Community Calendar

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!***

Homer, Alaska – An installation and studio artist from Fairbanks, Tamara Wilson exhibits “Street Lamp” for the month of December at Bunnell Street Arts Center. The exhibit opens on first Friday, December 5th from 5-7pm with an artist talk at 6pm.

Artist Statement:

“Creatures created from a place of wonder, wander, joy, and grief. As my work shifts away from deciphering my curiosity of domestic space, I have become increasingly fixed on what or who occupies these spaces. Manifested from a love for lamps, many of these artworks have literally and inspirationally evolved from the table lamp.

I am an installation and studio artist from and working in Fairbanks, Alaska. I create artwork influenced by daily life in this beautiful place where I have built my home and studio, the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River. I returned home after receiving my Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I have been honored to attend artist residencies in Tartu, Estonia, Homer, Alaska, and Rovaniemi, Finland. I strive to support creatives across Alaska to give back to my generous community through operating The Lemonade Stand, a mobile art space. My professional life has included numerous fields and trades with one constant: doing whatever is necessary to support my art. As an artist, I use these experiences alongside my practical Alaskan upbringing to create artwork out of remnants of our daily lives.”

Bunnell Street Arts Center’s Visual Arts Exhibit program is funded by membership and business donations, and supported by collectors from Homer, greater Alaska, and beyond. Visit Bunnell’s online store at www.bunnellarts.org. The Visual Arts Exhibit program promotes Alaska’s diverse artistic heritage while elevating Alaska’s artists and culture bearers with opportunities to explore their craft, culture and artistic innovations.

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

San Francisco-based artist Lucas Murgida will be in residence from November 29 – December 13th, 2025 at Bunnell Street Arts Center. Join an artist slidetalk and potluck on Thursday, December 4, 5:30-7:30 to learn about his interactive project “The Locksmithing Institute.” Participate in “Lesson 16: Tangled / Entangled / Untangled,” December 8 – 12th, at Bunnell.

Artist Statement:

“Through social practice, performance, and installations I create opportunities for audiences to experience private moments in public situations. Thematically, my projects address ideas of service, perception, liberation, privacy, power, and labor by utilizing the under-appreciated aspects and roles of human existence – such as furniture, locks, teachers, and service professionals – as raw material to craft my experiences. I have worked professionally in roles such as a cabinet maker, fine-dining busboy, and yoga teacher, and mined these jobs as resources to produce artistic work. This includes the nine years that I spent working as a professional locksmith which gave birth to a conceptual project called “The Locksmithing Institute.” This “school” travels to different public places and aims to teach anyone interested in themes or skills related to locksmithing. The classes are always free and open to people of all ages, abilities, status’, and backgrounds.”

Artist Slidetalk & Potluck: Thursday, Dec. 4th, 5:30-7:30pm at Bunnell Street Arts Center. Bring a dish to share!
The Locksmithing Institute: Lesson 16 Tangled/Entangled/Untangled: Monday, Dec. 8th – Friday, Dec.12th, 12:00 – 3:00pm, community members are invited to meet with resident artist Lucas Murgida. Using washed up, tangled bundles of fishing rope, you’ll collaborate with Lucas to repurpose them into a collaborative art project. Bring your own salvaged rope, or use materials provided. Free.

This residency is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Rural CAP Foundation and donors who support Bunnell Street Arts Center.

When hunger weighs heavily, it’s hard to focus, hard to thrive, and hard to stay well. At the Anchor Point Food Pantry, we meet that need with empathy, respect, and cheerful hearts—because no one should have to face hunger alone. We provide a weekly food line and meals, monthly TEFAP commodities, holiday food boxes, summer produce, hungry kids' weekend meal packs and a kids' summer lunch bag program.
Phone: 907-299-8437 - email: apfp.266@gmail.com // If you consider donating, thank you! This helps!

Join Kachemak Heritage Land Trust for their annual meeting of the members on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 5 pm. The event will be held at the Porcupine Theater, with a free movie screening of "Local Hero" to take place after the meeting. For more information, call 235-5328. 

Wine, beer, and Pika Pika's Porcupine Theater menu will be available for purchase.

When: Wednesday, December 10th, 5:00 pm

Where: The Porcupine Theater, 106 W Pioneer Ave, Homer, AK 99603

This event is free to the public.

