KLONDIKE INSTITUTE OF ART & CULTURE

Classic Cinema: Withnail and I
2025-10-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Whitehorse) | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
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, come and enjoy the KIAC Classic Films presentation of Withnail and I (1987). Written and directed by Bruce Robinson – his directorial debut and second writing credit after 1984’s The Killing Fields which earned him an Academy Award nomination and a BAFTA win – and starring Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, and Richard E. Grant (his debut), this classic film with mega cult status has heaps of quotable lines. In a haze of boozing mayhem, two out of work actor friends resist adulthood and responsibility at the end of the 1960s in Camden Town. After they run out of fivers for the pub, they wind up on holiday (by mistake!) in the British countryside where they face the monotony of the real world they so desperately fear. Although sometimes despairing and definitely abrasive, their friendship and growth is charming and highly quotable!

Film contains mild sex/nudity, no violence, severe profanity and alcohol/drug use, and mild frightening scenes.

(s)hiver Arts Society OPEN STUDIO
2025-10-28 17:00 - 21:00 | ODD Gallery
Join Whitehorse artist Gorellaume in completing his (s)hiver mural
📍 ODD Gallery, Dënäkär Zho🗓️ Tuesday, October 28th, 5pm – 9pm🎨 Free & open to all
Help bring the mural for (s)hiver to life!
Whitehorse-based artist Gorellaume invites the Dawson community to join him in painting and completing his mural installation inside the ODD Gallery. This participatory session is an opportunity to connect, collaborate, and contribute to the evolving artwork.
All materials are provided, and no experience is necessary – just come ready to paint, play, and be part of the creative process.

Rain City Improv: A Night of Laughs with Taz & Rae at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
2025-10-31 20:30 - 23:00
Rain City Improv: A Night of Laughs with Taz & Rae
Co-presented by Yukon Arts Centre
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Doors at 8:30 / Showtime at 9:00
Pay what you want!
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Get ready for a wild ride of laughter and chaos as Taz and Rae take the stage in this one-of-a-kind improv comedy show! Audience participation is the name of the game — they’ll take your local gossip and weird lore to spin into scenes that’ll have you in stitches. Watch as Taz and Rae try desperately to fit in as locals, diving headfirst into the quirks and eccentricities of the city (they’ve done no research, by the way). Expect plenty of laughs as some lucky audience volunteers even get pulled onstage to join the fun. It’s a fun, interactive night out that you won’t want to miss!
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Thanks to our funders: Government of Canada, Yukon Government, Canada Council for the Arts
and show sponsors: Northwestel and TD Bank

Improv Comedy Workshop hosted by Taz VanRassel
2025-11-01 14:00 - 16:00
Co-presented by Yukon Arts Centre
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Location: Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
Sat, Nov 1, 2:00 – 4:00
Drop-in / Pay what you want
For grown-ups
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Join Taz as he leads you through some of his favorite warmups and approaches to improvised scene work in this fun and interactive workshop. You’ll dive into playful exercises that give you a taste of the joy, confidence, and creativity that improv can offer. No experience required!
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Taz VanRassel has been committed to improvisation and comedic performance since 1995 when he first competed in the Canadian Improv Games. He was a founding member of !nstant Theatre company and a mainstage performer with Vancouver TheatreSports League for 15 years.
He runs his own theatre company, Rain City Improv, where he can be found performing in schools across Western Canada. In addition to live performance Taz acts in tv, film, and often commercials where he can’t believe what a product can do.

His biggest accomplishment to date is co-founding The Sunday Service in 2005 and watching it grow into a staple of Vancouver’s comedy scene. Every Sunday at 8pm at the Fox Cabaret!

Taz is a co-founder, teacher, and coach at Blind Tiger Comedy school in Vancouver BC.
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Thanks to our funders: Government of Canada, Yukon Government, Canada Council for the Arts
and sponsors: Northwestel and TD Bank

'Jazz on the Road' - Hannah Mazurek Quartet Live Concert at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
2025-11-07 19:30 - 22:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Fri, Nov 7
Doors open – 7:30 / Music – 8:00
Pay what you want! Reserve your spot at kiacyukon.square.site
Co-presented with Jazz Yukon – ‘Jazz on the Road’
How do you create music that’s simple and comforting, but adventurous and exciting at the same time? In other words, can you make an audience go “ahhhh” in the same sentence as “hunh?” With a dash of vocal jazz syntax, a tablespoon of surprising harmonic progressions, some honest lyricism, and a splash of delightful time signature math, The Hannah Mazurek Quartet will do their best to serve you up a platter of tunes that are equal parts personal and playful. This genre-defying project will combine original composition with favourites from artists that toe the lines between jazz, blues, classical, folk, and whatever else they happened to be listening to that day.
Hannah Mazurek is a Whitehorse-based vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, conductor, composer, and technician. They have performed in concert and theatre settings across the country including the oratorio Miziwe… everywhere by composer Barbara Assiginaak (Koerner Hall, Toronto, 2019), Larrikin Entertainment’s WYRD: A Musical Unfairytale (Yukon Arts Centre, 2023), The Loon Returns (Problematic Orchestra, 2023), and I Think I’m Fallin: The Songs of Joni Mitchell (Belfry Theatre, Victoria, 2023). With a formal background in classical music, they are the current Artistic Director of Whitehorse’s Problematic Orchestra and have composed for theatre, stage, and film.
When they’re not writing or performing, you can find Hannah coiling cables and plugging things in, as well as playing in many, many, many bands. They also do other things, perhaps too many things, but they’ll spare you from having to read a list of them. Learn more at hannahmazurek.com
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The band:
Hannah Mazurek (vocals and keys)
Jordy Walker (guitar)
Adam Cripps (bass)
Jake Jenne (drums)
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photo: Jon Walters
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Thanks to our funders: Government of Canada, Yukon Government, and Canada Council for the Arts
Special thanks to our show sponsor Northern Vision Development (Downtown Hotel, Eldorado Hotel, and Midnight Sun Hotel)

