Site Logo

Community

The Arts in brief

Big Read starts next month The Friends of the Homer Public Library presents its third Homer Big Read.…

Claudia Haines reads "Penguin Problems" by Jory John and Lane Smith at the Homer Public Library.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

Community

Homer children will play part in picking top book illustrator

Several times a week, youth services librarian Claudia Haines holds Storytime in the Homer Public Library’s Joy Griffin…

Elias Allen, left, as the Nutcracker, fights with the King Rat, Aaron Taliesin, during rehearsals for the Homer Nutcracker Ballet  last Friday at the Homer Mariner Theatre.-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

Community

28th annual Homer Nutcracker Ballet continues the magic

Homer might be as cold as Moscow this winter, but when it comes to the annual production of…

Works in the 10x10 Members Show at Bunnell Street Arts Center include art in various media by more than 30 students. -Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

Community

First Friday events

All Hopped Up Espresso 280 W. Pioneer Ave. Homer Connections K-12 Student Art by various artists 3-4 p.m.,…

Community

Student art highlight of First Friday

Art lovers can add a new venue to their art walk on First Friday: a show of art…

Community

Arts in brief

Nutcracker Faire runs this weekend The Homer Council on the Arts annual Nutcracker Faire runs 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m.…

Community

Library Journal gives Homer library highest ranking — 2016 Star Library

The Homer Public Library is a 2016 Star Library in the annual ranking of U.S. public libraries by…

Community

Fundraiser challenge starts to name Storyknife house after Saulitis

Poet Peggy Shumaker and her husband Joe Usibelli announced they would like to name the Storyknife main house…

Eivin Kilcher holds a bowl as Eve Kilcher ladles in homemade chicken soup for their daughter Sparrow.-Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News

Community

Kilcher cookbook depicts delicious life

“Homestead Kitchen” was born out of the same kind of connection that started the Kilcher family’s reality television…

Community

The Arts in Brief

Lavallee visits Art Shop Gallery Artist Barbara Lavallee visits the Art Shop Gallery from 1-6 p.m. Saturday. She…

Felicity Jones poses for a photo at the First Friday opening of her exhibit at the Homer Council on the Arts, "Windows."-Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News

Community

Solo show launches young artist’s career

“Windows,” this month’s solo exhibit by Felicity Jones at the Homer Council on the Arts, expands on the…

Local band Uplift plays at the event to support protestors at Standing Rock on Nov. 5 at K Bay Caffe. Homer native Lucas Wilcox worked in the protest camps in North Dakota providing food for protestors of the heavily contested oil pipeline. Wilcox hopes to raise money to bring back tents for shelter as the protest continues into the winter.-Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News

Community

The Arts in Brief

Inspired by Diaries exhibit opens The Pratt Museum’s Inspired by Diaries exhibit opens with a reception from 5-7…

John Gorka recently released and album he recorded in 1985 in Nashville, Tenn., and recently rediscovered. Gorka carried the tapes from his five-day session in Nashville from him over the years from New York City to Bethlehem, PA., to Minnesota. Though the tapes experienced wear over the years, Gorka was able to revive them and transfer the music onto digital files.-Photo by Joe del Turo

Community

Legendary folk musician Gorka plays in Homer

Slide into your 50s, and sometimes things you put aside years ago don’t look as bad as you…