Published: January 7th, 2009 08:38 PM
Last Modified: January 7th, 2009 09:00 PM
film
International festival features Native cinema
The Alaska Native Heritage Center will open the Fifth Annual Indigenous World Film Festival with a free reception at 6 p.m. today. Meet the producers and directors of movies by and about Native people from literally A to Z, as in Alaska to New Zealand. Enjoy refreshments and groove to the beat of Alaska Native dancers. Select films will be screened until about 11 p.m.
The main event comes at 10 a.m. Saturday with ongoing showings of short films, full-length features, documentaries and Q&A sessions throughout the day. Home-grown offerings include "Yuut Yaqungviat" by Jacqueline Cleveland of Quinhagak (10:10 a.m.; get there early) and the much-acclaimed Sundance Film Festival hit "Sikumi" by Andrew Okpeaha Maclean of Barrow (6:45 p.m., after dinner).
Admission for Saturday is $9.95 adults, $6.95 children, ages 6 and under free. Get more information at www.alaskanative.net.
-- Mike Dunham
music
Anchorage lifts curtain on Italian elegance
Baroque music was basically invented in Northern Italy, where violin makers first figured out how to create instruments that could work together in a ensemble that didn't sound like a jug band. So who better to re-create that sound than a Baroque chamber orchestra from Venice? (the town with the canals and gondolas as well as Antonio Vivaldi's base of operations back in the day.)
Interpreti Veneziani presents polished performances on period instruments with a style that has awed crowds and critics alike. Its Anchorage performance in the Discovery Theatre includes work by Arcangelo Corelli, Vivaldi and other masters of the genre. The downbeat comes at 7:30 p.m. today, and tickets, $20-$40, are still available at centertix.net.
-- Mike Dunham
theater
'Libby' returns in statehood lineup
Russia had barely cashed the check from America when President Hayes sent Libby Beaman and her husband to check on the fur seal industry in the Pribilof Islands. Beaman kept a journal that, more than a century later, was turned into a one-woman play by Anchorage director, teacher and writer David Edgecombe. With Elizabeth Ware in the title role, the play had a good run in Anchorage some years ago then toured extensively in the U.S. and abroad.
Cyrano's (413 D St.) reprises the play starting tonight and running through Jan. 25. "Libby" kicks off a lineup of all-Alaska plays to celebrate the 50th anniversary year of Alaska statehood. Showtimes are 7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $15 to $17.50 at centertix.net.
-- Mike Dunham
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