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Northern Writers’ Reading and Open Mic

Special FREEZE writer’s reading at Anchorage Museum featuring keynote by Mr. White Keys. Featuring Joan Kane, Don Reardon, Willie Hensley, Dawnell Smith, Jeremy Pataki, and an open mic.

Anchorage Museum auditorium. FREE.

Fair: Food, Health, Safety in the North

Live well and safe in the north.  Special presentations by:

• 12 -2pm: Alaska Search and Rescue Dogs
• 12 -2pm: Bike Commuters of Anchorage
• 12 – 1:25pm: Providers from Avante on nature and science for health in the north: Bethany Buchanan on SAD, SAME, and Vitamin D; Christine Sagan on Omega3, and Torrey Smith on Keeping Your Immune System Strong in Winter.
• 1:30 – 2:00pm: Maintaining Mental Health in the North by clinical psychologist Dr. Jennifer Beathe
• 3:00 – 3:30pm: Dr. Dick Mandsager, Executive Director of Providence Children’s Hospital, about keeping kids healthy in winter
• 3:30 – 4:30pm: Mary Ellen Gordian, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate of UAA, on indoor air quality, and Stephen Morris, Municipality of Anchorage, on outdoor air quality.
• 4:30 – 5:00pm: Special presentations on the importance of Alaska Native foods by Shawna Carmen, environmental justice program director form the Alaska Community Action group on toxins and the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Anchorage Museum.

Sponsored, in part, by BP Exploration.

Northern Writers

Northern Writers’ is hosting a writing Freeze at Bernie’s. Hear authors with work posted on the Freeze website share their stories and poems. Everyone is welcome to join in with their own literary Freeze.

Bernie’s Bungalow, 7th Ave & D Street.

Public Opening for FREEZE Installations

Public opening for FREEZE installations on Delaney Park Strip (between E & I Streets), in Frontierland and Elderberry Parks, and outside Anchorage Museum,12-4 p.m., FREE

Delaney Park Strip

• 12:15pm:  Welcome by Dorothy Cook, President of the Native Village of Eklutna, and special ceremony at CK Architecture/Lita Albuquerque “Oil and Water” installation on the Delaney Park Strip near 10th Avenue and E Street.
• 12:15pm: Sound performance by Ethan Rose
• Special giveaway (near 10th and E):  Block heater timers courtesy of the Anchorage Department of Health and Human Services – free while supplies last.
• 1pm: Northern Writers’ reading featuring Joan Kane, Sherry Simpson, Scott Banks and others, with an open mic.
• 2pm: “Moving North” dance performance, which starts at the Delaney Park Strip and then heads north through downtown and to the Anchorage Museum. Led by Gabrielle Barnett with the performing group Co-Motion.  Made possible by the UAA Department of Theatre and Dance, the UAA International Polar Year program, and Atelier FreiForm.
• 12-4pm: Ski track open: Made possible by the Nordic Skiing Association

Elderberry Park

Opening of Kaamos installation by Black + White Studio Architects & Sonya Kelliher-Combs.

Anchorage Museum Plaza

Opening of ICEQUARIUM installation by Peter Briggs and Jonny Hayes.