Community Calendar

August 23, August 30, and September 6
These three Saturdays between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. report all Sandhill Crane sightings to
Kachemak Crane Watch by email: reports@cranewatch.org or phone: 907.235.6262

Information Needed Each Day:
• Date, Time, and Location
• Number of Cranes: # of adults, # of colts, # of banded cranes
• Details of what the crane were doing

Please leave your name & phone number and/or email so we can contact you for details.
Join us for the Count Days Fly-ins at Beluga Slough from 6 p.m. till sundown at the
picnic table.

It’s where Craniacs gather! See you there.

Registration is open NOW for all skating programs at the Kevin Bell Arena.
We have programs for all -- from toddlers to adults, youth hockey teams, learn to skate, men's/women's, figure skating, curling and broomball.

Visit our website - www.kevinbellarena.org -- for program descriptions, schedules, and prices, then register and pay online.

Join us Sat. Oct. 4, 11 am - 3:30 pm, for our annual opening day activities, where everything is free.

Programs begin the week of Oct. 6.

Head across the bay and help us clean up marine debris!

Glacier Spit near Grewingk Glacier is part of CoastWalk Zone 18. Every year we host a public clean-up day to get people across the bay, cleaning up marine debris, and collecting data about debris movement through Kachemak Bay!

On September 20th, we’ll meet at the Yurt on the Spit at 9:30am before journeying to Glacier Spit. After spending the day on the beach, we’ll be back in the Harbor by 3:30pm. Make sure to bring weather-appropriate gear, lunch and snacks, gloves, and anything else you need to get down with the debris!

This is a FREE opportunity to get across the bay for an incredible volunteer opportunity.

Limit 12 people. Advance registration REQUIRED.

This is an open playgroup for parents/guardians to bring their young ones* to a great big open space and let them run around and play. Bring your own toys or play with what SPARC has provided (no pedal bikes w/ brakes allowed at this time, only strider bikes & scooters). This class is available Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays from 10-11:30am (unless a special event interferes). Cost is $4.00 per child.
* This means toddlers not in kindergarten, or not of school-age yet (~5 yrs. old & younger) -- older siblings are allowed but need to be careful of the littles!

***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!***

The Carl E. Wynn Visitor Center operates out of a renovated homestead-era cabin. Explore the history of the Nature Center and Alaska’s homesteading era.

Includes General Admission to the Nature Center.

Learn about the wildlife that lives at the Wynn Nature Center, big and small! Explore what makes the Wynn their ideal habitat and why we work to keep it that way.

Come learn and practice the process of making pigment from rocks and blue mussel shells harvested from Kachemak Bay. On Saturday, October 4, at 10 am, join artists and naturalist Karen Murphy at the Kachemak Bay campus to learn how to use those dry pigments to create watercolor pans/shells. $89, supplies included. For more information or to register, visit kpc.alaska.edu/communitycourses or call (907) 235-1674.

Join Nathan Baring, Program Director of the Alaska Reindeer Herders Association (RHA) at Kawerak, on Wednesday, September 24, at 6 pm. at Kachemak Bay Campus, for a presentation on the complex history of Alaska Native reindeer husbandry on the Seward Peninsula, including the more than 130-year history of reindeer-focused Tribal livestock agriculture and current exciting efforts in the reindeer economy. There will also be ample time for audience questions and discussion. For more information, visit the college website at kpc.alaska.edu or call (907) 235-1674.

Sandglass Theater returns to Bunnell Street Arts Center as Artists in Residence from September 13th-21st to present their work of theater and puppetry, Feral, at Pier One Theatre from September 19th - 21st at 7:30pm. Tickets at PierOneTheatre.org.

Sandglass Theater of Vermont is dedicated to the art of theater and puppetry as a means of exploring contemporary issues and sparking wonder.

“Feral" addresses the act of making visible the work of women through celebrating intuitive knowledge, how it is housed in our bodies, and how it can be used as a tool for individual and cultural repair. A wolf-who-is-no-longer-a-wolf returns to the forest, within her the violation of domestication, a claim of ownership on her body. She yearns for instincts of which she feels only traces. This is a story of disruption within a woman’s life when the wolf inside her howls, and the possibilities of reintegration with that feral voice.

This program is made possible with support by the National Performance Network and co-commissioners, The Yard (Chilmark, MA), Bunnell Street Arts Center (Homer, AK), Next Stage Arts Project (Putney, VT), and Dancers’ Workshop (Jackson, WY). This project is presented in Homer in partnership with Pier One Theatre and supported by the RurALCAP Foundation.

Sandglass Theater company members include Shoshana Bass, Dey Hernandez, Maria Pugnetti and Sarah Nolen.

Bunnell Street Arts Center's mission is to spark artistic inquiry, innovation and equity to strengthen the physical, social and economic fabric of Alaska.

Registration is open NOW for all skating programs at the Kevin Bell Arena.
We have programs for all -- from toddlers to adults, youth hockey teams, learn to skate, men's/women's, figure skating, curling and broomball.

Visit our website - www.kevinbellarena.org -- for program descriptions, schedules, and prices, then register and pay online.

Join us Sat. Oct. 4, 11 am - 3:30 pm, for our annual opening day activities, where everything is free.

Programs begin the week of Oct. 6.