A Different Face of Mamet
In graduate school, Stephen Drover “dabbled” with the work of American playwright David Mamet, but he had never directed a full Mamet play.So when the Guild Theatre’s artistic director, Katherine McCallum, told...
Read MoreIssue: 2011-11-03
World of Words: On assignment with Luke Dittrich
If you’ve flipped through a copy of Esquire Magazine in the past four years, there’s a 50 percent chance you’ve read a story by Whitehorse writer Luke Dittrich. And there’s a 40 percent chance...
Read MoreArt Enrichment Time
The first Youth Art Enrichment (YAC) week in Dawson City was inspired in the early years of the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) by the long-running Youth Authors’ Conference that takes place in...
Read MoreHorror 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, his fear of the horrific and obscene became an obsession with the genre.I...
Read MoreAlive 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 worried.”In 1996, halfway through his...
Read MoreNomination Hat Trick
Les Walker had a particular goal in mind when he teamed up with guitarist Clancy McInnis in 2009 to form the band, Common Knowledge.He wanted to perform at the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards (CAMA) and have an album in...
Read MoreGetting the Message
Editor’s Note: Amber Church’s assignment was to gather some impressions of Yukon Educational Theatre’s latest production from a few young audience members who saw it before it travelled to Yukon...
Read MoreWolves, Words & French Press
Not everyone who enters Nakai Theatre’s 24-hour playwriting competition is as prolific as Eva van Loon.Some writers manage to eke out nine pages or so. Others produce a respectable 28 or 30. Some miraculously manage 60...
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