Community Calendar

Bring your ice cleats and flashlights to walk the icy 0.5 mile Beluga Slough Trail at Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge! Free hot chocolate, warming fire, s’mores, and crafts.
Fun for all ages!
*Inclement weather cancels event* - follow Facebook for updates

Make your own lantern in a clean container and bring it to the visitor center by 2pm Jan 10 for a chance to win a prize sponsored by Alaska Geographic.

Contact Lora with questions at lora_haller@fws.gov.

Join Sharlene Cline and Marilynn Parrett in the HCOA Gallery for a wine tasting experience to support local arts. Participants will taste 3 varieties of Cabernet wine while learning about their histories, locations, and tasting notes, with paired appetizers and good company.

Desserts available through silent auction. All proceeds support HCOA’s programing and mission.

Saturday, January 10th from 6:00-8:00pm at Homer Council on the Arts
$40 per person, Limited seating available!

Must be 21 years or older to attend (born on or before 1/10/05). Please bring picture ID to the event.
Wine graciously donated by The Grog Shop

The Nettle Dress – A Film Screening

Friday, January 30 | doors open at 5pm

Join us at the Porcupine Theater for an evening to honor Nettle and all it makes possible with a screening of beautiful documentary “The Nettle Dress”!

Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand from foraged stinging nettles, all picked on the South Downs near Brighton. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s also his medicine, the way he survives the death of his wife that left him and his four children bereft.

Doors open at 5:00, Carla Cope discusses working with nettle fibers at 5:30 and movie begins at 5:45. Free to Porcupine members.

Buy your tickets at https://porcupinetheater.com/movies/the-nettle-dress/

Put your wildlife felting skills to the test! Come craft fun creatures with help from Lora Haller at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center. The class is recommended to ages 12 and up with some experience. Registration is required - you may visit the Visitor Center at 95 Sterling Hwy, Homer or contact Lora Haller at lora_haller@fws.gov or 907-290-5245 to sign up. Suggested $3 donation to Friends of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuges to cover cost of materials.

*note this is not needle-felting

Various classes available:

Sat, January 31, 1-3pm: Sandhill Crane

Sat, February 7, 1-3pm: Humpback Whale

Sat, March 7, 1-3pm: Black-billed Magpie

Put your wildlife felting skills to the test! Come craft fun creatures with help from Lora Haller at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center. The class is recommended to ages 12 and up with some experience. Registration is required - you may visit the Visitor Center at 95 Sterling Hwy, Homer or contact Lora Haller at lora_haller@fws.gov or 907-290-5245 to sign up. Suggested $3 donation to Friends of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuges to cover cost of materials.

*note this is not needle-felting

Various classes available:

Sat, January 31, 1-3pm: Sandhill Crane

Sat, February 7, 1-3pm: Humpback Whale

Sat, March 7, 1-3pm: Black-billed Magpie

Put your wildlife felting skills to the test! Come craft fun creatures with help from Lora Haller at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center. The class is recommended to ages 12 and up with some experience. Registration is required - you may visit the Visitor Center at 95 Sterling Hwy, Homer or contact Lora Haller at lora_haller@fws.gov or 907-290-5245 to sign up. Suggested $3 donation to Friends of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuges to cover cost of materials.

*note this is not needle-felting

Various classes available:

Sat, January 31, 1-3pm: Sandhill Crane

Sat, February 7, 1-3pm: Humpback Whale

Sat, March 7, 1-3pm: Black-billed Magpie