Survey finds local arts organizations lack objective standards for morality

By Crystal Hutchens
Research by Jennifer Johnson

Editorial

America has no soul

Unheard voices

By Geoff Bederson

The wild story of a hardened criminal fighting Alaska’s crooked cops, and how change is possible

This is the abbreviated version of the interview with Danny Hill, which was printed in the April/May edition. The full interview will be uploaded to this site soon.

Culture definitions

Help keep track of Alaskan culture?
We invite you to join us in this long-term commitment to improve culture, both popular culture and the art world promoted by the cultural elite: artists, directors and producers (which we examine in this issue). On our website, humanitynews.net, you will find a discussion forum with background information about major cultural venues in Anchorage and Alaska, including the full interviews conducted for this issue. We hope that this can be a space to respond to - and to hold accountable - what occurs in these places in the future. Help us keep track of what lifts, and what lowers!  --editors, Alaska Humanity News

Judging Art
Definitions

The deep Anchorage talent pool – Dive in!

By Crystal Hutchens

The deep Anchorage talent pool – Dive in!

By Crystal Hutchens

News of the real

We are inundated with news, but it is skewed. This page is a summary of mainstream articles from the past couple of months that are striking in ways that they missed the message.

What if the actual news were right before our eyes, but we didn’t see it? Our goal is to unearth inner news: news of the shattered and the broken, news of the beautiful and the good.

There are many ways to re-capture culture. Simply by becoming fully aware of the reality of news is one way that reality is transformed. See the Discussion forum at humanitynews.net to continue and elaborate—add your own stories—and reclaim news from its bland and conventional condition (the full stories are posted there as well).

Movie review

V for Vendetta
Reviewed by Diana DeFazio

Alternatives

Art can help us build a culture of care by ____________________________________ [fill this in yourself].

Challenges

Do not profane your mind
Express a careful, actively benevolent love
Take less from the poor

Greybeard's Box

Is art a spectator sport?
Does public funding for art mean it’s better to see than be?
Can there be art without heart?