School Photos
At Keet School
School photos at Keet Gooshi Heen elementary school will be taken 8 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 20.
Teachers will send picture packets home for students to them take back with money on photo-taking day.
Students will have their photo taken for the school. Students should be on time and photo-ready, the school said.
Community photos are 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at Keet Gooshi Heen. Those with questions can call the office at 747-8395.
Fashion Show
Set for Saturday
Those who have purchased tickets to the Thrift Store Fashion Show on Sept. 15 at the Odess Theater on the SJ Campus may arrive at 6:30 p.m. to check out silent auction items. The event is sold out.
Vintage items paired with donated services and products from local businesses, and the outfits being modeled, will be up for action.
Lake & Lynadle
Set to Perform
Sitka Fine Arts Camp will present Nashville-based band Lake & Lynadle 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, at the Sitka Performing Arts Center.
With songwriting always at its core, Lake & Lyndale is a blend of Americana, rock, country and blues influences. Their wide range of influences and versatility helps breed both a familiar, yet unique sound.
From intimate acoustic settings to some of the largest festivals, the band members split their time between touring, staff writing and recording. Tickets are $20, $15 for youths and are available at Old Harbor Books, at the door, and at www.fineartscamp.org/shows.
Colombia Artists
To Show Works
Sitka Fine Arts Camp’s resident artists from Colombia, María Paola Sánchez and Jacobo Daponte V, will present an art show featuring books and painting from Colombia 5-8 p.m. each night, Sept. 21-28, in Yaw Art Center Room 105 on the SJ Campus.
The show is free and open to the public.
Sánchez, will give an artist talk 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Yaw Art Center. Sánchez’s talk will cover books and independent publishing in the Colombia. Admission is free.
Daponte will give an artist talk 7 p.m. Sept. 26 at the Yaw Art Center. Daponte’s talk will cover the evolution of Colombian Vallenato music and its influence on Gabriel García Marquéz. Admission is free.
Family Therapist
To Speak at Library
A free presentation by marital and family therapist Jeannie Jay, MFT, will be 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, at the Sitka Public Library.
“It’s all about the yard, more or less: How to become OK with myself so I can be OK with you” will be the topic. For more information call 747-0576.
Sitkans to Share Views
Of Israel Past, Present
“Israel: Memories and First Impressions” will be presented by Sitkans Owen and Beth Kindig 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19 at the Sitka Public Library.
The Kindigs will tell of their experiences in April and May, criss-crossing the country and filming a wide variety of the sights and sounds.
As a director of a film crew under the auspices of the Israeli Leadership Institute, Owen interviewed more than a dozen Israeli leaders, including professors, generals, a member of Knesset, farmers, and business and humanitarian thought leaders. He also had the privilege of filming during Israel’s Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust, and at the 70th Independence Day celebration in Jerusalem.
The presentation will feature short clips from interviews, and scenes from all across Israel from Mount Bental on the Golan Heights to Qiryat Shmona and Rosh Hanikra in the north, to Sderot and Ashkelon in the southeast, to Masada and Ein Gedi in the southwest, and of course Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The presentation also will include behind-the-scenes views of Israel’s largest ocean-water desalinization plant in Sorek, which produces 627,000 cubit yards of fresh drinking water per day. The audience will see drone footage Owen shot in many places, from the Jordan River to the beaches of Ashkelon and the Fortress of Latrun.
Owen and Beth will share video clips that reveal why they were excited to: float in the Dead Sea; shop in the Old City of Jerusalem; experience the contrast between the Suk (the Arab/Israeli open air market of modern Jerusalem) and a contemporary mall right downtown; peer over the entrenchments at Mount Bental at the top of the Golan Heights, down to the valley of Syria below; sleep in a castle built by the Crusaders in Tiberias; photograph a Greek Orthodox mountain-top cathedral near Jerusalem; tour Hadassah Hospital; explore the caves where King David hid from Saul in Ein Gedi; walk the walls of the ancient crusader village of Acre on the Mediterranean Coast, and swim at its beautiful beach; see the Roman ruins near Herzliya; reflect in the cemetery of Arad; discover the nuanced museum of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem; encounter camels along the road to Mesada; and ascend the tram and descend the stairs to Herod’s winter palace, which became the symbol of Israel’s struggle to survive.
Beth first went to Israel for the summer of 1969, as a teenager from California. Her photos from that trip are juxtaposed with the photos she took in the two weeks she spent with Owen this year, from April 21 to May 5.
It was Owen’s first visit, and his first impressions will intertwine with Beth’s memories from 49 years ago. Owen is now working on a feature film based on their experiences.
Visitors are asked to arrive a few minutes early to get a seat for this presentation, which will begin at 6 p.m. sharp and go to 7:10, followed by 20 minutes of questions and discussion.
