Chris Dufour’s decision to enrol in the Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA) in 2017 turned out to be a good one. Based on an art piece he created in one of the classes offered by SOVA, he was chosen as regional winner...
Read MoreLots of writers can point to a specific event or person that sent them in the direction of a career in writing; Tyrell Johnson isn’t one of those people.“I don’t think it was one specific thing,” he said. “I’ve always loved...
Read MoreOf all the portraits Daphne Lovett-Barber’s has drawn so far, her favourite is one she did of her grandmother.The 5-year-old Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in artist may have just started kindergarten this year, but she has been...
Read More“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 half of the team, chimes in with a smile: “They are also conducive...
Read MoreWhen Kyley Henderson was in elementary school her mother, Elaine, encouraged her to draw,and one year a drawing of hers was used in the Robert Service School yearbook. Elaine, who is herself a landscape painter and sculptor,...
Read MoreEvelyn Koh wanted a reason to stay in Haines Junction. She worked for years in Whitehorse, at the college and for the Yukon government. She also did carpentry and design work. For a while, she traveled back-and-forth between...
Read MoreBack for a third year, the annual Whitehorse Nuit Blanche all-night arts festival brings together national and local artists for an unforgettable solstice weekend.Fancy yourself a night owl? Get ready for 12 hours of engaging...
Read More“It’s the only national theatre festival in Canada,” Selene Vakharia tells me. She, along with a handful of other local creatives, are working on the Yukon end of the traveling theatre festival: Magnetic North, based in Ottawa,...
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