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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251026T190000
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SUMMARY:Classic Cinema: Withnail and I
DESCRIPTION:Withnail and I (1987) \nDir. Bruce Robinson | England | 1987 | 1h 47min \n7pm (doors at 6:30)\nFree entry and cash concessions. \nAre 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! \n\n\nFilm contains mild sex/nudity\, no violence\, severe profanity and alcohol/drug use\, and mild frightening scenes.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/classic-cinema-withnail-and-i/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251028T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251028T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251023T005705Z
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SUMMARY:(s)hiver Arts Society OPEN STUDIO
DESCRIPTION:Join Whitehorse artist Gorellaume in completing his (s)hiver mural\n📍 ODD Gallery\, Dënäkär Zho🗓️ Tuesday\, October 28th\, 5pm – 9pm🎨 Free & open to all \nHelp bring the mural for (s)hiver to life! \nWhitehorse-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. \nAll materials are provided\, and no experience is necessary – just come ready to paint\, play\, and be part of the creative process.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/shiver-arts-society-open-studio/
LOCATION:ODD Gallery
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Workshops & Drop-Ins
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251031T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251031T230000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251023T172226Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251023T172701Z
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SUMMARY:Rain City Improv: A Night of Laughs with Taz & Rae at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
DESCRIPTION:Rain City Improv: A Night of Laughs with Taz & Rae\nCo-presented by Yukon Arts Centre\n—\nDoors at 8:30 / Showtime at 9:00\nPay what you want!\n—\nGet 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!\n—\nThanks to our funders: Government of Canada\, Yukon Government\, Canada Council for the Arts\nand show sponsors: Northwestel and TD Bank
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/rain-city-improv-a-night-of-laughs-with-taz-rae-at-denakar-zho-kiac-ballroom/
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251101T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251101T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251023T175102Z
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SUMMARY:Improv Comedy Workshop hosted by Taz VanRassel
DESCRIPTION:Co-presented by Yukon Arts Centre\n–\nLocation: Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom\nSat\, Nov 1\, 2:00 – 4:00\nDrop-in / Pay what you want\nFor grown-ups\n—\nJoin 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!\n—\nTaz 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. \nHe 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.\n\nHis 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!\n\nTaz is a co-founder\, teacher\, and coach at Blind Tiger Comedy school in Vancouver BC.\n–\nThanks to our funders: Government of Canada\, Yukon Government\, Canada Council for the Arts\nand sponsors: Northwestel and TD Bank
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/improv-comedy-workshop-hosted-by-taz-vanrassel/
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts,Workshops & Drop-Ins
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251107T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251107T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251009T160347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T163842Z
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SUMMARY:'Jazz on the Road' - Hannah Mazurek Quartet Live Concert at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
DESCRIPTION:Fri\, Nov 7\nDoors open – 7:30 / Music – 8:00\nPay what you want! Reserve your spot at kiacyukon.square.site\nCo-presented with Jazz Yukon – ‘Jazz on the Road’ \nHow 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. \nHannah 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. \nWhen 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\n–\nThe band:\nHannah Mazurek (vocals and keys)\nJordy Walker (guitar)\nAdam Cripps (bass)\nJake Jenne (drums)\n—\nphoto: Jon Walters\n—\nThanks to our funders: Government of Canada\, Yukon Government\, and Canada Council for the Arts\nSpecial thanks to our show sponsor Northern Vision Development (Downtown Hotel\, Eldorado Hotel\, and Midnight Sun Hotel)
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/hannah-mazurek-quartet-live-concert-at-denakar-zho-kiac-ballroom/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251109T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251029T175031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T223137Z
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SUMMARY:Classic Cinema: The Big City
DESCRIPTION:The Big City/Mahanagar (1963)\nDir. Satyajit Ray\nBengal | 1963 | 2h 16m \nFree entry\, Cash Concessions\, doors at 6:30. \n“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.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/classic-cinema-the-big-city/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251110T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251110T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251016T212838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T190844Z
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SUMMARY:Kids Dance Class with Jen Suttis
DESCRIPTION:Kids Dance Class is back! Jen Suttis is teaching two dance classes for five weeks from November 3rd and ending on Dec 1st. \nThis fall we are offering: \nPreschool Dance: 5:15-5:45pm Monday evenings \nKindergarten- Grade 2 Dance: 5:45-6:30pm Monday evenings \n!Registration is full! \n 
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/kids-dance-class-with-jen-suttis/2025-11-10/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251114T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251116T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251001T171810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T165121Z
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SUMMARY:YUKON48 Film Challenge. Join in the fun!
