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Alaska State Fair

Visit the official state fair web site for more information on events, purchasing tickets and what to expect from the week and a half extravaganza in Palmer.

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Me at the fair

Location: State Fair, August 25th,2011

If you brought your camera to this year's state fair, post your photos and check out how others had fun.

Today's Alaska State Fair schedule

* = Ticketed event

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Family Day

Borealis Theatre

7 p.m. -- Craig Morgan*

Downtown Palmer

11 a.m. -- Alaska State Fair Parade

Grandstand

Noon -- Alaska youth supercross invitational*

4 p.m. -- Quad racing*

6 p.m. -- Demo derby*

Grandstand Lawn

1, 3 and 5 p.m. -- Pirates for Hire, entertainment troupe

Milking Parlor In Farm Exhibits

3:30 and 4:15 p.m. -- Goat milking demo

5 and 6 p.m. -- Cow milking demo

Hoskins Exhibits

11:30 a.m. -- Paint a ladybug rock

12:30 p.m. -- Duct tape hair pins

1:30 p.m. -- Fireweed honey

2:30 p.m. -- Banana pancakes

3:30 p.m. -- Chocolate nut clusters

4 p.m. -- Crafts for Kids

Irwin Exhibits

Noon-10 p.m. -- Quilt show, on the hour

Noon-10 p.m. -- Woodworking, quilting, fiber arts, sewing, hand/needlework demos

Around The Grounds

Steve Trash, Rockin' Eco Magician

Fables of the West, cowboy comedy

1, 3, 5 and 7:30 p.m. -- King BMX stunt show, Purple Plaza near ejection seat

2-4 p.m. -- Diamond Quilting State Fair Print signing with Barbara Lavallee at Shane Lamb booth, Red Trail

2-4 p.m. -- State Fair poster signing with Katie Sevigny at the Wine and Art Bar, Colony Theatre

Woodlot

1, 3 and 6 p.m. -- Scheer's lumberjack show

Kid Zone

10 a.m.-8 p.m. -- Children's garden and fun exhibits

Wineck Barn

Noon and 5 p.m. -- "Alaska Far Away," documentary film of the New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska colony

1:30 p.m. -- Garden Tours guided by the fair's head gardener

2 p.m. -- "Where the River Matanuska Flows," colonist interviews

Gold Raven's People Tent

Daily -- Alaska Native art, crafts and demonstrations

Noon-6 p.m. -- Finnskimo, Inupiaq skin sewer and blogger

Noon-6 p.m. -- Full Circle Haida Tlingit Creations with Susan Canipe

Colony Stage

10:30 a.m. -- Sunshine Generation of Anchorage

11:30 a.m. -- Tierra Colombiana

Noon and 1:30 p.m. -- Sonja's Studio of Dance

12:30 p.m. -- Aurora Borealis Mid-Eastern Dance

1 p.m. -- Gaia Tribal Belly Dance

2, 4 and 7 p.m. -- Shanghai Chinese Acrobats

3 p.m. -- Stars Dance and Drill

3:30 p.m. -- Underground Dance Co.

5 p.m. -- Northern Lights Celtic Dancers

6 p.m. -- Paws and Taws square dance

8 p.m. -- 9th Army Band, cold fusion

9 p.m. -- 9th Army Band, Arctic rock

10 p.m. -- Alaskanette Baton Corps, fire batons

Bluebonnet Stage

12:30, 3 and 6:30 p.m. -- Jeff Martin comedy magic

1 p.m. -- TGB (The Girl Band)

1:30 p.m. -- Slap Dash

2 p.m. -- Three Fish in a Tree

2:30 p.m. -- Hopper Family Band

3:30 p.m. -- Kerr Family Band

4:30 p.m. -- Eric and Sean Braendel

5:30 p.m. -- Marty and Matt Raney

Woodlot

2 p.m. -- Moose-calling contest

4 p.m. -- Parent-child look-alike contest

7 p.m. -- Charlie Franks, Elvis impersonator

Borealis Plaza Tent

10 a.m.-5 p.m. -- Alaska Seafood Throwdown

6 p.m. -- Original Synners Wild West Show*

9 p.m. -- Original Synners Stunt Show Spectacular*

Pioneer Plaza

2, 4 and 6 p.m. -- Cirque Magnifique

Jolly Roger Pub

2 p.m. -- Eric and Sean Braendel

3 p.m. -- The Smith Family Band

5 p.m. -- Jubilee

Don Sheldon Events Center

10 a.m.-9 p.m. -- Outback in Alaska, wild birds and animals from Australia

Noon, 2, 4 and 6 p.m. -- Birds Down Under

Sluicebox

2:30 p.m. -- Just Folks

4 p.m. -- Matt Hammer

5:30 p.m. -- Smoking Guns Tour featuring Jason Thomas and Travis Powell from Nashville.

7:30 p.m. -- Gary Sloan and the Valley Rhythm Revue

9:30 p.m. -- Seth Freeman

Farm Exhibits

Noon -- Swine, sheep and goat show

Noon-8 p.m. -- GCI's Petting Zoo

Noon-8 p.m. -- Fowl Weather Friends

10 a.m.-10 p.m. -- Crop and flower exhibits

Corral

11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. -- Okamoto's School of Karate

11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. -- Stars Dance and Drill

11:45 a.m. -- Service High Cheer

Noon and 1:30 p.m. -- Underground Dance Co.

12:15 and 2:15 p.m. -- Palmer Dance Intensity All-Stars

1:15 p.m. -- Palmer High cheer

1:45 p.m. -- Wasilla High cheer

2 p.m. -- Arctic All-Stars

2:30 and 4:15 p.m. -- Alaska Pride Cheer and Tumbling

2:45 and 3:45 p.m. -- Colony Middle School cheer

3 and 4:30 p.m. -- Tae Kwon Do USA

3:30 p.m. -- Eagle River Rage

4 p.m. -- Arctic All-Stars

5 and 7 p.m. -- Denali Gymnastics and Denali all-star cheer

6 p.m. -- Arctic Gymanstics

France Equestrian Center

2 p.m. -- Alaska State Fair rodeo*

Craftsman House

Noon-6 p.m. -- Alaska Native art, crafts and demonstrations

Noon-6 p.m. -- Alaska Native storytelling, featuring Jack Dalton

Noon-6 p.m. -- Informational exhibits: Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Southcentral Foundation and Cook Inlet Housing Authority

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