Under :30 Sweet Sixteen Archive Exhibit (Out North Theatre) Anchorage

Out North Theatre Gallery (3800 DeBarr Road)
Free

Costumes, scenery, photos, scripts and more from past Under :30 productions http://www.outnorth.org/

Cross-Cultural Immersion Experience Wine and Cheese Informational Reception Palmer

Friday, 4:00 - 5:00p.m.
Colony Inn, Palmer

An opportunity for Job Corps staff to meet past participants of the Cross-Cultural Immersion Experience. The program is a great opportunity for staff to have a once in a lifetime experience to enhance their knowledge of Alaska Native cultures, perspectives and traditions in order to better assist rural students make their transition to postsecondary education in urban settings.

Contact Amber Matthews at (907)272-5338 or amatthews@akhf.org

http://www.roseurbanruralexchange.org/takewingalaska

Transforming Alaska History into a Play and Graphic Novel (Sarah Hurst) Anchorage

Thursday, 7:00p.m.
Ignite Anchorage conference, Snow Goose Theater
(717 West 3rd Avenue)
Free

Sarah Hurst to speak in a five-minute short during the Ignite Anchorage conference. She'll discuss writing a play about Alaska history for use in schools, and working with a team of Alaskan artists to turn it into a graphic novel. Presentation slides will show off some of the artwork.

The play and graphic novel are titled "A Native Lad" and consist of 17 short scenes from different eras going from the Alaska Purchase through to statehood, the discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay, the struggle for ANCSA and the rise to megastardom of the world's most famous Alaskan. The story is narrated by Benny Benson.

More information at http://www.igniteanchorage.com.

Money to Kill (Sheldon Museum and Cultural Center) Haines

Wednesday, 7:00p.m.
Sheldon Museum (11 Main Street)
Free

This presentation winds together three fascinating stories relating to Tlingit wealth and non-Natives: Louis Shotridge, the Whale House Artifacts, and the rise and fall of Klukwan Inc. This discussion is one in a series of discussions about the rhetorical history of conflict and reconciliation in the northern Lynn Canal. Daniel Henry facilitates this series.

http://www.sheldonmuseum.org/

Tribal Heroes and the Warrior Spirit (Larry Merculieff) Anchorage

Friday, 4:00 - 7:00p.m.
UAA Commons (http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/map/)
Free

Alaska Native tribes are committed to protecting, at the village level, the lands and waters upon which they depend for subsistence, culture, traditional language, and community wellness. To do this, tribal leaders have spent decades working to forge tribal self-sufficiency, self-determination, and healthy lands and waters so their cultures and communities can survive and thrive. Many tribal leaders have demonstrated a strong warrior spirit, fighting for and supporting tribal sovereignty, education, environmental integrity, children's wellbeing, and jurisdictional challenges with the State of Alaska and other organizations.

The next generation needs to know how great tribal leaders have dedicated their lives to lead their people through conflicts and challenges. These challenges include such daunting village problems as suicide, domestic violence, the sexual abuse of children, changing tribal political status, and threats to subsistence uses of and access to lands and waters. Listen and talk with tribal leaders as they discuss modern day challenges and draw upon their life experiences.

Learn about what tribes are, what they stand for, how they are working to protect our lands and waters, and how Alaska Native young people and emerging leaders can get involved in the struggle to protect their cultures.

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/difficultdialogues/youth-forums.cfm

Cross-Cultural Immersion Experience Application Deadline

Submit applications by Monday, 5:00p.m.
421 West 1st Avenue, Suite 300, Anchorage, AK 99501

The program is a great opportunity for Job Corps staff to have a once in a lifetime experience to enhance their knowledge of Alaska Native cultures, perspectives and traditions in order to better assist rural students make their transition to postsecondary education in urban settings. Applications available online at website below.

