Story last updated at 7/21/2010 - 12:51 pm
Free Music Fridays: If you haven’t been enjoying free concerts on Fridays, you either don’t live or work in downtown Juneau or you’ve been missing out. It’s not too late! Fridays at noon, enjoy organ music over lunch in the State Office Building atrium (this week it’s T.J. Duffy at the keys, next week it will be J. Allan MacKinnon). After work, start your Friday night at a free Concert in the Park at Marine Park. This week’s performers will be Fleet Street, a six-piece jazz ensemble. The performance starts at 7 p.m.
Why take the Tram when you can run?: If you’re baffled by all the people who prefer to take the tram rather than run up Mount Roberts, you’ll be in good company this Saturday morning at the annual Mount Roberts Tram Run. The race begins at 9 a.m. at the lower tram parking lot and ascends about 3.5 miles to the Cross. For details, contact Dirk Miller at 463-6751 or foymil@gci.net.
Join Old and New ‘Chums’ at Kake Dog Salmon Festival: Taking a day trip to Kake is a piece of cake this Saturday, and it’s hard to pick a better day to visit the Kupreanof Island community than for the annual Kake Dog Salmon Festival. The festival began as a community potluck celebrating the one-millionth pound of salmon processed at the local plant. Now, visitors come from across the region and around the world to join in the fun. The town of just over 700 residents has seen as many as 400 visitors attend the day-long festival. Event includes canoe and foot races, a fish filleting contest, a herring toss, line dancing, a community barbeque and more. Round-trip cataman transportation is offered from Juneau and Sitka this Saturday, July 24 for $120. From Juneau, the catamaran departs the Don Statter harbor in Auke Bay at 6 a.m. and returns at 10:30 p.m. (the trip is about five hours each way). From Sitka, the catamaran departs the Crescent Harbor Visitors Dock at 5:30 a.m. and returns at 10:30 p.m. (the trip is about five and a half hours). For details and tickets, contact Carmel James at ktccjames@yahoo.com or 723-4576 (Juneau) or Kendall Jackson at 738-3083 (Sitka).
Free Screening of Award-winning ‘About Face’: Affinityfilms, Inc. and the Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority will bring “About Face: The Story of Gwendellin Bradshaw,” an internationally award-winning film set in Alaska, to Juneau for a free public screening at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 22 at the Silverbow Inn. The feature documentary film profiles a young Alaska woman as she seeks answers to her mother’s tragic behavior and history of mental illness. Producer and director Mary Katzke, with discussion leader and school psychologist Deb Ward, will introduce the film and answer questions after the screening. Donations will be accepted and DVDs will be available for sale.
