Art Show Set
On SJ Campus
Artist and scientist José Francisco Salgado will present science and symphony films and artist Audrey Armstrong will show her journey with fish skin basketry 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, at the Odess Theater.
Admittance is a $5 suggested donation. Call Sitka Fine Arts Camp at 747-3085 for more information.
Fish Skin Basket
Class to Register
Elder Audrey Armstrong will teach fish skin basketry 8:30 a.m.-noon July 29 through Aug. 2 at the Yaw Art Center on the SJ Campus.
The cost is $520. Call Sitka Fine Arts Camp at 747-3085 for more information or to register. Materials are provided.
Experimental
Photo Class Set
José Francisco Salgado will introduce photography techniques he has developed to capture images that are impossible to see with the human eye: changes in landscape, infared and high speed flash.
Registration for the 8:30 a.m.-noon July 29-Aug. 8 class at the Yaw Art Center is open. The cost is $520. Call Sitka Fine Arts Camp at 747-3085 to register. Visit www.fineartscamp.org/photosasf for a list of supplies.
Cycling Club
Discusses Goals
The Sitka Cycling Club will meet noon-1 p.m. Friday, July 19, at Fisheye Organic Café.
Agenda items include planning for the Sitka Half Century (a 50-mile group ride on Aug. 24), bicycle coops, August schedule, and action planning for achieving club goals.
Anyone interested in promoting safe cycling in Sitka is invited. For information call Doug Osborne at 747-0373 or go to sitkacycling.wordpress.com.
Bioblitz Aug. 3
At National Park
Sitka National Historical Park will host biologists from the Sitka Sound Science Center to work with the public to conduct a BioBlitz in the parks tidelands 8-11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3.
Content experts will guide small groups of the public to find, photograph and identify the diverse life found within the intertidal zone. The goal is to attempt to identify all the species found within the park’s tidelands and capture some of the biodiversity found there.
The project is funded by National Park Service through a cooperative effort with the Sitka Sound Science Center.
Members of the public can convene at the park’s visitor center anytime between 8 and 11 a.m. to meet the biologists and start exploring. Equipment and expertise will be provided. All experience levels are welcome.
No Teen Night
Teen Night at Hames Center has been canceled for Friday, July 19. The facilities are closed for maintenance.
Teen Night will resume 8:30-10:30 p.m. Friday, July 26. Teen Nights are every Friday and free for ages 13-19. For information call 747-5080.
SEARHC Joins
Worldwide Event
On Breastfeeding
SEARHC will take part in the Global Big Latch On, a synchronized breastfeeding event that joins thousands of breastfeeding women and their babies/children across the world at multiple locations on Aug. 3.
The annual event occurs during World Breastfeeding Week, Aug. 1-7 every year to raise awareness of the benefits of breastfeeding and the need for global support.
SEARHC’s local Big Latch On will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, at Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center Island Skillet Café. Registration will begin at 9:45 a.m. and refreshments will be provided. Prizes are available for the youngest and the oldest child to ‘‘latch.’’
This year, SEARHC is hoping to contribute to breaking the current Global Big Latch On record of almost 21,500 children breastfeeding at 778 locations, across 28 countries. Media interviews and photo opportunities will be available at the event.
Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center is recognized by the World Health Organization as a Baby-Friendly Hospital. WHO recommends breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months of a baby’s life to optimize these benefits, continuing to breastfeed for two years and as long thereafter as is mutually desired by a woman and her child.
Breastfeeding contributes to the normal growth and development of babies/children, and those who are not breastfed are at increased risk of infant morbidity and mortality, adult obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and pre-menopausal breast cancer and ovarian cancer, SEARHC said in a press release.
Conservation
Award Given
To ALFA
Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association has received the Lowell Thomas Jr. Award for Outstanding Achievements by a Conservation Organization from the Alaska Conservation Foundation.
Since 1985, the foundation has recognized the achievements of individuals and organizations committed to protecting Alaska through the Conservation Achievement Awards program. The nomination categories are named after notable conservation heroes in the areas of education, movement building, Alaska Native inclusivity, and professional achievement.
‘‘Today, we announce and offer congratulations to the recipients of the 2019 Alaska Conservation Achievement Awards,’’ the organization said in a press release. ‘‘These remarkable community members work tirelessly to ensure Alaska is thoughtfully protected, not just for the present, but forever. We thank them for their commitment to Alaska.’’
Award recipients will be honored at a ceremony Oct. 3 at the Anchorage Museum. All are welcome at the ceremony. Tickets will be available soon. Go to AlaskaConservation.org or email info@alaskaconservation.org.
Karate Camp
Set for August
An introduction to karate camp will be offered 9-11 a.m. Aug. 5-8 at the New Archangel Dancers studio for students entering second through fifth grades.
The cost is $125. Registration is now open and space is limited. To register or for more information call/text Sensei Laurinda Marcello at 738-2887, email sensei@sitkakarate.org or visit Kenwa Karate of Sitka at www.sitkakarate.org.
