Nine high school students from across Alaska compete for the state Poetry Out Loud championship and for place in the national finals in Washington, D.C.

On this episode of Arts@360’s Alaska Originals we feature a band who blends psych-folk and hip-hop with classical themes. They’re an experimental chamber group that defies any notion of musical normativity. This is HARM.

Alaska’s prison population has grown almost three times faster than the state’s overall population in the last decade. About two out of three inmates released from prison return within three years. Lawmakers recognized a need for reform and in 2014 convened a commission of multidisciplinary experts to study the system. Now, members of that commission…

A band whose style was once described as “gospel rock futuristic electronica magic.”

A forum with people from the documentary “The Flying University” and experts in the field. The short film reveals a university class inside Juneau’s Lemon Creek Correctional Center that is led by Sol Neely, an English professor at the University of Alaska Southeast. Click here to watch the full documentary Interviews with inmates, former inmates,…

Inmates study literature and philosophy in a prison in Juneau, Alaska. This documentary offers a rare look at the classes inside the prison and the impact on students who participate in the program, which is called “The Flying University”. The program traces its roots to underground philosophy courses in the Soviet Union – the original…