Classic Cinema: The Big City
2025-11-09 19:00 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
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.” This November 9th, come and enjoy the KIAC Class Films presentation of The Big City. The Big City, or Mahanagar, is a 1963 film by Satyajit Ray that depicts what happens when a traditional Bengali middle class family in Calcutta meets the modernity of women’s liberation and empowerment. Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), a housewife and Subrata (Anil Chatterjee), her husband must navigate this change in power dynamics as Subrata loses his job as a bank manager and Arati excels in her new job as a door to door salesperson. Arati’s new job moves her from housebound housewife to downtown dealmaker, giving her independence and confidence that challenge her presumed role and her husband’s masculinity in the patriarchal world of Bengal. Now the breadwinner of the family Arati is faced with the effects of this massive upheaval of roles. Satyajit Ray depicts these rising and falling egos with nuanced dialogue and the fascinating backdrop of 1963 Calcutta.

Kids Dance Class with Jen Suttis
2025-11-10 17:15 - 18:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Kids Dance Class is back! Jen Suttis is teaching two dance classes for five weeks from November 3rd and ending on Dec 1st.
This fall we are offering:
Preschool Dance: 5:15-5:45pm Monday evenings
Kindergarten- Grade 2 Dance: 5:45-6:30pm Monday evenings
!Registration is full!

YUKON48 Film Challenge. Join in the fun!
2025-11-14 17:30 - 2025-11-16 17:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
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 us!
Join for anywhere in the Yukon and beyond!
$20 per team! Free for youth!
For all the rules and how to sign up check out the website!

Queer Paint Night
2025-11-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
In the KIAC Dënäkär Zho Classroom from 7 – 9 PM once a month.
November 14th
December 5th
January 16th
$5 Drop in + Extra material costs.

ODD Gallery 2027/28 Open Call for Exhibition Submissions
2025-11-19 - 2026-01-19 | ODD Gallery
The ODD Gallery is excited to announce our nationwide Exhibition Open Call for artists and curators across Canada! Selected applicants will have the opportunity to present their work in the ODD Gallery between May 2027 and March 2028.
The Call for Submissions will be open from 12:00 AM AST on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 until 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, January 19, 2026.
If you—or someone you know—would like to bring artwork to our gallery on the edge of the Arctic, please visit our Call for Submissions page for full details on eligibility and how to apply.
Please email gallery@kiac.ca if you have any questions.
We look forward to seeing your proposals and sharing your work with our community.

Yukon 48 Film Screening
2025-11-22 18:30 - 21:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
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 and beyond!
Odd films, warm popcorn and awards! Please join us to watch and celebrate this years’ 48 hour film challenge!
Vote for your favourite!
$5 or PWYC. Cash Bar.

Open Studio & Artist Talk with Bronwyn Butterfield
2025-11-25 17:30 - 19:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Open Studio & Artist Talk with Bronwyn Butterfield
ODD Gallery @ Dënäkär Zho
Tuesday, November 25th
Talk 6:30pm Open 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Bronwyn is a Cree/Métis beadwork artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has been using the ODD Gallery as a studio over the past few weeks as part of KIAC’s Members Access. Join us on Tuesday evening to hear what she’s been up to in the studio!
Refreshments Provided

https://bronwynbutterfield.com/

Les Hay Babies – Tintamarre! - Concert à Dënäkär Zho / KIAC
2025-11-26 19:30 - 22:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Les Hay Babies – Tintamarre!
(English version available below)
Dans le cadre du Coup de cœur francophone 2025, Le Klondike Institute of Arts & Culture en partenariat avec l’Association franco-yukonnaise sont fières de vous présenter le spectacle des Hay Babies, Tintamarre!
Description
Les Hay Babies, c’est d’abord des amies : le fun passe avant le travail, pis le travail se fait dans le fun. Acadiennes d’origine néo-brunswickoise, Julie Aubé, Katrine Noël et Vivianne Roy avancent leur folk-rock pluriel et pétillant depuis plus d’une décennie, renouvelant leur proposition musicale à chaque parution. Découvertes via l’EP indie-folk / country Folio en 2012, elles rappliquent deux ans plus tard avec Mon homesickheart en 2014, un premier album aux sonorités folk-rock contemporaines. Le rock 60s / 70s et les ballades 80s de La 4ième dimension (version longue) suivent en 2016, puis la pop / disco 70s de Boîte aux lettres en 2020. Un quatrième album, Tintamarre, celui-ci inspiré du roots rock des jukeboxes louisianais, est paru en octobre 2024. Changements de cap toujours, donc – ce qui fait autant la marque du groupe que son entrain indéfectible et son intérêt pour l’actualisation des sons passés.
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The Hay Babies – Tintamarre
As part of Coup de Cœur Francophone 2025, the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, in partnership with the Association franco-yukonnaise (AFY), is proud to present The Hay Babies – Tintamarre!
Description
Les Hay Babies are friends first: fun comes before work and work is done while having fun. New Brunswick-born Acadians Julie Aubé, Katrine Noël and Vivianne Roy have been bringing forth their sparkling, multifaceted folk-rock for over a decade, renewing their musical proposition with each new release. Since forming a band in 2011, they have launched their EP Folio (2012) and the albums* Mon homesick heart* (2014), La 4ième dimension (version longue) (2016), and Boîte aux lettres (2020), shifting from indie-folk and country to classic rock and disco. They reinvent their sound once again with their fourth album, to come out in 2024: a trademark of theirs as much as their unwavering drive and interest in actualizing sounds from past decades.
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L’Association franco-yukonnaise remercie ses bailleurs de fonds, Coup de cœur francophone et leurs partenaires pour leur appui essentiel à la réalisation de cet événement. / The Association franco-yukonnaise thanks its funders, Coup de cœur francophone, and their partners for their essential support in making this event possible.

