Sign up now for an Intensive Latin Dance Workshop with Mariana Parma and Victor Cervantes, presented by the Homer Council on the Arts, 5-9 p.m. May 24-26 and noon-4 p.m. May 28-29. The workshop is geared toward adult or high school dance students. Cost is $200 general, $185 members. For more information, call Linda Rourke at 235-1222 or HCOA at 235-4288.
A call for art has been extended to everyone touched by the war in Vietnam, and seeks creations in keeping with the mission of the Peace and Reconciliation Celebration to be held May 11 to 18. The call is open to all media and sizes. All work will be exhibited, will not be for sale and will be returned if postage is provided. Deadline for submission is May 1; name, address, phone number, title of piece, media and a brief description to be submitted with piece. Exhibit will be held at Homer Council on the Arts, May 6 to 31. For more information, call 235-5966 or e-mail naden@ptialaska.net. For more information on the Peace and Reconciliation Celebration, visit the Web at www.copr2005.org.
This year's conference will be at Land's End Resort, June 10 through 14. Poet Laureate Billy Collins is the keynote presenter, and 20 other faculty members, including authors, editors, publishers and agents from in and out of state. The conference offers daily workshops, craft talks, "pitch a publisher" manuscript reviews, panel presentations and evening readings in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, the business of writing and more. A young writers pre-conference workshop for 10th- through 12th-grade students will be held with visiting author Jack Driscoll. Registration is $245 before May 12, $295 after May 12. For more information, see the Web at writersconference.homer.alaska.edu.
Entry forms for two major craft events at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art are now available. Art Potpourri takes place June 15 through August 15, when artists, authors and crafts people make and sell their wares each day in the Museum's atrium. Deadline for receipt of entries is 6 p.m. March 31. Crafts Weekend at the Museum is held Thanksgiving weekend, November 25 through 27. The event offers artisans the opportunity to show and sell their work in the atrium. Deadline for entries is 6 p.m. May 12. Prospectuses for Art Potpourri and Crafts Weekend are available online at www.anchoragemuseum.org. For more information, call Georgia Blue at (907) 343-6195 or e-mail amsgblue@anchoragemuseum.org.
The Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, is scheduled for July 17 through 31. This is the event's 25th anniversary. A catalog introducing the faculty and describing classes is available. For more information, visit the Web site at www.fsaf.org., call (907) 474-8869 or e-mail festival@alaska.net.
Last week for Latin
Art to celebrate peace and reconciliation
Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference coming soon
Anchorage museum announces call for art
Festival catalog, registration available
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