Over the Rainbow
The Northern Lights School of Dance (NLSD) is bringing the story of The Wizard of Oz to Yukon Arts Centre stage in full colour this […]
Gone Fishing
Many Yukoners live here because they enjoy the active lifestyle, interaction with wilderness, and distance from ties and pencil skirts. A visiting author from the
Horror Picture Show
As a child, storyteller and projection artist Daniel Barrow shielded his eyes from glimpsing the jackets of horror films in the video store. With puberty,
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Alive with Music
For seven years, Digging Roots’ lead guitarist, Raven Kanatakta could not pick up an instrument. “My arms and hands weren’t working,” he says. “I was
An Art of Their Own
On December 15, the Yukon School of Visual Art Dawson City campus will open its doors to the public for its annual Christmas open house
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A Lesson in Taking Shots
I play ping pong every Thursday evening at 6:15 p.m. The Dawson table tennis club has generated attention from the media over past year. One
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Tasting Dawson’s High Society
Sunday, October 16. I arrived at the Scotch Club late. The meeting started at 4 p.m. and I had missed the formal introductions. Two friends
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Visitors Countdown
Sawdust, grass and gravel are flying, there is painting to be done, tidying and dusting—the rural museums around the territory are gearing for the tourist
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Transparency Theory
The Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA) in Dawson City is going on the road. Students and faculty will arrive in Whitehorse next week to
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Tracing Figure Eights
A small gang of eager, young skaters hangs off the side of the players’ bench. Outfitted in snowsuits, oversized mittens and colourful toques tucked under
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Jigging In
By taking her fiddle class online, one fiddle instructor is changing the music education community the in the north. Zavallennahh Huscroft (formorly known as Zav
Adventure starts here
It was novelist Lawrence Hill who told me while we sipped tea in the Downtown Hotel dining room in Dawson in March that his early
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Return of the Wool Legwarmers
August has snuck up on us and now here we are, gazing at September, watching the coming winter roll up like a wave to crash
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Google Gardeners
I made my first real gardening faux pas this week. I cut down the rhubarb. All of it. Sawing through the base of the stalks