Submit applications to Trina Landlord: Phone (907)272-5321, Fax (907)272-3979, Email tlandlord@akhf.org

http://www.roseurbanruralexchange.org/takewingalaska

Not Yet! Alaska Voices Opposed to Statehood (KBBI Public Radio) Homer

Tuesday, 9:00a.m.
890AM Homer radio

This program uses contemporary Alaska voices to bring back to life the letters and opinion pieces from the 1950s of Alaskans who were opposed to the idea of Statehood. Apart from the well-known opposition by big business interests and others Outside, what is not well-known is that many Alaskans were deeply concerned that the Statehood Movement was going too fast and that the tax burden on the new state citizens would be too great. They voiced their concerns and complaints to members of congress, local groups and organizations, and especially to state newspapers. This program captures some of those voices in order to commemorate the whole picture of our state's journey in its achievement of Statehood.

http://www.kbbi.org

4 Visions for an Alaska Native Future: Potluck & Discussion (Larry Merculieff) Anchorage

Tuesday, 4:00 - 7:00p.m.
UAA Lee Gorsuch Commons Room 107 (3700 Sharon Gagnon Lane)
Free

Forum #3 in the "Warriors for a New Era" series. Food, discussion and laughter! Share your favorite village and city foods at this community potluck. Stay to listen to four guest speakers share what they think Alaska Native people need to know to ensure a strong future. Speakers include: Earl Polk (Yupik), Tina Woods (Aleut), Paul Ongtooguk (Inupiaq), and Larry Merculieff (Aleut). Listen and talk with tribal leaders as they discuss modern day challenges and draw upon their life experiences. Learn about what tribes are, what they stand for, how they are working to protect our lands and waters, and how Alaska Native young people and emerging leaders can get involved in the struggle to protect their cultures.

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/difficultdialogues/youth-forums.cfm

Teacher Cross-Cultural Immersion application deadline Anchorage, Fairbanks, Mat-Su

Submit applications by Tuesday, 5:00p.m.
421 West 1st Avenue, Suite 300, Anchorage, AK 99501

Apply for this wonderful opportunity for elementary, middle and high school teachers from Anchorage, Fairbanks and Mat-Su to gain first-hand experience about Alaska Native culture and rural life by attending a regional culture camp during the summer months. All costs including round trip airfare, camp fees, and college tuition are underwritten by the Rose Urban Rural Exchange. While being an ambassador for their school, this program offers teachers a unique opportunity to learn, work and play at an Alaska Native summer culture camp. The camp experience gives teachers insights into the Native people, their culture, their ways of teaching, learning and living.

Submit applications to Laurie Evans-Dinneen: Phone (907)272-5302, Fax (907)272-3979, Email ledinneen@akhf.org

http://www.roseurbanruralexchange.org/takewingalaska

Protecting Our Wild Foods: Let's Win this Food Fight! (Larry Merculieff) Anchorage

Tuesday, 5:30 - 8:30p.m.
Alaska Forum on the Environment, Marriott Hotel
(820 West 7th Avenue)
Free

Our spiritual, nutritional, cultural, educational, individual and community wholeness and survival has centered for millennia around the harvesting of wild plants, animals, and fish. The fight to protect our lands and waters, and the right to harvest those foods is, therefore, the fight for Alaska Native cultural survival. Many Alaska Native leaders avoid the term subsistence for this reason, as it fails to acknowledge the multi-dimensional role harvesting wild foods plays in Alaska Native cultures. Many laws, rules, regulations, and policies imposed by the majority are undermining village self-sufficiency, eroding traditional practices and cultures, and creating dependency on government support programs. Additionally, there are increasing pressures on fish, wildlife, and habitat from commercial and sports fishing, sports hunting, outdoor recreation, climate change and global warming. Listen to and engage with everyday Alaska Native warriors and leaders courageously facing these challenges, and learn what you can do to support and/or get involved in these efforts. Let's win this food fight!

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/difficultdialogues/youth-forums.cfm

Conversations, Readings, Discussions with Gary Holthaus (Island Institute) Sitka

Thursday, 7:00 - 9:00p.m.
Southeast Alaska Career Center (205 Baranof Street)
Free

Week 5 of a 6-week reading/discussion series facilitated by "humanist in residence" Gary Holthaus. This week's readings include "Introduction" and "Humiliation" from The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit.

