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ust for the heck of it, let’s take a look at three English words that, on the surface of things, appear to have a lot in common.

Before we start, I want to mention once again my amazement that anyone can actually understand the English language. Whether it is our native tongue, or we came to it later in life, it is a ridiculous spiderweb of inconsistencies and absurdities.

Our language is a mishmash – or mishmosh, to be more faithful to that term’s Germanic-Yiddish origins – of borrowings, adaptations and outright thefts from Indo-European, Anglo-Frisian, Latin, Greek, Celtic, and heaven only knows how many other linguistic roots.

As the world becomes smaller, and other cultures push their way into our consciousness through food, music, dance, technology and other influences, English is becoming richer and more nuanced, but inevitably less precise.

How it attained the status of lingua franca it currently enjoys in commerce, and much of everyday discourse throughout the world, defies rational explanation.

In considering the words I have chosen for today’s discussion, I invite you to join me on page 956 of the Concise Oxford Dictionary,

Fourth Edition. Or, on page 1,073 of Webster’s New World Dictionary, Third College Edition.

Those who relish having access to even more words about words may turn to page 2,357 of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, Fifth Edition. Whatever your preferred source, however, mosey over to the area with words that begin with “prodig”.

For me, this line of inquiry started when my new editor at What’s Up Yukon remarked in an email that I was “prodigious” in my writing.

I was pretty sure he meant “prolific”, but what if he actually meant “prodigal”?

My scantily-remembered lessons from Sunday School – lo, these many decades ago – brought to mind a wastrel, a misfit, a rebel who squandered his resources before returning home in shame and humiliation (see Luke XV – verses 11-32).

Was the man paying a compliment, or insulting me? A writer must always be en garde. Editors are a sneaky lot.

For the record, I hereby paraphrase what I discovered about these three seemingly-related words: prodigal, prodigious, and prodigy.

Prodigal is either an adjective or a noun, basically referring to a reckless or wasteful person. Since I barely know the editor in question, I doubt that’s what he meant (unless he’s been Google-researching me extensively).

Prodigious, it transpires, means marvelous, amazing, enormous, or abnormal.

Prodigy refers to something marvelous, wonderful, or outside the course of nature – or to a person possessed with surprising qualities.

I’m far too old and ordinary to be considered any kind of prodigy, so I’ll go with Door Number 2.

Thanks, Boss. But I’m really only prolific.

(Ed. note: The editor stands by his use of prodigious. Ken’s proclivity to make common the prolific production of profound product is most uncommon. I’ll take quality over quantity, unless I can get quality in quantity.

I’d rather not be the prodigal son.)

Our resident Geezer lives southeast of Whitehorse. You can contact him via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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Hunting in the Yukon

Part One

An excerpt of Manfred Hoefs’ recently released book Yukon’s Hunting History

On the Cover The cast of Stonecliff prepares for the stage PHOTO: Erik Pinkerton

What’s Inside

by Manfred Hoefs

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ukon’s history – its time scale and events – is different from any other Canadian jurisdiction. The northern portion of the Territory was part of Beringia, an ice-free area that extended from the Yukon and Alaska across the Bering Land-bridge into Siberia.

This connection of continents during the Ice Age allowed the inter-continental exchange of animals, plants and humans. Most of the Yukon’s large game species such as moose, caribou, sheep and bear evolved in Siberia and came to North America during the Ice Age; and so did the first humans, which arrived in this Territory about 14,000 years ago.

These early humans were hunters, and so were many following generations including the Yukon’s current First Nations, whose right to subsistence hunting is enshrined in the Umbrella Final Agreement.

Yukon was the last Canadian jurisdiction colonized by immigrants of European origin, which started in the early years of the 19th century with the arrival of Hudson Bay Company traders.

This “white” population grew quickly, with many miners and prospectors making their appearance; most of whom depended on wildlife for sustenance.

The Gold Rush resulted in an explosion of the population, reaching a temporary peak of perhaps 40,000. The First Nations people could not handle their demands for meat, and so-called commercial meat hunters made their appearance.

Thousands of game animals

were killed to supplement imported meat to feed all these immigrants.

At about the same time there was another peak of new-comers in the Yukon that depended on game meat. These were overwintering whalers, with up to 14 whale ships anchored at Herschel Island for 9-month durations. The Herschel island population reached 2,000 at peak years.

Concurrently with these big events and after the diversity of

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Manfred transports a harvested moose by kayak the Yukon’s large mammals had become widely known, collectors for museums and the first non-resident trophy hunters made their appearance.

The largest construction event to ever occur in the Yukon, was the Alaska Highway and Canol road and pipeline, built in 1942 and 1943. As

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was the case during the Gold Rush, this event brought thousands of new people to the territory. Some 40,000 soldiers and contractors flooded the Yukon, far more than the population of only 5,000 at the time. Soldiers were allowed to hunt, and there was much speculation about impacts on wildlife and on the local First Nations population.

Research for the book (Yukon’s Hunting History) revealed a dozen events or periods that had char-

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acteristic features that set them apart from the others and could be examined individually. Several of these have already been mentioned, such as the Gold Rush, Alaska Highway and Canol road construction and hunting for whalers.

The Gold Rush and the Whaling period are two of the events with large population influxes and potential for negative impact on wildlife, and they are discussed in some detail in Part 2 of this series.

The question can be asked how the Government of Yukon reacted to these various events and projects. After all, it was the Yukon’s population and wildlife that would enjoy the benefits as well as suffer from negative consequences.

Wildlife was the first natural resource, whose management was as-

sumed by the Yukon government in 1900. An Ordinance Respecting the Preservation of Game was passed in 1901 by the Territorial Council consisting of two elected members at the time, and made into law.

In the following decades there were many positive amendments to this Ordinance, but there was no enforcement. The 1908 amendment imposed a licence for nonresident hunter at a cost of $100.

The 1920 revision created licence requirements for guides, commercial meat hunters, and fur-traders; hunters had to report their kills.

Since 1933 all hunters have been required to get a licence and non-resident hunters have been required to hire a guide.

In 1943 the Kluane Game Sanctuary was established. The 1951 revision created the office of the Director of Game and Publicity.

This office spent much of their early years with predator control and trapping, but it also terminated commercial hunting of game and began the establishing of registered traplines.

In the 1970s the Game Branch expanded its mandate previously limited to enforcement and administration and hired technical staff. This initiated a slow build-up to a province-like game management system with such important components as reliable inventories of game populations and hunting regulation that assured sustainable harvest.

While there have been many reasons for hunting Yukon’s wildlife during the 117 years of legislated responsibility for its management, since the 1970s hunting has essentially been restricted to three purposes: subsistence hunting, non-resident hunting and hunting by residents.

Manfred Hoefs is a retired biologist and who lives with his wife Hanna on the Takhini Hotsprings Road. These articles are condensed excerpts from his new book, Yukon’s Hunting History.

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Originally from Australia, McCallum has a bachelor’s degree in drama from Macquarie University. She also spent three years at The Atlantic Theatre Company in New York before serving as artistic director of Whitehorse’s Guild Hall, and founding local theatre company Larrikin Entertainment Ensemble.

At this point in her career, she says she feels she has the maturity and confidence to pull off a show like this.

Part of that feeling comes from the support of the crew of 15 helping put it on, including Vancouver director Laura McLean (“She sticks right on top of me and makes sure I’m not slipping,” McCallum said).

And part comes from the weeks of preparation McCallum did in September, before October rehearsals started, when she travelled to Vancouver to work with accent and dialect coaches.

But the bigger catalyst, McCallum said, was really Trump.

Laura McLean directs The Syringa Tree

During the U.S election, her pre-teen kids were devastated watching the debates. As she watched them watching TV, she remembered the devastation she felt growing up and hearing about apartheid. She asked her kids if they’d ever heard anything about it, and was surprised to hear they hadn’t.

“There’s this sort of concurrent mirror image that’s sort of happening in the world right now where the new normal is a little scary,” she said.

“I think we need to keep that conversation out there, that we have made mistakes in the very recent past.”

That said, McCallum stresses the play is more deeply personal than it is political. At its heart, it’s a story about two families.

“The brilliance of this writing is it’s a piece that’s incredibly poignant and powerful but (Gien has) written it in a way where you’re going along in such a light-hearted way for so long you don’t ever feel like you’re being politicized.”

The Syringa Tree preview is Tuesday, November 7, and opens on Wednesday, November 8. It then runs Wednesdays through Saturdays, until Saturday, November 26. All performances are at the Courts Theatre, which is located behind Epic Pizza in Riverdale at 39 Lewes Blvd.

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ever is a good time to do a one-woman show – that’s what actor Katherine McCallum used to think.

But when Donald Trump was elected president in the U.S. last year, McCallum, who was looking for a new show to mount at The Courts in Riverdale, found her mind wandering back to a play she’d seen in New York in 2001.

“This play kept knocking on the back of my head going, ‘Come on, look at me,’” McCallum said of The Syringa Tree – a memoir by Pamela Gien, of her childhood growing up in apartheid South Africa.

“I’d put it up there as one of the top 10 live theatre experiences I’ve ever had in my entire life… When I walked out of the theatre, it felt like the world was adjusted in some way.”

She wasn’t the only one who felt that way. When the play opened in New York in 2000, it won a number of off-broadway awards. It also attracted such esteemed audience members as Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O’Donnell, Paul Newman and J.D. Salinger.

At the time, the one-woman show was performed entirely by Gien. When it opens in Whitehorse on November 8, McCallum will perform all of the play’s 24 characters, ranging in age from six to early 40s, and speaking a total of six different accents.

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ringing up a family back in the 50s and 60s was much different than the modern rush to get through life of today, which is mostly controlled by computers and a lack of oneon-one, face-to-face communication. Being brought up in the 30s, during the Great Depression and the Second World War – and under the strict rule of a Scottish father and English Mother – was, of course, the era of responsibility and the real world.

As for my three sons and two daughters, it was more of a life of enjoying the outdoors. We had a dog, but as a Conservation Officer in those early days ,we also had a pet skunk, a great horned owl, a white raccoon and the “swimming pal”, Bobby the Beaver.

For my three sons, Kim, Kevin and Dave, it was hunting, fishing and canoeing – not in calm lakes, but rather wild rivers. If one of the boys was not at the front in the bow position, they were up in trees or hanging alongside off a cliff to get the ideal picture of us in the canoe as we challenged the white water.

Back in the ’70s, I was then a public relations representative of Winchester Repeating Arms Co., but we spent the weekends white water testing canoes from canoe manufacturers in Canada and the United States, and writing monthly columns on such for the Ontario Fisherman & Hunter magazine, later to change its name to The Ontario Out Of

Doors magazine.

My daughters Bonnie and Tracey were more interested in shooting shot guns and .22 rifles, and needless to say, they became really good at it.

