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Available Light Film Festival brings a diverse program of films and media art to Whitehorse audiences this February

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hen coming up with a description of the Available Light Film Festival (ALFF) for the uninitiated, Andrew Connors, the festival director and artistic director of the Yukon Film Society, highlights the festival’s diversity and character.

“It’s an intimate festival that celebrates northern, Indigenous and Canadian cinema with some international spice thrown in for good measure, packed into a condensed time period in a great venue,” he said. “It’s also a wellloved annual event that is really embraced by the Yukon community.”

“Every iteration of the festival has its own flavour that stems from the diversity of the films, the mix of guests and how they all come together. It really has its own special alchemy,” he added.

It’s a striking contrast to larger festivals, like the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, from which Connors recently returned.

“Our festival guests can be found exploring the community over the course of the festival and hanging out with each other,” he explained. “You don’t see too much of that at bigger festivals.”

Connors is really excited for the diversity of this year’s program, sharing that he feels that is a real strength for this year’s festival.

The program includes a media art exhibit installed in the Yukon Arts Centre’s Community Gallery; ALFF After Hours, a multi-day program of live music and stand-up comedy at the Edgewater Hotel;

a full day of Indigenous cinema at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre on February 1 featuring free admission and a stew and bannock lunch; and a special screening for schools (and the public) of 2040, an innovative feature documentary exploring what the future would look like if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream.

The festival will kick-off on January 30 with a live taping of Ryan McMahon’s comedy podcast Red Man Laughing - an Indigenous arts and culture podcast rooted squarely at the intersection of the good, the bad and the ugly between Indian Country and the mainstream.

A series of special events are scattered throughout the program. On February 1, six Yukon creative teams will pitch their short film projects to a jury of guest panelists in front of a

Canadian Métis director Marie Clements wrote and directed Red Snow

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The Twentieth Century has just been selected to be part of the Berlin International Film Festival live audience. They will be vying for two production prizes, each worth $5000 in cash and $4000 in services. On February 4th, the Old Fire Hall will host Analog Avant Garde, a 16 mm film performance

by John Price Film Works, accompanied by live music and score by Toronto-based sound artist, Greg Jones, which Connors described as,“a presentation that happens in the moment, from two filmmakers who are doing interesting things on the fringes.” And on February 8th, award-winning drag tragicomedienne Pearle Harbour presents her cabaret spectacular Agit-Pop! – musical meditations for the prepost-apocalypse.

And then there’s the films.

“There’s a lot of really strong Canadian cinema in this year’s program,” said Connors. “And a lot of it is very international looking – for example the documentary about Robbie Robertson and the Band, Once Were Brothers, that was the opening night film of 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), or The Hottest August which was cont’d on page 3 ...

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Blood Quantum is a zombie film from Michael Greyeyes that takes place outside the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow. Greyeyes will be in attendance at the festival shot in the five boroughs of New York.”

Many of the screenings will play host to special guests.

“It’s such an honour to have Michael Greyeyes joining us,” said Connors. “He’s such a talented actor who has more than 70 credits under his belt including a lead role

in Woman Walks Ahead with Jessica Chastain and Smoke Signals.”

Greyeyes plays the tribal sheriff in Blood Quantum, a zombie film that takes place outside the isolated Mi’gmaq reserve of Red Crow, whose Indigenous inhabitants are immune to the zombie plague.

Up and coming young actress, Kacey Rohl, was named one of TIFF’s Rising Stars. She will be attending the festival with her film White Lie. Connor’s describes her performance in the film as “stand-

Director Mire Burt-Wintonick’s Wintopia will debut in Canada at Available Light Film Festival

out, unnerving and amazing”.

Joining the group of talented actors at the festival are an equally talented slate of directors and producers. Matthew Rankin’s film The Twentieth Century has just been selected to be part of the Berlin International Film Festival.

Marie Clements’s film Red Snow, about a Gwich’in soldier from the Canadian Arctic caught in an ambush in Kandahar, Afghanistan, is the opening film of the festival.

John Walker turns his finely crafted documentary skills on an exploration of assholes with the help of Monty Python’s John Cleese and LGBTQ activist Vladimir Luxuria, while Kazik Radwanski’s Anne at 13,000 ft was named a TIFF Top Ten Canadian Film for 2019.

And Mira Burt-Wintonick’s Win-

topia has its Canadian premiere at Available Light, which Connors calls a real feather in our caps for the festival.

The local filmmaking community will get the opportunity to benefit from the presence in the Yukon of these talented individuals as many will be running master classes as part of the industry conference associated with the film festival. Vivian Belick, co-programmer for the festival, is really excited for the industry conference as she feels it is the fullest and most well-rounded program in recent memory. She attributes the strong response the conference is seeing already from Yukon’s filmmaking and digital community directly linked to this.

Whatever section of the Available Light Film Festival Yukoners chose to take, they can be sure to be spoiled for choice. “We’ve created a program that has great diversity throughout the whole day,” said Connors. “We tried to schedule great films throughout the whole program, so it doesn’t matter if you want to take in a film Monday at noon or Friday at 9 pm, there will be something worthwhile to see.”

Available Light Film Festival runs from January 31st to February 9th, with the majority of the program focused at the Yukon Arts Centre. You can find their full program on their website at https:// yukonfilmsociety.com/alff and purchase tickets from the Yukon Arts Centre Box Office or https:// www.yukontickets.com.

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is very important. Isolation is a huge problem.”

The journey that Kaegi and Rae have taken through investigation, advocacy and responding to Kaegi’s dementia in as positive a way as possible has been difficult and exhausting, but necessary to pursue their best possible life course.

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“Sometimes he just had that certain look, like he was just not getting it,” Rae continued.

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“When Susan told me what she saw happening to me I was angry.

I told her that her memory wasn’t that good either and that she was exaggerating.”

Kaegi was not happy about it, but a few days later he came out and said, “yes, you are right. I think I am having problems.”

“She scheduled an appointment with our family doctor, where I was given a series of memory tests. I actually did quite well, but the doctor saw enough from the appointment that I was referred to a geriatric psychiatrist, Dr. Michael Passmore.”

“When it was confirmed by Dr. Passmore that Andrew had dementia, I cried and cried.” Rae said. “Knowing the path that we were going to be on. This had confirmed my worst fears.”

Kaegi’s reaction to the diagnosis seems to reflect his attitude about life, at least since this author has known him.

“Wow. This man [Dr. Passmore] knows what he’s talking about.

I’m very privileged that I have this doctor to work with.”

“I thought; Well, we will just have to go through this. In fact, I was very relieved that I had this opportunity. I knew what was going on.”

Rae explained the different reaction many people with dementia have.

“Some people who have dementia symptoms are scared or ashamed to tell their doctor; reluctant to admit to themselves that they have dementia and scared or ashamed to be open with their family and friends about the diagnosis. The result of ‘hiding it’ is social isolation, such as withdrawing from social connections and activities within social settings, which then results in decreased brain activity and the dementia worsening.”

After Kaegi and Rae did extensive research into dementia, including talking to experts in the field, they were determined that hiding it was not how they were going to tackle his dementia.

“I actually tell people what it feels like. The vast majority of social interactions where my dementia comes up have been positive. People treat me with respect.”

One exception noted by Rae was that sometimes when people talk to the two of them together, they direct whatever they are saying toward her.

Rae feels that there is a stigma around dementia like there was around cancer, diabetes or heart disease 50 to 60 years ago.

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In response to the question, if you could say one thing to the average citizen, what would it be, Kaegi thought.

