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Brazilian musician Eduardo Mendonça began a week-long residency at Fireweed Academy in Homer this week. He’s an award-winning recording artist, vocalist, percussionist, guitarist and musical arranger, who has toured around the world, and he says he’s happy to be back performing and teaching in Alaska.
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Lance Petersen, founding member and artistic director of Pier One Theatre, career educator at Homer High School and Kenai Peninsula College and founding member of the KBBI Board of Directors died on Thursday, leaving scores of Alaskans who already carry on his work.
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A recognizable figure directed Homer’s beloved Nutcracker production this year. Sally Oberstein is a Homer local that has put on a number of plays involving sizable casts over her three decades in the community. Most were written by herself or in collaboration with other local talent.
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Bob Stark was 18 years old when he first jumped out of a Boeing C-17 aircraft and parachuted into northern Iraq. It was 2003, a year and a half after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Stark, along with his 173th Airborne Brigade, were on a mission, he said: Find Saddam Hussain and weapons of mass destruction.
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The world textile artist Abigail Kokai created at the Homer Council on the Arts space this month all started when she found a stuffed doll at a thrift store, early in the pandemic.
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Juneau-based Tlingit artist Arias Hoyle released a music video Friday featuring students from Nanwalek — a predominantly Sugpiaq/Alutiiq village on the southwestern tip of the Kenai Peninsula that is only accessible by air and water.
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The Homer Theatre kicks off its 18th Annual Documentary Film Festival Thursday night. It marks the culmination of the 2022 Alaska World Arts Festival, which takes place over two weeks every fall. Homer Theatre owners Lynette and Jamie Sutton began putting on DocFest just a few years after purchasing and fixing up the theatre in 2002. They’ve been collaborating with the World Arts Festival since 2020.
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On a brisk Sunday evening at Homer’s Mariner Park, hundreds of people gathered around a woven basket almost the size of a car and watched as the result of weeks of collaboration and creativity burned to the ground.
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The Bunnell Street Arts Center is raising money for a public art installation at Bishop’s Beach park that will spotlight the long legacy of Indigenous stewardship of local lands on the southern Kenai Peninsula.
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“It's my 20th book,” Walman said. “I have 16, full-length poetry collections, I have a memoir, have a creative writing manual, have a kid's book, but also now have this novel.”He also has nine full length albums, including two albums for children. During the Trump Administration Waldman was inspired to write over 600 sonnets about the former president. Most of his work focuses on Alaska life, specifically the people he has met in the 49th state.