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Arts in the Park 2020

by Manus Hopkins

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fter much speculation, it was announced this spring that Arts in the Park would be returning for a summer 2020 season after all—only things would be different. A lot different.

With large gathering bans and restrictions on events like live concerts still in effect as the Yukon gradually reopens in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided that Arts in the Park would have to be presented virtually, as a radio show. It will still follow its familiar format of one performance per weekday at noon and an additional performance at 7 p.m. each Wednesday, and this year’s festival will also feature story readings from the

Yukon Literacy Coalition on Wednesday mornings.

The performances will take place from July 6-31 and will be broadcast live on CJUC 92.5 FM, from the radio station’s cabin in Shipyards Park, with the Thursday shows being broadcast from Dawson.

Performing from Whitehorse will be Drea Naysayer, Local Boy, Cryptozoologists, Steve Slade, Stockstill & Rose, Erica Mah and Darcy McCord, Selina HeyligersHare, Groan Boy, Toots, Michael Brooks and the Bingo Bongo Boogie Band, Ellorie McKnight, Speed Control, Ragtime Annie ad Yukon Sal, Alex and Dan, Edith Cocotte, Hank Karr and Kevin Barr, Claire Ness, Elijah Bekk and Garbage Man. Performing from Dawson will be Andrew Laviolette and Kristen Poenn, Susu Robin, Sopjie Noel and Evrytt Willow. The festival will also include a grand finale with performances by Calla Kinglit, Fawn Fritzen & David Restivo, Paris Pick & Aiden Tentrees, BJ Maclean with Bob Hamilton and Sour Do Re Mi.

Music Yukon has once again partnered with Yukon Artists at Work for Arts in the Park. Yukon Artists at Work will be presenting a weekly “Artist in the Window” series at their gallery, with each week’s artist present and working from 11-2 p.m., Wednesday to Friday.

Because of the ongoing pandemic, extra safety measures have to be taken, even in presenting a virtual concert series.

Under advice from CMOH Brendan Hanley, all Arts in the Park performers and staff will be adhering to physical distancing guidelines, all equipment will be sanitized between uses and the number of people in the radio station at any time will be limited.

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How much is that little artist in the window?

On the Cover Suzanne Paleczny’s Human/Nature is on until the end of July at the Yukon Arts Centre Sculpture Gardens, along with Nicole Bauberger’s exhibit, Ravens Navigating Distances in the Wind and Sound of the Road.

The summer edition of Artist in the Window is in full swing at YA@W

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What’s Inside

by Nicole Bauberger

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he official summer version of the Artist in the Window is now in swing. You can interact with demonstrating artists behind the window at Yukon Artists at Work (YA@W) Wednesday to Friday, 11-2, and see their work in the window almost anytime.

When COVID-19 struck and galleries in Whitehorse closed their doors, the YA@W followed suit.

However, the self-supporting organization still had to pay their rent and fixed costs. They began demonstrating their artwork in the gallery’s front windows, so as to continue bringing their artistic visions to the Yukon public, drawing on their members’ volunteer efforts to do so. At least, they figured, people could call the artist on the window, and they could talk on the phone.

The group also drew on this newly adaptive practice to put together an Arts Fund application for supported window residencies, joining forces with Music Yukon to provide the visual arts component of Arts in the Park. The gallery tunes in to the Arts in the Park performances, which are broadcast over radio station CJUC, and plays it over a speaker outside.

Marie-Hélène Comeau started the summer off with her paintings of houses that have disappeared from downtown Whitehorse, printing pictures of them from

Google Maps to elicit memories visitors might want to share, to inform her paintings. This work will be part of a show called Stories, postponed by COVID-19, which Comeau will present at the YA@W gallery this November.

Leslie Leong followed her, building a dress out of milk jugs in the tent in YA@W’s yard, with an exhibit of her creations in upcycled computer parts and other materials, including plastics.

Leong champions the use of recycled materials in her ingenious creations, and co-coordinates the annual re:design fair.

July 17 is your last day to see Lillian Loponen working on a series of digital portrait studies in the window. Loponen is best known for her landscapes in watercolour and acrylic, but this is a chance to see some of her 20-year experience in technologically-based image making. You will see some of the works in the window over the weekend.

Dennis Shorty will come in from Ross River, beginning his demonstration of copper and antler jewelry making on July 22.

Amber Church, a previous YA@W member, draws on science and policy to make works that both celebrate Canada’s natural beauty and express concern for the imminent risks facing its ecosystems through ink, acrylic and

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Marie-Héléne Comeau with her memory paintings inspired by the houses that have vanished from downtown Whitehorse other media on canvas, July 2931.

After her, Dee Bailey will be drawing from the work she began when the pandemic started, working with whimsical imagery in air dry, modelling, and polymer clay, starting August 5. She plans to set up a GoPro camera to create time lapse video of her pieces.

Martha Jane Ritchie will join us from Haines Junction August 12-14, demonstrating block printing. She often uses her prints in experimental ways, folding them into birds in flight, for example. It will be interesting to see the project she brings to the window.

For each artist, their work is installed by the Tuesday, and comes down on the following Monday, so if you’d like to see it over the weekend, you can peek in the window The Arts Fund-supported Artist in the Window project will continue with a new artist each week until September 4.

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lery is open through the summer Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.. We are grateful for the support of Arts Fund and Music Yukon in presenting this program.

In addition to Wednesday to Friday on-site demonstration, at 6:30 p.m. each Thursday the window artist offers an artist talk, broadcast over Zoom. Sign up in person at YA@W, call 393 4848, or email yaaw@artlover.com.

Provide a question for the artist, and five minutes before the artist talk, you will be sent the link to join. You can chill at home, listen and work on your own art, treating it as an entertaining podcast.

You can also find the interviews in video form posted via Youtube on Facebook.

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Reaching the World Through Dance

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“I had always believed that to be effective classes needed to be taught in-person,” he explained.

“I had no experience with teaching online, so when COVID hit and people suggested that I should start teaching online, I was a bit hesitant.”

Despite that hesitation Pandher, who teaches bhangra, decided to give the world of online teaching a try. He hosted his first online class in March.

“To my great surprise 70 people joined me from all over Canada – all of the provinces and territories were represented,” he said, “so many people came to learn bhangra online and that was quite motivational for me. It gave me a huge boost and really inspired me to continue.”

Given that early success Pandher decided to set up weekly programming online. “I started teaching six times per week, mostly on the weekends when people have more time to participate,” he explained.

“Since that point I have been teaching online and lots and lots of people have been joining in.

I’ve been meeting people from all over Canada, and also from the US and Europe. It really surprised me when I saw the huge response.”

He added, “It’s going really well now. I have some really dedicated students who join me every week. That’s quite wonderful.”

The programming is being offered through a “pay what you can” model so that it will still be accessible to those with lower incomes. Pandher is also donating a significant portion of his earnings to COVID-related charities fo-

cused on food banks and mental health.

“If people sign up to join a class online they can expect both dance and a workout,” he explained, “Bhangra is a fun dance and great workout too. Some people join for the dance, some for the exercise since it is such high energy”.

There are also mental health benefits from taking part, something that Pandher is seeing evidence of in the messages he is receiving from participants. “After my classes lots of people send emails about their experiences,” he said, “people let me know that they are having really positive experiences. It seems to be benefiting people.”

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Reaching the world through dance ... cont’d just how effective it can be,” he added, “It will never compare to real classes, but people still learn and get excited. And it comes with a whole suite of associated benefits: you can do it from your home; you don’t have to drive there; it’s more accessible; it saves time since you don’t need to budget travel time to and from class; and your family and/or housemates can participate with you.”

Despite all of these pluses, online teaching does come with its own set of challenges. “First and foremost, you need reliably good internet speed,” says Pandher, “Online teaching has really reinforced for me that we need our government to pay more attention to making high speed accessible to everyone.”

Pandher’s online programming has been receiving lots of attention from the media, including CBC, CTV and Huffington Post.

“The experience has been great although appearing in so many interviews in such a wide range of time zones has involved some intensive scheduling to fit in as many reporters as possible,” he said.

“It has touched my heart that our media cares – that if you’re trying to do something good and are trying to help people - that the media wants to support you and share the story. I’m really thankful to all the media in Canada – big and small – for reporting on my work.”

Whether or not bhangra is for you Pandher encourages everyone to give online learning a try.

“If one class doesn’t work for you, try changing the teacher or class until you find the right fit for you. It has so many benefits – when we stay at home we become less motivated to work out and I feel like these types of programs

really help to get us out of our bubble and do something.”

Pandher’s online offerings include beginner and progressive bhangra classes. Registration to take part can be done through his website, https://gurdeep.ca.

