Inlet Winds Community Band invites community musicians to rehearse at the Homer High School band room, 6:30-8 p.m. every Tuesday. There are currently 40 members of the band who have fun playing a mixture of marches, rags, folk songs, Broadway show tunes, Dixieland, chorales and classical arrangements. The first rehearsal is Tuesday. For more information, call director Renda Horn, 235-2025. (See related story, Page 2B.)
Basket-burning build-up
n The community is invited to decorate a basket sculpture with tokens and sentiments of remembrance of departed loved ones, Saturday-Sunday. Thoughts on the theme of letting go and new beginnings can be written and placed inside the basket.
n Burning of the basket begins with a potluck at 6 p.m. Sunday; basket-burning at 8 p.m.
n These are no-alcohol/no-dog events, held in solidarity with National Arctic Refuge Action Day, Sept. 20; autumnal equinox, Sept. 22; and National Peace and Justice Day, Sept. 24.
Marimba-making music madness
n Marimba dance night with local marimba band, juJuba, and guest artists Michael and Osha Breez, $10 adult, $22 family, Alice’s Champagne Palace, 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
n African marimba workshop with Michael Breez of the Rufaro School of Music, for adult beginners, at Homer Council on the Arts, $35 fee, advance registration required by calling 235-8557, 2-5 p.m. Sunday.
n African marimba youth workshop with Michael Breez of the Rufaro School of Music, at HCOA, $20 fee, advance registration required by calling 235-8557, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday.
Film festival returns
Homer Theatre is hosting its third annual documentary film festival Sept. 29-Oct. 5. This year’s festival includes six films, with Adrian Belic, director of the Oscar-contender “Beyond the Call,” in Homer for the festival. Showings of the following films begin at 2 p.m. each day of the festival:
n U.S. vs. John Lennon, not rated, is a look at John Lennon’s life from musician to anti-war activitist to inspiration; www.theusversusjohnlennon.com.
n Wordplay, PG, focuses on New York Times puzzle editor and NPR puzzle master Will Shortz; www.wordplaythe-movie.com.
n Who Killed the Electric Car, PG, explores the demise of General Motors EVi electric vehicle; www.sonyclassics.com/-whokilledtheelectriccar.
n Beyond the Call, not rated, the story of three men who deliver food and medicine to some of the world’s most dangerous places; www.wadirum.com/films/beyond_the_call/.
n Been Rich All My Life, not rated, follows a troupe of tap-dancing divas who met in Harlem in the 1930s and are now in their 80s and 90s; firstrunfeatures.com/beenrich_synopsis.html.
n The Real Dirt on Farmer John, not rated, looks at what happened to farmer John Peterson after he turned his farm into a haven for hippies, radicals and artists in the 1960s, and was then turned on by those he tried to help; www.therealdirt.net.
Chorus rehearsals scheduled
The Kenai Peninsula Community Chorus begins rehearsing Sept. 28 to prepare for the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra/KPCC concert April 2007 and a performance of Handel’s Messiah December 2007. Rehearsals will run through April and resume in the fall. Class fees will be charged for each session. Sign up in the Homer High School choir room at the first rehearsal. For schedule and fee details contact Laura Norton at 299-2453.
Arts Council news
n Ladysmith Black Mombazo will perform at the Mariner Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 13. Tickets are on sale at the Homer Council on the Arts. HCOA does not accept credit cards, but does accept checks and cash. For more information, call 235-4288.
n HCOA has issued a call for artists interested in exhibiting in “Doornamentation,” a November exhibit of holiday wreaths and door swags. Possible themes include everything from occupational to recycles. For more information, call 235-4288.
n HCOA also is seeking artists interested in showing work during the 2007-2008 exhibition season. For more information, call 235-4288.
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