The Brits and Their Telly

DATES ANNOUNCED!!!!

Friday/Saturday - May 11, 12 & 18, 19 - 7pm
Tickets: $7.50 regular, $5 students/60+/military
(Tickets available on Centertix beginning May 3 - or call to reserve your seat: 907.279.8099)

British Television Advertising Awards are back with wacky and wonderful ads you'll never see on your American TV. Join Out North for this popular annual celebration of British media creativity.

Third Friday Art Opening:

K N Goodrich: Recto-Verso

April 20; 5:30-7:30pm - Main Gallery
Free to the public

With this solo exhibit, K N Goodrich explores the symbolic potential of mirroring through architecturally based abstractions in pastel.

Exhibit runs through May 13.

Community Cinema: Strong

Tuesday, May 15th - 7pm
Free to the public

Join KAKM and Out North for Community Cinema for the free screening of this documentary from the Independent Lens Series.

Cheryl Haworth is a young woman with a big dream: to be the strongest woman in the world. As the 300-pound U.S. Olympic weightlifter prepares for Beijing 2008, she struggles with injury, confidence, and her place in a world where larger women are not readily accepted.

Poetry Parley: Featuring the work of Lawrence Ferlinghetti & local poet Brian Hutton

Wednesday, May16th - 7pm
Free to the public

B. Hutton is a performer, playwright, former Anchorage Press columnist and KNBA radio host. He has performed in a variety of Anchorage venues and organized reading series writing workshops since 1996. He is one of the youth poetry group V.O.I.C.E. and will be taking his own production of "20th Century Man/In their Own Words: Emma Goldman & Adolph Fischer" on a short Northwest tour in August.

Through the Eyes of Children - The Rwanda Project

Friday, May 18th - 5:30-7:30pm- Opening Reception
Main Gallery
Free to the public

This art exhibit is comprised of photos taken by Hutu and Tutsi children injured and orphaned during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. These are the culmination of four years of photographic workshops put together for the children living in the Imbabazi Orphanage in Gisenyi, Rwanda.

The slaughter of civilians by civilians in the Rwandan genocide occurred at a rate 3 to 4 times that of the Holocaust. Photography has served a key roll in the documenting of the atrocity and as a way to reunite children with their families - rarely has the power of the camera been in the hands of those affected most.

Exhibit runs through June 10.

c. Through the Eyes of Children: The Rwanda Project - www.RwandaProject.org

Augmented Inuksuk Project

Friday, May 18th
free to the public!

Please join us at Out North this Friday to view cutting-edge new media works by the amazing and extremely funny students from the Augmented Reality After School Program at Romig Middle School.

Out North Contemporary Art House and Romig Middle School received a cultural collaboration grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts to pioneer the first augmented reality after school art program for middle school students in the country. It was developed by Art House Resident Nathan Shafer and the Institute Speculative Media.

To view the works download the free Layar Application on your smart phone. Search for the layer called the AR Inuksuk Project. It is viewable in several locations around the city, with identical shows geo-located at both Out North and Romig.

There will be free popcorn.

Anchorage Music Co-Op Musician Showcase: Emma Hill

Thursday, May 24th - 7pm
$10 members/ $15 non-members

Come hear the honeyed voice, lonesome pedal steel and catchy, folksy Americana at the most intimate music venue in Anchorage. Hill has been bringing her brand of country-tinged folk to venues throughout North America and Europe since 2007 and is currently touring in support of her 2011 release, "Meet Me at the Moon", which charted worldwide. The album has garnered new fans with its in spired melodies, poignant harmonies, and remarkable lyrical insight. Emma Hill's music is intimate and confessional, recalling Jolie Holland, Kathleen Edwards, and other big-voiced, heart-on-the-sleeve songstresses. Fans of Red Molly and Easton Stagger Phillips will delight in her catchy, but understated, sultry twang. "Meet Me at the Moon" was released less than half a year after her break-out folk album, Clumsy Seduction. But releasing two albums in such quick succession should not come as a surprise from a young woman who founded her own label, Kuskokwim Records, and released three full-length albums when barely out of her teens.