Sandra Storey’s All in the Dance
Discover the magic of play at Sandra Storey’s newest art exhibit where Tinkertoys inspire artistic expression and nostalgia.
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Licensing Paintings Into People’s Lives
At Anto’s new location on Main Street, Kym Rempel offers products by a diverse range of artists and her own brand of soap and bath products
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Shared Humanities
Arts Underground is hosting an exhibition in their new space featuring Yukon youth aged 13 to 18, to display and sell their incredible works
Yukon In Zurich
The Honouring Our Future exhibition will be shown at NONAM until Sept. 28 and will then return to North America for further consideration
A Journey Through Time And Identity
Yukon Artists @ Work Gallery is hosting a striking and deeply personal exhibition by long-time Yukon resident and artist Marie-Hélène Comeau
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More Than Words
Ernest Chua and Colin Dorward’s Without Saying exhibition is on display at the Yukon Arts Centre until Aug. 29
Unmasking The Everyday
This summer, from June 2 to July 14, YAAW will offer a series of downtown art experiences led by Whitehorse-based artists.
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Northern Pictures: Celebrating Yukon Cinema
Reel Art! This new exhibition at YAAW honors the Yukon Theatre’s 70th anniversary and the Yukon Film Society’s 40th.
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The dress that’s always green and other stories
Nicole Bauberger’s The Dress That’s Always Green, a recycled-glass sculpture radiating creativity and sustainability. Northern Front Studio
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In Reverence to Nature
Jackie Olson and David Curtis honor nature’s resilience. Their exhibitions at YAC blend eco-inspired art and collected materials,
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Young digital artist has a new exhibition
Young artist Riley Cyre debuts her digital art exhibition at YAC, blending creativity, emotion, and vibrant storytelling.
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A Rainbow Connection
I encourage you to go enjoy these two voices expressing themselves in colour, form, repetition and variation, in unexpected harmonies.
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Introducing Abundance
The 14 most recent additions to the Yukon Permanent Art Collection (YPAC) are featured in an exhibition titled Abundance,
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Farewell, Lillian
Laponen ended up in the Yukon 45 years ago after bouncing around Canada for a little bit and having three children.
Riverside Arts Festival Returns
The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) has announced the return of the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival (YRAF)…
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An Invitation To The Party
It’s not going to be easy to go into the solo showroom to see The Party, by Whitehorse-based artist Nicole Bauberger…
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Hecate Press, a stepping stone for northern comic artists
Hecate Press, founded a few years ago by artist Kimberly Edgar, is creating new opportunities for the Yukon’s established and emerging comic artists.
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Yukon Arts Centre Permanent Art Collection: Bella Simo
In 1995, the Yukon Arts Centre began acquiring works by Indigenous and northern art significant to First Nations and northern Canadians.
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Adäka Cultural Festival Comes Back Into The Light—Renewed and International
The Adäka Cultural Festival returns with the light of many suns, in full swing and in person this year! June 29 to July 5 2022
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Monsters Parade Through an Imagined Garden
Nicole Bauberger’s final exhibition as emerging curator at the Yukon Arts Centre Youth Gallery, monsters and flowers created by children.
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Drop Off Your Recycling, Pick Up Some New Idea
Raven Recycling’s Diversions Art Show. Five undertake projects that make use of materials that are abundant at Raven.
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Abstractions underground: Two artists turn inward with new shows
2 exhibitions at Arts Underground. Focus Gallery, Tedd Tucker’s Winter Sketches. Edge Gallery, Heather Von Steinhagen’s Hidden Details.
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Nourished by Nature
Their practices may seem different – Waters is a watercolour artist, Geary is a potter – their materials are drawn from the same elements.
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Fantasy in Miniature
Fantasy in Miniature, brings a little magic. Sharing the Planet features butterflies & moths. Both are at Arts Underground.
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Exploring fading memories at the ODD Gallery
The opening of the recent exhibit at the KIAC ODD Gallery was unique with a mixed live & virtual talk for the Gathering/Tethering exhibit.
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Through a Dark Wood
Jenifer Davidson, Yukon artist, has been creating art for as long as she can remember. More than a hobby, It’s benefitted her mental health.
