring the popular television show “Whose Line is It Anyway?” to mind. Or maybe a comedy show — good… Continue reading

Parallelogramophonograph, a narrative improv group, is the featured act at the Alaska State Improv Festival this year.  PGraph will be performing two different shows at AS IF - French Farce and Villainy. Photo by Koichi Enomoto.

Juneau Pride Chorus Concert April 30

Juneau Pride Chorus’ annual performance and silent auction is set for April 30 at Northern Light United Church. The group is conducted by Leslie Wood,… Continue reading

Linda Torgerson wins Discovery Award

Linda Torgerson, a teacher at the Juneau Community Charter School, has won Discovery Southeast’s 2016 Discovery Award, which honors teachers who go above and beyond… Continue reading

Native fashion competition during Celebration

The Sealaska Heritage Institute is hosting a Native Fashion show for Celebration 2016. It aims to integrate Alaska Native art into high fashion pieces, including… Continue reading

SHI camp deadlines approach

Sealaska Heritage Institute’s summer programs are open for registration. The first is Latseen Running Camp, from June 14-17, for Alaska Native students entering 5th -… Continue reading

New arts and science festival in Sitka this July

A new interdisciplinary festival in Sitka, Alaska on the historic Sheldon Jackson Campus this July will provide opportunity for tourists and locals to explore science… Continue reading

Speed dating and discussion of photographer Joseph Alexander at the city museum

The Juneau-Douglas City Museum hosts a Mug Up program on Saturday, April 30th, from 10:30 to noon. This format is a chance for the community… Continue reading

Art Fest awards for Juneau

Juneau-Douglas High School sent seven exceptional student artists to the annual Region V Art Fest on April 7-11. Katie Buchanan, Toma Kimlinger, Summer Putman, Meg… Continue reading

Annapurna begins May 6

ANNAPURNA BEGINS“Annapurna,” Perseverance Theatre’s next performance, begins May 6 in Juneau. “Twenty years ago,” says the synopsis, “Emma walked out on her husband, cowboy-poet Ulysses,… Continue reading

Carolyn Wonderland, the Vega Quartet Open Juneau Jazz & Classics 30th Season

Juneau Jazz & Classics kicks off its 30th season Friday, May 6 with the powerful voice of Carolyn Wonderland and her band, two blues cruises… Continue reading

Reflections on the JSO’s ‘Peace and Deliverance’

This recent Juneau Symphony Orchestra concert was the perfect accompaniment to a beautiful, moonlit spring evening. As conductor Troy Quinn pointed out, there is no… Continue reading

Wild Kitchen Walks start April 30

Juneau residents are invited to join Cooperative Extension and local experts this summer to go on the wild side with Wild Kitchen Walks.Participants will gather… Continue reading

The river owns you

Some of the most valuable Alaska steelhead lessons I learned while flyfishing for rainbow trout in California.They weren’t some magical insight or secret from a… Continue reading

‘I ate everything’

What if I ate wingsfor breakfast?What if I atea dress for lunch?What if I atea book for dinner?What if I atea ghost for dessert?I would… Continue reading

On Writing: The scattering afield – a personal essay

How can we know the dancer from the dance?—W.B. Yeats 1Neil Young’s 1996 album Broken Arrow (with his garage band, Crazy Horse) ends with a live… Continue reading

Twilight at Cope Park. Photo by Alexis Abercrombie.

Art in Unusual Places

The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels of ability are invited to send in… Continue reading

Twilight at Cope Park. Photo by Alexis Abercrombie.
Paul Caldwell, 48, and his daughters Brianna, 13, and Olivia, 12, attend a drawing hangout at the Zach Gordon Youth Center on Saturday during Alaska Robotics' Mini-Con.

Photos from the Alaska Robotics’ Mini-Con

Writer and illustrator John Klassen, 34, reads his Caldecott Medal winning book “This is Not My Hat” to children at the Imagination Station on April… Continue reading

Paul Caldwell, 48, and his daughters Brianna, 13, and Olivia, 12, attend a drawing hangout at the Zach Gordon Youth Center on Saturday during Alaska Robotics' Mini-Con.