"An Amazing Gift of Curiosity": A Conversation About Storytelling with Filmmaker Rafael Bitanga
AKHF's Shoshi Bieler spoke with filmmaker Rafael Bitanga to learn more about why he tells stories through film and the people who have supported him along the way.
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Shoshi Bieler • December 24, 2024"An Amazing Gift of Curiosity": A Conversation About Storytelling with Filmmaker Rafael Bitanga
Shoshi Bieler • December 24, 2024“I Feel More Connected to Who I Am”: Introducing the Ilakucaraq Activity Guides
Students who know who they are and feel positively about their identities are more likely to graduate and successfully navigate life after high school. Read how "I Am" poems help support this conversation in Forum youth programs.
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Amanda Dale • December 19, 2024“I Feel More Connected to Who I Am”: Introducing the Ilakucaraq Activity Guides
Amanda Dale • December 19, 2024"Kids Need This and Deserve It:" Inside Thrive Together with Teacher Tara Devlin
Anchorage educator Tara Devlin shares about her experiences with Thrive Together, the Forum's first after-school program for students in Anchorage.
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Tara Devlin • November 25, 2024"Kids Need This and Deserve It:" Inside Thrive Together with Teacher Tara Devlin
Tara Devlin • November 25, 2024Reflections on the 2024 Governor's Arts and Humanities Awards Ceremony
Shoshi Bieler, AKHF's Director of Stories and Grants Programs, reflects on this year's Governor’s Arts and Humanities Awards Ceremony in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Shoshi Bieler • November 13, 2024Reflections on the 2024 Governor's Arts and Humanities Awards Ceremony
Shoshi Bieler • November 13, 2024Partner Highlight: Juneau's Culture Rich Conversations
KTOO's Cheryl Snyder talks about "Culture Rich Conversations," a weekly radio program produced by two Forum Stories grantee partners in Juneau: KTOO Public Media and the Black Awareness Association.
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Cheryl Snyder • November 6, 2024Partner Highlight: Juneau's Culture Rich Conversations
Cheryl Snyder • November 6, 2024Why We Fund Projects that Get Alaskans Talking to Each Other
To celebrate AKHF's newest cohort of Dialogues Grants awardees, AKHF Director of Stories and Grants Programs Shoshi Bieler reflects on the process of designing the grants and how they reflect AKHF's mission.
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Shoshi Bieler • November 1, 2024Why We Fund Projects that Get Alaskans Talking to Each Other
Shoshi Bieler • November 1, 2024The Alaska Humanities Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that designs and facilitates experiences to bridge distance and difference – programming that shares and preserves the stories of people and places across our vast state, and explores what it means to be Alaskan.
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