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Facing Your Fears

Eva Holland’s Nerve explores her personal journey through the science of fear

by Amber Church

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veryone experiences fear at some point in their lives.

This universal emotion and our response to it forms the core of Eva Holland’s first book, Nerve, which was released in Canada on April 7th.

The book jacket describes the work as a “personal journey through the science of fear”. Holland elaborated, “it’s a bit of a hybrid of science journalism and memoir including my exploration of the recent research on why we have fear and why it happens.”

The book traces Holland’s own relationship with fear, and by doing so shares some deeply personal experiences with readers – from finding herself unable to move part way up a frozen river with night setting in, to the experience of the sudden loss of her mother.

“Writing the first draft dealing with my mom’s death came quite easily,” said Holland, “it provided me with the opportunity to blurt out all of the messy feelings. What was really challenging was the revision process – I had to force myself to evaluate if portions were just me airing my feelings or if they were really serving the book.”

Holland secured the book deal for Nerve in April 2018 after working intermittently on a proposal for the previous two years. At that point she had eleven months to turn around the manuscript.

“It came with the ‘oh crap moment,’” she explained, “First there was the celebration – ‘yeah, I have a book deal’ – followed very closely by the realization of ‘oh no, now I have to write the book.’”

She added, “I’d love to say that I jumped in with both feet, but the truth is that I procrastinated at the beginning and ended

ried that it would get buried in the news of a pandemic,” said Holland, “I thought to myself, ‘oh no, my book is doomed.’”

But despite having to cancel her book launch party at Wayfarer Oyster House and her book tour which was slated to run through May and June, the response so far has been very good. “I don’t know to what extent the fact that people are interested in fear at the moment – it’s urgently timely due to COVID – is helping with how it has been received,” said Holland, “or the fact that people seem to be really trying to support independent bookstores and writers and artists, but I’ve found a lot of different entities have been stepping up to support me in a lot of different ways.”

Since the book launched Holland has found herself on Facebook live and InPHOTO: submitted by Eva Holland stagram live events, she has skyped into tv shows, Local writer Eva Holland’s debut called into podcasts and has done book, Nerve, is available now interviews via Zoom. She’s been featured in the New York Times from my US publisher, and oddly and in the National Art Centre’s enough, both named Nick, worked NAC Performs line-up delivering a together on what they wanted to reading and question and answer see change before coming back to session. And she has Yukon’s local independent bookseller behind me,” explained Holland.

Some chapters needed more her.

“Mac’s Fireweed has been structural tinkering than others.

“The fifth chapter focusing on really supportive and wonderful using rock climbing as DIY therapy through all of this,” said Holland, had originally been an article for “I’m so grateful to them that Esquire,” said Holland, “When I they’re finding ways to stay open wrote the first draft of the book and serve customers right now.”

I just plunked it in and thought to myself ‘there’s one chapter done’, but book chapters aren’t magazine articles. Books are quite Amber Church is generally a bit more freeing, you aren’t enthusiastic about everything having to fit yourself into an instibut she spends most of her time tutional voice.” creating in an art studio and Nerve was released in early April, in the midst of COVID-19 chasing a child and dog through the wilderness. lockdowns. “I was initially worup spending the winter writing for twelve hour days.”

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Childhood memories for children and parents alike

Claire Ness’ new Album Broccoli Farm brings joy to children at a much-needed time

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ver the last four years Claire Ness has been pulling inspiration from her childhood memories and her time as a mother to create her new album, Broccoli Farm.

“I am really excited to get this one out there,” said Ness, “It is a collection of original kid’s songs that I have been working on for the past four years. There is one song on the album that I wrote before having a baby, and that is ‘Under Duck’ which I wrote with Dave Sutton back when we were playing together and I had just started playing shows for kids. But the rest of the songs I wrote in the past four years, since having (my son), August.”

Ness shared some of the inspiration that went into crafting the songs.

For the track ‘Arms Out,’ Ness went back to memories from childhood. “I grew up on the Hot Springs Road and I remember when they first opened Takhini Gas. We were so excited that there would finally be a place to buy candy that was closer than the Hotsprings. We used to bike down to the corner trying to ride with no hands the whole way. And I’ve always loved climbing trees and riding right up at the bow of the boat so it feels like you’re flying over the water. Parents might protest the danger in this song, but those moments of pure freedom were a lot of what made up my memorable childhood.”

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“The video is hilarious,” said Ness.

The song ‘Candy’ celebrates the trick all parents try to use – spelling out words so their kids can’t understand what they are saying. Ness lets her young listeners in on the secret by letting them know the meanings of C-AN-D-Y, C-A-K-E, C-O-O-K-I-E, C-HO-C-O-L-A-T-E, M-O-V-I-E, and ZO-O, among others.

Ness wrote ‘Superhero’ with her live shows in mind. “I wrote this song so kids can dress up in superhero costumes at my shows,” she laughed.

Her husband, Pascal, inspired ‘Junkyard.’

Ness explained, “when we travel he always insists on stopping at every Junkyard we pass. Then he disappears into the piles and leaves me waiting in the car, sometimes for a long time.

But then I thought, when we knew August was coming along, how it would be a funnier song if it were about a baby.”

August inspired a number of songs, including ‘Beautiful Baby,’ which Ness said, “is about my beautiful baby boy.”

For the time being, the only place you can pick up a copy of Broccoli Farm on Bandcamp (https://claireness.bandcamp.

com/album/broccoli-farm), but Ness is looking forwards to the time when she will have CDs, Vinyl, and physical booklets for the digital downloads.

“In a way it has been just fine. It is nice to be able to get something out there for people to enjoy in their homes,” said Ness, “But I am excited to get to a point where I can do a physical release party and get the vinyl, CDs and booklets out there. A big party free for all kids! With clowns and face-painting! I am really excited for parties again.”

The response to the album so far has been great. “HomeRoutes has been having me do online concerts for kids every Saturday morning at 11am, and so I have this built in National audience attached with that,” Ness explained.

“It is a real blessing to have that vessel of output. I don’t feel whole without performing, entertaining or making an ass of myself.”

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Bringing mentors and mentees together

The Yukon Emerging Artist Program looks to support artists in developing their practice during the time of COVID-19

by Amber Church

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OVID-19 is a challenging time for artists, which is why the Yukon Arts Centre is so excited about their Yukon Emerging Artist Program.

“I fundamentally believe that it’s important to get money into the hands of artists right now,” said Mary Bradshaw, Director of Visual Arts for the Yukon Arts Centre, “and although it is tough for

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many artists at the moment, it may also be an opportunity for artists to choose to grow and take the time to focus on further developing their practice. Hopefully the Yukon Emerging Artist Program helps them to do that.”

The Yukon Emerging Artist Program is an initiative of the Yukon Arts Centre supported by the RBC Foundation to support the professional development of Yukon artists by creating meaningful mentorship opportunities between emerging and established artists.

This virtual mentorship program is open to artists in all genres (visual, performing, literary, and multimedia artistic practices). The program will provide honorariums of $500 for both the mentee and the mentor/collaborator.

Emerging artists can apply through this program to propose a virtual mentorship or collaboration with an established Canadian artist. There are no deadlines for completion though projects must be completed within a reasonable time frame. The application deadline is rolling (ongoing). The applications will be juried by staff members of the Yukon Arts Centre and a member of the Yukon arts community. Applicants will be notified 10 days from receipt of application.

The application form includes details from the RBC Foundation on the definition of an emerging artist. Bradshaw stressed that an emerging artist might not meet all of the suggested criteria. “The most important criteria I’m concerned with is if you self-identify as an emerging artist,” she explained.

“I can’t wait to see what people scheme up,” said Bradshaw. “I’m so excited to see what people are interested in doing and, on a real-

ly selfish level as a curator, to be introduced to new artists. We have such a large and diverse art community here in the territory and I definitely don’t know them all.”

“The Yukon Emerging Artist program supported by the RBC Foundation has been helping the Yukon Arts Centre deliver key outreach programming for emerging artists for two years,” said Yukon Arts Centre CEO Casey Prescott.

“Given the disruption of COVID-19 we have moved quickly to refocus this program, making it more flexible to provide timely support for Yukon artists pursuing virtual mentorship and collaboration opportunities.”

Bradshaw elaborated, “This model is a much different take on the program than in the past.

Previously we used the funding to support emerging artists within the programming we were already doing. For example, we worked with the Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA) in Dawson to host an exhibition of their students’ work and we worked with Dennis Shorty to host a mask making program in Ross River.”

