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.
A directory to Alaska's cultural, social, and civic organizations.
learn moreThe Leadership Anchorage Alumni Award recognizes an LA alum.
learn moreShared conversations and experiences across differences.
learn moreThe Depolarizing Vaccine Conversations webinars offer background on research and recommendations for navigating challenging conversations about vaccines with coworkers, family members, friends, and acquaintances.
learn moreLeadership 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.
learn moreMagnetic 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.
learn moreFor 2023, Alaska Historical Society is coordinating Alaska History Day contest. Leanna Prax Williams (UAF) at lprax1@alaska.edu.
learn moreThe FORUM brings Alaskan stories to life through powerful images, articles, and interviews from communities across the state.
learn moreConcrete tools for navigating polarized conversations with coworkers, family members, friends, and acquaintances, regardless of the topic.
learn moreThe humanities explore enduring questions about who we are, what we believe, where we have been, what we value, and why.
learn moreAK|Next is a reflective, experiential program focused on developing leadership, cross cultural understanding, and connections between Alaskan youth.
learn moreConversations that ground us in our interdependence
learn moreThese interactive, experiential labs provide the opportunity to learn and practice techniques for guiding conversations and asking powerful questions.
learn moreParticipants 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.
learn moreAlaska 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.
learn moreThe Forum’s Cross Cultural Programs bring people with different backgrounds together to deepen their understanding of others and themselves.
learn moreThe Governor's Arts and Humanities Awards is an annual event to recognize and honor noteworthy contributions to the arts and humanities in Alaska.
learn moreOur transforming racism programs dig into connecting across differences and building the capacity to discuss race and racism in Alaska.
learn moreRecognizing 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.
learn moreTake 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.
learn moreConversations and tools that strengthen community.
learn moreAlaska 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.
learn moreThrive 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.
learn moreRelating 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.
learn moreA directory to Alaska's cultural, social, and civic organizations.
The Leadership Anchorage Alumni Award recognizes an LA alum.
Shared conversations and experiences across differences.
The Depolarizing Vaccine Conversations webinars offer background on research and recommendations for navigating challenging conversations about vaccines with coworkers, family members, friends, and acquaintances.
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.
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.
For 2023, Alaska Historical Society is coordinating Alaska History Day contest. Leanna Prax Williams (UAF) at lprax1@alaska.edu.
The FORUM brings Alaskan stories to life through powerful images, articles, and interviews from communities across the state.
Concrete tools for navigating polarized conversations with coworkers, family members, friends, and acquaintances, regardless of the topic.
The humanities explore enduring questions about who we are, what we believe, where we have been, what we value, and why.
AK|Next is a reflective, experiential program focused on developing leadership, cross cultural understanding, and connections between Alaskan youth.
Conversations that ground us in our interdependence
These interactive, experiential labs provide the opportunity to learn and practice techniques for guiding conversations and asking powerful questions.
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.
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.
The Forum’s Cross Cultural Programs bring people with different backgrounds together to deepen their understanding of others and themselves.
The Governor's Arts and Humanities Awards is an annual event to recognize and honor noteworthy contributions to the arts and humanities in Alaska.
Our transforming racism programs dig into connecting across differences and building the capacity to discuss race and racism in Alaska.
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” 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.
Conversations and tools that strengthen community.
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.
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.
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.
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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