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Whitehorse EVENTS ART SHOWS

Until Wed Jan 29 Circumpolar Duet Yukon Artists at Work Gallery A collaboration by Yukon Artists @ Work and Yukon Writers’ Collective Ink. Until Wed Jan 29 Sight Specific Northern Front Studio An exhibit of large drawings by Linda Leon. 335-7720 Until Feb 1 Skins by Rebekah Miller Arts Underground A sense of desire to return to this lost place through an idealized notion of the past while paradoxically denying the viewers entrance through the works materiality of the skin actualized.

Until Sat Feb 22 Cracks in the Soul By Gukki Nuka Yukon Arts Centre The exhibition features a series of self-portraits, in which the body is an object, a victim and a human being, presented in nightmarish landscapes of forest and ice.

Until Sat Feb 22 Remote Sensibility VIII - The Ecology of Perception By Marten Berkman Yukon Arts Centre A multimedia collaboration of other artists’ works which is shown in 3-D. Until Wed Apr 1 Natural Connections Yukon College View new Acquisitions to the Yukon Permanent Art Collection Until Fri Apr 3 True North Strong and Free - Amber Church Hilltop Bistro Yukon College Features ten mixed media pieces made up of layered ink and watercolour works some augmented with polymer clay and resin to engage the viewer from different angles and to break through the natural barrier between the work and the outside world.

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Wed Jan 29 Food and beverage meeting 1:30 PM Whiskey Jacks Pub & Grill Wed Jan 29 Whitewater Wednesday 6:00 PM Town & Mountain Hotel Longtime Local jam night hosted by Peggy Hanifan Wed Jan 29 Karaoke with DJ Carlo 8:00 PM The Local Bar Dance, hip hop, top 40 and everything inbetween..

Wed Jan 29 Hillbilly Wednesday with Railroad Tye 8:30 PM Paddy’s Juke Joint A journey into the depths of folk/country/blues.

Thu Jan 30 Joe Loutchan 7:00 PM 98 Hotel Thu Jan 30 Karaoke with DJ Carlo 8:00 PM The Local Bar Dance, hip hop, top 40 and everything in-between..

Thu Jan 30 The Interstellar Blues Jam 8:30 PM Paddy’s Juke Joint Listen and jam with local blues folk.

Fri Jan 31 House Concert Jordan Lincez and The Hibernation 7:00 PM Whitehorse, Yukon An eclectic mix of bilingual multi-instrumentalists. Email helene_ saintonge@hotmail.com for tickets and location.

Fri Jan 31 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Fri Jan 31 Church of Zombie 10:00 PM The Local Bar Sat Feb 1 Home Routes House Concert: Early Spirit 6:30 PM Home Routes House Concert - Early Spirit Folk-fusion music style, and sharing stories young and old. Please bring an apple or dessert to share Sat Feb 1 Diamond Dino And Cryptozoologists 7:00 PM The Cut Off Restaurant Sat Feb 1 Folk Coffee House & Open Mic Night 7:30 PM Whitehorse United Church Featuring Black Street Jarvis, held in the basement of the United Church, contact 633-4255 Sat Feb 1 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sun Feb 2 Sunday Jazz Jam with Anne Turner 6:00 PM Whiskey Jacks Pub & Grill Open to all levels of jazz experience - come join in on your favourite tunes!

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Sun Feb 2 Jam Session 6:00 PM 98 Hotel Bring your instrument and have fun!

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Wed Jan 29 Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 PM Yukon Government Administration Building Join us inside the Bridges Café 633-6081 Terry or Michèle Wed Jan 29 Earthquakes: Understanding MountainBuilding in Yukon 12:00 PM Yukon College Talk with Dr. Joel Cubley and learn about seismology research in the North and some of the emerging ideas about crustal and mantle structure that influence the landscapes we see across Yukon.

Wed Jan 29 Dinner with a Side of Hope - Living the Change 5:00 PM The Edge on Main A delicious and hearty dinner and dessert along with a thought provoking movie.

Wed Jan 29 Legion Texas Hold’Em 6:30 PM Whitehorse Legion Branch 254 All Legion Members both local and national Welcome 667-2802 Wed Jan 29 Whitehorse United Church Choir Practice 7:30 PM Whitehorse United Church Wed Jan 29 Hump Day Trivia 8:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Wed Jan 29 The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine 8:00 PM The Guild Hall Ernest and Ernestine live in a perfectly ordered world until cracks appear in the veneer. Purchase tickets online or at the door.

Thu Jan 30 Whitehorse Yukon Community Thrift Store - Silent Auctions 12:00 PM Whitehorse Community Thrift Store Silent Auctions for valuable,

unusual and unique items. Bids taken Friday and Saturday at the store. Bidding Closes 2:00 PM Saturdays, each week.

Thu Jan 30 Music, Art, Movement Workshops 2:30 PM Second Opinions Society Free event. Call Cheryl at 667-2037 for more info.

Thu Jan 30 VIMFF - Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival 6:00 PM Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre Skiing, climbing, biking, and alpine short films.Tickets available at Icycle Sport Thu Jan 30 Repair Café - Drop In 6:00 PM Northlight Innovation Event is open to both Yukonstruct members and the public. An easy intro to electronics and small home appliance repair is a useful evening of DIY learning that you can literally take home.

Thu Jan 30 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 Jan 30 ALFF Kick Off: Ryan McMahon 7:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre An Anishinaabe comedian, writer, and media maker from Couchiching First Nation in Treaty 3 Territory. Tickets online or at the door.

Thu Jan 30 Uke On Ukulele Club! 7:00 PM Porter Creek Secondary School Email us at ukeonukuleleclub@gmail.com for more information.

Thu Jan 30 Christ Church Cathedral Choir Practice 7:30 PM Christ Church Cathedral Thu Jan 30 The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine 8:00 PM The Guild Hall Ernest and Ernestine live in a perfectly ordered world until cracks appear in the veneer. Purchase tickets online or at the door.

Fri Jan 31 Gwitchin Language Gathering - Pt 2 12:30 PM Yukon College Continue our discussion about development of Gwitchin language. Call 966-3261 ext 270 for more info.

Fri Jan 31 Fermented Foodies The Boreal “Culture Club” 5:30 PM Whitehorse, Yukon Come eat, share and chat about fermented foods! Email katherine@ takesguts.ca for information.

Fri Jan 31 ALFF Opening Gala: Red Snow 6:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre When captured by the Taliban, a Gwich’in soldier must confront tormenting memories he believed he’d left behind in the Canadian north.

Director Marie Clements in attendance. 100 Mins Tickets online or at the door. 667-8574 Fri Jan 31 Legion TGIF Dinner 6:00 PM Whitehorse Legion Branch 254 Open to Members and signed in guests Meals are $12 unless a steak dinner which is more.

Fri Jan 31 Just for Fun Dance 7:00 PM Whitehorse United Church Please call 332-4478 for more information.

Fri Jan 31 The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine 8:00 PM The Guild Hall Ernest and Ernestine live in a perfectly ordered world until cracks appear in the veneer. Purchase tickets online or at the door.

Fri Jan 31 Available Light Film Festival - Blood Quantum 9:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Zombies are devouring the world, yet an isolated Mi’gmaq community is immune to the plague. 95 mins, tickets online or at the door.

Sat Feb 1 Auditions: Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play 10:00 AM The Guild Hall Looking for actors, singers and movers, ages 17+, of any gender and ethnicity. To book an audition time or for more information please email guildproducer@gmail.com.

