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ukon Artists @ Work (YA@W) continues to host the Artists in the Window series through to the first week of September.

At the time of writing this, five artists had completed their stints in the window, making interesting artworks, as well as conversations and connections.

Marie-Hélène Comeau turned the front windows of YA@W into a mock real estate office, pinning up images of the houses that have disappeared from downtown Whitehorse since 2009, eliciting memories from visitors to inform the paintings of houses she’s making for a shared show with Virginie Hamel in November in the solo show room at Yukon Artists @ Work.

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using pop rivets, as part of her environmentally-informed art practice which includes championing the reuse of materials.

Lillian Loponen shared stories of her long career as a Yukon artist including her time in Keno City as she created a series of portraits on her tablet, as part of a course to develop skill not only in portraiture but in the Procreate app.

Then Dennis Shorty came in from Ross River with his partner, Jennifer Froeling. He worked in copper and antler, and attracted many visitors, including fellow Indigenous artist Mark Preston, and others.

Amber Church, fresh back from paddling the Hart River, demonstrated the way she uses art to blend her admiration of beautiful Canadian landscapes with her knowledge of the forces that

threaten those environments.

We were able to host nonmembers Shorty and Church because of support from Yukon Arts Fund and Music Yukon. We were part of the adaptation of the Arts in the Park to COVID-19 realities.

Window artists also attended the Arts in the Park finale at Shipyards Park. The sunshine and music made it feel like a music festival. The group of artists demonstrating and exhibiting their work added a high note to that festival vibe. Loponen, Shorty and Froeling, Comeau, Church, and Dee Bailey all came out.

Bailey was the artist in the window the first week of August, exploring different kinds of clay for her three-dimensional painting practice, as well as her new sculptural works. cont’d on page 3 ...

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On the Cover contact Nicole Bauberger, 668 1577, or nbauberger@yahoo.com.

Nicole Bauberger is a painter, writer and performer living in Whitehorse.

Martha Jane Ritchie creating PHOTO: Chris Ritchie

PHOTO: Martha Jane Ritchie

Zoom artist talk with her, Thursday August 20 at 6:30 pm.

You can see her work featured in the window until Monday August 25. Watch for Jackie Irvine painting in the window starting August 26. The Artists in the Window series continues until September 4, with Jeanine Baker the first week of September.

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RItchie’s “The Bench” Beginning August 11, Martha Jane Ritchie will be relief printing in the window with a rice paddle, exploring how to recreate her exhibition postponed last spring, contrasting different kinds of solitudes.

Ritchie spent four and a half months last winter at the Ted Harrison Artists’ Retreat near Carcross. Out of this time of chosen isolation and work, Ritchie planned three exhibitions.

Then COVID-19 struck. Only the exhibition at Arts Underground saw the light of day.

Ritchie’s show at the YA@W gallery has been rescheduled for October 2020. She will spend her time in the window mulling over how to adapt it to our changing times.

Come talk with Ritchie about your experiences as she prints

and plans Tuesday to Saturday, 11-2 pm. You can also register for a Zoom artist talk with her, Thursday August 13 at 6:30 pm.

Drop by YA@W, call 393 4848, or email yaaw@artlover.com to register.

The following week, Chelsea Ravensdale will be carving in the window or in the tent outside.

She hopes to bring some pieces to completion that she’s been working on for a long time.

Ravensdale plans to install a larger picture-carving created in antler. This is a larger piece of antler than she usually works with, about two feet wide and a foot and a half tall.

For this demonstration, she will be using a foredom, which is a heavy-duty, more versatile version of a dremel.

Ravensdale will be demonstrating in the Yukon Artists @ Work window August 19-21, 11-2 pm. You can also register for a

Selina Heyligers-Hare works on her music at Miles Canyon during the Yukon Conservation Society’s Created at the Canyon event on July 24. Six artists took part. The artist’s works will be exhibited at the Yukon Energy Community Gallery in the Yukon Arts Centre Aug 20-Sept 30.

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she was surprised to see how much listeners were able to apply her lyrics to their own lives and situations, despite the words being personal, and often very specific, to Fritzen herself.

At the core of the music and the chronicling of Fritzen’s experiences, there are messages that can be applied to any individual or the world as a whole. Themes of selflove, self-acceptance and repairing mistakes all come out in her lyrics, complementing the darker themes and giving them a hopeful perspective.

“I wanted to hear people tell my stories and hear me admit how badly I’ve failed, and know that even with all that shame and all those terrible failures, you can still cq5T ome back,” says Fritzen.

“In spite of making mistakes, you’re still worthy of love and you still deserve happiness.”

How to Say Sorry and Other Lessons consists of nine songs that Fritzen co-wrote with her fiancé, David Restivo. Five were recorded live at Fritzen’s Jazz in the Hall performance, and the other four were recorded at Selkirk College in Nelson, B.C. Fritzen was joined by a host of musicians and backup singers from Victoria for the sessions. Because of travel restrictions and the inability to tour, their plans as a combo were cut short.

This meant shows had to be cancelled and plans to tour Ontario were scrapped. Instead, Fritzen has devised new strategies to promote her new music without simply waiting until concerts and tours become feasible again.

With live shows being put on hold for an as-yet undetermined amount of time, performance art-

ists have been in a tough place, especially those who rely on touring as their main source of income.

Fritzen says she is lucky to have a day job that she was able to continue to work at, but still wasn’t willing to push aside her artistic life when she had looked forward to sharing her new music.

Livestream concerts have become a popular way for bands and artists to still “perform,” and Fritzen is working on presenting her own twist on the livestream show to celebrate her album’s release this summer. With the record dropping on Friday, August 21, Fritzen would have had her release concert the next evening. She’s committed to still making that happen, but the concert will instead be hosted over Zoom. By using Zoom as opposed to YouTube or Facebook, Fritzen is able to see her audience to make a better connection with them, almost as if she were performing for them in person.

The Zoom release concert will feature footage from Fritzen’s Jazz in the Hall show, filmed

by Brendon Preston of Something Shows, and will also involve Fritzen a n d Restivo performing in their living room.

“I think it’ll be cool and fun and a little different from what we’ve been seeing in terms of broadcast shows so far,” says Fritzen.

How to Say Sorry and Other Lessons comes out August 21 via Chronograph Records. Fritzen’s release show over Zoom will take place on August 22. Head over to www.fawnfritzen.com for more details.

