David L. Arnold, Ph.D. Retired Academic Climatologist & Interim Alaska Geographic-Murie Science & Learning Center Education Program Director Understanding historical variation and change within our global climate system since the advent of Earth’s modern atmosphere 400 million years ago provides an effective context within which to view modern climatic warming during the recent Holocene epoch. […]
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Michael Castellini, a UAF professor emeritus, will lead a pre-festival discussion around some of Arctic Fest’s themes. Other participants include Terry Chapin (ecologist, author, UAF professor emeritus), Da-ka-xeen Mehner (UAF art professor, director of the Native Art Center), Enei Begaye (Native Movement leader), Kristin Timm (science and environmental communication researcher), Bruno Grunau (NREL Cold Climate […]
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The UAF English Department’s Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Reading Series hosts writers Caitlin Scarano and Debbie Clarke Moderow for an evening of literary readings. Contact: Daryl Farmer at dlfarmer@alaska.edu […]
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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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The UAF Graduate School presents graduate students describing their thesis work in three fast, funny, and educational minutes! Free admission. […]
Featuring readings by writers of the “In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories” project: Susan Campbell Daryl Farmer Carolyn Kremers Debbie Clarke Moderow Jeremy Pataky Caitlin Scarano Brody Lane Shappell Literary reading director: Daryl Farmer Embark on a foray into the forest with the cross-disciplinary creators of In a Time of Change (ITOC): Boreal […]
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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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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. […]
Contact information
Arctic Fest Steering Committee
Anne Biberman
Former executive director, Fairbanks Concert Association
Elisabeth Balster Dabney
Interim 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 will take 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.
