Festival Program
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Artists and art lovers of all ages are invited to a celebration of the arts sponsored by Alaska World Arts - offering live performances, workshops, discussions, films, and banters presented by local and worldwide artists.
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Summer & Fall 2026
Saturday, August 8
Saturday, May 23
8 pm & 10 pm
Stand-up Comedy Nancy Norton at Alice's
Champion of the Seattle International Comedy Competition.
Hilarious and high-energy, Nancy Norton delivers an intuitive, interactive, and sometimes dorky performance. This national headliner for clubs, festivals, and special events, Nancy draws from authentic raw material of everyday, authentic experiences, from world travels, and from being a native of the Ozarks. That said, Nancy has entertained USO troupes in Europe, Asia, Iceland, and the Pacific. Nancy expands on universal truths! She is the first female to win the Boston Comedy Festival. Her credits also include an Evening at the Improv on A&E and Amazon Prime, Nickmom Night Out on Nickelodeon, Super Dork on Dry Bar Comedy Special, and The Yellowish-Green Girl on PBS. This night of comedy will open with the delightful and quick-witted comedy of Angie Wellborn.
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
Alice's Champagne Palace
PURCHASE TICKETS
$34 + processing fees
Sunday, August 9
11 am -12:30 pm
Tromedy: The Power of Humor Workshop with comedian Nancy Norton
This workshop is aimed at parents, health care workers, social workers, restaurant workers, boat workers, teachers, politicians, and anyone who EVER encounters other human beings. Nancy Norton, RN, *CHP, is a retired 5th-generation nurse turned award-winning comedian. She hosts the Tromedy Podcast, which features peer-to-peer co-healing conversations about transmuting stresses and traumas with comedy and other artistic expressions. This standup comedian and keynote speaker employs insights gained from The Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor with her intuitive skills for healing and energizing.
Humor is not only a painkiller, it also boosts our immunity and our mood! If you could use a shot of uplifting inspiration, join Nancy in this hilarious, high-powered experience. Norton has performed comedy worldwide and nationally at the Boston Comedy Festival, an Evening at the Improv on A&E and Amazon Prime, on Nickelodeon, on Dry Bar Comedy Special, and on PBS.
*CHP = Certified Humor Professional from the Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor
Tromedy rhymes with Comedy!
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies
TICKETS
$20 + processing fees
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Saturday, September 5
8 pm
LIES & LORE - Storytelling with prize-winning fibbers and local fabricators
Enjoy an evening of entertaining tales by Alaskans and featured storytellers Anne Rutherford and Norm Brecke, with repertoires of coast-to-coast presentations of prize-winning lies. Alaskan storytellers joining them include Homer’s multitalented playwright, musician, builder, husband, father, and fabricator David Webster, and award-winning NPR commentator Geo Beach.
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
Alice's Champagne Palace
RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW
SUGGESTED DONATION
$19 Adult/$10 Child + processing fees
Sunday, September 6
2-4 pm
Story Generator® Workshop
Professional storytellers Anne Rutherford & Norm Brecke encourage you to bring your stories to life in this fun, highly interactive workshop. You’ll learn a simple process to generate real-life stories based on a particular theme. Through listener feedback you’ll discover the universal aspects in your story, resulting in a unique personal story that has wide audience appeal. Leave energized to tell your story, and with a sense of connection from hearing and enjoying the stories of others.
- Effective and accessible for beginning to seasoned storytellers.
- Useful for developing stories or themes set by Moth or Story Slam shows.
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies
SUGGESTED DONATION
$18 + processing fees
Fridays & Saturdays, September 12-26
8 pm
SingerElla ~ a classic fairytale with a local twist
This musical comedy, created by Sally Oberstein and Michael McKinney, loads the stage at Alice's Champagne Palace with Life on Stage, a troupe of fun-loving performers in this enchanting Alaskan version of the American classic.
