Arts and Culture

Alaska’s first arbor day, remembered

Alaska’s first Arbor Day, rememberedJeff Barnard, chair of the Juneau Urban Forestry Partnership and a biologist with the U.S. Forest Service, will be telling the… Continue reading

April Audubon meeting highlights Auke Bay wildlife extravaganza

Are you among the many who watched the wildlife extravaganza at Auke Bay? Or did you miss it? Whales, seabirds, and other predators gathered at… Continue reading

Venus in Fur comes to Perseverance

Venus in Fur at Perseverance TheatrePerseverance Theatre presents Cyrano’s Theatre Company’s production of Venus in Fur, beginning April 13. This is a seductive, darkly funny… Continue reading

Exhibit of Northwest Coast art solicits applications from youth

Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor a new youth exhibit of Northwest Coast art during the biennial Celebration in an effort to increase the number of… Continue reading

Coaching Boys Into Men training for coaches

Coaching Boys into Men of Juneau congratulates the Juneau Douglas High School Crimson Bears Basketball Team on their State Championship win! Coach Robert Casperson, who… Continue reading

Members of the Tidelines Ferry Tour from left to right: Hoonah high schoolers Cecilia George and Mary Jack, artists Heather Powell, Michelle Kuen Suet Fung, Chantal Bilodeau, Allison Warden at the ferry terminal in Ketchikan.

Artists tour Southeast to explore experience of climate change

What does art have to add to our conversations about climate change?A lot, if you ask the members of the Tidelines Ferry Tour.“It’s a challenging… Continue reading

Members of the Tidelines Ferry Tour from left to right: Hoonah high schoolers Cecilia George and Mary Jack, artists Heather Powell, Michelle Kuen Suet Fung, Chantal Bilodeau, Allison Warden at the ferry terminal in Ketchikan.
The cover of this year's Tidal Echoes, a literary journal produced by students at the University of Alaska Southeast. Sitka master weaver Teri Rofkar is the featured artist. Pictured is part of her double helix robe, which highlights the special nature and DNA of Baranof Island goats. It's likely the first all mountain goat wool robe - and definitely the first all mountain goat Ravenstail robe - in more than 200 years, and is part of her "Tlingit Superman" series.

Tidal Echoes features Rofkar, Jensen in 2016

The newest issue of Southeast Alaska’s undergraduate-led literary and arts journal launches April 15, and features Ravenstail and spruce root basket weaving, thoughts on motherhood… Continue reading

The cover of this year's Tidal Echoes, a literary journal produced by students at the University of Alaska Southeast. Sitka master weaver Teri Rofkar is the featured artist. Pictured is part of her double helix robe, which highlights the special nature and DNA of Baranof Island goats. It's likely the first all mountain goat wool robe - and definitely the first all mountain goat Ravenstail robe - in more than 200 years, and is part of her "Tlingit Superman" series.
Vera Starbard has won a three-year, three-play writing residency at Perseverance Theatre, with the help of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alaska Native playwright Vera Starbard wins three-year writing residency

Alaska Native playwright Vera Starbard, who wrote “Our Voices Will be Heard,” produced this winter at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, and in Hoonah and Anchorage,… Continue reading

Vera Starbard has won a three-year, three-play writing residency at Perseverance Theatre, with the help of a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Fish Factor: Hatchery hauls, herring and Dan Sullivan

Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan has scored seats on nearly every Congressional committee that deals with issues on, over and under the oceans. That fulfills a… Continue reading

Fairy Carrie, by Wrangell artist Vivian Faith Prescott.

In the Works with Wrangell artist Vivian Faith Prescott

CCW: Do you have any particular creative routines or habits — favorite spaces to work, times of day, materials you use, music you listen to,… Continue reading

Fairy Carrie, by Wrangell artist Vivian Faith Prescott.

On Writing: Burn your Strunk and White

ON WRITING: BURN YOUR STRUNK AND WHITELook if you like, but you will have to leap. —W. H. AudenIt’s a late afternoon in February. I’m… Continue reading

Theo "FySH" Houck plays the ukulele in his backyard. Now 16 years old and a member of the duo CodFySHJoe, Houck performed solo at Folk Fest for the first time when he was just 12.

Folk Fest Performer Highlight: Theo “FySH” Houck

The first time Theo “FySH” Houck performed at the Alaska Folk Festival, he was only 12, and he’d moved to town less than a year… Continue reading

Theo "FySH" Houck plays the ukulele in his backyard. Now 16 years old and a member of the duo CodFySHJoe, Houck performed solo at Folk Fest for the first time when he was just 12.

Juneau Jazz and Classics celebrates 30th season

Juneau Jazz and Classics kicks off its 30th season on Friday, May 6, for two weeks of the nation’s best jazz, blues, and classical artists… Continue reading

Navy beans and ham is the perfect food to prepare after long weekend of hiking and not being mauled by a bear. Photo by Kelly Moore.

Meals with Midgi: Bacon snacks, bears and beans

Well, it’s finally happened. I actually went on a hike. Not a nice stroll on a trail, but an honest to goodness, bona fide hike.… Continue reading

Navy beans and ham is the perfect food to prepare after long weekend of hiking and not being mauled by a bear. Photo by Kelly Moore.

How to protect indigenous intellectual property: lecture two

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a lecture on preliminary findings stemming from research on indigenous intellectual property rights by a visiting scholar from Norway.In… Continue reading

Mi Vida en el Jardin

Esta en el aireUna luna derretiradaRespiro para dentroy no puedo exhalar... Estoy despuesta deAcariciar una sombraBesar la vaciedadAbrazar la obscuridadDuermo con un sueno... En el olor de… Continue reading

The book cover for "The Smell of Other People's Houses," by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock.

Review: The Smell of Other People’s Houses, by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

Ranking: 5 MooseThere’s a line in "The Smell of Other People’s Houses" in which one of the characters says “We don’t have to be blood… Continue reading

The book cover for "The Smell of Other People's Houses," by Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock.

Native Issues Forum: Empowering Tribal Courts

Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska will host a Native Issues Forum on the topic of empowering tribal courts from… Continue reading

Juneau’s heating revolution

juneau’s undergoing a heating revolution.Ground source heat pumps have been making their way into commercial and institutional buildings in Juneau starting with AEL&P’s new headquarters… Continue reading

Airlift Northwest to hold tours of new Juneau base

Airlift Northwest is opening its doors to the general public for a tour of its new hangar in Juneau. Visitors will get to see the… Continue reading