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Quilts Needed

Quilts Needed

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Quilt Drop Off

Time: 5pm

Price: $-$$

Location: Sheldon Community Arts Hangar

Quilt entries needed for the upcoming December 13th, 2025 Quilt Show
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Laughing All the Way to the Brink

Laughing All the Way to the Brink

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Sunday, December 14th

Time: 3pm

Price: By Donation

Location: Sheldon Community Arts Hangar

Seven short plays by celebrated playwrights from around the world. While climate change is very serious, most of our plays are very not Proceeds go to the Susitna River Coalition. Suggested donation, $20
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Holiday in Whoville

Holiday in Whoville

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Friday and Saturday, December 19th and 20th

Time: 7pm

Price: $5-$12

Location: Sheldon Community Arts Hangar

Holiday in Whoville, an interactive dramatic reading of the Grinch holiday stories, comes to the Sheldon Community Arts Hangar for TWO nights, Friday December 19th and Saturday December 20th.
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KTNA Album Art Contest Submission Due

KTNA Album Art Contest Submission Due

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Submissions DUE: December 15th, 2025

Location: Sheldon Community Arts Hangar

KTNA is hosting an Album Art Recreation Contest! Submissions are due on December 15. The art will be framed and hung at the Sheldon Community Arts Hangar for the month of January and there will be an Album Cover Dance Party on January 17th.  This will be KTNA's Annual Membership Meeting and Celebration and attendees will have a chance to vote on and/or purchase their favorite album art.
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Winter Plein Air Painting Class

Winter Plein Air Painting Class

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Nov. 18, 25, Dec.2,9,16,23, and Jan. 6,13,20,27

Time: 1pm

Price: $20

Location: Sheldon Community Arts Hangar

Led by 23-year-old English watercolorist Miles Bloomfield Join us most Tuesdays, starting November through January for an outdoor plein air painting in beautiful Talkeetna, AK!
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Ice Carving Workshop

Ice Carving Workshop

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Saturday, January 3rd, 2026 Sunday, February 8th, 2026

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm, 2:00-4:00pm

Price: $25

Location: Sheldon Community Arts Hangar

Professional Ice Sculptor, Tommy Salami will guide you through the intricacies of ice art. Tommy will be hosting two workshops: January 3rd and February 8th. Adult Workshop (ages 15 and up) from 11am to 1pm Youth Workshop (ages 10 to 15) from 2pm to 4pm
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76 Days Adrift

76 Days Adrift

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Saturday, January 3rd

Time: 7pm

Price: $10-$16

Location: Sheldon Community Arts Hangar

From Executive Producer Ang Lee comes 76 Days Adrift – a profoundly immersive documentary that plunges you into the heart of one man’s extraordinary survival story.
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Stained Glass Workshop

Stained Glass Workshop

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Saturday, February 21st

Time: 11am

Price: $140

Location: Sheldon Community Arts Hangar

This 6 hour workshop will be instructed by Debra Whaley. Debra has been a stained glass artist for 45 years. Participants will be able to choose between 5 different designs. All materials will be provided and participants will be able to take a completed stained glass project home.
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Seeking Story Submissions

Seeking Story Submissions

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Deadline April 15th

Location: Sheldon Community Arts Hangar

TALKEETNA, WE WANT YOUR STORIES! We’re creating a brand new show celebrating the strange, hilarious, heartfelt, and wildly Alaskan moments that only happen here. And we want YOUR true(ish) stories, the ones you tell at the Fairview, on the river, in the Hangar, or around a late-night campfire. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR - “Only in Alaska” incidents - Bar tales, trail tales, river tales, winter tales - Local legends and personal misadventures - Heartwarming, bizarre, chaotic, or just ...
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CONTACT

Denali Arts Council
PO Box 404
Talkeetna, AK 99676
Tel: (907) 733-7929
info@denaliartscouncil.org

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Sheldon Community Arts Hangar
Downtown Talkeetna, behind the Post Office
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
11:00 am to 3:00 pm

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