“This year with everything going on with COVID-19 we thought to ourselves, ‘ok, we’ve got this money, let’s pull it apart and do an active call and get these dollars out the door as fast as possible,” she added. “It’s already been really fun, we’ve already had lots of great feedback and I would love to continue the model into the future.”

Bradshaw stressed that potential applicants shouldn’t be shy in approaching her, or Director of Programming, Michelle Emslie, if they have any questions about the process. “Don’t be shy, just send us an email and we’re happy to talk it through with you,” she said.

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Master carver Dennis Shorty, at the opening reception for the Our Journey: Reviving Dena Style mask exhibit on March 7, 2019.

Shorty participated in past programming supported by the mentorship program funding She also pointed out that more established artists who are interested in mentoring an emerging artist can initiate the process.

“The mentor and mentee apply as a unit to the program,” she explained. “So that in planning their application mentors can reach out to potential mentees as well as the more traditional model where mentees seek out the mentor they would like to work with.”

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Amber Church is generally enthusiastic about everything but she spends most of her time creating in an art studio and chasing a child and dog through the wilderness.

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ART SHOWS

Thu Jul 16 Christ Church Cathedral Choir Practice 7:30 PM Christ Church Cathedral

Until Fri Jul 31 Outdoor Exhibit: Suzanne Paleczny Yukon Arts Centre Outdoor Exhibit, three of her sculptures from her Human/Nature exhibit in the Yukon Arts Centre’s sculpture gardens.

Fri Jul 17 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.

Until Fri Jul 31 Raven Exhibit: Nicole Bauberger Yukon Arts Centre Outdoor Exhibit, tiny ravens and bike wheel ravens installation hanging in the trees next to the mini amphitheatre in front of the Yukon Arts Centre.

Tues thru Sat Artist in the Window 11:00 AM Yukon Artists at Work Gallery Watch our Yukon artists as they provide demonstrations of their art practice in our front gallery window. 393-4848 Until Sat Aug 1 Portals by Dee Bailey Arts Underground This exhibit, portals to nature. Entrances to whimsical Yukon landscapes. Gateways to our memories of time spent outdoors. 667-4080 Thurs 24 & Fri 25 Created at the Canyon 2:00 PM Miles Canyon Bridge Take a twohour guided hike at 10am or 2pm, or a self-guided tour anytime. Join local artists along the trail as they create original works inspired by the landscape of Miles Canyon and the Yukon River. 668-5678

GENERAL EVENTS

Until Aug 3 Natural World & Wildlife Spring/Summer Photo Contest! Virtual Online Send us your best three shots taken between March 18 and August 31, 2020 and you could win. Enter your photos to win a prize, email Brenda.Warren@ trondek.ca or call 993-7100 ext. 167 for more info.

Until Aug 7 Available Light Cinema at Home - The Assistant Virtual Online In temporary lieu of gathering in brick and mortar theatres, YFS invites you to watch ALC-curated screenings from the safety of your home. Visit YFS website to order.

Until Aug 7 Available Light Cinema at Home - White Lie Virtual Online In temporary lieu of gathering in brick and mortar theatres, YFS invites you to watch ALC-curated screenings from the safety of your home. Visit YFS website to order.

Wed Jul 15 Guitar lessons with Caroline Allatt 1:00 PM Whitehorse, Yukon 45 minute classes, drop in, register online.

Wed Jul 15 Mt. Sima Weed Pull 5:00 PM Winterlong Brewing Co. A weed pull in the Mt. Sima neighbourhood! All are welcome!

Email outreach.yisc@gmail.com for more info.

Thu Jul 16 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 Jul 16 Guitar lessons with Caroline Allatt 1:00 PM Whitehorse, Yukon 45 minute classes, drop in, register online.

Thu Jul 16 Fireweed Community Market Outdoor Market 3:00 PM Shipyards Park Local produce, baked goods, live plants, local meats, Yukon art, crafted treasures and more Thu Jul 16 Poetry Sculpture in the Garden 7:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre Enjoy a walk through an outdoor art exhibit & transform your experience into poems with Yukon poet kjmunro. Register online.

Thu Jul 16 Uke On Ukulele Club! 7:00 PM Porter Creek Secondary School Email us at ukeonukuleleclub@gmail.com for more information.

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Fri Jul 17 Afternoon Tea and Hymn Sing 2:00 PM Christ Church Cathedral Sat Jul 18 Dog Wash Fundraiser 10:00 AM The Feed Store Pet Junction All profit goes to Mae Bachur Animal Shelter Sat Jul 18 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.

Mon Jul 20 Free Drop-in Computer Labs 10:00 AM Yukon Learn Due to the situation with Covid-19, all Yukon Learn classes, programs and services will be suspended until further notice. 867-668-6280 or toll free: 888-668-6280 Fax: 867-633-4576 Mon Jul 20 GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: tjbowlby@gmail.com Tue Jul 21 Guitar lessons with Caroline Allatt 1:00 PM Whitehorse, Yukon 45 minute classes, drop in, register online.

Weekly MTG Pioneer Format - Cards starting from Return to Ravnica forward Banned Cards: Fetch Lands. Each person receives a booster pack for participation with additional prizes given out during the event.

Fridays Online: Bhangra Fitness with Gurdeep Pandher 6:00 PM Donationbased online bhangra dance-fitness classes. Sign up online.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Saturdays Online: Bhangra Fitness with Gurdeep Pandher 10:00 AM Donationbased online bhangra dance-fitness classes. Sign up online.

The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance

Thu Jul 16 Monthly Coalition Meeting 5:00 PM CYO Hall Monthly Coalition (Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition) meetings are held every third Thursday. Everyone is welcome!

Saturdays Bike Nights! 3:00 PM Mount Sima Each operational bike day will have two time slots, each 3 hours long, with a maximum of 50 available tickets per slot.

You must register in advance! Registration will close 48hrs before each Bike Night.

MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS

Thu Jul 16 Escarpment Parks Society AGM 5:30 PM Cook Street park Socially distant field gathering, lets talk trails, bbq snacks. All welcome. Call 393-2977 for info Sat Jul 18 Workshop: Set Painting~Making a 2D Surface Appear 3D 1:00 PM The Guild Hall A hands-on class in painting a 2-dimensional archway to make it pop out under theatre lights in 3-dimensional splendor. Learn the tricks of the trade on an actual set at the Guild Hall. Call 633-3550 or email guildhall@ northwestel.net for more info or to register.

Wed Jul 22 Yukonstruct Society AGM 5:00 PM Virtual Online Reach out to board president Glenn Piwowar if you are interested and would like to discuss further (Glenn@yukonstruct.com) Wed Jul 22 Online: Yukon Avalanche Association AGM 5:30 PM Virtual Online Learn about our initiatives, meet our board of directors, and get involved/run for a board position. Email programs@ yukonavalanche.ca for more info.

Wed Jul 22 Ramshackle Theatre Society AGM 6:00 PM Ramshackle Theatre Studio The AGM will be held outdoors and in compliance with physical distancing guidelines. For further info call 333-0178.

Tue Jul 21 Second-hand Clothing Bazaar 5:30 PM Whitehorse Seventhday Adventist Church Donations of clean clothing in good condition welcome. All proceeds go to charitable causes. For more info. call 633-3463.

Wed Jul 22 Guitar lessons with Caroline Allatt 1:00 PM Whitehorse, Yukon 45 minute classes, drop in, register online.

KIDS & FAMILIES

Daily Yukon Literacy Coalition Book Drive 8:00 AM Horwoods Mall We are having a book drive to assist with our programs, drop books off at the Pioneer Hotel, or Horwoods Mall.

ACTIVE LISTINGS Mon Jun 15 Be Active Yukon: 30 Day Challenge Anyone in Canada can participate in this Challenge, however, only those who reside in the Yukon Territory are eligible to win a prize. Each participant will receive a complimentary shirt. Register by email lwinslade@specialolympicsyukon.ca Until Mon Jul 20 Bike BINGO Register online, ride, and submit your completed Bike BINGOÂ card by July 20 for a chance in the prize draws. Email info@cmbcyukon. ca for more info.

Until Jul 24 Online: Northern Youth Got Talent Virtual Online Capture yourself by video or photo doing a special skill or talent of yours. Be creative. Send us your submissions by email info@yukonyouth. com. Win some great prizes.

Until Sat Aug 15 Open Registration 2020 Virtual Klondike Road Relay Create a team and run together virtually wherever you are! Select the team category, create a team name and add up to 10 racers!

Register online.

Wed Jul 15 KinderPup Program 10:00 AM Top Dog Training Academy Opportunities for your small-medium size dog or puppies to socialize in safe and controlled environment with our experienced trainers. Email jdnic07@ gmail.com or call 334-7924 for more information.

