ARCTIC REFUGE
VIRTUAL
BIRD FEST
Featuring
Ben Mirin
Khurram Khan
Sara Wolman
Music | Photography | Art
Join U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Audubon Alaska for this free online festival. Full of interactive, fun, and informative activities highlighting the amazing migratory birds of the Arctic, follow along on the various social media platforms listed below. Updated daily!
2020 Daily Themes
Hashtags
Social Media | Interactive
Daily: #ArcticBirdFest
Monday: #HowDoYouArctic
Tuesday: #AskABiologist
Wednesday: #PostADuck
Thursday: #TeamRaptor #TeamSongbird
Friday: #WorstBirdPhoto
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2020 Festival Highlights
2020 content to be posted daily in real time starting November 9th.
Guests 2020
Sara Wolman
Sara Wolman is a trained classic, digital artist, as well as a naturalist. Originally from New York, she now calls Fairbanks, Alaska home. Her work can be found at National Park Service sites and National Wildlife Refuges across the country. She has created artwork for conservation based non-profits such as The National Parks Conservation Association, Explore.org, and the Katmai Conservancy, as well as international campaigns such as Fat Bear Week. To those overseas, you may have even caught her on BBC Breakfast! She currently works for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a Visual Information Specialist. When she is not working on conservation related art, she is often found rafting rivers, climbing mountains, and gaining inspiration from the beautiful world we live in.
Ben Mirin
Ben is an ethnobiologist, sound artist and educator who travels the world recording animal sounds for research, and samples their voices to create music that inspires conservation. Ben is the creator and host of the digital and television series WILD BEATS on National Geographic Kids and Nat Geo Wild, and a “National Geographic Explorer,” meaning he has received grants from the National Geographic Society. He is also a Fellow at The Safina Center and The Explorers Club, an Ambassador at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and was the first Artist in Residence at the Bronx Zoo. A lifelong naturalist and musician, Ben combines his two passions to capture untold stories about nature through sound.
Khurram Khan
Hailing from New Jersey, Khurram Khan is a physician by trade but a photographer and avid lover for our natural world. He has always been fascinated with photography. When he was a teenager, his father gave him a film camera and while he learned how to use it, his interest in photography really didn't peak until his early 30s. "I picked up a camera to photograph the sites of NYC where I was living at that moment. On my way back from the Statue of liberty, seagulls flying next to the boat caught my interest. I snapped a few images and when I got home I was totally hooked. Soon this hobby became a passion. After my training was completed I moved to New Jersey and started to photograph in my spare time. Soon I was travelling further and further away and watching the wonderful natural beauty of this planet and the inhabitants that call it home," said Khurram.