Bonnie spent two weeks at the Ontario Outdoor School in Northern Ontario, sharpening her outdoor skills. It just happened that Winchester sent me there to teach trap shooting and target shooting.

Most of the girls were new to the shotgun, but Bonnie stepped up to be the plate without hesitation.

At 14 years old she broke 18 out of 25 in trap, and came away with the top prize.

Later, Tracy got into kayaking and even now leads her brother and friends around cottage country in Ontario lakes and rivers.

As for the boys, I had made a promise that when one of them got a deer, I would then take them to the notorious Groundhog River in Northern Ontario; a river most canoeists, as well as hunters, stayed away from.

The group I hunted that river with had always managed to get a moose, as well as enjoyed the finest walleye fishing you could find in North America. The boys worked hard at sharpening their shooting skills, as well as all the ins and out of deer hunting. Dave, with his single shot 30-30, got his first deer and the best part was I was there with him. He was proud, but my pride (to this day) runneth over.

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noes, fishing gear, tents and food to last a week and set out for the Groundhog River. On the third day, I heard a shot from where my son Kim was set up. Jumping into the canoe with Dave, we crossed the Groundhog and there, sitting up on the dead moose’s shoulders was Kim, with a smile from one side of his face to the other.

Each year after that, as we drove the 13-hour trip to our secret hunting grounds, we stopped at the restaurant and as we came through the door, other hunters would call out “hey, there’s the Martin boys.” Needless to say, my cup runneth over.

Many years later, Kim’s son Rob has followed the old Martin tradition of hunting the Groundhog River. A recent letter from my grandson informed me that he takes his young preschool son hunting grouse and his boy loves it.

What has bringing up children in outdoor experiences and enjoying the life of camping, fishing and hunting done for the children?

Well my youngest has turned 52 and the oldest is now a senior.

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Stonecliff brings together a remarkable team of artists

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Part 2 of 2

The new musical by Ottawa playwright Conrad Boyce and Whitehorse composer Matthew Lien opens on Nov. 17

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he new musical drama Stonecliff, which opens at the Yukon Arts Centre stage on Friday, November 17 (for four performances only!) tells the story of Michael J. Heney, the son of poor Irish immigrants in the Ottawa Valley who went on to build one of the world’s most spectacular railways – the White Pass and Yukon Route – to serve the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898.

I wear a few hats for this show.

And as the project’s playwright, producer and director, I have the good fortune to work with some marvellous creative minds. The first and most vital one to come on board was Yukon composer Matthew Lien, with whom I’d collaborated back in the 1990s.

“I grew up in the company of three distinct influences: Irish folk music, the Yukon, and trains,” Matthew said. “From the age of seven, nearly half of each childhood year was spent at Dezadeash

Lodge with my father. Every spring, I’d travel by ferry from Seattle through the Inside Passage, to Haines, Alaska, and drive across the mountain pass into the Yukon with my father. That rugged annual pilgrimage through the mystical Inside Passage and over the haunting Chilkat Pass left a deep and lasting mark.

“Much of the time spent with my mother was immersed in Irish folk music and travel by train, be it Amtrak or the Deutsche Bundesbahn – and for her, the older, creaky and clunkier the train, the better.

“I was spellbound by those iron beasts and by the men that ran them. I was just as mesmerised by the countless Irish folk musicians we billeted, who played songs of rambling rovers and long ago trains.

“So when I received the call from Conrad, asking if I’d create music about one of the most re-

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CPR railway workers (l-r) Graham Rudge, Brett Chandler, Adrian Woodhouse, RP Singh and Doug Rutherford tease the young Michael Heney (Cohen Ashick) markable historic railroads – accomplished by an Irishman, reaching from the Inside Passage over those same mystical mountains, into the Yukon – how could I refuse?”

As many readers will know, Matthew’s music has taken off in Asia, and he makes his winter home in Taiwan, so our partnership was very long distance: Ottawa to Taipei. But it wasn’t the only long distance partnership I had for this project. There are few men living who know more about the history of the White Pass and Yukon Route than Skagway’s Steve Hites. I needed him to ensure my dialogue was authentic to the per-

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The play had its genesis near Heney’s hometown of Stonecliff, and two Ottawa Valley artists also joined the project nearly a year ago; their skills will play a large part in the show’s visual appeal.

Costume designer Ingrid Harris works regularly in Stratford and New York, and is the resident costumer for Canada’s National Gallery. Award-winning projection designer Graham Price taught technical theatre in England for many years, and is currently production manager of one of Canada’s oldest stage companies, Ottawa Little Theatre.

My other national collaborator, playing a lead role who is almost never off-stage, is Shaw Festival

veteran Billy Lake, who’s flying north from Toronto for the experience.

“You don’t often get an opportunity to create the lead role in an epic show like this,” Billy said.

“Michael Heney was a fascinating man, and I’m thrilled to be making my first trip to the Yukon to bring him to life.”

By far the majority of the team members who are working hard to make Stonecliff live and breathe, are from right here in the Yukon.

There’s my right hand in staging the show: choreographer Kate Fitzgerald, who is one of the staff members at Leaping Feats Dance in Riverdale.

There’s sculptor Lea-Ann McNally, who’s building a lot of the props in her workshop in Hillcrest.

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Stonecliff brings together a remarkable team of artists ... cont’d

Bruce Barrett rehearses a scene as RP Singh looks on Composer Matthew Lien helped develop the musical score

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of Teslin, who wrote lyrics in that language for one of our songs, and who is advising one of my actors in how a Carcross man would have moved and spoken more than a 100 years ago.

It’s been more than two decades since I directed a show in Whitehorse. So when I flew up in May to conduct auditions, I had no idea what to expect, especially since the play requires so many men, and men are usually scarce in community theatre.

Imagine my delight when my local collaborators, Mary Sloan and Rachel Grantham, gave me an abundance of excellent actors to choose from, led by a veteran, Bruce Barrett, who was with me in the cast of Man of la Mancha at FH Collins some 37 years ago, and will be shouldering a heavy theatrical burden as the narrator

for Stonecliff.

Joining Bruce is a sterling group of performers young and old, who among them take on more than 40 speaking roles, changing personas as often as they do costumes: Cohen Ashick, Brett Chandler, James McCullough, Graham Rudge, Doug Rutherford, R. P. Singh, Adrian Woodhouse and our solitary actress, Angela Drainville.

Aiding them in key backstage roles are stage manager Odile Nelson and sound technician Wayne Rochon. And a special treat for our audiences is fiddler and actress Katie Avery, who will pop up in the most unexpected places.

Supporting all of these talented people are another special group: our corporate partners, who you will see featured on our full-page ad elsewhere in this issue of What’s Up Yukon. Without them, Stonecliff would not be happening.

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The new musical Stonecliff opens at the Yukon Arts Centre on Friday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m.

There are three other showings: Saturday, November 18 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m.

For more information go to www.YukonArtsCentre.com.

Journalist and theatrical manof-many-hats Conrad Boyce was a vital part of Whitehorse’s theatre scene from 1980-1995.

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assion, energy and positivity. Those emotions resonate across the table when you sit down with Gary Bailie, the main architect behind the Blue Feather Music Festival. The festival is entering its 17th year and Bailie says the festival is still holding true to its roots, providing healing, sharing culture and providing positive opportunities for youth to grow.

“Whatever your beliefs, music speaks to everybody,” Bailie said.

“This year’s theme, The Eye of the Storm, really shows what we are about. The festival is about finding that quiet place where you get a break from all the craziness of life.

Music can do that for everyone.”

Every year, the Blue Feather Music Festival brings in professional acts from Outside. Prism headlines this year’s lineup on Friday night.

The Juno award-winning group has released 13 studio albums since they first formed in Vancouver in 1977.

“Prism is one of the classic Canadian rock bands that are making a resurgence,” Bailie said. “They still have the main guys performing and put on a great show.”

Bailie is also excited about Philip Sayce on Friday night. Sayce has toured with rock heavyweights like Jeff Healey and Melissa Ethridge.

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and blues. “He’s an amazing musician,” Bailie said.

Yukon’s Klukshu Flats Boogie Band will also perform Friday, as well as the two youth musicians known as Tahltan Havoc. Tahltan Havoc is a hip hop group who first performed at the First Nation youth magazine Shakaat launch, but Blue Feather will be their first major show.

“Saturday we have the awardwinning Digging Roots and Miss Quincy, an all-woman rock band,” Bailie said. “Miss Quincy’s lead is back-up for Digging Roots. It’s those sort of connections that make the festival happen.”

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will be Brandon Isaak’s new blues trio and Whitehorse’s own Ukes of Hazard.

“I’ve seen Ukes of Hazard in town and they’re just the hardest working band,” Bailie said. “I told them, ‘You guys have to come play at the festival.’”

Bailie likes to put the artists front and centre. “I think artists are the most generous people,” Bailie said. “They don’t have a lot, but give so much. Because of that we like to treat them well. We compensate our artists well and we treat them all with respect, whether you’re the rock star from Outside or one of our youth performers.”

The event is also about mentoring youth and providing opportunities for positive growth. Youth get trained in putting on the show and the technical skills needed.

“I found lighting as a way of my expression and finding accomplishment,” Bailie said. “By having youth help put on the festival, we teach them to try new things. We show them that’s the way to finding your passions.”

Many youth have helped over the years and their skills are growing. Bailie is proud of the work they’re doing. The new youth who are joining are now being mentored by older members who have worked on the show before.

“The skills our youth are learning provide so much self-confidence and self-esteem,” Bailie said. “Last year, a 19-year-old did the whole lighting show, not just the lights, but getting her hands dirty setting them up. She was told she was the

youngest to ever do lights for Buffy Sainte-Marie. You could see her just fill with pride.”

It’s that legacy to the community that the Blue Feather Music Festival wants to share. Bailie is torn on what that might mean in the future. “If one of those youth stepped forward and said ‘Gary, I want to organize and put on the show,’ I’d be so proud,” Bailie said. “I’d be a little sad not to be involved the same way, but I’d be so proud to tell them to run with it.”

The doors to the substancefree event are open to anyone who wants to take some time to enjoy some positivity in a turbulent world. For more information, check out their Facebook page or email at info@BlueFeatherMusic.ca.

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Whitehorse EVENTS ART SHOWS Fri, Nov, 3, Art Gallery Opening: Air – Studio Gallery Association 5:00 to 7:00pm Arts Underground, Exhibiting artists: Shiela Alexandrovich, Lyn Fabio, Heather Hyatt, Rob Ingram, Lillian Loponen, Maureen Morris Until Sat, Nov, 25, Trapped by Willow Rector Yukon Arts Centre Explores cultural narratives of the Canadian landscapes through intricate embroidery on trap-line hides Until Sat, Nov, 25, Human / Nature by Suzanne Paleczny Yukon Arts Centre Asks the viewer about their impact on the natural world. More specifically, how that impact is not always positive Until Sun.Mar.4, On Our Way Home Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Showcasing new acquisitions to the Yukon Permanent Art Collection.