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.

Homer, Alaska – An installation and studio artist from Fairbanks, Tamara Wilson exhibits “Street Lamp” for the month of December at Bunnell Street Arts Center. The exhibit opens on first Friday, December 5th from 5-7pm with an artist talk at 6pm.

Artist Statement:

“Creatures created from a place of wonder, wander, joy, and grief. As my work shifts away from deciphering my curiosity of domestic space, I have become increasingly fixed on what or who occupies these spaces. Manifested from a love for lamps, many of these artworks have literally and inspirationally evolved from the table lamp.

I am an installation and studio artist from and working in Fairbanks, Alaska. I create artwork influenced by daily life in this beautiful place where I have built my home and studio, the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River. I returned home after receiving my Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. I have been honored to attend artist residencies in Tartu, Estonia, Homer, Alaska, and Rovaniemi, Finland. I strive to support creatives across Alaska to give back to my generous community through operating The Lemonade Stand, a mobile art space. My professional life has included numerous fields and trades with one constant: doing whatever is necessary to support my art. As an artist, I use these experiences alongside my practical Alaskan upbringing to create artwork out of remnants of our daily lives.”

Bunnell Street Arts Center’s Visual Arts Exhibit program is funded by membership and business donations, and supported by collectors from Homer, greater Alaska, and beyond. Visit Bunnell’s online store at www.bunnellarts.org. The Visual Arts Exhibit program promotes Alaska’s diverse artistic heritage while elevating Alaska’s artists and culture bearers with opportunities to explore their craft, culture and artistic innovations.

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

San Francisco-based artist Lucas Murgida will be in residence from November 29 – December 13th, 2025 at Bunnell Street Arts Center. Join an artist slidetalk and potluck on Thursday, December 4, 5:30-7:30 to learn about his interactive project “The Locksmithing Institute.” Participate in “Lesson 16: Tangled / Entangled / Untangled,” December 8 – 12th, at Bunnell.

Artist Statement:

“Through social practice, performance, and installations I create opportunities for audiences to experience private moments in public situations. Thematically, my projects address ideas of service, perception, liberation, privacy, power, and labor by utilizing the under-appreciated aspects and roles of human existence – such as furniture, locks, teachers, and service professionals – as raw material to craft my experiences. I have worked professionally in roles such as a cabinet maker, fine-dining busboy, and yoga teacher, and mined these jobs as resources to produce artistic work. This includes the nine years that I spent working as a professional locksmith which gave birth to a conceptual project called “The Locksmithing Institute.” This “school” travels to different public places and aims to teach anyone interested in themes or skills related to locksmithing. The classes are always free and open to people of all ages, abilities, status’, and backgrounds.”

Artist Slidetalk & Potluck: Thursday, Dec. 4th, 5:30-7:30pm at Bunnell Street Arts Center. Bring a dish to share!
The Locksmithing Institute: Lesson 16 Tangled/Entangled/Untangled: Monday, Dec. 8th – Friday, Dec.12th, 12:00 – 3:00pm, community members are invited to meet with resident artist Lucas Murgida. Using washed up, tangled bundles of fishing rope, you’ll collaborate with Lucas to repurpose them into a collaborative art project. Bring your own salvaged rope, or use materials provided. Free.

This residency is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Rural CAP Foundation and donors who support Bunnell Street Arts Center.

Come play soccer, shoot hoops, toss a ball, ride a scooter, play ping pong, or bring a (clean) scooter or strider bike to ride around on, and just be active! This is your time to do what you’d like in an open environment. This class is $4.00 pp and is open to all ages (unaccompanied minors must be at least in 3rd grade w/ parents' permission & signing of SPARC waiver).

Sorry, NO roller skates, skateboards, or pedal bikes w/ brakes are allowed at this time.

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

When hunger weighs heavily, it’s hard to focus, hard to thrive, and hard to stay well. At the Anchor Point Food Pantry, we meet that need with empathy, respect, and cheerful hearts—because no one should have to face hunger alone. We provide a weekly food line and meals, monthly TEFAP commodities, holiday food boxes, summer produce, hungry kids' weekend meal packs and a kids' summer lunch bag program.
Phone: 907-299-8437 - email: apfp.266@gmail.com // If you consider donating, thank you! This helps!