Sat Feb 1 Graduation Regalia Making Program 4:00 PM Northern Cultural Expressions Society Materials and supplies, instruction, snacks and bus tickets. To register please call 633-4186 or email programcoord@ northernculture.org Sat Feb 1 Legion Crib Night 6:00 PM Whitehorse Legion Branch 254 All local and national legion members welcome! Register by 6:25 PM, Games Start at 6:30 PM. 667-2802 Sat Feb 1 The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine 8:00 PM The Guild Hall Ernest and Ernestine live in a perfectly ordered world until cracks appear in the veneer. Purchase tickets online or at the door.

Sun Feb 2 Auditions: Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play 10:00 AM The Guild Hall Looking for actors, singers and movers, ages 17+, of any gender and ethnicity. To book an audition time or for more information please email guildproducer@gmail.com.

Sun Feb 2 Available Light Film Festival - The Whale and the Raven 11:00 AM Yukon Arts Centre Illuminates the many issues that have drawn whale researchers, the Gitga’at First Nation, and the Government of British Columbia into a complex conflict.

100 mins, tickets online or at the door.

Sun Feb 2 North by Northwest: Yukon Short Films 1:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre Films by Yukon filmmakers and independent short films shot in the Yukon.

Filmmakers in attendance. 60 Mins Tickets online or at the door.

Sun Feb 2 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 Feb 2 Available Light Film Festival - One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk 3:15 PM Yukon Arts Centre A pivotal 1961 encounter between the title character and other community leaders and a gov

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Sun Feb 2 Available Light Film Festival - Sovereign Soil 6:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre At the far-flung edge of Canada’s boreal forest, outside the tiny sub-Arctic town of Dawson City, Yukon, a handful of unlikely farmers are growing everything from snow-covered brussels sprouts to apples. 91 mins, Filmmakers and subjects in attendance. Tickets online or at the door.

Sun Feb 2 Life Drawing Drop-in 7:00 PM Arts Underground Life Drawing is every first Sunday of the Month and is non-instructional. Andew Sharp is the host. A live model will pose each session. Cost is $5/ hour to help pay for the model.

Sun Feb 2 Available Light Film Festival - Aurora Love 8:45 PM Yukon Arts Centre A love story between a young dancer who comes back from studying abroad and an heir who is the only successor to his family’s wealth. 52 mins, tickets online or at the door.

Mon Feb 3 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: 888-6686280 Fax: 867-633-4576 Mon Feb 3 Dance Improv 12:00 PM The Old Fire Hall Open to anyone who is interested in dance and wants a little exercise during the day.

Mon Feb 3 Available Light Film Festival - Maxima 12:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre An unlikely activist but was made into one after a multi-billion-dollar mining project spearheaded by American Newmont Mining Corporation began terrorizing her family. 88 mins, tickets online or at the door.

Mon Feb 3 Available Light Film Festival - Sorry We Missed You 12:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre A wrenching portrait of a hardworking English couple sliding deeper into debt and despair, despite toiling in all-consuming ‘gig economy’ jobs. 102 mins, tickets online or at the door.

Mon Feb 3 Legion Scrabble Meet 1:00 PM Whitehorse Legion Branch 254 All Legion Members both local and national Welcome 667-2802 Mon Feb 3 Available Light Film Festival - Nahanni - River of Forgiveness 2:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre A tribute to the spiritual power of nature to heal the soul and to the resilience and steadfastness of the Dene to climb out of the ashes of colonialism. 94 mins, tickets online or at the door.

Mon Feb 3 Available Light Film Festival - Willie 6:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Willie O’Ree changed hockey forever on Jan. 18, 1958. All ages - Filmmaker in attendance. 92 mins, tickets online or at the door.

Mon Feb 3 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 Feb 3 Available Light Film Festival - L.A. Tea Time 6:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre Enduring the bleakness of another Montreal winter, filmmaker Sophie Bédard Marcotte writes an email to her idol, Miranda July, with the hope of setting up a meeting in Los Angeles. 82 mins, in French w/ English Subtitles.

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Mon Feb 3 Euchre Night 6:30 PM Whitehorse Legion Branch 254 All local and national legion members welcome! 667-2802 Mon Feb 3 Available Light Film Festival - Danny 6:30 PM The Old Fire Hall A found-footage diary film follows a man named Danny Ryder, diagnosed with leukemia, as he engages in a series of confessional monologues.

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Tue Feb 4 ASL Level 1 Spring Course 6:30 PM Inclusion Yukon To register call Inclusion Yukon at 6674606 or email: stephanie@inclusionyukon.org Tue Feb 4 Basic and Beginners Ukulele Group 7:00 PM Porter Creek Secondary School Email us at ukeonukuleleclub@gmail.com for more information.

Tue Feb 4 Available Light Film Festival - Antigone 8:30 PM Yukon Arts Centre A brilliant contemporary retelling of the classic Greek tragedy of Sophocles. 109 mins, in French with English subtitles, tickets online or at the door. 667-8574 Tue Feb 4 Available Light Film Festival - Analog Avant Garde: 16mm Film Performances 8:30 PM The Old Fire Hall John Price Film Works Ontario, 60 - 70 minutes Live music and score by Toronto-based sound artist, Greg Jones. Tickets online or at the door.

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Wed Jan 29 Toddler Story Time 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Appropriate for 2 - 4 yrs. of age & caregiver, Free drop-in. Contact 667-5239 for more information.

Wed Jan 29 Baby Chit Chat 10:30 AM Family Literacy Centre Birth - 18 months, Relaxed parent-baby time with songs, rhymes & play along with discussion of parenting topics. Call 668-6535 for more info.

Wed Jan 29 Prenatal Luncheon 12:00 PM Skookum Jim Friendship Centre A healthy lunch and an activity for all prenatal mothers and for those with babies up to 12 months old. Welcomes all pregnant moms-to-be, nursing moms, new dads, expectant dads, wee babes, and family supports.

Wed Jan 29 Family Free Play Drop In 12:30 PM Family Literacy Centre Free play and fun child-parent activities, including puzzles, crafts, play dough, painting and more. Call 668-8698 for more details.

Wed Jan 29 Music For Social Change 7:00 PM Baked Cafe An evening of community building and hip hop performances by Jeremy Parkin and and to learn about grants. Email abbey@takingitglobal.org for more info, tickets online.

Thu Jan 30 Family Free Play Drop In 12:30 PM Family Literacy Centre Free play and fun child-parent activities, including puzzles, crafts, play dough, painting and more. Call 668-8698 for more details.

Thu Jan 30 CGC Youth Rec Drop-in 7:00 PM Canada Games Centre Held in the Kids Club Room, Ages: 10 18, Snacks provided.Transportation available. Call 3348718 or email courtney.terriah@kdfn.net for more info.

Fri Jan 31 Preschool Drop-in Gymnastics 10:00 AM Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Silly songs and preschool free play, call 668-4794 for more information.

Fri Jan 31 Parent-Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM Whitehorse Public Library Discover the power of songs, rhymes and stories as a positive parenting tool.

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Fri Jan 31 Fun with Felt 10:30 AM Family Literacy Centre All ages, felt games, songs and stories. Call 668-6535 for more info.

Fri Jan 31 Family Free Play Drop In 12:30 PM Family Literacy Centre Free play and fun child-parent activities, including puzzles, crafts, play dough, painting and more. Call 668-8698 for more details.

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Sat Feb 1 Choose Your Own Adventure 10:30 AM Family Literacy Centre Choose from a variety of fun, interactive and family friendly play stations. Suitable for all ages. For more information call 668-8698 Sat Feb 1 Family Drop In 3:30 PM Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Drop in for families and caregivers, call 668-4794 for more info.

