Music
Colony Invitational
Colony High in Palmer has the only high school marching band in Alaska. Right now they're getting ready to travel to Indiana, where they will represent Alaska at the Grand National competition, the first time the 49th state has made an appearance at the event considered the highest-level high school marching band competition in the world. Bits and pieces of the program they have planned have been showing up at halftime performances, but at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, they'll present the whole 10-minute show -- which has Alaska as its theme -- for the public. Put on a jacket and catch the action at the Colony Football Field.
Dance
'Romeo' on the big screen
San Francisco Ballet's production of "Romeo and Juliet" will be shown at Century and Regal Tikahtnu theaters in Anchorage at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24. The classic love tragedy set to music by Prokofiev is presented by a 75-member company with principal dancers Maria Kochetkova and Davit Karapetyan in the title roles. Hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan of "Kelly and Michael" will introduce the performance and supply a little background. More big-screen ballet is on the way with the Bolshoi's production of "Giselle" screening at Century 16 in Anchorage and the Goldstream cinema in Fairbanks on Oct. 11.
Art
Ending at IGCA
Two exhibitions at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art will close on Sept. 26. "My Mother" is an invitational show curated by Esther Hong displaying work by 30 women reflecting their feelings about their mothers. "Broad Spectrum: Paintings from the Lowcountry and the Last Frontier" is a two-person show by partners Honor Bowman and Alex Waggoner putting in perspective the gap between Anchorage and Charleston, South Carolina.