Admission to the museum will be free on Saturday, Oct. 28, as part of a community celebration of Filipino heritage and the opening of “Mana: The History We Inherit.”
Updated: 23 seconds agoShayne Nuesca and Joshua Albeza Branstetter are two of three creators of an exhibit called"Mana: The History We Inherit."
It’s created and produced by local artists and journalists Joshua Albeza Branstetter, Shayne Nuesca and Tasha Elizarde, who say they joined up to launch the Mana Alaska project last year as a way to share and preserve stories from Filipinos in Alaska that might otherwise be lost or overlooked. The three spent months gathering hours of tape from older Filipinos in Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Kodiak. The exhibit showcases just some of that work and those stories, and includes photo galleries and a digital archive that will be housedTheir efforts to gather stories from Alaska’s Filipino community are ongoing; they’re always accepting more contributions from elders and others in the community, they said.
He and Nuesca said it also made a difference to those being interviewed that their stories were being gathered by Filipino Alaskans.“There’s a trait that we have, that’s hard to translate in English, called ‘hiya’” in Tagalog, she said. “It’s kind of a feeling of shame, or a feeling of, ’Don’t say too much, don’t reveal too much.’ And I could hear that in some of the stories. And I could hear Josh and Tasha trying to bring more out of them.
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