Programs

The Forum designs and facilitates a wide range of programs that provide opportunities for individual and professional growth and reflection, cross-cultural immersion, and meaningful conversation. Participants practice and develop skills, strengthen their cultural competency, expand their networks, and activate ideas into action.

 
Organizational Directory preview

A directory to Alaska's cultural, social, and civic organizations.

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The Leadership Anchorage Alumni Award recognizes an LA alum.

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Shared conversations and experiences across differences.

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The Depolarizing Vaccine Conversations webinars offer background on research and recommendations for navigating challenging conversations about vaccines with coworkers, family members, friends, and acquaintances.

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Leadership Anchorage is designed to develop the skills, knowledge, perspective, and networks needed to be an effective and compassionate community member of our city, and our state.

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Magnetic North is a documentary film series that explores the personality and character of Alaskans whose actions and ideas have shaped the history, spirit, and values of our state.

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For 2023, Alaska Historical Society is coordinating Alaska History Day contest. Leanna Prax Williams (UAF) at lprax1@alaska.edu.

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The FORUM brings Alaskan stories to life through powerful images, articles, and interviews from communities across the state.

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Concrete tools for navigating polarized conversations with coworkers, family members, friends, and acquaintances, regardless of the topic.

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State of Humanities preview

The humanities explore enduring questions about who we are, what we believe, where we have been, what we value, and why.

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AK Next

AK|Next is a reflective, experiential program focused on developing leadership, cross cultural understanding, and connections between Alaskan youth.

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Conversations that ground us in our interdependence

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These interactive, experiential labs provide the opportunity to learn and practice techniques for guiding conversations and asking powerful questions.

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Ilakucaraq youth

Participants build confidence in their cultural identities and form a supportive community with other Native youth from across Alaska. Understanding culture as a source of strength helps students navigate life after high school.

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Alaska Salmon Fellows program is designed to facilitate demanding conversations about salmon issues among leaders from a cross section of salmon policy, management, industry, activism, research, and cultural sectors.

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The Forum’s Cross Cultural Programs bring people with different backgrounds together to deepen their understanding of others and themselves.

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The Governor's Arts and Humanities Awards is an annual event to recognize and honor noteworthy contributions to the arts and humanities in Alaska.

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Our transforming racism programs dig into connecting across differences and building the capacity to discuss race and racism in Alaska.

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Heather Lende

Recognizing the selected writer’s contribution to the quality of life in Alaska, the Alaska State Writer Laureate is a two-year honorary appointment to promote the literary arts and artists of Alaska.

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Take Wing Tengluni

Take Wing “Tengluni” is a partnership between the Alaska Humanities Forum and Calista Education and Culture, Inc. supporting high school seniors in the Kuspuk, Lower Kuskokwim, Lower Yukon, and Yupiit School Districts.

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Kindling Conversation group

Conversations and tools that strengthen community.

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Alaska teachers participate alongside Elders, culture bearers, local youth, and teacher-peers in cultural immersion and supportive gatherings, all under the structure of a university-level multicultural studies course.

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Thrive Together is rooted in seeing students through a strengths-based lens, understanding cultural identity as a source of strength, and building supportive networks that will help students navigate high school and beyond.

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Relating to this Land is made up of several programs and conversation toolkits that explore how Alaskans relate to the land in our state. These include ANCSA at 50 conversations, toolkits that explore how race and culture shape how we relate to land, and more.

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Organizational Directory preview
AKHF Organizational Directory

A directory to Alaska's cultural, social, and civic organizations.

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Leadership Anchorage Alumni Award

The Leadership Anchorage Alumni Award recognizes an LA alum.

We Are Of Race and Land 08 07 22 71
Bridging Cultures

Shared conversations and experiences across differences.

AHF Social Media Posts In Person 2
Depolarizing Vaccine Conversations Webinars

The Depolarizing Vaccine Conversations webinars offer background on research and recommendations for navigating challenging conversations about vaccines with coworkers, family members, friends, and acquaintances.

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Leadership Anchorage

Leadership Anchorage is designed to develop the skills, knowledge, perspective, and networks needed to be an effective and compassionate community member of our city, and our state.

Nathan Jackson
Magnetic North

Magnetic North is a documentary film series that explores the personality and character of Alaskans whose actions and ideas have shaped the history, spirit, and values of our state.

AHD new logo
Alaska History Day

For 2023, Alaska Historical Society is coordinating Alaska History Day contest. Leanna Prax Williams (UAF) at lprax1@alaska.edu.

Issuu FORUM spring 2022
Forum Magazine

The FORUM brings Alaskan stories to life through powerful images, articles, and interviews from communities across the state.

Depolarizing Conversation Guide Cover
Depolarizing Conversation Guide

Concrete tools for navigating polarized conversations with coworkers, family members, friends, and acquaintances, regardless of the topic.

State of Humanities preview
AKHF State of the Humanities

The humanities explore enduring questions about who we are, what we believe, where we have been, what we value, and why.

AK Next
AK | Next

AK|Next is a reflective, experiential program focused on developing leadership, cross cultural understanding, and connections between Alaskan youth.

Culture Shift 9 08 22 83
Finding Our Common Purpose

Conversations that ground us in our interdependence

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Facilitation Labs & Workshops

These interactive, experiential labs provide the opportunity to learn and practice techniques for guiding conversations and asking powerful questions.

Ilakucaraq youth
Ilakucaraq

Participants build confidence in their cultural identities and form a supportive community with other Native youth from across Alaska. Understanding culture as a source of strength helps students navigate life after high school.

Group discussion 1
Alaska Salmon Fellows

Alaska Salmon Fellows program is designed to facilitate demanding conversations about salmon issues among leaders from a cross section of salmon policy, management, industry, activism, research, and cultural sectors.

Kotzebue ECCI
About Cross Cultural Programs

The Forum’s Cross Cultural Programs bring people with different backgrounds together to deepen their understanding of others and themselves.

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Arts & Humanities Awards

The Governor's Arts and Humanities Awards is an annual event to recognize and honor noteworthy contributions to the arts and humanities in Alaska.

Conversations Across Generations square
Transforming Racism

Our transforming racism programs dig into connecting across differences and building the capacity to discuss race and racism in Alaska.

Heather Lende
State Writer Laureate

Recognizing the selected writer’s contribution to the quality of life in Alaska, the Alaska State Writer Laureate is a two-year honorary appointment to promote the literary arts and artists of Alaska.

Take Wing Tengluni
Tengluni

Take Wing “Tengluni” is a partnership between the Alaska Humanities Forum and Calista Education and Culture, Inc. supporting high school seniors in the Kuspuk, Lower Kuskokwim, Lower Yukon, and Yupiit School Districts.

Kindling Conversation group
Kindling Conversation Stipends

Conversations and tools that strengthen community.

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C3: Creating Cultural Competence

Alaska teachers participate alongside Elders, culture bearers, local youth, and teacher-peers in cultural immersion and supportive gatherings, all under the structure of a university-level multicultural studies course.

Youth Frame Blue
Thrive Together

Thrive Together is rooted in seeing students through a strengths-based lens, understanding cultural identity as a source of strength, and building supportive networks that will help students navigate high school and beyond.

IMG 7507
Relating to this Land

Relating to this Land is made up of several programs and conversation toolkits that explore how Alaskans relate to the land in our state. These include ANCSA at 50 conversations, toolkits that explore how race and culture shape how we relate to land, and more.

Alaska Humanities Forum

The 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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