Gouvernement du Yukon
Gouvernement du Canada
Lotteries Yukon
Jazz Yukon
Northern Vision Développement
MusicAction
SiriusXM
UnisTV
Radio-Canada
Gouvernement du Québec
Socan
Akufen

KIAC Art & Craft Fair & Volunteer Sign-Up 2025
2025-11-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
KIAC ART & CRAFT FAIR & Volunteer Sign-up 2025
This years vendors!

When: Saturday, November 29th from 10 AM – 4 PM
Where: KIAC Dënäkär Zho Ballroom & Odd Gallery
Accessibility Hour: 10 am – 11 am
Accessibility Hour is for anyone who:

Has concerns around their immune health – wearing face coverings & masks is encouraged during this hour
Has anxiety around crowds – this hour is less busy than the rest of the day
Has accessibility needs (physical and neurological) – KIAC staff are on call for support and the space is easier to navigate during this hour
Has food allergies – the concession will be closed during this time
Has hearing impairments – this hour is quieter than the rest of the day and therefore easier to communicate to vendors
Etc!

Concession Open: 11 am – 4 pm
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! Fill out the form below or get in touch! Volunteer Sign-Up (Art & Craft Fair 2025)Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.
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Name: (First and Last)Email:Phone #:How would you like to volunteer? Decorating / Setup - day beforeSetup / Vendor Support - day ofHosting / Vendor Support - day ofConcession - day ofConcession Donation (baking/cooking)Photo / Video - day ofTeardown / Vendor Support - day ofSubmit
*For those who have registered to be a vendor and have not yet paid please find the confirmation email in your inbox (or spam) with the payment link attached, or come into KIAC during office hours to pay in person.
Vendor Registration is NOW FULL, but if you would like to be put on the waitlist please follow the steps below:

Fill out Google Form
We will contact you if a table becomes available on a first-come-first-serve basis!

Table Rates:
Members: $45
Non-Members: $60
Students/65+: $30
Tr’ondëck Hwëch’in & Yukon First Nation: Free

Tables will be set up in the KIAC Ballroom (upstairs) and the Odd Gallery (downstairs).
The Odd Gallery will be designated for vendors who have accessibility requests (low volume zone, physically accessible without need to use stairs or elevator).

Contact:
Lacey Leforte (she/her): programmingassistant@kiac.ca
Chloé Selarque (she/her): admin@kiac.ca
867.993.5005
KIAC Office Hours
Tuesday – Friday 10AM-4PM
(closed 1PM-2PM, Wednesdays closed 11:30AM – 2PM)

An Evening with Author / Composer Daniel Janke: Reading & Musical Performance
2025-12-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Join Author / Composer Daniel Janke for a reading from his debut collection of stories “Book of Heroes” on Mosaic Press and a musical performance from his latest song cycle “Map of You”

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In Book of Heroes, composer, filmmaker, and writer Daniel Janke turns his artistic lens to fiction in a witty and deeply reflective debut collection where ordinary lives become the stage for extraordinary acts of grace and resilience. These are stories of travellers and observers. From the serene and starkly beautiful Yukon to a perilous swim on the beach in The Gambia, and the sharp musings of a homeless philosopher beneath a city bridge, Book of Heroes charts a world where the everyday clashes with the utterly surreal. Its characters, caught between the mundane and the fantastic, are called to act, sometimes bravely, sometimes absurdly, but always with heart.
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Map of You is a new recording release from Canadian composer Daniel Janke, featuring soprano / pianist Rachel Fenlon. The song cycle was composed in 2023 – 2024, and recorded in Berlin in early 2025. It is themed on the different types of love, the existential nature of love, and explores the question of whether we have truly experienced love in our lives.
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Daniel Janke is a writer, composer, and filmmaker based near Whitehorse, Yukon. Creator of the CBC series Northern Town and the award-winning NFB film How People Got Fire, he has collaborated with leading Canadian musicians. Book of Heroes is his debut fiction collection, following decades of multidisciplinary creative work.

Drawlidays VI Portrait Exhibition
2025-12-12 19:00 - 21:00 | ODD Gallery
Drawlidays VI Portrait Exhibition! 2025
On Friday, December 12th, The ODD Gallery will host an opening reception for artists and community members to enjoy this years Drawliday portraits! The exhibition is a perfect place to meet and greet and thank your fellow artists!
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Portraits are for keepsies, but we’d like to keep them on display for ONE WEEK ONLY. This means on Friday, December 19th, 2025, you’ll walk away with a new rendering of yourself to hang proudly above your mantle.
PORTRAIT REVEAL EXHIBITION OPENING: 7-9pm, Friday, December 12th. On display at the ODD Gallery until December 19th.
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Registration for Drawlidays VI is NOW CLOSED! (thank you to everyone who signed up!)
Signing Up Means: You commit to creating a portrait and you make a donation to KIAC on behalf of the person you are drawing!
This is a fundraising event for the ODD Gallery. Funds from Drawlidays go towards Gallery programming such as visiting artist workshops and outreach programs.
Suggested Drawlidays donation is $5 – $25.
If you are signed up and haven’t made a donation please do so at the link below!
DONATE HERE: https://square.link/u/WT2TpXBu (or donate in person during KIAC office hours)
DEADLINE FOR PORTRAIT DROP OFF: Thursday, December 4th @ 4pm
DEADLINE FOR PORTRAIT PICK UP: Friday, December 19th @ 4pm.
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For more information or questions please contact:
Lacey Leforte (she/her)
programmingassistant@kiac.ca
(867)-993-5005

