Sitka Arti Gras Calendar with more to come!!

Sitka Arti Gras:

A Music & Arts Festival on the edge of the last Great Alaskan Wilderness

March 2011
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8 Sitka Youth Orchestra Spring Concert, 7pm, PAC	9	10 Sitka Seafood Fest, Passport event, 5pm. Wearable Art dress rehearsal	11 7pm Wearable Art Runway Show, Cent Bldg. Sitka Seafood Fest Passport event 5pm, various restaurants.	12 7pm, Sitka Arti Gras Monthly Grind, Tribal House.  7pm, Fireweed Dance Theatre  10th Anniversary, PAC
13 Shapenote  Singers	14	15	16	17 7pm, State Writer Laureate, Peggy Shumaker, Sitka Public Library, reading. 3pm to 9pm, artist set up for the Ode To Sitka Art Show, Cent bldg. 7pm, Singer Song Writer event at ___________	18 7pm, Community Barn Dance, BMS. 4 to 9, ode to Sitka Visual Art Show, Cent Bldg Sitka Gallery Walk.	19 Writing Workshop with Peggy Shumaker, Alaska Writer Laureate, 9am to 11am and 1pm to 3pm, at ___________. 10am to 4pm, Ode to Sitka Visual Art Show Cent Bldg. 7pm, Folk Singer Carrie Newcomer, PAC
20 48 Hour Film Fest TBA Noon to 3, Sitka Farmers Market	21 9am to noon Artist pick up art from Ode to Sitka Visual Art Show, Cent bldg.	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

For more information call Jeff at 747-4821, Greatersitkaartscouncil.blogspot.com web site http://artigras.info

1st Annual Art Trivia Contest

The Greater Sitka Arts Council announces the 1st Annual Art Trivia Contest! Think you know it all? Well you can prove it on March 20th 3pm at the Tribal House. There will be four categories: Music - classical to jazz to country; Visual arts; literature; and Pop Culture (movies, fashion, TV). Take the challenge by your self $20.00 per person or a team of up to three $50.00. Deadline for entry is March 15th. Send your entry fee, name, address, phone, email to Greater Sitka Arts Council, PO Box 564, Sitka AK 99835. For more information call Jeff at 747-4821 or emailsitkaarats@yahoo.com

Call for artists

The 3rd Annual Sitka Wearable Art Show will be held March 11. The show is open to artists of any age. We are looking for original wearable art conceived and created by the artist. Wearable Art is not a fashion show; it is the use of a multitude of materials where the human body becomes a living, breathing, moving canvas.

Wearable art is “clothing that uses unusual materials or is embellished in an unusual way; it has an element of the outrageous.” “It is clothing made into art, of items not usually seen as clothing.”  “Wearable art is not a costume, but art attached to a human.” It is “nontraditional materials used in an unusual way to make them wearable.” It is “unexpected and experimental.” “Wearable art can be difficult to define and impossible to forget. A montage of theatre, dance, color, movement & art … “you decide.

Past Sitka Wearable Art Shows have had pieces from different communities, we are happy to find a model for your piece or better yet have you participated. The deadline for application is February 13^th, 2011.

Sitka Arti Gras Calendar with more to come!!

Sitka Arti Gras:

A Music & Arts Festival on the edge of the last Great Alaskan Wilderness

March 2011
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8 Sitka Youth Orchestra Spring Concert, 7pm, PAC	9	10 Sitka Seafood Fest, Passport event, 5pm. Wearable Art dress rehearsal	11 7pm Wearable Art Runway Show, Cent Bldg. Sitka Seafood Fest Passport event 5pm, various restaurants.	12 7pm, Sitka Arti Gras Monthly Grind, Tribal House.   7pm, Fireweed dancers 10th Anniversary, PAC
13 Shapenote  Singers	14	15	16	17 7pm, State Writer Laureate, Peggy Shumaker, Sitka Public Library, reading. 3pm to 9pm, artist set up for the Ode To Sitka Art Show, Cent bldg. 7pm, Singer Song Writer event at ___________	18 7pm, Community Barn Dance, BMS. 4 to 9, ode to Sitka Visual Art Show, Cent Bldg Sitka Gallery Walk.	19 Writing Workshop with Peggy Shumaker, Alaska Writer Laureate, 9am to 11am and 1pm to 3pm, at ___________. 10am to 4pm, Ode to Sitka Visual Art Show Cent Bldg. 7pm, Folk Singer Carrie Newcomer, PAC
20 48 Hour Film Fest TBA Noon to 3, Sitka Farmers Market	21 9am to noon Artist pick up art from Ode to Sitka Visual Art Show, Cent bldg.	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

For more information call Jeff at 747-4821, Greatersitkaartscouncil.blogspot.com web site http://artigras.info

Ode to Sitka

First time ever! During the 2011 Arti Gras Festival the Greater Sitka Arts Council and Sitka Arti Gras will host an Ode to Sitka: A Visual and Performance Art Show. This is an opportunity for Sitka residents of all ages to express their love, fondness, appreciation, infatuation, admiration, attraction, or whatever feelings you may have for anything Sitka through art, poetry, dance, song, music, paint, sculpture, pottery, quilting, photography, animation, theater, satire, humor, neoimpressionism, or whatever medium your Sitka heart desires.

Visual art pieces will be displayed in the exhibit room at the Harrigan Centennial Hall starting March 17^th through Sunday March 20^th.  The performance pieces will be part of the Arti Gras Monthly Grind March 12^th at the Sheet’ka Kwan Naa Kahidi community house.

Entry information will be out in early January so start thinking of ideas and gathering materials and or friends.

For more information contact Jeff Budd at 747-4821 or email Sitkaarts@yahoo.com.

Sitka Arti Gras: a Music & Arts Festival on the Edge of the Last Great Alaskan Wilderness

Events 2011


Friday March 11th 
7pm Wearable Art Show – Harrigan Centennial Building              Wells Fargo Sponsor

Saturday March 12th
Tenth Anniversary Performance of Fireweed Dance Theatre
Sitka Monthly Grind – Tribal House   1st Annual Ode to Sitka Performing Arts

Sunday March 13
Shape Note Singing with the Sitka Sacred Harp Singers. 3:30-5pm Pioneer Home Managers House.

Thursday 17th
Singer Song Writer event  TBA

Friday March 18th
Community Barn Dance, Blatchley Middle School 7pm
Gallery Walk TBA
Ode to Sitka Visual Art Show – Harrigan Centennial Building 18 and 19 March
Pigment of Imagination TBA

Saturday March 19th
Afternoon –  TBA workshop by folk singer Carrie Newcomer
7pm Carrie Newcomer, folk singer 7pm Sitka Performing Arts Center

Sunday March 20th
48 Film Fest –At movie house

Other events still to be scheduled include:
Workshops - Art, music, writing

For more information call Jeff at 907-747-4821 or email sitkaaarts@yahoo.com

First Annual Wearable Arts Show Memories