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The story of a voice

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akai Theatre is bringing poet, songwriter, speaker, and celebrated spoken word performer Shane Koyczan to Whitehorse, to perform at the Pivot Festival on January 24, at the Yukon Arts Centre.

Koyczan comes to Whitehorse to promote his new album and graphic novel, both titled Silence Is a Song I Know All the Words To. The album track “Troll” is accompanied by a video that features the artwork of Gareth Gaudin, who also illustrated the graphic novel.

“Troll” is dedicated to all of those who have gone through online bullying.

The wordsmith became famous with his performance at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He began performing in 1999 and started writing at an early age.

“When I was a kid I always wrote, but I never thought that I would become a poet. In university a professor, who read my essays, encouraged me to write more, so I started writing again,” Koyczan says.

Koyczan grew up in Yellowknife with his grandparents, where he became a victim of bullying.

Some people find help in their faith during trauma but Koyczan says, “As a kid I was a terrible Catholic, as an adult I am an okay atheist. I’ve known people who were able to turn their entire lives around because they found God. That just hasn’t been my experience.”

In the song “Heaven or Whatever”, he describes his difficult relationship to his grandfather, who asked him about his faith.

“I’m grateful that I was able to find some small measure of harmony with my granddad despite our conflicting spiritual paths,” says Koyczan.

“I guess that’s how I’ve learned to define respect.”

When his grandfather asked Koyczan to describe his version of heaven Koyczan was scared to tell him that he lacked faith in the concept.

“School had robbed me my belief,” Koyczan says in the song.

School was a battlefield for him, and as a result of the bully-

Photo: Courtesy of Shane Koyczan

Shane Koyczan is a spoken word artist who is performing at the Pivot Theatre Festival. ing, he suffered from depression and was put on medication.

Did writing help him?

“It helped me to deal with it,” Koyczan says.

“I don’t think you will ever get over it, but you learn how to deal with it.”

Where does he get the power and energy to go on stage?

“Sharing my experience and connecting to people when I am on stage gives me a tremendous resource of strength,” Koyczan says.

This strength has allowed him to pursue a successful career.

Recently, Koyczan wrote the libretto for the opera based on his book Stickboy, which premiered in Vancouver last year. He also performed on David Suzuki’s Blue

Dot Tour in 2014.

“I am working on a children’s book and I want to produce more online videos,” says Koyczan of future projects.

What advice would he give a kid that has been bullied?

“I would tell the kid, that you are not alone. And I would listen.

It is important to just listen, be there for them.” Koyczan says.

The event takes place on January 24 at 8:00 p.m. in the Yukon Arts Centre Tickets are available at the Yukon Arts Centre box office.

Elke Reinauer is a German writer based in Whitehorse.

Please email comments about her articles to editor@ whatsupyukon.com.

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January 22, 2015

The Story of a Voice

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by Meagan Deuling

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voice is louder now, does that Photos: Henry Chan mean I’m not the other voice anymore?

Tristan Whiston uses sound to tell the story of his gender transformation in Trace Whiston hasn’t stopped recording his voice. He recBut the art itself is presented in part harmony. There are loops ords himself singing of sound, then little bloops. It an unusual way. songs, and telling stories.

But he thinks if he exposes his doesn’t always sound like a voice.

He started recording because “It’s very pretty. I think.” he made a documentary for the performance to the right people, There are snippets of talking, now defunct CBC Radio show, Out it will be worth the risk.

“Growing up I was thirsty for of stories, “but they don’t come Front. The show let people tell their own stories; the listener- anyone exploring anything differ- to an end”.

“If all goes well it turns into a generated mini-documentaries ent,” he says.

The set of Trace is inspired by ten-part harmony with myself.” were aired weekly.

He integrates the audience-reCBC lent Whiston the record- the beach scene from the 1912 ing equipment. He made a docu- film, Death in Venice. There are corded sounds into the end of the mentary called Middle C. CBC still booths on the set like the change performance.

He’s taking a personal story, of plays it. Even now, people tell him huts found on European beaches.

Whiston sets up recording his gender change, and wants the they heard his documentary, and he’s like, I made it eight years equipment in the booths; the audience to make a connection to audience can record themselves. their own life story. ago.

“Each audience member will Middle C has a narrative arc; People can sing, or tell stories.

“It’s not like a play. It’s immer- have a different experience,” he his current stories don’t. They’re says. sive.” soundscapes.

“Who are you as your life chanThere’s a video component of a His show is called Trace. ges? Who are you always?”

“It’s almost more like going to beach scene.

Whiston compares his transTen speakers are set on strucan art gallery” than a concert or tures that look like beach piers. formation to a man looking at a play.

Trace will be in Dawson City And Whiston wears a white linen a picture of himself in his 20s, on January 24, Whiston will be in suit and a straw hat, as seen in the standing in front of a sports car.

Now, he’s got three kids and a Whitehorse for a January 31 show. film.

There is a forty minute live mini van.

He says it seems risky to bring Which man is he? Which parts component where Whiston works Trace to smaller communities.

Not only because it’s the story with the voice recordings he has shine through?

He’s telling his story, but of his gender transformation — he done since his transformation, concedes that it’s not a normal over the last seven or eight years. people can make connections to “It’s more performance art, it because it’s about passage of part of everyone’s lives; that it time. may make some uncomfortable. the audio,” Whiston says.

Sea change.

“I meet new people and I think, Trace will play at the Odd Feldo I tell them?”

He’s referring to his gender lows Hall in Dawson City on January 24. It will be at the Old Fire transformation.

“What part of my history still Hall in Whitehorse on January 31.

That show will start at 7:30. Cost exists?

“What traces of our past seep is a suggested donation of $10. through, when we lay a new verMeagan Deuling is the assistant sion of ourselves on an older verDaily, weekly and monthly rates editor of What’s Up Yukon. sion?”

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he two songs Tristan Whiston sang constantly during his transformation from a female into a male were “Water is Wide” and “I am Sailing”.

Both are about the ocean.

Whiston recorded the changing quality of his voice during his gender change. He had been a soprano singer; he had been training his voice since he was ten — when he was a female.

His voice stayed soprano for two months into the gender change, but he sounded like he had a bit of a cold.

Soon his voice started breaking. For a period he had no voice.

Eventually it started turning into what it is now: “A tenor voice.

“But even still it breaks.”

Whiston’s gender change happened eight years ago.

“I’m not static, I’m always moving forward.”

He thinks of the ocean when he thinks of his gender change.

He was on a shore when he was a female with a soprano voice.

Beginning the change was like stepping into a boat — it was a journey. The middle part of his change, during the break, “felt quite vulnerable at times.”

He was at sea.

He stepped onto the opposite shore as a tenor-toned male. He hasn’t trained his tenor like he trained his soprano.

