Finding Our Shared Purpose

Understanding our accountability and responsibility to our communities.

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From Tautirut to Ch’dudnałyun

Growing a new instrument of healing

Essay by Ruth Łchav’aya K’isen Miller and Elissa Opfer (Winter 2023-24, FORUM Magazine)

Kate Morse leads tour of culverts

Bloom and Rust

Reflections on Alaska’s Blue Economy around Chugachmiut

Essay by Jessica Cherry (Summer 2023, FORUM Magazine)

Word Stitch

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Meet The Drumlin Poets And The Word-Stitch

Poems by Ray Ball, Eric Gordon Johnson, Vivian Faith Prescott, and Justine Pechuzal (Summer 2023, FORUM Magazine)

2022 Day of the Dead Celebration Anchorage

Mexican Ancestors Partying in the Snow

On Anchorage’s Day Of The Dead, Forebears Help Community Members Find A Chosen Family

Essay by Gabriela Olmos (Winter 2022-23, FORUM Magazine)

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Building Bridges Through Conversation

Humanizing Science And Scientists

Essay by Jessie Young-Roberston and Bob Bolton (Winter 2021-22, FORUM Magazine)

 

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Magnetic North: Ed Rasmuson

Magnetic North is a documentary film series that explores the personality and character of Alaskans whose actions and ideas have shaped the history, spirit, and values of our state. The films are written and directed by Marla Williams. Learn more about Magnetic North here.

 

Magnetic North: Roy Madsen

Magnetic North is a documentary film series that explores the personality and character of Alaskans whose actions and ideas have shaped the history, spirit, and values of our state. The films are written and directed by Marla Williams. Learn more about Magnetic North here.

 

Magnetic North: Vic Fischer

Magnetic North is a documentary film series that explores the personality and character of Alaskans whose actions and ideas have shaped the history, spirit, and values of our state. The films are written and directed by Marla Williams. Learn more about Magnetic North here.

 

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Forging Our Family

Guiding Question: How do we make our family, and who belongs in it?
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Homeless in the Great Land

Guiding Question: What do we expect from ourselves and our government when it comes to homelessness?

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Languages Barriers and Bridges

Guiding Question: How does language connect us? How does language divide us?

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Journalism and Community

Guiding Question: What's possible when community and media connect?

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Beyond Self: Engagement and Accountability in Community

Developed by Conversations Across Generations program alumni. Guiding question: where and how do you engage with your community? What does community mean to you?

 
Alaska Humanities Forum

The Alaska Humanities Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that designs and facilitates experiences to bridge distance and difference – programming that shares and preserves the stories of people and places across our vast state, and explores what it means to be Alaskan.

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