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SEALASKA HERITAGE DIGITIZES, POSTS CELEBRATION 1994 Video series shows seventh Celebration, more years to follow Dec. 7, 2022 (About Celebration) (Watch) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has digitized and posted online video of Celebration 1994. Celebration is a dance-and-culture festival first held by SHI in 1982 that has grown into the world’s largest gathering of the [...]

SHI EXPANDS AWARD-WINNING EARLY LITERACY PROGRAM TO ANCHORAGE Institute to partner with the Alaska Native Heritage Center Dec. 1, 2022 (Enroll) (About Baby Raven Reads) (Baby Raven Reads Books) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is expanding its award-winning early literacy program, Baby Raven Reads, to Anchorage through a partnership with the Alaska Native Heritage Center (ANHC). [...]

SHI TO SPONSOR LECTURE ON HISTORY OF THE T'AKDEINTAAN CLAN Free event to be offered in-person, virtually Nov. 17, 2022 Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a free lecture next week on the history of the T’aḵdeintaan clan. The lecture will be given by Tlingit Ken Kaax̱ḵaatuklag̱é Grant, who is the spokesperson for the clan [...]

SEALASKA HERITAGE DIGITIZES, POSTS CELEBRATION 1992 Video series shows sixth Celebration, more years to follow Nov. 16, 2022 (About Celebration) (Watch) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has digitized and posted online video of Celebration 1992. Celebration is a dance-and-culture festival first held by SHI in 1982 that has grown into the world’s largest gathering of the [...]

SHI TO SPONSOR PANEL DISCUSSION ON CONTROVERSIAL CLOSURE OF WALTER SOBOLEFF CHURCH, RECENT EFFORTS TO ATONE Event held in honor of Walter Soboleff Day Nov. 10, 2022 Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) next week will sponsor a panel discussion on the controversial closure of a Juneau church 60 years ago that was ministered by the late Tlingit spiritual leader Walter [...]

SHI OFFERING SCHOLARSHIPS TO MUSEUM, ART STUDIES STUDENTS Initiative part of vision to make Juneau Northwest Coast arts capital Dec. 5, 2022 (Apply) (Flyer) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) is offering scholarships to students majoring in art and museum studies under a program operated in partnership with the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) and the Institute of [...]

SHI TO RE-OPEN DOORS TO ALL SECOND-GRADE JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT STUDENTS FOR ARTS INITIATIVE Program part of partnership with Any Given Child Juneau, local group initiative Oct. 31, 2022 Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) next week will open the Walter Soboleff Building to all second-grade students in the Juneau School District as part of a national [...]

SHI TO SPONSOR LECTURE ON CO-PRODUCING ENVIRONMENTAL KNOWLEDGE WITH COMMUNITIES Free event to be offered in-person, virtually Oct. 24, 2022 (All Lectures) Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will sponsor a lecture on working with Indigenous communities to foster meaningful environmental research as part of its fall series. In his lecture, Co-producing Environmental Knowledge with Communities: Prospects [...]

SHI AWARDED GRANT TO EXPAND CAPACITY FOR ONLINE DIGITAL COLLECTIONS Oct. 19, 2022 Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) has received a federal grant to expand its storage capacity for online digital collections by more than 600 percent. The grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will expand SHI’s storage capabilities to manage more [...]