Drawlidays VI Portrait Exhibition
2025-12-12 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Whitehorse) | 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

Classic Cinema Night: Ariel
2026-02-21 19:00 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
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 big screen at Dënäkär Zho/KIAC Ballroom. With over a dozen films to his name, Kaurismäki claimed this to be his best work. His sardonic and deadpan treatment of working-class folks doing working-class things, and going to working-class places never patronizes; instead, it rolls along like a 1962 Cadillac convertible with the top down. Keep your eyes on the road because this hilarious comedy never announces a joke!
It’s Lapland, Finland in the 80s and times are tough at the coal mine. Taisto’s Dad has had enough and leaves him with a classic car and some important advice: get out of this dead end town, now. What follows is Taisto’s matter of fact meander through the trials and tribulations of getting by in gritty Helsinki. Taisto finds tragedy, love, friendship, betrayal. The world is cold and uncaring, but don’t worry! Taisto doesn’t!

Works in Progress - Open Studio at Macaulay House
2026-02-26 18:30 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Thursday, February 26th – 6:30pm to 9:30pm Works in Progress – Open Studio at Macaulay House

View works by February Artists in Residence C. Hamilton and Lisa G, and get a glimpse of their current project. Doors open at 6:30, with an informal artist talk around 7pm. Free event, all welcome, refreshments served! This event is part of KIAC’s Artist in Residence Program. Learn more about our February Artists in Residence here.

Classic Cinema Night: I Know Where I'm Going - March 2nd
2026-03-02 18:30 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
I know where I’m going (1945)
Dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
England | 1945 | 1h 32m
Free entry, Cash Concessions, doors at 6:30.
This March 2nd, join KIAC Classic Films for a screening of I Know Where I’m Going! on the big screen at Dënäkär Zho/KIAC Ballroom. This late entry to the canon of Scottish Romanticism is sure to delight both Hallmark movie acolytes and critics alike. The legendary writer/director/producer duo, Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell also known as “the Archers” serve up their distinctive style.
Take a trip to the stormy Scottish Hebrides to meet your fiance – the wealthiest man in Britain! Miss your ferry and get stranded with a random dashing falconer. Rail against the rain. The fog. The wind. The gales. Search for a golden eagle. Check out a ceilidh. Lie to yourself. Lie to the falconer. Ignore everything the locals tell you. Endanger people’s lives in an enormous whirlpool. Then, live happily ever after? Gorgeous, moody cinematography and a stubborn (perhaps unlikeable) heroine make this one of Powell and Pressburger’s best-loved films.

Amour Courtois: Medieval Meets Jazz at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
2026-03-04 19:00 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Amour Courtois: Medieval Meets Jazz
Matthew Baker, barytone; Efrén López, multi-instrumentalist; Baptiste Bailly, piano & arrangements
Co-presented with Whitehorse Concerts
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Wed, March 4
doors at 7, Pre-show chat at 7:30, concert to follow
Pay-what-you-want – kiacyukon.square.site
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Runtime: Approximately 100 min
Amour Courtois is a bold and evocative musical project led by French jazz pianist Baptiste Bailly, reimagining 14th-century French songs through the lens of contemporary improvisation. Inspired by the enduring emotional resonance of medieval melodies, Bailly collaborates with Matthew Baker on the baryton and Efren López on the hurdy-gurdy and ouds, crafting an anachronistic yet striking soundscape. Their repertoire – featuring works by Machaut, Binchois, and Lescurel – bridges centuries and highlights the timelessness of human expression.
Amour Courtois treats medieval songs not as static artifacts but as living works. While the original melodies are respected as closely as possible, with the aim of preserving their essence, the musicians change the settings, time signatures, chords, context, and costumes. Improvised or newly written passages are integrated into the pieces, like moments of intimate expression nourished by the eclecticism of their personalities and influences, revealing a touching and spontaneous musical craftsmanship, boundless and timeless.
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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

