FIFTH OPENING – The Sitka seine boats Hukilau and Rose Lee pump herring aboard this afternoon at the end of Deep Inlet during the fifth opening in the Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery. The opening was being held in two locations beginning at 11 a.m. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson) 

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November 14, 2017, Community Happenings

Sitka Tells Tales

Set for Nov. 19

Sitka Tells Tales will present a Wild Language Festival edition of the local live storytelling series 7-8:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 19, downstairs at the Mean Queen.

The theme of the stories will be ‘‘miscommunication, seeing things in a new light, and finding the right words.’’

 

Island Institute writer-in-residence Kristian Cordero joins local participants Tina Bachmeier, Nancy Douglas, Jerry Dzugan and Rebecca Himschoot. The suggested donation is $5. The event is hosted by Artchange Inc. and The Island Institute. For more information or to sign up to tell a story at a future Sitka Tells Tales event e-mail artchangeinc@gmail.com or call 738-2174. 

Fiber Friends

Meet Saturday

Fiber Friends will meet noon-2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, the Gus Adams room in Sitka Public Library.

Weavers, spinners and dyers are being encouraged to take their projects to show and ideas to share. For more information call Alice at 747-3931.

 

Brave Heart

Bowls Dec. 7

Brave Heart Volunteers will hold its Brave Heart Bowls event 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, at Centennial Hall.

 The event features handmade pottery bowls, homemade soups, fresh baked breads and desserts. Live music with the Sitka Blues Band, and live and silent auctions are included.

Tickets are available at the door or at Old Harbor Books in advance for $15 for adults and $5 for under 10.

 

Gallery to Feature

Norm Campbell

At Nov. 24 Event 

The Island Artists Gallery will be featuring Norm Campbell’s original, invented landscapes at the Nov. 24 Artwalk, along with guest artist Liz Zacher. She is the assistant professor of art at UAS and creates an array of art including sculpture, pottery, drawing and painting.

The gallery’s event will be 5-8 p.m. and will include the artists and artwork, music and light refreshments.

Campbell has been an active force in the Sitka art scene for a number of years. He derives inspiration from local coastlines and islands, but his works are imaginative and evoke the feelings of Southeast Alaska rather than being representational. He served on the Board of the Alaska State Council of the Arts from 2001 to 2006 and is currently on the Alaskan Arts and Culture Foundation Board.

Campbell teaches adults and young students at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp and at local venues. He completed a 30-foot-long drawing in 2010 which is installed in the Sitka Public Library, and created and curates the William Stortz Gallery in City Hall.

 

SJ Museum Seeks

Native Artists for

Residency Program

The Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum is seeking Alaska Native artists to apply to the 2018 Native Artist Residency program, which runs June through September.

Four residency positions are available. The first, between June 8 and  30, involves working at the museum and working with Sitka Fine Arts Camp middle school students, and offers an artist stipend of $1,900.

The second is June 30-July 21 and involves working at the museum and with SFAC high school students. It offers an artist stipend of $1,900.

The third residency July 26-Aug. 12 involves working only at the museum, and offers an artist stipend of $1,300.

The fourth residency runs Aug. 22 through Sept. 8 and is working only at the museum. It offers an artist stipend of $1,300.

The museum will offer a higher financial award this year, and a stipend for food, travel to and from Sitka and, as in previous years, a welcome dinner, and paid time accessing and studying the museum’s exceptional Alaska Native ethnographic and art collection.

Artists-in-residence may focus on traditional or contemporary Native art forms including but not limited to wood-carving, ivory-carving, silver-engraving, beading, skin, gut and fish skin-sewing, drum-making, basket or textile weaving, drumming, and dancing.

Beginners and experienced artists are welcome. Artists benefit from utilizing the museum’s collections for research and meeting visitors from around Alaska and the world and local Sitka community members while working in the museum gallery.

Individuals wanting an information packet and other details may call the museum at 747-8981 and request a packet be emailed or mailed. The packet is also available at www.friendsofsjm.com and http://museums.alaska.gov/artist_opportunities.html.

Those with questions about the program or application can email Jacqueline.Fernandez-Hamberg@alaska.gov or call 747-8904. Applications are due Dec. 21.