He asks himself, am I this voice? Or am I this voice? This

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Yukon Flickers with Heather Austin

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Clothes were made from caribou leather so they can survive in cold weather.

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an’ they lived in caribou skin tents.

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Cast No Shadows is set against a backdrop of musty kitchens and slippery rock filmed narrative about the most terrifying demon of all: the one within.

Set in the ever-shadowy outport Newfoundland, a world of dilapidated musty kitchens and slippery rock, this is a gut-wrenchingly accurate depiction of abject poverty combined with deeply supressed pain.

Denigrated places, no matter how physically beautiful, have the ability to twist the most innocent souls into shipwrecks haunted by the hungriest of ghosts.

Jude (Percy Hynes-White) is a malnourished boy of about thirteen. His father, Angus (Joel Thomas Hynes) is a bitter alcoholic, constantly in and out of jail for petty criminal activity; he treats his son like a nuisance and a lackey, and not much more. Angus’s verbal and physical bullying are bending young Jude into a twitching, mistrustful, and decidedly strange young man; his potential to be sweet leaves him all the more vulnerable to his father’s monstrous mental torture.

Constantly hen-pecked by Angus for simply existing, Jude is spiralling out of control, and attempts to cope by splitting himself between the world of reality and the one of imagination.

The film opens with Jude try-

ing to convince a friend that Trolls really exist because the idea of Trolls had to come from somewhere and therefore must be based on some aspect of reality: something tangible.

Trolls, like any “monster” come from somewhere inside the emotionally complex caverns of the human mind. They are projections of ourselves.

Delving into the mind of our protagonist, we are led through gurgling caves and churning coves of small joys and real miseries.

Trapped within a spinning labyrinth of emotion and desperation, Jude’s happenstances pin him into an ever-darkening corner of his crowded, dancing young mind, as it becomes asphyxiated from an infernal lack of hope.

Within a long-standing oral tradition (like that of Newfoundland) rumors and gossip about folks eventually conglomerate into generally believed “truths”.

People make odd women into witches, and these so-called witches eventually begin to believe it themselves; they will manifest imagined and exaggerated characteristics until finally making a full transformation — becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The idea and character of Jude becomes distorted through doz-

ens of tinted lenses, including his own. He lives in the shadow of his father’s misery and reputation, whilst becoming increasingly fearful of his own. He struggles desperately to break a cycle of abuse and negativity in which he is stuck and steeped, like a little crab apple wanting more than anything to fall far from the tree.

St. Jude is said to be the patron saint of desperate situations, a saint that is evoked for the most hopeless of causes. Being powerless and unwanted, Jude is forced to face an impossible test of will and faith with little help from anyone but himself.

He must keep the demons at bay by satiating them with fool’s gold.

But has he enough?

Cast No Shadow screens as part of the Available Light Film Festival 2015 on Tuesday February 10 at 9:30 p.m. at the Yukon Arts Centre. The film’s writer and lead actor, Joel Thomas Hynes (Book of Negroes, Republic of Doyle) along with director Christian Sparkes, will be in attendance for a postscreening Q&A. Heather Austin writes on behalf of the Yukon Film Society.

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January 22, 2015

The Artists Are Working, But Not How You Think

by Denise Norman

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he place is busy and noisy.

Paul and Jeannine Baker look more like construction workers than artists. Jeannine is sweeping drywall debris in the kitchen/workshop space, and Paul is cutting trim at the chop saw.

In an adjoining room, five or six people are gathered in a circle, note pads in hand in what appears to be serious conversation.

It is a board meeting of Yukon Artists @ Work (YA@W), and the artist’s co-operative has a lot to talk about; they’ve got a new space to

Paul Baker at the chop saw get ready for a planned February opening.

A few minutes later, the board meeting is over and people are checking out the new gallery spaces. Snippets of comments can be heard over the construction noise.

“Oh man, this is going to just rock.”

“For your show, you could have a great big painting here (hands are spread wide gesturing towards a blank wall), as big as you want.”

The location of all this activity is YA@W’s new digs: 4129 4th Avenue, previously occupied by Pot

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Everyone is excited.

The group moved out of its previous space on Industrial road at the end of December.

YA@W struck a deal with the owner of the property to trade some major renovations, including a new furnace, for a year of rent-free occupancy, a win for both parties.

Having all the costs up front, however, means the group is fundraising. It set up an Indiegogo crowd-funding site, and quickly met its initial $11,000 goal; currently it’s raised over $17,000.

“The support of the community is phenomenal,” says Patrick

Royle, president of YA@W. “Not just the financial support but the emotional support as well.

It has been a really good, positive infusion for the artists.”

The mandate of YA@W has always been that what they do be good for the world, the country, the city, and the artists. The move downtown will be a positive contribution for the artists and the city.

The building is more accessible, being the 4th gallery on a walkable downtown route, and will have only a few short steps at the entrance. The co-op also plans to use the outdoor spaces around the building for art demonstrations during the summer.

The work happening inside

Some board members following the meeting: Left to right: Patrick Royle, Suzanne Paleczay, Kate Williams, and Harrison Tanner the building is transformative — from a tight space filled with more than 50 display cases to an open concept gallery. The space is smaller than the last gallery, but that won’t be a detriment; Royle says less wall space will mean the paintings will be rotated frequently, which will keep the gal-

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Stay tuned for the announcement of an opening date.

Check out YA@W on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ pages/Yukon-Artists-at-Work/117 156238347068?ref=ts&fref=ts.

Denise L. Norman is a Yukon based writer and adventurer.

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Wed, Jan 21 Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done!

Wed, Jan 21 Rixx & Roxx 8:00 PM Casa Loma a very wide variety and style of music from originals to covers Wed, Jan 21 Johnny Rogers & the New Music Jam 8:30 PM Paddy’s Place 3339315 Wed, Jan 21 BRU Night 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Wed, Jan 21 Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Thu, Jan 22 Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza Thu, Jan 22 Joe Loutchen & Friends 7:00 PM 98 Hotel Longest running house band in the Yukon - Traditional fiddle music and more - jigging is encouraged and limericks are the norm.

Thu, Jan 22 Open mic with Scott Maynard 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn 867-668-4500 Thu, Jan 22 Old School 8:30 PM Paddy’s Place 333-9315 Every Thursday, classic rock at its finest Thu, Jan 22 Fishead Stew 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub A rousing mix of country blues, swinging gypsy jazz, bluegrass, western swing, fiddle tunes, reggae and more...Always a foot stompin’ good time!

