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YOUNG AT HEART Day

Friday 29 August

Come and join AARP Alaska’s Mat-Su Community Action Volunteer Team for an exciting day at the Alaska State Fair! We’re celebrating the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act. Enjoy playing Plinko for a chance to win prizes, and if you’re 18 or older, you might even win a baseball or bat signed by the MatSu Miners! It’s all about cabbage today! Will they break a world or state record? Witness the spectacle of the 29th Annual Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off presented by Alaska Division of Agriculture and Alaska Grown in the Craig Taylor Farm Exhibit building, where the heaviest cabbage takes home the prize and maybe a world record. Check out the archery show with Sara Twister at the Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage and Purple Plaza as she combines amazing contortionist moves with precision archery. Explore the future at the Mat-Su Technical Education Showcase in the Event Hall. Feel the adrenaline rush at the Demo Derby in the MTA Grandstands, where powerful machines clash in a thrilling display of force presented by True North Recovery.


Event Date Venue
Matanuska Valley Federal Credit Union presents

Cirque Ma'Ceo

    • Aug 29
      1:00pmYellow Trail Lawn
    • Aug 29
      5:00pmYellow Trail Lawn

Yellow Trail Lawn

 

+ more
Classic Toys presents

Magic by Robbie

    • Aug 29
      12:30pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

Multiple Venues

 

+ more

Tim Hall

    • Aug 29
      11:30amAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

 

+ more

Naa Luudisk Gwaii Yatx'i

    • Aug 29
      3:30pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
    • Aug 29
      1:00pmThe Gathering Place
    • Aug 29
      2:30pmThe Gathering Place

Multiple Venues

 

+ more

Kage Free + Free Birds

    • Aug 29
      6:00pmThe Watering Hole

Multiple Venues

 

+ more

Chickaloonies

    • Aug 29
      3:00pmThe Gathering Place

The Gathering Place

 

+ more

Baker

    • Aug 29
      2:00pmSluicebox

Multiple Venues

 

+ more

Alaska Native Youth Olympics with Bernard Clark

The Alaska State Fair, Palmer, Alaska

    • Aug 29
      4:30pmThe Gathering Place

The Gathering Place

 

+ more

Sankofa Dance Theater

    • Aug 29
      2:00pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
    • Aug 29
      3:30pmThe Gathering Place

Multiple Venues

 

+ more

Glacier Blues Band

    • Aug 29
      5:30pmSluicebox

Multiple Venues

 

+ more
Alaska 529 presents

Puppy Pals

    • Aug 29
      1:00pmAlaska's News Source Corral
    • Aug 29
      3:00pmAlaska's News Source Corral
    • Aug 29
      5:00pmAlaska's News Source Corral

Alaska News Source Corral

 

+ more

Outta the House

    • Aug 29
      4:00pmThe Watering Hole
    • Aug 29
      6:00pmThe Gathering Place

Multiple Venues

 

+ more

Good Times

    • Aug 29
      1:00pmGlobal Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage

Multiple Venues

 

+ more

Alaska Treble Makers

    • Aug 29
      2:30pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

 

+ more

All About Dance

    • Aug 29
      5:00pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

 

+ more

Jeff Martin

    • Aug 29
      12:30pmGlobal Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage
    • Aug 29
      3:00pmGlobal Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage
    • Aug 29
      5:30pmGlobal Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage

Global Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage

 

+ more

Sara Twister

    • Aug 29
      1:30pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
    • Aug 29
      6:30pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
    • Aug 29
      3:00pmPurple Plaza
    • Aug 29
      5:00pmPurple Plaza

Multiple Venues

 

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4-H Large Livestock Showmanship

The Alaska State Fair, Palmer, Alaska

    • Aug 29
      11:00amCraig Taylor Farm Exhibits

Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits

 

+ more

Rhubarb, More Than Just Pie

    • Aug 29
      12:00pmHoskins Exhibits

Hoskins Exhibits

 

+ more

MSBSD Career and Technical Education Showcase

    • Aug 29
      12:00pmEvents Tent

Event Hall

 

+ more

Let's Make Soda Pop

    • Aug 29
      1:00pmHoskins Exhibits

Hoskins Exhibits

 

+ more

Gil Rodriguez

    • Aug 29
      2:00pmThe Watering Hole

The Watering Hole

 

+ more

Making Sauerkraut

    • Aug 29
      2:00pmHoskins Exhibits

Hoskins Exhibits

 

+ more

Lou Nathanson

    • Aug 29
      5:00pmThe Watering Hole
    • Aug 29
      2:00pmGlobal Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage

Multiple Venues

 

+ more

Chocolate Cabbage Leaf Bowls

    • Aug 29
      3:00pmHoskins Exhibits

Hoskins Exhibits

 

+ more

Double Bass

    • Aug 29
      3:00pmThe Watering Hole

The Watering Hole

 

+ more

VybeSlyce

    • Aug 29
      3:30pmGlobal Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage

Global Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage

 

+ more

Lisa Lisa & Those Guys

    • Aug 29
      3:30pmSluicebox

Sluicebox

 

+ more
Wonder Pax presents

Senior Joke & Story Telling

    • Aug 29
      4:00pmEvents Tent

Wineck Barn

 

+ more

Nick Hanson, Eskimo Ninja Warrior

    • Aug 29
      4:00pmThe Gathering Place

The Gathering Place

 

+ more

Pipeline Vocal Project

    • Aug 29
      4:30pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
    • Aug 29
      6:00pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

 

+ more
Alaska Grown, Alaska Division of Agriculture presents

29th Annual Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off

    • Aug 29
      6:00pmCraig Taylor Farm Exhibits

Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits

 

+ more
Alaska Farm Bureau presents

Max Sherrod Junior Cabbage Grower’s Award

    • Aug 29
      6:00pmCraig Taylor Farm Exhibits

Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits

 

+ more
True North Recovery presents

Demolition Derby

    • Aug 29
      6:00pmMTA Grandstand

MTA Grandstand

 

+ more

Free Will

    • Aug 29
      6:00pmThe Watering Hole

The Watering Hole

 

+ more
None presents

Alaska Balloon Bandits Shootout

    • Aug 29
      6:00pmFrance Equestrian Center

France Equestrian Center

 

+ more

Pushki Pickers

    • Aug 29
      7:00pmThe Watering Hole

Multiple Venues

 

+ more

Zedd

    • Aug 29
      7:00pmConocoPhillips Borealis Theatre

ConocoPhillips Borealis Theatre

 

+ more

Yachtly Crew

    • Aug 29
      7:30pmSluicebox

Sluicebox

 

+ more

America's First Corps Band

    • Aug 29
      7:30pmAlyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage

 

+ more

Nothin' But Trouble

    • Aug 29
      9:30pmSluicebox

Sluicebox

 

+ more

All events and times subject to change.

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