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Wonders Underground
The Eleventy-Leven postcards are years of original artwork postcards exchanged every Friday between artists Joyce Majiski and Zea Morvitz.
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What’s on for Yukon Riverside Arts Festival 2021?
Yukon Riverside Arts Festival will take place this year in Dawson City August 13-15
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Beast of the Boreal
“It’s not an art form you often see featured in traditional gallery” We wanted to create space for illustration artists to have work seen.
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Coming into the light
The Adäka Cultural Festival is quickly growing into one of Canada’s premiere Indigenous arts and culture festivals
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The Junction and JAR (Junction Artist in Residence)
Landing in Whitehorse for the first time, Henry Navarro Delgado arrived in the Yukon knowing nothing about the place. Delgado wanted to remain as open-minded as possible when he settled into the coveted Junction Artist in Residence (JAR) Program in Haines Junction.
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Celebrating 30 years of northern art and artists
First Nations artists and performers, from across the North, will gather with artists from around the world for the Great Northern Arts Festival on July 13–22.
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It’s a cultured Canada Day in Mayo
The Mayo Arts Festival and Canada Day celebrations are highlights. Everybody is looking forward to the celebrations. 2018
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The Adäka Cultural Festival … celebrating our diverse First Nations arts and culture
The 2020 Adäka Cultural Festival at its idyllic location, the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre located on Whitehorse’s beautiful waterfront.
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The ODD Gallery showcases Tamika Knutson’s Skin
Tamika Knutson is a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in citizen who began her art training at the Yukon School of Visual Arts, in Dawson City.
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Freezing for the sake of art…
Ask most people what they do during the cold month of January, and they would say, “Stay inside and keep warm.” The (s)hiver Arts Society, however, wants to change that.
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The 17th Annual Riverside Arts Festival
The Yukon Riverside Arts Festival takes place in the most idyllic of settings – right alongside the Yukon River in Dawson City.
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Make the Most of Your Canada Day!
Enjoy your Canada Day long weekend with festivities that will be 150 times bigger than they have been in the past!
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Celebrate First Nations Culture
The Adäka Cultural Festival features Indigenous artists working in various media from all 14 Yukon First Nations.
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Teslin: Sam Johnston Storytelling Festival
Sam Johnston Storytelling Festival, How Raven Stole the Sun, Salmon Boy, How Summer Came to the Yukon, and Crow and Tlingit Princess.
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Something for Everyone
“The best part of this festival is that we have all these different parts of the community bringing their event”
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(S)hiver Me Timbers
“The dark and the cold are conducive to creativity,” says Carly Woolner, one of the co-founders of Dawson’s (S)Hiver Arts Festival. Blair Douglas, the other
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Calling Aboriginal Artists!
Yukon First Nation Culture and Tourism Association is looking for artists, musicians & performers for the 7th annual Adäka Cultural Festival
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Priska Wettstein: A Love Affair with Photography
Priska Wettstein’s love affair with photography began in 2008 when husband Paul presented her with a camera.
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For the Love of Northern Art
Every year for 10 days, northern artists and art lovers gather in Inuvik, a small town of 3,400 in the NWT, to celebrate culture and
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Resisting and Resurging
This year the Yukon Film Society (YFS) returns to the Adäka Cultural Festival with more First Nations programming.
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2016 Adӓka Cultural Festival: An Exploration of Old and New
2016 Adӓka Cultural Festival: Kaska drummer Dennis Shorty , Gwich’in fiddler Boyd Benjamin, & Inuit throat-singer Kathleen Merritt
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Art Nights in Alaska
First Friday is an opportunity to experience art, and speak with local artists, and enjoy the downtown in a social setting.
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Art Crawl Dawson Style
Blair Douglas and Carly Woolner are hoping you’ll join them outside to have some fun this weekend. They are organizing the second annual edition of
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Invitation for an Authentic Experience
“The time is right for cultural experiences,” says president of First Nations Culture & Tourism, hosting the Sharing Our Stories conference.
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Ideas, Laughter, and Making Art
Armed with everything they need to make art 12 Yukon artists tucked themselves into the woods to make art together.