DESCRIPTION:The most fun you can have in 48 hours!\nMake a film in 2 days!  Get it shown on the BIG SCREEN! \nOur annual 48 hour film challenge is upon us! \nJoin for anywhere in the Yukon and beyond! \n$20 per team! Free for  youth! \nFor all the rules and how to sign up check out the website! \n  \n 
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/yukon48-film-challenge-join-in-the-fun/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251114T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251114T181905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T181905Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Paint Night
DESCRIPTION:In the KIAC Dënäkär Zho Classroom from 7 – 9 PM once a month. \nNovember 14th \nDecember 5th \nJanuary 16th \n$5 Drop in + Extra material costs.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/queer-paint-night/2025-11-14/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251114T175458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251120T175446Z
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SUMMARY:ODD Gallery 2027/28 Open Call for Exhibition Submissions
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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. \nIf 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. \nPlease email gallery@kiac.ca if you have any questions. \nWe look forward to seeing your proposals and sharing your work with our community.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/odd-gallery-2027-28-open-call-for-exhibition-submissions-2/
LOCATION:ODD Gallery
CATEGORIES:Deadlines,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251122T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251122T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251120T010644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251120T010915Z
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SUMMARY:Yukon 48 Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:YUKON 48 HOUR FILM CHALLENGE SCREENING\nSaturday\, November 22nd \nDoors 6:30pm  \nFilms Start 7pm \nSee all the films made last weekend in the Yukon48 Video Challenge. Films from Dawson\, Whitehorse and beyond! \nOdd films\, warm popcorn and awards! Please join us to watch and celebrate this years’ 48 hour film challenge! \nVote for your favourite! \n$5 or PWYC. Cash Bar.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/yukon-48-film-screening/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251125T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251125T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251120T011506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251120T011506Z
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SUMMARY:Open Studio & Artist Talk with Bronwyn Butterfield
DESCRIPTION:Open Studio & Artist Talk with Bronwyn Butterfield\nODD Gallery @ Dënäkär Zho\nTuesday\, November 25th \nTalk 6:30pm Open 5:30pm – 7:30pm \nBronwyn 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!    \nRefreshments Provided \n  \nhttps://bronwynbutterfield.com/
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/open-studio-artist-talk-with-bronwyn-butterfield/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251126T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251126T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251010T193249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T193249Z
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SUMMARY:Les Hay Babies – Tintamarre! - Concert à Dënäkär Zho / KIAC
DESCRIPTION:Les Hay Babies – Tintamarre! \n(English version available below) \nDans 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! \nDescription \nLes 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. \n________________________________________________________________________________ \nThe Hay Babies – Tintamarre \nAs 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! \nDescription \nLes 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. \n________________________________________________________________________________ \nL’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. \n\nGouvernement du Yukon\nGouvernement du Canada\nLotteries Yukon\nJazz Yukon\nNorthern Vision Développement\nMusicAction\nSiriusXM\nUnisTV\nRadio-Canada\nGouvernement du Québec\nSocan\nAkufen
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/les-hay-babies-tintamarre-concert-a-denakar-zho-kiac/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251129T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251129T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251017T180633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251107T232106Z
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SUMMARY:KIAC Art & Craft Fair & Volunteer Sign-Up 2025
