Feb 12 2021
World Whale Day festivities take place Feb. 20
By Amy Kenny
Forgive the pun, but Joyce Majiski’s Song of the Whale has had a ripple effect at the Yukon Arts Centre. In Ja...
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Feb 04 2021
Stitches tell stories in Indigenous regalia
By Amy Kenny
There isn’t a stitch on Megan Jensen’s 2013 high school graduation dress that wasn’t sewn with mea...
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Jan 26 2021
Baby grand piano finds new home at KIAC
By Amy Kenny
You could say the upright piano at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture has character. You could also say it so...
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Yukon artists to perform seasonal music
Nov 20 2020
Local love
The Yukon bubble may have shrunk back down to the size of the territory this month, but that change won’t impact the kickoff...
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Nov 17 2020
Memories of the Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency - Mennell
The Chilkoot Artist Residency has brought artists to the trail for nine years to create unique works of art. With the trail closed...
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Nov 12 2020
Diyet to perform in cross-Canada chorus
By Amy Kenny
When Diyet van Lieshout was asked to participate in a cross-Canada rendition of Handel’s Messiah, the singer h...
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Artists form the Yukon Illustration Coalition
Oct 30 2020
Illustrating a point
By Amy Kenny
There simultaneously is and is not a lot of space for illustrators to show their work in Whitehorse. On the one hand...
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Oct 23 2020
Reaching an audience through the airwaves
Nothing highlights the value of narration like making the switch from live theatre to radio plays.
“In our first episode, t...
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Sep 23 2020
Memories of the Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency - Tabbert
The Chilkoot Artist Residency has brought artists to the trail for nine years to create unique works of art. With the trail closed...
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More than 300 Canadian venues will light their buildings red in solidarity with the live events community.
Sep 18 2020
Supporting those behind the scenes
By Amy Kenny
This fall, Light Up Live wants to train the spotlight, not on the stage, but on the people behind the scenes of all ...
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Aug 29 2020
Created at the Canyon a diversity of artists
By Amy Kenny
Pencils and paintbrushes travel more easily than video cameras and keyboards, but coordinators of this year’s ...
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Aug 20 2020
Theatre in the round gets off the ground
In planning its fall programming, the Guild Hall considered the current climate—both the distancing measures in place these ...
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Aug 18 2020
New national artist residency announced
The Yukon Arts Centre is excited to come together with national partners to present the inaugural Field Trip: Artist Residency - a...
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Aug 12 2020
Crazy Smooth, recipient of the 2020 Clifford E. Lee Award
The Centre de Création O Vertigo (CCOV) is proud to announce that Crazy Smooth, its 2019-2021 long-term artist in residence...
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Cypherfest celebrates its 10 anniversary.
Jul 31 2020
The show must go on
By Amy Kenny
In some ways, having to work within constraints has really opened up possibilities for artists. That’s been th...
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Jul 22 2020
COVID can’t stop music camp
By Amy Kenny
This year’s Yukon Summer Music Camp is BYOI—bring your own instrument. It’s one of the ways Kather...
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Jul 15 2020
A stressful show
Rick Zuran’s first ever exhibition is the result of stress, but not the kind you might imagine.
His photographs...
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Jun 26 2020
New prize gives artists time and space to create
By Amy Kenny
Artists are the best judges of what they need. That’s why a new $20,000 prize in the territory isn’t tie...
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Lisa Dewhurst named First Nations advisor for YAC.
May 26 2020
A resourceful role
By Amy Kenny
The first step in learning more is acknowledging what you don’t know. Casey Prescott, CEO of the Yukon Arts Ce...
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May 15 2020
A different kind of art opening
By Amy Kenny
Ever wonder what it’s like to have a private showing at a gallery? Beginning this week, you can book one at th...
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May 05 2020
Indigenous music festival makes its debut online
“Artists for Artists”.
That’s the motto behind the upcoming Tkaronto Music Festival: Online, organiz...
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May 01 2020
Wake up, Whitehorse
By Amy Kenny
The Awaken Festival was so well-suited to being adapted to an online audience, artistic director Colin Wolf says he ...
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Apr 24 2020
Junction Arts and Music offers recordings of past shows
By Amy Kenny
There may not be any new performances taking place in Haines Junction as part of Junction Arts and Music this summer...
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Apr 21 2020
Lineup for online concert series selected
Eighteen Yukon performers has been selected for the Not Close But Personal online concert series which will be live-stre...
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Apr 15 2020
Making do in Dawson
By Amy Kenny
It’s normal to be feeling the cabin fever by the time spring rolls around in the North, but spring 2020 has ta...
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Apr 07 2020
Online activities during COVID-19
There are a myriad of activities available online to keep you and your family occupied during these trying times, so we have ...
