Arts

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

Live broadcast of the Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities 2016 from the Juneau Arts & Culture Center.

Thursday January 28, 2016.

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Alaska writers Vera Starbard and David Holthouse were sexually assaulted as children. Each of their stories has been turned into plays – Our Voices Will Be Heard and Stalking the Bogeyman. At this Forum@360, hear their incredible journeys of healing through storytelling, and the power of shattering the silence onstage. Storyteller Jack Dalton will also join us later in the program to discuss the transformative power of art in dealing with trauma.

Jennifer Canfield hosts.

Recorded January 26, 2016

Recorded on November 13, 2015, Writers’ Showcase: Ingenuity takes us all over Alaska from a floating house on the tumultuous waters of southeast, to a ragtag group of kids navigating their lives in rural Kenai.

Writers are Melinda Moustakis, Ed Sasser, Vivian Faith-Prescott and John Straley. Actors are Donnie Gott, Brandon Demery and Frank Katasse.

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A fascinating exploration of what it takes to design beautiful, functional, and economical spaces, with lots of examples and photos of past projects and stories of how great spaces came to be.

Johanna Hurme and Sasa Radulovic are architects and founding partners of Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture, established in 2007. In the past eight years the firm has achieved national and international recognition, and its work has been published in over 150 books and publications. The Houston-based Rice Design Alliance recently stated that they ‘truly believe 5468796 to be one of the most talented young design firms worldwide.’

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Yngvil Vatn Guttu doesn’t just make music. She makes music happen. Since the age of three, when she produced a note on a trumpet on her first try, Yngvil has been inexplicably attracted to the instrument. Little did she know just how much power it would exert over her. Nor just how much of that power she would impart to countless others through her music, communal spirit, and love of life. Before the sounds of this spirited musician-composer began bouncing around the echo chamber of New York City, where she currently spends much of her creative time, they were skimming the icy expanses of Norway. Born in Oslo, Yngvil grew up surrounded by classical music—Bach, Händel, and Schubert were among the first composers to inform her burgeoning mind. In fact, it was Maurice André’s definitive traversal of the Haydn trumpet concerto, along with the classic strains of Louis Armstrong that inspired the balance of note-for-note, classical exposition and soulful elaboration to which she always aspires.