Lumbar 5, Thoracic 12 - Live Theatre at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
2026-03-14 19:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Doors open – 7:30 / Performance – 8:00
Co-Presented by Pivot Theatre
Tickets: kiacyukon.square.site
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Through recorded interviews, shadow puppetry, and campfire storytelling, Lumbar 5, Thoracic 12 tells a Northern father-daughter story about intergenerational divides and a deep need to connect.
Santana Berryman returns to Whitehorse with her show about taking her father on a camping trip. Together, they brave a few nights in the bush in winter, facing cold temperatures, 20 hours of darkness, and a generation of silence between them.
Writer and performer: Santana Berryman
Puppets: Benjamin Pilger
Director: Ariel Martz-Oberlander Sound Designer: CJ McGillivray

Art Club at RSS
2026-03-19 15:30 - 17:00 | robert service school
KIAC will be hosting an Art Club at RSS every thursday from 3:30 – 5pm for the rest of the school year for grades 5-12!
We will be making all kinds of things including sets and props for the school play!
See you on thursday!

Classic Cinema Night: The Gleaners and I - March 19th
2026-03-19 18:30 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
The Gleaners and I (2000)
Dir. Agnes Varda
France | 2000 | 1h 22m
Free entry, Cash Concessions, doors at 6:30.
This March 19th, join KIAC Classic Films for a screening of The Gleaners and I on the big screen at Dënäkär Zho/KIAC Ballroom. In this ode to counter-culture, the legendary French director, Agnes Varda discovers digital cameras and turns them on the fringes of society and those who choose alternatives to mainstream life – including herself. Her colourful cast of ‘gleaners’ – people who gather leftover crops after a harvest – exist on the edge of the fields and cities. They collect everything from food to urban waste for necessity, for art, and for resistance. Varda travels across France collecting/gleaning all of her interactions with the people she meets and weaving them into unexpected and touching narratives.
The Gleaners and I was an international hit, resonating with and inspiring people from all parts of society and bringing Varda back into the deserved spotlight. In this documentary of scavengers, foragers, dumpster-divers, thrifters, anti-consumerists, and artists, Varda demonstrates all of the curiosity, empathy, and joy her work is known for. Ce qui est dechet pour l’un est tresor pour l’autre.

Thaw di Gras Coffee House & Open Mic Night
2026-03-21 19:00 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Join us for a family-friendly, all-ages, alcohol-free Coffee House & Open Mic Night. Everyone is welcome to perform or simply enjoy. All funds raised will be donated to the Willow Foundation.

Elisapie at Dënäkär Zho / Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
2026-03-22 19:30 - 22:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Sun, March 22 at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom (full band show)
Co-presented with the Dawson City Music Festival and Yukon Arts Centre
Doors open – 7:30 / Music – 8:00
Tickets on sale here
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Elisapie’s unconditional attachment to her territory and her language, Inuktitut, remains at the core of her creative journey. Born and raised in Salluit, a small village in Nunavik which is only accessible by plane, Elisapie is an emblematic Canadian Inuk singer-songwriter. Since winning her first Juno Award in 2005 with her band Taima, Elisapie’s body of work has been praised many times.
On September 15th 2023, Elisapie unveiled Inuktitut, her fourth solo record. On this album, the Inuk artist covers ten classic rock and pop songs ranging from the 1960’s to the 90’s translated into Inuktitut, her mother tongue. The result is an emotional, autobiographical soundtrack where each song is associated with a loved one or an intimate story. Acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, Inuktitut is the artist’s second album to land a shortlist nomination for the Polaris Music Prize. Its success also earned Elisapie a Juno Award in the Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year category, as well as five awards at the 2024 ADISQ Gala, and allowed her to play over 70 concerts in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. She also just got nominated for this year’s upcoming Juno Awards for Best Album of the year, as well as for Best Adult Alternative Album of the year.
Aside from her musical career, Elisapie is known for creating and producing documentaries and the first Canada-wide broadcast TV show to celebrate the National Indigenous Peoples’ Day, called Le Grand Solstice. She was also honored with a Canada Post stamp. Always surrounded by the best musicians from the Montreal indie and folk scenes, Elisapie makes her culture resonate with finesse by mixing modernity and tradition.
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Funded by Canada Council for the Arts, Government of Canada, and Yukon Government

27th Dawson City International Short Film Festival
2026-04-02 15:00 - 2026-04-05 21:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
April 2nd – 5th 2026
Its Film Fest time!
The 27th Dawson City Film Fest is coming up (April 2nd-5th). It’s time to start planning your weekend!
The weekend is full of films, workshops, installations, projections, and our famous Sunday afternoon Pierogi Street Feast. Live music and food on Princess street in front of KIAC.

