The ASLA AK awards presentation on Friday, October 8th, as the penultimate moment of Anchorage Design Week was a success, with about 40-50 community members showing up for the in-person sequence of events being projected onto the fa????ade of the Anchorage Museum, see attached image taken as folks were filtering in at dusk. The evening kicked off with a short film screening of The Land: An Adventure Play Documentary directed by Vermont's own Erin Davis (

https://www.newday.com/film/land). The screening was run as a partner program with the Anchorage Museum and the Alaska Design Forum.

 
The AK ASLA Awards were then presented and verbally recognizing project team members and all multidisciplinary teammates. The award of excellence winner, Sand Lake Learning Lab, is someplace that the Anchorage audience can easily get to and enjoy.
Finally, the evening ended with Anchorage's official PechaKucha Night Vol. 11 hosted by the Alaska Design Forum. This including AK ASLA members chapter president Melisa Babb, Fellow Tamas Deak, and member Kevin Jeffery. Additionally, the chapter had three climate change documentation presentations, including Grant Crosby (NPS historical architect), Julia Ditto (science illustrator) and Klara Maisch (virtual, wilderness painter).