Upcoming Arti Gras Events

  Arti Gras events 2011

Tuesday March 8^th

Sitka Youth Orchestra Spring Concert, Sitka Youth Orchestra Spring Concert, 7pm. Performing Arts Center. Donations accepted at the door. The Sitka Youth Orchestra is now in its 10th year and is under the direction of Jan Lovett and Barbara Rocheleau.  The 45 members of the orchestra have been rehearsing since early January and will perform a program of classical music by Mozart, Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Handel, and Wagner.  Also on the program will be a performance of Henry Mancini's "Pink Panther", featuring Miss Celia Lubin as the violin soloist.  

Wednesday March 10^th

Sitka Seafood Festival Passport Event. Come support the Sitka Seafood Festival and indulge in some of the best seafood to be found in Sitka. The Passport Event takes place March 10 thru 13, starting at 5PM at various local restaurants and cafes. For tickets visit Old Harbor Books. More information contact Alicia Peavey sitkaseafoodfestival@gmail.com

Thursday March 11^th

3^rd Annual Sitka Wearable Art Show and Runway Extravaganza, 7pm at Harrigan Centennial Hall, doors open 6:30 show starts 7pm. Cost $15.00 for adults, $5.00 for children under 12, or $30.00 for a family of four. More information contact Jeff at 747 4821 or email sitkaarts@yahoo.com. Tickets on sale at Old Harbor Books.

48 Hour File Festival   Sitka Film Society is sponsoring a 48-Hour Film Fest: A Contest for Filmmakers. March 11th - contestants pick up rules and information, and sign up @ the office of Brian Hanson, attorney, 713-B Sawmill Creek Road, 5-7 p.m.
March 13th - contestants turn in finished video product in DVD format at 6-8 p.m.  March 16th - community showing of finalist's videos @ the Downtown Coliseum at 6 p.m. $5 admission.

"Alaska's Aquatic Insects" by Kathy Hocker, Illustrator 7pm, UAS room 106.
“They're all around us: in streams, lakes, muskeg ponds, roadside ditches. They bite us and pester us, they inspire poetry and curses alike. They feed salmon and sheefish...warblers and dabblers and dippers...bats and bladderworts. Without them our aquatic (and terrestrial) ecosystems would crumble. They're aquatic insects! Come take a tour of the diversity of aquatic insects in Alaska, and learn about their strange and fascinating lives. Illustrated with Bob Armstrong's marvelous insect photos, and based research for on an
upcoming book by Bob Armstrong, Kathy Hocker, and John Hudson.

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The Sitka Arti Gras website is  www.artigras.info -- it has the latest calendar.

This year there will be more workshops to look forward to:
Peggy Shumaker, State of Alaska Writer Laureate
Kathy Hocker, Naturalist Illustrator
Smokey Beare, Water Color
Laura Ramp, Knitting and Beading
Ted Howard, mandolin
Gary Gouker, Harmonica
Joe Montagna, Guitar
Jeff brown, state Balloon Laureate, beginner and intermediate balloon figure making

Sitka Artist or Art Advocate of the Year

The Greater Sitka Arts Council seeks nominations for the Sitka Artist or Arts Advocate of the Year FY 2010 – who will be recognized during the 4^th Annual Arti Gras Festival. The closing date for entries is 25th February 2011. The chosen finalist will be notified by 15 March 2011. The winner will be chosen by the Board of the Greater Sitka Arts Council. There is no one specific category. The overall idea is to recognize an artist or arts advocate who lives and works in Sitka, contributing through outstanding works in music, writing, dance, theater,  any other art form, or advocacy. To submit your nomination write a brief statement, not more than one page, why they ought to be recognized and send to Attn: Artist of the Year, GSAC, PO Box 564, Sitka, AK 99835.

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.