Thu, Jan 22 Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Thu, Jan 22 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Fri, Jan 23 Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy Listening Fri, Jan 23 Peggy Jams In Support of Ukes Of Hazard 7:00 PM Club 867 Fundraising to help them finish their next CD. Fri, Jan 23 An Artist Entrepreneur Bootcamp 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Fri Jan 23 Jagermeister 10:00 pm Jarvis Street Saloon Fri, Jan 23 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sat, Jan 24 Jammin at The Sternwheeler Saloon 4:00 PM Sternwheeler Lounge with Peggy and “Jack”.

Sat, Jan 24 Parker Thomas Jazz Conspiracy 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Sat, Jan 24 Floyd For Food 8:00 PM Club 867 A Whitehorse Food Bank Fundraiser.

The Very Best of Pink Floyd with Special Guests for a Good Cause!

Sat, Jan 24 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sat, Jan 24 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Sun, Jan 25 Kitten Puppy 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Mon, Jan 26 Ladies Night with DJ Carlo 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Tue, Jan 27 Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon

Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Tue, Jan 27 Open Mic With MC Turmoil 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Wed, Jan 28 Grant Simpson & Duncan Sinclair 6:00 PM The Wheelhouse 456 2982 Wed, Jan 28 Whitewater Wednesday 7:00 PM Epic Pizza goes till we are done!

Wed, Jan 28 Rixx & Roxx 8:00 PM Casa Loma a very wide variety and style of music from originals to covers Wed, Jan 28 Johnny Rogers & the New Music Jam 8:30 PM Paddy’s Place 3339315 Wed, Jan 28 BRU Night 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Wed, Jan 28 Jamaoke With Jackie 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Thu, Jan 29 Roxx Hunter Live 6:00 PM Tony’s Pizza Thu, Jan 29 JAZZ IN THE HALL & Keitha Clark 7:00 PM The Old Fire Hall 867-3342789 Cabaret seating, first come first ...

Thu, Jan 29 Joe Loutchen & Friends 7:00 PM 98 Hotel Longest running house band in the Yukon - Traditional fiddle music and more - jigging is encouraged and limericks are the norm.

Thu, Jan 29 Open mic with Scott Maynard 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn 867-668-4500 Thu, Jan 29 Old School 8:30 PM Paddy’s Place 333-9315 Every Thursday, classic rock at its finest Thu, Jan 29 Fishead Stew 9:00 PM Dirty Northern Pub A rousing mix of country blues, swinging gypsy jazz, bluegrass, western swing, fiddle tunes, reggae and more...Always a foot stompin’ good time!

Thu, Jan 29 Ginger Jam 9:00 PM Yukon Inn fully electric jam with a PA system, drum kit and guitars provided, and encourages the wearing of silly hats Thu, Jan 29 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Fri, Jan 30 Grant and Keitha Live 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse An evening of jazz, blues, ragtime, stride, originals, fiddled up jazz and jazzed-up fiddle.

Fri, Jan 30 Yukon Musician: Anne Turner 6:00 PM Westmark Whitehorse Jazz and Easy Listening Fri, Jan 30 House Cats 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Fri, Jan 30 DJKJ 9:00 PM Club 867 DjKj will be rocking CLUB 867 every second Friday Fri, Jan 30 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Fri, Jan 30 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon Sat, Jan 31 Jammin at The Sternwheeler Saloon 4:00 PM Sternwheeler Lounge with Peggy and “Jack”.

Sat, Jan 31 Wild Game Banquet, Awards & Dance 5:30 PM Coast High Country Inn 667-4263 Come and enjoy a Wild Game feast and bid at our silent auction Sat, Jan 31 House Cats 7:30 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn Sat, Jan 31 Karaoke 9:00 PM Yukon Inn in the Boiler Room Sat, Jan 31 Yukon Jack Live! 10:00 PM Jarvis Street Saloon

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Thu, Jan 22 Silver City Presentation 7:00 PM MacBride Museum Public Presentation on Silver City. The presentation runs 7-9pm and is $5 or free for members. For info call 667-2709x3 or visit www.macbridemuseum. com Thu, Jan 22 Networking for Business Results - Breakfast 7:30 AM Ricky’s Restaurant 866-883-4762 Are you ready to network for business results and start making changes in your workplace or share ideas about great accomplishments you have made?

Fri Jan 23 Waco CF-BDZ: Behind the Scenes with Bob Cameron 11 am - 3pm Yukon Transportation Museum Bob Cameron is restoring two airplanes at the museum, he is currently working on a Waco CF-BDZ (with support of many, many volunteers).

Mon, Jan 26 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, Jan 27 Talk: Yukon’s Dog Culture 5:30 PM The Old Fire Hall Wed, Jan 28 Spanish Conversation Group 12:00 PM Yukon Government Administration Building 633-6081 Terry or Michèle Join us inside the Bridges Café Wed, Jan 28 Northern Voices Toastmasters 7:00 AM Sport Yukon 867334-8654 Come and build your leadership skills, polish your public speaking in a fun and supportive environment! Guests are welcome to come and drop into our meetings at any time.

Thu, Jan 29 Bookbinding with Mary Hudgin 6:00 PM Arts Underground Thu, Jan 29 North of Myth Poetry Night 7:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre 867 393 7109 A night of northern poetry inside the gallery.

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Fri, Jan 23 After School Building & Sculpting 3:15 PM Heart Of Riverdale Fri, Jan 23 Teen Drop In 7:00 PM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Jan 24 Family Drop In 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Jan 24 Open Ball Pit 10:00 AM Heart Of Riverdale Sat, Jan 24 Parent-Child Mother Goose: Multi-age Group 10:00 AM Canada Games Centre Lisa 668-8535 Free program; preregistration required.

Healthy snacks provided!

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Mon, Jan 26 First Day of Second Semester F.H. Collins Secondary Mon, Jan 26 After school Art Exploration 3:15 PM Heart Of Riverdale Mon, Jan 26 GO The Surrounding Game 6:00 PM Starbucks Chilkoot Centre Simple Game Deep Strategy. Beginners & Visitors Welcome. For more information email: tjbowlby@gmail.com Mon, Jan 26 Learn to Sing Together Teen/ Adult 7:15 PM Heart Of Riverdale Tue, Jan 27 Parent Child Mother Goose 10:30 AM Heart Of Riverdale Tue, Jan 27 After School Sing Together 3:15 PM Heart Of Riverdale Tue, Jan 27 Sibling Drop-in 4:00 PM Autism Yukon 667-6406 Any child with a special needs brother or sister is welcome!! hosted by Autism Yukon Tue, Jan 27 Kids Learn to Knit 6:30 PM Heart Of Riverdale Tue, Jan 27 Knitting Circle (Adult) 7:30 PM Heart Of Riverdale Monday - Friday Math Tutoring! 11:45 AM Wed, Jan 28 Family Drop-In 10:00 AM F.H. Collins Secondary Free peer tutoring Heart Of Riverdale will be available at lunchtime. It will be Monday to Thursday from 11:45-12:15 .

