{"id":66893,"date":"2021-01-19T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/celebration-2021-canceled-organizers-announce\/"},"modified":"2021-01-20T16:32:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T01:32:40","slug":"celebration-2021-canceled-organizers-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/celebration-2021-canceled-organizers-announce\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration 2021 canceled, organizers announce"},"content":{"rendered":"

A celebration of Southeast Alaska Native arts and culture scheduled for this summer has been canceled, Sealaska Heritage Institute announced.<\/p>\n

The nonprofit’s board of trustees will decide at a later date whether it’s safe to hold a Celebration in 2022, SHI said in a news release. One of the primary reasons for the cancellation is that the vaccine is not yet available for kids under age 16.<\/p>\n

“We can’t have Celebration without our children,” said trustee Albert Kookesh in a news release.<\/p>\n

[Virtual Celebration is ready to begin<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n

This is the second time the pandemic has caused a scheduling change for Celebration, which had been tentatively scheduled for June 2021 after being pushed back from the summer of 2020. Ordinarily, the event happens in June of even-numbered years in Juneau.<\/p>\n

In lieu of the in-person event last June, SHI for the first time held a virtual Celebration that featured dance performances from 2018 and new content submitted by more than 540 people. Nearly 4,000 people watched the event on SHI’s YouTube.<\/p>\n

• Contact Ben Hohenstatt at (907)308-4895 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BenHohenstatt. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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