Mondays Spinning with Penny 4:30 PM Better Bodies Cross training Centre A slow, steady workout with an emphasis on hard resistance work. Call 633-5425 for more info.

Tues & Thurs Parented Swim 1 - Outdoor Swim Program 3:00 PM Long Lake Ideal for ages 3-8, 2 day swim program will teach children to float, front back glide, flutter and swim 2 metres continuously.

Register online.

Tues & Thurs Parented Swim 2 - Outdoor Swim Program 3:00 PM Long Lake Ideal for ages 3-8, 2 day swim program will improve to float, front back glide, flutter and swim 5 metres continuously. Register online.

Tues & Thurs Parented Swim 3 - Outdoor Swim Program 3:00 PM Long Lake Ideal for ages 3-8, 2 day swim program will improve to float, front back glide, flutter kick and swim 15 metres continuously.

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Fri Jul 17 Magic:The Gathering - Pioneer Format 6:00 PM Titan Gaming Cafe

Tuesdays Habit HIIT - 30 Min HIIT 12:15 PM Habit Health and Wellness Tailored this class for ALL fitness levels, email coachkristies@gmail.com for more info.

Wednesdays Bike Nights! 3:00 PM Mount Sima Each operational bike day will have two time slots, each 3 hours long, with a maximum of 50 available tickets per slot. You must register in advance!

Registration will close 48hrs before each Bike Night.

Wednesdays Spinning with Penny 4:30 PM Better Bodies Cross training Centre A slow, steady workout with an emphasis on hard resistance work. Call 633-5425 for more info.

Thursdays Habit HIIT - 30 Min HIIT 12:15 PM. Habit Health and Wellness Tailored this class for ALL fitness levels, email coachkristies@gmail.com for more info.

Thu Jul 16 Intro to Lake Paddling 4:00 PM Yukan Canoe Register online or by calling 667-2628 info@yucancanoe. com Fri Jul 17 Strong by Zumba with Lynda 6:00 AM Better Bodies Cross training Centre Combines high intensity interval training with the science of Synced Music Motivation. Call 633-5245 for more info.

Fri Jul 17 Golden Horn Judo 3:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary

Wednesdays

Porter Creek Step meeting (CM) CLOSED 8:00 PM Our Lady of Victory No Puffin (CM, NS) -CLOSED 8:00 PM Hellaby Hall – 4th & Elliott Street Thursdays The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance.

Polar Group (OM) 7:30 PM Zoom Room contact – aapolargroup@gmail.com Fridays The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance

Fri Jul 17 Intro to Moving Water 6:00 PM Yukan Canoe Learn skills to safely enjoy many of our Yukon Rivers. Register online or by calling 667-2628 info@yucancanoe. com

Yukon Unity Group Meeting 1:30 PM Zoom Room – Contact 334-7693

Fri Jul 17 Whitewater Fundamentals 6:00 PM Yukan Canoe Register online or by calling 667-2628 info@yucancanoe.com

Saturdays

Fri Jul 17 Lapie River Extravaganza 6:00 PM Yukan Canoe Register online or by calling 667-2628 info@yucancanoe. com Sat Jul 18 ShredHer Women’s Enduro Race Connect with other women and supports, let’s get outside and take care of our mental health, this event is for fun! Hang out after for pizza and prizes!

Register via shredhers facebook page.

Sat Jul 18 zFit with Jennifer 10:00 AM Better Bodies Cross training Centre Call 633-5245 for more info.

Fri Jul 24 Strong by Zumba with Lynda 6:00 AM Better Bodies Cross training Centre Combines high intensity interval training with the science of Synced Music Motivation. Call 633-5245 for more info.

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Sat Jul 25 zFit with Jennifer 10:00 AM Better Bodies Cross training Centre Call 633-5245 for more info.

Fri Jul 31 Strong by Zumba with Lynda 6:00 AM Better Bodies Cross training Centre Combines high intensity interval training with the science of Synced Music Motivation. Call 633-5245 for more info.

Fri Jul 31 Golden Horn Judo 3:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary Sat Aug 1 zFit with Jennifer 10:00 AM Better Bodies Cross training Centre Call 633-5245 for more info.

Whitehorse Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM Hellaby Hall - 4th and Elliott Street

Detox Meeting (OM, NS) 1:00 PM, Zoom Room – contact 334-7693 Hospital Meeting Whitehorse General Hospital (OM NS) 7:00 pm - Hellaby Hall – 4th & Elliott Street Sundays Detox Meeting (OM NS) 1:00 PM 1:00 PM, Zoom Room – contact 334 7693 Hospital Meeting (OM NS) 7:00 PM Hellaby Hall – 4th & Elliott Street Mondays The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance New Beginnings Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM Hellaby Hall – 4th & Elliott Street Tuesdays The Joy Of Living group (OM, NS) 12:00 noon 305 Wood Street -Back Entrance Ugly Duckling Group (OM, NS) 8:00 PM 6210 - Hellaby Hall – 4th & Elliott Street Juste Pour Aujourd’hui (OM, NS) -CLOSED 7:00 PM 205 Black Street Suite 120 Phone: AA 1-888-453-0142 (24 hours a day)

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Fri Jul 10 Available Light Cinema at Home The Assistant In temporary lieu of gathering in brick and mortar theatres, YFS invites you to watch ALC-curated screenings from the safety of your home. Visit YFS website to order.

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Fri Jul 10 Online: Northern Youth Got Talent Capture yourself by video or photo doing a special skill or talent of yours. Be creative. Send us your submissions by email info@yukonyouth. com. Win some great prizes.

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Fri Jul 10 Available Light Cinema at Home White Lie In temporary lieu of gathering in brick and mortar theatres, YFS invites you to watch ALC-curated screenings from the safety of your home. Visit YFS website to order.

Wed Jul 15 Online: Mindful MorningsReturning to Mindfulness (advanced) Try different types of mindfulness practice including guided meditation, body scan, mindful walking and sensory awareness. Call 668-6429 for more info.

Wed Jul 15 Online: Vinyasa Live with Heather Engage your body & mind in this movement meditation. Classes are held through Zoom, email breathoflifeyukon@gmail.com for more info.

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Mon Jul 20 Teslin Adult Fitness Zoom Hour Call or FB Messenger for this weeks zoom address.

Tue Jul 21 Online: Gentle Yoga Live with Karen For all levels, appropriate for those who want a softer, nurturing, slow-paced, wellsupported and relaxing practice whether your a beginner or well seasoned. Online classes are by donation.. Email breathoflifeyukon@gmail. com for more info.

Tue Jul 21 Online: Intermediate Meditation with Ruth Lera Deepen your meditation practice, offered through Zoom, free of charge.

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Wed Jul 22 Online: Vinyasa Live with Heather Engage your body & mind in this movement meditation. Classes are held through Zoom, email breathoflifeyukon@gmail.com for more info.

Wed Jul 22 Yukonstruct Society AGM Reach out to board president Glenn Piwowar if you are interested and would like to discuss further (Glenn@yukonstruct.com)

Thu Jul 16 Online: Mindful MorningsReturning to Mindfulness (advanced) Try different types of mindfulness practice including guided meditation, body scan, mindful walking and sensory awareness. Call 668-6429 for more info.

Wed Jul 22 Online: Yukon Avalanche Association AGM Learn about our initiatives, meet our board of directors, and get involved/ run for a board position. Email programs@ yukonavalanche.ca for more info.

Fri Jul 17 Online: Mindful MorningsReturning to Mindfulness (advanced) Try different types of mindfulness practice including guided meditation, body scan, mindful walking and sensory awareness. Call 668-6429 for more info.

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Thu Jul 16 Online: Hatha Live with Kait Move mindfully through a balance of standing and seated postures, closing our practice with a short meditation. Classes are held through Zoom, email breathoflifeyukon@gmail.com for more info.

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Fri Jul 17 Online: Bhangra Fitness with Gurdeep Pandher Donation-based online bhangra dance-fitness classes. Sign up online.

Thu Jul 23 Online: Hatha Live with Kait Move mindfully through a balance of standing and seated postures, closing our practice with a short meditation. Classes are held through Zoom, email breathoflifeyukon@gmail.com for more info.

Thu Jul 23 Music Yukon AGM Board election, year-end reports, update on ongoing and future projects, we will be meeting online via Zoom.

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Fri Jul 24 Online: Morning Vinyasa with Heather Core strengthening to awaken your inner peaceful warrior, and start the day as your most authentic self.. Classes are held through Zoom, email breathoflifeyukon@gmail.com for more info.

Fri Jul 24 Online: Bhangra Fitness with Gurdeep Pandher Donation-based online bhangra dance-fitness classes. Sign up online.