Sun Feb 2 Pioneer Format - Magic:The Gathering 1:00 PM Titan Gaming Cafe Weekly MTG Pioneer Format - Cards starting from Return to Ravnica forward - Banned Cards: Fetch Lands Mon Feb 3 Preschool Drop-in Gymnastics 10:00 AM Polarette’s Gymnastic Club Silly songs and preschool free play, call 668-4794 for more information.

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Mon Feb 3 Family Free Play Drop In 12:30 PM Family Literacy Centre Free play and fun child-parent activities, including puzzles, crafts, play dough, painting and more. Call 668-8698 for more details Mon Feb 3 Auditions for Lionel Bart’s, Oliver! 6:00 PM Whitehorse, Yukon Youth ages 13-17, email info@ ytyp.ca for more info about the British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart.

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Tue Feb 4 Parent Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM Whistle Bend Place Learn the power of songs, rhymes and stories as a positive parenting tool call 322-5990 for more information.

Tue Feb 4 1,2,3 Craft with Me 10:30 AM Family Literacy Centre All ages, Songs, stories and a different craft each week. Call 668-8698 for more details.

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Tue Feb 4 Swim for Life 3:45 PM Canada Games Centre Indigenous youth ages 8-18 swim lessons, swim certifications & access to lifegaurd certification.

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Wed Jan 29 Northern Voices Toastmasters 7:00 AM Sport Yukon Supportive members will help you develop your public speaking, communication and leadership skills. Drop-ins welcome. 867-689-6363 toastmastersyukon@gmail.com Wed Jan 29 Building Partnerships: The Future for Renewable Energy Growth in Yukon 9:00 AM Coast High Country Inn Look at ways to develop business partnerships as we grow the future of renewable energy in Yukon. Register online.

Wed Jan 29 Lunch & Learn: Working with Northwestel Community TV 12:00 PM Northlight Innovation You will hear all about the recent programs are available to Northern entrepreneurs. Bring your lunch and enjoy this exciting discussion!

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12:00 PM Northlight Innovation Colette Acheson will share dozens of techniques and strategies, everything from the right kind of eye contact to the top 3 icebreaker questions, that will help you build your large skills for small talk! Register online.

Thu Jan 30 Sundogs Toastmasters Club 12:00 PM Sport Yukon A lunch time session to learn the skills, practice the speaking, receive the feedback to improve your public speaking, communication and leadership skills. Drop-ins welcome. 867-689-6363 toastmastersyukon@gmail.com Thu Jan 30 Midnight Sun Toastmasters Club 5:30 PM Yukon College Room A2714. An after work meeting to help you gain confidence in public speaking, improve communication and add to your leadership skills. Drop-ins welcome. 867-689-6363 toastmastersyukon@gmail.com Fri Jan 31 Eve Rising 1:00 PM Whitehorse, Yukon A Leadhership collaborative for women and allies where potential, emerging and seasoned leaders come together, learn from one another, stay true to your values. For more info and to register email Tara@ pursuitcoaching.ca or call Tara 334-1989.

Fri Jan 31 Backcountry Avalanche Workshop Snowmobile Close Calls 6:30 PM North of Ordinary Experience Center Free admission Sat Feb 1 Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Coffee Discussion Group 9:00 AM A&W Restaurant Casual event. Hams from outside the Yukon and those are interested are welcome Sat Feb 1 Dän kʼe Intensive Workshops 10:00 AM Ta’an Kwäch’än Council Create preserves, build on language, and special guests. Call 335-1320 for more information.

Sun Feb 2 Dän kʼe Intensive Workshops 10:00 AM Ta’an Kwäch’än Council Create preserves, build on language, and special guests. Call 335-1320 for more information.

Mon Feb 3 Shine a Light on Dementia 6:00 PM Whistle Bend Place 6 week program, specifically designed for family caregivers on Dementia care and how to work with their loved ones diagnosed with the disease. For more info or to register call 456-8590 Mon Feb 3 Yukon Amateur Radio Association: Meeting 7:00 PM Emergency Measures Organisation BDG Prospective hams are welcome.

Tue Feb 4 Resisting Vicarious Trauma and Burnout with Collective Care 9:30 AM Coast High Country Inn Activist and therapist Vikki Reynolds for a free workshop to learn to resist vicarious trauma and burnout with collective care. Register online.

Tue Feb 4 Executive Meeting 5:15 PM Sport Yukon We produce many newsletters a year, plan and lead river trips, organize the annual whitewater rodeo, and are the Yukon’s sport governing body for flatwater and slalom racing.

Tue Feb 4 Weight Watchers (Unofficial Meeting) 5:30 PM Canada Games Centre Informal gathering of people following the Weight Watchers (WW) online program for discussion and support in real life. All are welcome.

Tue Feb 4 Beginner’s Sewing: Totes! 6:00 PM Yukonstruct Innovation Hub Draft a tote bag onto cotton fabric, cut it out and sew it up in one evening, Register online or email for more info.

Tue Feb 4 French Immersion Information Night 6:00 PM Whitehorse Elementary Discuss the late french immersion program with perspective parents and students. Please contact 667-8083 for more information.

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ne of the main ingredients of doing mindfulness successfully is to be able to focus so that your brain and body can slow and calm down allowing you to relax.

Success is more challenging when your mind is racing from one topic to another, although I have found I feel very much better after a ½ hour of even scatter-brained activity than I felt before I started.

The simplest way to focus is to do a mental inventory of your body from the toes up to the top of your head. Lying on my back with or without my calves and feet on a bench or couch, I think about my toes until I have a sense that I can feel them. Then I move my attention to my ankles, calves, knees, thighs, hips, etc. up to the top of my head. This may be challenging at first but keep at it and soon it will work for you. Try not to look for too much as it is just a “sense”from each body location.

This process has you focussed on the task and your brain is not jumping from topic to topic, distracting you.

Different breathing techniques can also help get to and keep a focus. The two I will describe both work well but the second one requires a bit more attention to do it successfully.

The first technique is just an add-on to the deep-breathing (relaxation breathing) method described in part 1 of this topic.

Breathe in four to five seconds, hold three to four seconds, breathe out four to five seconds.

The change is called the “sip

this routine, one has to pay attention. Doing so keeps your brain focussed and free from wandering.

You really can’t do mindfulness wrong, you can just do it better.

It works and it is not difficult to enjoy healthful success. Just don’t set your goals too high to start with, keep doing

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Larry has some tips to practice mindfulness for good health method,” where at the end of the breath in, you take two more “sips” of breath (like sipping tea.)

You have to think about this so that helps with your focus.

The second technique cannot help but keep your brain on topic, therefore clear of wandering. You can vary the start, but the routine is important to follow and keeps your focus. The timing for inhalation, hold and exhalation are the same, but the routine changes with each breath. Let’s say you start breathing in through your nose. You exhale through your mouth and then inhale through your mouth and out your nose.

Then inhale through your nose and out your mouth. Each breath is inhaled/exhaled opposite to the previous one. In order to do

it and allow yourself to find joy in glimpses of success. There’s more to come and the whole process will amaze you.

Some days the brain has more challenge to focus on anything, but I have found I can have a very successful ½ hour of mindfulness even in our small cabin with grandchildren enjoying themselves.

Larry Leigh is an avid angler, hunter and all-round outdoors person who prefers to cook what he harvests himself.

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is inviting Yukon visual artists and craftspeople to apply for the AWG 2020 Cultural Marketplace hosted at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre from March 16 to 21. The marketplace will showcase Yukon’s wide range of visual artists, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Arctic Winter Games.