Fawn Fritzen’s new album, How to Say Sorry and Other Lessons, drops Aug. 21

PHOTO: Submitted by Fawn Fritzen

Musicians in Isolation he next artist in our “Musicians in Isolation” series, Fawn Fritzen is coming out with a new album and a re-imagined promotional plan this summer Fawn Fritzen had originally planned on releasing her new album, How to Say Sorry and Other Lessons, in the spring and touring in support of it. But like so many other artists, she had her summer derailed by COVID-19 and had to completely reimagine her album release and promotional plan.

Fritzen had decided her third album should be all original material, and not include interpretations of jazz standards like her previous two records. The music for her new release had been floating around in her head for years as she gradually chipped away at writing new songs, but the real groundwork was laid in March of 2019 at a Jazz in the Hall show in which Fritzen was featured.

While Fritzen’s new music contains themes of guilt, shame and regret along with mostly personal lyrics about a broken marriage and the mistakes that led to it, she was also inspired by certain current events, like the #metoo movement, when writing.

“This is the kind of music I want to write, about these kinds of issues,” she says over Zoom from her living room. “These are things that affect all humans and that we need to have conversations about.”

Fritzen’s life was in a state of constant chaos when she started working on her new music. She says her invitation to be featured in a Jazz in the Hall show was the catalyst for writing these new songs, but she had been journaling and attending therapy already, and putting her experiences into lyrics and music seemed a natural next step.

After performing the new material, she knew she had to release it as an album as well.

“The music felt like a bed I could spring across or a cloud I could walk on,” she says.

Using her feelings to create music and help her out of the mental space in which she felt trapped was therapeutic for Fritzen, but

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Manus Hopkins is a Whitehorse- and Toronto-based journalism student, musician and lover of heavy metal and cats.

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Sid’s Treasures

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with Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé

id trudges through the falling snow to the tilted outhouse behind his home. The water for his house is still frozen and he has come to rely on the trusty 30plus year old outhouse. He gets a kick out of using it because the old wooden outhouse is slowly sinking into the ground.

“Someone should take a picture of me trying to get in this thing,” Sid says jokingly.

Sid reflects on the worldwide pandemic that is COVID-19 and our current reality. He said the only other time in his life when he felt stuck was during the War. As many of our readers know by now, Sid survived World War II as a child in the northern territory of the Netherlands.

“I have something to show you,” Sid explains to me one morning after he returns from his saunter to the outhouse. “It’s an old scrapbook by a nurse from the Second World War. She has pictures in here from the First War too, maybe she served in both.”

Sid brings out a massive red coloured scrapbook. He sets it down on the coffee table and I’m able to flip through it. “There’s letters in there and her nursing certificates,” he says. I turn the pages until I come across numerous letters and the nursing certificates of Katharine (Kathleen) Ferris.

was stay and get his wings. He is doing very well and will be going over soon.”

“I wonder who she was,” Sid says, learning more about the letter and the notes she has written in the scrapbook. Katharine was a graduate from the St. John Ambulance Association and received a special certificate in completing a “Lectures in Air Raid” from the St. John Ambulance Brigade in July of 1940. It appears from the story she tells in her scrapbook that she served in World War II as a registered nurse.

“Maybe one day we can find out more. They [nurses] were on the front lines back then and now,” reflects Sid.

The scrapbook is filled to the edges with photos of family members, nursing stations, and newspaper clippings of both world wars. “This scrap book is a good source of what happened during the War.” Because the scrapbook is old and falling apart at the seams, Sid finds an envelope and passes it to me. “Take this with you and see what you can make of it,” he instructs while handing me the envelop.

After much straining of the eyes, I was able to make out a letter addressed to Katharine from her father G.S. Ferris, an insurance broker and real estate agent living in Nanton, Alberta in 1940.

In one passage he writes: “Bobby Hunt, is now 21, and from his pictures is just Ernie over again. He is in the Air Force and has his wings: he had a good start as he had a course in the R.M.C. at Kingston before the war started and a year’s training with the Transcontinental Air Force. So all he had to do

Sid van der Meer has collected treasures all his life and this passion has given Beaver Creek’s its very own museum.

Here Sid recounts stories to his granddaughter, Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé.

Pictures and letters from Sid’s scrapbook, which originally belonged to a nurse who served in WWII PHOTOS: Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé

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Eye on the Outdoors with Murray Martin

Are beaver ponds wetlands?

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ince writing a column on wetlands, a question has come up for me—is a beaver pond considered a wetland? Wetland, as a term, defines four categories, including bog, marsh, swamp and fern. Singularly a beaver pond is neither, yet, in reality, it is all of these in one. Well then, is it natural? Actually no, as it is a constructed obstruction in a waterway, generally a flowing creek. But then a beaver is an animal of nature, is it not? The more I dig into the subject, the more confused I become, so let’s just say that a beaver pond is a unique ecosystem within itself and leave it at that.

Actually I have learned more from working with beavers and their ecosystem than I have from books. If you want to get into wildlife photography, there is no better schooling than setting yourself up in close approximation to beaver ponds. Take along some camouflage netting, make yourself a little tent and sit there patiently for some first-hand education.

The beaver is one of the most important animals to all wildlife.

Actually, of all the animals in North America, the beaver is the only species that can adapt the land to fit its needs. Of course, this is done

by building beaver dams and flooding nearby land to form the ponds in which they live.

I had such a beaver pond on my rural property back in north central Ontario. It was a small coldwater creek, but the beaver saw possibilities and built a tiny dam, flooding a pond about 100 yards long and 50 yards wide.

It was deep enough to maintain speckled trout. In the middle of the pond were two natural goose nests. Some old dead trees, hollowed out over the decades, were occupied by wood ducks.

Along the shallow shoreline, cattails, bulrushes and ferns grew.

There were weeded areas where other ducks made their nests.

The small beaver pond also held a couple muskrat houses where two families of muskrats made their home. Often, in early morning we could see a half dozen deer getting a drink of water, thanks to the beavers and their pond.

On the upper end of the beaver pond, where the waters were extremely shallow, more cattails were prominent. In the early morning we could hear the chirping of the red-winged blackbird and other such birds that were after the small insects inhabiting the

fern area. It was not uncommon to see a hawk perched up in one of the aspen trees, searching the waters of the beaver pond for a frog or other small aquatic species. Soon, berry bushes made an appearance on the upper side of the pond and the music of the robins and additional songbirds graced us daily.

