May 19 Sunday
Registration for HCOA Summer Ceramics Session is open now for classes starting the last week of May!With the addition of another beginning wheel throwing class, if you have ever wanted to try pottery- now is the time! Sign up online at Homerart.org/education/ceramics/
In the upcoming session we have Beginning Wheelthrowing on Tuesdays from 3-6pm, Beginning Wheelthrowing on Tuesdays from 6:30- 9:30pm, Intermediate Wheelthrowing on Thursdays from 6:30-9:30pm, Open Studio on Saturdays from 10am-1pm and Wednesdays from 7-9pm.
Summer Sessions for K-2 and 3-6 ceramics switch to once a week, K-2 on Thursdays from 3:15-4:15pm and 3-6 on Thursdays from 4:30-6pm.
Check out our website homerart.org for more info, registration and additional pottery workshops!
2024 Mary Epperson Folk Music Camp
July 15th – 19th 10am -4pmOpen to ages 8-17
The emphasis of Mary Epperson Music Camp is to have fun playing music!
Each student will select their classes from a list of options. We will do our best to place students in requested classes as well as an ensemble group of 4-7 students.
Each day will consist of a whole group gathering, 3 separate 45-minute class blocks, the ensemble rehearsal, and a group close-out.
On Friday, student ensembles will perform from 3-4 for each other and invited guests!
To register, complete the ticket purchase and fill out the camp registration packet by July 7th.
Shortly after Sandhill Cranes arrive in Homer, cranes mate and prepare their nest site. Pairs canstart sitting on their nest as early as late April. Nesting has commenced when the cranes show upalone, indicating one is sitting on the nest. Last year over 60 nests were reported. An accuratecount of nesting crane pairs helps Kachemak Crane Watch estimate the local crane population andprovides an indication of annual reproductive success.Please report nesting Sandhill Crane pairs to Kachemak Crane Watch at reports@cranewatch.org orby calling 907-235-6262. Leave your name, phone number, and include the location and date whennesting started. Thank you for participating in this Citizen Science effort.For more information contact: Nina Faust at 907-235-6262 or reports@cranewatch.orgKachemak Crane Watch is a project of the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies.
Master Gardener Brenda Adams will share many of the techniques and tricks she developed over years of gardening in Homer at different elevations and in different conditions. These methods will help you create unique and special gardens. Brenda’s talk will cover how to evaluate plants for all their visual attributes – foliage, flowers, seeds pods, bark, texture, fragrance, and more. Then she will explain the utility and dependability attributes of different plants and why they are important. Among them are early and late season bloom, appeal to pollinators, winter display, and a long season of bloom. With all these tools in hand, she will lead us through a straight forward way to combine these great plants into lovely gardens that will bring you pleasure for years.
Brenda Adams is the author of the acclaimed books, Cool Plants for Cold Climates: A Garden Designer’s Perspective, winner of the Garden Writers’ Association 2018 Silver Award, and There’s a Moose in My Garden: Designing Gardens in Alaska and the Far North. As the international-award-winning designer for Gardens By Design, Brenda created over 260 unique gardens for residential and commercial clients, many of them in the Homer area.
This event is free and open to the public.
We are so excited to have Gretchen McCullough back at the SPARC teaching a Zumba class on Sunday's from 5:30-6:30pm. This class is available to adults & high schoolers (14+) for $6.00 ($3 for SPARC & $3 for instructor). Hope to see you there!
***Please bring clean comfortable indoor shoes, water, and your smiles.***
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 lots of fun.
Heidi's Booty Camp is a fabulous introductory workout class available to all ages & sizes! It will be based on basic form and functional movements that will progress into HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) using body weight and minimal equipment. Participants will work at their own pace and level. Led by instructor Heidi Cox. Cost of class is $3 and is scheduled for Tues. & Thurs. from 5:30-6:30pm.
Kids are allowed to come during this class but PLEASE bring your own toys & NO balls or wheeled equipment/toys allowed (for safety reasons).
***Don't forget to bring clean indoor shoes to put on in the entry way, prior to entering the floor. Thank you!***
Pier One Theatre presents
Harveyby Mary Chase
Directed by Val Sheppard
Friday, May 17 - Sunday, May 19Thursday, May 23 - Sunday, May 26Thursday, May 30 - Saturday, June 1
All shows at 7:30pm, house opens for seating at 7pm
At the Pier One Theatre on the Homer Spit at 3858 Homer Spit Rd.
"Elwood P. Dowd is a well-mannered and affable young manwho also happens to be best friends with a six-foot tall white rabbit namedHarvey that only he can see. When Elwood's sister attempts to have himcommitted at the local sanitarium, a misjudged diagnosis leads to all sorts ofcomplications and revelations, including what Harvey is and how much hispresence is really appreciated. A comedy classic since 1944 and a PulitzerPrize winner!"
CAST (in order of appearance):Myrtle Mae Simmons - Jessica GoldenVeta Louise Simmons - Deb RowzeeElwood P. Dowd - Tyler MunnsMiss Johnson/E.J. Lofgrenn - Cathy StingleyMrs. Ethel Chauvenet - Maggie QuartonRuth Kelly, R.N. - Crane JackinskyDuane Wilson - Dayus GeysbeekLyman Sanderson, M.D. - Mike TupperWilliam R. Chumley, M.D. - Dick DunnBetty Chumley - Linda EllsworthJudge Omar Gaffney - Ken Landfield
Tickets are $20 with discounts available, available at https://pieronetheatre.org/tickets
HARVEY is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
May 20 Monday
Homer Steps Up community walking challenge is a free, four week event running May 1 – 28, 2024. In its 8th year, this popular event is open to anyone on the southern Kenai Peninsula, and regularly attracts hundreds of individuals on dozens of teams to compete for over $3,000 in random drawing and cash prizes. The winning team, based on a cumulative average of their members’ steps gets bragging rights, their name on the traveling trophy and a $500 award for a non-profit of their choice. The challenge is free to register online, and teams of 5-25 members compete by logging their steps using a wearable fitness tracker, smartphone or tracking and entering them manually. New this year is a youth category. Registration and information at www.homerstepsup.com. Homer Steps Up is coordinated by South Peninsula Hospital with support from City of Homer, South Peninsula Behavioral Health, SPARC, and SVT Health & Wellness.
EXTRA:Prizes - The top three winning teams will get the opportunity to designate cash donations to a local non-profit of their choice. Thanks to a grant from South Peninsula Hospital Foundation, all individual participants reaching a weekly step average of 35,000 steps (approximately 5,000 steps a day) will be entered for weekly prize drawings and $1,800 in end of challenge cash prizes. Three winners will be drawn in three different step categories weekly, and they are eligible for $100, $200 and $300 cash prizes at the challenge end. New this year is a youth category. Winners will be announced and all will be celebrated at the end of challenge awards event.
Free indoor walking - As part of this event, free indoor walking will be provided every Wednesday in the month of May starting May 1st from 5-6pm at SPARC. During this time participants can enjoy free indoor walking, pick up free Homer Steps Up swag, get a free blood pressure reading and get assistance signing up. All are invited to stay from 6-7pm for free community yoga.
Learn more - Homer Steps Up is coordinated by South Peninsula Hospital and is made possible by support from the partners: City of Homer, South Peninsula Behavioral Health, SPARC, and SVT Health & Wellness. For more information visit www.homerstepsup.com or learn more at weekly Wellness Wednesday events at the KP College every Wednesday from 5-7pm through end of April.