Alaska B4UDIE Comedy Festival

Thursday-Sunday, locations throughout Alaska

The biggest comedy festival in Alaska wraps up its sixth year during the fest’s final weekend. It includes dozens of comedians, from national acts to the best of Alaska’s comedy scene.

The remainder of the fest will feature shows at Koot’s, The Broken Blender, The Whale’s Tail and Bear Tooth Theatrepub. Check the festival’s site for full schedules and ticketing information.

Welcome Home Alaska’s Olympians

5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday; Town Square Park, 544 W. Fifth Ave.

Anchorage and community partners will host this free event to welcome home the city’s 2026 Winter Olympians. Attendees will receive an official event poster to be signed by the Olympians at the event. There will also be food trucks, music and family-friendly activities.

Disney ’80s-’90s Celebration in Concert

7:30 p.m. Friday; 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; Atwood Concert Hall, 621 W. Sixth Ave.

This live stage show features some of the best Disney and Pixar hits from two iconic decades. There will be selections performed from “Toy Story,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Newsies,” “Aladdin,” “Tarzan,” “The Lion King,” “Mulan” and more. Tickets start at $39.

The Beat of Us

6-8 p.m. Saturday; Alaska Native Heritage Center, 8800 Heritage Center Drive

This celebration of World Drummers Day features famed bucket drummer Jared “Choclatt” Crawford and will blend local traditions with global grooves. Tickets to support the event vary in price from $15-$25, but there are a limited number of free Community Beat tickets available.

Emerging Voices

2:30 p.m. Saturday; Discovery Theatre, 621 W. Sixth Ave.

Alaska Dance Theatre, UAA’s Dance Program, West High’s DanceWest and East High’s Dance Contempo unite for this very special show. Tickets are $16, or $13 for 18 and younger.

Sink or Skim Pond Skim Celebration

3 p.m. Saturday; Hilltop Ski Area, 7015 Abbott Road

It’s $20 to enter this pond skim contest with the field limited to the first 60 sign-ups. A costume is required and the theme is party animal. Registration starts at noon and there’s an afterparty with Posterchild.

Bear Grillz

10:30 p.m. Saturday; Williwaw Social, 609 F St.

EDM favorite Bear Grillz hits the stage in Anchorage with local support from Saxafras and Hephay. General admission tickets start at around $34 with VIP options available.

First Friday

Anchorage Museum: Featuring a gallery talk on Iñupiaq and Eastern Siberian cultural belongings; the launch of the “Alaska Literary Field Guide” with speakers Nancy Lord and Marybeth Holleman; and the Planetarium show “The Incredible Sun,“ 625 C St. Free entry from 6-9 p.m.

Stephan Fine Arts: Featuring Kaitlin Vadla, Sierra Armstrong, Kara Oestgaard and Kelly Curtis. Plus live music by Pete Nolfi, 939 W. Fifth Ave., 5:30-10 p.m.

The Kobuk: Featuring Shannon Hartley, 504 W. Fifth Ave., 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Turnagain Ceramics: Featuring Christina Barber and Susanna Mishler, 1343 G St., 6-8 p.m.

IGCA: Featuring exhibits by Amy Meissner, Simonetta Mignano and the UAA Camera Club, 427 D St., 5-8 p.m.

Akela Space: Featuring artist Forrest Leo’s “The Venus Project, Vol. 1,″ 320 W. Sixth Ave., 6-9 p.m.

Sevigny Studio: Featuring Richard Rearick with live music by Steve Hendricks, 312 G St., 6-9 p.m.

Turnagain Brewing: Featuring Sara Allen of Laughing Lupine Studios, 7920 King St., 5-8 p.m.

Wildbirch Hotel: Featuring artist Crystal Worl, 410 W. Third Ave., 6-8 p.m.

Cyrano’s Theatre Company: Featuring author Sandy Harper, designer Rick Miller and Cyrano’s Theatre Company resident playwright Dick Reichman to celebrate the launch of Harper’s new memoir, “The Little Theatre That Could and Did,” 3800 DeBarr Road, 5-9 p.m.

Ravens Ring Brewing: Featuring Emily Rose Carman from Alaska Wild Rose Co., 12150 Industry Way, 5-8 p.m.

Disney’s 25th episode of season 13 aired in a salute to Alaska’s 100th anniversary on April 2nd, 1967.

The animated episode, named just that, “A Salute to Alaska,” aired a brief history of the state.

It also aired the final episode that Walt Disney opened and introduced, he had died five months earlier.

The episode was directed by Hamilton S. Luske and Ward Kimball, and was a mix of animation and archival footage depicting the purchase of the land, the state’s flag and wildlife such as Killer Whales chasing Sea Otters, fishing, and a recognition of the state’s finest aviators.

Walt finished the epicode saying, “That’s another story.” There would not be another human host on Disney for two decades.

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