MEDIA ADVISORY

TO:                     News Directors, Education and Feature Reporters

FROM:                 University Relations

SUBJECT:            UAF Hosts 29th Annual Festival of Native Arts

LOCATION:          UAF Charles Davis Concert Hall

DATE & TIME:     March 7 - 9, 2002, 6 p.m. - midnight

The students and faculty of the University of Alaska Fairbanks invite you to join them for the 29th annual Festival of Native Arts, which takes place March 7 - 9, 2002. This elaborate three-day event was started in 1973 when a group of students and faculty from a variety of UAF colleges and departments considered a spring festival focusing on the artistic expressions of Alaska Native peoples. Since then, the festival has grown each year to become one of the interior's greatest celebrations of Alaska Native culture.

Dance groups from around Alaska and the world are scheduled to perform from 6 p.m. to midnight each night in the Charles Davis Concert Hall on the Fairbanks campus. In addition, there will be an arts and crafts sale in the adjoining Great Hall each night, and a Pow Wow performance on Saturday at noon in the same hall. All events are free and open to the public. Please come and join us for three nights of fun and dance.

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CONTACT: Timothy Murphrey, Festival Coordinator at (907) 474-6889, Carol Hollingsworth, Alaska Native Studies (907) 474-7181, or email festivalofnativearts@yahoo.com or visit our Web site at http://www.geocities.com/festivalofnativearts for more information.

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