Community Yoga classes on Sunday evenings in Porphyry Place, led by Stephanie Sever. $10-15 suggested donation, cash only please. All levels welcome. Mats and any additional equipment will be provided.
Come on down to an informal and weekly musical jam. Bluegrass-inspired but open to any style! Bring your instruments, songbooks and voices! All musical skill levels welcome. Meet in the Porphyry Place cabin on the WMC Campus, Tuesdays at 7 pm.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in the Kennecott Rec Hall, led by Katy Etterman and Meghan Seifert. $10-15 suggested donation, cash only please. All levels welcome. Mats and any additional equipment will be provided.
Celebrate our local author Michelle Latvala's first book, Between Latitudes, published this spring by Green Writers Press. Michelle will give a reading and be joined by Sabrina in conversation about the book's themes that arose out of our shared landscape. Followed by Q&A and book signing. This event will be held in Porphyry Place, is open to all, and we will accept cash donations.
Investigations of Place: A Sound and Writing Workshop
Join our Artists in Residence, writer Allen Braden and visual/sound artist Perri Lynch Howard, for their collaborative community engagement. Allen and Perri will open the event with a presentation on their personal projects and artistic works. We will then head out for a silent sound walk. Perri and Allen will provide us with guidance on how to listen more deeply to the sounds of place with curiosity and nonjudgement. We will then return to the OHWS to write poetic postcards inspired by the art of listening to place. All supplies provided.
Suggested donation: $10-$15.
Meet in the Old Hardware Store on the WMC Campus on June 21st at 1 pm.
Only THREE Word Jams this year, so mark your calendars! Join us for a night of open mic - WMC style - storytelling, poetry, song, comedy, skits, and any creative venture involving words. Come hungry! We will serve finger-style dinner by donation before the event. Check our socials for the menu!
Meet in the Old Hardware Store on the WMC Campus on June 22nd at 7 pm.
Come on down to an informal and weekly musical jam. Bluegrass-inspired but open to any style! Bring your instruments, songbooks and voices! All musical skill levels welcome. Meet in the Porphyry Place cabin on the WMC Campus, Tuesdays at 7 pm.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in the Kennecott Rec Hall, led by Katy Etterman and Meghan Seifert. $10-15 suggested donation, cash only please. All levels welcome. Mats and any additional equipment will be provided.
Join Charlotte Henson for an evening of dance!
These are simple, meditative, joyous circle dances that use sacred phrases and movements from all the world's spiritual traditions.
No experience is necessary and all dances are taught.
$10 suggested donation.
This three-part series will share the personal origin stories of featured guests, creating space for broader conversations about identity, belonging, and place. By reflecting on where we come from—and why it matters—this series will be a powerful way to build connection and deepen our understanding of the Copper River Basin as a place of both shared history as well as a deeply personal landscape. This month, our featured guest is long-time local, Steve Edwards!
Seven decades ago, Jim Edwards discovered a place to call home in McCarthy. Jim's original slideshow, presented by Jim's son Stephen Edwards, is a window into his life as a homesteader, surveyor and father from the 1950's to the 2000's.
Meet in Porphyry Place cabin on the WMC Campus on June 27 at 7pm.
Community Yoga classes on Sunday evenings in Porphyry Place, led by Stephanie Sever. $10-15 suggested donation, cash only please. All levels welcome. Mats and any additional equipment will be provided.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in the Kennecott Rec Hall, led by Katy Etterman and Meghan Seifert. $10-15 suggested donation, cash only please. All levels welcome. Mats and any additional equipment will be provided.
Come on down to an informal and weekly musical jam. Bluegrass-inspired but open to any style! Bring your instruments, songbooks and voices! All musical skill levels welcome. Meet in the Porphyry Place cabin on the WMC Campus, Tuesdays at 7 pm.
Community Yoga classes on Sunday evenings in Porphyry Place, led by Stephanie Sever. $10-15 suggested donation, cash only please. All levels welcome. Mats and any additional equipment will be provided.
Join Mike Loso, Wrangell St-Elias National Park Service Geologist, for an overview of the geologic history of the Kennicott Valley and an update on latest findings about the Kennicott Glacier. His talk is open to the public, and is aimed towards guides, interpreters, pilots, NPS staff, and others interested in learning more about local area geology and sharing it with friends and visitors. The presentation will be held at the Kennecott Recreation Hall. Suggested donation: $10-$20.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in the Kennecott Rec Hall, led by Katy Etterman and Meghan Seifert. $10-15 suggested donation, cash only please. All levels welcome. Mats and any additional equipment will be provided.
Come on down to an informal and weekly musical jam. Bluegrass-inspired but open to any style! Bring your instruments, songbooks and voices! All musical skill levels welcome. Meet in the Porphyry Place cabin on the WMC Campus, Tuesdays at 7 pm.
Community Yoga classes on Sunday evenings in Porphyry Place, led by Stephanie Sever. $10-15 suggested donation, cash only please. All levels welcome. Mats and any additional equipment provided.
Come run with us in America’s largest National Park, Wrangell-St. Elias, where epic views and adventurous people make the McCarthy half-marathon and 5 mile runs, unlike any other race.
Register online ahead of time or in person, beginning at 11 am at McCarthy River Tours & Outfitters (a.k.a As The Glacier Melts Coffee & Ice Cream Shop) on the West Side. Race starts at noon.
Spaghetti Feed: All-you-can eat pasta awaits you at the finish line! (Spaghetti feed costs included in your entry fee.)