Although I’m still not sure if a beaver pond can be satisfactorily classified as a wetland, there is no doubt a number one dynamic ecosystem within nature’s paradise. It creates a school yard for the amateur and professional photographer, and offers peace and security in the Canadian wilderness.

I leave you with this thought: “We would do well to review our record on the environment and to ponder what we will leave the true owners of all this, the generation yet to be born!”

Eye On The Outdoors columnist Murray Martin is a former Ontario conservation officer and a long standing member of The Outdoor Writers of Canada.

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Whitehorse EVENTS ART SHOWS Until Sat Aug 15 The Last Ice Show by Rick Zuran Yukon Arts Centre A selftaught part-time amateur photographer/ artist and a professional geologist based in the southern Yukon. Viewings are by appointment only, book online. Whitehorse Until Sat Aug 22 Seen from Afar: A COVID-19 En Plein Air Festival Yukon Artists at Work Gallery three professional Yukon artists creating art over the course of the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

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Whitehorse Until Mon Aug 31 Of Beasts & Branches

by Jenifer Davidson Northern Front Studio A new body of work that combines the wild magnificence of our flora with the hard edges of urban living, inspiring a fresh look at these convergences. Whitehorse Until Sat Aug 29 Waking Dreams by Anne Hoerber Arts Underground Capturing the moments when light and water combine to create impressions of promise and mystery. The unpredictable nature of encaustics is a great way to evoke a sense of wonder. Whitehorse Until Sat Aug 29 Place Setting: A Visual Feast of Ceramic Tableware Arts Underground “Place Setting†is the first exhibition dedicated to celebrating this growing community. Pieces that could go in a place setting when friends gather together around a table, such as drinking vessels, plates, bowls, and vases.

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Thu Aug 13 Fireweed Community Market Outdoor Market 3:00 PM Shipyards Park Local produce, baked goods, live plants, local meats, Yukon art, crafted treasures and more Fri Aug 14 Encounters Sculpture Workshop 10:00 AM Yukon Transportation Museum Explore the wonder of flight and the myriad strangeness of the 2020 Covid-19 situation through a solitary sculpture creation workshop. Email for more info, register online.

Fri Aug 14 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.

Sat Aug 15 Encounters Sculpture Workshop 10:00 AM Yukon Transportation Museum Explore the wonder of flight and the myriad strangeness of the 2020 Covid-19 situation through a solitary sculpture creation workshop. Email for more info, register online.

Sat Aug 15 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.

Sat Aug 15 Beginners Origami 1:00 PM Arts Underground All ages, 2-hour crash course will have you leaving with a variety of folded paper artwork and printed instructions for you to practice at home.

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Sun Aug 16 YHMA’s Vintage & Antique Sale 10:00 AM Whitehorse, Yukon Features an array of vintage items, books, collectibles, handmade art and crafts, and much more. Email for more info.

Sun Aug 16 Tip Your Wings 1:00 PM Yukon Transportation Museum A once in a century scheduled fly-over will occur, marking that historic event that kicked off one hundred years of Yukon Aviation. Then visit the Yukon Transportation Museum to learn more.

Tue Aug 18 Common Threads 9:00 AM Christ Church Cathedral Chat, Coffee, Knit, Crochet, for more information call the Prayer Shawl Ministry at 393-8005 Tue & Wed Guitar lessons with Caroline Allatt 1:00 PM Whitehorse, Yukon 45 minute classes, drop in, register online.

Thu Aug 20 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.

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Thu Aug 20 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 Aug 20 Beading and Textiles Collage with Krystle Coughlin 6:00 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Learn basic beading techniques and tricks to help those with little to no beading practice. Register online or call 456-5322 or email interpreter@kdcc.ca for more info.

Fri Aug 21 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.

Sat Aug 22 Humane Society Yukon Online Auction Virtual Online Join and bid on fantastic items all proceeds of this auction will support the care of the animals at the Humane Society Yukon. Register online.

Sat Aug 22 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.

Sat Aug 22 Ceramics Workshop: Coil Building Shapes 2:00 PM Arts Underground Learn in person in our studio, or you can join the class online via Zoom.

Learn a variety of techniques including coiling, assembly of coils, smoothing surfaces, and decorating works using underglazes. Register online, or call 6674080 for more info.

Sun Aug 23 YHMA’s Vintage & Antique Sale 10:00 AM Whitehorse, Yukon Features an array of vintage items, books, collectibles, handmade art and crafts, and much more. Email for more info.

Mon Aug 24 The Gathering Bible Study 6:00 PM Christ Church Cathedral For more information call 668-5530 Mon Aug 24 Introduction to Bicycle Maintenance 6:30 PM Icycle Sports No previous experience needed, bring your own bike, workspace and tools provided.

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Tue Aug 25 Common Threads 9:00 AM Christ Church Cathedral Chat, Coffee, Knit, Crochet, for more information call the Prayer Shawl Ministry at 393-8005 Tue Aug 25 Beaded Bookmark with Virginia Smith 5:30 PM Kwanlin Dun Cultural Centre Learn the basics of sewing and beading.Includes all materials.

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Tue & Wed Aug 25, 26 Introduction to Bicycle Maintenance 6:30 PM Icycle Sports No previous experience needed, bring your own bike, workspace and tools provided. Register online.

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

Wed Aug 12 KDFN Youth Recreation 12:00 PM McIntyre Field Games, activities and bagged lunch provided. Pre-registration required, call 334-8718 or email courtney. terriah@kdfn.net for more info or to register.

Wed Aug 12 Online: History & Musical Theatre 6:00 PM Virtual Online 334-2241 Learn about where musical theatre comes from with the Yukon Theatre for Young People and special guests. Targeted to an audience ages 14-17, register online.

Thu Aug 13 KDFN Youth Recreation 12:00 PM McIntyre Field Games, activities and bagged lunch provided. Pre-registration required, call 334-8718 or email courtney. terriah@kdfn.net for more info or to register.

Fri Aug 14 Youth Mountain Biking 12:00 PM Nàkwät’à Kų̀ (KDFN’s potlatch house) Equipment and snacks provided, preregistration required. Call 334-8718 or email courtney.terriah@kdfn.net for more info.

Fri Aug 14 Standard Format - Magic: The Gathering 6:00 PM Titan Gaming Cafe Legal sets = Ixalan, Rivals of Ixalan, Dominaria, Core Set 2019, Guilds of Ravnica, Ravnica Allegiance.Banned Cards = Rampaging Ferocidon Fri Aug 14 Magic:The Gathering - Pioneer Format 6:00 PM Titan Gaming Cafe

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.

