SHI will open its eleventh, biennial Juried Art Show and Competition next week during Celebration 2022 and give awards in five divisions.
SHI is accepting proposals from presenters for its fifth Culturally Responsive Education Conference,
SHI will sponsor an in-person, fun summer academy for high school students with instruction on science, technology, engineering, arts and math, an approach known as STEAM.
SHI has released a children’s book about the institute’s biennial dance-and-culture festival, Celebration, as seen from a young girl’s point of view. The book, Celebration, is pa
SHI has digitized and posted online a treasure trove of radio recordings that includes interviews with Native people across Southeast Alaska that date back nearly four decades. The collec
Sealaska Heritage will sponsor an in-person class in Juneau on how to harvest and prepare materials to weave baskets. Taught by Aanutein Debbie Head.
SHI will sponsor an in-person, fun summer academy for middle school students with instruction on science, technology, engineering, arts and math, an approach known as STEAM.
SHI will sponsor two storytelling intensives through its Voices on the Land — one virtual and one in-person for students entering grades 5-8.
SHI will sponsor two workshops in Juneau in May with Tlingit artist Donald Gregory on how to make copper tináas, an ancient symbol of wealth. Students will learn how to make one tináa pendant
Stikine area Tlingits, including Shx’at Ḵwáan (People Near the Mainland) and Kasitlan Dancers, will be the lead dancers for Celebration 2022. Learn the
Sealaska Heritage Institute will sponsor seven summer academies for students across the region who range in age from kindergarten to grade 12. The
SHI is seeking proposals from artists to create illustrations for Alaska Native children’s books with a focus on heritage languages.
SHI sponsored a lecture in April on the varying methods Native people and governments define who is Indigenous and the ways those policies are increasingly affecting young people. In
Sealaska Heritage will hold an in-person Celebration in Juneau from June 8-11 in 2022. The trustees also chose the theme Celebration 2022: Celebrating 10,000 Years of Cultural Survival.