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Homer Theatre owner Jamie Sutton, wearing special glasses, introduces Werner Herzog’s “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” the first digital 3-D film shown at the 55-year-old theater for the 2011 Homer Documentary Film Festival. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Homer Doc Fest returns with films that seek to enlighten

Next week, Homer film buffs will escape reality for an hour or two during the weeklong 14th annual…

Robin Austin, left, and Natalia Mulawa, right, work on Shine, this year’s Burning Basket, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017 at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit, Alaska. The annual interactive art project will be offered to the community on Sunday and then transformed into heat and light at sunset. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Burning Basket is Sunday

The 14th annual Homer Burning Basket project of community interactive, impermanent art, is presented to Homer this coming…

Lynn Marie Naden’s sculpture at the Pratt Museum invites visitors to submit thoughts on the subject of “Root,” write them on a piece of paper and put it in the sculpture. The slips of paper ultimately will be used in a larger sculpture she will create. (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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‘Root’ shows make everyone an artist

Tree roots. Root causes. Square roots. Getting to the root. Root beer. Grass roots. Root chords. Anything about…

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Erdrich speaks today Nationally known writer Louise Erdrich starts the annual Kachemak Bay College Visiting Writers Series with…

A Tahitian drumming workshop in Nanwalek was standing room only (Photo provided)

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Te`arama group visits peninsula

Between Aug. 14 and 19, Seattle-based Tahitian performance group Te`arama conducted cultural exchanges with communities around the lower…

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Pratt seeks art donations for Ritz The Pratt Museum seeks donations or art for Ritz, the museum’s annual…

Art from Deb Lowney’s “Going with the Flow.” (Photo provided)

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September shows feature last summer exhibits

First Friday kicks off the Labor Day weekend with the last summer showing of art shows. At the…

Hundreds participated in the 7th annual Salmonfest Action of Art on Aug. 5, 2017 and led by installation artist Mavis Muller. Volunteers helped Muller create the installation art. Muller said the art “was meant to send a strong message of advocacy for Alaska’s waterways and the salmon which are ‘canaries in the coal mine.’ alerting us to the impact of climate change on the health of our communities and entire ecosystem.” (Aerial drone photo taken by John Newton)

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Basket build starts Sept. 2 The 14th annual Homer Burning Basket project of community interactive, impermanent art runs…

Visitors to the Pratt Museum look at “Wild Alaska,” above, by Karla Moss Freeman, and a 1900 map of the Cook Inlet Coal Fields railroad, one of the historic pieces included in cARTography exhibit Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017 at the Pratt Museum, Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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cARTography exhibit blends art, mapmaking

The Pratt Museum’s latest exhibit, cARTography, makes a typeface play, emphasizing “art” in the word. That also pays…

Carla Klinker-Cope., left, and Becca Bottebaum paint with encaustics in Ann-Margret Wimmerstedt’s “Wax. Wine & Wimmerstedt”class held July 30, 2017 at Wimmerstedt’s home. Wimmerstedt, far right, reaches for a propane torch. The torch is used to manipulate the wax by melting it and also to fuse the finished painting. “Encaustic” means “to burn.” (Photo by Michael Armstrong/Homer News)

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Artists feel the burn in encaustics class

On a cloudy Sunday last month, artist Ann-Margret Wimmerstedt brought together six student artists with one mission. Feel…

Women pose in scarves in 2015 in Petra, Jordan. (Photo courtesy Christina Whiting)

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Writer, photographer shares stories of Jordan Writer, photographer and adventure traveler Christina Whiting presents “Meandering the Middle East:…

Pier One Youth Theatre actors Vianne Sarber, left, as Rosario, and Zane Wilkonson, right, as Lonzo, rehearse a secne from “Honor Among Thieves,” at Pier One Theatre, Homer, Alaska, Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. (Photo by Michael Armstrong, Homer News)

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Youth Theatre head directs — and writes — new play

Homer’s Pier One Theatre has always been a home-grown operation, with locals lending a hand for everything from…

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Karla Freeman memorial show opens at KBC Longtime Homer artist, painter and Kachemak Bay College teacher, Karla Freeman,…