2019 Rainforest Festival
Schedule
updated 8.31.2019 - download print version
Monday, September 2
8:00 am Rainforest Half Marathon
Starts and ends at Sandy Beach Park - walkers at 8am, runners at 9am,
contact 518-4334 for details
Thursday, September 5
12:05 -12:55 Brown Bag Talk: "Birds of the Baird Glacier"
Toby Bakos, US Forest Service
Petersburg Public Library Community Room
3:30 – 5:00 Kids event: "Show-Me-Saur and Make it & Take it Fossil Activity"
Linda Slaght, US Forest Service
Petersburg Public Library Community Room
7:00 – 8:00 Keynote Presentation: "Fantastic Beasts from Cruising the Fossil Coastline"
Artist and author Ray Troll
Wright Auditorium, book signing available afterward
Friday, September 6
12:05 -12:55 Lunch Brown Bag Talk: "Interesting Plants and their Associated Geology in SE Alaska"
Karen Dillman, US Forest Service
Petersburg Public Library Community Room
1:00 – 2:00 Field trip: Muskeg Plant Walk
Mary Clemens, Botanist
Meet at the ball field parking lot
2:30 - 4:00 Kids’ event: Ray Troll art workshop for ages 7-15
Petersburg Public Library Community Room, tickets available at 2pm, limit 35
5:00 – 7:00 Annabelle Baker Memorial Art show “Layers” reception
Clausen Memorial Museum
Show runs from September 6-27. Regular museum hours M-Sat 10 am – 5 pm
Saturday, September 7
9 – 4:30 Field Trip: Totem Bay, Little Duncan, Castle Island (sold out)
Jim Baichtal, US Forest Service
Limit 15, meet at Banana Point
10 – 12 pm Workshop: Art Workshop with Ray Troll for ages 16 and up
registration begins 8.31 8am at psglib.org, $45
Petersburg Public Library Community Room
12 -1 pm Pop-up art show featuring works from Ray Troll’s morning workshop
Petersburg Public Library Community Room
12 -1:30 pm Family Event: "Garnets and the Mitkof Island Garnet Mine"
Sal Cangliosi
Sandy Beach Park Shelter #1
1:30 – 5:30 Wild Things Basket making with Joan O’Brien, day 1: Field trip to gather supplies
Registration begins 8.31 at 8am at psglib.org, $70, max 12 participants, ages 16 and up
meet at Library to carpool
2:30 - 3:30 Kids event: "Climate Change - What we can learn from ice cores"
Joni Johnson, US Forest Service
Petersburg Public Library Community Room
6:30 – 9:00 Rainforest Wild and Local Tasting Event
Tickets $25 (75 available), ticket includes entrée, purchase $4 tokens for other “tastes”
No host beer & wine bar
Sons of Norway
Sunday, September 8
8 am – 2 pm Wild Things Basket making with Joan O’Brien, day 2: Making baskets
Petersburg Public Library Community Room – see above
1:30 – 2:30 pm Family Event: Rock-painting with Lauren Barbour
kids under 7 must be accompanied by an adult
Petersburg Medical Center Long Term Care solarium