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Homer's Pier One Theatre opens its summer season this week with "The Little Prince," adapted from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella.

The Homer Farmers Market is preparing for its season opener. The first market starts May 23 for Memorial Day weekend.

Seldovia’s annual non-motorized fishing derby begins Friday and runs through the weekend. KBBI’s Emilie Springer spoke with event coordinator Amelia Pollack for history and details about the event.

This week schools across the Kenai Peninsula complete the 2026 school year with senior graduations. The final school day for the district is May 21st. Homer High School’s graduation took place on Monday evening with a full gym of family and community members.

Last weekend the Alaska School Activities Association held the annual Solo and Ensemble Music Festival on the UAA campus in Anchorage. Homer High School students traveled to attend the event and Emilie Springer spoke with band teacher Eric Simondsen for a review of the event.

The University of Alaska (UA) system holds spring commencement ceremonies across all state campuses in early May 2026. Homer’s ceremony took place on the local campus on May 6th. KBBI’s Emilie Springer attended the event and captured highlights from the speakers.

The Kachemak Bay Family Clinic recently received a national grant to expand cancer prevention and reproductive health care on the Kenai Peninsula. Emilie Springer spoke with community liaison Jane Rohr for more details on the grant and what it will provide.

The University of Alaska wraps up the spring semester with commencement on May 3rd. Homer’s Semester by the Bay offers a marine mammals concentration in the Fall and an environmental conservation concentration in the spring. The students in the spring program finished their semester with multiple events and KBBI’s Emilie Springer was able to observe several of these.

More than 200 musicians from Homer and Kenai will perform Mozart’s Requiem this weekend. The ensemble includes the Homer High School choir, the Kenai Peninsula Community Chorus and a community orchestra. Conductors Kyle Schneider and Mark Robinson say the production allows amateur and student performers to tackle a technical choral masterpiece while offering the community a space to process grief.

Homer OPUS is a nonprofit organization that delivers string-based music programs to youth ages kindergarten through 12th grade and adults in Homer, Alaska. The organization has several end of the school year performances coming and coordinator Elizabeth White met with Emilie Springer to provide details.