Celebrate ‘summer of love’
Any sentimental yearnings for lava lamps and love beads, light shows and lengthy sit-ins?
Tamamta Katurlutta
A unique dance troop formed from Tlingit-Haida tribes bring their songs and stories to Homer this weekend to help celebrate a gathering hosted by the Pratt Museum and Kachemak Bay tribes.
The group’s leader, Hazel Tumulak, tells of the places where songs and stories emerged because both are tightly connected to their sources in clans.
‘We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!’ hits Homer
Timely as today’s headlines about the economic crisis, Pier One Theatre’s final play of the season humorously brings home working people’s woes as inflation and unemployment squeeze them beyond their means to survive.
Although Dario Fo wrote “We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!” in Italy during a previous economic collapse, it clearly resonates in today‘s world. The 1974 play is a farce centering on women taking what they want from a supermarket and only paying what they could afford — or not at all.
Pier One brings 1 man to 2-act play
Things have gone very bad for Arthur.
His wife, Esther, has run off with his friend. And, while Arthur is able to weather the crisis — thanks to the small community library he runs — his library is becoming obsolete.
And libraries are in Arthur’s blood. His father ran one before him, using the organizational decimal system that his great-grandfather Melville Dewey invented.
Pratt puts broader culture back in Native arts
It bothers artists such as Ron Senungetuk that Alaska Native images are often reduced in artistic value to serve a consumer gift shop market.
Senungetuk’s own Inupiat background, combined with an academic career, gave him the ability to see Native art images as a much richer trove.
Comedy mystifies at Pier One
A man sits dead at a table in a diner.
When his cell phone rings incessantly, bothering a stranger at a nearby table, she answers it and is drawn into his life and death.
“After you’re gone, how will you be remembered?” is the main question addressed in Sarah Ruhl’s grim comedy, “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” which plays at Pier One Theatre through the next three weekends. Ruhl explores that question by entrusting the memory of a not-so-dearly departed man, played by Dylan Carter, to a woman he never met.
Concert-style singalong music
On their website, local band Yellow Cabin wryly lists their influences as “…loud crappy or borrowed amplifiers, smoky bars and their drunken patrons, epic bartenders, Guinness, not practicing original songs and of course Cabin Fever. Also the color green.”
All that “atmosphere” is missing when the band performs in concert at Pier One Theatre this weekend. What remains is solid entertainment.
‘Hedwig’ returns to Pier One stage
Having enthralled audiences in Homer and Halibut Cove at the close of last season, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” opens at Pier One Theatre this weekend. Atz Lee Kilcher stars in this musical comedy with a somber undertone.
While the play entertains with humorous songs and dialogue, the theme of a young man escaping Communist East Berlin by enduring a botched sex change, underlies the story with more serious themes.
Book survival in a Twitter-driven world
While today’s readers carry a shorter attention span in America’s high-speed culture, the “brick and mortar” of books likely won’t go away soon.
That was one of the messages at the 10th-Annual Kachemak Bay Writers Conference talk “Where’s Writing Going?” on Sunday, as publishers, agents and writers gathered to discuss ways for writers to find themselves a home in the future of literary publishing.
First Friday celebrates Homer Spit
By Naomi Klouda
Homer Tribune
Kachemak Bay in Black and White by Taz TallyPhotographer Taz Tally studied the Homer Spit for four months in scenes of black and white. He watched the iconic landscape through all types of winter moods, before settling on one found through his lens the first week in May.
The Spit is one [...]
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