Mon Jul 27 Teslin Adult Fitness Zoom Hour Call or FB Messenger for this weeks zoom address.

Tue Jul 28 Online: Gentle Yoga Live with Karen For all levels, appropriate for those who want a softer, nurturing, slow-paced, wellsupported and relaxing practice whether your a beginner or well seasoned. Online classes are by donation.. Email breathoflifeyukon@gmail. com for more info.

Wed Jul 29 Online: Vinyasa Live with Heather Engage your body & mind in this movement meditation. Classes are held through Zoom, email breathoflifeyukon@gmail.com for more info.

Wed Jul 29 Online: Weekly Meditation Circle Deepen your meditation practice, offered through Zoom, free of charge. To register email bhill@yukon.cmha.ca.

Wed Jul 29 Free Online Restorative Healing Circles An online Restorative Healing circle.

If you’d like to take part in this Group Healing, please call or email for the Zoom link and password to log in.

Thu Jul 30 Online: Hatha Live with Kait Move mindfully through a balance of standing and seated postures, closing our practice with a short meditation. Classes are held through Zoom, email breathoflifeyukon@gmail.com for more info.

Fri Jul 31 Online: Morning Vinyasa with Heather Core strengthening to awaken your inner peaceful warrior, and start the day as your most authentic self.. Classes are held through Zoom, email breathoflifeyukon@gmail.com for more info.

Sat Aug 1 CAFN Virtual General Assembly For more information about the GA email mjoe@ cafn.ca or call 634-5243 Mon Aug 3 Teslin Adult Fitness Zoom Hour Call or FB Messenger for this weeks zoom address.

Wed Aug 5 Online: Weekly Meditation Circle Deepen your meditation practice, offered through Zoom, free of charge. To register email bhill@yukon.cmha.ca.

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The BedRock Boozehounds racing their outhouse while cooking moose ribs through the streets of Dawson City PHOTO: submitted by KVA a wood fired BBQ replete with moose ribs cooking on it.

“It’s a wild time and it’s something you can brag about to all your friends and family for years to come. People love decorating their outhouse, being the centre of attention,” Robitaille said.

The race has changed over the years; it’s been a foot race, an obstacle course, a pub crawl and a knockout tournament, says Robitaille. The event had over 25 teams participating some years but today it’s more likely to see between 6-8 teams race.

Gary Parker and Rose Lamb

Heading out to hit the outdoor head

The Great Klondike International Outhouse Race is a go

by Marina Osmond

T

he Klondike Visitor Association (KVA) is hosting one of its most beloved and ridiculous events, The Great Klondike International Outhouse Race on August 1 in Dawson City.

The Outhouse Race started in 1977 and takes place as a Labour Day event. Teams run their wheeled outhouse through a 5 KM route around Dawson City.

Paul Robitaille, marketing and events manager at KVA says, “It was definitely something cooked up between a few friends and a few pints. At the time, there weren’t as many events in the Yukon, especially running events so it was considered a fairly important event, for both those looking for a good time and for the serious runners in the territory.”

For this year, teams of four can sign up and decorate their outhouse with a theme. There are prizes for fastest team, best dressed and best cheer category where teams have to do a limerick following their run.

Robitaille’s favourite memory of the outhouse race was when his team ran the event barefoot, dressed as the Flintstones with

are experienced outhouse race enthusiasts and winners of many trophies over the years, which are proudly displayed in their functional outhouse.

The duo has participated since the very beginning, through the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and say the event was very competitive in the past. Some teams participating did weeks of pre-planning and training to win.

“Rose won a few fastest female team trophies, so she has bragging rights for life and I still have the winning limerick, “ said Gary. His winning limerick goes as follows:

The Long Drop Lament There’s a certain day every summer When we dress up like dumb and dumber We take our place At the start of the race And today is the day, what a bummer!

Our training regime is unique Hearty and hale at our peak We fill our jeans With cabbage and beans The other teams’ future is bleak!

To win in a breeze is our S B D plan You’re welcome to wave, but don’t be a fan We’ll make every pass Propelled by bad gas First to the finish and straight to the can!

No matter what happens we blew it So why, you may ask do we do it?

It’s not for the girls The fame or the pearls But what a relief when we’re through it!

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Your serenity is right here

Gary believes that if you’re a tourist with questions about the outhouse race, you’d have to see it to understand it, or better yet, do it!

Folks interested in taking part of this long standing tradition can visit www.dawsoncity.ca/events to join.

“Get your double bubble together and chew up the streets of Dawson!” says Robitaille.

Marina Osmond is a freelancer writer who draws inspiration from her off-grid cabin in West Dawson.

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Artemisia frigida, or pasture sage, is the plant I’m paying attention to right now. The matted, woolly clumps of silvery green leaves tend to grow on hillsides, in dry, disturbed ground, often in the same environments where crocuses are found.

In early June the plant starts to look more elegant, the woody stems growing greener and taller, and in mid to late June it sends up wands of small, pale yellow flowers. This is the time to pick, both flowers and leaves.

Of the many varieties of Artemisia that grow in the Yukon, pasture sage is the easiest to use in the kitchen. It’s aromatic without being bitter, it has sweet and savoury applications, it dries well and retains its potency for many months, if stored in a cool dark place. The flavour is reminiscent of both mint and summer savoury.

The Latin name derives from the Greek goddess Artemis, who amongst her many roles was considered the goddess of healing; several Artemisia species are used for their healing properties

by Indigenous peoples around the world. And frigida, of course, means cold. (One of the other common names for the plant is Arctic sage.)

As always, pick sparingly and consume carefully, until you’re sure you don’t have an intolerance. (It’s a member of the huge Asteraceae family; other food members include chicory, endive, artichokes, sunflowers.) Air-dry away from direct sunlight and

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Here’s another way to take a break from the world: make ice cream.

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A savoury-sweet ice-cold treat, made with an oft-overlooked Yukon herb, pasture sage

Sage and Honey Ice Cream Pasture sage and Yukon wildflower honey complement each other beautifully here—the sage takes on a fresh, almost minty character, and the honey delivers a sweet and complex finish. First you make a rich custard, then you chill the custard, then you freeze it. Start the recipe several hours or the day before you plan to serve.

Ingredients 1½ cups 35 percent cream 1½ cups 10 percent cream 2 Tbsp fresh pasture sage leaves and flowers 1 strip of lemon zest, 3 inches by 1 inch 3 egg yolks 1/3 cup wildflower honey Method • Pour the two creams into a medium-sized pot and stir in the sage and lemon zest. Bring the cream just to the boil over medium heat. Remove pot from the heat, cover and let steep for 30 minutes.

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• Strain the cream into a clean pot, pressing on the sage and lemon to extract their flavour.

Return the pot to the burner and heat cream until steam rises, whisking frequently.

• While the cream is heating, beat egg yolks in a heat-proof bowl until light in colour and thickened slightly, about two minutes.

• Gradually pour about ½ cup cream into the egg yolks, whisking constantly. Add yolk and cream mixture to the pot, stirring with a wooden spoon.

• Cook, stirring constantly, until the custard has thickened enough to coat the back of the spoon, from 3 to 5 minutes.

• Remove the custard from heat and stir in the honey. Pour the custard through a sieve into a clean bowl. Cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally, and refrigerate, covered, until thoroughly chilled, about 3 hours.

• Freeze in an ice cream maker, following the manufacturer’s instructions. Transfer to a clean bowl with a lid and place in the freezer to firm up for 1 to 2 hours. Remove from the freezer and allow to sit at room temperature or a few minutes before serving.

Makes about 3½ cups.

To make ice cream without a machine: Pour custard in a shallow dish. Freeze for 30 minutes, whisk vigorously to break up ice crystals, return to the freezer.

Repeat 5 times for a total of 2 ½ hours, then allow ice cream to freeze for 1 more hour.

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In the May issue of What’s Up Yukon, I brought you the third instalment of the series, and now I give you the fourth! This selection of cocktails is, you guessed it, inspired by gin, but really, it’s inspired by the Prohibition era cocktails of the Roaring Twenties. I was asked to teach a mixology class recently, one that would have a “1920 in 2020” theme, and I promise to deliver this class at Well Bread Culinary Centre as soon as those classes are given the green light.

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lutes the flavours more, and this cocktail is supposed to have some punch).

• 1 ½ oz gin • 1 ½ oz sweet vermouth • 2 dashes (2.5 ml) FernetBranca • 4 drops FPJ Orange Bitters • orange peel (approx. 1” wide by 2-3” long – use a vegetable peeler or paring knife)

Southside Here is another Prohibition-era cocktail that was designed to hide the nasty flavours of bathtub gin!