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KIAC Opening Hours:
Tuesday – Friday
10 am – 4 pm (closed 1pm-2pm, closed Wednesdays 11:30am-2pm)

Filmmaker Residency April 2026: Deadline to apply December 15
2025-12-15 08:00 - 23:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
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 to work on your project and attend the 2026 Film Fest and experience Dawson City.
The residency is for the month of April coinciding with the festival on April 2-5, 2026.
Applications now open. Deadline to apply December 15, 2025.

All disciplines of media art will be considered, including but not limited to: Installation, Performance, Video and Film, Filmmaking, New Media, and Audio.
KIAC is committed to fostering a residency program that reflects the diverse voices and experiences of contemporary art. We actively encourage and prioritize applications from artists of diverse cultural, geographic, and disciplinary backgrounds, including those who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour (BIPOC), as well as LGBTQIA2S+ artists, artists with disabilities, and others who have been historically underrepresented in Canadian and international arts contexts.
For more info go to https://www.dawsonfilmfest.com/filmres.html

In partnership with Parks Canada.

The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture and the Film Festival
operates on the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in.

CANCELLED: A Winter-themed Classical Music Concert with Tessa Fackelmann (Mezzo Soprano) & Jerome de los Santos (Piano)
2025-12-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Fri, Dec 19 at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
Doors open at 7:30 / Music at 8:00
Pay-what-you-want
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A Winter-themed classical music concert with Tessa Fackelmann (Mezzo Soprano) & Jerome de los Santos (Piano)
Co-presented by the Yukon Arts Centre
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Tessa Fackelmann, mezzo-soprano, is rapidly emerging as a distinctive voice among the next generation of operatic talent, praised for her expressive tone, compelling stage presence, and emotional depth. In 2025, she made her role debut as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro with Sarasota Opera, and was later named an International Finalist in the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition. An alumna of The Santa Fe Opera’s Apprentice Singer Program, Fackelmann made her company debut as the Kitchen Girl in Rusalka (2023), followed by her role debut as Ruth in the world premiere of The Righteous (2024). She also covered Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni during her time there.
Recent accolades include being named a 2024 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition National Semifinalist, receiving the Rumbold Vocal Prize from Edmonton Opera, and the Grand Jury Prize from Opéra de Montréal. Highlights of her 2025/26 season include debuts with Opéra de Montréal (Jenůfa), The Dallas Opera (The Little Prince), and Edmonton Opera’s Bravi! Opera’s Greatest Hits. Originally from Ottawa, Canada, Fackelmann continues to build a dynamic career defined by versatility, sincerity, and a deep connection to text and character.
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Originally from Los Angeles, Jerome de los Santos is quickly establishing himself as a collaborative pianist in Montréal. A natural collaborator, Jerome’s affinity for exploring language and music has led him to a wide-ranging career in opera, art song, music theatre, dance, and other forms. He is in demand as a ballet pianist and serves as a member of the music staff at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballets Jazz Montréal, and Danse à la carte.
This summer, he served on the music staff at the Académie internationale vocale de Lachine and was a featured soloist with the orchestra Ensemble Obiora in Saint-Saëns’ Le Carnaval des animaux, conducted by Rafael Payare at Maison Symphonique. In May 2026, he will be the rehearsal pianist for Bizet’s Carmen at Opéra de Montréal.
Jerome holds degrees from the Schulich School of Music of McGill University and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has received further training at the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and the Atelier Lyrique at Opéra de Montréal, where he is currently a member of the music staff.
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Thanks to our funders: Government of Canada, Yukon Government, and Canada Council for the Arts
And our local sponsor Northern Vision Development / The Downtown Hotel
And a huge thanks to our co-presenter Yukon Arts Centre

CANCELLED - Coffee House & Open Mic Night
2026-01-10 19:00 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Join us for a family-friendly open mic night. Come prepared to perform or simply enjoy the local talent and treats. Admission by donation. All funds raised will be donated to a community group.

THIS SUNDAY - Classic Cinema: Rififi
2026-01-11 06:30 - 22:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
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 a gigolo. You didn’t lose any time.” This December 14th catch the heist movie that established the heist movie genre on the big screen at KIAC/ Dënäkär Zho Ballroom. KIAC Classic Films presents Jules Dassin’s Rififi/Du Rififi Chez les Hommes (1955) in all its gritty tense hard-boiled pulp glory. An acclaimed director, Jules Dassin had a long career in Hollywood in the 1940s until he was accused of being a communist and blacklisted. The film depicts Tony “Le Stephanois” who is just out of prison in Paris when his Italian pal Mario tells him about a foolproof score he’s got lined up. After seeing his old girlfriend, Mado living large with the local gangster, how could he really say no to some easy money. The scheme becomes more and more elaborate and the stakes get higher and higher until you could cut the tension with a knife. Rififi is famous for its 30-minute silent robbery scene – no dialogue, no music. ASMR before ASMR! This film screening should not be missed.

Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) - This Sunday!
2026-01-18 18:30 - 21:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
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 Angutimarik) were promised to each other at birth. After the sudden death of Kaujak’s father, her mother marries a man from another camp tearing the young lovers apart. The promise of a better life quickly turns to a nightmare, with aggressive suitors backed by an evil shaman vying to win Kaujak’s hand. But Kaujak resists, holding on to hope that Sapa will one day make things right.
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“All of my films are based in local stories and traditions from my local area,” said Kunuk. “For me, a film has to not only have a strong, unique story and characters that people can relate to, it also has to be very accurate to the local traditions of my area. I see my role and responsibility as a filmmaker and artist as someone who can record and document our past traditions and culture for future generations, to re-write
our history from our perspective. 100 years from now when we are long gone, our films will still be here to show people how it was done. That is why everything needs to be very accurate, so I work with elders and experts to make sure the dialogue, costumes and clothing, tools, etc. are exactly as it would have been in the past.”
Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) is co-written by Kunuk and Samuel Cohn-Cousineau (Tautuktavuk: What We See, Tia and Piujuq), and produced by Carol Kunnuk, Jonathan Frantz (Tautuktavuk: What We See, The Shaman’s Apprentice, One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk) and Cohn-Cousineau, with Susan Avingaq (Tautuktavuk: What We See, Tia and Piujuq, Uvanga) and Zacharias Kunuk serving as executive
producers and Cecilia Greyson (Tautuktavuk: What We See) as Associate Producer.
Cinematography by Jonathan Frantz and Thomas Leblanc-Murray (Festin Boréal, Me Without You), costume design by Susan Avingaq, production design by Avingaq and Melanie McNicoll (Uvanga) and editing by Kunuk, Frantz and Raphael Sandler (Sam & Jean).
The film is being distributed in Canada by Isuma Distribution International.

Naomi Kavka (DCMF Songwriter-in-residence) Live Concert
2026-01-22 19:30 - 22:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Doors at 7:30pm // Show at 8:00pm
Tickets by donation at the door. All proceeds support the DCMF Songwriter-in-Residence program!

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Naomi Kavka is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Smithers, BC. A classically trained cellist, vocalist, and guitar player, Kavka brings a myriad of influences to her songs, forming a daring indie-rock sound that is musically polished, lyrically visceral, and emotionally raw. Her songs come from the unique perspective of a queer woman, a child of a refugee, a resident of the precipice of the wilderness of Canada.
Kavka’s band, Geoff McFarlane (Handsome Eli) Ian Olmstead (Alex Cuba), Justin Gendreau (Pitted), and Jordy Walker, deftly support her as they perform deeply intimate, political, and cathartic songs. Brought together by soundscapes and comradery, they blend their backgrounds of jazz, classical music, folk traditions, and rock to communicate complex emotional landscapes. Their latest album “Then and Now” (June 2024) is a collection of 8 songs produced by Jordy Walker. Ranging from driving indie jams, melancholic ballads, snarky anthems, and art rock improvisations, “Then and Now” demonstrates Kavka’s fearlessness and range as a performer and songwriter.

FOYPAC Photo Sessions - January 2026!
2026-01-23 10:00 - 2026-01-24 18:00 | ODD Gallery
When:Friday, Jan 23 — 10am–6pmSaturday, Jan 24 — 12pm–6pm
Where:ODD Gallery, 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
REGISTRATION REQUIREDPlease sign up using the GOOGLE FORM

Are you applying to the Yukon Permanent Art Collection?FOYPAC, in partnership with KIAC, is offering free professional artwork photography sessions to support artists preparing their submissions.
You can view the assessment criteria that guide the Friends of the Yukon Permanent Art Collection in their annual selection of artworks for the collection here. If there are any barriers or challenges to applying, please contact the Art Curator at arts.yukon@yukon.ca or 667-5858.
Review guidelines and complete the submission form in English and French.
To learn full details about the call for submissions, visit online at: FOYPAC.ca

Eligibility
Work will be considered from all artists; however, preference will be as follows:

Yukon artists – an artist with 12 months’ residence on the closing date of the call for submissions. A resident is an individual who has, as their primary place of living, a Yukon address.
New or temporary Yukon artists – an artist living in the Yukon with less than 12 months of residence on the closing date of the call for submissions.
Expatriate artists – an artist who was previously a Yukon resident but no longer has a Yukon address.
Non-Yukon artists – an artist who does not and never has lived in the Yukon, whose work has a resonance in the north.

Photography by John Howland

Please email Jessica if you have any questions
gallery@kiac.ca

Needle Felt a Mushroom!
2026-01-31 15:00 - 17:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Janet Patterson will be hosting a needle felting workshop on Saturday, January 31st from 4-6pm in the KIAC Classroom.
This class will be all about mushrooms!! Make any kind of mushroom you’d like, a replica of a real mushroom or make up your own funky mushrooms!
Registration Full!
Registration fee: $15 cash at the door
Email programs@kiac.ca for more info

ODD Gallery Open Call for Curatorial Jurors | 2027–28 Exhibition Cycle
2026-02-04 10:00 - 2026-02-20 17:00 | Online
How to apply
Complete the Google Form or email gallery@kiac.ca with any questions.
Call open Feb 4–20, 2026
About the ODD Gallery Curatorial Jury
ODD Gallery is seeking artists, curators and community members to join our Curatorial Jury for the 2027-28 exhibition cycle.
Jurors play a central role in reviewing exhibition proposals and helping shape what artwork comes to Dawson City and the Yukon. This is a hands-on opportunity to gain curatorial experience, better understand how exhibitions are selected, and contribute to the gallery’s evolving values and ethical practices.
The jury process includes three rounds of review, most of which are completed remotely, with flexible scheduling between February – July 2026. Final selections are made collaboratively during a facilitated group discussion.
Why participate?