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Wednesdays Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 pm Epic Pizza goes till we are done!

Wed, Nov, 1 Jam Session 6:00 PM 98 Hotel Thu, Nov, 2 Funk in the Hall: Major Funk does Jazz in the Hall 7:00 PM The Old Fire Hall “Learn” with Steve Gedrose educational vignette, “listen” to featured act Major Funk & The Employment, followed by a “jam” with instrumentalists and vocalists. Tickets at the door 334-2789 duncan.sinclair@jazzyukon.ca Thu, Nov, 2 Jam Night with Patrick Jacobson 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Thu, Nov, 2 Joe Loutchan - Fiddler on the Loose 9:00 PM 98 Hotel Thu, Nov, 2 Ginger Jam 10:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler room fully electric jam session with PA system, drum kit and guitars provided to musicians. Featuring guest co-hosts and performers.

Fri, Nov, 3 Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy Listening Fri, Nov, 3 Blue Feather- Eye of the Storm 7:30 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Headliners: Prism Philip, Sayce Klukshu Flats, Tahltan Havoc, Digging Roots, Miss Quincy Brandon Isaak Trio, Ukes of Hazard. 667-8574 Fri, Nov, 3 Open Mic with Patrick Jacobson 8:30 PM Town & Mountain Hotel Fri, Nov, 3 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Fri, Nov, 3 Chimney Fire 9:00 PM The Beer Tasters’ Social House Sat, Nov, 4 CoffeeHouse 7:30 PM Whitehorse United Church Featuring: Jasmine Sudlow+Lexi Joinson +the Open Stage! Bsmt United Church, 633-4255 Sat, Nov, 4 Blue Feather- Eye of the Storm 7:30 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Headliners: Prism Philip, Sayce Klukshu Flats, Tahltan Havoc, Digging Roots, Miss Quincy Brandon Isaak Trio, Ukes of Hazard. 667-8574 Sat, Nov, 4 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sun, Nov, 5 Open Mic Night 3:00 PM 98 Hotel Sun, Nov, 5 Ben Mahony 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Sun, Nov, 5 Chamber Concert with members of the NAC Orchestra 7:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre To mark the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, the National Arts Centre Chamber Orchestra will undertake a cross-Canada tour.

Sun, Nov, 5 Members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra 7:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre Canada 150 tour for a wide range of classical masterworks, featuring a new world premiere by Whitehorse’s own Daniel Janke written for this special occasion.

Tue, Nov, 7 Ginger Jam 10:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler room fully electric jam session with PA system, drum kit and guitars provided to musicians. Featuring guest co-hosts and performers.

GENERAL EVENTS

Wednesdays Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 pm Yukon Government Administration Building Join us inside the Bridges Café 633-6081 Terry or Michèle

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Wednesdays Whitehorse United Church Choir Practice 7:30 pm Whitehorse United Church Wednesdays Hump Day Trivia 9:00 pm Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Wed, Nov, 1, Slideshow: Whitehorse World War II Army Buildings 2:00 PM Whitehorse Public Library Images of Camp Mcrae, Downtown Squatters, survivor army buildings and hear about Whitehorse pioneers. Refreshments, music and discussion.

Wed, Nov, 1, Free Screenings of 360˙ Film Horizon in Sesqui Dome Theatre 2:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre See Canada in 360! Screenings are continuous (about every 25-30 minutes), and the dome is open to the public each day (School groups are in the morning.) Free Wed, Nov, 1, Portrait Painting with Suzanne Paleczny 7:00 PM Arts Underground Students will explore the basic anatomy of the head, proportions and characteristics of facial features, viewpoint and foreshortening, light and shadow. Sign up by calling 667-4080 Thu, Nov, 2, Working with Trauma Westmark Whitehorse Learn tools for preventing and managing vicarious trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue.

Register online or call 668-8800.

Thu, Nov, 2, Free Screenings of 360˙ Film Horizon in Sesqui Dome Theatre 2:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre See Canada in 360! Screenings are continuous (about every 25-30 minutes), and the dome is open to the public each day (School groups are in the morning.) Free Thu, Nov, 2, Chess Corner 6:30 PM Yukon College Chess played in room A2101, beginners welcome, welcome to bring your own ‘lucky’ board. Everyone welcome to sit in on this game of strategy.

Thu, Nov, 2, Audio Arts Immersion Program 7:00 PM Shipyards Park Biweekly workshops where we will learn about different aspects of sound, history, techniques, as well as allow participants to discuss and work on their own projects.

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Thu, Nov, 2, Christ Church Cathedral Choir Practice 7:30 PM Christ Church Cathedral Fri, Nov, 3, Yukoner Appreciation Day Main Street - Downtown Coffee / Hot Chocolate / Pastries and Entertainment in the “tent” Enjoy the entertainment at 3rd Avenue and Main Street Fri, Nov, 3, Dusk’a Friday Language Lunches 12:00 PM Duska Head Start and Family Learning Center Bring a bag lunch and come learn Southern Tutchone with our special guest speakers. Call Erin Pauls for more information 633-7816. All Kwanlin citizens and staff are welcome!

Sat, Nov, 4, -5, 24 Hour Challenge Nakai Theatre Start at noon, finish creating at noon. Rehearse until 6, show and drinks at 7, awards at 10. Sleep as required.

393-6040 Sat, Nov, 4, ‘‘Tis The Season” Country Christmas Open House 10:00 AM Beyond the Barn Come have a coffee or tea and a snack as you get into the Christmas spirit.

Sat, Nov, 4, 150th Birthday Party for the Amazing Klondike Joe Boyle 12:00 PM Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre Celebrate the life and accomplishments of Joseph Whiteside Boyle, for more info call 633-3896.

Sat, Nov, 4, Crib Tournament 6:15 PM Royal Canadian Legion - Branch 254 Crib tournaments every Saturday - Member and non-members welcome.

Sat, Nov, 4, UFC 217 LIVE 7:00 PM Whiskey Jacks Pub & Grill Sat, Nov, 4, Open House Night 7:00 PM Nlaye Ndasadaye Daycare A fun night of shopping, wine, prizes, and more! Call 667-7012 Or email nlaye@northwestel.net for more information.

Sat, Nov, 4, A Wayfarer Pop-up: Big Trouble In Little Whitehorse! 7:30 PM Baked Cafe A multi-course tasting menu inspired by a couple of our Chinese takeout favourites. Email shuck@ wayfareroysterhouse.com or call 333-0507 to reserve your seats.

Sat, Nov, 4, Ladies Night 8:00 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Sat, Nov, 4, Latin Dance Party 9:00 PM Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre Fundraising event for Ramirez family, victims and Mexican earthquake Buy your tickets at Sport Expert

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Sun, Nov, 5, Iridesce Project 12:15 PM Whitehorse United Church A joint project of Affirm United/S’affirmer Ensemble and The United Church of Canada.To participate and more information please email our Project Coordinator at livingapology@ gmail.com Sun, Nov, 5, Whitehorse Scrabble Club 1:00 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Are you a wordy person, put your words to the test and join the Scrabble Club. Must be 19+ Sun, Nov, 5, Introduction to Silversmithing 1:00 PM Arts Underground No previous experience required! To register, drop by Arts Underground or call 667-4080.

Sun, Nov, 5, Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground Non-instructed open studio. Participants are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; clay and some tools are available for purchase.

Every Sunday except long weekends. $5/ hour.

Sun, Nov, 5, Life Drawing Drop-in 7:00 PM Arts Underground Life Drawing is every first Sunday of the Month and is noninstructional. Andew Sharp is the host. A live model will pose each session. Cost is $5/hour to help pay for the model.

Mon, Nov, 6, Free drop-in computer labs 10:00 AM Yukon Learn Free Drop-In Computer Lab for Self Directed Studies A tutor/Instructor will be available on site to assist you. 867-668-6280 or toll free: 888668-6280 Fax: 867-633-4576 Mon, Nov, 6, GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: tjbowlby@gmail.com Mon, Nov, 6, Euchre Night 6:00 PM Royal Canadian Legion - Branch 254 667-2802 Tue, Nov, 7, -10, Money Matters: An Introduction to Financial Literacy Yukon Learn Four-day course designed to teach you the basics of managing the all-mighty dollar! To register, call 867-668-6280 seats are limited Tue, Nov, 7, Common Threads 9:30 AM Christ Church Cathedral Chat, Coffee, Knit, Crochet, for more information call the Prayer Shawl Ministry at 393-8005 Tue, Nov, 7, Second-hand Clothing Bazaar 5:30 PM Whitehorse Seventhday Adventist Church All the funds we raise to toward projects in our community.

Everything goes by donation and all donations go toward our refugee sponsorship fund.

Tue, Nov, 7, Brave New Words 7:30 PM The Beer Tasters’ Social House We encourage writers and storytellers from all genres to come read what you have written.

Wed, Nov, 8, Sexuality in Every Day Life 12:00 PM and 6:00 PM Yukon Association for Community Living Workshops are Free, call 667-4606 for more information.

Wed, Nov, 8, Comedy and Improv Workshop 6:00 PM The Guild Hall In this FREE, 2-hour workshop features theatre games, plus improvs around creating comical characters and what it’s like to be Canadian. To register call us at 393-2676 or email us at info@gwaandaktheatre.ca Wed, Nov, 8, Birth Stories 6:30 PM Baked Cafe Midwives, mothers and families.

Partners for life!” Enjoy an evening of sharing and honoring new life and relationships.

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Monday & Fridays, Parent and Tot Drop In 10:00 am Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Ages 0-4 yrs. Call 668-4794 or email info@polarettes.org for more information.

Limit of 25 participants, arrive early.

Tuesday & Thursdays Drop-In Floor Hockey 3:30 pm Canada Games Centre For youth (ages 8-18) drop-in floor hockey in the Flexihall, it’s fun and free!!

Tuesday & Thursdays Youth Drop In 5:30 pm Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Ages 10 - 17 yrs. Call 668-4794 or email info@ polarettes.org for more information. Limit of 25 participants, arrive early. Saturdays, Ball Pit Fun 10:00 am Heart Of Riverdale The play area features tonnes of climbing and scurrying equipment for playful monkeys. Parental Supervision Required.

Wed, Nov, 1, Baby Talk Session: Breastfeeding 1:30 PM Whitehorse Health Centre Bring your baby, let us inform and discuss topics related to the health and concerns you may have as your baby reaches milestones.

Thu, Nov, 2, Producer Swap + Meet & Greet 5:00 PM Splintered Craft Bring your computers and beat machines, we’ll supply the PA. FREE and open to all ages!

Sat, Nov, 4, Family Free Play Drop In 12:30 PM Family Literacy Centre Read, make crafts and participate in imaginative play.

