Events Calendar
Events Calendar
Anchorage
AUG
9-11
Ink Masters Tattoo Show
The Ink Masters Tattoo show is a gathering for tattoo artists and body piercing experts to demonstrate their skills and provide their services to Alaska. There will be a free tattoo giveaway daily in addition to a plethora of body modification vendors, tattoo contests, and other activities at the Dena’ina Center.
inkmasterstattooexpo.com
AUG
17-19
Anchorage RunFest
RunFest started in the ‘90s as Humpy’s Marathon, transitioning into being called Big Wild Life Runs in 2008 until the fall of 2015, when the event adopted the name Anchorage RunFest “to lend more attention to our home site, Anchorage.” RunFest includes the 49K, a marathon, a half marathon, a 5K, the Anchorage Mile, and the Kids’ 2K.
anchoragerunfest.org
Coffman Cove
AUG
9-10
‘By the Sea’ Arts & Seafood Festival
The mission of the “By the Sea” Arts & Seafood Festival is to celebrate a marine-based lifestyle and to bring together gifted vendors and performers with local and visiting patrons. Events include the Lucky Ducky race, a lip sync contest, t-shirt design, Fish Poem Slam, fireworks, and lots of live music, good food, and vendors.
artsandseafoodfestival.com
Cordova
AUG-SEPT
30-1
Cordova Fungus Festival
Every fall the community of Cordova welcomes fungus-pluckers, lichen-lovers, and friends of the forest and sea for the Cordova Fungus Festival, hosted at the Cordova Center with excursions throughout the surrounding Chugach National Forest. Attendees will have opportunities to learn more about local mushrooms, participate in art and handcraft workshops, and celebrate mushrooms, salmon, and other wild harvested foods in a Wild Harvest Feast.
cordovafungusfest.com
Fairbanks
AUG
2-11
Tanana Valley State Fair
This year’s theme is “Love Is a Cattle Field.” It will feature Alaska produce and competitive exhibits, as well as commercial, craft, and food vendors in addition to rides, games, and live entertainment, all at the Tanana Valley State Fairgrounds.
tvsfa.org
AUG
9-18
Alaska International Senior Games
Alaska International Senior Games is the official Alaska state event of the National Senior Games, a national organization of athletes aged fifty and older. People compete in everything ranging from horseshoes and bocce, track and field, and swimming to mini golf, disc golf, or golf on Fairbanks’ best courses.
alaskaisg.org
Haines
AUG
17
Totem Trot
This event includes a 1/2 Marathon and 5K running/walking option. Participants of the 5K run or walk along a route that stops at more than a dozen totem poles carved by world famous artists in the Pacific Northwest Coast Native art style.
totemtrot.com
Healy
AUG
17-18
Denali Blueberry Festival
The Blueberry Festival takes place at Otto Lake in Healy and includes kids’ games, lake raft rides, a dunk tank, a barbeque, dancing, and music.
denalichamber.com
Girdwood
AUG
17-18
Alyeska Resort Blueberry Festival
A celebration of the lush blueberry season, this family oriented outdoor event features live music, berry picking, local arts and crafts booths, tasty blueberry treats, cooking demos, beer and wine garden, hiking and biking, chair massages,pie eating contest, and a blueberry creations contest, all at Alyeska Resort.
alyeskaresort.com
Hope
AUG
17
Mineshaft Grinder
This is the first annual iteration of the Mineshaft Grinder, a run/bike race that celebrates the prospectors who settled Hope and Sunrise. Contestants can run the 4-mile Quartz Grinder or 8-mile Silver Grinder or bike the 11-mile Gold Grinder, after which all are invited to attend the awards party at Creekbend Café.
kmtacorridor.org/mineshaft/
Ketchikan
AUG
2-4
Blueberry Arts Festival
Festivities include a pet and doll parade, blueberry dish contest, art exhibits, the annual Gigglefeet Dance Festival, fun runs, the slug race, community art project, beard and moustache contest, handmade boat race, and poetry slam, as well as vendors and live entertainment.
ketchikanarts.org
Ninilchik
AUG
2-4
Salmonfest
Every year more than 6,000 people turn the Kenai Peninsula village of Ninilchik into a city as families and friends fill the region with encampments full of music, food, fish, and love. Over the three-day weekend many of Alaska’s top food, crafts, art, and brews are available throughout the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds.
salmonfestalaska.org
AUG
16-18
Kenai Peninsula Fair
In addition to arts, crafts, and commercial vendors at the Kenai Peninsula Fairgrounds, the fair features a Fair Queen contest, the Backwoods Girl Competition, a photo contest to win a pair of XTRATUF boots, exhibits, live music, fresh produce, food, and more.
kenaipeninsulafair.com