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Workshops!
NO COST, JUST REGISTER
Optical Sound Sensation with Richard Reeves.
Registration for this workshop is now full - sign up to be on the waitlist.
Waitlist Signup: https://forms.gle/4iHAv9RrQu79WQma8

Investigating interplay between sound and picture. An experimental animation experience produced by drawing both sound and picture onto 35mm film.
A film without words…
No camera or musical instrument.
Sound is produced from handmade graphical patters spliced onto 35mm film optical sound area, then composed frame by frame thereby ‘animating’ the sounds. Making handmade optical sound shapes directly onto 35mm film compliments the hand drawn images directly onto film.
3 Sessions
Wednesday April 1st 6pm – 9pm
Drop-In: Thursday April 2nd 11am – 4pm
Friday April 3rd 10am – 3:30pm
KIAC Classroom
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Screenwriting for beginners with guest filmmaker Justine McCloskey.
REGISTRATION NOW FULL!
Screenwriting can be intimidating!
The format alone can scare off even the bravest of writers, never mind dealing with efficient scene descriptions, snappy dialogue, and knowing what to do with it once the thing is written. Once you get used to the technical aspect, screenwriting is a tool that can be used to tell incredible stories in the most beloved and accessible medium.
Want to give it a try?
The course is designed for teens and adults. It will be a 2 hour workshop with some room for exercises and group involvement.
Sunday, April 5th 11am to 1pm @ SOVA Lecture Hall (upstairs)
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Grant writing for Media Arts and Filmmakers with guest filmmakers Richard Reeves and Justine McCloskey.
REGISTRATION NOW FULL
Learn about the different levels of funding available to you and understand how to effectively approach a grant application for your project.
This workshop will break down key elements of a grant application; investigate the different requirements needed for each granting body; address how to distil your story, budget, and plan into an actionable and equitable project; get you set to reach out to grant officers; understand what wider public funding may be available to you; and familiarize you with some of the quirks you may experience in the multitude of granting portals in operation.
Bring your idea and we can look at it together! This workshop is a lecture that will include a roundtable where participants can discuss their grant ideas and workshop them together.
Tuesday March 31st 6pm – 8pm @ KIAC Ballroom
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Meet our Guest Filmmakers

Richard Reeves
Richard is a kinetic film scratcher, visual music maker, animated traveller of time and space, light sensitive, spinner of zoetrope’s, looper of loops and collector of projection bulbs for total enlightenment.
He is best known for creating animations by drawing both sound and picture directly onto film and has produced award winning films that have screened around the world.
Richard is an honorary member of the Quickdraw Animation Society and previously worked at QAS as Film Production Coordinator. He mentored workshops at the Gulf Islands Film and Television School for 10 years and taught animation courses across Canada, Europe and South America. Richard has collaborated with artists often involving dancing human projection screens, interactive animation installations, online animation jams and large outdoor projections. He has attended Artist in Residence programs at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá Colombia and Iris Film Collective in Vancouver BC.
Richard continues to explore animation as a visual music time and space art form.
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Justine McCloskey

Justine McCloskey graduated with honours from Toronto Metropolitan University’s BFA Film Studies program in 2013, specializing in directing and production design. In 2012, she was awarded the prestigious Norman Jewison Award for Innovation in Filmmaking and in 2013 was nominated for the Dean’s Essay Award for her essay “Grete Suffraunce: Dysentery and The Crusades.” Since then, her writing and photography has been published internationally.
She attended the University of Toronto and received her MA in Art History while TA-ing media and photography courses with both UofT and OCADu. She recently worked as a Creative at HumanContact Inc. where she produced and directed commercials, radio spots, and internal content for clients across Canada.
Her OAC-funded still life food photo series will be exhibited this spring, and will be completing her LIFT-funded short film this summer.
You can typically find her amidst piles of cookbooks, camera in hand! Feel free to say hi!
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Tickets
General Public: $50
KIAC Member: $40
Senior/Youth/Student: $35
Tickets available at KIAC and online, March 19th.
Additional tickets sold at at the door of festival.
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, 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, Yukon Spa, Yukon Birch Syrup.