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Fri, Jan 30 Parent-Child Mother Goose: Toddler Group 10:00 AM The Child Development Centre Barbara 335-2283 Toddlers 18 months to 3 years Free program; pre-registration required. Healthy snacks provided!

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Workshops

Wed, Jan 21 Painting Open Studio with Neil Graham 7:00 PM Arts Underground Thu, Jan 22 Repair Cafe | Drop-in 6:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace Fri, Jan 23 Artist Entrepreneur Boot Camp Music Yukon 456-8742 This training will offer members an opportunity to drill deeper into the best business practices to not only survive but to thrive in a rapidly changing music industry.

Fri, Jan 23 Life Drawing Open Studio 7:00 PM Arts Underground Sun, Jan 25 Ceramics Open Studio 2:30 PM Arts Underground Non-instructed open studio. Participants are welcome to use the studio’s tools and equipment; clay and some tools are available for purchase.

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Tue, Jan 27 YuKonstruct Weekly Open House 7:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace Tour YuKonstruct, see some projects in action, and meet some fellow makers Thu, Jan 29 Bookbinding with Mary Hudgin 6:00 PM Arts Underground Thu, Jan 29 Intermediate SketchUp 6:00 PM YuKonstruct Makerspace Fri, Jan 30 Scene Study Acting Workshop 6:00 PM Yukon Arts Centre 8673932676 a weekend workshop with acclaimed director Yvette Nolan Sat, Jan 31 Dan Mangan Workshop 1:00 PM Best Western Gold Rush Inn 456-8742 Sat, Jan 31 The Artist’s Journey Music Yukon 456-8742 Dan Mangan leading a workshop on finding the balance both commercial and artistic success.Workshop will breakdown and de-mystify the details of career building in a clear and concise way.

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Music Survival Camp 2.0

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by Barry “Jack” Jenkins

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uilding on last year’s boot camp for musicians, this month Music Yukon is offering its two-part Music Survival Camp 2.0, focusing on entrepreneurial and artistic development.

The boot camp begins with a showcase on Friday, January 23, followed by a two-day intensive workshop, called the Artist Entrepreneur Boot Camp, offered by Coalition Music, one of Canada’s leading music management firms.

Managing bands like Our Lady Peace and Simple Plan, Coalition Music will show participants how to position themselves in order to make a career as musicians.

Music Yukon’s executive director Michael Brooks is enthusiastic.

“It’s probably the most intensive business workshop that we’ve ever done,” he says.

“Coalition Music is bringing three instructors up, and it’s limited to just 15 artists, so there’s a lot of one-on-one mentoring.

They’re doing their homework: they’ve asked the bands to provide their social media, all the links to their websites, whatever they have, so they’re going to get a good feel for the artists before they even come up.”

The local acts, covering a wide range of genres and experience, from emerging young bands to those with several albums, will start with a short performance to give the instructors a feel for what they can do.

After that, Brooks explains, “One member of a band, the member who does the business side of things will actually attend the workshop on Saturday and Sunday.”

He adds, “The other thing Coalition Music is doing Friday night is a presentation on self-managed to managed bands or artists: when does it actually make sense for you to stop doing all your own management and work with a management company, and what are the steps that the artist has to do to get to the point where they’re ready to be a managed band?”

This presentation is open to all

members of the music community.

The second event of the survival camp happens Saturday, January 31. Dan Mangan, a two-time Juno award winning singer/songwriter, will present his workshop, The Artist’s Journey, on balancing commercial and artistic success.

His concert the previous night at the Yukon Arts Centre sold out in four days. Brooks was keen on having Mangan give the workshop after hearing his keynote speech at last year’s BreakOut West.

“The keynote was done interview style, which we will likely do as well,” Brooks explains.

“And Mangan is really great at breaking down the steps that he took, and even the failures that he had, that it wasn’t all clear sailing. There were a lot of times where he was left shaking his head and wondering, ‘Is there really a way into this whole magical world that I want to be a part of?’”

Mangan’s workshop is open to the public and will be held at the Gold Pan Saloon, with tickets available with a Music Yukon membership, at the Yukon Film and Sound Commission office.

“I imagine that there are people who are people who couldn’t get tickets for the concert the night before who will want to see him in a more intimate setting. You’ll actually get to know the guy by the time it’s over,” he says.

Brooks is hopeful that the music community will be invigorated and inspired by the Survival Camp.

“Coalition Music will show how hard it really is to forge a career and to make a living as an artist, and Mangan will prove that it’s actually possible: that a guy can go from being in a basement band in high school to busking in front of London Drugs to actually being an international artist.

“It is possible.”

Barry “Jack” Jenkins keeps close tabs on the Yukon music scene. Please send comments about his articles to music@ whatsupyukon.com.

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If you are new to working with legislation and regulations, or if you want to expand your understanding of the purpose, development and application of these tools, this training may meet your needs. In the workshop you will work through the following areas: the sources of law; researching the law in relation to reading and understanding statutes; and how to interpret actual statues and prepare draft rules or policies.

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This 2-day workshop builds on the decision-writing module in Practice and Procedures. Its focus is to assist board and tribunal members to acquire and retain writing skills directly relevant to them. Participants will practice particular skills and techniques through focused writing exercises, and by revising one of their own decisions. They will receive individual feedback on their decision from an instructor. The workshop will include large and small group discussion and exercises.

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This 3-day course is for those who provide support services to individuals exposed to trauma material or who work with trauma survivors. The focus is Yukon-specific with an overview of historical traumas within the First Nation communities.

For safety reasons, this course is not recommended as a healing workshop as the information can be overwhelming and it is not intended to re-victimize survivors of trauma.

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This 1-day course is intended for anyone interested in learning more about Yukon First Nations and Self-Government. Develop a broader understanding and appreciation for the key events in Yukon First Nations distant and recent past, in a day that includes interactive activities, discussions and presentations by staff from the Yukon First Nations Initiative department at Yukon College. The instructors incorporate historical timelines, facts, personal stories, and activities for an engaging look at history and recent developments.

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hen I arrived in New York City on December 19 and finally found my way to my room in the apartment I was subletting, I dropped my bags and investigated the habitat.

I had been warned about the kitchen from the girl I was renting the room from (who is also named Kitchen), and sure enough there was a stack of dishes that started at the drain and rose pell-mell above the lip of the sink, near the head of the faucet.

In addition, the sink was halffilled with water that had been stagnating for an undetermined amount of time. It was the type of liquid, which if drained, would leave a mustard-yellow high-volume mark around the edge of the basin.

