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ERIK HILL / Anchorage Daily News

Louis Hena, right, of the Pueblo of Tesuque in New Mexico, visits with Gilberto Hackin of the Kuna people of Panama, center, as Hackin's translator Rogeliano Gonzalez helps them converse at the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change on Tuesday at the Dena'ina Center. The event began Monday and concludes Friday.

Climate summit offers free events

Anchorage Daily News

Published: April 21st, 2009 08:56 PM
Last Modified: April 18th, 2010 08:26 AM

The week-long Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change is offering several free public events in downtown Anchorage on Thursday and Friday, including a concert by world musicians. The United Nations-affiliated summit scheduled a full day of sessions on Thursday that are open to the public, including a presentation by the summit's African delegates at 8:30 a.m. and speeches by Bolivian president Evo Morales and the U.N. General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann. The speeches begin at 10:45 a.m. The summit's afternoon sessions are also open to the public.

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At 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the summit is hosting a free world music and dance concert, called "A Celebration of World Communities." The headline act is Robby Romero, a Lower 48 Native American rock star, and the concert will also include music and dance from Hawaiian, South Pacific, Alaska, Hmong, African, Philippine, Peruvian and St. Laurence Island performers.

The final day of the summit, Friday, also offers sessions open to the public. To read the agenda, go to www.indigenoussummit.com.

All events, including the free concert, are in the Dena'ina Convention Center's third-floor ballroom.