We are humbled to hold our festival on the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in.

Coffee House & Open Mic Night: 20 Year Anniversary!
2026-04-11 19:00 - 22:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
It’s hard to believe Coffee House & Open Mic Night has been happening at the KIAC Ballroom for 20 years!

Thank you to the group of amazing volunteers who have made this tradition thrive over the years, and have provided a family-friendly all ages space for the community to share and enjoy music, poetry, and more.

Come hang out, share your talents, enjoy the performances and treats. The Coffee House crew have decided to generously donate funds raised this month to KIAC, and we are extremely grateful.

2026 Awaken Festival - Dawson City - Trickster Performance Workshop by Philip Jonah Logan Geller
2026-04-15 17:30 - 20:00 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
This April, Gwaandak Theatre and Klondike Institute of Art and Culture are excited to be presenting two in-person events in Dawson City as part of the 2026 Awaken Festival!

Join us for Trickster Performance on Wednesday April 15th – a workshop facilitated by Philip Jonah Logan Geller – alongside a one-night only presentation of their performance showcase “who will save the night sky?” on Friday April 17th.
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Both the workshop and the performance will be taking place at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom.
Admissions to these events is Pay-What-You-Want and pre-registration / tickets will be available at KIAC.CA / KIAC Office / At the Door prior to each event when doors open.
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Trickster Performance (Workshop)By Philip Jonah Logan GellerWednesday, April 15th – 6PM-8PM (Doors @ 5:30PM)Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom

Join experienced creator and performer Philip Jonah Logan Geller to explore trickster methodologies of performance and creation. Drawing from contemporary clown, physical theatre, Indigenous knowledges, and Land-based practices we will uncover our tricksters to play and generate material for performance.

As we stand at the very serious edge of the end of the world I truly believe Trickster is a key to how we can move and play forward in right relation with each other. Trickster is the one who teaches us about subversion and challenging power. Trickster tells us to celebrate the other, the strange, and the queer. Trickster offers a new-ancient knowledge system that is ancestral and future oriented.

In this workshop we will move our bodies and play, and we will explore ancestral and generational narratives that can stir up emotional responses, everyone is welcome to participate in whatever way feels best for them. Please come ready to experiment and play! There will be some movement and writing, all abilities are welcome. Please be aware that smudging will take place prior to this workshop. All are welcome to participate but none are required.

Register Here!

2026 Awaken Festival - Dawson City - who will save the night sky? - Created & Performed by Philip Jonah Logan Geller
2026-04-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
This April, Gwaandak Theatre and Klondike Institute of Art and Culture are excited to be presenting two in-person events in Dawson City as part of the 2026 Awaken Festival!

Join us for Trickster Performance on Wednesday April 15th – a workshop facilitated by Philip Jonah Logan Geller – alongside a one-night only presentation of their performance showcase “who will save the night sky?” on Friday April 17th.
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Both the workshop and the performance will be taking place at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom.
Admissions to these events is Pay-What-You-Want and pre-registration / tickets will be available at KIAC.CA / KIAC Office / At the Door prior to each event when doors open.
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who will save the night sky?Created & Performed by Philip Jonah Logan GellerFriday, April 17th – 8PM Start (Doors @ 7:30PM)Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom

Allow me to take you on a celestial journey to a big board room in the sky. Plleeeaaassee, allow me to whisk my tail and weave you a tale on the tell tale signs of a GOOD STORY! A long time ago, in the future, an important group of star beings got together to discuss the fate of earth and the two-leggeds… and the party begins!
Blending bouffon, clown, storytelling, and spectacle, who will save the night sky? is an interactive solo performance reminding us of the importance of our relationship to the stars and sky world.
Developed with support from the Winnipeg Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and The Banff Centre.