 

 

Marine Safety

Training Listed

The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association will conduct a five-day marine safety instructor training at the North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners Association in Seattle Feb. 6-10.

The intensive train-the-trainer course prepares individuals to effectively teach cold-water survival procedures, use of marine safety equipment, and vessel safety drills. Mariners can register online at www.asmsea.org or call 747-3287.

Taught by experienced mariners, the MSIT provides practical, hands-on experience in survival equipment use and procedures. Topics covered during the course include preparation for emergencies, cold-water near drowning, hypothermia, cold-water survival, survival equipment, procedures and onboard drills, risk assessment, ergonomics, and methods of instruction. AMSEA recommends this workshop for anyone who wants to provide cold-water survival, shore-side survival, or marine safety instruction, like the USCG-required drill conductor certification for commercial fishermen.

 

Upon completion of the course, participants will be prepared to teach AMSEA’s U.S. Coast Guard-approved fishing vessel drill conductor training, pending authorization from the Coast Guard. The cost is $875 for AMSEA members and $995 for non-members. Scholarships may be available for commercial fishermen.

USCG Annual

Kid’s Party Set

The annual U.S. Coast Guard children’s Christmas party will be held 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at the U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka hangar. 

The free event is open to the children of active duty and retired Coast Guard members and will feature Santa, lunch, games, crafts, cookie decorating and bouncy house. 

 

Babies and Books

Event Nov. 18

‘‘A Thankful Morning,” a Sitka Babies and Books program celebrating Native American Heritage Month, will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, at Sitka Public Library.

Babies, toddlers and preschoolers are invited to a morning of dances, songs and activities led by the Mt. Edgecumbe High School Athabascan Dance Group.

For more information, call the library at 747-8708.

 

Story Time Set 

The next Preschool Story Time at Sitka Public Library will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 16.

Pumpkins, apples and turkeys will be the theme of the program that also includes rhymes, songs and a craft project. It is open to the public. For more information call the library at 747-8708.

 

Chamber to Meet

Mike Venneberg and Robin Sherman of the ‘‘Greater Sitka Legacy Fund: Grants For Today, Growth for the Future’’ will speak at the Chamber luncheon noon Wednesday at Westmark Sitka.

It is open to the public.

 

Artist LaPerriere

Sets Public Show

Zach LaPerriere will have a public showing of his year’s output of hand-carved wooden bowls 6-9 p.m. Friday at The Loft.

LaPerriere’s first public showing is usually at the Sitka Artisans Market. He will be there again this year, but between now and then he will be selling his bowls at the Public Market in Juneau.

“Honestly, I felt like I was cheating Sitka a little by not showing these bowls here first,” he said, explaining the reason for inviting Sitkans to join him at The Loft Friday evening.

“These bowls all come from trees within ten miles of Sitka, salvaged from the Tongass National Forest. It took these trees hundreds of years to grow, so I want Sitkans to have a chance to see what’s inside their forest and their trees,” he said.

 

Brave Heart Sets

Volunteer Potluck

Brave Heart will host a volunteer potluck 6 p.m. Nov. 15. It is open to the public, and attendees are asked to take a dish to share with the group. 

Tammy and John Young, who are brother and sister, will talk about their own experience about caregiving with Tlingit elders.

Tammy is the cultural resource specialist and coordinator at STA.  She is also the daughter of Jessie Johnnie, the Native elder who gave Brave Heart Volunteers the Tlingit name Yee Gu.aa Yáx X’wán –  Be of Brave Heart.

The event is hosted by Maury Hackett, BHV, 747-4600.

 

Thanksgiving Day

Hours at SEARHC

SEARHC outpatient clinics and business offices will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23. They will reopen on Friday, Nov. 24, during regular business hours.  

As always, Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital will remain open and fully staffed to care for inpatients staying at the hospital as will the hospital’s 24-hour emergency department.

SEARHC’s free after-hours nurse advice line also is available during the holiday. SEARHC patients can call the toll-free number, 1-800-613-0560, if they experience health issues they are unsure how to address outside of regular clinic hours. More information about ways the free Nurse Advice Line may be helpful is available online at searhc.org/service/nurse-line.

