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Perseverance Theatre Kicks off Inaugural Anchorage Season
Juneau-based Perseverance Theatre is kicking off its inaugural Anchorage season with “The Blue Bear,” Feb. 10-18 at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. It will be the Anchorage premiere of the play, which is adapted from an award-winning book by Juneau author Lynn Schooler.
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Photo Gallery: Kuspuk Making
![ASD Kuspuk Making](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ASD-Kuspuk-Making-300x200.png)
2012 Iditarod Twitter #tweetchat
The Bureau of Land Management is hosting a Twitter #tweetchat to discuss the 2012 Iditarod National Historic Trail and its centennial. Musher Dan Seavey and BLM Iditarod National Historic Trail Coordinator Kevin Keeler @BLMAlaska will host the #tweetchat on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, from 9 – 11 am AKST.
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Anchorage Recruiting Election Workers
Across the nation, there is a shortage of election workers, Anchorage is no exception.
Each year, the Municipality of Anchorage recruits to fill nearly 600 positions to work at precincts on Election Day.
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Alaska Storytelling: Arctic Entries, Meet Mudrooms
![Mud Rooms Tom Cosgrove](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Mud-Rooms-Tom-Cosgrove-300x202.png)
Juneau Indie Filmmakers Host Screening in Anchorage
Alaska Robotics, a Juneau based collective of filmmakers, released their second collection of short films in November and are kicking off an informal state tour with a screening at the Alaska Experience Theatre in Anchorage.
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Perseverance Theatre Seeks Actor Housing for Anchorage Production
![Perseverance Theatre Blue Bear Excerpt](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Perseverance-Theatre-Blue-Bear-Excerpt-300x214.png)
Alaska Report Features Alaska Sealife Center
Senator Mark Begich hosts the January 2012 edition of the Alaska Report, a show highlighting people, issues and programs impacting Alaska.
In this episode, Sen. Begich interviews the CEO of the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Dr. Tara Jones.
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Conference of Young Alaskans
Photo Gallery: Alaska Railroad Engine 557
![Alaska Railroad 557](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Alaska-Railroad-557-300x203.png)
Corky the Sea Otter Goes Home
Corky, a juvenile male Northern sea otter, was rescued by trained U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff near mile 5 of the Kenai Spur
Highway on November 29th.
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Talkeetna Build A Plane Project
The Northern Susitna Institute, a collaborative nonprofit educational organization, provides students of all ages the opportunity to learn, share ideas and develop real life skills through creating, supporting, facilitating and implementing a variety of experience-based academic programs, workshops, conferences, and community partnerships.
Talkeetna Build a Plane program is one of their offerings.
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Photo Gallery: Washing an Eagle
![Bird TLC Eagle Washing](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Bird-TLC-Eagle-Washing-300x207.png)
NY Marines Support Alaska Toys for Tots
![JBER Toys for Tots Video Still](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/JBER-Toys-for-Tots-Video-Still-300x182.png)
Sitka Writer John Straley Honored by National Poetry Foundation
![Caitlin Woolsey and John Straley](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Caitlin-Woolsey-and-John-Straley--300x268.png)
Photo Gallery: The Kroschel Wildlife Center
![Kroschel Wildlife Center Kitty the Grizzly](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Kroschel-Wildlife-Center-Kitty-the-Grizzly-300x199.png)
Photo Gallery: Conference of Young Alaskans Delgates
![Conference of Young Alaskans](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Conference-of-Young-Alaskans-300x208.png)
Ray Mala’s 105th Birthday
Senator Lisa Murkowski took the occasion of the 105th anniversary of Ray Mala’s birth to share the memories and the meaning of the nation’s first Native film star. An Alaska Native and the first non-white actor to receive top billing in Hollywood entertainment, Mala was born on December 27th, 1906 in Candle, Alaska.
Over the course of his career, Mala worked with cinema legends like Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille.
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Photo Gallery: The Native Art Center at UAF
![Native Art Center UAF](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Native-Art-Center-UAF-300x194.png)
What’s Your Story?
The Alaska Teen Media Institute put together this video for townsquare49.org featuring video of Alaskans telling their stories all over the place.
Check it out. You might see yourself, or someone you know. After all, it is Alaska... you never know who you'll run into.
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