BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:255@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20180322T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20180322T193000 DTSTAMP:20231222T091824Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/world-narratives-faux-p as/ SUMMARY:WorldNarratives: Foreign Faux Pas - Stories of Navigating Cultural Differences DESCRIPTION:This year's theme for the Alaska World Affairs Council's annual story event is: Foreign Faux Pas - Stories of Navigating Cultural Differe nces. Featured storytellers will entertain you while keeping you on your s eat as you wait to see how their situations were resolved.\n\nFor your lis tening pleasure\, we have stories from Spain\, rural Alaska\, Yugoslavia\, Germany\, Panama\, Italy\, and Russia covering misunderstandings involvin g law enforcement\, train robbery\, false marketing\, taxi scams\, teachin g English as a foreign language\, sketchy lodging\, and European handball. You will not want to miss this amazing evening!\nMEET THE STORYTELLERS\nT am Agosti-Gisler was raised in Anchorage and attended public schools. Her BA in International Relations was earned at Stanford University and includ ed studies in France\, Berlin and Jerusalem. She subsequently earned her M AT. Tam was a French and Social Studies teacher in the Anchorage School Di strict for 22 years. Tam worked as the executive director of the Anchorage School Business Partnership program until her election to the Anchorage S chool Board in 2012 of which she is currently president. She has been marr ied to Hans Gisler for over 38 years. She is an avid traveler and has visi ted over 70 countries\, speaks several languages and has taught English in Africa and Asia.\n\nRebecca Pottebaum is a transplant to Alaska\, but fee ls quite at home traveling the world. She’s played many roles in her exp loration of the world\, from Fulbright Fellow in Brazil to running an inte rnational film festival\, from adventure tour leader throughout North Amer ican National Parks to cab driving in Homer\, Alaska. She loves a good jok e.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\nLarry Rivers came to Alaska in the sixties as a hippie where he settled in Talkeetna with his family. By chance\, he got roped into guiding a hunt. Larry had a knack for guiding and bush flying\ , leading him to become a very successful global professional hunting guid e. Recognized as such he was invited by "Intourist" through Mead Treadwell to help foster tourism in the USSR and later Russia and Central Asia. Fro m that he expanded into export and real estate development. Larry is now r etired and likes to spend most of his time exploring Alaska by bush plane or snowmachine.\n\nMichael Anthony Simpson is a middle-school teacher on h iatus so that he can stay-at-home to care for his three-year-old daughter. The time he spent on lesson planning\, grading papers\, and other demands is now spent pursuing his passions for writing and playing music. Example s of his work can be seen on his website.\n\nMegan Zlatos serves as the Di rector of Public Programming for the Alaska Humanities Forum. Her career p ath might best be described as “the scenic route”: a road that involve d everything from coordinating study abroad programs in Europe to developi ng an employee evaluation system at Google\, from teaching middle schooler s in the Midwest to developing new revenue sources for a startup in San Fr ancisco. She was the 12th employee at a company that was sold to Amazon fo r a billion dollars (but don't ask her for money because she didn't stick around long enough for her stock options to vest).\n\n\n\nSpecial thanks t o our amazing volunteer story coach\, Amanda Dale\, a featured storyteller of the 2017 inaugural event!\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPOST-EVENT PODCAST\nIf you miss ed this event and did not get a chance to hear our storyteller's entertain ing adventures\, you can now listen to a podcast of the event courtesy of Alaska Public Media.\n\nHappy listening!\n\nhttps://www.alaskapublic.org/2 018/03/30/foreign-faux-pas-stories-of-navigating-cultural-differences/\n\n \n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/wp-content/upload s/2018/01/StoryNightAmanda-1-4.jpg CATEGORIES:Events LOCATION:49th State Brewing Company\, 717 W 3rd Ave\, Anchorage\, AK\, 9950 1\, United States GEO:61.21968289999999;-149.8958227 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=717 W 3rd Ave\, Anchorage\, AK\, 99501\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=49th State Brewing Company:geo:61.21968289999999,-149.8958227 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anchorage X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anchorage BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0900 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:AKDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR