{"id":26012,"date":"2016-06-09T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/celebration-calendar-for-thursday-june-9\/"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T15:02:05","slug":"celebration-calendar-for-thursday-june-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/celebration-calendar-for-thursday-june-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration calendar for Thursday, June 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a list of today’s Celebration festivities. For the full schedule over the entire four-day event, click here<\/a>. For the full dance group performance schedule over the four days, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dance performances, <\/strong>9 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Centennial Hall, Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian groups dressed in traditional regalia share their ancient songs and dances. Celebration pass required.<\/p>\n

Northwest Coast Art Market, <\/strong>9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sealaska Plaza and Juneau Arts & Culture Center. Purchase authentic Native art and supplies from more than 40 artists. Free.<\/p>\n

Northwest Coast Juried Art Show, <\/strong>9 a.m.-8 p.m., Walter Soboleff Building, Nathan Jackson Gallery. View selected pieces and winning work from Northwest Coast artists. $5 admission or Celebration pass.<\/p>\n

Juried Youth Art Exhibit, <\/strong>9 a.m.-6 p.m., Juneau Arts & Culture Center. View more than 35 works from young Northwest Coast artists from around the region. Free.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeavers Across the Water\u201d community robe class, <\/strong>9 a.m.-noon., Walter Soboleff Building, third floor. Starter kits will be available for Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian weavers contributing to this collaborative Chilkat\/ Ravenstail robe. $5 admission or Celebration pass.<\/p>\n

Toddler Regalia Review,<\/strong> 12 p.m., Walter Soboleff Building, Shuk\u00e1 H\u00edt (clan house). Sealaska shareholders and shareholder descendants ages 2 to 4 years will model their traditional regalia. $5 admission or Celebration pass.<\/p>\n

Language session: Sm\u2019algyax,<\/strong> 1-2 p.m., Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff State Library Archives and Museum Building.varoff State Library Archives and Museum Building. A time for language learners and speakers to gather and converse in Sm\u2019algyax (the language of the Tsimshian). All abilities welcome. Celebration pass required.<\/p>\n

Documenting Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian jewelers, 1850-present,<\/strong> 2-3 p.m., Walter Soboleff Building, Living History Center, second floor. Curator and archivist Zachary R. Jones will share information about historic Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian jewelers. Celebration pass required.<\/p>\n

Film showing: \u201cYuuyaraq\u201d and \u201cHaida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World,\u201d<\/strong> 4:30 p.m and 5 p.m., 9 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Gold Town Theater. Lisle Hebert\u2019s docudrama based on Harold Napoleon\u2019s essay \u201cYuuyaraq\u201d (27 minutes) will be followed by the documentary \u201cHaida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World\u201d (1 hour, 14 minutes).<\/p>\n

Comedian Cody Ferguson,<\/strong> 5-6 p.m., Walter Soboleff Building, Shuk\u00e1 H\u00edt (clan house).Tlingit- Yup\u2019ik performer Cody, whose father is from Wrangell, was raised in Chevak. He uses laughter to spread cultural healing. $5 admission or Celebration pass.<\/p>\n

Seaweed Contest,<\/strong> 6-8 p.m., Centennial hall, Elders\u2019 Room. Taste samples and determine who has gathered and prepared the best black seaweed. Celebration pass required.<\/p>\n

Jazz Piano Concert,<\/strong> 7-7:30 p.m., Walter Soboleff Building, Shuk\u00e1 H\u00edt (clan house). A performance by Tsimshian musician Chantil Dukart. Chantil, a Miami-based artist who grew up in Colorado and Alaska, plays a mix of funk, jazz, motown and R&B. $5 admission or Celebration pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a list of today’s Celebration festivities. For the full schedule over the entire four-day event, click here. For the full dance group performance schedule over the four days, click here. Dance performances, 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Centennial Hall, Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall. Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian groups dressed in traditional regalia share their ancient songs and dances. Celebration pass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-26012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26012"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}