Sat, Nov, 4, Family Drop In 3:00 PM Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Ages 9 and under, must be accompanied by a parent.

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eSports: Gamers reach superstar status The month-long League of Legends World Championship will draw about 400 million viewers worldwide

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On November 4, small groups of Yukoners will gather in living rooms and basements for viewing parties to watch the League of Legends World Championship final. They will be amongst the worldwide fans expected to surpass 2016’s record viewership numbers of 43 million people who watched the final, and 396 mil-

lion unique viewers who tuned in during the 15-day competition, according to League of Legends’ designer Riot Games.

The games will be broadcast over the internet and the gamers are real professionals. According to Riot Games, first place takes home 37.5 per cent of the total pool that is currently estimated to be now over $4 million and will grow due to fan specific purchases until November 5. The base $2.13 million prize increased to over $4 million due to fan pur-

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Sugden is a fan of the other major rival game, Defenders of the Ancients 2, or simply dota2, much like fans refer to the National Hockey League as the NHL. Dota2 and League of Legends, or LoL, are rival enterprises and like cont’d on page 17...

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Newsome hangs with one of the cosplayers dressed as Morgana, the champion Newsome plays almost exclusively in the game, known as her “main” watch professional competitions Outside. Newsome traveled to Vancouver in April to watch the North American League Championship Series Spring Finals at the Pacific Coliseum. “The finals happened to be in Vancouver, so we had to go,” Newsome said. “The stadium was packed and there were eSports celebrities all over town. I saw my favourite player, Doublelift, during the event.”

Sugden attended The International 2017 at KeyArena Center in Seattle, Washington this past August. The signature weeklong event is the world championship for dota2 and shared a prize pool of over $24 million between 18 teams.

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Both games were the evolution from the first multiplayer online battle arena concept, Defenders of the Ancients by Valve Software.

“Dota2 was designed as the successor game and had input from the entire community,” Sugden said. “There was a crowdsourcing website dedicated to gathering input worldwide on how to create the best game possible.

“That’s why dota2 is so good.

It has incorporated the best ideas generated from millions of contributions.”

The rivalry is based in shared history.

“Some of the key people in the dota2 crowdsourcing process broke off to form Riot Games,” Sugden said. “They got out the door first with their game and got paid.”

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week, so there were all kinds of activities to do.”

However, the focus of these different trips had the same passion. Watching the competition unfold live was the draw.

“Going to these events is like going to a major sports event,” Newsome said. “The arena was packed and everyone is tuned in on the giant screens taking in the action.”

“For the entire week, our days consisted of grabbing a coffee in the morning and then heading to the arena,” Sugden said. “We’d usually watch about 10 hours each day of competition. It had that international flavour and you’d hear the different crowds cheering on their teams.”

Both Newsome and Sugden see eSports as a next step in the competitive landscape. They believe that eSports will become a mainstream competition and rival traditional sports in the marketplace, both as a hobby and professionally.

“The barrier to entry is low,” Sugden explained. “Basically, all you need is a computer capable of playing the game and access to the internet. Other than that, it’s basically free to start playing these games.”

And Newsome felt that the multiple ways to engage fans is an attraction.

“There are different ways to enjoy eSports,” Newsome said.

“You can watch the professional players compete, you can play yourself and you can watch other players who stream themselves playing. Then you can gather your friends and try to replicate the things they did.”

The growth of eSports supports their claims. As many as 17 United States colleges are now providing scholarships to eSport athletes. In the past two years the University of British Columbia’s eSports Association has won the North American Collegiate Championships and secured $180,000 in scholarships each time. Sports broadcast leader ESPN now covers eSports on their website and has begun broadcasting different events.

The world of eSports is growing and money is following that popularity. But this Saturday,

PHOTO: courtesy of Luke Sugden November 4, it will be about the hours of practice those athletes have put in and the teamwork and skills they’ve developed through all that hard work. The seats at the Beijing National Stadium will be packed for the event, just as they were in the 2008 Olympics.

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ood results lead to good opportunities. Thanks to earning gold medals at the Whistler Cantando Music Festival last spring, the 20-year-old Whitehorse All-City Band Junior and Senior Wind Ensembles have been honoured to receive their first invitation to compete at MusicFest Canada, a national music competition in Toronto next May. The All-City Band Society now faces the challenge of coming up with the money.

Trips to music festivals are an annual event and one of the highlights of being part of the All-City Band Society, but normally they are a little closer to home.

Band members are stepping up to cover most of their own costs for the trip to Toronto. The fundraising has started, with members selling Purdy’s chocolates and bagging groceries at various stores.

Grants have been applied for and Air North is putting together its best charter flight package. In spite of all this, more sponsorship will be needed to get the approximately 80 band members from the Junior and Senior ensembles to Toronto. The All-City Band Society is now looking for local corporate sponsors to help out.

The All-City Band Society is a non-profit community band with a mandate to present an annual series of live wind ensemble and jazz

concerts in Whitehorse and Yukon communities while delivering bigcity music development and appreciation opportunities to Yukon youth and adults.

The 180 members, ranging in age from 13 to over 70, play for 10 months of the year in one, or several, of the four bands. Youth are mentored by adults at both the annual Squeak & Squawk Night and the Grade 8 Band Retreat, as well as informally throughout the year.

“Playing in the All-City Band is very rewarding in many ways,” said Rhonda Horte, who is both a parent and an All-City Band Society percussionist.

“For me, the sense of community that it provides is the most enjoyable part. I started playing percussion in the band four years ago, after travelling as a parent chaperone with the band on a few trips. I have benefitted from the band by not only learning how to play the instruments, but also being able to watch our students grow musically and emotionally.”

Band trips provide our members with performance experience, exposure to new conductors and adjudication feedback. While on band trips, members are unofficial ambassadors of the Yukon and Whitehorse. Participants from other cities are always very curious about life “up north” and band members spread the word

about the beauty and charm of the Yukon.

“Whitehorse is very rich in programs like music, art and dance so I think that this is a great opportunity to really show off what our little town has to offer,” said Kyla Trociuk, a recent Porter Creek graduate and All-City Band Society saxophonist.

“Being able to travel with the Band, representing the community of Whitehorse, and the Yukon in general, has given us all the opportunity to showcase our talent.

And being exposed to other band participants, teachers, and adjudicators always contributes to our learning. It will be an honour to be able to go to Toronto next spring, to showcase our talent to the rest of Canada, and represent the Yukon.”

As part of the All-City Band Society, the All City Jazz Band has a mandate to spread music to the Yukon communities and last year went on tour to Carcross, Teslin and Watson Lake playing in the schools and for the communities.

Next April, the 20 member Jazz Band has applied for funding to go up north to play for the community of Old Crow. Again, we will be seeking local corporate sponsorship to assist with covering the $17,000 travel cost for the volunteer members.

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Community EVENTS ATLIN

Wednesdays, Ladies’ Lunch & Carpet Bowling 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre Sat, Nov, 4, Saturday Sewing 10:00 AM Atlin Rec Centre Every level of experience, from absolute beginner to advanced sewer, is welcome!

Sat, Nov, 4, 5th Annual Community Wild Game Dinner 5:30 PM Atlin Rec Centre Potluck style, bring what you can, all welcome. Call Annette 651-7786 for more information.

Sun, Nov, 5, St. Martins Anglican Church Service 10:00 AM St. Martins Anglican Church Sun, Nov, 5, Atlin Christian Centre 10:30 AM Atlin Christian Centre Tue, Nov, 7, Atlin District Board of Trade 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre

BEAVER CREEK

Monday & Fridays, Tot Time 9:30 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Tuesday & Saturdays, Volleyball 8:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club

BURWASH LANDING

Wednesdays, Culture/Craft Night 6:30 pm Jacquot Hall Wednesday evenings, join the fun starting new projects. Held in the Youth/Elders room Thursdays, Learn Southern Tutchone 8:30 am Jacquot Hall Tuesdays 4 pm until 5 pm and Thursdays from 9 am until 10 am, held in the Youth and Elders room.

CARCROSS

Tuesday & Thursdays, Pottery with Claudia MacPhee 3:30 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School Every Tuesday and Thursday, please enter by side door. Everyone welcome! no fee for community members 867-399-3321 Wednesdays, Healthy Choices & Nutrition Activities 9:00 am Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Wednesdays, Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 pm Ghùch Tlâ Community School For more info:kathleen. cranfield@ctfn.ca 821-4251 Wednesdays, Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 pm Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Wednedays, AA Carcross 6:30 pm Carcross/ Tagish First Nation Building Wed, Nov, 1, School Council 7:00 PM Carcross/ Tagish First Nation Building Thu, Nov, 2, Executive Council Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Thu, Nov, 2, CPNP Lunch 12:00 PM Carcross/ Tagish First Nation Building Thu, Nov, 2, Sewing Nights 6:30 PM Carcross/ Tagish First Nation Building Thu, Nov, 2, Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator Sat, Nov, 4, Traditional Handgames 1:00 PM Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Sun, Nov, 5, St. Saviours Church Service 11:00 AM St. Saviour’s Church 867-668-3129 Mon, Nov, 6, CTRRC Mtng 10:00 AM Carcross/ Tagish First Nation Building Mon, Nov, 6, Art at the Carving Shed 5:00 PM Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Mon, Nov, 6, AA - Tagish 7:30 PM Carcross/ Tagish First Nation Building Tue, Nov, 7, Elders Breakfast 10:00 AM Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Tue, Nov, 7, C/TFN Communication Team Mtng 1:00 PM Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Tue, Nov, 7, Tlingit Language classes 5:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Tue, Nov, 7, Excellence Group 5:00 PM Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Tue, Nov, 7, Sports Night 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School Tue, Nov, 7, Tlingit Language Game Nights 6:00 PM Carcross/Tagish First Nation Building Tue, Nov, 7, Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251

CARMACKS

Tue, Nov, 7, -9, Mental Health First Aid for Northern People 8:30 AM Carmacks Register Online Tue, Nov, 7, Village of Carmacks Council Meeting 7:00 PM Carmacks Recreation Centre

DAWSON CITY

Wednesdays, CFYT Trivia 8:00 pm The Billy Goat A fundraiser for CFYT local radio.

Until Sat. Nov, 4, In the ODD Gallery: Rachael Siminovitch KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture A mixed-media blend of watercolour, pencil, pen, and charcoal. Working intuitively, Rachael’s practise focuses on developing a personal mythology based around life (and death) in the North.

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Thu, Nov, 2, Open Mic In The Lounge 9:00 PM Westminster Hotel Hosted by Jonathan Howe Fri, Nov, 3, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Nov, 3, Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Nov, 3, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Fri, Nov, 3, YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly meeting 7:00 PM YTG Property management building Fri, Nov, 3, Andrew Laviolette ‘Snow Tires’ CD Release 7:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture A true celebration of a local Dawson City project and the greater Dawson City arts community. Tickets at KIAC Sat, Nov, 4, Painting 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Inspire and be inspired by other artists. Bring your own ideas and painting surfaces. Paints, brushes and easels are supplied, no instruction offered.