Sat Aug 15 Adventure Social and Play Skill Sessions 10:00 AM Canines & Company Provides a quick burn out and interactive play activity while you go for coffee, shop, or just sit and relax. Call 333-0505 or email caninesandcompany@ northwestel.net for more info.

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

Tue Aug 18 Free Super Smash Bros.

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Wed Aug 19 Online: History & Musical Theatre 6:00 PM Virtual Online 334-2241 Learn about where musical theatre comes from with the Yukon Theatre for Young People and special guests. Targeted to an audience ages 14-17, register online.

Fri Aug 21 Magic:The Gathering - Pioneer Format 6:00 PM Titan Gaming Cafe 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.

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Sat Aug 22 Broccoli Farm CD/Vinyl Splash 10:00 AM Takhini Hot Springs Sit and soak while Claire Ness sings you songs from the side of the swimming pool. Email ness.claire@gmail.com for tickets.

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Wed Aug 26 Online: History & Musical Theatre 6:00 PM Virtual Online 334-2241 Learn about where musical theatre comes from with the Yukon Theatre for Young People and special guests. Targeted to an audience ages 14-17, register online.

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Wed Aug 19 Yukon Toastmasters Clubs - Northern Voices 7:00 AM Sport Yukon Improve your public speaking skills. Guests are welcomed with advanced notice. Call 689-6363 or email toastmastersyukon@ gmail.com for more info.

Thu Aug 20 Yukon Toastmasters Clubs - Sundogs Toastmasters Club 12:00 PM Sport Yukon Learn the skills, practice the speaking, receive the feedback to improve your public speaking, communication and leadership skills. Guests are welcomed with advanced notice. Call 689-6363 or email toastmastersyukon@gmail.com.

Thu Aug 20 Monthly Coalition Meeting 5:00 PM CYO Hall Monthly Coalition (Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition) meetings are held every third Thursday. Everyone is welcome!

Sat Aug 22 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 Wed Aug 26 Yukon Toastmasters Clubs - Northern Voices 7:00 AM Sport Yukon Improve your public speaking skills. Guests are welcomed with advanced notice. Call 689-6363 or email toastmastersyukon@ gmail.com for more info.

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Wed Aug 12 Yukon Toastmasters Clubs - Northern Voices 7:00 AM Sport Yukon Improve your public speaking skills. Guests are welcomed with advanced notice. Call 689-6363 or email toastmastersyukon@ gmail.com for more info.

Wed Aug 12 Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous AGM 6:00 PM Shipyards Park This is your chance to come out and be involved in our communities festival and help to plan and execute the 2021 Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous Festival!

Wed Aug 12 Klondike Cruisers AGM 6:30 PM Yukon Transportation Museum Yukon Transportation Museum Parking lot, bring a lawn chair. This year it will be held outside due to Covid restrictions.

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

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“Winners of the 2020 Travellers’ Choice Awards should be proud of this distinguished recognition,” said Kanika Soni, Chief Commercial Officer at Tripadvisor, noting it’s been a “challenging year” for airlines and other travel services.

Joseph Sparling, CEO of Air North, said he is, “especially pleased to see these awards go

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oasted stale bread drizzled with whiskey and topped with bacon, eggs, and cheese. Rehydrating old stale bread with whiskey and stock takes this super simple sandwich to a much better place. If you don’t have stock just use whiskey, and if you’re not a drinker just use stock. This version uses some cooked bacon as the pork component, but to be honest I think this recipe would really shine with some good old sliced bologna. Serves 1 INGREDIENTS ❑ 1 teaspoon butter (or olive oil) ❑ 1 slice stale bread ❑ 2 teaspoons stock (or some dried bouillon mixed with water) ❑ 2 teaspoons whiskey (or brandy, or scotch)

Toasted bread, drizzled with stock and whiskey, topped with bacon and cheese

❑ 1/3 cup grated cheese (whatever you have on hand)

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❑ 1 strip bacon, cooked (or a slice of ham, or bologna) coarsely chopped

Stale bread, cheese, pork, and whiskey

❑ 1 egg ❑ Salt and pepper, to taste ❑ Parsley, to garnish ❑ Mustard, to garnish

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Yukon athletes honoured by Sport Yukon Sport Yukon awards Yukon’s top athletes (from a safe distance)

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Sean McCarron

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or 44 years Sport Yukon has been handing out awards to the Yukon’s top athletes, coaches and sport administrators. The 2019 crop of honourees continues this trend, despite COVID-19 necessitating the distribution of the awards to take place at a distance.

“We are very proud of this year’s winners,” said Sandra Soares, program and events Coordinator for Sport Yukon, “They are all so dedicated to their sports and well deserving of the recognition.”

Sean McCarron was awarded Coach of the Year for his work

coaching basketball at the senior girls and boys high school level and the under-18 major games level. McCarron has been a passionate coach for the past twenty-seven years. He started coaching grade seven players when he was in grade twelve and has been coaching ever since.

In recognizing McCarron’s achievement, the Sport Yukon Awards Board noted, “he has the ability to make the whole team greater than the sum of its parts.

His energy and level of engagement with athletes is incredible, he knows how to inspire players to push themselves. He creates a team environment where the

players all fit together as one and collectively perform past their individual abilities.”

Leslie Raenden was awarded Administrator of the Year for her work as a board member of Cross-Country Yukon throughout the last decade. The Awards Board highlighted, “Leslie has displayed a calm and rational approach to any challenges CrossCountry Yukon encounters. She has greatly helped lead the way through any muddy waters. Staff often go to her when faced with challenges because of her ability to look at situations from many angles and give perspective in a concise manner.”

The PeeWee Mustangs are the recipients of Team of the Year.

The PeeWee Mustangs had an impressive year, finishing the year with a 36-7-3 record for the season while topping the podium at two tournaments and the Tier 3 Provincials. Their coaches spoke about the players dedication.

“As coaches we were inspired by how the players always wanted to come to the rink ready and willing to work hard at practice, dry-land training or games. The team as a unit stayed committed to the goal and continually got better throughout the year always wanting to be challenged in some way.”

Ameila Barrault was honoured as the National/Territorial Female Athlete of the Year. At the beginning of 2018-2019 season Barrault started to become a contender at the provincial level, ultimately earning herself her first ever Canadian Junior National qualifying time. She finished the 2019 season medaling at Western Canada Summer Games, some of the only medals brought home from Yukon.