It’s a super tasty and refreshing libation. I have modified it by using turbinado syrup (instead of simple syrup made with refined white sugar) and by adding bitters, of course.

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2 oz gin 1 oz lime juice ½ oz turbinado syrup* 1 sprig of mint, plus mint leaf for garnish • 8 drops FPJ Cucumber-Mint Bitters

Add liquid ingredients to a mixing glass filled with ice. Stir until chilled, and then strain into a coupe.

Squeeze the orange peel while holding it just over the cocktail, and then add it to the glass.

The Bitter Earl (not pictured)

This creation is not a 1920s vintage cocktail, but one of my own creation. It fits in with this column’s gin theme. It also has the option of a mocktail variation, noted below. Cheers!

• 3 oz iced Earl Grey tea • 1 ½ oz Campari • 1 oz gin

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½ oz rich turbinado syrup* 5 drops FPJ Cranberry Bitters 2 oz soda water orange wedge

Combine the first 5 ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, and shake to chill. Strain into a tall glass with fresh ice, and top with soda water. Stir gently, add a paper straw, and garnish with an orange wedge.

Mocktail Variation: Double the iced tea and rich syrup, and omit the Campari and gin. Squeeze the orange wedge into the mocktail, and drop it into the glass.

*Turbinado Syrup / Rich Turbinado Syrup • ½ cup turbinado sugar (to make rich syrup, use 1 cup of turbinado sugar, for a 2:1 ratio) • ½ cup water Add sugar and water to a small saucepan; heat over medium heat, stirring frequently, just until the mixture comes to a simmer. Stir until sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat, and let cool. Pour syrup into a clean jar, label, and store in the refrigerator. It will keep for up to 2 weeks. *A few notes on alcohol consumption: these cocktails are strong, and they should be consumed in moderation; one serving of spirits is 1 ½ oz. A good rule of thumb is to have a glass of water for every alcoholic beverage. Cheers!

Combine all ingredients except garnish in a cocktail shaker with ice, and shake until chilled. Strain into a cocktail glass, and garnish with a mint leaf.

Hanky-Panky This one originated in 1925 at the renowned Savoy Hotel – head bartender Ada Coleman created it for actor Charles Hawtrey, who said when he first tried the cocktail, “By Jove! That is the real hanky-panky!” I have taken the liberty of adding some orange bitters to this already bitter creation. Also, I prefer it stirred as opposed to shaken (shaking it di-

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Riding Alone Together for Dad

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his has been a tough year for summer festivities in the Yukon. Some of the territory’s most well-attended and anticipated events have been cancelled, while others have gone virtual or scaled back. One of the summer’s most popular fundraisers, the Ride for Dad, has undergone some changes in response to COVID-19.

This is a milestone year for the ride, which is marking its 10th anniversary in the territory and 20th year nationally. The pandemic has definitely altered anniversary plans, but it has in no way dampened the spirits of organizers.

Instead, they’ve turned this pandemic year into an opportunity for chapters across Canada to join forces like never before.

“This year has become about ensuring everyone’s safety, keeping the momentum going in prostate cancer awareness and fundraising, and national unity amongst all of the Ride for Dad chapters,” explained Yukon Ride for Dad’s Sean Secord.

“Although there are many communication channels amongst the chapters and the national head of-

fice…for the most part the chapters function in silos. This year’s Ride Alone Together campaign has allowed the whole country to partake in an initiative together.”

The Ride Alone Together (RAT) campaign encourages motorcyclists to go solo and respect physical distancing requirements, while being unified in their efforts to fundraise for prostate cancer re-

search and awareness. The Yukon team has already raised almost $12,000, not bad for a small chapter (Ontario is currently at around $37,000).

Secord doesn’t seem surprised by the success of the campaign so far. “Yukoners are incredibly generous and stand behind a cont’d on page 19...

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“There are several much bigger chapters and rides across the country that repeatedly look to the Yukon in amazement that we raise more money with a much smaller population in an area where the summer riding season is the shortest.”

He is also quick to point out that no matter what the format, the event is about saving lives.

Realizing this, participants and sponsors were quick to adapt to a virtual ride.

“We were late in getting messages out to our riders and supporters as we were trying to abide by the request to keep national messages consistent,” Secord said. “However, in the meantime, we had so many people calling, emailing, and stopping board members to ask what was going on. The excitement and support we have felt has been overwhelming and appears to be able to weather any changes or challenges.”

The Ride Alone Together also helps build momentum for the 10th anniversary Ride for Dad which will take place at Shipyards Park on Saturday, August 8.

If all goes according to plan, the day-long celebration will feature “bike games, entertainment and comradery” including a parade through Whitehorse and a ride

Ride for Dad to Dawson participants walk past the line of bikes near Carmacks

around the Tagish Loop. Organizers hope to end with food trucks in the park.

However, Secord cautions that all these plans depend on the vagaries of COVID-19, and organizers are prepared to “go with the flow.” Safety is the ultimate goal, so the event will be subject to physical distancing and whatever else may be required.

The pandemic reality also means that expectations have adjusted. While organizers one day hope to break the 200 rider mark, they recognize 2020 is not the year to reach that goal.

But while this year might not set any records, but for Secord it’s remarkable for other reasons: “I think that what is being highlighted this year is people’s generosity and ability to roll with the changes. It is not about a parade or a ride. It is about awareness and funding innovative research so that we can keep men thinking about their prostate health – get checked to help find prostate cancer early when it’s fully treatable, and help fund research that will lead to better, more specific blood tests and screening approaches.”

Between RAT and the annual Ride for Dad, organizers hope to raise $1,000,000 across Canada in 2020. Since its national founding 20 years ago, the Ride has raised over $33 million. In its 10-year existence, the Yukon chapter has brought over $600,000.

“This money has allowed prostate cancer research to go

Ride for Dad participants burning into Dawson City in new directions and the projects that Yukon has contributed to are some of the most innovative in the world,” Secord said.

“The awareness and fundraising [achieved] through Ride for Dad can be directly tied to the decreasing prostate cancer mortality rates seen in recent years.

However, we still have a ways to go, and we’re very excited to be involved in research endeavours that may see substantial positive changes in cancer mortality in the near future.”

Secord’s overall message is one of optimism, resilience and community. It’s clear that COVID-19 has not derailed Ride for Dad’s efforts to make prostate cancer deaths a thing of the past.

“We are all in a pandemic together, but are staying apart for safety. Ride for Dad participants can continue to raise funds and keep the conversations going, and be safe in small rides, knowing that across the country, our Ride for Dad brothers and sisters are doing the same thing for the same reasons - Riding Alone Together.”

Folks interested in supporting the Ride for Dad can register or donate online at www.RideforDad.ca.

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Dee Bailey is a Whitehorsebased artist who specializes in creating highly detailed landscape paintings out of oil-based modelling clay, says Katie Newman of Arts Underground. Due to ongoing health and social-distancing concerns, there will be no opening reception, but Dee is planning to offer private tours by request throughout the month.

Arts Underground is now open to the public, with COVID-19 operational procedures in place

to ensure visitors and staff stay safe and healthy, says Newman.

The facility now has multiple hand sanitizer stations set up, and staff are disinfecting all high traffic surfaces regularly, including after every transaction at the sales desk. Visitors are asked to practice safe social distancing and keep a 2-metre distance from all others in the gallery. Capacity is limited, with only one person admitted into the art supplies shop at a time.

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Travelling Light with Aimée Dawn Robinson

The Empress Will Lead the Way

Examining our relationships to current events

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What could be more generous and to the point?

Before we dive into the rich world of The Empress, I’d like to offer a little background on my Tarot illustrations, as shown here.

I do not photograph my Tarot cards, nor other items of spiritual practice. So, to show you the Tarot, I have to draw the Tarot!

Drawing with chalk suits the temporal aspects of divination. Cleaning the slate becomes part of the process.

Rider-Waite Coleman-Smith, first published in 1910.

Question: What do we, collectively and as individuals, need to ask ourselves about our relationships to the current (and very challenging) events of the world?

Astrological Circumstances: I cast the reading on July 2nd, during the Waxing Gibbous Moon in Sagittarius in a cloud of sweetgrass and white sage in the evening, with healing intentions. May it harm none.

The Card: The Empress. Tarot Card III (3) of the Major Arcana. (rulership Venus, Taurus, Libra)

Physical Description: Card Three, The Empress, shows a serenely radiant figure on a velvety throne, surrounded by wheat and other grain crops, in a setting of natural abundance. In my drawing of the card, I clothed The Empress figure in the finery of

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The Empress leads us to seek the wisdom of the women in our lives while we examine our core values my grandparents, with the heavily adorned wheat and rose crown (pártás) of my family’s region. The headdress is connected to an even older tradition of wearing antlers for ceremonies and gatherings.

