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!

Bingo hosted by the Homer Emblem Club #350. Must be 19 years old to play by Alaska State law.

Kachemak Bay Water Trail and Friends of Kachemak Bay State Parks presents: The 2026 Paddling Film Festival at the Porcupine Theater.

The Paddling Film Festival has been showcasing the very best paddling films since 2006. Be inspired to explore rivers, lakes and oceans, push extremes, appreciate wild places and fully embrace the paddling lifestyle. Join us at a The Porcupine for a World Tour screening. Then, go paddling. We’re pretty sure you’ll want to.

Beer and Wine sales for the evening’s event go directly to Friends of Kachemak Bay State Parks.

Those under 21 who wish to attend may do so if accompanied by a parent or guardian.

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!

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!***

Pickleball is a paddleball sport that combines elements of badminton, table tennis, and tennis. Two or four players use solid paddles made of wood or composite materials to hit a ball over a net. The sport shares features of other racquet sports: the dimensions and layout of a badminton court, and a net and rules somewhat similar to tennis, with several modifications. Pickleball was invented in the mid 1960s as a children's backyard game. ***ALL SKILL LEVELS ARE WELCOME!***

Classes are available for adults and teens (12+) on Tues/Thurs/Fri from 9:30-11:30am, Tuesdays from 6:45-8:45pm, Saturdays from 5-8pm. & Sundays from 9:30am-12pm. We suggest look at our current schedule online for any possible time changes.

***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!***

Storytime at the PRATT: Amazing Bird Migration
Tuesdays in May | 10:30am | no cost | age 3-10
with a *SPECIAL* Shorebird Edition Storytime on WEDNESDAY May 6th
Storytime is a weekly event! Join us to read a story with a Pratt Museum Staff member, tour the galleries, and participate in an activity or craft.
Questions? CONTACT the Museum’s Education Staff – education@prattmuseum.org

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.

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!***

Seward's He Will Provide Food Pantry is open every Thursday from 3pm to 6pm. He Will Provide is located at 238 5th Ave in the basement of the City Annex building. The entrance is in the back. This is an emergency assistance food pantry.
He Will Provide will be open Tuesday, November 21^st from 3 to 6. He Will Provide will not be open on Thursday the 23^rd. Happy Thanksgiving!