Rage City Rollergirls

It’s a FREEZE for ALL!

Come in from the cold and check out Anchorage’s hottest new sport: women’s live flat track roller derby! The Rage City Rollergirls presents their first bout of 2009 between the Sockeye Sallys and the Dirti Polli’s.

They’re mean, they’re tough; some call them frozen-hearted! But these rollergirls have enough spirit to jumpstart a car on a cold winter’s night.  It’s so entertaining, you’ll want to trade in your Sorrels for some Skates!

Rage City Rollergirls Presents
FREEZE for ALL!
Saturday, January 24, 2008
AT & T Sports Center (11051 O’Malley Center Drive)
Doors Open 6pm, Game at 7pm
Tickets $12 advance, $15 @ door
Festival Seating, Food & Beer Garden, Family Friendly
Season Passes & advance tickets: www.ragecityrollergirls.org

Movies for Your Mind

101 Reykjavík

Iceland 2000 comedy romance in Icelandic with English subtitles, 88 minutes.  MPAA Rating: Not rated (sexual content and nudity, violence and smoking).  Cast: Hilmir Snaer Gudnason, Victoria Abril, Hanna Maria Karlsdottir; Directed by Baltasar Kormakur.

The country has no trees. It’s dark most of the time, and the winters are the bleakest on Earth.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237993/

Review excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthman:
Dreamy, immature and stone-cold unemployed, Hlynur is an Icelandic slacker with a beauty of a sexual dilemma. At 28, he lives with his mom, doesn’t work and spends his evenings getting hammered in the local pub. After bedding a fiery flamenco instructor, he discovers that she’s his mother’s lesbian lover – - and may be pregnant with his child. So it goes in “101 Reykjavik,” a wonderful, cockeyed sex comedy from Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur. Set in the capital city of Reykjavik, where round-the-clock summer daylight induces all forms of excess and dysfunction, this is a throwback to British comedies of the ’60s (“Billy Liar, ” “Morgan”) about over-imaginative loners at odds with reality.

Anchorage Museum.

Special Exhibitions Reception

Featuring:

• FREEZE photography by children
• FREEZE Frame, a photography exhibition
• Photography by Zoe Strauss
• FREEZE ILLUSTRATED, a special exhibition of drawings and projects by students from the Anchorage School District about the north

International Gallery of Contemporary Art. FREE.

The Changing North

Presentations by:

• Margaret Manousoff, Outreach & Advocacy Coordinator at Alaska Conservation Solutions, will give a presentation on the causes and effects of global warming with a specific focus on the challenges and opportunities in Alaska. 11:00 – 11:30 am.
• Anne Jensen, a Senior Scientist for the Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corporation and National Science Foundation-funded researcher, will give a presentation on Barrow archaeology, which substantiates the long ties between local people and whales, and on the incorporation of local students in field and laboratory work. 11:30 am – 12:00 pm.
• Lunch break. 12:00 – 1:00 pm.
• FREEZE musical spot performance featuring Melissa Wannamaker. 1:00 – 1:15 pm.
• Leonard Piitkaq Apangalook, Sr., is a leader and whaling captain from the Yupik community of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. He has kept a meticulous daily weather journal for 20 years and, as a key contributor for the Sea Ice Knowledge and Use (SIKU): Assessing Arctic Environmental and Social Change project, produced daily logs on sea ice, weather and local subsistence activities in his community for the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 “ice years” for the 2007-2008 International Polar Year, an international effort researching the polar regions. Mr. Apangalook will discuss the effects of climate change in his region and his on-going work for SIKU. 1:15 – 2:00 pm.
• Larry Merculieff, an Unangax (Aleut) leader from St. Paul Island, will speak from the perspective of traditional hunters and Native elders on the subject of changes in the Arctic due to global warming. 2:00 – 2:45 pm.
• Coffee break. 2:45 – 3:00 pm.
• Jana Pausauraq Harcharek, head of Iñupiaq education for the North Slope Borough School District (NSBSD) will present a talk on the district’s language and culture-based projects. Debby Dahl Edwardson is the Director of the Center of Community and Workforce Development at Ilisagvik College and a member of the NSBSD Board.  Author of the bi-lingual children’s book Whale Snow, Debby will read from her book and talk about its making. 3:00 – 4:00 pm.
• Charles Wohlforth, author of The Whale and the Supercomputer, will present slides taken while traveling in the Arctic with Inupiaq whalers and scientists, as each culture struggled to understand and adapt to the fast-changing climate. 4:00 – 5:00 pm.

Anchorage Museum.  FREE.