DESCRIPTION:KIAC ART & CRAFT FAIR  & Volunteer Sign-up 2025\nThis years vendors! \n \nWhen: Saturday\, November 29th from 10 AM – 4 PM \nWhere: KIAC Dënäkär Zho Ballroom & Odd Gallery \nAccessibility Hour: 10 am – 11 am \nAccessibility Hour is for anyone who:  \n\nHas concerns around their immune health – wearing face coverings & masks is encouraged during this hour\nHas anxiety around crowds – this hour is less busy than the rest of the day\nHas accessibility needs (physical and neurological) – KIAC staff are on call for support and the space is easier to navigate during this hour\nHas food allergies – the concession will be closed during this time\nHas hearing impairments – this hour is quieter than the rest of the day and therefore easier to communicate to vendors\nEtc!\n\nConcession Open: 11 am – 4 pm \nWE 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.Name: (First and Last)		\n			would Name: Email:\n			\n		\n		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   \n*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. \nVendor Registration is NOW FULL\, but if you would like to be put on the waitlist please follow the steps below: \n\nFill out Google Form\nWe will contact you if a table becomes available on a first-come-first-serve basis!\n\nTable Rates:\nMembers: $45\nNon-Members: $60\nStudents/65+: $30\nTr’ondëck Hwëch’in & Yukon First Nation: Free\n\n\nTables will be set up in the KIAC Ballroom (upstairs) and the Odd Gallery (downstairs).\nThe Odd Gallery will be designated for vendors who have accessibility requests (low volume zone\, physically accessible without need to use stairs or elevator).\n\n\nContact: \nLacey Leforte (she/her): programmingassistant@kiac.ca\nChloé Selarque (she/her): admin@kiac.ca\n867.993.5005 \nKIAC Office Hours\nTuesday – Friday 10AM-4PM\n(closed 1PM-2PM\, Wednesdays closed 11:30AM – 2PM)
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/kiac-art-craft-fair-registration/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Fundraiser,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251205T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Author / Composer Daniel Janke: Reading & Musical Performance
DESCRIPTION: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”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n– \nIn 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. \n– \nMap 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. \n– \nDaniel 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.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/an-evening-with-author-composer-daniel-janke-reading-musical-performance/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251212T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251212T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251001T214026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T204613Z
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SUMMARY:Drawlidays VI Portrait Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Drawlidays VI Portrait Exhibition! 2025\nOn 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! \n— \nPortraits 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. \nPORTRAIT REVEAL EXHIBITION OPENING: 7-9pm\, Friday\, December 12th. On display at the ODD Gallery until December 19th. \n— \nRegistration for Drawlidays VI is NOW CLOSED! (thank you to everyone who signed up!)\nSigning Up Means: You commit to creating a portrait and you make a donation to KIAC on behalf of the person you are drawing!\nThis is a fundraising event for the ODD Gallery.  Funds from Drawlidays go towards Gallery programming such as visiting artist workshops and outreach programs. \nSuggested Drawlidays donation is $5 – $25. \nIf you are signed up and haven’t made a donation please do so at the link below!  \nDONATE HERE: https://square.link/u/WT2TpXBu (or donate in person during KIAC office hours) \nDEADLINE FOR PORTRAIT DROP OFF: Thursday\, December 4th @ 4pm\nDEADLINE FOR PORTRAIT PICK UP: Friday\, December 19th @ 4pm. \n— \nFor more information or questions please contact:\nLacey Leforte (she/her)\nprogrammingassistant@kiac.ca\n(867)-993-5005\n\n—\n\nKIAC Opening Hours:\nTuesday – Friday\n10 am – 4 pm (closed 1pm-2pm\, closed Wednesdays 11:30am-2pm)\n 
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/drawlidays-vi-sign-up/
LOCATION:ODD Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251215T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251215T233000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251003T165417Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T165523Z
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SUMMARY:Filmmaker Residency April 2026: Deadline to apply December 15
DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Residency in Dawson City in April 2026\nApply for a residency in Dawson City during the 2026 Dawson City International Short Film Festival. \nStay in the historic Macaulay House to work on your project and attend the 2026 Film Fest and experience Dawson City. \nThe residency is for the month of April coinciding with the festival on April 2-5\, 2026. \nApplications now open. Deadline to apply December 15\, 2025. \n \nAll disciplines of media art will be considered\, including but not limited to: Installation\, Performance\, Video and Film\, Filmmaking\, New Media\, and Audio. \nKIAC 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. \nFor more info go to https://www.dawsonfilmfest.com/filmres.html\n\nIn partnership with Parks Canada.\n\nThe Klondike Institute of Art and Culture and the Film Festival\noperates on the traditional territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/filmmaker-residency-april-2026-deadline-to-apply-december-15/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence,Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251219T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20251219T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251205T191514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251218T181946Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: A Winter-themed Classical Music Concert with Tessa Fackelmann (Mezzo Soprano) & Jerome de los Santos (Piano)