Sat, Nov, 4, Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sat, Nov, 4, Coffee House & Open Mic Night 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Share your talents or just hang out and enjoy yourself! All funds raised will be donated to the RSS Grad class. Everyone Welcome, in KIAC Ballroom Sun, Nov, 5, St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381 Sun, Nov, 5, Soul Sunday with The Sweet Nuggets 11:00 PM Westminster Hotel Mon, Nov, 6, Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Nov, 6, Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Nov, 6, Recreation Board Meeting 5:30 PM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Recreation board grants are due the Thursday preceding each meeting Tue, Nov, 7, Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School For more information email: getrealfit(at)me.com 867-993-2520 Tue, Nov, 7, Canada, It’s Complicated 7:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture An innovative new production by Mary Walsh, featuring sketches and satirical songs that examine the joys, foibles, tragedies, and triumphs of Canada tickets online or available at KIAC Wed, Nov, 8, Beolach in Concert 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture An energetic mix of Cape Breton, Scottish, and Irish tunes featuring piano, pipes, whistles, guitar, and two fiddles.Opening Act: The Fiddleheads

FARO

Tuesday & Thursdays After School Kids Club 3:30 pm Faro Recreation Centre Ages 6-12, snacks, crafts, field trips and lots of fun games.

Call 994-2375 for more information.

Tuesday & Thursdays Curcuit Training Classes 4:45 pm Faro Recreation Centre Call Kara at 994-3114 for more info, all fitness levels welcome.

Wednesdays, Faro Fire Department Meeting 7:00 pm Faro Recreation Centre Faro Fire Department Wednesday Meeting.

Thu, Nov, 2, Environment Club 3:45 PM Del Van Gorder School Fri, Nov, 3, Teen Drop in Gym 7:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Sun, Nov, 5, Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles Sun, Nov, 5, Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442 994-2442 Tue, Nov, 7, Parent & Tot Storytime 10:00 AM Faro Community Library For babies to age 4.

Stories & crafts will be provided

HAINES JUNCTION

Wednesday, Seniors - Drop-In and Activities 1:30 pm Haines Junction Seniors Apartments Arts, craft, fitness, pool tournaments, shuffleboard, carpet bowling, and card and board games. Refreshments.

Wednesdays, Adult Volleyball 6:30 pm St. Elias Community School Thu, Nov, 2, CAFN Settlement LUP Community Discussion 6:00 PM Champagne Hall Help shape CAFN’s Settlement Land Use Plan & the Alsek Moose Management Program’s trapping and harvest management strategy.

Wed, Nov, 1, Village of Haines Junction Council Meeting 7:00 PM St Elias Convention Centre Thu, Nov, 2, Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Nov, 2, Seniors - Carpet Bowling 1:30 PM St Elias Convention Centre All Seniors and Elders welcome!

Thu, Nov, 2, Chair Yoga For Seniors 3:00 PM Haines Junction Seniors Apartments

Thu, Nov, 2, Women’s Circle 5:30 PM Mun Ku Email elskloppers@gmail.com for more information.

Thu, Nov, 2, Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School Thu, Nov, 2, Open Mic 7:30 PM St Elias Convention Centre Fri, Nov, 3, -5, Junction Icebreaker Haines Junction Community Centre Email elskloppers@ gmail.com for more information.

Fri, Nov, 3, Story Hour 10:00 AM Haines Junction Community Library Sun, Nov, 5, St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere 867-634-2360 Mon, Nov, 6, Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Mon, Nov, 6, Yoga with Marguerite 5:15 PM Yukon College Haines Junction Campus Tue, Nov, 7, Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Nov, 7, CAFN Settlement LUP Community Discussion 5:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Help shape CAFN’s Settlement Land Use Plan & the Alsek Moose Management Program’s trapping and harvest management strategy.

Tue, Nov, 7, Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini Hall Wed, Nov, 8, CAFN Settlement LUP Community Discussion 5:30 PM Takhini Hall Help shape CAFN’s Settlement Land Use Plan & the Alsek Moose Management Program’s trapping and harvest management strategy.

MARSH LAKE

Wed, Nov, 1, Waste Mgnt Society Meeting 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Fri, Nov, 3, Jackalope Friday Dinners 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat, Nov, 4, Tot Group 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Sat, Nov, 4, Knitting Circle 1:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 managermarshlake@gmail.com Sun, Nov, 5, Drop in Badminton 11:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Centre Tue, Nov, 7, North of 60 Seniors Cafe 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Tue, Nov, 7, Tot Group 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Tue, Nov, 7, Yoga 5:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Drop in Yoga info@ yogawhitehorse.ca Tue, Nov, 7, Darts and Games Night 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre We’ll be doing a quick orientation for those who haven’t played before and playing 301. The bar will be open for a beverage while we play.

MAYO

Fri, Nov, 3, Dinner and Movie Night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Hall And Recreation Centre Sun, Nov, 5, St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746 Tue, Nov, 7, Mayo Sewing Nights 7:00 PM Yukon College Mayo Campus

MOUNT LORNE

Fri, Nov, 3, Learning Lions 1:30 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre All homeschoolers welcome, and those interested in homeschooling, will be teaching food preservation with the kids for more information call.Agnes 667 7083

OLD CROW

Thu, Nov, 2, Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sun, Nov, 5, St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Luke’s Church 867-993-5381 Tue, Nov, 7, Gym Night 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center

TAGISH

Wednesdays Coffee and Chat: Tagish Community Centre 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Fresh baked goods every Wednesday.

Wednesday & Saturdays, Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Nov, 1, Tagish Advisory Council meeting 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Agenda posted at tagish.ca Thu, Nov, 2, Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is invited to come and learn the technical game of Carpet Bowling.

Sat, Nov, 4, OsteoFit 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Sat, Nov, 4, Pickleball 11:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Come try Pickleball, a new sport offered which combines table tennis and regular tennis.

Sun, Nov, 5, Tagish Community Church of the Nazarene 7:00 PM Tagish Community Church of the Nazarene 633-4903 tagishcc@gmail.com Mon, Nov, 6, Carcross Tagish Renewable Resource Council 12:30 PM Tagish Community Centre All welcome to attend.

TESLIN

Thu, Nov, 2, Fall Author Tour with Michael Gates 6:00 PM Teslin Public Library From The Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in WW 1. A Light supper served.

Thu, Nov, 2, Badminton Nights 7:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Every Thursday, bring your racket or just bring your self for some swift fun! 335-4250 teslinrec@teslin.ca Fri, Nov, 3, Youth Club 8:00 PM Teslin Rec Center For grades 7-12, come hang out, games, activities and snacks! Call Kelsey 335-4250 for more information.

Tue, Nov, 7, After School Sports K - Gr. 4 3:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Tue, Nov, 7, Yoga in the Mezzanine 5:15 PM Teslin Rec Center Every Tuesday, mats provided just bring your zen. 335-4250 teslinrec@teslin.ca Tue, Nov, 7, Teslin Dance Group Practice 7:00 PM Teslin Healing Centre Every Tuesday evening, for more info contact Melaina at 867.390.2532 ext. 333 or Melaina.sheldon@ ttc-teslin.com

WATSON LAKE

Tuesday & Thursdays, Body Fit 7:00 pm Watson Lake Recreation Centre Contact Meaghan for more information 536-8023 Wednesdays Toddler Activities 10:30 am Watson Lake Recreation Centre Call Meaghan at 536-8023 for more information.

Thu, Nov, 2, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Sat, Nov, 4, Drop In Basketball 1:00 PM Watson Lake Secondary School Sun, Nov, 5, St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932 Mon, Nov, 6, Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Tue, Nov, 7, Town of Watson Lake Council Meeting 7:00 PM Town of Watson Lake

HAINES

Daily Everyone Welcome Swim Haines Community Centre, Mon-Thurs, 11AM-12:30PM & 5:30-7PM. Sat. 5-7PM. No Swim Sundays Mon-Thu Haines Public Library Open Hours: Mon-Wed 10-7 | Thurs 10-9 | Fri 10-6 | Sat-Sun 12:30-4:30 | 766-2545 Monday, Wednesday & Fridays Tai Chi Advanced 10:15 am Chilkat Center For The Arts Monday, Wednesday, Fridays Homework Help 5:30 pm Haines Borough Public Library Monday & Wednesdays Tai Chi - Adv. Beginners 11:45 am Chilkat Center For The Arts Monday & Fridays Yoga with Mandy 1:00 pm Chilkat Center For The Arts Monday & Thursdays Adult Jujutsu 6:30 pm Chilkat Center For The Arts Tuesday & Thursdays Tai Chi - Beginning 6:30 pm Chilkat Center For The Arts Tuesday & Thursdays Adv. Beginner Tai Chi 7:30 pm Chilkat Center For The Arts Wednesdays Tlingit Language Class 3:30 pm Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre Wednesdays Open Mic Nite 10:00 pm Pioneer Bar Monday & Wednesdays Aqua Aerobics 8:00 am Haines Borough Swimming Pool Wednesdays Game Time @ the Library 4:30 pm Haines Borough Public Library Monday & Wednesdays Kids Jujutsu 5:00 pm Chilkat Center For The Arts Wednesdays Sword Class 6:30 pm Chilkat Center For The Arts Wed, Nov, 1, Book Characters 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library Thu, Nov, 2, Strength & Stretch - Lobby 11:00 AM Chilkat Center For The Arts Thu, Nov, 2, HAC - Film “Road Forward” 8:00 PM Chilkat Center For The Arts Fri, Nov, 3, Aqua Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Borough Swimming Pool Fri, Nov, 3, Story time 12:00 PM Haines Borough Public Library Fri, Nov, 3, Button Art 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library Fri, Nov, 3, Game Time @ the Library 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library Sat, Nov, 4, Tai Chi 11:00 AM Chilkat Center For The Arts Sun, Nov, 5, Yoga with Melina 10:30 AM Chilkat Center For The Arts Sun, Nov, 5, Sunday Worship 11:00 AM Haines Presbyterian Church

Sun, Nov, 5, St Michael’s - lobby 11:30 AM Chilkat Center For The Arts Sun, Nov, 5, Bible Club - Sunday School 12:30 PM Haines Presbyterian Church Mon, Nov, 6, -11, Alaska Bald Eagle Festival American Bald Eagle Foundation The Festival includes evening presentations, so you don’t miss a minute of daylight at the Chilkat Eagle Preserve! Daily buses and vans will carry you safely to the Alaska Bald Eagle Preserve to witness the annual “Gathering of the Eagles.”