This initial encounter set the tone for my subsequent relationship with the kitchen during my stay in New York; in other words, we more-or-less left each other alone.

Fortunately, New York is an eater’s paradise.

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Venturing south from my nest in the north-end of Manhattan (Harlem), the density of street vendors steadily increased. These little rectangles-on-wheels were about eight feet long and three feet wide, and usually roofed by a beach umbrella or two.

Great plumes of exotic steam would flavour the surrounding area, as the small man operating the cart would dish out cheap hot dogs and shawarma to millionaires and street urchins alike.

A dozen such stands were lined-up outside the stately, neoclassical walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) on 5th Avenue. At first, the apparent clash of highbrow culture and proletarian cuisine aroused my sense of irony and I chuckled at the sight, but as I acclimatized to the city and witnessed the way New Yorkers of all walks-of-life rub shoulders with each other, the scene outside the Met made more sense.

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When one orders a slice, the man behind the counter wrangles it onto a spatula-type instrument, slides in into a brick oven for a minute, and serves it to you, warm as the Western Sahara.

The pizzas are characterized by thin crusts, which require structural support in the form of a hand under the base, keeping the slice from flopping downward. The real pros fold their slice in half and eat it as a pseudo sandwich.

I saw wedges of pizza as cheap as $1 and never more expensive than $4. And one slice kept me going for the whole afternoon.

With these stats in mind, coupled with New York’s abundance of pizza joints, a simple cost/benefit analysis dictated that slices were to become a foodstaple during my three-week stay in the Big Apple.

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ce fishing is a cold weather activity and your hands are involved in every operation, including cutting holes, setting up equipment, and hopefully handling fish. High quality gloves, mitts, and hand warmers are essential to keep at it for any length of time.

Long before power or even hand-powered augers were available, holes for winter fishing by net or line were punched through the ice with spuds or pointed bars.

Spuds are horizontal cutting edges (like an axe head), either welded to a metal rod or bolted to a wooden handle. These are brought down vertically, chipping the ice until you are through to the water.

This is heavy manual labour and usually the hole is much wider at the ice surface than at the water.

An axe will work if the ice is fairly thin but because the handle is at a right angle to the swing, on thicker ice the handle will hit before the head. Whatever ice-cutting tool is used, one should employ a loop of cord at the top and around the wrist to prevent losing the tool when it slips out of one’s grip.

Hand-powered augers, one hand on top and one hand turning the off-set in the handle, which spins the cutting edge, work surprisingly well if they are kept sharp. Keep the guard in place when the unit is not in use. These will cut an 8 or 10-inch hole in just a few minutes, but it can tiresome if you want to keep drilling new holes in different spots.

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Hand-powered augers work surprisingly well if kept sharp holes in one outing, searching for the fish, so these units although sometimes a little heavy, are up to the task. The requirement for mixed gas is common and for some folks the pre-mixing does not appeal to them. These gas-powered units can also be vulnerable to water in the gas (condensation), which keeps them from running smoothly if they run at all.

New to the market in the power-auger-scene are propane powered units and lithium-ion battery-powered units. Both of these newer designs are in the higher end price range and are spoken highly of in user comments.

The very convenient propane unit uses one-pound tanks we usually use for lamps and portable stoves. They are quick to change and are lighter in weight than many gas models.

Propane can be a little sluggish flow-wise in extreme cold but these standard tanks can be

stored somewhere warmer than the outdoors, such as inside your ice-fishing tent or even inside you coat when you think a tank change will be necessary.

The lithium-ion battery-powered model is relatively new to the market but appears to be living up to it’s advertising. They promise 1,000 inches of drilled ice on a single charge and will fully re-charge in less than 2 hours.

Also the “reverse” feature will drive the loose ice in the hole down into the water.

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

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Adults Reading

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welve-year-olds who faithfully confide the privacies of their adolescent lives in diaries don’t imagine other people will read them. Complicated thoughts we can’t share with anyone like, Mom won’t let me go to the movies, or, I think Greg is cute, are allowed their fullest expression between the covers of small (locked) notebooks, because they are For Our Eyes Only.

Unless you are one of eight Yukoners who will be reading aloud from their childhood diaries in front of an audience this Thursday at Baked Café. It’s an event called Adults Reading Things They Wrote As Kids.

Darren Susin and Bailey Staffen got the idea on a road trip this summer, listening to the CBC podcast Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids. They were already fans of the similarly themed documentary, Mortified Nation, and decided Whitehorse needed its own version.

“You should watch Mortified Nation,” says Susin. “There’s one guy, you’d never guess he used to love hip hop.”

“He documented what he wore and ate each day,” adds Staffen.

“Houston Rockets Hat. White Turtleneck. Shake N’ Bake. He’d end each entry like that.”

It’s this kind of lighthearted kid-world dialect the pair hopes to share with audiences at their own event.

“We just want to know who you had a crush on,” says Staffen.

“Why you hated your parents,” says Susin.

“You’re supposed to be a little bit embarrassed,” adds Staffen.

Which is why they’ve shied

away from asking more seasoned performers to participate, hoping to keep the diary-sharing off the cuff, honest.

While there are a few “bigger name” participants, including What’s Up’s editorial team, readers aren’t necessarily used to the spotlight, nor sharing the private thoughts of their youth with an audience.

Most of the readings will come from performers’ angst-riddled teenage years, but a few will be younger.

“One person is telling a story he wrote in grade three or four,” says Susin. “He got sent home from school after he wrote it.”

“It’s a massacre of something,” adds Staffen.

Though they both had their own childhood diaries, neither Staffen nor Susin will be reading from them at this event.

“I’d be mortified,” claims Staffen, who says she threw away all her diaries as soon as she moved out of her parents’ house.

“Just reading what I wrote as a teenager…it’s terrible.”

“It’s supposed to be terrible,” laughs Susin, whose childhood writings still sit safely in a box at his parents’ home.

Performers were selected before Christmas so that they might have a chance to dig through their personal relics if they were visiting family for the holidays.

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And o f course, each performer will be supplying a childhood photo, which will be projected onto a large wall while they speak.

Adults Reading Things They Wrote As Kids is a free event, and will be held at Baked Café on Thursday, January 22 at 7:30 pm. Baked will be extending their capacity into the hallway for the event, but seating is limited, so get there early.

Joslyn Kilborn is a Whitehorsebased writer who likely honed her skills as an avid journal keeper in her greener years.

