Atwood Concert Hall is the largest venue inside Alaska Center for the Performing Arts – the state’s foremost venue for live entertainment! Opened in 1988, the venue is named after Evangeline Atwood; a historian, activist, philanthropist, and co-founder of a number of Alaskan organizations, including the Alaska Statehood Association, the Anchorage League of Voters, the Alaska World Affairs Council, Parent-Teacher Council of Anchorage, and the Cook Inlet Historical Society, as well as co-founder of the Anchorage Times, alongside her husband Robert.