Events calendar January 2016.

AuthorAnderson, Tasha
PositionPLAY - Calendar

Anchorage

JAN 11

ASO Stained Glass Concert

Presented by the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, this is an evening of chamber music featuring a piano, harp, and voice trio. First Covenant Church, 7:30 p.m. anchoragesymphony.org

JAN-FEB 14-7

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Kurt Vonnegut's only play. written in the 1970s, is hilarious, surreal, and thought-provoking. Cyrano's, Thursdays and Fridays 7 p.m.: Saturday 3 p.m. cyranos.org

JAN 17

Anchorage Wedding Fair

This fair is a one-stop solution for wedding arrangements, including gown collections, catering samples, information on venues, music, cosmetics, flowers, and more. Dena'ina Center, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. alaskabride.com

JAN 21-31

Anchorage Folk Festival

Performers fill stages at several locations in the city, including the main stage at Wendy Williamson Auditorium on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus. The festival includes shows, contests, classes, dances, educational workshops, and open jams. anchoragefolkfestival.org

JAN 23

Haggis Basher's Ball and Burns Supper

This supper is in honor of Scottish poet Robert Burns. The gala event includes a four-course meal, a carafe of scotch at each table, Highland Pipers, and dancing. Sheraton Anchorage, 6:55 p.m. tarbas.org

Anchorage

JAN 22-23

Great Alaska Beer b Barley Wine Festival

The festival features more than two hundred beers and barley wines from more than fifty regional brewers. Admission ticket includes a six-ounce commemorative testing cup, thirty samples, an ID band, and an official program. Egan Center, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. auroraproductions.net

Fairbanks

JAN 8-17

Clue: The Musical Based on the board game Clue, the plot of this play concerns a murder at a mansion, occupied by several suspects, that is solved by a detective: the ending is determined by cards drawn by audience members that select the murderer, murder weapon, and location of the murder, Salisbury Theater, Fridays and Saturdays 7 p.m.: Sundays 4 p.m. flot.org

Fairbanks

C Note Poker Tournament

JAN 30

Players get their names entered into the prize drawing pot with their initial buy in and with each "double your chips" or regular buy back in. Play and prizes continue throughout the evening. Final table players will be eligible for Alaska Airlines travel vouchers and more. Proceeds support the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra. Pikes Waterfront Lodge. fairbankssymphony.org

JAN 23

University of Alaska Museum of the North Open House

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