KLONDIKE INSTITUTE OF ART & CULTURE
Arts, Culture, and Music at Dënäkär Zho in Dawson City, Yukon
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 […]
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 […]
A sneak peak at Mammoth Hunters 2025, Yukon Fritz Mueller, Teresa Earle In the summer of 2022, a miner struck more than gold in Canada’s Yukon. A fully preserved infant […]
Work on FILM this fall at KIAC Over the past few years, the DCISFF has been running the Dawson Film Lab project. This has involved filmmakers (local and non-local) coming to Dawson […]
Beh Movāzāt / به موازات (In Parallel) FILM SCREENING AND Q&A - with Kiarash Dadgar Monday, September 29th - Doors 7pm, Screening 7:30pm @ KIAC Dënäkär Zho Ballroom Join filmmaker, writer, and […]
Cléo 5 à 7 Directed by Agnès Varda • 1962 • France • 90m Starring Corinne Marchand, Antoine Bourseiller, Dominique Davray Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with […]
Help us choose the films for the 2026 Film Festival View the submissions for the festival and tell us what you think. • Screenings are the short film submissions (about […]
Withnail and I (1987) Dir. Bruce Robinson | England | 1987 | 1h 47min 7pm (doors at 6:30) Free entry and cash concessions. Are you the farmer?! This October 26th, […]
The Big City/Mahanagar (1963) Dir. Satyajit Ray Bengal | 1963 | 2h 16m Free entry, Cash Concessions, doors at 6:30. “You don’t recognize my mole? I’m still the same housewife.” […]
The most fun you can have in 48 hours! Make a film in 2 days! Get it shown on the BIG SCREEN! Our annual 48 hour film challenge is upon […]
YUKON 48 HOUR FILM CHALLENGE SCREENING Saturday, November 22nd Doors 6:30pm Films Start 7pm See all the films made last weekend in the Yukon48 Video Challenge. Films from Dawson, Whitehorse […]
Filmmaker Residency in Dawson City in April 2026 Apply for a residency in Dawson City during the 2026 Dawson City International Short Film Festival. Stay in the historic Macaulay House […]
Rififi (1955) Dir. Jules Dassin France | 1955 | 1h 58m Free entry, Cash Concessions, doors at 6:30. “I got busted in May. In June you were on the Riviera with […]
Dir. Zacharias Kunuk | Igloolik, Nunavut | 2025 | 1h 40m January 18, Dënäkär Zho ballroom 7pm (doors at 6:30) Igloolik, Nunavut, 2000 BCE. Kaujak (Theresia Kappianaq) and Sapa (Haiden […]
Ariel (1987) Dir. Aki Kaurismäki Finland | 1987 | 1h 12m Free entry, Cash Concessions, doors at 6:30. This February 21st, KIAC Classic Films presents Aki Kaurismäki’s Ariel on the […]
Artist in Residence activities include artist talks, studio tours, interactive events, and more.
Founded in 2001, in a partnership with Parks Canada, the KIAC Artist in Residence Program has welcomed over 300 talented artists, musicians and filmmakers to Dawson City from all regions of Canada and around the world. Our alumni include Sobey Art Award nominees, Western Canada Music Award winners, and prize-winning filmmakers from film festivals across the globe.
Check out the current Artists in Residence
Film activities include film screenings, film selections, and more.
KIAC is proud to host an exciting roster of film screenings and film-related events throughout the year, such as the 48 Hour Film Challenge and Dawson City International Short Film Festival, numerous workshops, and other opportunities.
Exhibition activities include gallery viewing hours, exhibition openings, artist talks, calls for submissions, and more.
The ODD Gallery, located in the Dënäkär Zho / KIAC building, presents a wide array of outreach programming including artist talks, openings, lectures, screenings, youth programs and other special events. Gallery programming fosters professionalism and appreciation of regional visual arts practice, and provides the community with exposure and access to a diverse range of contemporary visual arts practices and theories in a remote, northern setting.
Check out the current exhibition
Kids & youth activities include: music lessons, art classes, dance classes, book readings, toddler classes, after-school programs.
Kids and Youth (toddler to teen) programming ranges from music lessons (vocals, piano) to dance class (ballet, hip hop, and more), to hands-on workshops (pottery, screen-printing, animation and more) and is offered regularly throughout the year. KIAC strives to subsidize Kids & Youth programs as much as possible via grants and funding. Programming ranges from free Drop-Ins to registered weekly programs.
Youth Art Enrichment is an annual four-day art program for Yukon youth hosted by the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture in Dawson City. Artistically-inclined youth ages 14 – 18 travel from across the Yukon to take part in intensive workshops led by professional artists. Students choose one of three mediums to study for the duration of the program, learning new skills, techniques, and ways to creatively make artwork for the world to see. The mediums change every year: we have offered printmaking, animation, painting, carving, stained glass, illustration, improv, and much more over the last two decades.
Learn more about Youth Art Enrichment
Performing arts activities include: concerts, theatre and dance performances, open mics, radio broadcasts, special events, and more.
KIAC presents a year-round professional performing arts series in the beautiful second floor Ballroom that actively engages our community and provides inspiring performance opportunities for international, national, and regional artists in many disciplines. Our diverse programming includes jazz, classical, folk & roots, experimental, dance, theatre, and more.
Workshops include: weekly drop-ins, registered programs, weekend workshops, and more.
KIAC presents a year-round schedule of educational opportunities ranging from drop in programs (pottery, screenprinting, seniors painting, concert band), to registered workshops (dance, music, film, visual art, craft, textiles, etc), to professional development opportunities for artists (grant writing, artwork documentation, etc).
Learn more about registration, upcoming courses, and outreach activities.