Festival of Native Arts to mark 50th celebration this week
Suzi Tanski
907.474.6092
Feb. 19, 2024
Participants of 2018 Festival of Native Arts in the C.W. Davis Concert Hall here on the Troth Yeddha' Campus.
The 50th will be held at the University of ÓÐÁϺÐ×ÓÊÓƵ Fairbanks Troth Yeddha' Campus on Feb. 22-24, 2024.
The event will host two full days of workshops and three days of performances. All performances Feb. 22-24 will occur in the C.W. Davis Concert Hall. Artisans are in the adjacent Great Hall. All workshops on Feb. 23 and Feb. 24 will occur in the Wood Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22 and Friday, Feb. 23. Performances begin at 6 p.m.
Doors open at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24. Performances begin at 5 p.m.
2024 Festival of Native Arts logo designed by ÓÐÁϺÐ×ÓÊÓƵ graduate, Destine Poulsen.
The event is free and open to the public. Please visit the event for full performance schedule updates and the workshop schedule.
The festival’s theme this year is "Troth Yeddha' Forever: Our Ways of Life". ÓÐÁϺÐ×ÓÊÓƵ’s Fairbanks campus sits on Troth Yeddha' or "wild potato ridge," in the ancestral lands of the Lower Tanana Dene’. "The theme not only pays respect to the people who stewarded this land before the university’s creation but also recognizes the unique and collective spirit of the cultures that gather here each year," said Lou Frenzl, FNA student coordinator.
ADDITIONAL CONTACT: uaf-festival@alaska.edu, 907-474-6864