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Hello Everybody, We invite you to share your photos of Yukon wildlife. Email your high-resolution images with a description of what’s going on and what camera equipment you used to Editor@WhatsUpYukon.com

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Thursdays 7-11 PM Joe Loutchan World Renowned Fiddler

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Town & Mountain Hotel

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An Artist Entrepreneur Bootcamp The Parker Thomas Jazz Conspiracy Kitten Puppy House Cats House Cats House Cats

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Community EVENTS Atlin

Wednesdays Board Games 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre Wednesdays Ladies’ Lunch & Carpet Bowling 7:00 PM Atlin Rec Centre

Beaver Creek

Wed, Jan 21 Open Gym 3:30 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Thu, Jan 22 Craft night 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Sun, Jan 25 Yoga 3:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Mon, Jan 26 Community Lunch 12:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Mon, Jan 26 Tot Time 9:30 AM Nelnah Bessie John School Tue, Jan 27 Exercise Group 10:00 AM Beaver Creek Community Club Wed, Jan 28 Open Gym 3:30 PM Beaver Creek Community Club Thu, Jan 29 Craft night 7:00 PM Beaver Creek Community Club

Carcross

Wed, Jan 21 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare 821-4251 For more info:kathleen. cranfield@ctfn.ca Wed, Jan 21 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Wed, Jan 21 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Jan 22 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Jan 22 Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator Mon, Jan 26 C/TFN Carving Shed open 5:30 PM Carcross Carving Shed Keith Wolf Smarch will be in attendance to provide guidance/help with all manner of traditional artwork Tue, Jan 27 Elder’s Breakfast 10:00 AM The Old Daycare Tue, Jan 27 Sports Night 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School Tue, Jan 27 Women’s Group 7:00 PM Carcross Community Campus 821-4251 Wed, Jan 28 Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program Lunch 12:00 PM The Old Daycare 821-4251 For more info:kathleen. cranfield@ctfn.ca Wed, Jan 28 Hiroshikai Judo 6:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School 332-1031 Wed, Jan 28 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Jan 29 Sewing Group 6:00 PM CTFN Capacity Building Thu, Jan 29 Prenatal Classes for Mothers and Fathers to be 7:00 PM Ghùch Tlâ Community School With Kathleen Cranfield, Registered Midwife and CPNP coordinator

Dawson City

Wed, Jan 21 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Wed, Jan 21 Dark Room Club 6:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Wed, Jan 21 Dawson City Film Fest Selections 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993-5005 Wed, Jan 21 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat Thu, Jan 22 Guitar Lessons 4:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Thu, Jan 22 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 5:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 Fri, Jan 23 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Jan 23 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Fri, Jan 23 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Fri, Jan 23 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Fri, Jan 23 Dawson City Hockey Association Adult Rec. Tournament Art & Margaret Fry Recreation Centre 993-5575 Sat, Jan 24 KIAC Drop-in Painting 1:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Sat, Jan 24 Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Youth Centre 3:00 PM Tr’ondek Hwech’in Youth Centre Sat, Jan 24 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 9:00 AM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 Sun, Jan 25 St. Paul’s Church Service 10:30 AM St Paul’s Church 867-993-5381 Mon, Jan 26 Super Seniors Weights 55+ 11:00 AM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Jan 26 Women & Weights (Ladies Only) 12:00 PM Dawson City Fitness Centre Mon, Jan 26 Piano Lessons 3:30 PM KIAC Klondike Institute

of Art & Culture Mon, Jan 26 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Mon, Jan 26 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 6:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185 Mon, Jan 26 Dawson City Film Fest Selections 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993-5005 Tue, Jan 27 Step n Strong 7:00 PM Robert Service School 867-993-2520 Wed, Jan 28 Zumba with Katie Pearse 5:30 PM Robert Service School 867-993-5370 Wed, Jan 28 Dark Room Club 6:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Wed, Jan 28 Dawson City Film Fest Selections 7:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 993-5005 Wed, Jan 28 CFYT Trivia 8:00 PM The Billy Goat Thu, Jan 29 Guitar Lessons 4:00 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture Thu, Jan 29 Hatha Yoga with Joanne VanNostrand 5:45 PM KIAC Klondike Institute of Art & Culture 867-993-5185

Faro

Wed, Jan 21 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Wed, Jan 21 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, Jan 21 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 9942375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Wed, Jan 21 Kids in Action Store 3:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Wed, Jan 21 Badminton 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre For more information: gh_bad@live.ca Wed, Jan 21 Adult Floor Hockey 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre equipment provided if needed Thu, Jan 22 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 22 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Fri, Jan 23 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 9942375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, Jan 23 Kids in the Kitchen Cooking Program 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, Jan 23 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Fri, Jan 23 Seniors Fitness class 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Sun, Jan 25 Faro Church of Apostles Mass 10:00 AM Church of Apostles Sun, Jan 25 Faro Bible Chapel Sunday Service 10:30 AM Faro Bible Chapel with Pastor Ted Baker 994-2442 Mon, Jan 26 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Tue, Jan 27 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Tue, Jan 27 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Tue, Jan 27 Faro Kettle Cafe 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Hosted by the Faro Youth Group.

Tue, Jan 27 Archery 4:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Tue, Jan 27 Tai Chi Faro 6:30 PM Faro Recreation Centre With Lucy Moreira, Free Drop In Meet at the Youth Lounge Wed, Jan 28 Faro Glee Club 1:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Wed, Jan 28 Parent & Tot Story Time 11:00 AM Faro Community Library For Babies to age 4. Stories & crafts will be provided Wed, Jan 28 Play Group 2:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 9942375 farorecreation@faroyukon.ca Wed, Jan 28 Kids in Action Store 3:00 PM Del Van Gorder School Wed, Jan 28 Faro Market 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre 994-2728, ext. 5 new, hand crafted, home made or baked products Wed, Jan 28 Badminton 4:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre For more information: gh_bad@live.ca Wed, Jan 28 Adult Floor Hockey 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre equipment provided if needed Thu, Jan 29 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 29 Environment Club 3:45 PM Del Van Gorder School Thu, Jan 29 Zumba 7:00 PM Faro Recreation Centre

Haines Junction

Wed, Jan 21 Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult.

Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5) Thu, Jan 22 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Jan 22 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School Sun, Jan 25 St Christopher’s Church Service 10:30 AM St

Weekly Open House

Get a tour of YuKonstruct, see some projects in action, and meet some fellow makers.

Boys and Girls Club of Whitehorse

Free Drop-In Youth Centre for kids ages 11 to 18 Wednesday to Saturday, 3 to 9 pm.

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Christopher’s Church 867-634-2360 Licensed Lay Leader: Lynn De Brabandere Mon, Jan 26 Fitness Classes - Pilates & Yoga 5:15 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Jan 27 Southern Tutchone Classes 12:00 PM Da Ku Cultural Centre Tue, Jan 27 Takhini Family Game Night 7:00 PM Takhini Hall Wed, Jan 28 Kindermusik 10:30 AM St Elias Convention Centre geared towards children ages 2-3 accompanied by an adult.