Build curatorial and juror experience for your CV
Learn how exhibitions are selected (especially valuable for artists)
Help shape ODD Gallery’s exhibition program and curatorial direction
Free KIAC membership and additional thank-you compensation depending on participation level
Remote-friendly process with clear time commitments

Who Can Apply
This opportunity is open to anyone 18 years of age or older who feels a connection to the Yukon, with a particular focus on people connected to Dawson City.
You do not need to be a current resident to apply. We welcome applicants whose connection to the region may be past or present, long-term or seasonal.
Connections may include (but are not limited to):

Living in Dawson City or elsewhere in the Yukon, now or in the past
Spending summers or working seasonally in the Yukon
Growing up here or having family ties to the region
Work or life experience in the Yukon (arts-related or otherwise)
Participating in a residency, program, or project in Dawson City or elsewhere in the Yukon

Formal curatorial experience is not required. We’re interested in people who bring care, curiosity, and a sense of responsibility toward this place and its artistic communities.

Jaimie Robson | Uprooted Opening Reception
2026-02-06 19:00 - 21:00 | ODD Gallery
February 6 – March 14, 2026 ODD Gallery, Dënäkär Zho | KIAC Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory, Dawson City, Yukon

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, February 6th at 7PM – 10PM

UPROOTED

Uprooted is an immersive shadow installation that explores notions of collective loss and grief as they relate to impending climate change. The work grapples with wildfires that are wreaking havoc on the landscape and uprooting small communities. The project begins on the forest floor, bringing a microscopic lens to the ground beneath our feet. This up-close perspective serves as an entry point for thinking about larger issues of climate anxiety, uncertainty, and the notion of solastalgia.

About Jaimie Robson
Jaimie Robson is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in cut paper/shadow and porcelain. She uses traditional craft-based techniques to create contemporary artworks and installations. In 2011, she co-founded the artist collective Mere Phantoms, along with Atelier Make, a ceramics studio in Montreal. She completed her BFA at Emily Carr University (2002) and an MA (Media Studies) at Concordia University in 2012. She has exhibited in Canada and internationally, including the Istanbul Biennial (2013), Brandts Museum (Denmark, 2015), Grunt Gallery (2017), Hamilton Art Inc, and Surrey Art Gallery (2022). Jaimie has led numerous neighbourhood-based public art projects and brings participatory practices elements into her work.

Crédits:

Uprooted bénéficie du soutien financier du Conseil des arts du Canada et du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Credits:

Uprooted benefits from the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

ODD Gallery Exhibition | UPROOTED by Jaimie Robson
2026-02-06 19:00 - 2026-03-14 16:00 | ODD Gallery
JAIMIE ROBSON | UPROOTED
February 6 – March 14, 2026
ODD Gallery, Dënäkär Zho | KIAC
Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory, Dawson City, Yukon
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, February 6th at 7PM – 9PM
UPROOTED
Uprooted is an immersive shadow installation that explores notions of collective loss and grief as they relate to impending climate change. The work grapples with wildfires that are wreaking havoc on the landscape and uprooting small communities. The project begins on the forest floor, bringing a microscopic lens to the ground beneath our feet. This up-close perspective serves as an entry point for thinking about larger issues of climate anxiety, uncertainty, and the notion of solastalgia.
Artist Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist based in Montreal. I use traditional craft-based techniques to create contemporary artworks and installations. The artworks in this exhibition represent my ongoing interest in working with cut paper in relation to elements of light and shadow. Having grown up on BC’s west coast, the mossy forest floor is the most comforting place I can conjure and is one I return to often, both in my imagination and in real life
My work is inspired by the natural world and by the fragility and complexity inherent within notions of home and belonging. Uprooted explores the intersection between these two concerns. The abstracted imagery that makes up these artworks emerged from microscopic explorations of the forest floor. This perspective opened a pathway to exploring climate anxiety, uncertainty and solastalgia – the distress and grief one feels when a familiar environment is altered beyond recognition.
Viewers encounter the work through projected light, activating intricate paper cutouts of imagined natural forms and clustered houses. As shadows shift and expand across the space, small gestures become monumental. The shadowy transformations of scale, movement and complexity invite reflection on themes of vulnerability and resilience, and on the ways our sense of home is shaped, disrupted, and reimagined.
This work builds on the shadow-based work I have been creating with Mere Phantoms Studios over the past twelve years (https://www.merephantoms.com/). It is the first iteration of a longer-term creative-research process.
About Jaimie Robson
Jaimie Robson is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in cut paper/shadow, and porcelain. She uses traditional craft-based techniques to create contemporary artworks and installations. In 2011 she co-founded the artist collective Mere Phantoms, along with Atelier Make, a ceramics studio in Montreal. She completed her BFA at Emily Carr University (2002) and an MA (Media Studies) at Concordia University 2012. She has exhibited in Canada and internationally including the Istanbul Biennial (2013), Brandts Museum (Denmark, 2015), Grunt Gallery (2017), Hamilton Art Inc, and Surrey Art Gallery (2022). Jaimie has led numerous neighbourhood-based public art projects and brings participatory practices elements into her work.

Crédits: Uprooted bénéficie du soutien financier du Conseil des arts du Canada et du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Credits: Uprooted benefits from the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.ritory: Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory, Dawson City, Yukon.
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An Evening with Destroyer at Dënäkär Zho / Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
2026-02-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
An Evening with Destroyer
Fri, Feb 13 at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
Co-presented with the Dawson City Music Festival

doors open at 7:30 / music at 8:00
Tickets on sale here

Opening set by Cryptozoologists (solo)
Since 2016, Cryptozoologists have been creating scrappy art rock in Whitehorse, Yukon, with acclaim and without it. Backwater Station, their new album, is the band at their most honed and confident, a culmination of a decade of irreverent and angst-fueled songwriting in Whitehorse’s fast-changing social landscape. As contrast to the romanticization of Whitehorse as the unblemished, so-called “wilderness city,” the album’s nine songs centre elements of the left-behind, the unremarkable, and the undesired of the gentrifying urban public sphere – the city’s undeveloped gravel lots, its puke averted on the sidewalk, and the route of its human waste to the municipal sewage lagoon.