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Revisiting the Klondike Big Inch
Each year during the Riverside Arts Festival, the ODD Gallery sponsors a paired set of exhibitions called The Natural and the Manufactured, each dealing with
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Wild Cards
The 4th Dawson Daily News Print & Publishing Symposium, part of the annual Yukon Riverside Arts Festival, is taking a walk on the wild side.
Writing Across the Borders
New North Collective, 4 Yukoners, 2 Northwest Territories, & a throat singer from Nunavut at the fifth annual Adäka Cultural Festival.
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Playing With Fire by Theo Fleury
I heard Theo Fleury speak at the Adäka Cultural Festival, but hadn’t yet read Playing With Fire, until recently.I finished it quickly.
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When the Darkness Bleeds Daylight
June 17 – 21 2015: Dawson City Midnight Sun Camera Obscura Festival. This is the follow up to last year’s Dawson City Solstice Symposium
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First Nations share through fashion
Producer of Adäka Fashion Show’s goal is to see the Yukon’s traditional fashions, dance regalia, & bush garments fully represented.
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Ancestral Ways
Juanita has captured Best In Class honours at Santa Fe. She made her first visit to the Yukon, as part of the annual Adäka Cultural Festival
(S)hiver Festival
A brand new event will be taking place in Dawson City on Saturday, January 24. The (s)hiver festival promises a night of art, light, and
Busy Weekend in Dawson City
“This weekend is an iconic celebration of what’s great in Dawson,” says Paul Robitaille. Discovery Days, the Riverside Arts Festival & more
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Makushan-maker
Florent Vollant, appearing at the Adäka Cultural Festival, would celebrate a successful hunt with traditional Innu tradition of the makushan.
Feels Like a Celebration
Journey with Our Hearts and Hands at Adäka Cultural Festival is 13 master carvers from New Zealand, BC, Alaska, the NWT & The Yukon.
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One Foot in a Moccasin, and One in a Sneaker
Marissa Mills, Kluane First Nation, example of what First Nations youth can achieve if they stay true to who they are as Indigenous people.
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Delving into the History of Bear Creek
Bear Creek Compound is owned by Parks Canada now, but it was once the thriving centre of operations for the Yukon Consolidated Gold Corporation (YCGC),
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The Word is Art: Arts festival and publishing symposium take place in Dawson next weekend
The festival season isn’t over yet in Dawson City. From August 15-18, the 13th Annual Yukon Riverside Arts Festival will take place at various venues
Sharing Traditional Art with Europeans
Dennis and I leftRoss River, and landed in Germany on our annual trip to promote tourism, culture, and Yukon artists,.
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Corsets and a Hunger for Colour
It’s spring. For Cori Giacomazzi, that means busy. I had the chance to visit this Canadian garment artist in March at her home in Skagway.
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The Adäka Cultural Festival Aims to Include Everyone
2013 Adäka Cultural Festival: 28 performance groups, 44 visual artists and 50 workshops over 6 days at the Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre.
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Making New Tracks
More and more First Nation dance groups have been popping up. It’s pretty cool to learn their traditional drumming, singing and dancing.
Adäka Cultural Festival – Selkirk Spirit Dancers
After their initial inception, the Selkirk Spirit Dancers had a hiatus, Based in Pelly Crossing it is now comprised of 45 dancers.
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African, French and Japanese Groups Showcase Their Culture
They are not always featured in history books, but since the Klondike Gold Rush people of many ethnic backgrounds have called the Yukon home. On
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Healing and Transformation: Ravenstail Weaving
“A woman needs to have an art form,” says Tlingit Tutchone master weaver. she’ll pass art of weaving to a generation of First Nations women
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Keeping the Stories Alive
Tammy Lee Josie first performed her family’s Vuntut Gwitchin stories at the Yukon International Storytelling Festival
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Art to Share Spirit
SYANA’s first annual Yukon First Nations Arts Festival will have a strong visual arts and crafts focus. That’s what the society’s members asked for. Executive
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From his Basement to the Stage
86Heaven – they’re an informal conglomerate of Yukon hip hop artists headed by Warren Strand a.k.a. Abstract Original.