For more information or to sign up for events, call (907)747-3794 or email island@ak.net

Screening "For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska" (Blueberry Productions) Anchorage

Tuesday, 7:00p.m. film screening
8:00p.m. panel discussion
UAA Wendy Williamson Auditorium (3211 Providence Drive))
Free

To celebrate Elizabeth Peratrovich day, UAA will screen the film "For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska" and host a panel discussion following the film. "For the Rights of All: Ending Jim Crow in Alaska" is the inspiring story of Alaska Natives who, through non-violent social change, overcame prejudice, disadvantage and blatant bigotry to win justice for all Alaskans. A blend of documentary and drama, with re-enactments, new interviews and rare historic footage and photographs, this one-hour film traces the remarkable story of Alaska's civil rights movement in a series of victories for citizenship, voting rights, school desegregation and freedom from discrimination won over the course of the 20th century - one generation inspiring the next. Panel participants include UAA Alumnus Jeffry Silverman, Producer/Director; UAA Alumna Diane Benson, Writer/Actor; Dr. Phyllis Fast, UAA Professor; Perry Eaton, Alaska Native Leader; Dr. Rosita Worl, Alaska Native Leader; and UAA Students.

More information at http://www.alaskacivilrights.org or call (907)550-8432

Conversations, Readings, Discussions with Gary Holthaus (Island Institute) Sitka

Thursday, 7:00 - 9:00p.m.
Southeast Alaska Career Center (205 Baranof Street)
Free

Week 6 of a 6-week reading/discussion series facilitated by "humanist in residence" Gary Holthaus. This week's reading is "Philosophy of Material Force" by Chang Tsai.

For more information or to sign up for events, call (907)747-3794 or email island@ak.net

Alaska Natives and the Land: The Legacy of Statehood (Alaska Native Heritage Center) Anchorage

Open Saturdays, 10:00a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Alaska Native Heritage Center (8800 Heritage Center Drive)
see website for rates

This interactive exhibit includes touchscreens with videos of Alaska Native Elders and a web site that will provide a view of the Statehood Act from an Alaska Native perspective, particularly as it relates to the relationship between Alaska Native people and the land. Through these exhibits, visitors will be able to explore the facts of land ownership and learn about the unique Alaska Native attitudes and cultural understandings about the relationship (spiritual, physical, and legal) between people and the land of Alaska.

http://alaskanative.net/

Living by the Tides, public discussion (Pratt Museum) Homer

Monday, 6:30 - 8:30p.m.
Pratt Museum, Lower-Level Gallery (3779 Bartlett Street)
Free

This community-wide event explores the ways that tides have shaped our local identities in kachemak Bay. Come share your stories of navigating and subsisting by the tides.

More information at info@prattmuseum.org

Steve LeVine - The Media and US Relations (Alaska World Affairs Council) Anchorage

Friday, 12:00p.m.
Hilton Hotel (500 West 3rd Avenue)
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

Steve LeVine covers foreign affairs and energy for BusinessWeek. He is based in Washington, D.C. Previously he was based in Central Asia and the Caucasus for 11 years - starting two weeks after the Soviet collapse through 2003. He ran The Wall Street Journal bureau for the eight-nation region, and before that covered it for The New York Times. From 1988-1991, LeVine was Newsweek's Pakistan-based correspondent for that country and Afghanistan. Before that, he covered the Philippines for Newsday from 1985-1988. He has published two books: The Oil and the Glory (2007) which tells the little-known story of the long, epic struggle for fortune, glory and power on the Caspian Sea, Putin's Labyrinth (2008), a profile of the Russia through the life and death of a half-dozen Russians.

For Reservations RSVP by Wednesday, 17th March to the Alaska World Affairs Council by telephone 276-8038 or by email to www.alaskaworldaffairs.org.

