It's spring again, although it doesn't much look like it, and time for my favorite little beer fest, The Great Alaska Craft Beer and Home Brew Festival - aka the Haines beer fest -- all grown up.

The University of Alaska Southeast will host Community Day on Campus this Saturday, May 18, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Three different poetry events are scheduled for this week and next, all involving Woosh Kinaadeiyí, organizers of the monthly poetry slam in Juneau. First up, the monthly poetry slam and open mic, to be held Friday, May 17, at 6:30 p.m.

The Resurrection Lutheran Church Celebration Ringers will perform a concert on Sunday, May 19, at 7 p.m. at the church, located on the corner of 10th Street and Glacier Highway downtown.

Members of the cast of King Island Christmas, a musical based on a book by the late Jean Rogers, are in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for their trip to Scotland to participate in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Aug. 6-9.