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Health, Food & Fitness: Anchorage Museum

• 1pm: Eeva Latosuo, Alaska Pacific University faculty, Outdoor Studies Program and Alaska Avalanche School instructor – Snow and Safety in the Backcountry
• 2pm: Dr. David Newirth, Alaska Natural Health Solutions – Preventing SAD
• 2:30pm: Dr. James D. O’Malley – winter health and safety
• 3pm: Eating Alaska, a film by Ellen Frankenstein, 56 minutes. A documentary about a vegetarian who moves to Alaska, marries a fisherman and hunter and begins to wonder what the “right” thing to eat is on the “last frontier.” What ensues are humorous and enlightening adventures in eating as the filmmaker heads to the woods and mountains with women hunters, communes with the Alaska vegetarian society, talks moose meat with a group of Alaska Native kids in a public schools in the Arctic and more, all in search of a meal that makes sense politically, socially, spiritually and tastefully. This wry look at what’s on your plate explores ideas about eating healthy sustainable food from one’s own backyard, either urban or wild, versus industrially produced food shipped thousands of miles. Collaboration with independent filmmaker and KTOO-TV.
• 4pm: Dr. Durocher, USGS – Rockhounding in Alaska

Sponsored, in part, by BP Exploration.

Lecture: Alaska Native Art and Indigenous Art of the Arctic

Lecture by Ron Senungetuk.

Anchorage Museum Auditorium.  FREE.

Fair: Food, Health, Safety in the North

Live well and safe in the north.  Special presentations by:

• 12 -2pm: Alaska Search and Rescue Dogs
• 12 -2pm: Bike Commuters of Anchorage
• 12 – 1:25pm: Providers from Avante on nature and science for health in the north: Bethany Buchanan on SAD, SAME, and Vitamin D; Christine Sagan on Omega3, and Torrey Smith on Keeping Your Immune System Strong in Winter.
• 1:30 – 2:00pm: Maintaining Mental Health in the North by clinical psychologist Dr. Jennifer Beathe
• 3:00 – 3:30pm: Dr. Dick Mandsager, Executive Director of Providence Children’s Hospital, about keeping kids healthy in winter
• 3:30 – 4:30pm: Mary Ellen Gordian, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate of UAA, on indoor air quality, and Stephen Morris, Municipality of Anchorage, on outdoor air quality.
• 4:30 – 5:00pm: Special presentations on the importance of Alaska Native foods by Shawna Carmen, environmental justice program director form the Alaska Community Action group on toxins and the Indigenous Environmental Network.

Anchorage Museum.

Sponsored, in part, by BP Exploration.

The Changing North

Presentations by:

• Margaret Manousoff, Outreach & Advocacy Coordinator at Alaska Conservation Solutions, will give a presentation on the causes and effects of global warming with a specific focus on the challenges and opportunities in Alaska. 11:00 – 11:30 am.
• Anne Jensen, a Senior Scientist for the Ukpeagvik Iñupiat Corporation and National Science Foundation-funded researcher, will give a presentation on Barrow archaeology, which substantiates the long ties between local people and whales, and on the incorporation of local students in field and laboratory work. 11:30 am – 12:00 pm.
• Lunch break. 12:00 – 1:00 pm.
• FREEZE musical spot performance featuring Melissa Wannamaker. 1:00 – 1:15 pm.
• Leonard Piitkaq Apangalook, Sr., is a leader and whaling captain from the Yupik community of Gambell on St. Lawrence Island. He has kept a meticulous daily weather journal for 20 years and, as a key contributor for the Sea Ice Knowledge and Use (SIKU): Assessing Arctic Environmental and Social Change project, produced daily logs on sea ice, weather and local subsistence activities in his community for the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 “ice years” for the 2007-2008 International Polar Year, an international effort researching the polar regions. Mr. Apangalook will discuss the effects of climate change in his region and his on-going work for SIKU. 1:15 – 2:00 pm.
• Larry Merculieff, an Unangax (Aleut) leader from St. Paul Island, will speak from the perspective of traditional hunters and Native elders on the subject of changes in the Arctic due to global warming. 2:00 – 2:45 pm.
• Coffee break. 2:45 – 3:00 pm.
• Jana Pausauraq Harcharek, head of Iñupiaq education for the North Slope Borough School District (NSBSD) will present a talk on the district’s language and culture-based projects. Debby Dahl Edwardson is the Director of the Center of Community and Workforce Development at Ilisagvik College and a member of the NSBSD Board.  Author of the bi-lingual children’s book Whale Snow, Debby will read from her book and talk about its making. 3:00 – 4:00 pm.
• Charles Wohlforth, author of The Whale and the Supercomputer, will present slides taken while traveling in the Arctic with Inupiaq whalers and scientists, as each culture struggled to understand and adapt to the fast-changing climate. 4:00 – 5:00 pm.

Anchorage Museum.  FREE.

Movies for Your Mind

The Last Days of Shishmaref

Anchorage Museum Auditorium

Alaska/Netherlands 2008 documentary, In English/Inupiaq with English subtitles, 90 minutes.  MPAA RATING: Not rated.  Directed by Jan Louter.

www.shishmaref.nl/shishmaref/shishmaref_release-2.4.4/MainView.html

Review from the AFI Film Festival by Jacqueline Lyanga:
While politicians, scientists and environmentalists debate the effects of global warming, an Inupiaq Eskimo community in northwest Alaska, just under the Arctic Circle, faces the real world consequences of climate change every day. The ice beneath the small Alaskan village of Shishmaref, on the island of Sarichef, is melting. Homes are falling into the ocean. The situation is so severe that it has been predicted that the entire village will disappear within the next 10 years. How can you move an entire way of life? And should these villagers go to the edges of a city, or retain their rural ways? Filmmaker Jan Louter captures the transience of the Inupiaq’s traditional way of life in the face of the collision of climate change, satellite television and mail order shopping. The icy landscape—its water, smoke, steam and sky—is beautifully photographed, as are the village’s inhabitants. Every frame is a poignant portrait. The film doesn’t present a barrage of facts and figures to make its point, instead giving the viewer entry into the issue of climate change by way of a third eye. We feel the loss, the pain and the sadness of the families as they realize that they will never recover a way of life being swallowed by the sea.

Indigenous Film Festival

Presenting films from around the world, including Australia, Canada, Greenland, New Zealand and more!

See short films, full length feature films and documentaries throughout the day.

Alaska Native Heritage Center. Admission (wristband to come and go throughout the day): $9.95 adults, $6.95 children, ages 6 & under FREE, Members FREE.

See the festival schedule.

Indigenous World Film Festival

Presenting films from around the world, including Australia, Canada, Greenland, New Zealand and more!

Meet film producers, directors, see Alaska Native dancers and enjoy complimentary refreshments.

Alaska Native Heritage Center.  FREE.

See the festival schedule.