Festival of Native Arts to mark 50th celebration this week

The 50th Festival of Native Arts will be held at the University of Alaska 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.

The event is free and open to the public. Please visit the event Facebook page for full performance schedule updates and the workshop schedule.

The festival’s theme this year is "Troth Yeddha' Forever: Our Ways of Life". UAF’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