The Uncommon Music Festival is an annual chamber music festival in Sitka, Alaska that promotes an inclusive, accessible, and community-oriented vision of classical music. Our core ensemble features an SATB quartet, a guitarist / lutenist, and an organist / pianist. Every summer, we offer one week of free musical events, from workshops to concerts to […]
The first Sunday of August brings a special event to Homer: the opportunity to step into private gardens that showcase the uniqueness of Alaskan gardening and get some real insight into what it’s like to work the land in a place where the growing season is short and the days long. Some 400 people come […]
GIFT CERTIFICATES for 2022…and MORE to be announced soon! $10,000 CASH & 19 other prizes will be swimming in Prince William Sound Here’s a picture of what the tags looked like in 2021 – Good Luck! All Silver Salmon Derby Rules Apply – The tagged salmon contest offers a chance at one of twenty prizes, […]
The 34th Annual Anchorage Folk Festival returns to the UAA Wendy Williamson Auditorium! The festival provides opportunities to perform, attend workshops and jam sessions, or just enjoy the festival at absolutely no charge! Organizing this event requires venue rentals, guests artists’ fees, transportation & hospitality, advertising, programs & merchandise, insurance, piano tuning, and sound engineering. […]
The Susitna 100 is a ski, foot, or bike race held on packed snowmachine and dog sled trails in the Susitna River valley, north of Anchorage. The remoteness of the trail, distance between checkpoints, and the winter conditions during the Race make it necessary for the racers to carry with them survival equipment. Gear to […]
You can’t compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race covering 1000 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures […]
An annual ski race held in March. The only way to truly prepare for this race is to make sure you have a good costume and love of strong hooch. More details on http://buckwheatskiclassic.com/
Join professional wildlife photographer/instructor Kathleen Reeder for an incredible 5 night/4-day photo workshop in Homer, Alaska to photograph bald eagles.
Are you ready for an adventure in the remote beauty of interior Alaska? Come north to Fairbanks, Alaska for the annual White Mountains 100-mile ultra race. A 100-mile human powered race across interior Alaska. The race course cuts through the heart of the jagged limestone peaks that define the White Mountains National Recreation Area. This […]
Alaska's largest wildlife festival! Located on the beautiful shores and waters of Kachemak Bay, the Homer- based Festival is one of the most accessible places for shorebird viewing in Alaska. With over 100,000 shorebirds of 25 different species migrating through in early May, this four-day event celebrates the return of spring and migrating birds. Since 1993 […]
