ART, EVENTS & MUSIC

THURSDAY

Storytime, 11 a.m., Douglas library. Details: 586-0434.

Pinochle games, 1 p.m. every Thursday, Juneau Senior Center. Details: Lee Ann, 463-6175.

Toddler Time Group, 3-4:30 p.m. every Thursday, Juneau Family Health and Birth Center. Free. Meet other families while your children get their “wiggles” out in our large activity room. Details: 586-1203.

Lecture: “Marine And Coastal Management In Abu Dhabi: Toward Sustainable Diversification” with Dr. Gerhard Kuska, 4:30-6 p.m., JAHC Gallery. Free. Sponsored by Juneau World Affairs Council. Details: 586-4223.

Juneau People for Peace and Justice weekly meeting, 5:15-6:15 p.m., Northern Light United Church. Everyone welcome. Details: Judith, 789-9229.

Press night open studio for wood and linoleum carvers, 6:30-9:30 p.m., The Canvas. Every third Thursday. Bring own supplies and use presses at The Canvas. $5. Details: 586-1750.

“The Blue Bear” pay-as-you-can performance, 7:30 p.m., Perseverance Theatre. Details: www.perseverancetheatre.org.

FRIDAY

Art As You Like It, 1:30 p.m. every Friday, Valley Senior Center. Details: Lee Ann, 463-6175.

Storytime, 11 a.m., Mendenhall Valley library. Details: 586-0434.

Organ concert, noon, State Office Building.

Fireside lecture: “The Great Waves: Tsunamis on the Gulf of Alaska and Inner Channels,” 6:30 and 8 p.m., Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center. Travel with National Weather Service Forecaster Joel Curtis around the Gulf of Alaska for a look at tsunamis, past and future. Details: 789-6635.

Dan Hopson’s classical guitar, 7-9 p.m. Baranof Hotel, 127 N. Franklin Street. Details: 463-6236.

“Singin’ in the Rain” Performance, 7 p.m., Juneau Arts & Culture Center. Benefit concert for Juneau Jazz & Classics. Tickets are $15 general admission. Purchase tickets online at www.jazzandclassics.org.

“The Blue Bear” performance, 7:30 p.m., Perseverance Theatre. Details: www.perseverancetheatre.org.visit or call the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council Box Office at (907) 586-ARTS, or at Hearthside Books.

Trash N’ Fashion Show, 7:30-8:30 p.m. Appropriate for all ages. $5. All proceeds go to support the publication of JDHS’ publication, The Ego.

SATURDAY

Coffee & Collections, 10:30 a.m., Juneau-Douglas City Museum. Featuring “The Sword and the Shield: The Defense of Alaska Aboriginal Claims by the Alaska Native Brotherhood,” a new publication by Peter M. Metcalfe with assistance of Kathy Kolkhorst Ruddy, Professor Stephen Langdon, UAA and Richard Dauenhauer. Free. Details: www.juneau.org/parkrec/museum or 586-3572.

Live Jazz, 6-9 p.m., Prospector Hotel. Live jazz by Tom Locher, piano, and Wayne Norlund, saxophone at TK Maguire’s.

Dan Hopson’s classical guitar, 7-9 p.m. Baranof Hotel, 127 N. Franklin Street. Details: 463-623

“The Blue Bear” performance, 7:30 p.m., Perseverance Theatre. Details: www.perseverancetheatre.org.

SUNDAY

“The Blue Bear” performance, 7:30 p.m., Perseverance Theatre. Details: www.perseverancetheatre.org.

TUESDAY

Sewing circle, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. every Tuesday, Valley Senior Center. Details: Betty, 789-7236.

Haiku on the street, noon-1 p.m. in front of the Canvas. With Christy NaMee Eriksen. Haiku are pay-as-you-can, suggested donation $5.75.

Stitch ’N Knit, 1 p.m. every Tuesday, Juneau Senior Center. Details: Lee Ann, 463-6175.

One Night Stand, 5-7 p.m., JAHC gallery. Featuring glass artist Tasha Walen. Details: www.jahc.org.

Adult craft night, 6-9 p.m., Thunder Mountain High School.?Individuals are encouraged to bring long overdue projects. Sponsored by Community Schools. Details: Joyce, 780-2073.

WEDNESDAY

“Write For Your Life” Group, 10-11 a.m. every Wednesday, Mendenhall Valley library. Share a journal, memoir, a letter or poetry. Details: Dixie, 789-2068.

Day of quilting, sewing and good fellowship, 10 a.m. every Wednesday, Resurrection Lutheran Church. Quilts donated to Lutheran World Relief. Details: 586-2380.

Senior ceramics, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. every Wednesday, Juneau Senior Center. Details: Betty, 463-6176.

Shgen George lecture, “Learning from Chilkat Robes,” noon, Alaska State Museum. First in the Andrew P. Kashevarov Memorial Lecture Series, to run Wednesdays through March 9. Free. Bring your lunch. Details: www.museums.state.ak.us.

Symphony at the planetarium, 6:30-8 p.m. Marie Drake Planetarium. Kyle Wiley Pickett will talk about Holst’s music and its connection to astronomy, followed by the planetarium show “The Stars Tonight” and a special presentation on our solar system. Free. Sponsored by Friends of the Marie Drake Planetarium.