{"id":59497,"date":"2020-03-27T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/celebration-2020-is-postponed\/"},"modified":"2020-03-27T08:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:53:00","slug":"celebration-2020-is-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/celebration-2020-is-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration 2020 is postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sealaska Heritage Institute Board of Trustees decided to postpone Celebration 2020 to next year amid concerns about the COVID-19 coronavirus and its spread in Alaska in recent days, SHI announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The every-other-year dance-and-culture event, originally scheduled June 10-13 in Juneau, is now planned for June 2-5 of 2021, according to the Juneau-based nonprofit that protects and promotes Alaska Native arts, culture and languages.<\/p>\n<p>Celebration is one of the largest cultural events in the state, attracting nearly 2,000 dancers and an additional 4,000 attendees to the four-day event. Celebration is also a financial boon for Juneau, according to research. A study by the McDowell Group in 2012 found that the economic impact of Celebration that year was $2 million during the four-day event.<\/p>\n<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/sealaska-heritage-institute-means-millions-of-dollars-to-juneau-study-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SHI means millions for Juneau&rsquo;s coffers<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>SHI will explore ways to bring virtual events to the public this year through its social media platforms. One idea is to host a Facebook or YouTube watch party and show Celebration 2018 during the days Celebration 2020 would have streamed. That would bring people together virtually in a space where they could watch the performances and events together and talk to each other online, said SHI President Rosita Worl in a release.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We could also have designers and artists photograph themselves in the pieces they made for the fashion show and set up a gallery on our website. We could do the same thing for the Toddler Regalia Review. We could curate a virtual exhibit for the Juried Art Show,&rdquo; Worl said in a release. &ldquo;We could come together online and through social media and celebrate together this year, no matter the crisis that is all around us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>SHI is also inviting the public to weigh in with feedback and ideas on ways to organize virtual events by making suggestions through heritage@sealaska.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New dates are in 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":59498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[185,703],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-59497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska-natives","tag-coronavirus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59497","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59497"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=59497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}