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Yukon artists find ways to cope with COVID-19
Apr 04 2020
Art in isolation
By Amy Kenny
Art may be created in isolation, but it’s experienced by community. What happens for artists, then, when a com...
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Mar 24 2020
YAC brings new exhibit to your home
Since the Yukon Arts Centre is closed to the public due to the COVID-19 virus, a video of its new exhibit, Emerging North, can be ...
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Mar 16 2020
Yukon Arts Centre closed to public due to virus concerns
After careful consideration and growing concerns over the COVID-19 virus, the Yukon Arts Centre will be closed to the public effec...
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Feb 27 2020
A podium that says as much as the speaker
By Amy Kenny
The most recent acquisition of the Yukon Arts Centre made its debut in December, but if you missed its unveiling, th...
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Feb 10 2020
It’s A-live (performance of Mary Shelley’s famous novel)
By Amy Kenny
On its surface, Frankenstein seems like a straight-ahead horror story, but Sarah Fornace views it as a cautionary ta...
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Jan 24 2020
Are you with the band?
By Amy Kenny
You don’t need to be a professional musician to be part of the band. You just need to be in the audience when ...
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Jan 20 2020
Ryan McMahon live podcast recording kicks off ALFF
By Amy Kenny
Ryan McMahon calls his own show “the worst named podcast on the Internet,” but he also calls it the best...
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Dec 18 2019
Yukon Arts Centre adds 5 more shows to winter lineup
The Yukon Arts Centre has increased the number of shows it is presenting in the new year that includes comedy, drag queen variety,...
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Dec 12 2019
A solstice tradition
By Amy Kenny
How do you define Canadian music? Maybe it’s Neil Young, or Buffy Sainte-Marie. Maybe it’s The Tragicall...
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Dec 06 2019
RBC Dominion Securities donates $25,000 to YAC
Dianne Bruce, Director’s Council Investment Advisor for RBC and longtime Yukoner, along with Mike Edwards, Branch Manager fo...
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Workshops are on respectful workplaces in the arts and on digital literacy
Dec 05 2019
YAC and N3 offering two informative workshops
WORKSHOP 1
N3/Yukon Arts Centre is pleased to offer a series of workshops over 3 days in Dawson City and Whitehorse in early Janu...
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Dec 04 2019
Solitary and collaborative shows share main gallery
By Amy Kenny
Gukki Nuka is a private person. That’s why it’s a surreal experience for him to be approached by strange...
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Jerry Granelli brings the spirit of Charlie Brown on stage
Nov 21 2019
Behind the silver screen
By Amy Kenny
It’s the most beloved Christmas special to have almost never happened. It seems hard to believe. When A Charli...
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Nov 12 2019
Jazz Yukon enriches music scene
By Amy Kenny
You’ve got to be kidding—that’s the first thing Duncan Sinclair thought when he found out he was t...
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Nov 04 2019
YAC winter lineup announced
The winter lineup for the Yukon Arts Centre (January-March) kicks off with Hawksley Workman in January followed by Samajam and Fir...
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Nov 01 2019
Local comedian to open for Majumder
Yukon's Jenny Hamilton will open for comedian Shaun Majumder at the Yukon Arts Centre on November 16.
Hamilton has been enter...
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Oct 23 2019
Blue Feather Music Festival inspires the heart
By Amy Kenny
A blue feather is a symbol of hope. That’s why, when Gary Bailie established a music festival in Whitehorse in...
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Oct 16 2019
A modern dance fairy tale
By Amy Kenny
For Cas Public, turning 30 isn’t a time to look back—it’s a time to move forward.
“I always...
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Oct 07 2019
A collaborative concert
By Amy Kenny
Jill Barber needs your help on this tour. It literally can’t happen without you. That’s because every se...
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Sep 27 2019
A participatory performance
Music is a participatory sport. That’s what Norman Foote believes. The children’s performer has been making his audien...
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Sep 20 2019
A series that sings
By Amy Kenny
Musicians who come to the Yukon for the Whitehorse Concerts series inevitably ask Steve Gedrose to produce the one t...
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Sep 13 2019
Of myths and motherboards
By Amy Kenny
Lillian Loponen’s family is spread across Canada, but her most recent exhibition at the Yukon Arts Centre Gall...
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Aug 28 2019
Art collection going digital
By Amy Kenny
The Yukon Arts Centre is about to launch the first digitized collection of work in the Yukon, a significant move for...
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Aug 20 2019
To make a memory
By Amy Kenny
There’s something about working with your hands that changes the conversations you have, says Sonya Kelliher-C...
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Aug 05 2019
Programming priceless experiences
By Amy Kenny
When Michele Emslie looks at the crowd milling around the lobby of the Yukon Arts Centre before a show, she’s ...
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Jul 25 2019
A conversation on the arts
Come join a conversation about the arts with Canada Council for the Arts Director and CEO Simon Brault as part of his tour of nort...