More information at http://oilandglory.com/ or http://www.alaskaworldaffairs.org/

Dr. Brian Fagan "Water: The Triumph of Gravity" (Alaska Anthropological Society) Anchorage

Thursday, 7:00p.m.
UAA Wendy Williamson Auditorium (3211 Providence Drive)
Free

Brian Fagan is Professor Emeritus of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and well known author of numerous books of interest to academics as well as the general public. This public address will take us on a journey through more than ten thousand years of human relationships with water. What lessons are there from the past for us in a world with finite water sources? Professor Fagan has the rare ability to tell exciting, factual stories about a wide variety topics, including climate, floods, famines, food, and ancient civilizations. He is considered to be an expert in communicating archaeology to students and general audiences.

More information at http://www.alaskaanthropology.org/

Barbara Slavin "The crisis in the U.S. media and the disappearing foreign correspondent." (Alaska World Affairs Council) Anchorage

Friday, 12:00p.m.
Hilton Hotel (500 West 3rd Avenue)
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

Part three of the series "The Media and US Relations". Barbara Slavin is former Assistant Managing Editor for World and National Security of The Washington Times and the author of a 2007 book on Iran entitled "Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S. and the Twisted Path to Confrontation." Prior to joining The Times in July 2008, she was senior diplomatic reporter for USA TODAY, responsible for analyzing foreign news and U.S. foreign policy. Beginning in 1996, she covered such key issues as the U.S.-led war on terrorism and in Iraq, policy toward "rogue" states and the Arab-Israeli conflict. She accompanied three secretaries of State on their official travels and also reported from Iran, Libya, Israel, Egypt, North Korea, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Ms. Slavin, who has lived in Russia, China, Japan and Egypt, is a regular commentator on U.S. foreign policy on National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting System and C-Span. She wrote her book on Iran, which she has visited seven times, as a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2006 and spent October 2007-July 2008 as senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where she researched and wrote a report on Iranian regional influence, entitled "Mullahs, Money and Militias: How Iran Exerts Its Influence in the Middle East."

For Reservations RSVP by Wednesday, 17th March to the Alaska World Affairs Council by telephone 276-8038 or by email to www.alaskaworldaffairs.org.

More information at http://www.alaskaworldaffairs.org/

Dr. Brian Fagan (Alaska Anthropological Society) Kodiak

Monday, 7:00p.m.
Alutiiq Museum Gallery (215 Mission Road)
Free

Brian Fagan is Professor Emeritus of the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) and well known author of numerous books of interest to academics as well as the general public. Professor Fagan has the rare ability to tell exciting, factual stories about a wide variety topics, including climate, floods, famines, food, and ancient civilizations. He is considered to be an expert in communicating archaeology to students and general audiences.

More information at http://www.alaskaanthropology.org/

Warriors for a New Era: Support for Emerging Alaska Native Leaders (Larry Merculieff) Anchorage

Friday, 5:00-8:00p.m.
Alaska Native Oratory Society Competition, UAA Library Room 307
Free

How can modern Alaska Native leaders draw from traditional Alaska Native worldviews and approaches to leadership to meet the demands of the modern corporate world? How can they nurture our Alaska Native young people to become strong and balanced leaders? Traditional Alaska Native leadership is guided by cultural values, ethics, protocols, process orientation, and rules for dialogue, discourse, and decision-making based on consensus. Western systems utilize Robert's Rules of Order and majority rule to make decisions in goal-oriented meetings. Traditional leaders were selected for their wisdom and balance as real human beings. Modern day leaders are selected based on their knowledge and abilities. Listen to corporate and non-profit leaders discuss their challenges as leaders of organizations structured to meet state and federal corporate laws and regulations while accommodating cultural and communal needs in the villages. Hear Traditional leaders discuss how culturally-based leadership practices can help address modern day leadership challenges. Become a warrior for a new era of Alaska Native leadership!

http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/cafe/difficultdialogues/youth-forums.cfm