Mon, Nov, 6, Strength & Stretch - Lobby 11:00 AM Chilkat Center For The Arts Mon, Nov, 6, Mother Goose Stories and Songs @ Library 12:00 PM Haines Borough Public Library Mon, Nov, 6, Private Jujutsu Clas 4:00 PM Chilkat Center For The Arts Mon, Nov, 6, Pipe Cleaner People and Animals 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library Tue, Nov, 7, Women’s Fellowship 3:00 PM Haines Senior Center Tue, Nov, 7, Legion Monthly Membership Meeting at Legion Hall 6:00 PM American Legion Tue, Nov, 7, Adults Jujutsu 6:30 PM Chilkat Center For The Arts Wed, Nov, 8, Paper Friends 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library

SKAGWAY

Monday & Wednesdays, SpinFlex w/Katherine 7:00 am Skagway Recreation Centre Monday & Wednesdays, TRX Suspension Training 5:30 am Skagway Recreation Centre Sign up required Wednesdays Acro Jam 7:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Playful practice that combines acrobatics and yoga. This is an unstructured class to work on things you would like to improve on or trade Wednesdays, Aerial Tissue w/Renee 7:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Special Fee & Sign-up Tuesday & Thursdays, Spinning w/ Katherine 5:30 am Skagway Recreation Centre Tuesday & Thursdays, Mindful Vinyasa Flow 6:00 am Skagway Recreation Centre Tuesday & Thursdays, Mat Pilates 7:15 am Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate core based class using classical mat exercises to create long, lean muscles.

Tuesday & Thursdays, Senior Weights with Dana 10:30 am Skagway Recreation Centre Chair based resistance training program that’s not just for seniors.

Tuesday & Thursdays, Basketball For Adults 7:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Tuesday & Thursdays, Zumba with Keara 5:15 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Latin-inspired cardio-dance workout that uses music and choreographed steps to form a fitness party atmosphere.

Tuesday, Thursday & Saturdays, Dance Fusion with Kaera New Latin Hip Hop Class 5:00 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Thursdays, Easy Does it Yoga- Restorative Yoga w/Jeanne- ALL Level 6:30 pm Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Nov, 1, Hatha Yoga w/Sherry- ALL Levels 6:15 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Nov, 3, Gentle Flow 6:15 PM Skagway Recreation Centre A gentle and calming practice that combines breath with movement.

Sat, Nov, 4, Bouncy House Fun Time! 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre A parent or guardian must accompany children 12 and under.

Sat, Nov, 4, Volleyball For Adults 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Nov, 4, Flow and Restore 6:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Powerful vinyasa style class with a focus in strengthening the entire body, ending with restorative/yin style poses to soak in the energy and heat created in the flow.

Sun, Nov, 5, Aerial Tissue w/Renee 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Special Fee & Sign-up Mon, Nov, 6, Restorative - Yin Yoga w/JeanneALL Levels 9:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Nov, 6, Hatha Yoga w/Sherry- ALL Levels 6:15 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Nov, 6, Roller Hockey For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Nov, 7, Back/Hip Yoga with Myofascial Release and Acupressure 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Nov, 7, Let it Roll - Hatha Flow with Foam Roller 6:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Hatha Flow practice followed by foam roller and pinky balls.

Wed, Nov, 8, Hatha Yoga w/Sherry- ALL Levels 6:15 PM Skagway Recreation Centre

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PHOTO: David Thompson

The power of art Whitehorse General Hospital brightens up its space

by Gabrielle Dupont cialists clinic. This is where visiting doctors such as the dermatologist and internal medicine specialist from southern hospitals meet with patients in Whitehorse.

Wendy Thompson was the first artist invited to showcase her work at the clinic.

Thompson was diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and spent more than 10 months in Calgary for treatments. There, she saw first hand what art could bring to patients.

“I had to walk in those long, horrible corridors to get to all the various treatment rooms, but the walls were always covered with artwork,” Thompson said. “Some gorgeous and some awful ones, anything to have something to look at, to distract your mind.”

When Thompson came back home in Whitehorse, her energy levels were not the same. She had to stop what she likes doing most: teaching kids.

Instead, she rekindled her love of painting.

In the last few years, she has created artwork depicting her time in Dawson City and the many deep friendships she made there.

It was through her friend’s daughter, who works at the hospital, that she heard about the art project. She thought Thompson would be the perfect fit.

“This was my way to give back to the community, something I wanted to do after receiving such good care for my cancer treatment,” Thompson said.

Since the summer months, her work has been hanging on the walls of the specialists clinics, along with other artists who who have provided art for display. They bring in their art pieces and the hospital will take care of the wall mounting. Works are displayed for a minimum of six weeks and any resulting sales are organized between the artist and buyer.

All mediums are welcome as long as it can be hung on walls and is suitable for the general public.

“We like bright colours,” Crystal Shimoon said. “It gives patients something to look at, to distract your mind when you are waiting for that stressful appointment with a visiting doctor.”

She hopes to have more artworks displayed in other sectors of the hospital and welcomes other artists to step in. For more information or to participate, call Crystal Shimoon at 867-393-8673 or email her at Crystal.Shimoon@ wgh.yk.ca

Artist Wendy Thompson shares one of her works on display Artwork displayed on the walls in the specialist clinic

PHOTO: Sandrine Lemonnier

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ooking at recorded history, humans have been using dances and music as well as storytelling and visual arts as healing rituals. Art and health are a well known pair; a healthy mind in a healthy body.

Much research has been done about the benefits of art in the healing process.

One such study from a neurobiologist at the University of London found a link between artwork and dopamine. After scanning the brains of volunteers looking at beautiful artwork, he discovered the substance was released in the brain. Dopamine is a hormone related to pleasure and feelings of love, the so called happiness hormone.

Art as a healing tool can help in different ways. Looking at artwork can reduce pain and hospitalization time with patients in intensive care. And art lets people express themselves when words are powerless to express such experiences as receiving a diagnosis of cancer.

Crystal Shimoon understands the power of art. She is the coordinator of volunteer services and patient support at the Whitehorse General Hospital and is behind a new initiative to brighten up some key sectors of the hospital with artwork.

She first started with the spe-

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Highlights CHRISTMAS CRAFT FAIRS FOCUS ANDons EDGE Exhibi� GALLERIES:

>> in the Yukon Art Society Gallery: AIR – STUDIO GALLERY THE SEVEN TEXTILE ARTISTS “How Does it Felt” ASSOCIATION Exhibi�on closes December 1st, 2012 Opening:

November 3rd >> in Friday the Hougen Heritage Gallery: from ARCHIVES 5-7pm YUKON Archival Gold: Favourites from the Vault Exhibi� on closes January 26, 2013 Upcoming shows:

OpenDECEMBER Studio Sessions MEMBER’S SHOW

Sat, Nov, 18, Old-Fashioned Christmas Sale 11:00 AM Old Log Church Warm up with a hot drink, munch on delicious homemade cookies, make a craft, and pick up a unique gift or heritage-inspired ornament for the holidays. 867-668-2555

>> Ceramic Open Studio Sessions << Sundays from 2:30 to 6pm HOLIDAY CARDS $5 per hour

Sat, Nov, 25, Christmas Craft Fair & Open House 10:00 AM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Pick up unique gifts for loved ones, meet Santa, and sample treats! 456-5322

To register call: 867-667-4080 Email: recep�on@artsunderground.ca

Sat, Nov, 25, Re:Design3 - The Craft Fair 11:00 AM The Old Fire Hall Artisans embracing creative reuse by working with discarded and salvaged materials to make new products.

WITHPain� ROB >> Acrylic ngINGRAM Open Studio << Saturdays, with NeilOctober Graham 28, every first and third 4, Wednesday of November 11 each month to 9pm $140+GST (all7 supplies $10 per 2 hour session included) INTRO TO POTTERY

WITH PATRICK ROYLE Tuesdays January 9-February 20 7pm-10pm $325+GST (all supplies included)

BEGINNER POTTERY LEVEL II

WITH ASTRID KRUSE Thursdays January 18-March 1 7-10pm $325 + GST (all supplies included)

POTTERY DROP-IN

Sat, Nov, 25, Old-Fashioned Christmas Sale 11:00 AM Old Log Church Warm up with a hot drink, munch on delicious homemade cookies, make a craft, and pick up a unique gift or heritage-inspired ornament for the holidays. 867-668-2555

Sun, Nov, 26, Cranberry Fair 11:00 AM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Email cranberryfair@ live.com for more information.

UNDERACHIEVERS PAINTING CLUB

Fri, Dec, 1, -2, Christmas Market at the Old Firehall 11:00 AM The Old Fire Hall 117pm Friday, 11-4pm Saturday.

Kids shopping 3-4 on Saturday, helpers will be available to assist kids with their list and budget. wrapping free for the kid s hour. 334-3055

Programs Arts Underground / Yukon Art Society 867-667-4080 ext 22

WOOD SHOP ORIENTATION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7

COMEDY & IMPROV WORKSHOP

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INDUSTRIAL SEWING MACHINE 101 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13

Oct. 5th – Nov. 4th, 2017

LASER CUTTER 101 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14

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Monday and Tuesday: Closed for programming, Wednesday to Sunday: 1 - 9pm Visit us anytime during our opening hours!

Tuesday, Nov. 7th, 2017 $20. Doors open at 7pm

www.yukonstruct.com info@yukonstruct.com 135 Industrial Rd.

Tel: (867) 993-5005 Fax: (867) 993-5838 Website: www.kiac.ca

Sat, Nov, 25, Christmas Craft Fair 11:00 AM Atlin Rec Centre Find the perfect unique gift and shop local. To book a table, call Lynn 250-651-7663

Fridays 6-9 Sundays 2:30-6 $5/hour, Must have previous pottery experience

Free with membership Every other Tuesday (Nov 7, 21)

Klondike Institute of Art and Culture Dawson City, YT

Boys and Girls Club of Yukon

What:

JOIN US at the Family Literacy Centre in the Canada Games Centre MondaySaturday with regular programs in the morning and afternoon drop in (Saturday drop in only).

Free Teen Drop In Ages 11 to 18 Free snack and meal

When: Wednesdays to Saturdays 3 PM to 9 PM Where: 306A Alexander Street Look for the big green door!

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Ph. (867) 393-2824

ENTREPENEUR SPEAKER SERIES featuring JEREMIE MATRISHON November 2,

5:00 pm - 6:15 pm

YUKON TECH COLLECTIVE MEETUP November 9,

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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November 6 - 11, 2017 Festival activities will be at the American Bald Eagle Foundation located on the corner of the Haines Highway and Second Avenue. Vans to the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve will leave from and return to the American Bald Eagle Foundation parking lot. There will be daily natural history presentations, raptor center tours and bald eagle programs, please call or stop in to inquire about our daily schedule.

