Tamika Knutson had not thought of carving out a career in art when she was in high school. The Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in citizen grew up in Dawson and graduated from Robert Service School. After what she describes as a...
Read MoreWhat is behind this curious display?What thoughts or intentions are these objects meant to communicate?What part of the larger whole do they play?Jessica Vellenga is interning as a community curator and programming at the Yukon...
Read MoreBack in Column #2 of this series, I promised you a couple of moving stories about Dawson buildings.My last column should certainly have made it clear that I was thinking about actual physical relocation rather than a tug at the...
Read More“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 Canada (PSAC) Dawson Regional Women’s Committee.”There...
Read MoreThe 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 MoreOn August 29 the Klondike School House, called Tr’odek Hatr’unohtan Zho in the Han language, finally got a home.I’m talking about the Dawson campus of Yukon College, which has been bounced all over town since...
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