Jafar Panahi Iran. In April 2011 Time Magazine named Panahi number 3 in their list of the Top 10 Persecuted Artists who have challenged authority. In Spring 2011, Boston's American Repertory Theater and System of a Down's Serj Tankian dedicated their production of "Prometheus Bound" to Panahi and seven other activists, stating in program notes that "by singing the story of Prometheus, the God who defied the tyrant Zeus by giving the human race both fire and art, this production hopes to give a voice to those currently being silenced or endangered by modern-day oppressors". On 26 October 2012, Panahi was announced
Race to Alaska was added from Tacoma, Washington to Port Townsend. The first race was in 2015. In 2016, 44 teams were accepted and 26 finished. In 2017, the race introduced the "Boat Buyback Prize", through which the race organizers would offer each boat that finished $10,000 to buy their boat, regardless of the boat's value. In 2018, the race introduced the Seventy48 race, a pre-race from Tacoma to Port Townsend. It is a 70-statute-mile human-powered only race in which the winner of the race receives as a prize all of the entry fees paid by participants. The race begins in Port Townsend