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Exploring the Atmosphere
BY TARA McCARTHY With her voice softened to a slight whisper, Vanessa Brault sits in the Whitehorse Public Library articulating her penchant for photography. It
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The Fine Art of Old School Femmes
As the last few hours of sunlight pour in through the windows at Baked Café, Lea-Ann McNally sits solo with a large mug clasped in
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Exploring Personhood and the Permanent Collection
The latest exhibitions at the Yukon Arts Centre are possibly best described as “revealing”. About one half of the Public Art Gallery is dedicated to
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Artistic Gifts Aplenty
BY TARA McCARTHY The frosted trees along Whitehorse’s Main Street are lined with Christmas lights. It’s a sure sign that holiday shopping season is here
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Yukon Fashion to Swarm Ottawa Runway
When you live in a place where it is winter for half the year you would expect fashion to be restricted to parkas and boots.
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Supporting the Economy Through the Arts
Supporting the Economy Through the Arts You could expect a 10-years lifespan from mining projects, and Hakonson is well aware that placer miners have been
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Honouring Women for Who They Are
The community hall of the Centre de la francophonie has been transformed with a new set of artistic creations for an exhibition presented by Les
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Exposing Natural Artistry
With such an abundance of established and emerging artists lurking throughout the territory, exhibitions are no longer simply confined to galleries. For more than a
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Bird’s Eye View
Emerging artist Jesse Devost examines things from a different angle. “I find quite often when you go to a town, it looks so cohesive, but
The Recognizable and the Rare
For those who have never ventured above the 60th parallel, the Yukon can encompass a sense of mystery and awe. A territory where the sun
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Down by the riverside
Throughout history, rivers have been associated with life. It seems appropriate, then, that those who create would celebrate alongside the Yukon River. The Yukon Riverside
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New Show of Portraits Mixes Softness of Beauty with Edge of Reality
There’s a feeling of gentleness and raw humanity to Whitehorse artist Suzanne Paleczny’s portraits, which is an amazing thing considering they are, at their base
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Former Yukon SOVA Student Wins Art Prize
“You hear people say, ‘You really need to grow a backbone.’ So I decided people could use this spine to give them the courage and
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100 under $100
While you’re out craft-fair-sale-ing in search of one-of-a-kind, homemade-in-the-Yukon Christmas gifts, swing by Cadence Cycle in downtown Whitehorse. Artist Nicole Bauberger is presenting her annual
Duels and Prey: Artful Egos
Welcome to Guns ‘n’ Ammo, your friendly one-stop firearm, tank and contortionist show! This is not a quote from the artist statements at the ODD
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100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Years
“I find women in the Yukon, and Dawson in particular, an incredibly strong group,” says Penny Soderlund, a member of the Public Service Alliance of
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??Women’s Day in Art, Music & Word
A colourful moment catches my eye as I stand in line at the deli this week. Two hands meet across the top of the cheese
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Capsule of Berlin
A room-sized capsule of contemporary art from Berlin is about to open at the ODD Gallery, where the walls will be hung with close to
Adaka – A Festival for Sharing
Boyd Benjamin & Kevin Barr, ambassadors of Yukon music at the Vancouver Olympics will play at new Adäka Cultural Festival
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Gazing North
There is a buzz of excitement in the Copper Moon Gallery when I arrive on Friday evening to see the work of Yellowknife artists Jennifer
Ice Meets Erotica
Lord knows we could all use a little erotic melting this time of year. But for me, what Melting Ice: The Erotic Thawing of the
Colour Me Mayo
Mayo is often Yukon’s hot spot in the summer, and this Saturday June 18,2011 it’s the hot spot for the arts and the Mayo Arts Festival
Nomination Hat Trick
Les Walker had a goal. Form the band Common Knowledge, perform at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards (CAMA) and have an album in nomination.
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Creatures of Two Masters
Blurring the Lines, a collaborative show by Whitehorse potter Larry DuGuay and clay sculptor Sandra Storey, presents a playful, exploratory and successful merging of artistic
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Double Minds, Double Exposures
Something was different upstairs at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture that afternoon. The wood floors and high ceilings make the second-floor ballroom usable
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