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Alaska Theater Festival Hosts Climate Fair for a Cool Planet
Alaska Theater Festival will host Climate Fair for a Cool Planet next month. The event will take place on Saturday, July 26, 2025 at Mayor Bill Overstreet Park (The Whale). Tickets are free, but donations welcome. Join Theater Alaska for Climate Fair for a Cool Planet, a free, family-friendly...
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Summer solstice brings a variety of music offerings around Juneau
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: The band Middle Names headlines a solstice concert at The Crystal Saloon, Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) and Alaska Native Brotherhood (ANB) Camp 70 offer full day solstice music festival at Aak’w Landing, Juneau Commission on Aging on upcoming events, and Juneau Audubon offers final summer bird walk this Saturday.
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Trail Blazers: Jessie Herman-Haywood
For Jessie Herman-Haywood, snowboarding is more than a hobby — it’s a lifestyle. The Juneau-born Alutiiq artist and athlete has molded her life around her passion for the sport, chasing the flexibility and freedom needed to maximize her time spent sliding on snow. For Herman-Haywood, snowboarding culture was where she first experienced a sense of true belonging.
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Sealaska Heritage Institute asks for the public’s help in identifying people from Tlingit elder’s photo collection
JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - The Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is asking for the public’s help identifying people from a late Tlingit elder’s photo collection. “[Cyril George] got his first camera in the 1930s when he was at the Sheldon Jackson School,” a residential boarding school for Alaska Native children in Sitka, SHI Archives and Collections director Emily Galgano explained. “Ever since then, he just carried his camera around with him everywhere he went. Every party he went to, every dinner, every beach day, every trip they took, he was the guy with the camera.”
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Fishing Report: Sport Fish opportunities in Juneau-Douglas area
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Shakespeare’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and a 24-hour play event on tap for summer in Juneau
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: It’s theatre day with previews of two upcoming summer performances. First, Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is the summer offering from Theater Alaska, which begins June 26. Then, just in time for the solstice, “insomniACTS'” a 24-hour play project from Juneau Ghost Light Theatre in collaboration with Perseverance Theatre, next Saturday, June 21. And, Juneau Audubon Society previews the Saturday, June 14, bird walk in partnership with Southeast Alaska Land Trust at Sunny Point.
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Salt & Soil Marketplace, Dolly Dash, Contra Dance, and Hope/CBJ awards
On this episode of Juneau Afternoon: Salt & Soil Marketplace enters its ninth season of online farmer’s market, Dolly Dash fun run supports Dolly Parton Imagination, Juneau’s next Contra Dance is on Saturday, June 14, and Juneau Community Foundation announces Hope/CBJ Awards and is now taking applications for the Arts Vibrancy Endowment Awards (formerly the Individual Artists Awards).
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Sealaska Heritage Institute wants help identifying people in a late Lingít elder’s photo collection
In the basement of Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau sit thousands and thousands of photographs. They were taken by a Lingít elder who has since passed on, but for decades, he documented important events and everyday life. Now, the organization wants help identifying people and places in the photos.
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Opera Alaska: A Captivating Celebration of Opera Comes to Alaska Theater Festival
Alaska Theater Festival and Theater Alaska will present Opera Alaska: A Captivating Celebration of Opera this August. The event will take place on Saturday, August 9 at 7pm at Thunder Mountain Middle School Auditorium. Experience the beauty and power of opera in this unforgettable evening of music and movement. Opera...
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Roadtrippin’ 2025: Sentinel Island Lighthouse Tour
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Tongass Voices: Conservator Ellen Carlee on preserving the Alaska State Museum’s collection
This is Tongass Voices, a series from KTOO sharing weekly perspectives from the homelands of the Áak’w Kwáan and beyond. The Alaska State Museum in Juneau houses a collection of tens of thousands of objects, from canoes and plants to the state’s last publicly accessible theater organ. But how do you maintain all of those items? That’s conservator Ellen Carlee’s job.
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Roadtrippin’ 2025: Visiting Alaska’s oldest bar
JUNEAU, Alaska (KTUU) - Despite humble beginnings, the Imperial Bar in Juneau holds the title of being Alaska’s oldest bar. It looks a little different today than when it first opened over 130 years ago. “It started in 1891 as a bar,” bar manager Shelly Hurt explained. “But when...
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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Comes to Theater Alaska This Month
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare is coming to the Theater Alaska. Performances run June 26 - July 13, 2025. Tickets are free. Wit meets romance in one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies! When young lovers Hero and Claudio are torn apart by a scheming villain, their friends must rally to right the wrongs. Meanwhile, the sharp-tongued Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confronting their true feelings in a battle of wits and hearts. Full of clever wordplay, mistaken identities, and heartfelt moments, Much Ado About Nothing is a joyous tale of love, laughter, and redemption.
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Roadtrippin’ 2025: Going underground to discover Juneau’s gold mining history
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The Adventure that Time Forgot
Several months ago, I got wind of a powerboat adventure that I’d not only never heard of, but didn’t even realize was physically possible. It seems that back in 1968, a daring young couple had, over the course of 124 days, piloted Triumph II, a 20-foot, open-hulled Glastron 8,600 miles clear across the country—save for the Great Divide—from Juneau, Alaska to Key West, Florida.
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Psychedelica, Salmon, and Science: Welcome to Trollfest
Last weekend, Juneau gathered at Centennial Hall for Trollfest, a celebration of art, music and environmentalism inspired by the legendary artist Ray Troll. The post Psychedelica, Salmon, and Science: Welcome to Trollfest first appeared on The Alaska Current .
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SHI produces photo book to identify people, events in vast Angoon photo collection
Photo collection thought to be largest ever made by a Tlingit. (About the Donation) (About Cyril George) (Online Photo Book) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has produced a photo book to help identify people and events depicted in an expansive photo collection donated to SHI in 2020. The collection, which spans...
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SHI lecture to explore Indigenous law of the sea
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a presentation this week as part of its spring lecture series featuring prominent voices in Native knowledge, art, culture and language. ‘Wáahlaal Gíidaak Barbara Blake, an Ocean Conservancy vice president and longtime leader in Indigenous policy and governance, will present her talk, “Weaving the...
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SHI lecture to explore equity though personal narrative
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a presentation tomorrow as part of its spring lecture series featuring prominent voices in Native knowledge, art, culture and language. Da-ka-xeen Mehner, a visual artist known for his exploration of identity and power through personal narrative, will present his talk, “A Life of Creative...