Cellobration!
Set for July 20
Cellobration! will be staged 7 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at Centennial Hall. Students of the Sitka International Cello Seminar will perform.
The evening will include cello solos, small ensembles, and cello choir featuring 11 top cello students from around the world.
Admission is $15 for adults and $10 students/seniors. Tickets are available at sitkamusicfestival.org, 747-6774 or at Old Harbor Books.
‘Stranger Things’
At Public Library
Sitka Public Library invites be-tweens to participate in a ‘‘Stranger Things’’ program 6-7:15 p.m. Friday, July 19.
Participants will be challenged with Upside Down Slime, ’80s trivia, ’80s edible slime and other activities. They will also snack on some Eggo waffles. Tweens of all abilities are welcome but registration is required.
The Be-Tween program is a place for 11- to 13-year-olds dedicated to inspire creativity, thinking outside the box and leadership skills and will appeal to tweens craving independence and connection, the library said.
The initiative is part of A Universe of Stories Summer library program.
Solve Mysteries
Book Club Set
A Solve Mysteries Summer Book Club will be offered to ages 8 to 10 this summer at the Sitka Public Library.
The book club will run 3:30-4:30 p.m. July 23 and 30. Participants will read together the solve-them-yourselves-mysteries adventure ‘‘The Legend of the Star Runner’’ by J.I. Wagner. The group will solve mysteries by finding clues within the story and its vivid illustrations.
The free program requires registration and space is limited. For information call the library at 747-8708.
‘Oklahoma!’ Staged
By SFAC Students
Sitka Fine Arts Camp’s Musical Theater Camp will present the award-winning golden age musical ‘‘Oklahoma!’’
As the first collaboration between the powerhouse duo Richard Roger and Oscar Hammerstein, the musical is a story of the wild west.
‘‘Featuring some of musical theater’s most loved pieces like ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning,’ ‘People Will Say We’re in Love’ and ‘Oklahoma,’ this show is sure to delight audiences of all ages,’’ the theater group said.
Performances are 7 p.m. July 26 and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. July 27 at the Sitka Performing Arts Center. Tickets are available at Old Harbor Books, online at www.fineartscamp.org/shows, and at the door.
Night of Dance
Staged Saturday
Sitka Fine Arts Camp will present ‘‘A Night of Dance and Jazz’’ 7 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at the Sitka Performing Arts Center.
Students from Sitka Fine Arts Camp’s Summer Dance Intensive and Sitka Jazz Workshop will perform. All performances are free with a suggested donation of $5. For more information call the Fine Arts Camp office at 747-3085.
Art Show, Readings
Set for Saturday
Sitka Fine Arts Camp’s ceramics, photography and writing intensives will present an art show and readings 1-4 p.m. Saturday, July 20, on the SJ Campus.
The show is free and open to the public. For information call the Fine Arts Camp office at 747-3085.
Stories of SE
60 Years Ago
To be Heard
A gathering to discuss ‘‘Stories of Southeastern Alaska, 60 Years Ago’’ will be held 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, in the main lounge at the Sitka Pioneers Home.
Brad Sheeks, visiting from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served with George Betts on board the boat SJSII as a summer volunteer in 1959 and will share memories of Southeast Alaska from that time.
He invites others to tell their stories about those times and about Rev. George Betts who, with his wife, Catherine Brown Betts, and daughter Francis Betts Phillips, had served as pastor of Presbyterian Churches in Angoon, St. Petersburg, and Hoonah in the 1940s and 1950s.
Sheeks said, in retirement, George Betts and Walter Soboleff worked with the Wycliff Bible Translators in translating the Gospel of John into the Tlingit language.
Contact Skye Workman, 747-2103, for more information.
Artist Ryan
To Speak at
SJ Museum
Artist-in-residence Tsimshian Abel Ryan will speak 3 p.m. Saturday, July 20, at the Sheldon Jackson Museum gallery.
His talk, “My First Totem Pole,” will be about how he and a handful of high school students began carving an eight-foot housepost in red cedar that was recently installed at the Thunder Mountain Elementary School in Juneau.
July 20 will be Ryan’s last day as an artist-in-residence at the museum.
The public is invited to meet Ryan, learn about his carving and culture, and all Alaska Native cultures.
Museum summer hours are 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily. General admission is $7, seniors $6, and free for children 18 and under and for members of the Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum and Alaska State Museum. Admission for the talk on Saturday will be waived.
The Alaska Native Artist Residency Program is sponsored by the Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum and made possible with the support of the National Geographic Lex-NG Fund (which funded the program in 2018 and 2019), the National Endowment for the Arts, Alaska Airlines, Alaska Arts Southeast Inc., other local arts organizations, volunteers, and the general public.
Those wanting to support the Alaska Native Artist Residency Program can call 747-6233 or visit www.friendsofsjm.com.
Further information can be found at the website museums.alaska.gov/sheldon_jackson/. The phone number is 747-8981.
