Friday, Nov. 20, 8 p.m.
Fine Arts Building, Room 150

Come join us for a night of fun times, good laughs, beautiful harmonies, and awesome beat-boxing. The show will be in the UAA Fine Arts Recital Hall, Room 150, at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 20. Listen to UAA A cappella at its finest! Everyone is welcome to join us. Admission is free, though donations will be warmly welcomed.

For more information, please contact Kyle Yan at (907) 240-0944 or go to www.myspace.com/akchill.

Sunday, Nov. 22, 4-5:30 p.m.
Fine Arts Building, room 150

For ticket prices and information contact, CenterTix and/or UAA Arts Building Box Office. For more information, contact the Music Department at (907) 786-1575.

Friday, Dec. 4, 7-8:30 p.m.
Jitters, 11401 Old Glenn Hwy, Eagle River

Join us for readings, and eclectic music at 7 p.m. at Jitters in Eagle River, sponsored by the Alaska Quarterly Review. Live Music provided by Amy Lou, with Scott Elmore and Elise Gelbart.

The First Friday Series brings together vital, creative voices in the visual, performing and literary arts from the Anchorage area and across Alaska. Admission is free.

Illustrations from the Tale of Genji will be on display from Friday, Oct. 23 through Monday, Jan. 4 in the arc gallery on the first floor of the UAA/APU Consortium Library. This is an exhibition of imagery related to the first novel, written in 1008 in Heian Era Japan by Lady Murasaki.

This exhibit is sponsored by The Consular Office of Japan Anchorage Alaska and the UAA Departments of Arts and Languages. For more information, contact the Departments of Art (907) 786-1703 and the Department of Languages (907) 786-4030.

Friday, Nov. 20-Sunday, Dec. 6
Friday, Saturday 8 p.m.; Sunday 3 p.m.
UAA Mainstage Theatre, Fine Arts Building

The University of Alaska Anchorage Department of Theatre and Dance is delighted to present Christmas Belles, a new holiday classic and part of the wildly popular Futrelle sister trilogy of plays by playwrights Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten.

Set in Fayro, Texas (population 3,003), Christmas Belles tells the tale of a Christmas Pageant gone wild and is suitable for all ages. In this play, a well-intentioned holiday program spins out of control when squabbling siblings, a vengeful sheep, family secrets, a surly Santa and a reluctant Elvis impersonator collide – and food poisoning suddenly “Decks the Halls.” This hilarious but heart warming struggle over a misadventure-filled Christmas Eve brings "Joy to the World" to more than 100 live theatres across the nation this holiday season. And for good reason according to reviewer Dick Kerekes, "…if you enjoy frivolity and hilarity, and want something to bail you out of the Christmas blues, Christmas Belles will punch your ticket” and playwright Wooten says, “Unless you are dead, you’re gonna laugh."

In Christmas Belles the Futrelle sisters try to maintain a festive mood as they prepare for the town Christmas Pageant. Frankie is overdue with her second set of twins, Honey Raye is a bundle of nerves, and Twink has been doing time in jail for a little mishap with a bonfire and her newly ex-boyfriend’s collectibles. Add to the mayhem an ailing Santa, a vengeful sheep, a reluctant Elvis impersonator, and a family secret that emerges that just might derail the entire production. On top of everything else, for the first time in Fayro history, the pageant will be shown live on cable access television.

Hope and Jones were both raised in Texas and all three co-writers grew up in communities with disastrous church pageants that everyone pretended were “great!” Combining real personalities and real life pageant disasters, they elevate their tale to a gut busting drama that you can’t help but watch, relate to and enjoy. Jones, Hope and Wooten are enjoying the reputation of the most widely produced living comedic playwrights in America as well as the “dynamic new comedic voices of the American theatre.” Their reputation is well deserved: Wooten’s credits include writing and producing more than 400 episodes aired on network television, including four seasons of the classic series “The Golden Girls”; Hope is an award winning playwright; and Jones co-authored both Dearly Departed the play, and its adaptation for screen Kingdom Come. All three cherish their Southern heritage, through their works recalling the Southern lifestyle before the immigration of big box stores like Wal-Mart and Target and America’s relative homogenization.

Christmas Belles will be performed in the Main Stage Theatre of the UAA Fine Arts Building Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. from Nov. 20 through Dec. 6, 2009. Ticket prices are $10-$18 regular, and $7-$10 with discount (UAA student with current ID) by phone at 786-4849 or online at CenterTix.net.

Don Decker Disclosures: Arctic Surfaces and Undercurrents, Part II: The Drawings

Monday, Nov. 9-Friday. Dec. 4,M-F 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
UAA Fine Arts Building, Kimura Gallery

The University Wind Ensemble, conducted by Mark Wolbers, will present Suite Francaise featuring music by the French composers Roussel, Chaminade and Milhaud. UAA flute instructor, Dr. Laura Koenig, will be the featured soloist. The dates, times, and places of the free performances are:

• Tuesday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m. at Dimond High School
• Thursday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m. at Begich Middle School
  
• Friday, Nov. 13, 9 p.m. at Mears Middle School
  
• Wednesday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m. at West High School