Over time, elaborate embroidery and embellishments replaced the antlers, still symbolizing creativity, fertility, the archetype of the feminine - all things we encounter with The Empress card in the Tarot.

Metaphysical Description: Ruled by Venus, The Empress brings our core values to the table. We are advised to examine our deepest values. What is most important to you and why? What are you nurturing and why? What attitudes can you stop nurturing?

Major Arcana III relates to: all Goddess archetypes including Mary Mother of God, creativity, abundance, fertility, mothering, pregnancy. What is your relationship to matriarchy? What do women you love advise you to do and what to value?

The shadow sides of The Empress include: the suppression of female energy and imbalanced val-

Seek and listen to the advice of experienced women. Embrace and re-balance the feminine principle, in your ways of protest and all other parts of life. Examine your core values. Recognize and find abundance and distribute wealth according to your core values. Find where luxury and complacency lie and manage those pockets of wealth into available resources for what you care to nurture. Find utter creativity even in the dark.

Remember how sacred is the act of birth, and the life that follows.

Value women and follow their lead.

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Chaplin has the most beautiful blue eyes. He is a warm and loving dog who is good with dogs and cats and older kids. He greets you softly and loves affection. He loves to run and requires a lot of exercise.

Chaplin would be a wonderful hiking and camping companion, and an active family with older kids or an adventurous couple or single who loves to get out and explore the outdoors would be an ideal placement for him. He is an eager companion, and is also trained for skijoring, so he’s an all season sports enthusiast.

He does have a tendency to jump fences so he would need some training and good supervision.

For more info, please call the Humane Society Yukon at 633-6019.

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Grey Matters with Lillian Nakamura Maguire

An old skill re-learned?

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e’ve all been going through the COVID adjustments. I’ve had more time to pursue some of my interests such as writing, painting, gardening, and hiking but also to get back to some old interests - like biking.

I used to ride a motorcycle many years ago, but that’s not the kind of biking I’m talking about here. I mean the pedaling kind, the hard slog up the steep trails and the heart-pounding race to get back home. You know the kind; when you do get back and standing on two legs, they feel a bit rubbery and you wonder how you’re going to manage to get your leg over or through the opening to the other side of the bike– gracefully. Well, let me tell you for a 71 year old, who hasn’t ridden a bicycle for about 20 years; it takes a bit of getting used to.

Training in fact.

I got into this training as a result of a bit of free-wheeling family discussion about what to do physically during this isolation period. We were doing lots of great walking around the trails on our property and the surrounding area, but I found myself thinking about what it would be like to be able to explore more widely, but not on a noisy motorized bike. I got my wish on Mother’s Day when my son presented me with a vintage Kuwahara women’s mountain bike that he recycled and refurbished from the local landfill! You’d be surprised at the treasures that can be salvaged from the local dump.

What a find! After a new seat, oil on the chain, adjustment of gears, new hand grips and even a purple bell - I was in business!

I have some friends who are in their 60’s and 70’s and they’ve done the Chilkat Bike Relay. Yes, there are some olders out there who are very physically fit. I know, you may be wondering if they’ve lost their marbles. No, they are not a bit daft - maybe obsessed, and that’s great. I have admiration for those who train for that

kind of challenging pursuit. But alas, I have set my own physical challenge to pursue, in my own 15.5-acre backyard.

People say that once you learn how to ride a bike, you never forget. I’m not so sure about that. I learned to ride a bike when I was about seven years old and that was a bike that I had to share with three other siblings who ranged in age from about nine to twelve.

along beside us until we were able to balance on our own. Sometimes we rode too fast so that our support person was left behind, and we crashed! Thankfully I haven’t had to recreate that sort of training today.

With today’s training, the first challenge for me was getting on the bike. My arthritic hip wouldn’t allow we to swing my leg over the seat or even to put my leg

heading off. The two times when I fell down and bruised my arm, scraped my knee, and cut the back of my lower leg on the pedal were precisely when I was trying to find that sweet spot! I think my pride suffered more than my body.

I was glad that no one saw me fall, although they were close enough to hear my call if I needed some help. Getting up and getting back on to try again was tough!

Riding and changing gears was another challenge to overcome. I found that the gears were a bit tight which made it difficult to change gears while maintaining my balance. With more practice and use, I can now shift and the gears seem to be moving more freely, although I still need to work on maintaining a straight path when I am shifting.

suggested that as I became more experienced, it would remove the joy of dodging and weaving through the trees on the winding trail.

Each day I take little steps to meeting the challenges of bike training. It’s a fine balance challenging myself to try new physical skills but also recognizing that my flexibility and strength are not as good as they used to be. Age is not an excuse to avoid the opportunity of re-learning and dusting off some old skills or teaching an old dog new tricks. Maybe my next challenge will be to test out one of those electric bikes.

Lillian Nakamura Maguire, a retired rural Whitehorse resident, enjoys writing plays, personal essays and haiku, and exploring other creative expressions.

Lillian Nakamura Maguire with the bike her son refurbished for her

You can imagine that the bike was not exactly the right fit for me, being the youngest at the time.

We practiced riding in the back alley with one of the older siblings holding on to the seat and running

It takes all my effort to get to the top of the driveway after a nice long coast downhill, and a gentle turn upward to the intersection with our side road. Maneuvering through the trails on the bumpy terrain and avoiding trees and stumps is another challenge. I remember the advice that my husband told me when I was learning to ride a motorcycle – look in the direction you want to go, not the direction you want to avoid. In other PHOTO: Lillian Nakamura Maguire words look at the trail ahead, not at the trees alongside the through the opening to the other trail. I suggested to my son that he side of the bike without having cut down some of the brush and to lay it on the ground first and trees on the narrow pathway. He then raise the bike. The next chal- reminded me that the surroundlenge was finding that sweet spot ing trees were one of the reasons where one can balance just before why we chose to live here. He also

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Sat Jul 25 Live Music at the Village Bakery - Featuring Cafe Des Voix 7:00 PM Village Bakery and Deli Delicious food, live music, call 634-2867 for more information. Covid-19 protocols followed.

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Sun Aug 2 St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Christopher’s Church Service Info: Mark Ritchie 634-2943 Wed Aug 5 Village of Haines Junction Council Meeting 7:00 PM St Elias Convention Centre Fri Aug 7 Friday Night Salmon Bake Featuring Marco Claveria 6:00 PM Village Bakery and Deli Delicious food, live music, call 634-2867 for more information. Covid-19 protocols followed.

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uly 22 is National Hot Dog Day (which is, apparently, a thing) and why celebrate with just any ol’ meat on a bun when you could have one made with locally raised pork? Support a farmer, love your butcher. There’s more to hot dog’s, however, than just the Oscar Meyer Weiner song and oodles of ketchup; making a (quality, locally made, from hand) hot dog or sausage is actually a lot more complicated than you might think.

A quality sausage starts with quality meat, and Tum Tum’s Black Gilt Meats uses pork exclusively from either Can Do Farms or Fox Ridge Farms, says Simone Rudge, who, along with Graham and Tom Rudge, own and operate the shop. In addition to supporting local farmers and creating healthy working relationships with them, using these two farms as the basis for all their pork products means that they know not only the health and breed of the animals they’re using, but that the animals are well-cared for and happy, says Simone.

The Rudges know the pigs so well, in fact, that they use animals from one farm or another based on what they’re making, says Simone; pork from Can Do farms is best suited to high-fat products, such as Tum Tum’s

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Graham Rudge, who does much of the butchering at the family-owned Tum Tum’s Black Gilt Meats, really loves his rolling hanger system Toulouse sausage, where as Fox Ridge pork tends to be leaner, and makes wonderful cured products.

Fun fact: female pigs make better salami or other cured meats than male pigs, says Simone, as their flesh naturally has a higher acidity than male pigs.

Once a pig has been slaughtered, cleaned and halved, it gets broken into primals, and then into the fancier cuts (chops, tenderloin, roasts). Some parts of the animal make better sausage than cont’d on page 31 ...

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Locally raised, locally made ... cont’d Frankfurters are the style of hot dogs Tum Tum’s makes, largely because it turns out making North American “hot dogs” is a wildly labour intensive process, says Graham (probably why it’s usually done in factories, and not in family-run butcher shops, where hands, time and space are all limited). Frankfurters are (slightly) less labour intensive, says Graham, as they don’t involve painstakingly hand-tying off the casings to make sure you don’t get “one long sausage coil” and then cutting the casing off each individual sausage, the way hot dogs do.

