Nine high school students from across Alaska compete for the state Poetry Out Loud championship and for place in the national finals in Washington, D.C.
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HARM
On this episode of Arts@360’s Alaska Originals we feature a band who blends psych-folk and hip-hop with classical themes. They’re an experimental chamber group that defies any notion of musical normativity. This is HARM.
Playboy Spaceman
A band whose style was once described as “gospel rock futuristic electronica magic.”
Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities 2016
Live broadcast of the Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities 2016 from the Juneau Arts & Culture Center. Thursday January 28, 2016.
How Childhood Sexual Assault Survivors Turned Trauma into Art
Alaska writers Vera Starbard and David Holthouse were sexually assaulted as children. Each of their stories has been turned into plays – Our Voices Will Be Heard and Stalking the Bogeyman. At this Forum@360, hear their incredible journeys of healing through storytelling, and the power of shattering the silence onstage. Storyteller Jack Dalton will also…
Ingenuity
Recorded on November 13, 2015, Writers’ Showcase: Ingenuity takes us all over Alaska from a floating house on the tumultuous waters of southeast, to a ragtag group of kids navigating their lives in rural Kenai. Writers are Melinda Moustakis, Ed Sasser, Vivian Faith-Prescott and John Straley. Actors are Donnie Gott, Brandon Demery and Frank Katasse.
Designing Innovative Spaces with 5468796 Architecture
A fascinating exploration of what it takes to design beautiful, functional, and economical spaces, with lots of examples and photos of past projects and stories of how great spaces came to be. Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic are architects and founding partners of Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture, established in 2007. In the past eight years the…
Yngvil Vatn Guttu with the Rob Cohen Trio
Yngvil Vatn Guttu doesn’t just make music. She makes music happen. Since the age of three, when she produced a note on a trumpet on her first try, Yngvil has been inexplicably attracted to the instrument. Little did she know just how much power it would exert over her. Nor just how much of that…
Writer’s Choice
This episode of Arts@360: Writers’ Showcase is open themed and takes us from the streets of Anchorage to a snowy mountaintop and explores addiction, passion, a new relationship, and love’s tipping point. This episode features: Justin Herrmann’s “Blessed,” read by Bostin Christopher. Taylor Ciambra’s “Filter,” read by Alicia Hughes-Skandijs. John Erben’s “Deluge,” read by Brandon…
Goldwing
Goldwing is an experimental country rock band based in Juneau, Alaska. With Ben Higdon on electric guitar, Dan Desloover on bass, and Clay Good on drums, vocalist and guitar player Dan Kirkwood writes songs drawn from personal experience in the vein of traditional American music. Goldwing’s style, once dubbed “space country,” is fit for the…