Monday November 6

8 AM-5 PM Festival registration, diorama and natural history display open and Gift shop open.

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4:30-6:30 PM Festival Meet & Greet: Come meet ABEF staff and other festival attendees while enjoying beer and appetizers. Non-alcoholic beverages will be available.

Tuesday November 7

8 AM-5 PM Festival registration, diorama and natural history display open and Gift shop open.

9 AM-12 PM & 1-4 PM Eagle Viewing: round-trip bus transportation to the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve.

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Wednesday November 8

8 AM-5 PM Festival registration, diorama and natural history display open and Gift shop open.

9 AM-12 PM & 1-4 PM Eagle Viewing: round-trip bus transportation to the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve.

4:30-6:30 PM Avian Art on Feathers : Join our talented Artist Kelleen Adams and learn how to paint on feathers.

7-9 PM Bird Talk: an evening dedicated to bird stories and experiences, featuring representatives from other Alaskan raptor facilities and Rachel Wheat PhD.

Thursday November 9

8 AM-5 PM Festival registration, diorama and natural history display open and Gift shop open.

9 AM-12 PM & 1-4 PM Eagle Viewing: round-trip bus transportation to the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve.

6:00-7:30 Winter Bazaar: local businesses and artisans will be selling goods and crafts.

7:30-9:00 Alaska Native Storytelling Night: speakers will talk about the native community and the Chilkat Valley, the Chilkat Dancers will perform song and dance.

Friday November 10

8 AM-5 PM Festival registration, diorama and natural history display open and Gift shop open.

9 AM-12 PM & 1-4 PM Eagle Viewing: round-trip bus transportation to the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve.

6-9 PM Harriett Hall, Southeast AK Fairgrounds Wild & Scenic Film Festival and Eagle Release Auction sponsored by Takshanuk Watershed Council & SEAK State Fair

Saturday November 11

8 AM-5 PM Festival registration, diorama and natural history display open and Gift shop open.

9 AM-12 PM & 1-4 PM Eagle Viewing: round-trip bus transportation to the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve.

1:30-3 PM Mile 19 Haines Hwy Eagle Release: Join us for a Tlingit ceremonial presentation followed by the release of rehabilitated eagles from Bird Treatment & Learning Center in Anchorage. You can bid for your chance to release one of the eagles. Tlingit native dancers will be giving the eagles a special send off prior to the release.

5-10 PM American Legion on 2nd Avenue.

Flight For Freedom Banquet and Auction preview Open for you to view our large auction items and you can begin to bid on the silent auction items.

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Prime Rib or Halibut catered by the American Legion followed by Flight For Freedom Silent and Live Auction. Music and dessert to follow dinner.

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Making it last

Runaway Moon’s puppet production, 21 Ways to Make the World Last Longer will be at the Old Fire Hall Nov. 15-17

by Ken Bolton

C

athy Stubington doesn’t mind being in the shadows when she does a show. In fact, she prefers it.

“My main interest has always come more from the making side, and the conceptual side, but I’m a puppeteer, as well. As a performer, I prefer to be invisible, which is why I’m not an actor.”

Stubington began making and manipulating puppets as a teenager in Montréal in the 1980s, as part of a group of young people in “a kind of music organization” who soon began taking their brand of theatre to schools and community centres.

“I started out doing string marionettes, but I’ve really explored many different kinds of puppetry.

It’s basically something I’ve done almost as long as I can remember,” she said.

After relocating to British Columbia, Stubington founded her own performing company, called Runaway Moon, which was incorporated in 2000 in the EnderbyGrindrod farming area of the North Okanagan district.

One of the company’s two artistic streams is executing large-scale community projects that might involve as many as 150 participants, most of whom have little or no previous theatre experience.

For those events, Stubington has created giant puppets, including one that required three canoes to float it down the Shuswap River.

The second part of Runaway Moon’s mandate is more intimate puppet theatre, such as the environmentally-themed show it will bring to Whitehorse in midNovember, called 21 Ways to Make the World Last Longer.

Although the piece has a large “cast” by contemporary theatre standards, the number of human performers is much smaller – and much less visible.

“The puppets are about 20 to 22 inches tall, and they exist on a table top, which is their world.

There are about 27 puppets, but a group of five puppeteers manipulates them kind of collaboratively,” Stubington explained.

“Sometimes there’s one person on a puppet. Other times, somebody else will be helping with the hands. Sometimes a puppet will be passed from one manipulator to another.”

In this Japanese-influenced style, the puppeteers - who use small rods to manipulate the characters – are visible, but not dominant.

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into the shadows, but we’re there with the puppets,” she said.

“The puppeteers are very attentive, and kind of caring, and I think that helps in bringing the puppets to life. It kind of draws out the imagination of the audience in a really special way.”

The show, which Stubington conceived and co-wrote with director and fellow puppeteer James Fagan Tait, does not follow a conventional story arc. Instead, it is a series of vignettes involving a group of “ordinary, and slightly oddball” people.

“One of them is talking about putting posters up all over town that have pictures of birds on them. One of them is talking about how he’s teaching his elderly mother how to take the bus.”

Another concerns an elderly man who is “experimenting with listening to all the sounds you can hear when you listen to silence.”

Tying the various vignettes together is a chickadee “who is kind of like the canary in the coal mine,” Stubington said.

“The play itself is about humans trying to find a way of being in the world with some of the warnings that we’re having, and actually trying to listen to a warning that’s coming from our bird neighbours.”

Although 21 Ways to Make the

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The puppeteers (and their hands) are part of the visible action in Runaway Moon’s table-top style of rod puppetry World Last Longer is a puppet show, Stubington is quick to explain that it is not children’s theatre, as such.

“It’s kind of geared towards sort of a thoughtful adult audience. But it’s not adult theatre in a way that you wouldn’t want to bring your children,” she said.

“We find that people of all ages enjoy it at different levels, and it’s actually a really wonderful thing for adults to do with younger people, because it brings up a lot of things to talk about and think about afterwards.”

Stubington acknowledges that it’s easy for people to get frightened away by warnings about what’s happening to the environment.

“This play isn’t doing that at all. It’s just looking at really simple things that people are doing in everyday life that we think that can be making the world a more

livable place. It’s actually quite affirming.”

In addition to being one of the five puppet manipulators, Stubington created and painted all the character faces, and made their costumes.

One of the two people who helped make the bodies was fellow puppeteer Zompopo Flores, with whom she has worked since her Montréal days. Others in the Runaway Moon cast include Tait, Sarah May Redmond and Tom Jones.

There will be three performances of 21 Ways to Make the World Last Longer, Wednesday to Friday, November 15, 16 and 17 at the Old Fire Hall.

Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. For more information go to YukonArtsCentre.com.

Ken Bolton is a freelance writer who lives southeast of Whitehorse.

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All the world’s a stage

Check out Shahin Mohammadi’s improv class’ live show, Nov. 3 at the Guild Hall

by Jason Westover

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ife, believe it or not is improvised,” said Dave Morris.

Morris, an improv teacher and artistic director of The Paper Street Theatre company in Victoria, B.C. was giving a talk at a TedX event in 2012 about “The way of Improv,” much to the audience’s delight.

In the crowd that evening was Shahin Mohammadi, a student at the University of Victoria studying education. Inspired by Morris’s words, Mohammadi decided to take his level 1 improv class and was instantly hooked.

From that moment, Mohammadi became immersed with the art of improv, taking Dave Morris’s level 1 class three times, followed by the level 2 and a master class.

“Improv was giving names to things I was doing my entire life. I became very serious about it. I recall when I first started there was so much material to absorb, it has been around for so long and I had to devote myself 100 per cent.”

What also drew Mohammadi to improv was the raw potential of performing on the spot.

“A show will only ever exist for the time that it’s being performed.

Every moment that is spectacular only exists in your memory, and that’s special. I feel like that it is the closest theatrical art form to real life,” he said.

Mohammadi began performing with Dave Morris’s troupe and took over the improv group at the university. He performed in shows and tournaments all over the West Coast and in the United States.

He spent his university years honing his craft, all the while nurturing his desire to work in education and become a teacher.

After graduation, Mohammadi’s tastes began to evolve and felt it was time to move on to forge his own path.

“There’s a rule in improv: find the game, play the game times two and break the game. Which

An improv exercise in progress means you find something that works and then when you learned it, time to change it,” Mohammadi said.

Mohammadi’s partner, Nathalie, grew up in Atlin. Wanting to come back North, she convinced him to come with her.

“It was a huge turning point in my life, everything was such a climax. Things were about to change, it was time to shake things up. I

knew we had to find an art scene, and ended up in Whitehorse” he said.

Like many artists who come to Whitehorse, Mohammadi found out about The Guild Society and attended their annual general meeting.

His timing couldn’t have been better as the Guild 2016 season was preparing to have weekly drop-in improv nights.

Mohammadi began attending them and soon was helping to teach some of the classes.

He observed that there was a lot of enthusiasm for improv from

the community, which fed his inspiration to begin running his own day-long workshops at the Guild, incorporating long form techniques he learned from Dave Morris.

This fall Mohammadi took a step further, forming a partnership with the Guild Hall and has began running a 4-week improv course that will culminate into a live show on November 3.

The current group consists of 11 eclectic students of all ages. From seasoned enthusiasts to those who have never performed at all.

“We are a having so much fun together as a group,” Mohammadi said. “We’re learning the basics, but we’re learning to work with each other and I’m finding that even people who have done improv before are getting something. We are rehearsing for the show at the end and discovering new things.

“Improv isn’t just a theatre based art form. Improv is a process, we learn the process of improvising and you add it to your life –whether it’s work, relationships, or self-improvement.”

For more information about Shahin Mohammadi and his improv workshops, contact him at ShahinTeaches@gmail.com.

Freelance writer Jason Westover is a father and comedian who currently lives in Old Crow.

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Fri, Nov, 3 -4, Ryan Downing Memorial Swim Meet Canada Games Centre A fun meet for swimmers of all levels.

Fri, Nov, 3 Tai Chi in the Wild 2:00 PM Yukon Wildlife Preserve A mini-workshop with guest instructor, Eric Madsen, for experienced players to refine Traditional Hand Form third section. Email for more info. pamboyde@gmail.com Fri, Nov, 3 Golden Horn Judo 3:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary Fridays & Sundays Ladies Grappling 6:00 PM N60 Combative Arts Fridays & Sundays COBRA FS 8:00 PM N60 Combative Arts

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Wednesdays, Women & Children Lunch Date 11:30 am Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre Delicious Free Lunch for Women & Children Wednesdays, Continuing Tai Chi 6:00 pm Elijah Smith Elementary School Wednesdays, Beginners Tai Chi 6:00 pm Hidden Valley School Wenesdays, Traditional Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan - Section 2 7:00 pm Hidden Valley School Wenesdays, Beginners Tai Chi 7:30 pm Grey Mountain Primary School Wed, Nov, 1, Red Tara Meditation 6:00 PM White Swan Sanctuary Everyone welcome.