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Derek Deuling was awarded the National/ Territorial Male Athlete of the Year. Deuling ranked 2nd nationally in his age group at the 2019 Nationals and was one of four Canadian cross-country skiers to attend the Youth Olympic Games in January 2020 in Switzerland. He was scheduled to return to the Canadian Nationals in March 2020 but this event was cancelled due to COVID-19. He has accepted a ski scholarship at University of Alaska in Anchorage in 2020 where he will be pursuing skiing and studies in the sciences.

Derek Deuling is the 2019 National/Territorial Male Athlete of the Year

Dahria Beatty was named International Female Athlete of the Year. Beatty has consistently been the strongest Canadian female cross-country ski sprinter in the last few years. She spent four years on the Junior National Team and the last six years on the Senior National Team and represented Canada at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Having one first-place finish and two second-place finishes at the 2019 Canadian National championships, she also had a third-place finish at the US Super Tour in Maine along with four top-20 finishes and one top-30 finish at international World Cup events. Beatty is continuing to train as a member of the Senior National Nordic Team in Canmore, Alberta. She works with a number of organizations to try to inspire the next generation of youth and has been working as an Athlete Ambassador for Sport North and Fast and Female.

Dylan Cozens was awarded International Male Athlete of the Year. Cozens played for Team Canada in the U-18 World Championship in Sweden in April 2019. Then in January 2020 he was part of the gold medal winning Team Canada at the World Junior Championships.

He tied for 6th overall in scoring and third for Team Canada, including a goal in the gold medal game that saw Canada defeat Russia 4-3. Cozens was drafted 7th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the NHL entry draft in June 2019.

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ach year there is a writing contest called Authors on Eighth connected to an annual walk along the Writers’ Block along Eighth Avenue that links Jack London’s Cabin, operated by the Klondike Visitors Association; the Robert Service Cabin, operated by Klondike National Historic Sites; and Pierre Berton House, operated by the Writers’ Trust of Canada with the KVA and the Dawson Community Library.

The contest, often entered by 40 or more people, invites folks to write on a Klondike related theme similar to the works of London, Service, Berton or Dick North, the Yukon journalist and historian who founded the Jack London Museum.

Entries may be fiction, non-fiction or poetry, and are adjudicated by selected local writers.

This year the judges are public librarian Dan Dowhal, himself a former Berton House writer in residence, and Greg Bechtel, the current resident, who is enjoying an extended residency here

(7 months and counting) due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

The walking tour has usually been the Thursday afternoon before the Discovery Days weekend, and has attracted an average of 25 to 35 people to each of the three sites during the event.

This year, to cope with group size restrictions, KVA Marketing Manager Paul Robitaille says the plan is for the three groups to extend three smaller walking tours over a three day period: Friday, Saturday and Sunday afternoons, August 14 to 16. Yukon’s COVID-19 recommendations under Phase 3 will allow up to 15 people in a group, with masks and distancing recommended.

At each site during these free events, there will be an abbreviated version of the standard presentation by the guides. At one there will be a reading by Bechtel and at one the awards for the three writing categories will be announced.

The number of entries, which usually come in from all over the

English speaking world, is down this year from last year’s 45. By the July 19 deadline there were seven prose entries, fifteen poetry entries and two in a youth category which is new for this year.

Robitaille feels this is pretty good interest for an event which got minimal promotion this year due to the uncertain times.

Both the winners, who take home some gold and a selection of books, and the other entrants, will be able to see their work published in the Klondike Sun, beginning in the fall, once the works from 2019 have all made it into print. It’s been tough to fit 45 entries into 24 bi-weekly issues.

Some of the contestants have gone on to publish books containing their entries later on.

Dan Davidson has been writing about books for Yukon publications since 1977.

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Busting the myth of the small town artist Yukon artist Joseph Tisiga a 2020 Sobey Art Award winner

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by Heather Leduc

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hen the National Gallery of Canada announced the recipients of the 2020 Sobey Art Award in April, Yukon artist Joseph Tisiga was on the list of 25 names.

This is a big deal.

The Sobey Art Award is the most prestigious contemporary art prize in the country. This year, rather than selecting one winner, the Sobey Art Foundation is awarding $25,000 to each of the

25 long-listed artists to support their practices and livelihoods during these challenging times.

“Under typical circumstances the nod of recognition feels good, as there are always so many great artists on the list, and it’s nice to share some virtual space with everyone,” Tisiga said. “However, the choice to share the prize among everyone on the long-list feels great, and the financial support could not have come at a better time.”

An excerpt from the 2020 Sobey Art Award jury statement very much describes Tisiga’s practice over the years: “(The award recipients) create new relationships and vocabularies that value specificity with regard to personal, geographic, cultural or sociohistorical perspectives, yet open themselves onto broader forms of

A selfie by Tisiga himself, all the way from Montreal PHOTO: Joseph Tisiga

connection.”

A member of the Kaska Dena Nation with a relatively urban upbringing, Tisiga has been creating narratives which draw on a number of social and philosophical influences, art history, pop culture and Kaska stories. He has developed a pantheon of characters who weave threads of continuity and familiarity through his work, which now spans a dozen years of storytelling.

He’s had solo shows in several cities and participated in numerous group shows. His work is in the National Gallery of Canada Collection, among others. The Audain Art Museum in Whistler presented a survey of his work in 2019. Tisiga has also become part of the critical discourse around contemporary art practice in Canada.

At the same time, Tisiga seemingly defies the assumption, and perhaps the myth, that places like the Yukon are too small and too isolated to produce artists of national significance. When many

artists feel that it’s necessary to live in urban centres to make their mark in the contemporary art world, Tisiga, until very recently, stuck it out in the North. I asked Tisiga about his ability to not only survive, but to thrive, as a visual artist in Whitehorse.

Part of the answer is found at the Yukon Arts Centre and the folks who work there. Many of Tisiga’s stories and mythologies were actualized through exhibits hosted by the Arts Centre gallery.

As an artist with big ideas requiring both ample space and ample creative freedom, Tisiga put his trust in Gallery Director Mary Bradshaw and other gallery staff who were game for pretty much anything he could imagine.

Tisiga had his Arts Centre debut in 2008 after being approached

by Bradshaw to do a show in the Community Gallery. The show was called Indigenous Incisions, and the gallery walls were filled floor to ceiling with work. Tisiga conjured fantastic watercolour tab-

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Indigenous Incisions was a display of astonishing storytelling from a young artist.