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in Porphyry Place. $15 for drop. Cash only please! All levels welcome.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in Porphyry Place. $15 for drop. Cash only please! All levels welcome.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in Porphyry Place. $15 for drop. Cash only please! All levels welcome.
Join Charlotte Henson for an evening of dance!
These are simple, meditative, joyous circle dances that use sacred phrases and movements from all the world's spiritual traditions.
No experience is necessary and all dances are taught.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in Porphyry Place. $15 for drop. Cash only please! All levels welcome.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in Porphyry Place. $15 for drop. Cash only please! All levels welcome.
In 2023, the Storytelling Festival was a 3-day competitive event held at the Glacier View Campground on the West Side, the Old Hardware Store at the WMC, with the finalists performing at the Roadside Potatohead on the third night.
THIS YEAR, we are narrowing down the competition to ONE night, in the historic and magical Old Hardware Store. In addition to the competition we will be introducing new ways to engage with storytelling and new voices to hear from. We will include storytelling workshops along with a non-competitive night to hear from guest storytellers and our elders.
Making Place: Combining prints and words
Artists in residence, Tyler Thenikl and Sarah Gilman will lead a joint workshop on printing and illustrated poetry related to place.
Meet up to sketch together. No experience necessary! Local artist Kristin Link leads an informal art outing inspired by our natural surroundings. The group will meet and briefly introduce a theme for the day, then head outside to sketch together. Materials are available, but bring what you have to sketch with. If it is pouring rain, we will bring the outside world in and sketch indoors.
$15-$25, sliding scale
No need to register in advance - just show up!
Join us in the Great Room at the Old Hardware Store for a night of open mic - WMC style - storytelling, poetry, song, comedy, skits, and any creative venture involving words.
Revitalize your connection to the wilderness and your writing through this immersive weekend of nature writing and contemplative practices in the gorgeous landscape of McCarthy, Alaska. Together we'll deepen our writing practice as we turn our attention to the ordinary and extraordinary aspects of wild nature and human nature. We’ll be nourished by the unique forests, rivers, and mountains of Wrangell-St Elias National Park for inspiration, humility, and connection with ourselves and the more-than-human world. Facilitator, Michelle Latvala, will guide us in writing practices, nature practices, and embodied contemplative practices in order to write more deeply from the landscape and from ourselves.
Group Size: Max 15 (kept small based on nature of the workshop)
Hearty vegetarian meals served on the WMC campus (9am, 12pm, 5pm)
Michelle will provide a mixture of indoor and outdoor time, as well as walking and writing time. On each day, depending on weather and group, we may walk 1-4 miles over uneven terrain around McCarthy (trails, rocks, etc) to do some contemplative writing in the field.
Registration Fee: This weekend workshop is offered at $350.
Overnight accommodations are not included. We recommend participants arrive by Friday evening at the latest and depart Monday morning at the earliest in order to fully immerse themselves in the weekend workshop.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in Porphyry Place. $15 for drop. Cash only please! All levels welcome.
This is one of our most beloved art programs, a two-week artist residency program, an immersive creative experience in North America’s largest National Park. The Wrangell Mountains Residency Program aims to support artists of all genres, writers, and inquiring minds. We invite applicants with creative and inquisitive minds who will both add to and benefit from the interdisciplinary efforts at our community hub in McCarthy, Alaska and the surrounding Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. In 2024 we will host four residencies: June 5-19 and July 30 - August 13. Applications are now closed.
A part of our Summer Arts & Lecture Series: During this two day weekend event, participants will engage with the inspirational, cultural, and foundational relationships to place in the Wrangell Mountains through community discussion, and presentations in the arts and sciences. In collaboration with NPS, community discussion facilitated by geologist, Mike Loso, with special guest and Hereditary Clan Leader, Wilson Justin, featuring the artwork of Karolina Zakravska.
A part of our Summer Arts & Lecture Series: During this two day weekend event, participants will engage with the inspirational, cultural, and foundational relationships to place in the Wrangell Mountains through community discussion, and presentations in the arts and sciences. In collaboration with NPS, community discussion facilitated by geologist, Mike Loso, with special guest and Hereditary Clan Leader, Wilson Justin, featuring the artwork of Karolina Zakravska.
Join Charlotte Henson for an evening of dance!
These are simple, meditative, joyous circle dances that use sacred phrases and movements from all the world's spiritual traditions.
No experience is necessary and all dances are taught.
WISE (The Wrangell Institute for Science and Environment) teams up with the WMC for Geology Camp!
There is a high demand for this program — and it’s easy to see why. Some of the Copper River Valley’s sharpest (and silliest) youth (ages 12 and up) come together to learn from geology experts and observe first-hand the dynamic geology of the area.
From taking a tour of the Kennecott Mill to sleeping next to a glacier, it’s four days packed with learning and fun.
Join us in the Great Room at the Old Hardware Store for a night of open mic - WMC style - storytelling, poetry, song, comedy, skits, and any creative venture involving words.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in Porphyry Place. $15 for drop. Cash only please! All levels welcome.
Community Yoga classes on Wednesday evenings in Porphyry Place. $15 for drop. Cash only please! All levels welcome.
Meet up to sketch together. No experience necessary! Local artist Kristin Link leads an informal art outing inspired by our natural surroundings. The group will meet and briefly introduce a theme for the day, then head outside to sketch together. Materials are available, but bring what you have to sketch with. If it is pouring rain, we will bring the outside world in and sketch indoors.
$15-$25, sliding scale
No need to register in advance - just show up!
Join us in the Great Room at the Old Hardware Store for a night of open mic - WMC style - storytelling, poetry, song, comedy, skits, and any creative venture involving words.
