SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 2011
All events take place in Anchorage, Alaska. If you have questions about these events, please contact the sponsoring entity listed or Alaska Native Heritage Month Board Member Shyanne Beatty at SBeatty@knba.org.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2
Title VII Screening: "Reel Injun"
ASD Education Center
Blue Room, 5530 East Northern Lights Blvd.
12:15 pm- 1:15 pm
Mark your calendars! In celebration of Alaska Native/American Indian Heritage Month, Title VII will be screening landmark films examining Alaska Native culture and history every Wednesday during the month of November! Bring your own lunch and an open mind as we view and discuss these films. This will be a great opportunity to spark conversation and create a space for open dialogue! For more information contact Lauren Shutt, (907) 742-7867
Alaska Native Writers: Looking Back, Looking Forward
UAA Campus Bookstore
2905 Providence Drive
5:30 pm
To mark the 10th anniversary of Alaska Native Heritage Month celebrations, our panel looks at Alaska Native writers of the past, present and future. Panelists include Maria Shaa Tlaa Williams, Jeane Breinig, and Jack Dalton. What writers have inspired us? How do plays, poetry and prose by Alaska Native writers influence us personally and culturally? How do we encourage new writers and support those who wish to be heard? How can new media, from the graphic novel to YouTube, launch new writers? This event is sponsored with Alaska Center for the Book. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Carel Sturgulewski, carelben@gci.net
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Smithsonian Spotlight: Migrations
Anchorage Museum
12:00 pm
A talk by Anchorage Artist Gretchen Sagan. In her new solo exhibit at the Alaska Native Arts Foundation, Sagan explores the phenomenon of animal migration — particularly how it applies to humans. Sagan is the former art director of the Alaska Native Arts Foundation. In 2010, she won an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation. Included with admission.
UAA Kickoff Reception
Student Union Cafeteria
2905 Providence Dr.
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Featuring Marilyn Balluta to give the Dena'ina Blessing, Remarks by UAA Chancellor Case, Special Message by Margaret L. Brown, CIRI President and CEO, and UAA Student Leaders, Polly Andrews and Warren Jones; Sivuqaq Dancers; The Native Dress Review hosted by Native Student Council. Native foods will be served. This event is free and open to the public.
Sharing Traditions
UAA, Camai Room
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Celebrate Alaska Native and Native American cultures by taking part in this program that will offer the opportunity to listen to a guest Elder, learn from a guest artist, or complete an arts & crafts project. To find out what is happening each week call 751-7452. Sponsored by Residence Life & ANROP.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Gretchen Sagan’s Migrations Opening Reception
Alaska Native Arts Foundation
500 West 6th Avenue
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Come view Migration, a solo exhibit of artworks by Inupiat artist Gretchen Sagan. While the exhibition runs from November 4th to December 30th, there will be two opening receptions at the Alaska Native Arts Foundation, 500 W. 6th Avenue, on November 4th and December 2nd.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Alaska Native Film Festival – Sitka, AK
Sheldon Jackson Museum
104 College Dr., Sitka, Alaska 99835
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Sheldon Jackson Museum's Alaska Native film festival is a two day event celebrating Alaska Native art, history and culture. The film festival opens on November 5th with screening of Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson’s documentary "Nipaa Ilitqusipta - The Voice of Our Spirit" (2009) followed by Ellen Van’t Hoft’s "Finding Their Own Dance: Reawakening the Alaskan Alutiiq Arts" (2009). A selection of film shorts will be screened on November 19th including films by Anna Hoover, Nicholas Galanin, Sean Morris Andrew McLean and Princess Lucaj. This event provides an opportunity for the community of Sitka to gain exposure to Alaska Native films and emerging filmmakers from around the state in an intimate setting in our museum gallery. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact: Nadia Jackinsky, nadia.jackinsky@alaska.gov
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Movie: The White Dawn
Bear Tooth Theatre
1230 West 27th Avenue
Show Starting at 5:30 pm
This 120 minute movie is set in 1896, where three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Gradually they gain control with the Eskimo village and introduce gambling, booze, theft and their special variation of sex. In the beginning, the Eskimos accept it but slowly the cultural tension starts growing.
