Weekly Highlights in Alaska

Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Flowers That Aren't

Iceland's Fischersund collective brings its first museum exhibition — a scented, sounding, invented botanical world — to the Anchorage Museum for nearly a year.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Therapy Gecko Live in Anchorage

Comedian Lyle Drescher brings his unlicensed-lizard call-in show to The Aurora Room for two nights of onstage conversations with strangers.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Reading to Dogs at Loussac

A free Anchorage library program lets kids practice reading aloud to patient, nonjudgmental therapy dogs — and quietly builds confidence one ten-minute session at a time.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Birch Violin: How a

Wild Shore New Music's thirteenth season stages a three-part, one-night collaboration at Anchorage's The Nave, pairing Quinn Christopherson's songs with experimental film and a violin carved by his great-grandfather, the self-taught maker known as 'The Eskimo Violin Maker.'

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Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Bras Off in Spenard: How a

The Alaska Boob Show brings the city's burlesque and drag performers together to twirl for a cure — and the party has deep roots in a town that has always done things its own way.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Village That Refused to Let

A new Anchorage Museum installation tells how one Yup'ik community rescued more than a hundred thousand artifacts from a melting shoreline — and brought them home.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Chasing the Moose: Anchorage's

The sixth annual Moose Loop Trail Challenge invites Anchorage residents to run, bike, walk, or roll their way around a 32-mile urban trail network that happens to trace the outline of Alaska's most beloved animal.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Ahoy, Anchorage: The Pirate Fest &

Anchorage's Pirate Fest & Pub Crawl turns downtown into a swashbuckling playground by day and a charitable bar-hopping adventure by night — all in service of the Blood Bank of Alaska.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Spooky Stroll Through the Boreal

For six weeks each autumn, the Alaska Botanical Garden transforms its forest trails into a harvest wonderland of scarecrows, fairy houses, and family-friendly frights.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A Toast to Reading: How

At Zip Kombucha's taproom, Anchorage librarians are pairing fermented tea with fiction — one sip, one page at a time.

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Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Clay, Community, and the Fourth

Anchorage's beloved pottery studio throws a free block-party celebration of clay, craft, and community on September 12, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Forty Years of Faithful

On the first Saturday of September, Homer gathers at Bishop's Beach to kick off its 40-plus-year tradition of cleaning, monitoring, and celebrating the wild edges of Kachemak Bay.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Finding Their Voice: The Last-Friday Open Mic at Wasilla's Only Bookstore

On the last Friday of every month, a free open mic night at Black Birch Books in Wasilla turns a small café corner into one of the Matanuska-Susitna Valley's most welcoming stages.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Finding Their Voice: The

On the last Friday of every month, a free open mic night at Black Birch Books in Wasilla turns a small café corner into one of the Matanuska-Susitna Valley's most welcoming stages.

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