“I was stoked on the invitation and took it really seriously, so I made two series of work, one series of watercolor drawings and another series that were a mix of watercolor and collage pieces,” Tisiga recalled. “I remember people being pretty excited about the show and Bradshaw offered me a window to do an exhibition in the main gallery in 2009.

I remember this being a huge opportunity for me…as I didn’t really have much experience exhibiting at the time, and frankly, hadn’t even made much art at all at that point.”

Tisiga was still an emerging talent in 2008, but from the beginning he possessed an uncanny ability to translate stories from his cont’d on page 17 ...

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Busting the myth of the small town artist... cont’d imagination into strong, engaging visual narratives. In 2009, Tisiga produced Indian Brand Corporation (IBC) in the Main Gallery. The exhibit was a full-blown multimedia installation – a strange, fictional office space featuring performance photographs, film and found objects. The walls were adorned with large paintings of Archie comic characters engaging in suspect interactions with Indigenous people.

“We (Tisiga and Bradshaw) talked a lot about my thoughts for the exhibition… and although I think she was thinking I would make more watercolor paintings as had been shown in the Grotto, I was clearly going in another direction. Neither of us could have really known what to expect but she supported my choice to experiment. Ultimately the exhibition introduced the idea of ‘Indian Brand Corporation’ which has been a thought project for me since, and at the time was actually an inadvertent way to draw together various components of my artistic interests at that point.

That early support and trust was really formative and something I appreciate so much.”

Tisiga has described Indian Brand Corporation as “a fictional company that produces complex narratives that combine conflicting Indigenous and non-indigenous world views.” IBC has evolved over the years, with new characters being introduced and the company taking on several permutations, including a magic show in Dawson’s ODD Gallery and a mini-putt course. The latter was created in 2016 at the Yukon Arts Centre and was entitled IBC: First Hole: Death Prophecy Denied.

Along with the mini-putt course, the exhibit featured large, ominous watercolour drawings.

On the wall entering the space, the message ‘The Game Can Not Be Won’ was hand-painted on blueprints of Yukon Hall, a former residence for Indigenous children attending Whitehorse public schools. A statement accompanying the exhibit explained that Tisiga was “[drawing] connections between golf, social status and land strife within his alternative narrative of Indian Brand Corporation.”

Practically, the installation of the show presented some challenges in translating Tisiga’s large-scale concepts into the gallery space. The willingness of the Arts Centre staff to make things happen allowed Tisiga to introduce last-minute ideas and unusually large objects, notably a wall tent, into the show.

“On a material or installation level, Bradshaw and the YAC staff have supported my experiments that would be really challenging to propose in other spaces,” Tisiga said.

“For instance, the time an off-the-cuff thought to suspend a 14’x16’ walltent from the ceiling materialized in a matter of hours, or using a bunch of recycled carpet to make a mini-putt course…I think the relationships and trust formed with Bradshaw and YAC allowed me to experiment with things, that I can keep building on for future projects.”

Beyond the Arts Centre, Tisiga credits the Yukon itself as beneficial to his practice, despite the perceived limitations of being a visual artist in remote Canadian

developing my art practice in the Yukon was ideal, particularly because of the people and community support, but there’s a comfort in trying things and stretching your resourcefulness. I feel like it is a great place to ‘learn out loud’. I think things tend to move slowly, there’s lots of time to go deeply into your thinking and interests.”

Until recently, Tisiga has lived in Whitehorse, with a few stints in other cities including a year at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design. He relocated to Montreal last year but still has strong ties to the Yukon.

“I had been craving a move to a city for a long time, feeling like I needed new exposures in my life to continue growing artistically,” Tisiga admits.

“Ironically, being isolated in Montreal during the COVID-19 PHOTO: Joseph Tisiga outbreak has me missing and feeling very nostalgic for Whitehorse, my home, family and community.”

Whitehorse is missing Tisiga,

towns: “Unfortunately I think there has been a strong ‘urban-centric’ attitude within the arts, but I feel like that’s somewhat shifted over time. Being able to communicate with people or expose people to your work through the internet has eased the barriers a little. In many ways,

Invites Tisiga created for the Indigenous Incisions show

too. There is a lot of excitement and happiness for his achievement, especially at Yukon Arts Centre which nominated Tisiga for the Sobey Art Award twice – he was longlisted in 2011 as well. To celebrate his award, the Arts Centre and the Yukon Permanent Art Collection have installed three of his works from their collections in the Community Gallery.

I met Bradshaw in the gallery, and we chatted about Tisiga’s work over the years.

We talked about the work Tisiga is currently producing in Montreal and posting on Instagram. There are watercolour drawings created at his kitchen table. He is also experimenting, for example with salt dough, making blobby objects resembling poo.

“I have no idea where he’s going with it,” Bradshaw said, “But I’m looking forward to seeing how it’s all going to be combined and played with.”

There’s an element of surprise that keeps us anticipating Tisiga’s next move. Bradshaw summed it up by saying, “With many artists, but with Joseph in particular… I can’t guess where he’s going next.

And I love that.”

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Heather Leduc is a Whitehorse-based writer.

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Art with Maya Maya Rosenberg

Drawing flowers in complementary colours A big part of art is looking for inspiration - let’s find it in and out!

If you’ve had classes with me you know - I LOVE textures and colours in nature! So next time you’re on a walk, start looking at the different colours around you. The flowers coming out, rich sunsets, and even in what seems the same, as in trees, notice how they each have their own tone. Have you noticed some fun colours around?

If you’ve had classes with me you may have heard me mention about a hundred times complementary colours- colours that are opposite on the colour wheel.

They work so well together and bring each other’s vividness out.

Blue and orange- beautiful sunsets in the sky that capture our attention. Red and green- meadows and flowers that pop, roses, you name it! Can you think of more examples of complementary colours?

So let’s focus on these fun colour combinations, and today use PURPLE and YELLOW!

Let’s go!

6. Add some combinations of complementary colours! Spring is purple and yellow for me, but go wild!

1. Draw a circle 2. Add a spiral inside it for some movement 3. Add five petals. I like odd numbers but do your own thing if you want more or less.

Hope you enjoy the tips for today! And remember, there’s no right and wrong way to do art. Just have fun with it!

Keep sharing your art with me! I’d love to see what you did. You can find more art ideas, classes and workshops coming up with me at www. mayaart.ca and on Facebook and Instagram at “Art by Maya” or join my newsletter for first call for events and art at home tips and tricks!

