KLONDIKE INSTITUTE OF ART & CULTURE

April Fool! Film Fest fundraiser at Bombay Peggy's
2025-04-01 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Whitehorse) | Bombay Peggy’s, Dawson City, YT, Y0B 1G0, Canada
April 1, 5-7pm!
Purveyor of Popcorn Dan Sokolowski will be bartending at Bombay Peggy’s!
All tips will go to the Dawson City International Short Film Festival!
Come on out, have a cocktail and support the filmfest! A Happy Hour to end all Happy Hours!

Film Workshop: Cameraless filmmaking
2025-04-15 18:30 - 2025-04-18 21:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
SCRATCH IT OUT!
A great opportunity for participants to make their own 35mm animated or experimental film without a camera and without processing film. Animators like Norman McLaren and Len Lye explored the technique of direct cinema in the 1930s and almost 90 years later, it still continuously surprises audiences.
The workshop will explore the multiple techniques of cameraless filmmaking and discover new ones along the way. Over the course of the week, participants will be introduced to materials and tools that can be applied effectively through scratching, painting and collage – directly on to the surface of motion picture film. We will also learn efficient methods of digitizing the work as moving image files using DIY scanning methods and re-purposing existing applications.
As the week progresses, we take our ideas further, shaping our projects with digital sound and music. And finally, we will give our project life, discovering new ways to implement finished films with popular digital editing and projection software.
The final workshop film will be shown at Sunday evening’s 8pm screening.
This workshop will take place in 3 parts, allowing participants to work extensively on their pieces of film with the mentor available for questions and advice.
In the KIAC CLassroom
Tuesday, April 15, 6-9pm
Wednesday, April 16, 6-9pm
Friday, April 18, Noon-3pm
Participants can come to one, 2 or all 3 sessions.
The workshop is free. Please register at filmfest@kiac.ca or 993-5005
Steven Woloshen was born in Laval, Canada in 1960. For more than 30 years, he has passionately created over 50 award-winning, abstract films and time-based installations for festivals, galleries and museums. Twice nominated for Canada’s Governor General’s award, he has received numerous research and creation grants and, most recently, was awarded the 2016 René Jodoin lifetime achievement award, 2015 Wiesbaden Lifetime Achievement Award. Woloshen is a teacher, film conservationist, animator, craftsman and the author of two books, Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker (2010), a hands-on manual for decay, renewal and other handmade, analogue film techniques, and Scratch, Crackle & Pop! A Whole Grains Approach to Making Films without a Camera (2015). Under his own banner, Scratchatopia, Woloshen has hosted solo retrospectives and taught handmade filmmaking techniques at workshops and master classes in Argentina, Morocco, USA, Slovenia, Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Poland, Mexico as well as across Canada.

26th Dawson City International Short Film Festival
2025-04-17 - 2025-04-21 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Its Film Fest time!
The 26th Dawson City Film Fest is coming up (April 17-20). Start planning your weekend!
Want to get an early start? Sign up for our pre-festival workshop. SCRATCH IT OUT! is a hands on cameraless filmmaking experience with renowned filmmaker Steven Woloshen. Starting on Tuesday April 15, you can create you own film by drawing, scratching and painting directly onto 35mm film. There are 3 sessions (April 15, 15 and 18) and you can attend 1, 2 or all 3! It’s free. To sign up email filmfest@kiac.ca.
The festival starts Thursday April 17th with a special showing of the film OLD CROW: A PHILOSOPHY. Directors Erika Tizaya-Tramm and Daniel Janke will be in attendance.
The weekend is full of films, installations, projections, and our now famous Perogie Street Feast, with food and live music out on Princess street on the Sunday afternoon.
Passes available at KIAC, online or at the door.
Individual screening tickets available at the door (cash or credit).
Please arrive early.
Check out all the action on our website!

Thanks to all our funders and supporters!
Yukon Government, Canada Council for the Arts, Telefilm Canada, Heritage Canada, NorthwesTel Community TV, Yukon Energy, Klondike Visitors Association, Newmont Coffee, Schmidt Mining, Air North, Yukon Brewing, Reel Canada, Red Mammoth Bistro, Bombay Peggy’s, NVD Hotels, Parks Canada, SPYA, Yukon Film Society, Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre, Yukon School of Visual Arts, NFB, City of Dawson, Gold Rush, Eldo Enns, Dawson City General Store, johnsteins.com, Arctic Star Printing, Bonanza Market, Lulu Keating, Evan Rensch Appreciation Society, Yukon Spa, Yukon Birch Syrup.
We are humbled to hold our festival on the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in.
