Events calendar.

APRIL

ANCHORAGE

1-2 Cultural Awareness Workshop

A two-day workshop designed for organizations, businesses and agencies wanting to learn more about Alaska Native cultures so they can better serve their clients or employees. Cost is $200 per person. Call the Alaska Native Heritage Center at 330-8000.

2 Marketing Your Business on the Internet

Presented by the Small Business Development Center from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Cost is $25. Call 456-7232.

3-7 Girls' and Women's Nat'l. Hockey Championships

Some 50 teams from l1 districts from across the U.S. come to Alaska for the largest tourney ever held. Games in Anchorage and Eagle River. Call Terry Cochrane at 344-6036 or e-mail twcochrane@gci.net for schedules or other information. Also visit usahockey.com.

4-7 Great Alaskan Sportsman Show

Alaska's largest annual sports and outdoor show offers everything for the sports and outdoor enthusiast. Demonstrations and clinics are scheduled for various times. Held at the Sullivan Arena and Ben Boeke. Call 562-9911.

6 Challenge Alaska Ski-a-Thon

Ski all day and win prizes in this fund-raiser to help Challenge Alaska. Event begins at 10 a.m. Call 344-7399 or visit www.challenge.ak.org.

6 Todd Snider

Snider is a twangy singer-songwriter with a sense of humor. Show set for 7:30 p.m. at the University of Alaska Anchorage Wilda Marston Theatre. Call 800-478-7328.

6-7, 20-21, 27-28 Family Fun Weekends

Alaska Native Heritage Center offers a weekend of family activities that include Native dance lessons, guided village site tours, craft projects and movies. Open from noon to 5 p.m. Cost: $8/adults and $5/children (7 to 16 years). Call the Alaska Native Heritage Center at 330-8000.

7-May 7 Don't Dress for Dinner

A fast-paced French farce about double adultery and gourmet cooking that could only come from Cyrano's Off Center Playhouse. Shows start at 7 p.m. and are presented by Kokopeli Productions. Call 274-2599 or visit www.cyranos.org.

13 Scared Scriptless Improv

Anchorage's best-and only-improv troupe. Similar to the style of improvisational theatre performed on "Whose Line is it Anyway?" only more live. Scared Scriptless performs the second Saturday of every month at Cyrano's Off Center Playhouse, 413 D St., at 10 p.m. For more details visit www.ScaredScriptless.com.

13-14 New Trade Winds Multicultural Drumming Fest.

The beat of the drum draws Alaskan and Hawaiian Natives together for a resonating cultural exchange. At the Alaska Native Heritage Center. Call 330-8000 or visit www.alaskanative.net.

15-26 Athabascan Mask Carving Workshop

Learn the style and technique of Athabascan mask carving from master artist Kathleen Carlo-Kendall. For complete details and registration, call the Alaska Native Heritage Center at 330-8000.

19 Wings of Courage

A musical about the first African-American combat pilot who fought in World War I. The performance combines music, storytelling, drama and humor to show one man's determination to overcome discrimination in his life. Show set for 7:30 p.m. at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. Call 800-478-7328.

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