Graham is a stickler for the details, one of the most important being control over a very import-

Graham “hams it up” with the meat grinder others, says Graham, who does much of the butchering, including making the sausages, of which the shop produces about 60 Kg a week.

“You really want a nice mix of meat and fat,” says Graham.

After the animal is broken down and the sausage meats selected, they are put twice through the grinder; on the second run through, ice is added, which gets crushed along with the meat and adds in much-needed moisture, which prevents the sausage from going all crumbly and falling apart when you cook it, says Graham.

Most sausages end up at about 10 per cent water, he adds, but hot dogs and other extra-soft, thicktextured products, such as liverwurst, are up to 30 per cent.

You can’t just jam any old meat and spices into a sausage casing and expect it to come out plump, delicious and juicy though; along with the water, salt is a key component in getting your sausages to have the proper texture (and taste) Graham notes. Similar to the way kneading bread helps gluten -- a protein -- development in bread, salt helps break down proteins in meat, altering and improving the texture of the finished product.

Hotdogs differ a little bit from sausages in the final stages, and get turned over into the bowl cut-

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“If you want any sort of sausage with a nice, creamy, smooth texture, you put it through the bowl cutter,” says Graham. “You can do it through the grinder - if you do it over and over and over - but it’s a pain, and very messy.”

“At the end it looks kind of like a pink pudding - a lovely, pink, Frankfurter pudding,” Graham laughs.

Once the meat is ground and seasoned -- Tum Tums has a entire back room wall dedicated to individual spices, so that they can not only control exactly what goes into the product, but make up blends on the fly for custom orders, Graham notes -- it gets put into another machine, which stuffs the selected casings. What happens from there depends on what kind of sausage is being made - sometimes they’re be smoked, or left to cure, for example -- but for hotdogs, there’s a couple

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ant facet of hotdog consumption; bun to meat ratio.

“We make the Frankfurters seven inches long, so that -- in real Frankfurter style -- you should have, like, an inch of sausage sticking out either end of the bun. Getting the right sausageto-bun ratio is important because there’s nothing worse than taking a bite out of a hotdog and just getting a mouthful of bread and condiments. That is, just, like unacceptable, absolutely unacceptable,” he says with a laugh.

Apparently, Tum Tum’s customers agree; their seven-inch dogs are so popular that they sell out almost as fast as they can make them. This interview took place

shortly after Canada Day -- prime BBQ season -- and the shop was utterly bereft of even a single Frankfurter.

“We make a batch and within a week, they’re gone,” says Graham.

Tum Tum’s Black Gilt Meats is located next to the Takhini Hot Springs Rd cut off on the Klondike Highway. More information can be found at http://www. tumtumsmeats.yukonfood.com.

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Wildlife can mean slightly different things depending on where you look. For me, wildlife ranges from the tiniest of ticks found on elk to behemoth bowheads off the Yukon’s north shore. It includes fireweed, aspen, and the photogenic prairie crocus that floods our social media feeds every spring.

Wildlife is for me, anything that is wild and is alive, so all the flora and fauna found in the territory.

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ant because this definition applies to only a specific group of animals.

For plants, insects, and fish we have to look elsewhere.

That’s where ‘Species At Risk’ comes up. Canada passed legislation called the Species At Risk Act in 2002 which provides legal protections for species deemed at risk and works together with existing legislation, like the Yukon Wildlife Act. A recent study by the Nature Conservancy of Canada found that there are at least 308 species of plants and animals that only exist in Canada. That means that if they were to go extinct here, they would cease to exist completely.

Forty three of those species are here in the Yukon, with almost half of those existing only here. The Yukon, together with BC, Alberta & Quebec, is considered one of Canada’s “hot spots” for unique wildlife.

And so, with all the work being done to better understand Canada’s biodiversity, ‘Species At Risk’ has become a common phrase that refers to any species whose population has dropped so low that it needs help recovering, or any species whose population is on its way to these dangerously low levels. An expert-led committee called the

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Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) reviews ecological information and Indigenous knowledge on different species across Canada and groups them into the following categories: • • • • • •

Not At Risk Special Concern Threatened Endangered Extirpated (extinct locally) Extinct (globally)

So where do bears rank on this scale? Black bears (like the one I saw last week) are listed as “Not At Risk” meaning they are generally secure in their population. Grizzly bears, however, are listed as “Special Concern.” The Government of Yukon addressed this by creating a conservation plan for grizzly bears in Yukon, which was released in October 2019.

A key component of the Species At Risk Act and the Wildlife Act is having accurate population information. Many biologists are interested in gathering information, especially with population trends being affected by human activity, climate change, and introduction of invasive species. Baseline data is crucial, but can be difficult to obtain. That’s where community sci-

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Overall, we’re quite lucky to have apparently stable populations of many iconic Yukon species. Species at risk are something that we will have to continue to see the world change drastically around us. Having a good understanding of population numbers, working on creating and implementing recovery plans for species that are in decline, and staying in touch with the environment around us will go a long way in ensuring we avoid any grisly situations.

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Currently, a local scientist, Lucile Fressigné is working on a community science project to get updated bear population numbers.

Her work revolves around analyzing bear scat in certain areas in and around Whitehorse. You can learn about the project and pick up a test kit at the CPAWS office if you’re interested in participating.

We also spoke a little about community science with our Yukon Spring Nature Challenge. With over 6000 observations catalogued across the territory, this kind of data can help scientists check for trends in population numbers and distributions. It’s also cool to see observations of uncommon or rare species. For example, the flowering plant Yukon Draba (Special Concern) was observed twice as well as a few Barn Swallows (Threatened), and some Transverse Lady Beetles (Special Concern). These observations help add to the foundation of information to help us make informed decisions about the environment around us.

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With his long-awaited debut album, Eclipse, now out, Whitehorse progressive metal musician Rick Massie is creating a web series about the album’s influences

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t just hit me—I need this back.”

Rick Massie hadn’t played guitar or any other instrument for around 15 years before he started working on his debut solo album. He claims he never really

prioritized music, and though he played in all kinds of bands when he was younger, he drifted further and further away from it, as other commitments like work and family started to come before it.

Eclipse came out in early May,

after nearly three years in the works. Though Massie himself speaks humbly about his work, the conceptual record is nothing short of a triumph. The process didn’t come without its challenges, but Massie was driven to power

through them.

“My fingers were out of shape and I was out of practice,” he said. “But I could hear what I wanted in my head.”

Massie took a unique approach when it came to making his music.

Because he hadn’t played in so long, in addition to writing and recording, he had to practice in order to get his playing up to par.

Rather than doing exercises to get his hands back into the feel and regain his muscle memory, he immediately set about laying down ideas for his record. Massie says the course of writing and recording doubled as his practice to relearn how to play.

Eclipse is entirely a solo album; all the instruments, vocals, programming, mixing and mastering were done by Massie himself, with some advice from musicians he reached out to online, and some suggestions from his 10-year-old daughter, Aila, who is incredibly musically talented herself.

Though it deals with dark themes, Eclipse’s message is ultimately a hopeful one, and the album’s progression reflects an inner journey for Massie. A vast array of musical influences are shown off throughout the eight tracks, but the lyrics come entirely from a personal place, without drawing from external sources.

Though it incorporates a plethora of stylistic elements, Eclipse at its core is a progressive metal album, and was musically in-

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After being surprised and thrilled with the positive reception he received with Eclipse, Massie has started a web series to elaborate on how the songs came to be. Called Eclipse Influences, the series of short videos can be seen on Massie’s YouTube channel.

Massie uploaded the first episode May 17, and will be releasing a new one each Sunday, with eight in total. Each episode delves into a different song and explains the musical, lyrical and mood-driven inspirations behind it.

Though the songs on Eclipse can be interpreted differently by different listeners, Massie wanted some way to be able to give some artist insight for those interested in what was going on in his mind when he wrote and recorded these songs.

Though he spent years working on Eclipse, Massie was in no rush to release the album once it was completed. He wanted to make sure he had enough time to lay out a promotional plan, in order for the album to get some attention upon its release.

Massie took a personal approach when it came to promoting his music, opting to build connections and have real conversations with people about music and their inspirations, rather than spamming anyone he could find with sponsored posts and pre-written advertisement messages. This paid off, as Massie was able to make personal connections and see first-hand how someone else can enjoy the music that is so personal to him, which he wasn’t necessarily expecting.

“I’m not in this for the money,” he said. “I’ve written an album I consider to be completely unmarketable. This is kind of like therapy for me.”

Eclipse is available to listen to on all streaming platforms. CD copies can be ordered on Massie’s Bandcamp page.

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