Artists will provide their works to the marketplace in advance and the pieces will be professionally displayed by a curator and sold in a 2,000 square foot gallery space. All pieces are being cared for and sold by the gallery team.

Yukon offers such a diverse array of skilled artists,” said Courtney Holmes, YFNCT’s arts program coordinator. “The AWG Cultural Marketplace will showcase the talent and unique perspective of the territory’s visual culture. It’s a great opportunity to not only sell work but to share Yukon stories with other circum-

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Artists selected for the Cultural Marketplace will be invited to Whitehorse to participate in creative programming designed specifically for their benefit and enjoyment. Organizers anticipate a strong contingent of artists from Yukon communities and are encouraging them to apply.

“This is more than a commercial opportunity for Yukon artists,“ explained Holmes. “We’re bringing together creatives from across the territory to meet, share a special experience and forge relationships with one another.”

Deadline for applications is Friday, Feb. 7, 2020 and artists can expect to receive a response from the committee by Friday, Feb. 14.

Applications in English and French can be found online at www. awg2020.org/culture. For any questions, contact the marketplace coordinator, Courtney Holmes via email at courtney. holmes@awg2020.org or phone (867) 667-7698 ext 204.

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This is all a very different life than the one Chica had in Japan (where she was born and raised), and also in Ireland, where she lived for several years immediately before becoming a Canadian resident. It was in Ireland that Pudding (as she named her partner in crime and immigration) came into Chica’s life. And quite by accident!

Chica was looking to rent a room in a house where the previous tenants had split in a hurry, leaving their eight dogs behind. All but one were brought

breed who was underweight and had obviously been abused. “At first, I didn’t intend to take the dog,” said Chica. “I thought ‘I’m not the type of person who should have a dog. I travel a lot’... but I also thought ‘I can give her a nice life while I’m here, maybe for half a year.’”

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A young and venturesome traveler, Chica loved Europe and was hoping to work for a while in Ireland before going on to travel extensively through Africa. Pudding changed her game plan.

When an Irish bylaw came into effect requiring all dogs to have microchips implanted, Chica took the necessary steps, linking herself to Pudding via the pet database. Although Pudding had initially been spared from the shelter by the landlord, it was Chica that had become the loyal, and now official, owner. Her nesting instincts kicked in.

Chica’s African dreams faded as she took her pet ownership seriously and knew it would be far more complicated, and dangerous, to travel between African states with Pudding in tow.

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Pawsitive Tails enter Japan, “just in case.” She also applied for a German visa and soon had a job offer there. The Candians initially denied her visa and she had to scramble to extend her Irish one while she reapplied. Then, as happens in life, both the Germans and the Canadians granted her visa requests.

It was decision time.

recently), and in their new country of residence.

My aging Shepherd, normally grouchy towards others on his turf, apparently feels unthreatened by a now plump Pudding. (She’s regained

have bonded with so many Yukoners.

The pair are just so cute together; truly endearing and inseparable.

Seldom seen apart, Pudding continues to be Chica’s “plus one.”

Pudding sits proudly in Chica’s

A diet and packing ensued shortly thereafter. Pudding, who had gone from four to eight kilograms with Chica spoiling her, would need to lose weight to travel as carry-on baggage to Vancouver. Pudding cut a pound and a half and made the cut to fly coach with Chica in September 2018.

Having never traveled well by road (Pudding often threw up), it was with some trepidation that Chica bought a used car in Vancouver and started the long drive north to Whitehorse.

She made Pudding a perch in the passenger seat, so she could appreciate the view, and somehow, they both made it.

A steadfast companion and no princess. Seen here ‘supervising’ chores. of Yen for entry with a dog.

Chica felt the need to settle down and acquire permanent residence somewhere.

Somewhere drier.

Somewhere that Pudding would be welcome too.

Chica set her sights on Canada, having lived previously in both Toronto and the Yukon. Somewhat ironically, she’d arrived in Ireland

Chica was lucky to find pet-friendly accommodation. Not only was there a cat in residence at her first place, but both her roommates had huge dogs.

Welcome to the Yukon!

Pudding has a lot of Yukon adventures under her belt. weight, keeping warm and aging well in Canada. Really, it’s rather absurd for a dog named Pudding to NOT

directly from Canada, having left because it was too cold. She’d done her homework and knew agreements were in place which made it relatively easy for an Irish dog to immigrate to Canada.

“If I hadn’t gotten a dog, I’d still be traveling. I wouldn’t have applied for permanent residency … Sometimes when I wake up, here in Canada and see Pudding, I think ‘wow, is this real?’” said Chica.

But Chica got nervous awaiting the fate of her immigration application.

She spent precious savings on the papers needed for Pudding to

One never knows the twists and turns of life. Who would have imagined that a little Irish orphan canine would be rescued by a Japanese national? And that said lapdog would be the catalyst for the intrepid traveler to move from Ireland to northern Canada? It was the nudge that cemented the most permanent move in Chica’s life, albeit a young one.

Chica & Pudding enjoying their new ‘backyard’ in Canada.

Chica does most of the hiking; Pudding lends moral support from ‘behind’.

backpack while hiking. She perches herself atop the pile while Chica chops wood, sometimes donning a down coat and booties. Popular with clients, she would go to work with Chica, when she was employed at a local tourism company.

Now, about a year and a half since their Canadian arrival, Pudding was comfortably sprawled across a sheepskin throw on my couch as I conducted the interview for this article. They are at ease- both at my house, (where they house sat

have a little extra girth, but I digress.)

The two old dogs have even become friends, just as Chica and Pudding

The two have been inseparable for 5 years now. I hope they stay in the Yukon! One thing is for certain, wherever Chica goes, Pudding follows, pet passport and all.

What’s Up Yukon is interested in hearing YOUR pet story.

Please email monica@whatsupyukon.com

Thank you for sharing your

Pawsitive Tails

You’ve won an original Pet Portrait!

CONGRATULATIONS YVETTE (from May 2019 Pet Page)!!!

You’ve won an original Pet Portrait by local artist Chris Caldwell.

HAVE A STORY IDEA? Contact Monica: monica@whatsupyukon.com, 667-2910 ext. 2

Everyone who had a Pawsitive Tail published in What’s Up Yukon this past year was entered in this draw. Thank you to each of you for sharing your amazing, cute, and often comical, pets with our readers!!!

The Pet Page comes out monthly. Look for the next Pet Page in the February 26th issue of WUY.

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Yukon Sourdough RENDEZVOUS FESTIVAL 2020

The Royal Feast

Tuesday Feb 11 | 6 pm

TEA & SOCIAL Sunday Feb 16 | 2 pm $20 per person Coast High Country Inn Ballroom

Traditional Events Friday Feb 21 | 1 pm

Coronation Saturday Feb 22 | 3 pm

Don’t miss out on seeing the Quest for the Crown Candidates at the Rendezvous Fashion Show wearing their upcycled Fashions!

Sat Feb 8 | 6 pm | Yukon Convention Centre

For full schedule and to buy tickets online visit:

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Community EVENTS

Wed Jan 29 Carcross Tourism Open House 5:00 PM Carcross Learning Centre Share your thoughts on Tourism in Carcross, with a free community feast, fun activities for the kids, and local entertainment. Shuttle service available.

Sun Feb 2 St. Saviours Church Service 2:00 PM St. Saviour’s Church 867-6683129 Tue Feb 4 Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251

Sun Feb 2 Drop-in Screen Printing 5:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Student quality inks and other materials may be accessed for beginners or those wishing to experiment. Call 993-5005 for more information.