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What is a “boogie”? In the common tongue, it’s a dance or an occasion to dance, a song or a shindig, an incitement to move, quickly, whether it’s on the floor or out of town, getting down or lying low. This being a Destroyer album and not the common tongue, the implications of a title like Dan’s Boogie are at once more alluring and dangerous. “A boogie is a hustle, a scam that doesn’t quite work, the moves we make when we’re up against it,” explains Dan Bejar. “I think of spy work, double agents, sleeping with one eye open, an eye on the exits. But I also think of petty street-level victories and losses and improv.”
Dan’s Boogie is a breakthrough album for Destroyer, both in the sense that it makes moves that no Destroyer album to this point has made, and in the sense that, to record it, Bejar had to burst through a series of intentional and unintentional barriers to write the songs. Initially challenging himself to not write songs so the ideas would well up inside of him until they breached containment, the months following the completion of LABYRINTHITIS turned into one year then two, at which point Bejar gave himself a New Year’s resolution to play the piano every day for an hour. That lasted about four days, but the songs Bejar credits as coming from that resolution—“Cataract Time,” “Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World,” “Bologna,” and “Dan’s Boogie” among them—are all-timer Destroyer songs across the vast spectrum Bejar and his collaborators have established for themselves: spectacle-laden pop epics, personal piano ballads, and smouldering works of mood that blur the lines between song and novel and cinema, each brimming with the urgency of a state secret in the mind of a tortured spy.
Lead single “Bologna” is the most radical frame for this energy, as it’s the first time Bejar wrote a song where he imagined himself as a supporting character. Taking lead is Fiver’s Simone Schmidt, whose voice—tough and expressive, piercing through the murk of the scene—is a siren’s call that haunts the album. The gravity of their voice pulls Dan’s Boogie into order around a sense of impending doom, the way a fatale’s promise of the unusual and the ecstatic dooms the principal character of an erotic thriller.
“Hydroplaning Off the Edge of the World” is a delicious bit of contradiction, a peppy song that came out of the havoc Bejar was intentionally wreaking on himself—its holiday cheeriness making the angst of its lyrics go down smoothly until the song veers off the road. “We are now entering a new phase,” Bejar intones, introducing layers of guitar and synthesizer that considerably darken the palette as he alternates between singing and speaking. The lyrics and vocals are improvised, invented as Bejar recorded the demo in his garage—a manic stream-of-consciousness and simultaneously exquisite display of his songwriting mastery.
Contradiction informs much of Dan’s Boogie, the fog swirling around Bejar illuminated by the friction between competing truths and tastes, as when his interest in jazzy ballads runs aground on producer and bassist John Collins’ interest in bands like Led Zeppelin and Scritti Politti. When Bejar told Collins that he was thinking of Sammy Davis Jr., the title track bloomed into being, Bejar adopting a Rat Pack swagger with almost delusional glee against a dreamy soundscape of soaring guitars, lush horns, jazz drumming, spaced-out synths, and, perhaps truest to how Bejar sees himself, plinking lounge piano.
In terms of shaping sound, the centerpiece of Dan’s Boogie may be “Cataract Time,” an eight-minute epic that ranks as some of the heaviest lyrics Bejar has ever written, and one of Destroyer’s most musically intricate compositions. Borne aloft on an easygoing groove, Bejar’s lyrics—“a reckoning, a dressing down” as he describes them—are transfigured, their melancholy tasting almost counterintuitively like hope. It’s an intimate song that puts away Destroyer’s usual urban fable milieu in exchange for bracing interiority, but its lilting groove can see a future, one that Bejar and his band are eager to meet.
It is, to use Bejar’s phrase, the kind of song you make when you’re up against it, when it seems as if the world is crashing down upon you. And therein lies the album’s most radical shift: Where previous Destroyer albums were locked in combat with the world, Dan’s Boogie dances with it, its nine reveries coalescing into one long hustle. Dan Bejar’s eye may be on the exits, but he’s not leaving anytime soon.
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Funded by Canada Council for the Arts, Government of Canada, and Yukon Government

Life Drawing & Oil Painting - 5 Week Workshop
2026-02-15 19:30 - 21:00
Life Drawing & Oil Painting with Nico DeRepentigny
Open to all skill-levels
5 Sessions over 5 Weeks
Sundays 7:30pm – 9pm (1.5hr sessions)
February 15th – March 15th

*REGISTRATION IS NOW FULL
WAITLIST: https://forms.gle/8ciNyPcCRZwnMkZM7

This workshop will be facilitated to support artists of ALL skill-levels. Our intention with these sessions is to give artists the opportunity to work with a live model, regardless of experience. The bulk of the instruction will be in *Sessions 3 & 4 (see details below), with ample opportunity to self-direct and/or ask questions.
Sessions will be 1.5hrs long between 7:30pm and 9pm on Sundays, starting February 15th.
Rates:
Non-Members: $170
Members: $155
Student/Senior: $100
Accessible: $100

February 15th – Session #1 (1.5hrs):
Life Drawing Session: Nude Model

15min Intro to Figure Drawing, settling in – acknowledging the space, allowing the model to settle in.
1hr of drawing w/ model:

traditional timed figure drawing structure (short warm-ups to longer poses)

15min Outro – for thoughts, discussion & questions

Materials Provided

easels, newsprint, drawing materials (pencils, charcoal, coloured pencil, pastels)

*please feel free to bring your own drawing materials

February 22nd – Session #2 (1.5hr):
Drawing as Intro to Painting: Live Model

15min Intro & warmup to drawing for painting (technique, composition, situating body in space, etc)
1hr Drawing
15min Outro – thoughts, discussion & questions

Materials Provided

easels, newsprint, drawing materials (pencils, charcoal, coloured pencil, pastels)

*please feel free to bring your own drawing materials

March 1st – Session #3 (1.5hr):
*Intro to Oil Painting: Still life (fabrics, objects, etc.)

