Celebration 2012 begins Thursday morning with the grand entrance, led by the Xudzidaa Kwáan Dancers of Angoon. More than 50 other groups from Alaska, Canada and the Lower-48 will take the stage during the Thursday-through-Saturday event, which is Southeast Alaska’s largest Native cultural gathering.
Arts & Culture
New legislation to preserve Native languages
Gov. Sean Parnell has signed legislation creating an Alaska Native Language and Advisory Council.
Revisiting the 2012 Alaska Folk Festival
An audio slideshow of the Alaska Folk Festival, 2012.
Sitka Tlingit elder Isabella Brady passes away at 88
She advocated against racial discrimination and for integrating cultural studies in the schools.
Festival celebrates Buddy Tabor, Barb Kalen
Southeast Alaska lost two well-known and much-loved acoustic musicians during the past year.
Video: Tennessee jug band plays folk fest
Alaska Folk Festival guest artists The Tennessee Mafia Jug Band perform the song “Big Daddy” at Centennial Hall in Juneau on April 12, 2012.
JDHS Theatre selected for International Fringe Festival
The Juneau Douglas High School Drama Department has been selected to perform next year at the prestigious International Fringe Theatre Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Thomas calls for more cooperation between tribes and ANCs
Rural Alaska’s economic and social problems require greater cooperation between Native Corporations and federally recognized tribes, says Tlingit and Haida Central Council President Ed Thomas. “We have very weak rural economies, we have high cost of energy that leads to high cost of living, higher cost of survival in our communities,” he says. Thomas says…
New director hired for Alaska State Council on the Arts
Shannon Daut of Denver takes over from the retiring Char Fox.
Native corporations and cultural sustainability
Alaska Native Corporations display a strong ethos of corporate responsibility, according to an anthropologist who studies the organizations.