Pamyua will perform at UAF Music Department’s Circumpolar Music Series Pamyua showcases Inuit culture through music and dance performance that takes traditional melodies and reinterprets them with contemporary vocalization and instrumentation. As they’ve developed their own genre – Inuit soul music – the Alaska-based group uses their music to share Indigenous knowledge and history. Three members […]
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Discover the north. Explore Arctic collections in galleries, try a collection challenge scavenger hunt, enjoy hands-on activities in the Family Room, and add to our collaborative Arctic landscape art wall. Included with museum admission. […]
Discover museum collections. Drop in to view cultural and historic items and meet the collections manager. Included with museum admission. […]
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SILA sovereignty stories, presented by Siqiniq Maupin. This event is part of the Arctic Fest Presentation Series, which explores life in the North as told by the people who live here. All presentations will take place in the Alaska Centennial Center for the Performing Arts in Pioneer Park. […]
Please join Gwich’in filmmakers, Princess Daazhraii Johnson and Alisha Carlson, as they speak to their experience being a part of the Season 1 of the Reciprocity Project with their short Gwich’in language film “Diiyeghanaii T’aii Tr’edaa”. They will also speak to the notion of ‘Narrative Sovereignty’ and why it’s so critical for Indigenous Peoples to […]
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Presented by Nicholas Parlato, UAF Center for Arctic Policy Studies This presentation introduces the emerging legal paradigm of the “rights of nature” (RoN), a justice-based movement that aligns with Indigenous rights to give “nature” legal standing and empower those with the greatest stake (cultural survival) to serve as its legal representatives. Distinct RoN regimes have […]
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Performance by Pamyua, Alaska’s own Inuit soul music group, with special appearances by the Celaire Singers, North Star Ballet, and AKU-MATU. Emceed by Allison Akootchook Warden. This is also the season opener for the Fairbanks Concert Association. […]
Green Marketplace Friday and Saturday, Sept. 2-3, noon-6 p.m. The Green Marketplace will feature Alaska artisan vendors, Alasked-owned businesses promoting and selling products focused on sustainability, Indigenous artists and makers, and educational and informational tables. The Green Marketplace is presented by the Northern Alaska Environmental Center. Innovation Hub Friday and Saturday, Sept. 2-3, 1-5 p.m. […]
Please join a celebration of the students, alumni, directors, and staff of the UAF Native Art Center in an exhibition of artwork for Arctic Fest. Opening Reception: Aug. 1, 5-7 p.m. Exhibit continues through Sept. 8 (M-F, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., closed Labor Day) The Native Art Center has been in existence since 1965 […]
Contact information
Arctic Fest Steering Committee
Elisabeth Balster Dabney
Executive director, Northern Alaska Environmental Center
Mary Beth Leigh
Professor of microbiology and arts-humanities-science integration, University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology
Arctic Fest acknowledges that the festival takes place on the unceded lands of the Lower Tanana Dene peoples. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging, and to their ongoing stewardship of their ancestral lands and waters.