 

Regalia, Cultural

Showcase Nov. 27

The Regalia and Cultural Fashion Showcase has been rescheduled and will now be held 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 27, at the Sheet’ka Kwaán Naa Kahídi.

Those with questions or who are wanting to participate can call or text Tonia Puletau-Lang at 738-3451 or email touroperations@sitkatribe-nsn.com. 

 

The event was originally planned for Nov. 18.

SCLT to Meet

Sitka Community Land Trust will  meet 6-8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 27, at Centennial Hall. Members of the public are being encouraged to attend. For more information call 738-2888 or go to sitkaclt.org.

 

Club to Screen

Christmas Classic

Sitka Public Library’s Film Noir Club will screen the 1940 Christmas classic “Remember the Night,” written by Preston Sturges and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray, 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, at the library.

The event is free to the public, and free refreshments – including popcorn and “Noireos” – are provided. Everyone is welcome. Call the library at 747-8708 for more information.

 

Cold-Water

Safety Taught

The Alaska Marine Safety Education Association will conduct a Recreational Boating and Cold-Water Safety workshop Dec. 8-10, at NSRAA, 1308 Sawmill Creek Road.

Class times are 6:30-8:30 p.m.  Dec. 8, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 9, and 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 10. 

The workshop is the opportunity for both new and experienced boaters to gain general knowledge and important insights into boating in Southeast Alaska. Instructor Mike Morris will cover the following topics: Weather and Tides, Navigation, Communications and Emergency Signals, PFD’s and Safety Equipment, Anchoring, Float Plans, Pre-Departure Checklist, Man Overboard Recovery, and Hypothermia and Cold-Water Survival.

 The cost is $120. Boaters can register online at www.amsea.org or call 747-3287.

 

Thanksgiving

Dinner Offered;

Volunteers SoughtA volunteer meeting for the upcoming community Thanksgiving dinner will be 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at the ANB Founders Hall.

The free dinner, 2 p.m. Nov. 23, is hosted by Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp 1 and Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 4 at the ANB Founders Hall.

Anyone interested in helping out, volunteering or donating to the dinners is invited to the meeting. All donations are used to buy food for both dinners, and fundraising efforts will be concluded prior to Thanksgiving for both dinners this year, organizers said.

Gift cards from Sea Mart or AC Lakeside are welcome. Checks made out to ‘‘Community Holiday Dinners/ANB’’ can be mailed to Alaska Native Brotherhood, c/o George Chappell, ANB President, 235 Katlian, Sitka, AK 99835, and a tax deductible receipt will be returned to donors by mail.

 

The annual dinners have been a tradition since 1974, bringing together the whole community, to give thanks and celebrate. To volunteer or to donate to the community Thanksgiving dinner, call Karen at 747-7803 or Debe at 738-4323. 

Sitka Cirque Slates

Carnival, Performance

Friends of Sitka Circus Arts will present the Winter Carnival and Aerial Student Showcase on Dec. 9 at the Sitka Cirque Studio, 207 Smith Street.

The carnival, 3-4:30 p.m., will feature games and contests, face painting, crafts, hot food and baked treats, picture taking with the Grinch, opportunities to explore aerial equipment and more. The food court will remain open during the performances.

The student showcase, 5-6:30 p.m.,  will include solos, duets and ensembles featuring original choreography created by the performers.

Performance tickets are available at Old Harbor Books and Sitka Cirque at $10 for adults and $5 students. It includes entry into the carnival.  Carnival only is $5 at the door and includes three booth tokens.

All proceeds benefit the FOSCA scholarship fund and Sitka Cirque equipment fund.

 

Author Budd

To Read Nov. 15

Author Jeff Budd will discuss his book “Canyon Dance: My Visit to the Deepest Canyon On Each of the Seven Continents” 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at Sitka Public Library. 

Call 747-8708 for information.

 

Annual Thanksgiving

Pie Sale Nov. 22

The American Legion Auxiliary will hold its annual Thanksgiving pie sale noon-3 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 22, at Sea Mart.

Orders can be placed ahead of time at 747-8629.

 

 

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