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Maya is a visual artist and art teacher, based in Whitehorse, Yukon. She was born and raised in Israel, and has traveled to the United States, Canada and Europe. She teaches art classes and workshops across Yukon and exhibiting in varied art galleries across Canada.

Her work reflects the connections of art, love and nature, through colour, and how colour empowers us and our communities.

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Gather with Miche Geneste

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Black currants are a delicious Northern treat smell. The blackcurrant aroma is strong. (If there’s no aroma, it ain’t blackcurrant, but could be red currant, or northern gooseberry—the leaves are similar.)

Blackcurrant leaves can be used to flavour everything from vinegar to panna cotta, so if you don’t find fruit, bring home a few leaves and experiment.

If you do find fruit, whether in the wild or on a farm, consider making your own Crème de Cassis, the delicious blackcurrant liqueur famous in Burgundy, France.

And then go one step further and make a crème bruleé, famous everywhere. Creamy custard, sharp blackcurrant, shiny, shatter-y caramelized sugar—a delightful study in contrasts.

Homemade Crème de Cassis Ingredients 1½ cups black currants 1 750 ml bottle good quality vodka 1 cup water 1 cup sugar Method Pour currants into a sterilized 1L jar. Mash currants with a muddler or wooden spoon to break the skins and release some of the juices.

Pour vodka into the jar, screw on the cap and shake vigorously. Store in a cool, dark place for 10 days to 3 weeks, shaking once or twice a day. Over time, the vodka will take on the colour of the currants, and the currants will become paler.

Strain the vodka-currant mixture into a clean sterilized jar through a sieve lined with cheesecloth, reserving currants.

Tip currants into a small pot and stir in water and sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat, turn heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes, uncovered.

Strain syrup through a sieve into a clean bowl, cool to room temperate, and stir into the reserved vodka. (The currants will have lost much of their flavour, but you could try adding them to muffins or quick bread.)

Store in a cool dark place and for best flavour, use within the year. Tip: homemade Crème de Cassis adds a certain tone to a holiday gift basket.

Makes about 1 L.

Black Currant Crème Brulée Ingredients 1 cup blackcurrants, thawed if frozen ¼ cup sugar 2 Tbsp Crème de Cassis 1 cup 2% milk 1 cup 10% cream 3 eggs ½ cup sugar for caramelizing Method Combine black currants and 2 tablespoons sugar in a small pot.

Cook over medium heat until juices are released, reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until thick. Remove from stove, cool, and stir in Crème de Cassis.

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Black Currant Creme Brulee Preheat oven to 300F (150C).

Set out 8 half-cup ramekins in a roasting pan.

Heat milk and cream in a medium pot over medium heat until steam rises. Meanwhile, beat eggs and 2 tablespoons sugar in a medium bowl until lemon-coloured.

Stirring constantly, pour half a cup of hot milk/cream into eggs, followed by the remaining milk/ cream. Return the mix to the pot, and, still stirring, heat until it thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and strain into a measuring cup for easy pouring.

(The straining will remove any accidental lumps.)

Spoon 1 tablespoon of prepared blackcurrants into each ramekin.

Pour custard mixture over top. Pour boiling water into the roasting pan until it comes halfway up the ramekins. Bake for 50 to 55 minutes.

The centres will still be jiggly but will firm up as the custard cools.

Chill custard for 2 hours or overnight. About an hour before serving, sprinkle 1 tablespoon sugar over top of each custard. Caramelize sugar with a kitchen blowtorch or by placing ramekins on a tray 4 inches under a hot broiler for 3 to 5 minutes.

Makes eight half-cup servings.

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D

o you remember when, as a kid, you had a glorious dream in which you took possession of some prized object, like a new bike, or a whole chocolate cake, and ached to bring it back with you, across the border into real life?

I had that experience a few years ago in northern Sweden, on a friend’s farm. Out in the field by his house there grew three long rows of two-metre-high blackcurrant bushes, dripping with fruit, tart, tangy, vaguely conifer-y, a flavour unlike any other berry.

We picked, and we picked, and we picked. We made jam; we made pie; we ate fistfuls of currants without sugar or ceremony. And then we heaved our backpacks onto the bus for Finland, leaving all that blackcurrant beauty behind us, as if it were a dream.

I’ve ached for blackcurrants ever since. Three summers ago, I learned that a few farms near Whitehorse grow blackcurrants, and you can go and pick them. (I’ll leave you to sleuth out which farms those are, for the thrill of discovery.) Now I have a whole freezer shelf full of bagged blackcurrants, as in a dream.

Blackcurrants do grow wild in the Yukon, sparsely. You may find Ribes hudsoniam in damp forests at the base of mountains, like for example on the King’s Throne hike in Kluane National Park.

It’s verboten to pick them in a national park, but do this: rub a leaf between your fingers and

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Thursdays Tagish Carpet Bowling 10:00 AM Tagish Community Centre Everyone is invited to come and learn the technical game of Carpet Bowling, Wednesdays Coffee and Chat: Tagish Community Centre 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre A great opportunity to get out of the house and catch up with other community members. A lunch program which will include such things as soup/stew/chili and homemade rolls/ bread plus some tasty treats! Covid-19 precautions apply.

Saturdays Youth Night 5:30 PM Tagish Community Centre Fun, games, snacks, for ages 10+, call 399-3407 for more info Sun Aug 16 Tagish: Pancake Breakfast 9:30 AM Tagish Community Centre Third Sunday of every month, we are looking for volunteers to assist in the kitchen with set-up/prep, cooking, serving and cleanup. Call or email for more info. 399-3407 recreation@tagishyukon.org Wed Aug 19 Tagish Community Market 1:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Call 399-3407 for more info.

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Nakai Theatre’s At a Distance

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eally big puppets came to a park near you - but they kept their distance.

At a Distance was Nakai Theatre’s response to what artistic

director Jacob Zimmer refers to as “this remarkable summer.”

When I asked what the motivation was behind the project, Zimmer replied with questions:

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“We’re (did) workshops July 21 and 22 at Shipyards with Arts Underground and there are supplies we can share,” said Zimmer. “We (had) long poles, tent material, hot glue, twine and zip ties and some other fabric that we (had) at the workshops or for pickup at the office.”

At a Distance was not the first time Whitehorse has seen giant puppets. Many locals are familiar with the Burning Away the Winter Blues procession which involves burning a large puppet as an effigy to mark the end of Yukoners’ winter doldrums.

There was no burning of the At a Distance puppets. Instead, they interacted, danced, picniced and ultimately embraced one another.