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Jul 24 2019
Yukon youth receive awards to write music
Four Yukon youth will be receiving $675 each from the Inspire Song – North for 90 Award to help them write original music.
...
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Jul 19 2019
Putting on the breaks
By Amy Kenny
In a northern example of the butterfly effect, the slow speeds of yesterday’s Internet may be responsible for ...
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Jun 25 2019
Out Innerspace wants to limbo with Whitehorse
By Amy Kenny
Tiffany Tregarthen is an expert when it comes to dance, but she tries not to think about it that way when she’...
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May 29 2019
Yukon weaver and carver showcased in new exhibit
By Amy Kenny
Ann Smith and Brian Walker sit side by side in the shade of the trees on their Long Lake property. The branches and ...
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May 22 2019
A Tribe Called Red performing at Adäka Festival
The Yukon Arts Centre and Adäka Cultural Festival are co-presenting the Canadian DJ collective A Tribe Called Red as the head...
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May 14 2019
Read all about it: Newsies coming to town
By Amy Kenny
Angela Drainville admits it. Founding the Yukon Theatre for Young People was a selfish move.
“I have two teen...
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May 01 2019
Moppets to invade Whitehorse
The Yukon Arts Centre is holding its first kids festival on May 18, called the Midnight Sun Moppets Children's Festival.
This...
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Apr 25 2019
Mittens needed for art exhibit
Mittens and gloves are needed on loan from the public for an upcoming exhibit at the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery.
They are for an a...
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Apr 19 2019
Opera is the rock concert of classical music
By Amy Kenny
Julie Nesrallah knows what you’re thinking, but she isn’t snobby, despite the opera singing.
“I&r...
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Apr 04 2019
Zeitgeist Cabaret comes to the Old Fire Hall
By Amy Kenny
It’s like the tapas bar of theatre. That’s how Jacob Richmond characterizes North of the Sixtieth Parall...
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Mar 25 2019
Tentrees opening for Donovan Woods show
Award nominated Yukon singer/songwriter Gordie Tentrees will open up for Donovan Woods and the Opposition at the Yukon Arts Centre...
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Mar 20 2019
Great opportunities for Yukon artists
The Yukon Arts Centre is now offering two incredible opportunities for Yukon artists.
The @YAC Residency is a commitment to the o...
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Mar 06 2019
Four new exhibits open for March 7 art extravaganza
By Amy Kenny
When Jane Isakson and Kaisu Koivisto opened their exhibition in the main gallery at the Yukon Arts Centre this March...
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Feb 21 2019
Coming to Whitehorse: a collaboration between members of Arcade Fire and the Peggy Baker Dance Project
By Amy Kenny
Peggy Baker’s new project, who we are in the dark, may resonate differently during a Yukon winter than it does el...
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Feb 14 2019
An evening artist talk with Lisa Lambert and Brooke Maxwell
The Guild Hall and the Yukon Arts Centre present an evening talk with Tony Award Winning Composer Lisa Lambert (The Drowsy Chapero...
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Feb 11 2019
Steven Page to lead Yukon Arts Centre’s spring/summer lineup
Former Barenaked Ladies singer Steven Page leads off The Yukon Arts Centre’s spring and summer lineup with a
concert in April, ...
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Feb 07 2019
New administrator of Culture Quest Fund announced
The Dawson City Arts Society will now take over the administering of the Culture Quest Fund from the Yukon Arts Centre.
Jo...
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Jan 29 2019
Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency Deadline
APPLY NOW for the Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency. The deadline is fast approaching on Friday, February 1 2019. Watch the video be...
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Jan 10 2019
YAC’S MAINSTAGE CURTAINS FIND NEW HOMES IN YUKON VENUES
With generous support from Lotteries Yukon, the Yukon Arts Centre has been able to purchase all new theatre curtains, and supply s...
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Snotty Nose Rez Kids, William Prince, Donovan Woods, and more.
Dec 04 2018
THE FINAL 2018-19 LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT
As the Yukon Arts Centre’s 2018-19 season comes to a close this March, we are heading out with performances by some of Canada’...
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Oct 25 2018
A STUDY OF CLOTH AND BEADS BY TERESA VANDER MEER-CHASSÉ
Inspired by the exhibition catalogue for Native Fashion Now produced by the Peabody Essex Museum, the initial idea for A Study of ...
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Oct 18 2018
ALL NEW WORKS, ALL THANKS TO @YAC
Here in the Yukon Territory, we’re so fortunate to be surrounded by incredible artists. Playwrights, actors, musicians, painters...
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Aug 24 2018
A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO FOR THE 2018-2019 SEASON
Dear Patron,
I am thrilled to welcome you to the start of the Yukon Arts Centre’s 2018-2019 season, featuring artists from acr...
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