The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council’s Wearable Art show is this weekend at Centennial Hall. Now in its fourteenth year, the theme is “Technicolor” and artists have been preparing for months. KTOO caught up with three of the participants and filmed short profiles. Meet Teresa Busch.
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Sarah Conarro’s “Nice Looking” Installation
Sarah Conarro’s installation, “Nice Looking,” will culminate Thursday, January 30th, and Friday, January 31st at the Rookery in Juneau. A collaboration with Julian Bozeman, a New York artist and carpenter, the experience will include dinner, music, and light projection. Click here for more information.
Friends, colleagues raise funds for Bethany Bereman theater scholarship
In 2011, Juneau lost a valued teacher and community member, Bethany Bereman, to ovarian cancer. Bereman was known for her love of the outdoors, her work in theater, and her inspirational teaching style. Now there will be a scholarship in her name for older high school students and beginning college students with an established interest…
Ernestine Hayes releases a new book about Juneau
This Friday at Hearthside Books, Juneau writer and UAS assistant professor of English, Ernestine Hayes, will release her book “Juneau” from Arcadia Publishing.
Students practice for this weekend’s Native Olympics
The University of Alaska Southeast will be hosting the Native Olympics this Saturday at the UAS Recreation Center.
The Mind of a Juneau Chef
The popularity of cooking shows like PBS’s The Mind of a Chef might suggest that Americans are interested in becoming better cooks. If your culinary learning curve has plateaued, you may want to try a new approach. Rookery head-chef and co-owner Beau Schooler is gaining a reputation for seasonally creative cuisine. I joined Schooler in…
Alaska’s First Lady Sandy Parnell and Dolly Parton
What do Dolly Parton, the Juneau Public Library, and Alaska’s First Lady Sandy Parnell have in common? Children’s Books, and lots of them. On Wednesday morning, library programs coordinator Beth Weigel and Mrs. Parnell read to an attentive group of kids at the downtown Library.
Halloween Music at the State Office Building
Since 1928, Juneauites have enjoyed the reverberating sound of the historic Kimball Theatre Organ. After a handful of moves from its original home at the Coliseum Theatre on South Franklin Street, the organ now lives on the 8th floor of the State Office Building where it’s been since 1977. Thanks to a cadre of dedicated…
Marian Call’s “Good Morning Moon” Release
The folks at Juneau’s Alaska Robotics just sent us Alaskan artist Marian Call’s new video “Good Morning Moon.” The video features footage shot in the Netherlands at Space Expo Noordwijk, which she visited on her European Tour. The high-resolution time-lapse photography comes from the International Space Station and the archive footage was thanks to NASA.…
Woosh Kinaadeiyi Poetry Slam
Since 2010, poets have been taking the stage at open mics and poetry slams hosted by the Woosh Kinaadeiyi arts non-profit organization.