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How do you shape Canada?  How does Canada shape you? 
We're calling on young Canadians to explore, express, and showcase their individual and collective identities!

When do you feel most Canadian? And if you could express it creatively, through any medium, what would you create?

Need ideas? Check out the video

Submit your artwork today! Defining Moments is accepting photographs, paintings, videos and much more from young artists across the country. Join us by sharing your story through creative expression!
Defining Moments: Discovering Our Canadian Stories invites you to submit artwork that expresses your personal relationship with Canada. Offered by TakingITGlobal and supported by Canadian Heritage, Defining Moments is a national digital media arts and citizenship project, taking participants on a journey through accounts of Canadian identity. Open to 13 to 30 year olds across the country, we will be showcasing the artwork of young Canadians here on the Defining Moments website and a traveling exhibit. Stay tuned for our online collection, dates for workshops and exhibits near you!
Participants will have a chance of winning fantastic prizes including a trip to Ottawa!   Deadline March 1, 2012

What is your Defining Moment?

For more info check out the website or find us on Facebook or Twitter

February 19 from 12-3pm.

Musical Jam! - We’ll be rocking out at KidsFest with the Frostbite crew making and decorating our own musical instruments.

Kids Fest is a family event with live music, games, clowns, candy apples and more! This year's theme is Carnival! Face painting, colouring, crafts and world class entertainers - bring your family and dance the day away.

Location: Frostbite Main Stage at Yukon College

Single tickets to Sunday KidsFest sold separately $5 at the door.

This is partnership between the Frostbite Music Festival, Boys and Girls Club and the Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery.

Yukon Arts Centre is seeking submissions of contemporary video art and digital images from Yukon filmmakers and artists for display on our lobby screens at the Yukon Arts Centre, Arts Underground and the Old Fire Hall.  The purpose of this call is to promote artists and their work to the public.

The selected artworks will be displayed for one month.  This opportunity gives local artists the ability to have their artwork shown in high traffic venues in Whitehorse, YT. All artists are encouraged to submit videos or digital portfolios.  Please note, videos and digital images must be suitable for all ages.

Please include:
Short artist bio
Artist Statement/description of the artwork
Images of the video or artwork

Please email your submissions to:
Yukon Arts Centre
Attention: Jessica Vellenga
Box 16 – 300 College Drive
Whitehorse YT
Y1A 5X9
gallery@yac.ca
(867) 393-710

January 22, 2012  from 1-4pm
Picture Postcards - Exploring the themes in the exhibition Untrue North, we’ll make postcards to send to family and friends that depict our version of the North we call home.

Seems every day we hear something startling about "our" way of life and "our" north.  We've all heard the one about a tourist asking, "When do you turn on the Northern Lights?"  Dogmushing to work, living in igloos, ---eek--the myths about the north still abound.  For me, it's the "Polar Bears living with Penguins" myth of the north that just makes me wanna scream.  (If polar bears and penguins lived together, penguins would be gobbled up in an afternoon). 

To celebrate the new gallery showing, "Untrue North," we'd love to collect some of these Untrue ideas of the north. 

Give us your comment below:  share with us the Untrue things YOU'VE heard about the North.  We'll collect 'em!  Keep coming back to see what other people have said--cause I can tell you now---this is gonna get weird and funny. 

And if you're up here at YAC's Art Gallery between Jan 12 and March 10 come see this great collection of art, curated by Earl Miller, that challenges what is True and Untrue about the North. 

(image presented above is NOT IN the showing--just an example of the kind of question we're asking)