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Tlingit weaver Lily Hope works at the Sealaska Heritage Institute on a button design for a red wool skirt she is submitting for this year's Celebration Native Fashion Show. Hope worked alongside her aunt Deanna Lampe to create culturally-sensitive fashion that can be worn by Native and non-Native people alike.

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Haute couture with a Native voice

One beadwork design on an indigenous garment might take an artist 30 hours to complete. Really, the design…

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SHI to host internationally-known Irish dance group at Celebration

Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will host an internationally-known Irish dance group at Celebration as part of its ongoing…

An old tree stump provides new life at the Arboretum. Photo by Denise Carroll.

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Art in Unusual Places

The Capital City Weekly welcomes reader-submitted images of art in unusual or unexpected places. Photographers of all levels…

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Juneau homebrewers sweep Haines competition

HAINES — The 24th Annual Haines Craft Beer and Home Brew Festival homebrew competition went to three Juneau…

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On Writing: The sound of writing, Part 2

The word exists to speak the world, not to falsify it. —Joann Sfar, The Rabbi’s Cat. Once upon…

Amanda Filori's portraits of her favorite musicians will be  on display at KTOO for First Friday.

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First Friday listings

CELEBRATION 2016 STUDENT ART SHOW JAHC Gallery Juneau Arts & Culture Center Reception: 4:30–7 p.m. Sealaska Heritage Institute’s…

Sasha Morrison, 8, left, and her sister, Anita, 10, view a portion of artist Evon Zerbetz's glass dividing wall in the Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff State Library, Archives, and Museum. The children were taking part of a family day tour of the new facility. The building opens to the public on Monday, June 6.

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Inside the SLAM: Ancient (and ongoing) history; new and improved facility

Alaska’s got stories to tell. Some of them are in objects like mammoth tusks, wooden fishing boats or…

Jim Fowler, back center, poses with children next to a small library they decorated at the Geneva Woods housing complex Wednesday. Fowler has been helping youth with art projects since 1998.

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Jim Fowler retires after 18 years of teaching after school program

Juneau artist Jim Fowler has taught after-school art programs since 1998 through a collaboration between the Juneau Arts…

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Southeast sites flagged as dangerous for shellfish

On May 25, the shellfish samples collected by the Sitka Tribe of Alaska Environmental Research Lab to test…

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Juneau Symphony to hold Pops Concert

On June 11-12, the Juneau Symphony will hold its summer Pops Concert: A Tribute to the Film Score.…

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Free conference aims to prevent disease by preventing, addressing trauma

The Juneau Suicide Prevention Coalition (JSPC) will hold a two-day conference called “Adverse Childhood Experiences and Suicide: Learn,…

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SHI to unveil Juried Art competition winners, ‘Exemplary Works’ gallery

JUNEAU — Sealaska Heritage Institute will open its eighth, biennial Juried Art Show next week and give awards…

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SHI’s first Juried Art Youth exhibit to open

JUNEAU — Sealaska Heritage Institute eighth, biennial Juried Art Show opening next week will feature a new Juried…

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Community Impact Grant application period open

United Way of Southeast Alaska is now accepting Community Impact Grant applications. Up to $15,000 in Community Impact…

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Yakutat artist Alison Bremner to exhibit in Anchorage museum

A review panel organized by the Anchorage Museum recently has selected five Alaska artists to present exhibitions at…

Tequila-lime shrimp salad is an easy meal to make when you're tired but want something delicious. Photo by Kelly "Midgi" Moore

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Meals by Midgi: Tequila-lime shrimp salad beats exhaustion

I know I’m not the only one to ever utter or think, “Oh my gosh, I’m just too…

David McCasland, owner of Deckhand Dave's, is shown in front of his fish taco truck located behind the Downtown Library for the summer.

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Making Local Work: New fish taco stand opens in downtown Juneau

Deckhand Dave’s is giving Juneau locals a reason to brave South Franklin Street’s summer crowds. Juneauite David McCasland’s…

The salt chuck at Ernest Gruening Cabin in Juneau, painting by Patti Hutchens Jouppi

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In the Works with painter Patti Hutchens Jouppi

Capital City Weekly: Do you have any particular creative routines or habits — favorite spaces to work, times…

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Son updates father’s classic Southeast reference

If you don’t know the name Bob DeArmond, you don’t know Juneau history. DeArmond was one of the…

Gold Rush in the Klondike, by Josephine Knowles

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Book Review: Gold Rush in the Klondike

“Gold Rush in the Klondike,” written at the turn of the 20th century, tells the first person story…