After Ella’s father dies, her deceiving stepmother Cruella and stepsisters take over Cruella’s Cocktail Castle and treat Ella badly. The producer of Some of America’s Got Talent, who has arrived in Alaska to make someone a superstar, is visiting the open mics at Khartakers, Excuses, Downwind Saloon,
BLLT's Steakout, and the Briney Beagle (on the Homer Spit). Ella’s stepmother doesn't allow her to participate, but her fairy godfather paves her way. When the producer falls in love with Ella’s voice, he doesn’t know how to find her again because she was disguised when she sang. It's complicated...
ALL AGES WELCOME
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
Alice's Champagne Palace
195 E. Pioneer Ave. Homer AK
TICKETS
$25 + processing fees
Saturdays, October 3 & 10
7 pm - Doors open at 6:30
Comedy Improv with Prompt and Circumstance
Join Homer's own Prompt and Circumstance for two different, entirely unscripted, unrehearsed, audience-driven, fast-paced, high-energy live performances at Homer Council on the Arts on October 3 and October 10.
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
Homer Council on the Arts
SUGGESTED DONATION - $10.00
Tickets available at the door. NO RESERVED SEATING
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June
FILM SLAM PLAN - Lights, Camera, Action!
Calling Writers, Directors, Filmmakers, & Actors MEETING!
Encouraged by Katia Holmes
Join us live upstairs at Alice's for the festival's annual 48-hour Film Slam Plan – meeting. We invite writers, directors, filmmakers, actors, and crew to come together for this playful idea-sharing event. Plan to use your phone, DSLR, or camcorder to film a one to seven-minute-long silent or sound film. All ages, amateurs, and professionals are welcome. Bring your own crew or connect with others who come to participate. Filmmaker Katia Holmes will announce this year's theme, layout the rules, answer questions, and launch the event in Alice's upstairs lounge. Completed films will be due by 9 pm Sunday, June 21. Completed films will be shown to a curious and appreciative audience at the Porcupine Theater on Wednesday, June 24, at 7 pm.
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
Upstairs at Alice's Champagne Palace
FREE EVENT / No Registration Required
May
THE PIANO MAN: Billy Joel Tribute Concert with Andrew Vait (2 Show Times)
Celebrate the music of Billy Joel in this tribute performance by the accomplished musician and vocalist Andrew Vait as he recreates the multiple Grammy-winning legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's music on stage in Homer. Fans who love Billy Joel will be rocking in their seats and singing along with reminiscent tunes from “Piano Man," "Uptown Girl," "Just the Way You Are," "We Didn't Start the Fire," and "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me". Come share the love.
BEER & WINE WILL BE SERVED AT THESE TWO EVENTS
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
The Porcupine Theater
TICKETS
$40 + processing fees
June
48-Hour Film Slam!
Come fill the seats at the Porcupine Theater and witness the premiere of the short films created in our 48-hour film slam. Laugh, cry, applaud, and moan as a maniacal group of professional and amateur filmmakers, writers, actors, and directors preview their accomplishments. Encouraged by the enthusiasm of the talented filmmaker Katia Holmes. These short films promise to be an unusual assortment produced by brave creatives over a two-day period from concept to creation.
BEER & WINE WILL BE SERVED AT THIS EVENT
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
Porcupine Theater
$15 / Purchase at Porcupine Theater
July
Jazz and Blistery Ballads ~ Passionate French and International Music!
Paris Chansons is an exhilarating French band with an Eastern European twist punctuated with gypsy jazz standards as well as classics in Russian, Italian, French, Ukraine, and Moroccan influences. Three multilingual singers bring an unparalleled diversity to their shows. Superb musicianship anchors the ensemble, effortlessly moving from jazzy improvisation to slow-burning balladry to blistering gypsy fervor. Paris Chansons takes you on a journey without leaving your seat (except, of course, to dance!) with a spectacular celebration of international music that brings the world closer together.
WHERE IS THIS EVENT?
Alice's Champagne Palace, 195 E. Pioneer Ave, Homer, AK
PURCHASE TICKETS: $35. +processing fees
FREE WITH FESTIVAL MEMBERSHIP