Native Arts Studio Open House
UAA, TEB2 (Behind Engineering Building)
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Artist in Residency, Donny Varnell, Haida carver will speak. Hosted by Alaska Native Studies and the Art Department. For more information call 786-4680.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8
Sophie's Stories
Z.J. Loussac Public Library
Storytheater, Level Two
4:00 pm
Sophie Mizak-Goozmer’s stories weave together the events and people from her Yupik upbringing drawing on facets of village and family life—foods, animals, work—blended with the humor and love between mother and daughter. Sophie Mizak-Goozmer has worked for the Anchorage Public Library for 36 years. This program is for youth ages 8 and up through adult.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
"Sewing Art of Siberian Yup'ik from Savoonga, Alaska"
UAA Lyla Richards Conference Room 103
12:00 pm- 1:00 pm
Faculty Senate Diversity Committee Brown Bag Presentation. UAA Arts Department guest presenter Dr. Hermina Din presents Sewing Art of Siberian Yupik from Savoonga Alaska.
Title VII Screening: "Nanook of The North"
ASD
Orange Room
12:00 pm- 1:00 pm
In celebration of Alaska Native/American Indian Heritage Month, Title VII will be screening landmark films examining Alaska Native culture and history every Wednesday during the month of November! Bring your own lunch and an open mind as we view and discuss these movies.This will be a great opportunity to spark conversation and create a space for open dialogue! For more information contact Lauren Shutt: 742-7867
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Sharing Traditions
UAA Camai Room
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Celebrate Alaska Native and Native American cultures by taking part in this program that will offer the opportunity to listen to a guest Elder, learn from a guest artist, or complete an arts & crafts project. To find out what is happening each week call 751-7452. Sponsored by Residence Life & ANROP.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Intertribal Gathering
Alaska Native Heritage Center
8800 Heritage Center Drive
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Celebrating the indigenous cultures of Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico and the Lower 48 states, enjoy the music, dance, stories and games of the Native peoples of North America and Oceana.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
Alaska Native Heritage Family Day
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center
625 C Street
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Alaska Native Heritage Family Day - Celebrate the rich culture and traditions of Alaska Native people. Tour the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center to learn more about Alaska Native cultures. Hands-on activities include creating paper Unangax hunting hats. Admission is free all day thanks to Wells Fargo.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Dr. Diane Hanson presents "The House On The Hill"
UAA Campus Bookstore
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dr. Diane Hanson presents The House on the Hill: New archaeological developments in the Aleutian.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Community Cinema - "We Still Live Here - Ās Nutayuneān" & "Parlez Vous Eyak
Out North, 3800 Debarr Rd, Anchorage
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
"We Still Live Here - Ās Nutayuneān" - 60 min - The Wampanoag nation of southeastern Massachusetts ensured the survival of the first English settlers in New England, and lived to regret it. We Still Live Here - Ās Nutayuneān tells the story of the return of the Wampanoag language, the first time a language with no native speakers for many generations has been revived in this country. Spurred on by an indomitable linguist named Jessie Little Doe, the Wampanoag are bringing their language and their culture back.
"Parlez Vous Eyak" - 8 min - Eyak was the first indigenous language in Alaska to be declared 'extinct' when its last Native speaker died 3 years ago. But in 2010, Eyak began being spoken once again with the help and inspiration of a young man from halfway around the world.
Following the films, "Parlez Vous Eyak" director Laura Bliss Spaan will be on hand to answer questions. As always, this event is FREE and open to the public.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Title VII Screening: "Qallunaat!"
Room 007 Central
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
In celebration of Alaska Native/American Indian Heritage Month, Title VII will be screening landmark films examining Alaska Native culture and history every Wednesday during the month of November! Bring your own lunch and an open mind as we view and discuss these films. This will be a great opportunity to spark conversation and create a space for open dialogue! For more information contact Lauren Shutt: 742-7867
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17th
Sharing Traditions
UAA, Camai Room
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Celebrate Alaska Native and Native American cultures by taking part in this program that will offer the opportunity to listen to a guest Elder, learn from a guest artist, or complete an arts & crafts project. To find out what is happening each week call 751-7452. Sponsored by Residence Life & ANROP.
