Freeze: the schedule

• Dec. 31, 8 p.m. New Year’s Eve Party at the Anchorage Museum, 121 W. Seventh Ave. Admission, $75. “Designated drivers admitted FREE.” Along with live music, the program will feature tune-spinning by guest DJ James Pepper Henry (the museum director), whose close relative jazz man Jim Pepper used to play sax at the Northern Lights Inn.

• Jan. 2, 5:30 p.m. Special exhibition and reception at International Gallery of Contemporary Art featuring artists and designers working on the Freeze Project, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D St.

• Jan. 2, 5:30 p.m. Opening reception for exhibition of new work by Ed Mighell at the Alaska Native Arts Foundation, 500 W. Sixth Ave.

• Jan. 2, 8:30 p.m. Freeze film screening featuring Gretchen Sagan and Surreal Studios at MTS Gallery and Freeze performance art, 3142 Mountain View Drive,8:30 p.m.

• Jan. 3, 6 p.m. “Noi the Albino,” a film from Iceland, Anchorage Museum.

• Jan. 5, 7 p.m. Futurefarmers lecture, Anchorage Museum.

• Jan. 7, 6:30 p.m. Performance by Allison Warden and lecture by Adriane Colburn of San Francisco on her artwork inspired by mapping the Arctic Ocean, Anchorage Museum. $5 general admission.

• Jan. 8, 6 p.m. “Flash Freeze” installation presentations by design teams led by Brian Carter, dean of architecture and planning, SUNY Buffalo. Opens with a special performance by Mr. Whitekeys on the “Real Alaska.” Anchorage Museum, $10 general admission.

• Jan. 9, 6 p.m. More “Flash Freeze” installation presentations by design teams. Opens with a performance by Ethan Rose and Matthew Burtner featuring musicians Helen Howarth and Rama Ishaya. Rose will be combining piano, harmonica and other small instruments with field recordings of snow, ice, weather and environment to create a piece that reflects and complements Molo Design’s installation. Contemporary composer Burtner’s snow and ice chamber pieces will combine cello, piano and electroacoustics. Anchorage Museum, $10 general admission.

• Jan. 9, 6 p.m. Indigenous Film Festival: Alaska Native Heritage Center. Meet the filmmakers. 6 to 11:30 p.m.

• Jan. 10, noon. Public opening for Freeze installations on Delaney Park Strip (between E & I streets), in Frontierland and Elderberry parks and outside Anchorage Museum. Scheduled events include:

12:15 p.m. Sound performance by Ethan Rose

1 p.m. Northern Writers reading and open mike

2 p.m. Special dance performance of MovingNorth 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.

And so it continues until the outdoor installations come down Feb. 2. A conference on the environment will wrap things up later that week. A full, updated schedule is available at www.freezeproject.org.