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Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau Arts and Humanities Council has announced in a release that a $75,000 Our Town grant has been approved for design and planning in the Aak w Village District. The National Endowment for the Arts has a number of grants nationwide approved in this category to support projects that integrate arts, culture, and design activities into efforts that strengthen communities. A series of conversations will be held over a year, where partners in the Aak w village project will agree on a direction that will lead the area to be branded as a center of Arts and Culture. ....
4:00 Take a stroll along some of Juneau’s downtown streets and you’ll find brand new signs with maps and information about each location. But the signs do more than just tell you where you are each one tells an oral history about the place as part of an audio storytelling project called Juneau Voices. The new signs feature QR codes. Scan them and you’ll be taken to an audio story about the place. (Editor’s note: The QR codes on the signs are currently inactive, but will be ready to scan in early March.) Ten stories are narrated by people from throughout Dzantik’i Héeni, or Juneau, whose family histories go back generations. The narrators include the late Kingeistí David Katzeek and Erin Tripp, whose Tlingit name is Xáalnook. ....