DESCRIPTION:Fri\, Dec 19 at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom\nDoors open at 7:30 / Music at 8:00\nPay-what-you-want\n–\nA Winter-themed classical music concert with Tessa Fackelmann (Mezzo Soprano) & Jerome de los Santos (Piano)\nCo-presented by the Yukon Arts Centre\n—\nTessa 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. \nRecent 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.\n—\nOriginally 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. \nThis 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. \nJerome 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.\n—-\nThanks to our funders: Government of Canada\, Yukon Government\, and Canada Council for the Arts\nAnd our local sponsor Northern Vision Development / The Downtown Hotel \nAnd a huge thanks to our co-presenter Yukon Arts Centre \n 
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/a-winter-themed-classical-music-concert-with-tessa-fackelmann-mezzo-soprano-jerome-de-los-santos-piano/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260110T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260110T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20260106T211938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260110T183844Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Coffee House & Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/coffee-house-open-mic-night-3/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260111T063000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260111T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251210T212030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260106T232720Z
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SUMMARY:THIS SUNDAY - Classic Cinema: Rififi
DESCRIPTION:Rififi (1955)\nDir. Jules Dassin \nFrance | 1955 | 1h 58m \nFree entry\, Cash Concessions\, doors at 6:30. \n“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.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/classic-cinema-rififi/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260118T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260118T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20260114T062053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T064803Z
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SUMMARY:Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) - This Sunday!
DESCRIPTION:Dir. Zacharias Kunuk |  Igloolik\, Nunavut | 2025 | 1h 40m  \nJanuary 18\, Dënäkär Zho ballroom 7pm (doors at 6:30)  \nIgloolik\, 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. \n~~~~ \n“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\nour 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.” \nUiksaringitara (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\nproducers and Cecilia Greyson (Tautuktavuk: What We See) as Associate Producer. \nCinematography 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). \nThe film is being distributed in Canada by Isuma Distribution International.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/uiksaringitara-wrong-husband-this-sunday/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260122T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260122T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20260120T190453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T190542Z
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SUMMARY:Naomi Kavka (DCMF Songwriter-in-residence) Live Concert
DESCRIPTION:Doors at 7:30pm // Show at 8:00pm\nTickets by donation at the door. All proceeds support the DCMF Songwriter-in-Residence program!\n\n—-\n\nNaomi 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. \nKavka’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.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/naomi-kavka-dcmf-songwriter-in-residence-live-concert/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260123T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260124T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20251209T223654Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251218T001308Z
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SUMMARY:FOYPAC Photo Sessions - January 2026!
DESCRIPTION:When:Friday\, Jan 23 — 10am–6pmSaturday\, Jan 24 — 12pm–6pm \nWhere:ODD Gallery\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City \nREGISTRATION REQUIREDPlease sign up using the GOOGLE FORM \n\nAre 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. \nYou 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. \nReview guidelines and complete the submission form in English and French.   \nTo learn full details about the call for submissions\, visit online at: FOYPAC.ca \n\nEligibility\nWork will be considered from all artists; however\, preference will be as follows: \n\nYukon 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.\n 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.\nExpatriate artists – an artist who was previously a Yukon resident but no longer has a Yukon address.\nNon-Yukon artists – an artist who does not and never has lived in the Yukon\, whose work has a resonance in the north.\n\nPhotography by John Howland \n\nPlease email Jessica if you have any questions\ngallery@kiac.ca
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/foypac-photo-sessions-january-2026/
LOCATION:ODD Gallery
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260131T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260131T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20260121T215546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260123T201801Z
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SUMMARY:Needle Felt a Mushroom!
