Community Calendar

Homer Steps Up is a FREE annual community walking challenge for the Southern Kenai Peninsula. Every May, track your daily walks with your smartphone, wearable fitness tracker, or pedometer to win prizes and incorporate more movement into your routine.

Every Wednesday, we're giving $50 in Homer Bucks to 10 walkers who averaged 7,500+ daily steps. Then, the 3 teams with the highest average daily steps over the four weeks will receive $100-500 to donate to their Homer organization of choice.

Find more info and a link to sign up at HomerStepsUp.com!

The public is invited to comment on the Draft Feasibility Report for the Homer Harbor Expansion Study. Released on May 21 by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the report presents Alternative 2 as the Tentatively Selected Plan and details the economic, environmental and engineering analyses that informed its selection.

We encourage community members, harbor users, and all interested parties to provide feedback on the plan. Visit HomerHarborExpansion.com for information on how to access the report and to submit comments directly to the USACE. The public comment period ends on June 22nd. Your insights and local knowledge are important and welcome.

Homer, Alaska – Homer painter Oceans Wills exhibits “What Color Blue” at Bunnell Street Arts Center May 1 – June 2, 2026. The exhibit opens on First Friday, May 1, from 5-7pm with an artist talk at 6pm.

Artist Statement

This body of work takes place locally in the landscapes of the Kachemak Bay area, among the plants and animals we share space with. It contains many of the ideas and themes I continue to explore in my art: Relationships to nature, community, and self, appreciation of the ordinary and the beauty found anywhere, acknowledgment of anxieties, sorrows, and unknowns, expressions of holding and being held. Also included is playfulness and curiosity as I followed what most excited me creatively. I let myself embrace eclectic concepts and imagery with trust that the work would fit together through pattern, color, and possibility of evocation. I often approach painting like collage, pulling observational and imagined images together with the question of how they relate. This exhibit offers a question that comes to mind almost daily–what color blue–on horizon, on cloud bottom, on coffee mug, water jug, on the palette. Blue is open to interpretation, an invitation to notice.

Biography:

Oceana has long been inspired by the ocean and spent many summers on it as a deckhand in the commercial salmon fisheries. Her earlier work centers women in the fishing industry and imagines mermaid life parallel to life on land. She spends summer on land these days and her art is inspired by the animals, rocks, plants, people, and landscapes of her hometown, Homer. Oceana’s primary medium is gouache paint on clay board panels (a smooth archival surface) or on paper. She also works in acrylic, pen, and embroidery and is learning how to sew.

SPARC Practice begins Sunday, January 4th, 2026
– Every Sunday, 3-5pm for ages 8+
– $4 at the door
– Bring clean indoor shoes and a glove
– softball players welcome
* No SPARC Super Bowl and Easter Sundays *

AUDITIONS
Sense And Sensibility
By Kate Hamill
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Katia Holmes
Performance Location: Pier One Theatre on the Spit
Performance Dates: August 7,8,9 & 13,14,15,16 & 20,21,22 @ 7:30PM
Audition Location: Homer High School Mariner Theatre (please enter on the left side by the green dumpster)
Audition Dates: FRIDAY, MAY 29 - 6:00PM, SUNDAY, MAY 31 - 5:00PM
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Kate Hamill's playful new adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved novel follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Dashwood sisters – sensible Elinor and hypersensitive Marianne – after their father’s sudden death leaves them financially destitute and socially vulnerable. Set in gossipy late 18th-century England with a fresh female voice, the play is full of humor, emotional depth and bold theatricality. Sense and Sensibility examines our reactions, both reasonable and ridiculous, to societal pressures. When reputation is everything, how do you follow your heart?
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (HAMILL) is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service.
www.concordtheatricals.com

Audition Forms Found Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvlA2pyAphrtynejVqWIekFXQbaxaU2Mza6z8Y4DgSqnNvdA/viewform?pli=1

We are so excited to have Gretchen McCullough teaching Zumba on Sundays from 5:30-6:30pm. This class is available to adults & high schoolers (14+). The price is $7.00 ($4 to SPARC & $3 instructor fee). Hope to see you there!

Woohoo! Gretchen is back in town starting 5/3! Falcom will also be helping her teach for a while too!

***Please bring a pair of clean indoor shoes for you to change into (in the entryway). Thank you for helping to keep our new floor looking good!***

Zumba is a workout that mixes low-intensity and high-intensity moves for an interval-style, calorie-burning dance fitness party, combining all elements of fitness – cardio, muscle conditioning, balance and flexibility, boosted energy and a lot of fun.

Peony Field Crew Training, Thursday, June 4, 5:30 - 7 pm at Kachemak Bay Campus. Come learn the what you need to know to work on a peony field crew! This event, hosted by the Alaska Beauty Peony Co-op is meant for anyone interested in working on a peony farm this season. Come chat with growers, make connections, and learn the key skills needed to get a job on a farm this summer.

New Plays Aloud is a reading group for actors and playwrights, facilitated by Kate Rich. The group meets monthly on the last day of every month (unless there is a conflict with a holiday or other Pier One programming). Readings include short works, long works, newly published works, and works in progress. New Plays Aloud is free and open to the public. The location for the readings varies. Stay tuned for information on each month’s gathering!

New Plays Aloud at the Red Bird Kitchen
58901 East End Rd, Homer, AK
Sunday, May 31, 2026
6pm - 8:30pm

'Coots in Cahoots' by Christine Kulcheski
Les reveals a decades-old secret that rock’s Viv world. She might not be able to forgive him this time.

'Good Morning, Good Night' by Adam Szymkowicz
An office play about modern dread and anxiety with dance routines and unicycling and bubbles. A play about the monotony of life and friendship and non-romantic love.

The public is invited to comment on the Draft Feasibility Report for the Homer Harbor Expansion Study. Released on May 21 by the US Army Corps of Engineers, the report presents Alternative 2 as the Tentatively Selected Plan and details the economic, environmental and engineering analyses that informed its selection.

We encourage community members, harbor users, and all interested parties to provide feedback on the plan. Visit HomerHarborExpansion.com for information on how to access the report and to submit comments directly to the USACE. The public comment period ends on June 22nd. Your insights and local knowledge are important and welcome.

This is an open time to come walk or run indoors and not have to worry about the conditions outside. We will have background music playing over the speakers. Come get your stroll on!

Open to adults & teens (12+) Mon-Fri from 8:30-9:30am and Mon-Fri from 11:45am-12:45pm. *Our Monday afternoon class will be FREE throughout the year as well! (sponsored by & thanks to SPH!)*

***Please bring a pair of clean indoor shoes for you & your child to change into (in the entryway). Thank you for helping to keep our new floor looking good!***