Any preschool child is welcome to attend (0-5) Thu, Jan 29 Elders’ Tea & Fitness Lunch 11:00 AM Mun Ku Thu, Jan 29 Adult Soccer 7:30 PM St. Elias Community School

Hamlet of Mt. Lorne

Wed, Jan 21 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, Jan 22 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Fri, Jan 23 Learning Lions - Homeschoolers Get Together 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083 Wed, Jan 28 Kids Craft time 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Thu, Jan 29 Playgroup for parents 3:00 PM Lorne Mountain Community Centre Agnes 667-7083

Marsh Lake

Wed, Jan 21 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Wed, Jan 21 Beginner Bellydance lessons Marsh Lake Community Association 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.

Fri, Jan 23 Dinner at the Jackalope 6:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Reservations welcome. Steak/Rib Nights - last Friday of each month Fri, Jan 23 Drop-in Basketball 7:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Sat, Jan 24 Tot Program 10:00 AM Marsh Lake Community Association Sun, Jan 25 Badminton Drop-in 11:30 AM Marsh Lake Community Association 660-4999 All welcome Tue, Jan 27 South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Tue, Jan 27 North of 60 Cafe 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Tue, Jan 27 South of 6 2:00 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Wed, Jan 28 Adult Basic Fitness 6:30 PM Marsh Lake Community Association Wed, Jan 28 Beginner Bellydance lessons Marsh Lake Community Association 335-9625 followed by hot apple cider and refreshments.

Mayo

Wed, Jan 21 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School Gym Wed, Jan 21 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 9962317 Mayo School Gym Wed, Jan 21 Drop in Volleyball 8:00 PM J.V. Clark School 9962317 Drop in volleyball Thu, Jan 22 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockey Thu, Jan 22 Draw curling night 7:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 Draw curling Thu, Jan 22 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 9962317 hockey Fri, Jan 23 Elementary drop in gym night 5:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night Fri, Jan 23 Dinner and a movie night 5:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 dinner and a movie night Fri, Jan 23 High School drop in gym night 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 drop in gym night for high school kids Sun, Jan 25 St. Mary’s Church Service 11:00 AM St Mary’s Church (867)667-7746 Mon, Jan 26 Yoga in Mayo 7:00 PM Mayo Community Centre Yoga in the Mayo community hall, every Monday in the summer.

Tue, Jan 27 Boys’ basketball practice 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 Come play basketball over lunch!

Tue, Jan 27 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockey Tue, Jan 27 Under 12 Kung Fu 6:30 PM J.V. Clark School 9962317 junior martial arts Tue, Jan 27 Drop in badminton 7:00 PM Mayo Community Centre 996-2317 drop in badminton Tue, Jan 27 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 9962317 hockey

Learn about textures, shape tools, boolean tools, layering and other functions in SketchUp January 29 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Cost $30

Tue, Jan 27 Kung Fu for teens and adults 8:30 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 martial arts for teens and adults Wed, Jan 28 Soccer K to Grade 3 12:00 PM J.V. Clark School 996-2317 School Gym Wed, Jan 28 Drop in Basketball 7:00 PM J.V. Clark School 9962317 Mayo School Gym Wed, Jan 28 Drop in Volleyball 8:00 PM J.V. Clark School 9962317 Drop in volleyball Thu, Jan 29 Youth Ice Hockey 5:30 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 youth hockey Thu, Jan 29 Draw curling night 7:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 996-2317 Draw curling Thu, Jan 29 Ice Hockey 8:00 PM Mayo Hockey Arena 9962317 hockey

Old Crow

Thu, Jan 22 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Sun, Jan 25 St. Luke’s Church Service 11:00 AM St. Lukes Church 867-993-5381 Mon, Jan 26 Volleyball & Floor Hockey Night 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center Saniz 966-3238 Thu, Jan 29 Adult Night at the Youth Centre 7:00 PM Old Crow Community Center

Tagish

All events held at the Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 or 399-3407 Wed, Jan 21 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Jan 21 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Jan 21 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Jan 21 Tagish Community Association meeting 7:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Agenda posted at tagish.ca Thu, Jan 22 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Sat, Jan 24 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Tue, Jan 27 Stay Get Fit 5:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407 Wed, Jan 28 Library and Treasures Thrift Shop 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Wed, Jan 28 Tagish Library 12:00 PM Tagish Community Centre 399-3418 Wed, Jan 28 Cruizers Concession Coffee & Chat 2:00 PM Tagish Community Centre Thu, Jan 29 Carpet Bowling 11:15 AM Tagish Community Centre 399-3407

Teslin

Wed, Jan 21 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors Complex Wed, Jan 21 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Thu, Jan 22 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Sun, Jan 25 Seniors Carpet Bowling 1:00 PM Teslin Rec Center Mon, Jan 26 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Tue, Jan 27 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School Wed, Jan 28 Card Games for Seniors 1:00 PM Teslin Seniors Complex Wed, Jan 28 Archery 3:30 PM Teslin School Thu, Jan 29 Youth Badminton 3:30 PM Teslin School

Watson Lake

Thu, Jan 22 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Jan 22 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 22 Girls Night Youth group 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 22 Watson Lake: Zumba 8:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Jan 24 Watson Lake: Hot Yoga 6:30 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Jan 24 Saturday Night Social 7:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Sat, Jan 24 Ladies Time Out Breakfast 8:30 AM Dragon’s Den Hotel Cynthia Armstrong 536-7239 Sun, Jan 25 St. John’s Church Service 10:00 AM St. John’s Church Service (867) 536-2932 Mon, Jan 26 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities together!

Thu, Jan 29 Help and Hope Drop in for Moms and Kids 1:00 PM Watson Lake Recreation Centre Crafts and Activities

Wed, Jan 21 Back/Hip Yoga & Myofascial release 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Jan 21 TRX w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Jan 21 Spinning w/Cindy 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Jan 21 Stretch & Breath with Jeanne 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Jan 21 Spinning with Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 22 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 22 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 22 Spinning with Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 22 Zumba with Tabitha 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 22 Mat & Stick Pilates With Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate Mat series using a variety of props to create long, lean muscles Fri, Jan 23 Gentle Yoga w/Jasmine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Jan 23 SPIN/Yoga w/Courtney 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Fri, Jan 23 Spinning with Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Sat, Jan 24 Spinning w/Cindy 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Sun, Jan 25 Piano Sundays 1:00 PM Skagway Public Library Come to the library to listen or play...its the one time you won’t be shushed for making noise!

