An Arts@360 special presentation of our Red Carpet Concert Series-short concerts that feature original music played on our arts, culture, and music office’s red carpet.
These ten concerts were recorded in one day in a tiny, third-floor room in the historic Alaskan Bar and Hotel during the 42nd annual Alaska Folk Festival in 2016.
The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation have partnered with U.S. state arts agencies to support Poetry Out Loud, a contest that encourages the nation’s youth to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation. This program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about their literary heritage.
After successful pilot programs in Washington, DC, and Chicago, Poetry Out Loud was launched in high schools nationwide in the spring of 2006 and has grown to involve millions of students across the country. Since 2006, the Alaska State Council on the Arts and its partners, including the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council, have provided a statewide Poetry Out Loud Competition.
The Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities honors the accomplishments and contributions of culture bearers in Alaska. The award categories this year are Distinguished Service to the Humanities, Alaska Studies Educator of the Year, Arts Education, Alaska Native Arts, Arts Business Leadership, Individual Artist and Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. We will also welcome our new State Writer Laureate and thank the outgoing State Writer Laureate.
Four esteemed Alaskan architects with decades of experience participate in a moderated panel discussion. Topics include the challenges and opportunities of building in the early decades of statehood, Alaskan architectural history, and the historical precedents that have shaped our notion of what constitutes appropriate design responses in a northern environment.
On this Writers’ Showcase, our writers and actors take us from a bar stool at Darwin’s in Anchorage, to a wolf hunt near the village of Selawick, and we hear a meditation on the sometimes transient nature of our state’s inhabitants.
Recorded Thursday, December 15, 2016.
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During Celebration 2016, KTOO Public Media, Trickster Company, and Kindred Post collaborated to produce the Red Carpet Concert: Celebration Sessions. We hauled a bunch of gear and our red carpet into studio shared by Christy NaMee Eriksen and Rico Worl and recorded 8 Alaska Native performances in one day. Here is a compilation of sessions for Arts@360.
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