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Jack ‘n Sack

those words back as soon as they left my flapping yap before they reached your ears. I’ve never even played from that championship tee box, but I can get over it from the blues.”

Jack: “Phew. Glad to hear it.

You had me worried there for a minute. Thought I was getting old.”

Fifth Fairway Sack: “There’s more green bethe green from here?”

Sack: “I have no idea. I’m a hind that bunker than it looks like from here.” sports writer.”

Jack: “I know that. I designed Jack: “Sorry, I thought you were the golf course.” caddying for me.”

Sack: (Loudly to gallery): “CAN Sixth Green This was the place where the ANYBODY SEE A SPRINKLER HEAD?” environmentalists wanted to creJack: (Laughs) ate a retirement community for Fourth Tee Jack: (While addressing his tee woodpeckers, but Jack got busy shot) “I can carry that bunker out giving Caleb a bunker clinic and never mentioned it. So why would there, can’t I?” I? Sack: (Shrugs) “I can.”

13th Fairway Sack: “This is probably a good time for a caddy to stay shut up, but I need to ask you this for my story.

Jack: “Ask me what?”

Sack: “You’re the best power fade player in the history of the game and this is a classic power fade hole on a course you designed, yet you cut off the corner with a common soft Photo: foter.com/National Library of Ireland on The Commons draw? Why?” Jack: “I can’t make that move Golf in the early years anymore because of my hips. The last several years I’ve been working the ball right to left. It’s easier on Jack: (Mutters “You can” be- the body.” fore his takeaway, but his belly was 14th Fairway Sack: (To Caleb) “I’m really imbouncing which is the only way you pressed with how well you’re playcan tell when a bear is laughing.) ing under gallery pressure. Are you Walking down the fourth fairpleased with your game?” way Caleb: “I’m frustrated. He’s Jack: “Can you really carry that bunker? I had to let the air out of out-driving me; every hole.”

Sack: “Well gee, Caleb, he IS my shoes and barely got over.”

Sack: “Nah. I was trying to get the greatest golfer of all time and

Part 4

Caddying for Jack Nicklaus Before and After

by Doug Sack Ed. Note: This is part four of a four-part series. In part three, the writer had been invited to caddy for Jack Nicklaus for the second time in his life, via their mutual friend, Vancouver entrepreneur Caleb Chan. Previous parts can be found in the May 17, June 14 and August 16 issues of What’s Up Yukon.

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he night before the official opening I was surprisingly nervous and had trouble sleeping, not because this time I would be carrying for the greatest golfer of all time, but because I’ve had a lifelong fear and loathing of crowds and I knew the crowds were going to be big to watch Jack and Caleb open Nicklaus North.

I’ve spent my entire adult life describing myself as a “misanthropic humanist” which I define as a hater of humankind who likes people. Obviously, this character flaw is a PTSD hangover from Vietnam, which I’ve never been able to shake.

In other words I despise the idiocy of our species in general and am ashamed to be a part of it, yet find endless joy, beauty and brilliance in some human individuals but can do without most of the rest of them known as the general public who also happened to be my readers.

So I was feeling a sense of foreboding as I walked the short distance from my basement suite in Alpine Meadows to the course for opening day – which only increased when I picked up his ceremonial competition bag, which still had the tag on it from his recent appearance at The Open on one of the English tracks, Birkdale, St. George or maybe Royal Lytham.

It felt like it weighed 150 pounds and was easily the heaviest load I ever lugged around a golf course.

After all the kibitzing with Jack during construction and technically working for him for three years, although paid by Caleb, greeting him again was as casual as greeting your older brother or an old friend: “Hey, Jack, good to see you again and thanks for doing this” to which he responded, “Make sure you send me a copy of the article you’re writing. I’m looking forward to reading it.”

The day began with a brief press conference before everybody adjourned to the 16th tee, right next to the clubhouse for an official Nicklaus Clinic, which was surprisingly entertaining. He demonstrated several trick shots, deliberately hit snap hooks and banana slices then dazzled everybody with his favourite club which is his one-iron.

It was during that part of the show when he noticed the crowd reacting to something where his shots were landing.

Most people don’t know Jack has always been colour blind and doesn’t see well over long distances, so he asked me what was going on and I told him the kid with the shag-bag had a baseball glove and was trying to play Willie Mays and catch his shots like fly balls.

He chuckled and blasted the next three over his head into the River of Golden Dreams for three Golden Bear home runs.

The only Golden Golf Tip I recall from the clinic is this one: “The only part of the full golf swing that is truly important is the three feet before you hit the ball and the three feet after. The rest is just window dressing.”

After the clinic ended, I rented a 980 Cat loader to haul his bag to the first tee for the ceremonial opening shot in front of the BCTV cameras, which he hit with an old restored persimmon driver he presented to Caleb as a gift to be displayed in the clubhouse.

It made a huge THWACK! when he hit it and he held a formal pose for the cameras, but the ball itself hooked into the woods by the railroad tracks. No mulligans on ceremonial tee shots.

Then we headed out onto the course which produced the following memories among many others: Second Green Jack: “Are you going to spend all day spitting on my golf clubs?

Dip the end of the towel into that lake over there.”

Sack: “Good idea.”

Third Fairway Jack: “How far is to the front of

you’re a 12 handicap…”

Caleb: “Ten now.”

15th boondocks on the left Jack hit his only bad tee shot of the day, which drew left into the woods by the lake alongside the Valley Trail bicycle path. When we found the ball it was sitting on top of a flattened out pile of clean drain rock and I was certain he would pick it up.

Sack: “You’re not going to play that, are you?”

Jack: “Why not? I can still par the hole. I just have to decide which iron I’m going to ruin in the doing of it.”

He somehow picked that ball clean off the drain rock with a seeing eye draw through some trees and it rolled up right in front if the green where he chipped close and made his par, one of the best pars ever, even though it was meaningless in a ceremonial Grand Opening against a ten handicap.

Actually, it was more like an $18 million golf lesson, which is what it cost Caleb to build Nicklaus North, (not including Jack’s fee), a cool million per hole.

On the 18th green, before putting out, he addressed the gallery thanking them for turning out and thanked everybody else involved in the day before saying: “Lee Trevino always tells people I never missed a putt on the 18th green in my entire career so now I’ll close out the day by showing you how it’s done.”

Then he gave the putt a mighty smack and the ball went scooting across the green into the gallery, which caused a kiddie scramble for the souvenir.

My final words to him in the locker room with a handshake were a simple, “Thanks for the memories, Jack.” I considered my caddy fees prepaid in 1961.

I’ve never seen him again since the big Skins Game in 1997 when Jack Jr. caddied for him. I guess

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with Teresa van der Meer-Chassé he figured twice was enough of my brand of caddying, even though we retired undefeated.

I wrote a tongue-in-cheek column suggesting he might have won 37 majors (19 runner up finishes) if I’d been on his bag his entire career. With a couple of good belly bouncers down the stretch, I’m certain we could have beaten Watson at Turnberry in ‘77.

As for the point of the second exercise, comparing the differences in his golf game as a 21-yearold and 55-year-old, that can be explained in one word: confidence.

The 21-year-old Nicklaus flat out told his golf ball where it was going, the 55-year-old put in a request, pretty much like the rest of us.

The biggest surprise was learning he had drifted into common draw golf as he aged, and my only regret was not asking him which he was playing while shooting that final nine 30 at Augusta in 1986 to win his 18th and final major at the age of 46.

And now I must leave the games and memories of my childhood behind to deal with a more personal matter, my induction speech. I’ve recently been inducted into the Hermit Hall of Fame, housed in an igloo in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT, on the desolate shores of the Arctic Ocean.

I’ll be the only one there except for the polar bears who don’t golf.

Doug Sack is a retired word junkie (sportswriter) who can’t quite kick the habit. He lives like Grizzly Adams in a secluded bush cabin outside of Whitehorse with his pet squirrels.

’50s Diner! liams Sr. and Buddy of automobiles.

“I was living south of Calgary in Holly.”

Sid held up his fa- the ’50s. I started playing around vourite albums in his with old cars, motorcycles. I had collection. “I didn’t a 1954 Harley and a Norton 500, a listen to a whole lot of 1928 Model A coupe hot rod, and a vinyl, it was 8-tracks for ’53 Ford convertible.”

It’s obvious that Sid still has an me. I have a Les Paul and Mary Ford album, immense love for cars.

There was one last piece in The Beatles’ Abbey Road, but it came in the Sid’s dining room that caught my ’60s. Roy Orbison, lots eye: the bright red and beaded of Elvis, and the Beach Corvette hubcap that I made for my first solo art show, Rez Car. Boys.”

I knowingly called it “GrandI know for a fact that Sid has way more vinyl pa’s Corvette” and am so happy it records and 8-tracks sits in my favourite themed room scattered through – the ’50s diner.

Sid’s Bordertown Garage and numerous rooms of his Museum is now officially closed home.

Sid had posted a until the spring. Stay warm, couple photos of him- everyone! self in the 1950s on FaPHOTO: Sid van der Meer Sid van der Meer has collected cebook; there was one Visitors can hang with Marilyn Monroe and Sid’s idol, James Dean treasures all his life and this of him and his sister on passion has given Beaver a motorcycle and the Creek’s its very own museum. other one was of him “James Dean was always my he first snow has settled in Here Sid recounts stories to his looking sleek standing in front of the border town of Beaver idol; because of motorcycles. He granddaughter, Teresa van der a hot rod. In his early 20s Sid had Creek, Yukon. Sid is prepar- liked sports cars though,” Sid told Meer-Chassé. already begun a small collection ing his house and museum for a me. “I remember when I was living in Picture Butte, Alberta [in long cold winter.

He drives his recently pur- the 1950s] and a movie in a small Sid leans on one of his many collected chased Caddy into the garage town cost 25 cents. I went into cars and motorcycles in the 50s and closes the door. Although his Calgary to the Tivoli Theatre on private home is not considered a 8th Ave., paid and waited for my part of his museum, Sid surrounds change. The lady told me a movhimself with antiques and collect- ie there, cost 85 cents!” Sid said ibles. with a laugh.

My favourite room in his home I asked him what movies he is his ’50s-styled dining room. As likes to watch. soon as you enter the room you “I like western movies like Roy feel like you are in the time of Rogers, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene hot rods, milkshakes and Marilyn Autry and Rex Allen even though Monroe. In Sid’s diner you will find some of them came later.” tributes to old Hollywood cinema, Sid reached across his peachthe roaring rock ‘n’ roll years and coloured round booth and picked classic cars galore. up a couple vinyl records.

Sitting in one corner are large “I never had much of a radio, cut-outs of Marilyn Monroe and but when we did we’d listen to James Dean.

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