DESCRIPTION:Janet Patterson will be hosting a needle felting workshop on Saturday\, January 31st from 4-6pm in the KIAC Classroom. \nThis 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! \nRegistration Full! \nRegistration fee: $15 cash at the door \nEmail programs@kiac.ca for more info \n 
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/needle-felt-a-mushroom/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260204T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260220T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20260205T014316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T180741Z
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SUMMARY:ODD Gallery Open Call for Curatorial Jurors | 2027–28 Exhibition Cycle
DESCRIPTION:How to apply\nComplete the Google Form or email gallery@kiac.ca with any questions.\nCall open Feb 4–20\, 2026 \nAbout the ODD Gallery Curatorial Jury\nODD Gallery is seeking artists\, curators and community members to join our Curatorial Jury for the 2027-28 exhibition cycle. \nJurors 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. \nThe 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. \nWhy participate?\n\nBuild curatorial and juror experience for your CV\nLearn how exhibitions are selected (especially valuable for artists)\nHelp shape ODD Gallery’s exhibition program and curatorial direction\nFree KIAC membership and additional thank-you compensation depending on participation level\nRemote-friendly process with clear time commitments\n\nWho Can Apply\nThis 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. \nYou 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. \nConnections may include (but are not limited to): \n\nLiving in Dawson City or elsewhere in the Yukon\, now or in the past\nSpending summers or working seasonally in the Yukon\nGrowing up here or having family ties to the region\nWork or life experience in the Yukon (arts-related or otherwise)\nParticipating in a residency\, program\, or project in Dawson City or elsewhere in the Yukon\n\nFormal 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.
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/odd-gallery-open-call-for-curatorial-jurors-2027-28-exhibition-cycle/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260206T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20260121T185115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260121T213651Z
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SUMMARY:Jaimie Robson | Uprooted Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:February 6 – March 14\, 2026 ODD Gallery\, Dënäkär Zho |  KIAC Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory\, Dawson City\, Yukon \n\n\n\nOPENING RECEPTION: Thursday\, February 6th at 7PM – 10PM \n\n\n\nUPROOTED\n\n\n\nUprooted 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. \n\n\n\nAbout Jaimie Robson\nJaimie 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. \n\n\n\n\n\nCrédits: \n\n\n\nUprooted bénéficie du soutien financier du Conseil des arts du Canada et du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. \n\n\n\nCredits: \n\n\n\nUprooted benefits from the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. \n\n\n\n\n\n   
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/jaimie-robson-uprooted-opening-reception/
LOCATION:ODD Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260314T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20260212T002053Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T002150Z
UID:10027190-1770404400-1773504000@kiac.ca
SUMMARY:ODD Gallery Exhibition | UPROOTED by Jaimie Robson
DESCRIPTION:JAIMIE ROBSON  |  UPROOTED\nFebruary 6 – March 14\, 2026\nODD Gallery\, Dënäkär Zho |  KIAC\nTr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory\, Dawson City\, Yukon \nOPENING RECEPTION: Thursday\, February 6th at 7PM – 9PM \nUPROOTED\nUprooted 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. \nArtist Statement\nI 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 \nMy 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. \nViewers 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. \nThis 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. \nAbout Jaimie Robson\nJaimie 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. \n\nCrédits: Uprooted bénéficie du soutien financier du Conseil des arts du Canada et du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. \nCredits: 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. \n.  . 