Content Warnings: Audience participation, flashing lights, and mature language and subject matter.Length: ~75 Minutes
CREDITSCreator & Performer | Philip Jonah Logan GellerPromotional Photos | Andy Carroll
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*Details are accurate at time of posting and are subject to change.*
Check out upcoming KIAC events at: kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/
Meet the creative team and find out more about the upcoming Awaken Festival by visiting: gwaandaktheatre.ca/awaken-festival-2026

Classic Cinema Night: Ikiru - April 19th
2026-04-19 19:00 - 21:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Ikiru (1952)
Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Japan | 1952 | 2h 23m
Free entry, Cash Concessions, doors at 6:30.
In this gorgeous film, the legendary Japanese director, Akira Kurosawa adapts Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 novella, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” to tell the story of a bureaucrat, Kanji Watanabe who learns how fleeting and precious life really is when he is diagnosed with stomach cancer. After realizing he only has a short time left and concluding his job is absurd, Kanji’s search for meaning reconnects him to the life he sacrificed for work. After years of stagnation, the rediscovery and resurgence of his soul is unforgettable cinema and the ultimate memento mori.
Ikiru (Japanese – ‘to live”) is Akira Kurosawa’s answer to his existential musing about what it all really means. Considered by many to be his greatest (Samurai-free!) film, this masterful study of life and afterlife is profoundly moving and relatable. Do yourself a favour and come on down this April 19th to affirm life by facing death. Free on Dawson’s only big screen at Dënäkär Zho/KIAC Ballroom.

Snotty Nose Rez Kids at Dënäkär Zho / Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
2026-04-29 19:30 - 22:30 | Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), 902 2nd Avenue, Dawson City
Snotty Nose Rez Kids

Wed, April 29 at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
Co-presented with the Dawson City Music Festival & Yukon Arts Centre

Doors open at 7:30 / music at 8:00
ALL AGES / Alcohol-free
Tickets: kiacyukon.square.site
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Snotty Nose Rez Kids tore into the music scene with unmistakeable talent and an unforgettable name. Showing off their lyrical prowess and natural storytelling ability, Yung Trybez and Young D jumpstarted the band with two back-to-back albums in 2017. Their follow up album, 2019’s TRAPLINE, really launched their career with hit “Boujee Natives,” and multiple awards including their first Juno nomination.
The band took their high voltage live show on the road and clocked 100 shows in 6 different countries. Their pandemic album, LIFE AFTER, saw greater industry recognition with multiple music magazine cover stories, and strong streaming platform support including Billboard advertisements in Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square, playlist cover images, and an Amazon Twitch Channel Takeover. Taking the album on the road, the band toured 80 shows in support of the album across North America. They received their second Juno nomination and performed during the live broadcast. They were invited by The Toronto Raptors to play a half time show, and to the Vancouver Canucks to play in-between periods. Their 2022 project, I’M GOOD, HBU? elevated their career to new heights, and saw them receive their fourth Polaris Prize Shortlist, a win for top music video of the year at the Prism Prize Awards for their Beatles-inspired, DAMN RIGHT, and landed them 3 Western Canadian Music Awards, bringing their tally to 13 wins so far.
SNRK have gone on to dominate in Hip-Hop music, most recently achieving their biggest milestone, signing to Sony Music. SNRK are blazing their own path, weaving together a musical fabric of hard-hitting lyricism, revealing stories about the struggles they and their people have encountered, empowering protest songs for the front lines, and a humor that keeps even the heaviest of topics something you can vibe to.
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Meet & Greet Package add-on
Includes:
– Meet and Greet/Photo opportunity with Snotty Nose Rez Kids
– Drawstring Bag
– Sticker Pack
– Hat
– Early access to venue
– Early access to shop merchandise

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Thank you to our funders: Canada Council for the Arts, Government of Canada, and Yukon Government.
Thank you to our local sponsor: Northern Vision Development / the Downtown Hotel