Mon Feb 3 Public Skate 3:30 PM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Mon Feb 3 Recreation Board Meeting 5:30 PM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Recreation board grants are due the Thursday preceding each meeting Mon Feb 3 Zumba Fitness 5:30 PM Minto Park Calorie burning dance fitness.

Register at the Recreation Office or call 993-7400 ext 299 Mon Feb 3 YEU Local Y026 (Klondike) monthly meeting 7:00 PM YTG Property management building Tue Feb 4 Fitness Skate 7:00 AM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Wake up and skate for a great morning workout.

993-7400 Ext 299 Tue Feb 4 Senior Skate 2:00 PM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Ice time for persons 55+ skate and socialize Tue Feb 4 Muay Thai Classes 5:30 PM Minto Concession Tue Feb 4 Drop-in Volleyball 7:00 PM Robert Service School 660-4999 managermarshlake@gmail.com Wed Feb 5 Drop-In Zumba 5:15 PM Robert Service School Calorie burning dance fitness but lower intensity. Register at the Recreation Office or call 993-7400 ext 299 Wed Feb 5 Drop-in Curling 7:30 PM Dawson City Curling Club

DAWSON CITY

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Fridays/Saturdays/Mondays Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fridays/Mondays Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fridays/Saturdays Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sundays St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381 Tuesdays Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School For more information email: getrealfit@me.com 867-993-2520 Until Mar 6 Every Heart Can Grow Bigger: Make Room by Libby Hague KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture In the escape and rescue stories in this exhibition, women rescue themselves and other women in an anxious procession around the gallery. Dawson City Wed Jan 29 DJ Skate 2:30 PM Dawson City Arena For more info call 993-7400 ext 299 or email recreation@cityofdawson.ca Wed Jan 29 Drop-In Zumba 5:15 PM Robert Service School Calorie burning dance fitness but lower intensity. Register at the Recreation Office or call 993-7400 ext 299 Wed Jan 29 nîpawistamâsowin - We Will Stand Up 7:00 PM Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre Centres on the 2016 death of Colten Boushie, and depicts his family’s struggle to attain justice after the controversial acquittal of Boushie’s killer.

98 min.

Wed Jan 29 Drop-in Curling 7:30 PM Dawson City Curling Club Thu Jan 30 Hoop Embroidery Workshop with Jody Beaumont 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Learn and practice basic stitches by creating a hooped wall hanging. All materials are provided and no experience is necessary!

To register call 993-5005.

Thu Jan 30 Public Skate 3:30 PM Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre Thu Jan 30 Zumba Light 5:30 PM Minto Park Calorie burning dance fitness but lower intensity. Register at the Recreation Office or call 993-7400 ext 299 Thu Jan 30 Karaoke in the Lounge 10:00 PM Westminster Hotel Fri Jan 31 Sam Connolly in the Tavern 6:00 PM Westminster Hotel Sat Feb 1 Muay Thai Classes 12:00 PM Robert Service School Sat Feb 1 Open Studio/Saturday Painting 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture A communal afternoon time to work on personal projects. Bring your own ideas and painting surfaces. Paints, brushes and easels are supplied, no instruction offered. All ages welcome, Sat Feb 1 Coffee House & Open Mic Night 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture An evening of local performances. Bring your own stories, poems, songs, etc or simply hang out and enjoy. Admission by donation.

Sun Feb 2 Chess Club 1:00 PM Minto Concession Beginners welcome, welcome to bring your own ‘lucky’ board. Everyone welcome to sit in on this game of strategy.

Tuesdays & Thursdays Parent & Tot Storytime 10:00 AM Faro Community Library For babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed Jan 8 Faro Fire Department Meeting 7:00 PM Faro Fire Hall Faro Fire Department Wednesday Meeting.

Fridays Teen Drop in Gym 7:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Sundays Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles Sundays Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442 994-2442

ATLIN Fridays and Saturdays Atlin Community Library 2:00 PM Sundays St. Martins Anglican Church Service 11:00 AM St. Martin’s Anglican Church Sundays Atlin Christian Centre 10:30 AM Atlin Christian Centre Fridays Thrift Shop 2:00 PM St. Martin’s Anglican Church Wed Jan 29 Ladies’ Lunch & Carpet Bowling 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre Tue Feb 4 Atlin District Board of Trade 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre Wed Feb 5 Ladies’ Lunch & Carpet Bowling 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre

BEAVER CREEK Mondays and Fridays Tot Time 9:30 am Nelnah Bessie John School Tuesdays and Saturdays Volleyball 8:00 pm Beaver Creek Community Club

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HAINES Daily Haines Public Library Open Hours: Mon-Wed 11-8 | Fri 10-6 | Sat/Sun 1:304:30| Thurs/Fri Closed #907-766-2545 Mondays and Wednesdays Kids Jujutsu 5:00 pm Chilkat Center For The Arts Mondays Aqua Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Borough Swimming Pool Mondays Mother Goose Stories and Songs 11:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library fohbpl@gmail.com Mondays Yoga with Mandy 1:00 PM Chilkat Center For The Arts Mondays Adults Jujutsu 6:30 PM Chilkat Center For The Arts Tuesdays Ashtanga Yoga with Melina 9:30 AM Chilkat Center For The Arts Tuesdays Women’s Fellowship 3:00 PM Haines Senior Center Wednesdays Aqua Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Borough Swimming Pool Wednesday Podcast Club 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library Wednesday Sword Class 6:30 PM Chilkat Center For The Arts Wednesday Open Mic Nite 10:00 PM Pioneer Bar Thursdays Ashtanga Yoga with Melina 9:30 AM Chilkat Center For The Arts Thursdays Starvin’ Marvin Gardenin’ 12:00 PM Haines Borough Public Library Fridays Aqua Aerobics 8:00 AM Haines Borough Swimming Pool Fridays Tai Chi - Advanced 10:15 AM Chilkat Center For The Arts Fridays Story Time 12:00 PM Haines Borough Public Library fohbpl@gmail.com Fridays Yoga with Mandy 1:00 PM Chilkat Center For The Arts Fridays American Legion Burger Night 6:00 PM American Legion Saturdays Tai Chi 11:00 AM Chilkat Center For The Arts Sundays Sunday Worship 11:00 AM Haines Presbyterian Church Sundays Bible Club - Sunday School 12:30 PM Haines Presbyterian Church Fri Dec 6 Winter Memories Sheldon Museum & Cultural Centre Highlights historic photos, movies, and documents from Haines Sheldon Museum’s archival collection. Recently digitized movies bring life to the still images.

Wed Jan 29 Podcast Club 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library Thu Jan 30 Technology Thursdays 11:00 AM Haines Borough Public Library

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Thu Jan 30 Comics 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library Fri Jan 31 Nature Hike/ Foraging 1:00 PM Haines Borough Public Library Mon Feb 3 Yoga Introductory Series 5:30 PM Chilkat Center For The Arts Learn the basics, cultivate self practice, improve strength, flexibility and mental clarity. Call 928-278-2326 for more info.

Tue Feb 4 Construction Challenges 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library Tue Feb 4 Legion Monthly Membership Meeting at Legion Hall 6:00 PM American Legion Wed Feb 5 Podcast Club 4:30 PM Haines Borough Public Library

HAINES JUNCTION Thursdays Seniors - Carpet Bowling 1:30 PM St Elias Convention Centre All Seniors and Elders welcome!

Mondays and Thursdays Drop In Hockey 7:30 PM Bill Brewster Arena Saturdays Beginner Public Skate 10:00 AM Bill Brewster Arena No sticks, no pucks, bring your little ones or just come practice your skills.

