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Weekly Highlights in Alaska

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Alaska Native Artist Market at 609
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Alaska Native Artist Market at 609

The Alaska Native Heritage Center's Alaska Native Artist Market takes place October 21-23, 2026, with cultural demonstrations and a hospitality lounge, timed to coincide with the Alaska Federation of Natives convention week in downtown Anchorage.

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Alaska Native Customary Art Fair
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Alaska Native Customary Art Fair

More than 170 Alaska Native and Native American artists fill the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center in Anchorage from October 22 to 24, 2026, for the free, public art fair inside AFN's 60th annual convention.

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Quyana Alaska Dance Nights at AFN
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Quyana Alaska Dance Nights at AFN

Quyana Alaska brings two evenings of traditional Alaska Native dance to Anchorage's Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center on Oct. 22-23, 2026, as part of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention.

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The Bird Blind: Free Staged Reading
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

The Bird Blind: Free Staged Reading

New Native Theatre brings Kira Apaachuaq Eckenweiler's Inupiaq debut play, The Bird Blind, to the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts' Elvera Voth Hall in Anchorage for four free staged readings Oct. 22-23, 2026.

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Drive-In Movie Night at Alyeska
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Drive-In Movie Night at Alyeska

Challenge Alaska turns the Alyeska Resort Daylodge parking lot in Girdwood into a drive-in theater, with a Teton Gravity Research ski film at 7 p.m. and a late show at 10 p.m.

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Tasselvania Burlesque at Koot's
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Tasselvania Burlesque at Koot's

Frostease Burlesque's new Halloween nerdlesque show runs Oct. 23-24, 2026, at Koot's Ice Bar in Anchorage, headlined by Atlanta's Lola LeSoleil.

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Fix-It Clinic at Anchorage Museum
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Fix-It Clinic at Anchorage Museum

Volunteer coaches help Anchorage residents repair broken gadgets, furniture and clothing at a free International Repair Day clinic at the Anchorage Museum on October 17, 2026.

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Alaska Constitution at 70
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Alaska Constitution at 70

Retired attorney Matt Peterson marks the 70th anniversary of Alaska's constitutional convention with a free Cook Inlet Historical Society talk at the Anchorage Museum on October 15, 2026.

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One Voice, Many Lifetimes in
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

One Voice, Many Lifetimes in

The One Voice, Many Lifetimes intergenerational benefit concert brings Alaskans living with dementia together with student singers on Oct. 18, 2026, at the Discovery Theatre in Anchorage.

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Spooky Space at UAF Planetarium
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Spooky Space at UAF Planetarium

Fairbanks' UA Museum of the North turns its planetarium toward creepy constellation myths and eerie solar-system sounds on October 16, 2026.

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Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Bonny Sosa Tuesday Night Races

Anchorage's Bonny Sosa Tuesday Night Races return to Kincaid Nordic Stadium on October 13, 2026, with secret courses, three leagues, and $12 adult entry.

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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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Therapy Gecko Live in Anchorage
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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Reading to Dogs at Loussac
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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The Birch Violin: How a
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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Bras Off in Spenard: How a
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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Chasing the Moose: Anchorage's
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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Ahoy, Anchorage: The Pirate Fest &
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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A Spooky Stroll Through the Boreal
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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A Toast to Reading: How
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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Finding Their Voice: The
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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