Events calendar.

• Author: Anderson, Tasha
• Position: Calendar

CORDOVA

17-18 Copper River Wild! Salmon Festival

Celebrate salmon and promote the health and sustainability of local salmon runs through art, music, road races, education activities, and delicious Copper River Salmon. Mt. Eyak Ski Hill, Noon to 10 p.m. copperriverwild.org

EAGLE RIVER

8-12 Bear Paw Festival

Friday's Teddy Bear Picnic, Classic Car Show, parade, Slippery Salmon Olympics, and the I Did-A-Duck Rubber Ducky Race. This year's theme is "Bear Paw Paints the Town." bearpawfestival.org

FAIRBANKS

12-26 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival

Sing, play, dance, paint, cook, learn, listen, relax, write, stretch, and watch. It's a multi-discipline study performance festival offering workshops, master classes, and performances, fsaf.org

15-18 World Eskimo-Indian Olympics

Indigenous people compete in traditional athletic games and celebrate through pageants, dances, and Native arts and crafts. Carlson Center, weio.org

22-26 Golden Days

Celebrate Fairbanks' golden past with Alaska's largest parade, sourdough pancake breakfasts, historic reenactments, beer festival, the Red Green Regatta, and rubber duckie mce.fairbankschamber.org/goldendays

GIRDWOOD

3-5 Forest Fair

Alaskan artists, hand-crafted items, exotic foods, and entertainers from all over Alaska. Forest Fair Parade Saturday, July 4 at 10a.m. Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. girdwoodforestfair.com

HAINES

7/30-8/2 Southeast Alaska State Fair

The fair includes a parade, exhibits, logging show, live music, horseshoe tournament, fun-run, kids' stage, amusement rides, Alaska vendors, food and entertainment, live animals, and puppet shows, seakfair.org

KETCHIKAN

7/31-8/2 Blueberry Arts Festival

Blueberry Pet 8c Doll Parade, best blueberry dish contest, art exhibit, fun run, vendors, slug weigh-in for the slug race, pie eating contest, babble of the bands, trivia contest, and the Gigglefeet Dance Festival, ketchikanarts.org

PALMER

24 Palmer Pride Picnic

Free picnic hosted by Palmer businesses and the City of Palmer with Palmer Pride hotdogs, farm fresh veggies, live music, and Citizen of the Year. Palmer Railroad Depot, 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. palmerchamber.org

SEWARD

4 Mount Marathon

Since 1915 1915, the Mount Marathon race has become iconic. Competitors race from downtown to the top of Mount...