Tidal Echoes launches 2025 literary and arts journal Friday at UAS
Tidal Echoes, the University of Alaska Southeast literary and arts journal, will officially launch this Friday, April 4, at 7 p.m. in Egan Lecture Hall. Artist Mark Sixbey and writer Corinna Cook will talk about their work followed by a Q&A.
Tidal Echoes has showcased the work of Southeast Alaskans since 2004. With a grant from the UAS chancellor’s office, Professors Emily Wall and Alexis Easley started the journal to feature only UAS student works, but it has grown exponentially since then. A quarter of the journal is still reserved for UAS students’ submissions.
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After Emmy win for ‘Molly of Denali,’ Alaska’s X’unei Lance Twitchell reflects on representation, goals and community
X‘unei Lance Twitchell stood at a podium in Los Angeles in mid-March doing something he’d never imagined would be possible.
Speaking his native Tlingit language, Twitchell accepted an Emmy Award for an episode he wrote for the PBS Kids program “Molly of Denali.”
The episode, titled “Not a Mascot,” won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Preschool Animated Series.
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Lingít Word of the Week: Tsaa — Seal
This is Lingít Word of the Week. Each week, we feature a Lingít word voiced by master speakers. Lingít has been spoken throughout present-day Southeast Alaska and parts of Canada for over 10,000 years.
Gunalchéesh to X̱’unei Lance Twitchell, Goldbelt Heritage Foundation and the University of Alaska Southeast for sharing the recorded audio for this series.
This week’s word is tsaa, or seal. Listen to the audio below to learn how to say tsaa.
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