At a time when hugging our pals is taboo, the puppets can be surrogates for acting out these prohibited gestures.

In fact, huggable puppets are the most encouraged and soughtafter for the project: “Our prompt for the puppet is that it should be able to embrace another puppet without breaking social distancing guidance,” Zimmer explained.

Which generally means the puppets need to be pretty big, preferably with extremely long limbs for hugging. Puppets created so far include a very tall fox, a pink, squid-inspired creature, and a fantasy pterodactyl.

Those daunted by large-scale puppet-making could still participate and create smaller projects, Zimmer said.

“I also love kites and flags and think they go great with puppets – especially if people have fabrics and paint – and maybe they’re a little easier to make or carry around.”

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“What did we need as humans? We didn’t think we needed anymore online activity, so what else was possible?”

Nakai Theatre found the answer in puppets.

“Giant puppets outside have a long tradition and the idea builds on the work Nakai is already doing with Theatre at the Scale of the Landscape,” Zimmer said, the latter referring to an ongoing outdoor theatre project Nakai has been developing. “I have personal history with puppets and knew there were others in town who would be game.”

He’s right about that. The folks who participated in the project have some serious puppetry pedigree.

Susie Anne Bartsch is wellknown for spear-heading several public art projects and processions, and for wrangling big puppets.

Brian Fidler and his family have been constructing robots as prototypes for the project. Fidler is one of the collaborators responsible for a small but awesome repertoire of cardboard puppet shows produced by Ramshackle Theatre.

Other artists who signed up to make prototypes include Nicole Bauberger, Allison Button, Megan Jensen and Aimée Dawn Robinson.

The artists’ prototype puppets were just the beginning. The main idea behind At a Distance was to have “COVID pods” of Yukoners creating puppets while socially distancing at home. The most obvious pod was a family, but it also could be a houseful of roommates, or other folks who might be part of a bubble. If restrictions around socializing relax, it could mean a group of friends. Solo pods were also possible.

The puppets were constructed using things you might find around the house, garage or back yard.

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Let your skills shine. With them, you and your work will shine too Horses appear so often in the Tarot, we may risk taking them for granted. Let’s not! The horse here is healthy and aglow with energy. Sure-footedly carrying a child bareback, the horse in Major Arcana XIX, reminds us to be confident in our ability to be and agile with precious cargo. Our babies and our youth appear here to remind us to play with our kids even when we are worried about work!

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perhaps not surprisingly, the Sun and Leo. As such, the card reminds us it’s okay to play in the summer sun a little! Take a break from pure productivity; sometimes goofing around will carry you to new exciting places. Leo is fire. Fire is one of the oldest symbols and expressions of faith, and of the ability to have faith.

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Perhaps for our Earth-sign readers – Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn – the advice to look on the brighter side is not as satisfying as, say, a recommendation to do something more physically productive. I have a suggestion that may feel a little more satisfying below. For now, enjoy the metaphysical for a moment. For the next zero to three months, we are asked to have more faith and be positive about our work stability and security.

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t’s hard to imagine a summer without the Yukon River Quest.

For 21 years, the annual event brought paddlers from around the world to “race to the midnight sun.” For participating Yukoners, it meant hours of commitment leading up to the race.

Non-paddlers lost their paddling friends to their training schedules.

Support crews and volunteers were recruited.

Once the out-town teams arrived, the excitement would start to build. On the day of the race, the Yukon Visitor Centre in Whitehorse was a gathering place for teams assembling their gear. And the throngs of spectators and supporters would descend to the river to watch the 12 pm start. Similar to the Yukon Quest in winter, downtown Whitehorse was temporarily transformed as spectators thronged to see the racers off.

None of this will be happening this year. On March 20, the Yukon River Quest made the call to cancel the 2020 race due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It must have been a wrenching decision. When registration opened last November, the race roster filled in less than three hours. Organizers and racers were anticipating a fast race due to probable high-water based on this year’s snowpack.

The board really had no other choice, given travel restrictions for international travelers and non-Yukon residents. The race would also pose challenges for physical distancing, and compromise safety in communities along the river.

All is not lost, however. In an effort to salvage something from this summer of cancellations, a virtual version of the Yukon River Quest is being held. Yukon River Marathon Paddling Association President Peter Coates is the person spearheading the virtual format.

Coates designed the software used to track the progress of the Yukon River Quest. This year, he’s using that same technology, some modifications, and some new software to simulate races from Whitehorse to Dawson (the Yukon Pretend Quest or YPQ) and Whitehorse to Carmacks (the Yukon Half Pretend Quest or YHPQ). In the actual race, distances are 704 km and 301.5 km respectively. For the

virtual race, racers are required to paddle half of the usual distances, 352 km for the full Quest and 150 km for the half. Those distances will be multiplied by 2 when applied to the Yukon River map. The Pretend Quest needs to be completed in four days, the Half Quest in two days.

Ironically, and in spite of the race name, participants will not and cannot complete their mileage paddling the Yukon River, or any other river for that matter.

The paddling must be done in loops on a lake, rather than on a river. According to the race instructions, “not having the river to help you makes 704 km a bit more arduous.” Once the GPS tracks are loaded onto the software, it will appear as though the race is taking place on the Yukon River.

Racers sign up any time this summer, and Coates will call the race most likely some time in September. The actual live tracking of the race began at noon on June 24, which would have been the start date for the actual River Quest.

Once GPS tracks are loaded, participants can follow their progress and that of other racers.

Not being a water person, the act of paddling around a lake for two or four days seemed a bit Sisyphean to me, so I asked Coates what the purpose of the virtual race was.

“Part of the point of the exer-

cise is to maintain the YRQ brand, and to give people some sort of focus for their training.”

Perhaps even more appealing is the idea of being part of an international paddling community and being able to imagine how the race might have played out. As Coates said, “you will be paddling against people who might be on the other side of the world.”

At the time of writing, two solo kayakers from Germany and a solo canoeist from Switzerland had registered for the full Pretend Quest. Two paddle boarders have signed up for the half. There’s lots of time to register, and Coates said there is lots of excitement about the virtual Quest.

“There has been a lot of buzz, but few entries so far,” said Coates. “I suspect that people see little point in entering until they have a GPS track ready to upload.”

There is also a good chance that folks are in no hurry to sign up. With low entry fees, no entry deadline and no need to make travel plans, the Yukon Pretend Quest loans itself to spontaneous registrations all summer long.

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