As the Anchorage Downtown Partnership (ADP) says, good Alaskans know that a little cold air can’t stop a good time. And although the air wasn’t all that cold on Friday, good times were a go at the Bunny Boots and Burn Barrels party!
Category: Events
Celebrating @iloveanchorage
Friday night was the first Live.Work.Play I Love Anchorage event and, as the name suggests, was overflowing with love for our fair city. How could it not, when the event showcased all the photos posted to the I Love Anchorage Instagram account during the last 12 months?
1M Cups – Building communities one cup at a time
One Million Cups has come to Anchorage! If you’re not familiar with the concept, it’s an engagement program by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. Overall, it’s a great opportunity to enjoy a huge dose of creativity and inspiration while connecting with a community of brilliant thinkers who are the innovators, disrupters, and gritty dreamer-doers of Anchorage.
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Election Night Musings
It’s election night, and downtown Anchorage is vibrating with anticipation. The fate of Ballot Measure One and the opportunity to select the republican candidate for U.S. Senate make the primary particularly exciting this year. Decisions made today will determine the tone of the next couple months as well as the future of our state.
Heady stuff, politics and the power of voting.
Emergence at Anchorage Community Works
Tonight was my first visit to Anchorage Community Works. I was a super fan back in May 2013 during the Kickstarter campaign, but somehow timing just never worked out for me to visit. But, tonight was “Emergence,” the first annual fundraiser and art auction. A friend invited us, so off we went for an art-filled evening of fun!
Pop-up Party and Public Use Space
“Are you downtown by chance? We’re having a pop-up party at the 4th ave theater. With chalk!”
Happy Fourth of July!
Rainbow Lemon Tree on Lemonade Day
It’s Lemonade Day in Alaska! I stopped by the Rainbow Lemon Tree stand outside Skinny Raven to support some of Alaska’s youngest entrepreneurs (and also to indulge my love of lemon flavored anything).
Turning Two!
Today marks the close of the second year of GretchenLovesAnchorage, and I’m still so glad I finally had the guts to click “publish” for the first time back in 2012.
TEDx Inspiration
TEDx Anchorage was Saturday. This year, the theme was Community Reimagined: Harnessing the power of fun.