We collaborate with non-profits, schools and other groups to help them tell stories.

From producing short videos about public transportation and providing background support for a local cabaret to creating a town hall on health care challenges and helping organize and document a community mural project - these are just some of the ways we encourage participation, collaboration and interaction.

Why Ride?

Meet the people who form our community. Meet the people who ride the RIDE. A series of creative short films made with the Center for Community and The Sitka Tribe of Alaska about the little buses that make Sitka a better place to live. Hurray for Public Transportation!

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Ramshackle Cabaret

Founded with a rebellious spirit, the Ramshackle Cabaret is a platform for local volunteers to showcase their untapped, and often unconventional, talents. We exist to support reproductive and sexual health and all proceeds will go to support this cause.

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Resilient Communities

The Island Institute invited 46 individuals from a wide array of backgrounds to participate in a roundtable conversation about resiliency in the face of current environmental crises. They called it Resilient Communities: A Form of Creative Resistance. A handful of the 46 participants were interviewed by Artchange. 

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Sitka Choose Respect Mural

What happens when 200 people paint a mural? The story of the Sitka Choose Respect Mural Project and the community process, aimed at addressing bullying and violence, behind the creation of the mural. 

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Health Care Town Hall

On July 7, 2017 a group of Sitkans got together to discuss the Senate health care bill and share their stories with Senator Murkowski and Senator Sullivan. 

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Double Passage

A 56-minute video filmed, edited and unfinished. The documentary “Double Passage,” grew out of the work of anthropologist, George Gmelch. It is set on the island of Barbados and tells the story of return migrants who traveled abroad to England, worked and came home.

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