ANPA November Gathering: What Does It Mean To Be A Young Native Professional
CITC Nat'uh Bldg.
Rasmuson Conference Rooms 3 and 4, 3600 San Jeronimo Dr.
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Many factors influence Native identity in complicated ways: urban/rural, tribal/corporate, shareholder/descendent, blood quantum/percentages, higher education and more. The November Gathering is dedicated to having conversations about how these factors affect our self perception as young Native professionals. Lunch is provided courtesy of the Tatitlek Corporation. RSVP to rsvp@anpa.net before November 15th. For more information, please contact Tiffany Flowers, tflowers@anpa.net
Native Values Series
UAA Native Student Services
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Henry Boucha, a Native American (Ojibway/Chippewa) US Olympic Silver Medalist, former NHL player, and US Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee will speak on Native Values, Lifestyle, Athletics, and Cultural Traditions. For more information call 786-4000.
"Attu, A Lost Village Of The Aleutians"
UAA Campus Bookstore
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lost Villages of the Aleutians, a project of the National Park Service's Aleutian-World War II program area, documents the history of four villages that disappeared because of the wartime relocations of their Unangan residents. The story of Attu, the most remote Unangan village, is particularly tragic. The Japanese military took the Attuans captive and held them on Hokkaido Island for the remainder of the war. Almost half of them died, and the U.S. government did not permit the surviving Attuans to return to their village. Instead, they were settled in Atka.
This presentation gives a preview of Nick Golodoff's Attu Boy, a memoir of his experiences in Attu, Japan, and Atka, and reports on plans for a boat trip to revisit Attu in the summer of 2012, 70 years after the Japanese invasion of Attu, with elders and descendants of the village.
"We Still Live Here - Ās Nutayuneān"
Airing on KAKM Channel 7
9:00 pm
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, KAKM Channel 7 will be airing "We Still Live Here - Ās Nutayuneān" (60 min). The Wampanoag nation of southeastern Massachusetts ensured the survival of the first English settlers in New England, and lived to regret it. We Still Live Here - Ās Nutayuneān tells the story of the return of the Wampanoag language, the first time a language with no native speakers for many generations has been revived in this country. Spurred on by an indomitable linguist named Jessie Little Doe, the Wampanoag are bringing their language and their culture back.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19
Alaska Native Film Festival – Sitka, AK
Sheldon Jackson Museum
104 College Dr., Sitka, AK
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Sheldon Jackson Museum's Alaska Native film festival is a two day event celebrating Alaska Native art, history and culture. The film festival opens on November 5th with screening of Rachel Naninaaq Edwardson’s documentary "Nipaa Ilitqusipta - The Voice of Our Spirit" (2009) followed by Ellen Van’t Hoft’s "Finding Their Own Dance: Reawakening the Alaskan Alutiiq Arts" (2009). A selection of film shorts will be screened on November 19th including films by Anna Hoover, Nicholas Galanin, Sean Morris Andrew McLean and Princess Lucaj. This event provides an opportunity for the community of Sitka to gain exposure to Alaska Native films and emerging filmmakers from around the state in an intimate setting in our museum gallery. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact: Nadia Jackinsky, nadia.jackinsky@alaska.gov
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
Title VII Screening: "Villagers In The City"
ASD Blue Room
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
In celebration of Alaska Native/American Indian Heritage Month, Title VII will be screening landmark films examining Alaska Native culture and history every Wednesday during the month of November! Bring your own lunch and an open mind as we view and discuss these films. This will be a great opportunity to spark conversation and create a space for open dialogue! For more information contact Lauren Shutt: 742-7867
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24
"Reel Injun"
Airing on KAKM Channel 7
9:00 pm
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, KAKM Channel 7 will be airing "Reel Injun".
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28
Jack Dalton’s “Stories of our People”
Cyrano’s Off Center Play House
7:00 pm
Jack Dalton will host an evening honoring the oral tradition STORIES OF OUR PEOPLE with guest story tellers from the Anchorage Native Communities. For more information, please contact Sandy Harper, cyrano@ak.net