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Calendar, Aug. 20-23

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Calendar, Aug. 30-Sept. 3

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Community calendar for Aug. 16, 2025

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Community calendar for Aug. 9, 2025

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Illustration by Clara Mooney

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Woven Peoples and Place: Fireweed jelly with Haida Botanicals

The land guides us in lessons if we lend our eyes and ears to hear it

Larisa Koenig, who left Wrangell as a young child in the late 1970s and now lives in Washington state, is the writer for a video production that focuses on a fictional tribe and Indigenous culture, with characters and experiences inspired by her own life. (Courtesy photo)

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Writer with Wrangell roots writes for show highlighting Native culture

As a child, Larisa Koenig experienced a vision of her grandfather being mortally injured during a totem raising…

Author Naomi Klouda poses for a photo in this undated photograph. (Photo courtesy of Naomi Klouda)

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Alaska’s glaciers cataloged in new dictionary

“The Alaska Glacier Dictionary” was published this May by Cardamom Press.

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Community calendar for July 26, 2025

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Native Youth Olympics athlete Nathan Blake performs an Alaskan High kick at the Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 70 Summer Solstice Music Festival on Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Ellie Ruel / Juneau Empire)

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Music festival celebrates summer solstice

Alaska Native Sisterhood Camp 70 hosts 10-hour fundraising event at Áakw Landing

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Community calendar of upcoming events

This is a calendar updated daily of upcoming local events during the coming days provided by the Juneau…

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Community calendar of upcoming events

This calendar is updated daily with notices of upcoming local events provided by the Juneau Arts and Humanities…

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Community calendar of upcoming events

This calendar is updated daily with notices of upcoming local events provided by the Juneau Arts and Humanities…

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Neighbors

Community calendar of upcoming events

This calendar is updated daily with notices of upcoming local events provided by the Juneau Arts and Humanities…

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Neighbors

Community calendar of upcoming events

This is a calendar updated daily of upcoming local events during the coming days provided by the Juneau…

Hannahadina Kuhnert leads a music procession during Juneau Juneteenth celebration at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library in 2023. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire file photo)

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Black Awareness Association hosts movie nights for Juneteenth celebration

June 19 is celebrated as an Alaska state holiday and a holiday for City and Borough of Juneau…

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Community calendar of upcoming events

This is a calendar updated daily of upcoming local events during the coming days provided by the Juneau…

The Marie Drake Planetarium is hosting an open house as part of First Friday in June. (Juneau Arts and Humanities Council image)

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Here’s what’s happening for First Friday in June

The launch of a publication featuring contributors from Juneau and Palestine, a group chant to singing bowls, and…

Leslie Ishii, Perseverance Theatre’s artistic director, is the winner of the 2025 Paul Robeson Award as well as this year’s Zelda Fichandler Award for directing. (Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation photo)

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Leslie Ishii recognized with national awards for arts, advocacy

Artistic director at Perseverance Theatre receives two honors this spring.

Axel Baumann films and Max Osadchenko captures sounds of Juneau Alaska Music Matters students performing a “Gratitude” concert at the Sealaska Heritage Institute Clan House on Thursday, May 8, 2025. The event was a wrapup performance after the film crew followed JAMM participants for two weeks as part of a feature-length documentary. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

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Filmmakers seek to share cultural lessons of Juneau Alaska Music Matters with a wider audience

Crew spends two weeks with students after following similar program in Texas for full-length documentary.

The Juneau Arts and Culture Center on Thursday, May 8, 2025. The center, as well as the adjacent Centennial Hall, are operated by the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

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JAHC gave up DEI under Trump’s threats, then lost its board chair and executive director. What’s ahead?

Arts nonprofit “trying to respond to other concerns in the community and learning from this,” interim chair says.