Fridays Story Hour 10:00 AM Haines Junction Community Library Saturdays Public Skate 12:00 PM Bill Brewster Arena Mon 3-4:30 pm, Wed/ Thurs 3:15-4:30 pm, Fri 3-6 pm, Sundays Public Skate 5:00 PM Bill Brewster Arena Mon 3-4:30 pm, Wed/ Thurs 3:15-4:30 pm, Fri 3-6 pm, Wednesdays 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.

Wed Jan 29 Adult Volleyball 6:30 PM St. Elias Community School hu Jan 30 Chair Yoga For Seniors 3:00 PM Haines Junction Seniors Apartments Thu Jan 30 Women’s Circle 5:30 PM Mun Ku Email elskloppers@gmail.com for more information.

Thu Jan 30 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School Thu Jan 30 Drop In Hockey 7:30 PM Bill Brewster Arena Sun Feb 2 St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church Service - Info: Mark Ritchie 634-2943 Tue Feb 4 Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue Feb 4 Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini Hall Wed Feb 5 Adult Volleyball 6:30 PM St. Elias Community School Wed Feb 5 Village of Haines Junction Council Meeting 7:00 PM St Elias Convention Centre

LORNE MOUNTAIN Ongoing LMCC Ice Rink - Night Skating Lorne Mountain Community Centre Flood lights are available between 4 pm and 11: 30 daily. Shared community rink.

Mondays Yoga with Jess Sellers 7:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre For more info call 667-7083 or Email lmca@ northwestel.net Fridays Lorne Mountain Ski Club 4:30 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Each session will include group activities, games and trail skiing, Call 667-7083 for more information.

Sat Feb 1 Flatwater North Fundraiser Adult Hockey Tournament 10:00 AM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Come out for a fun, action packed day of outdoor pond hockey. Registration online, call 3348121 or email at info@flatwaternorth.ca for more info.

Tue Feb 4 Seniors Winter Wellness Cafe 1:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre With Bianka Walcher, free event, just drop in!

MAYO Mondays Video Yoga Classes 5:15 PM Mayo Curling Arena Yoga Videos are used for leading each class. Bring your own Yoga mat or borrow ours. Drop-ins are welcome. For more info call 996-2043 8979962043 Mondays Adult and Teen Weekly Singing Group 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School Join us in the room with the piano in the secondary end. For more info contact Barb at 9962508 or by email bbarchen@gmail.com Mondays Dinner and Movie Night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Hall And Recreation Centre Sundays Parent & Toddler Playgroup 10:00 AM Mayo Community Hall And Recreation Centre Run, skip, jump, play and socialize with other children and parents.

Sundays St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746

fun low impact cardiovascular workout with great music that uses endurance, intervals, hills, drills and rhythm to burn fat.

Wednesdays Group Cycling w/Cindy & Emily 4:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wednesdays Back & Hip Yoga 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thursdays Basketball For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Saturdays Group Cycling w/Emily 11:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Saturdays Bouncy House Fun Time! 1:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre A parent or guardian must accompany children 12 and under.

Sundays Undo and Renew Gentle Yoga 3:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre

TAGISH

Tuesdays Gym Night 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Thursdays Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sundays St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Luke’s Church 867-993-5381

Saturdays/Wednesdays Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 3993418 Thursdays Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is invited to come and learn the technical game of Carpet Bowling.

Wednesdays Coffee and Chat: Tagish Community Centre 1:00 PM Tagish Community Centre A lunch program which will include such things as soup/stew/chili and homemade rolls/bread plus some tasty treats! every Wednesday.

SKAGWAY

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Daily, Mondays to Fridays, Mom, Dad & Me Toddler Time 9:00 am Skagway Alaska Appropriate for 2 - 4 yrs. of age & caregiver, Free drop-in.

Call 907-983-2679 for more info.

Mondays SpinFlex 6:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre 30 min. cycling- 25 min. resistance training-must be able to lunge & squat Mondays Restorative - Yin Yoga ALL Levels 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mondays Group Cycling w/Therese 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre A fun low impact cardiovascular workout with great music that uses endurance, intervals, hills, drills and rythym to burn fat.

Mondays Group Cycling w/Cindy & Emily 4:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mondays Acro Jam 6:30 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 Tuesdays Basketball For Adults 7:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tuesdays Hatha Flow w. Foam Roller & Pinky Balls 6:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Hatha Flow practice followed by foam roller and pinky balls.

Tuesdays & Thursdays Mat Pilates 6:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate core based class using classical mat exercises to create long, lean muscles.

Tuesdays & Thursdays Senior Chair Based Weight Training 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Chair based resistance training program that’s not just for seniors.

Wednesdays SpinFlex 6:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre 30 min. cycling- 25 min. resistance training-must be able to lunge & squat Wednesdays Back & Hip Yoga 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wednesdays Group Cycling w/Therese 12:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre A

Tuesdays Yoga in the Mezzanine 5:30 PM Teslin Rec Center Every Tuesday, mats provided just bring your zen. 335-4250 teslinrec@teslin.ca Tuesdays 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 TuesdaysVolleyball 7:00 PM Teslin School Everyone welcome!

Wednesdays Seniors Social 10:00 AM Teslin Rec Center Every Wednesday come play cards, drink coffee, chat, and have a good time. Call Kelsey at 335-4250 or email teslinrec@teslin.ca Wednesdays Badminton Nights 7:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Every Thursday, bring your racket or just bring yourself for some swift fun! 335-4250 teslinrec@teslin.ca Fridays Girls Club 5:00 PM Teslin Rec Center For grades 7-12, come hang out, games, activities and snacks! Call Kelsy 335-4250 for more information.

Fridays 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.

Saturdays Volleyball 7:00 PM Teslin School Everyone welcome!

OLD CROW

MARSH LAKE Tuesdays North of 60 Seniors Cafe. We heat the beverages, you heat the air.

2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Tuesdays Yoga with Richard 5:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Wednesdays Pump Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Thursdays Choir 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Saturdays Bridge club 12:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre Saturdays Knitting Circle 1:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre 660-4999 managermarshlake@gmail.com Wed Jan 29 Marsh Lake Community Society Meeting 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre All Welcome to attend.

Wed Feb 5 Waste Mgnt Society Meeting 7:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Centre

Daily, Mondays to Fridays Youth Activity Club 3:15 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre For grades 5-11, come hang out, games, activities and snacks! Call the Rec Centre 536-8023 for more information.

Mondays/Thursdays Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together! Watson Lake Sundays St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932 Thu Jan 2,9 & Tues Jan 7,14 Body Fit 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Contact Meaghan for more information 536-8023

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Klondike Institute of Art and Culture Dawson City, YT

Mondays & Wednesdays 7-9pm

Dawson City International Short Film Festival Selections

Boys and Girls Club of Yukon

6:30-9 pm at The Royal Canadian Legion

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The Best Things in Life are… Rescued!

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Libby Hague / Every Heart Can Grow Bigger: Make Room In the ODD Gallery/ Dänojà Zho Cultural Centre Yukon School of Visual Arts Tel: (867) 993-5005 Fax: (867) 993-5838 Website: www.kiac.ca

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Screen Printed Ceramics BrickAstrid StitchKruse Earrings Brick Stitch Earrings Sat. Feb. 1 Sheelah Tolton Sheelah Tolton 100 pm 4:00 Nov. 16 16 pm Nov. 1:00 -- 4:00 4:00 pm pm 1:00

The Art of Managing Pysanky Ornaments YourOrnaments Career Pysanky Sheelah Tolton Heather Steinhagen Sheelah Tolton Dec. 14 1 Feb.Dec. 29 + 14 Mar. 9:00 am 12:00 pm 9:00 am - -12:00 pm 9:00am 5:00pm

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Encaustics for Adults Marlene Collins Winter workshops Winter workshops Sat. Feb. 22 will be be announced announced will 10:00 am 4:00 November 1st 1stpm November Sun. Feb. 23 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Screen Printing 101 Rebekah Senko March 4 + 5 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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6:00pm – Little Women Hercules is all ears! Come meet him and talk to our knowledgeable staff about his bubbly personality.

