Events
Sparkling winter lights and long summer days mean more fun packed into each and every week. Root for the home team, celebrate with the locals at festivals with wild Alaska flair or jump into annual traditions. Catch a special program that brings you closer to Alaska. Watch world-famous performers, local thespians and aspiring musicians on stages in Anchorage. No matter the date, there’s always something happening in Alaska’s largest city!
Winner of the 2010 Tony and one of the most-produced plays in the country. This intense and exciting play is about famous American abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko as he paints the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York's famed Four Seasons Restaurant. So why did he return the money and they ended up as a permanent installation at the Tate Gallery in London? RED captures the dynamic relationship between the artist and his creation. Preview slated for May 2 at 7 p.m.; production run is May 3-12 and May 30 - June 16.
The Begich, Boggs Visitor Center opens for the season May 25. Opened to the public in 1986, and rededicated with new exhibits in 2001, the center is built upon the terminal moraine left behind by Portage Glacier in 1914. The visitor center offers an unique opportunity to learn about the Chugach National Forest, America's third-largest national forest. Award-winning exhibits, educational presentations, the film "Voices from the Ice," interpretive services, and an Alaska Geographic bookstore are available to serve the public. "Voices from the Ice" begins with the explanation of the creation of glaciers -- rivers of ice -- how they are born of snowflakes, as storm after storm, layer by layer, the flakes accumulate. Time and pressure fuse them, compressing the snow into dense, jewel-like ice.
