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Arts & Culture
Y-K’s Facebook phenom helps kick off Arctic Council Chairmanship
A Tooksook Bay teenager who became a singing sensation on Facebook performed for ambassadors and Arctic VIPs at the State Department in Washington D.C. last week.
Juneau playwright gets national attention
Urban life has long drawn young people out of rural Alaska. Now art is imitating Alaska life in a first-time Juneau playwright’s new play.
Tribes, Forest Service partner on climate change research
At the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society Conference in Juneau this week, a panel of five discussed climate change and traditional knowledge.
Former Perseverance Theatre artistic director PJ Paparelli has died
During his tenure in Juneau, he directed or guided productions of “The Who’s Tommy”, “Hair”, “Hamlet”, “Twelfth Night”, and “columbinus” among others.
Cousin Curtiss: Live in the Arts Room
Cousin Curtiss played for us in the KRNN/KTOO/KXLL/360 North arts, culture and music office on May 15th, 2015. Check out his three tunes and hear about his new CD and upcoming tour.
Arctic adviser: Rigid regs worsen climate change impacts
Craig Fleener, Gov. Bill Walker’s special assistant on Arctic policy, says Alaska communities could better adjust to climate change if hunting and fishing rules become more flexible.
Self-determination for the future of Native game development
The goal is for indigenous gamers, developers, and designers to recognize their own potential.
Baby Raven Reads fosters next generation of Tlingit speakers
SHI Education Director Jacke Kookesh says the program creates “safe places for the language to be in the air and to be heard.”
‘Geek Girls’ promise concert for fans of science, Mr. T, Myspace
Tonight’s Geek Girls in Concert is “for fans of science, space travel, superheroes, Myspace, Mr. T, 007, penguins, Abraham Lincoln, Shark Week, Wikipedia and the Animaniacs.”