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Nominated for 6 Academy Awards 2020.

With a stellar cast and a smart, sensitive retelling of its classic source material, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women proves some stories truly are timeless. In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together. Dir. Greta Gerwig, 2019, US, 135 min.

Family pass available.

“This Little Women purist was moved to tears by this movie, and didn’t want it to end.” ~ Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times

8:30pm – Parasite

Nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture!

A glorious success and smashing box-office hit, the Palme d’Or–winning Parasite is a politically charged cinematic wonder. A vertical story of class struggle – punctuated by staircase scenes going from mouldy basements to top floors, from darkness to breezy spaces designed by star architects – Parasite observes and dissects with surgical precision the life of two families of different social backgrounds. Mature content. Dir. Bong Joon Ho, 2019, S. Korea, 131 min.

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Roy Neilson (left) and Carman Lam Brar star in the Guild’s new play The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine

PHOTO: Erik Pinkerton Photography

The Guild’s production of a Canadian stand-by, The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine, Ernestine , opens Jan. 30

by Ken Bolton

C

laire Ness was only six (or maybe seven) when she first saw the dark Canadian comedy called The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine. Still, it left a lasting impression, in part, because that Nakai Theatre production in the early 1990s starred her father, Roy Ness, and fellow Whitehorse actor/musician Trish Barclay in the title roles.

“I loved it. I saw my Dad in so many plays, and a lot of them were not very memorable, but there are few that stand out,” Ness said.

“Definitely, shows like this one and Little Shop of Horrors, and

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. They’re just so colourful and animated.”

When the Guild Theatre’s artistic director, Brian Fidler, announced that Ernest and Ernestine would be on this year’s roster, Ness was thinking about auditioning for the female role, since she’d been away from acting for some time.

Then a funny thing happened: Fidler approached her about taking on the play as her first foray in the director’s chair. Despite her initial nervousness, she agreed.

“I didn’t know if I had enough knowledge, or chops, to be a director right away. But I’ve grown up in the theatre, and I know what the director-actor relationship is like, and I’ve sort of studied what directors do since I started doing theatre.

“So far, it’s been really good, and really kind of natural for me.

My grandma was a theatre director, so I probably have it somewhere in my blood. I don’t know if I’m a control freak, but I have a vision,” she added with a laugh.

Written by Robert Morgan, Martha Ross and Leah Cherniak,

The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine had its debut in 1987 at Toronto’s now-defunct Poor Alex Theatre, sometime home of both Mr. Dressup (Ernie Coombs) and CBC’s Royal Canadian Air Farce.

Since then, it has gone on to become a favourite in the Canadian theatre canon, frequently re-mounted by both professional and community companies across the country.

Ness required very few words to sum up the play’s narrative arc.

“Ernest and Ernestine are newlyweds who move into a basement apartment, and their naïveté about love starts to be tested. The pure innocence of their love slowly transforms and gets darker and darker,” she said.

“He’s probably more of a doofus than she is, although they’re both doofuses. I think she’s just a little more easy-going, looseygoosey than he is. He’s a bit uptight.”

Part of Ness’s attraction to the script lies in the fact that it contains elements of the clown world that is a large part of her own professional experience.

After studying comedy writing and performance at Humber College in Toronto, she later went on to pursue circus teaching at Montréal’s École nationale de cirque, specializing in clown technique.

Part of the play’s appeal comes from the sense of optimism (naïveté?) that keeps the two characters ticking.

“Even as the experience gets more and more trying, they keep returning to their innocence.

That’s part of clown, too, the innocence and experience,” Ness said.

Although it’s a two-hander, the play is often considered to have a third character: a cranky, malfunctioning furnace in the couple’s cramped basement suite. Ness doesn’t share that view. Still, she concedes that the furnace provides a strong metaphor.

“Yeah, for sure. The furnace plays a role to emphasize the volatility of their relationship as things heat up.”

Another major irritant crops up for the young couple in the aftermath of a vehicle accident, with the frustration they face trying to deal with an uncaring bureaucracy.

“The car crash actually kind of brings them closer together.

It’s one of the main things in the show that bonds them, because now they have something external to be angry at,” Ness said.

“They have this great scene where they’re swearing at the audience. We chose to have the audience represent the government, the people they hate. So, they have this great yelling-atthe-audience scene.”

When it was suggested that this piece of staging might have particular poignancy at the Guild, where the audience on any given night might include a number of government bureaucrats, Ness discreetly declined to comment.

As a first-time director, what was it like for the actor/singer/

clown instructor to take on a play she has always associated with her own father’s performance nearly 30 years ago?

“I think it was definitely in my mind at first, but now that Carman Lam Brar and Roy Neilson have kind of taken over my imagination, they’ve breathed new life into it, and it’s become something else,” she said.

“There’s still a lot of the same funny from the script, but it’s amazing how different actors and a different team can actually change it, and how different it can be with each production.”

The two actors in this version are both relatively new to the Yukon, but each has appeared on the Guild Hall stage before.

Carman Lam Brar, who grew up in Abbotsford, B.C., was previously in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Alberta native Roy Neilson’s last Guild appearance was in The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Still, in order to prevent the memory of the long-ago Nakai production from influencing her directorial choices, has she gone so far as to banish Roy Ness from the set during rehearsals?

Fortunately, that question is moot. Her parents are currently visiting Australia, and won’t be back in time to see her debut production.

The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine opens on Thursday, Jan. 30 at the Guild Hall on 14th Ave., and runs Thursday through Saturday until Feb. 15.

Curtain is at 8 p.m. sharp.

Tickets are available at yukontickets.com and there is a paywhat-you-can performance on Wednesday, Feb. 5.

For more information, go to GuildHall.ca.

Ken Bolton is a freelance writer and former co-editor of What’s Up Yukon.

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If you can view your trade as a career rather than a stopover job, then you should be able to find the right employer that will allow you to progress as time goes on.

Don’t settle working for someone who doesn’t motivate you.

What motivated you to get into this career?

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Learning basic trigonometry in high school math turned out to be useful when learning about complicated roof construction.

I never took any shop classes in high school, but learning how to use power tools at that age would have been useful.

What was it like to go to post-secondary school and work at the same time?

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Joel is putting his skills to work installing solar panels Being able to see a project on paper and then make it happen in real life. Moving around outside away from a desk is nice as well.

What does a regular day look like for you in your job?

I manage construction solar panel installation crews now for Solvest, so that mostly involves meeting clients, planning out jobs and staying on top of inventory. I also get on the roof from time to time. I still do some “traditional” carpentry projects on the side, but after 10 years of residential work I am enjoying a new challenge in an exciting industry that is still all about construction.

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How has your trade, if it has, made your life better?

My trade has allowed me to work with all kinds of interesting people from all over the world and this has helped make me a more open-minded person. I have been lucky to work all over Canada in my current job for Solvest; there has never been a boring day so far!

What is the most interesting thing/project you have worked on?

Carpentry related: helping build a scribed log cabin on the side of a mountain in Atlin was amazing. Solar related: Supervising construction of the largest solar farm in Manitoba was a pretty cool project to be a part of.

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