Movies For Your Mind

The Ice People

6 p.m., Anchorage Museum

France/USA documentary 2008, 77 minutes
MPAA RATING: Not rated.  Directed by Anne Aghion.

A once-in-a-lifetime journey with Antarctica’s 21st-century explorers
http://www.icepeople.com

From the official web site:
Unique in the genre of exploration and adventure films, ICE PEOPLE takes you on one of the earth’s most seductive journeys—Antarctica.  Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Anne Aghion spent four months “on the ice” with modern-day polar explorers, to find out what drives dedicated researchers to leave the world behind in pursuit of science, and to capture the true experience of living and working in this extreme environment.  And, as it turns out, the film also witnesses one of the most significant discoveries about climate change in recent Antarctic science.

Indigenous Film Festival

Presenting films from around the world, including Australia, Canada, Greenland, New Zealand and more!

See short films, full length feature films and documentaries throughout the day.

Alaska Native Heritage Center. Admission (wristband to come and go throughout the day): $9.95 adults, $6.95 children, ages 6 & under FREE, Members FREE.

See the festival schedule.

Dance Discussion & Workshop

Special Dance Discussion/Workshop by Gabrielle Barnett. Work with movement improvisation structures designed to bring awareness to our habits and choices of orientation — in relation to the space around us and other people. Learn a score that will be part of the afternoon performance along the Delaney Park Strip and through downtown to the Museum — workshop participants will be welcome to join that section of the performance. Appropriate for people of all ability levels — no dance training necessary.

Anchorage Museum @ 11 a.m.  FREE.  Register at info@freezeproject.org.

Public Opening for FREEZE Installations

Public opening for FREEZE installations on Delaney Park Strip (between E & I Streets), in Frontierland and Elderberry Parks, and outside Anchorage Museum,12-4 p.m., FREE

Delaney Park Strip

• 12:15pm:  Welcome by Dorothy Cook, President of the Native Village of Eklutna, and special ceremony at CK Architecture/Lita Albuquerque “Oil and Water” installation on the Delaney Park Strip near 10th Avenue and E Street.
• 12:15pm: Sound performance by Ethan Rose
• Special giveaway (near 10th and E):  Block heater timers courtesy of the Anchorage Department of Health and Human Services – free while supplies last.
• 1pm: Northern Writers’ reading featuring Joan Kane, Sherry Simpson, Scott Banks and others, with an open mic.
• 2pm: “Moving North” dance performance, which starts at the Delaney Park Strip and then heads north through downtown and to the Anchorage Museum. Led by Gabrielle Barnett with the performing group Co-Motion.  Made possible by the UAA Department of Theatre and Dance, the UAA International Polar Year program, and Atelier FreiForm.
• 12-4pm: Ski track open: Made possible by the Nordic Skiing Association

Elderberry Park

Opening of Kaamos installation by Black + White Studio Architects & Sonya Kelliher-Combs.

Anchorage Museum Plaza

Opening of ICEQUARIUM installation by Peter Briggs and Jonny Hayes.