Focussing on colour, composition, moving paint, light, values, using a restricted palette, etc.
15min Outro – thoughts, discussion & questions

Materials Provided

easels, canvas paper, oil paints, solvents, palettes, palette knives, etc.

*please feel free to bring your own painting materials

March 8th – Session #4 (1.5hrs):
*Oil Painting: Live Model

15min Intro (prep, settling in, situation model in space, etc.)
Oil Painting with a live model (underpainting, values, light/shadows, palette, etc.)
15min Outro – thoughts, discussion & questions

Materials Provided

easels, medium sized canvas, oil paints, solvents, palettes, palette knives, etc.

*please feel free to bring your own painting materials

March 15th – Session #5 (1.5hrs):
Oil Painting: Live Model continued..

1hr to continue to work on painting (form, colour, details, etc.)
30min Outro – discussion, thoughts, questions

Materials Provided

easels, medium sized canvas, oil paints, solvents, palettes, palette knives, etc.

*please feel free to bring your own painting materials

Nico DeRepentigny is a local artist who you might recognize from the summer artist markets where they drew your portrait, the many shop signs and murals they have painted for businesses around Dawson, or most recently the (s)hiver 2026 poster design. Their practice is intuitive and thoughtful. They are offering this 5 week Life Drawing & Oil Painting Workshop with assistance from Lacey Leforte, a SOVA alum and avid life drawing meditator.

Opera Concert at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
2026-02-20 19:30 - 22:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Danlie Rae(baritone), Jeremy Scinocca (tenor), Spencer Kryzanowski (piano)
Co-Presented with Yukon Arts Centre
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FRI, February 20, doors at 7:30 / Music at 8:00
Pay-what-you-want: kiacyukon.square.site
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Described by Opera Canada magazine as possessing “a warm lower resonance [and] brilliant top end,” and by Le Devoir as “possessing true stage charisma”, Canadian baritone Danlie Rae is quickly making his mark in the operatic world.
Danlie Rae sang the roles of Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Gianni Schicchi, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte and most recently had covered the role of Sharpless in Madama Butterfly to name a few. A distinguished graduate of the Faculty of Music’s Opera Program at the University of Toronto, Danlie is the recipient of many awards, including the Encouragement and Audience Choice awards given by the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.
In concert settings, Danlie Rae appeared as a soloist for Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Brahm’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem and Finzi’s In Terra Pax. In premiering new works, Danlie was involved in the premiere of Rebecca Gray’s Bus Opera, Matthew Ricket’s The Cremation of Sam Mcgee, and most recently Danlie helped premiere Renee Fajardo’s digital Filipino art song project Liham. Danlie performed recitals in the Philippines, Toronto, Vancouve and Montreal.
Danlie Rae is a graduate of Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program and a current Emerging Artist with Edmonton Opera and an Emerging Artist with Opera On The Avalon.
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Jeremy Scinocca is an award-winning tenor based in Toronto. He has performed across Canada with companies including Vancouver Opera, Edmonton Opera, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Goodmess Theatre, Yukon Arts Centre, Festival d’Opéra de Québec, Toronto City Opera, Voicebox: Opera in Concert, Okanagan Symphony, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, and Manitoba Opera. His roles include Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Tonio (La fille du régiment), Ruggero and Prunier (La Rondine), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Le Remendado (Carmen), and Spoletta (Tosca). Jeremy is an alumnus of Vancouver Opera’s Yulanda M. Faris Young Artist Program, Manitoba Opera’s Digital Emerging Artists Program, and Edmonton Opera’s Emerging Artist Program. While at Manitoba Opera, he created The Petrarch Project, a digital production using contemporary dance to reinterpret Liszt’s Petrarch Sonnets. Most recently, Jeremy performed in Opéra de Montréal’s Talent Gala, where he was awarded the Jury Prize for his performance.
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Spencer Kryzanowski is a Canadian crossover artist working in opera and musical theatre as a conductor, music director, vocal coach, and répétiteur. He is a staff coach in the University of Toronto Opera Department, resident music director for Good Mess Opera Theatre, and host and music director of Against the Grain Theatre’s Opera Pub series. In 2025, he joined the faculty of the Banff Centre’s Interplay opera program. As a conductor and répétiteur, Spencer has worked across Canada on productions including Die Walküre, Bluebeard’s Castle, and Die Fledermaus with Edmonton Opera; La rondine and Hänsel und Gretel with Good Mess Opera; Cendrillon with the University of Toronto Opera; and El huésped del sevillano with Toronto Operetta Theatre. His musical theatre credits include Newsies, Mean Girls: The Musical, and Beauty and the Beast. A committed arts educator and advocate, he regularly delivers opera education programs to students in rural and underserved Yukon communities.
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Thanks to our funders – Government of Canada, Yukon Government, Canada Council for the Arts
and special thanks to Northern Vision Development / the Downtown Hotel