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/odd-gallery-exhibition-uprooted-by-jaimie-robson/
LOCATION:ODD Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Whitehorse:20260213T220000
DTSTAMP:20260403T065647
CREATED:20260113T190316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T191940Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Destroyer at Dënäkär Zho / Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
DESCRIPTION:An Evening with Destroyer\nFri\, Feb 13 at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom\nCo-presented with the Dawson City Music Festival\n\n\n\n\ndoors open at 7:30 / music at 8:00\nTickets on sale here \n\nOpening set by Cryptozoologists (solo)\nSince 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. \n\n— \nWhat 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.” \nDan’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. \nLead 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. \n“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. \nContradiction 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. \nIn 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. \nIt 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. \n— \nFunded by Canada Council for the Arts\, Government of Canada\, and Yukon Government
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/an-evening-with-destroyer-at-denakar-zho-klondike-institute-of-art-culture/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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SUMMARY:Life Drawing & Oil Painting - 5 Week Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Life Drawing & Oil Painting with Nico DeRepentigny \nOpen to all skill-levels \n5 Sessions over 5 Weeks \nSundays 7:30pm – 9pm (1.5hr sessions) \nFebruary 15th – March 15th \n  \n*REGISTRATION IS NOW FULL \nWAITLIST: https://forms.gle/8ciNyPcCRZwnMkZM7 \n  \nThis 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. \nSessions will be 1.5hrs long between 7:30pm and 9pm on Sundays\, starting February 15th. \nRates: \nNon-Members: $170 \nMembers: $155 \nStudent/Senior: $100 \nAccessible: $100 \n  \nFebruary 15th – Session #1 (1.5hrs): \nLife Drawing Session: Nude Model  \n\n15min Intro to Figure Drawing\, settling in – acknowledging the space\, allowing the model to settle in.\n1hr of drawing w/ model:\n\ntraditional timed figure drawing structure (short warm-ups to longer poses)\n\n\n15min Outro – for thoughts\, discussion & questions \n\nMaterials Provided \n\neasels\, newsprint\, drawing materials (pencils\, charcoal\, coloured pencil\, pastels)\n\n*please feel free to bring your own drawing materials\n\n\n\n  \nFebruary 22nd – Session #2 (1.5hr): \nDrawing as Intro to Painting: Live Model \n\n15min Intro & warmup to drawing for painting (technique\, composition\, situating body in space\, etc)\n1hr Drawing\n15min Outro – thoughts\, discussion & questions  \n\nMaterials Provided \n\neasels\, newsprint\, drawing materials (pencils\, charcoal\, coloured pencil\, pastels)\n\n*please feel free to bring your own drawing materials\n\n\n\n  \nMarch 1st – Session #3 (1.5hr): \n*Intro to Oil Painting: Still life (fabrics\, objects\, etc.) \n\nFocussing on colour\, composition\, moving paint\, light\, values\, using a restricted palette\, etc. \n15min Outro – thoughts\, discussion & questions  \n\nMaterials Provided \n\neasels\, canvas paper\, oil paints\, solvents\, palettes\, palette knives\, etc.\n\n*please feel free to bring your own painting materials\n\n\n\n  \nMarch 8th – Session #4 (1.5hrs):  \n*Oil Painting: Live Model  \n\n15min Intro (prep\, settling in\, situation model in space\, etc.)\nOil Painting with a live model (underpainting\, values\, light/shadows\, palette\, etc.)\n15min Outro – thoughts\, discussion & questions  \n\nMaterials Provided \n\neasels\, medium sized canvas\, oil paints\, solvents\, palettes\, palette knives\, etc.\n\n*please feel free to bring your own painting materials\n\n\n\n  \nMarch 15th – Session #5 (1.5hrs): \nOil Painting: Live Model continued..  \n\n1hr to continue to work on painting (form\, colour\, details\, etc.) \n30min Outro – discussion\, thoughts\, questions \n\nMaterials Provided \n\neasels\, medium sized canvas\, oil paints\, solvents\, palettes\, palette knives\, etc.\n\n*please feel free to bring your own painting materials\n\n\n\n  \nNico 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. \n  \n 
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/life-drawing-oil-painting-5-week-workshop/2026-02-15/
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Drop-Ins
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SUMMARY:Opera Concert at Dënäkär Zho / KIAC Ballroom
DESCRIPTION:Danlie Rae(baritone)\, Jeremy Scinocca (tenor)\, Spencer Kryzanowski (piano)\nCo-Presented with Yukon Arts Centre\n–\nFRI\, February 20\, doors at 7:30 / Music at 8:00\nPay-what-you-want: kiacyukon.square.site\n— \nDescribed 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. \nDanlie 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. \nIn 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. \nDanlie 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. \n—\nJeremy 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. \n—\nSpencer 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.\n–\nThanks to our funders – Government of Canada\, Yukon Government\, Canada Council for the Arts\nand special thanks to Northern Vision Development / the Downtown Hotel
URL:https://kiac.ca/calendar-of-events/opera-concert-at-denakar-zho-kiac-ballroom/
LOCATION:Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC)\, 902 2nd Avenue\, Dawson City
CATEGORIES:Performing Arts
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