Sun, Jan 25 TRX w/Abby 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Jan 26 Restorative Yoga with Katherine 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate Mat series using a variety of props to create long, lean muscles Mon, Jan 26 Spinning w/Cindy 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Jan 26 Vinyasa Yoga with Courtney 5:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate Mat series using a variety of props to create long, lean muscles Mon, Jan 26 Spinning with Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Mon, Jan 26 Spinning with Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Jan 27 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Jan 27 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Jan 27 Spinning with Tom 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Jan 27 Dance Fusion with Charity 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Tue, Jan 27 Chair & Mat Pilates With Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate Mat series using a variety of props to create long, lean muscles Wed, Jan 28 Back/Hip Yoga & Myofascial release 10:00 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Jan 28 TRX w/Abby 4:30 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Jan 28 Spinning w/Cindy 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Jan 28 Stretch & Breate with Jeanne 5:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Wed, Jan 28 Spinning with Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 29 Breathing with Rain 10:15 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 29 SR weights with Rain 10:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 29 Spinning with Emily 5:45 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 29 Zumba with Tabitha 6:00 PM Skagway Recreation Centre Thu, Jan 29 Mat & Stick Pilates With Katherine 8:30 AM Skagway Recreation Centre Intermediate Mat series using a variety of props to create long, lean muscles

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Peterson & Sons from Mile 0 TO 918, Alaska Highway

by Winnie Peterson

I

have been on an ad hoc personal journey to find my father’s heritage for several years.

He passed away when I was only about six-and-a-half years of age.

What I know about him I know from my mother and from older siblings from his first and second families.

It was the early ‘40s in British Columbia. The United States Army was quickly constructing the Alaska Highway; it was completed in 1942.

My father, Elmer Raymond Peterson, and his two oldest sons from his first marriage, Raymond and Harold, secured a trucking contract to haul supplies for the US Army based in Whitehorse.

E. Peterson & Sons drove the new highway from Dawson Creek to the Yukon, time and time again. I’m not sure when, but the youngest son of my dad’s first family eventually joined him here and also became a trucker.

I heard that there was a time my father, Elmer, had a mishap on the muddy highway — his truck slipped off the road and ended up partially in a creek. He couldn’t get out. He had to overnight there, waiting for help. The story goes that this creek was named after him. Peterson Creek winds in and out of the highway a couple of times at approximately Mile 300.

Elmer wanted to settle in the Yukon. He brought his second family from Dawson Creek. It turned out that his wife decided she didn’t want to settle here. She

returned to British Columbia and they divorced. Harold and Raymond also decided not to settle in the Yukon, and they left, too.

My dad stayed on and in 1943 met my mom, Carrie, literally, on the Alaska Highway. She had become a single mom and would go hunting on “the new trail,” as she saw the Alaska Highway. My dad noticed her walking with her children. Eventually he gave her a ride whenever he saw her on the highway. Their friendship grew into a relationship, which in turn, brought my mom up in Whitehorse in 1944.

Our home was one of the army barracks that was fixed up to live in. This house first sat on Cook Street, and was later moved to Seventh Avenue by the clay cliffs.

I was born in December 1945 — mom’s first baby born in a hospital.

I was the also her first Peterson child, and she later had two more daughters and one more son. We were the third Peterson family.

My dad’s youngest son from his first marriage, Ronnie (apparently he was known as Petey), didn’t leave the Yukon. He was married here. He would visit us often while dad was still alive.

Our sister and two brothers, from my dad’s second marriage, would come up to stay with us sometimes. I remember happy

Image: James S. Shorty

times, especially once when we chased chickens in our yard. Dad tried to bring some of his farming ways with him but I don’t think it lasted too long. One sister, Dorie, stayed on in the Yukon and was married here.

In late summer of 1952, my dad, Elmer Peterson, passed away.

He is buried in the Whitehorse Pioneer Cemetery. I barely remember, but Dorie was still here in the Yukon; however, she moved away after that. I don’t remember the year Petey had a tragic truck accident on the other side of the Takhini Bridge, but it didn’t seem too long after dad had passed on.

We lost contact with the other Peterson families.

In 1975, we learned that Dorie had settled in Williams Lake, B.C. I eventually moved there and we reconnected. Then, I learned a bit more about our father.

I actually met one of my oldest brothers, Raymond, because he came to visit Dorie there.

There we were, the three eldest children from each family; it was during this time that I also reconnected with other family members.

Then in 1981, I met Harold.

He told me that Peterson & Sons hauled a variety of supplies for the army. He laughed when he said that he once had a very interesting load; it was all bats, baseball bats.

Family connections are so important, to “know who you are and where you come from”, as my mom, Carrie, would say.

I know this, without a doubt, on my Tlingit mother’s side. I still don’t know exactly this on my father’s side.

I do know that the Alaska Highway is what brought him here, and where I began.

Winnifred Peterson is a Whitehorse-based storyteller and writer. Contact her via editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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(S)hiver Festival Dawson City’s latest thing

by Gabriela Sgaga

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brand new event will be taking place in Dawson City on Saturday, January 24. The (s)hiver festival promises a night of art, light, and creativity in response to the dark cold of a northern winter.

Originally from Vancouver, festival organizers Blair Douglas and Carly Woolner arrived in Dawson last summer. Both are artists; Douglas creates photo-based light projections, while Woolner is interested in installation art, and is enrolled at the Yukon School of Visual Arts (SOVA) in Dawson.

“The festival is a way to get involved with the community and to give back,” says Douglas.

They came up with the idea one day while talking with friends about Nuit Blanche à Montreal.

It also takes place in the dead of winter, and Douglas and Woolner decided they wanted to do a similar event in Dawson. They gathered some people together and started to plan.

The name, says Douglas, came up by playing with words.

“Hiver” means winter in French, and of course, what do people do but shiver during the long, cold months?

They applied and received funding, then sought people interested in helping and participating.

Douglas is impressed with the level of support the festival has received.

“It’s unique to Dawson to have an idea and receive the support and encouragement that we did,”

he says.

“Our wild idea has become a reality.”

Originally, they expected to be featuring mostly 2D art, but the festival has since evolved to include anything and everything.

“We now have music, dance, painting, sculpture, circus acts and light Installations,” says Douglas.

In total, the festival involves approximately 20 artists. Locations range from outdoor areas to local institutions like SOVA, the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), the Alchemy Café, the Conservation Klondike Society (CKS), and the ODD gallery.

While the outdoor installations will be open for viewing at the public’s leisure, Douglas and Woolner decided to schedule the indoor performances.

“Scheduling the performances promotes movement,” says Douglas.

“We’ve managed to work out a cohesive flow, grouping like-things together. It’s part of the festival experience to have choices.”

Maps of the various outdoor and indoor installations, as well as performance locations for the one-day festival, are available at various businesses around Dawson as well as at KIAC. The event will start at 4:00 p.m. on January 24, in order to encourage families to come, and will end later in the evening with a dance party at the artists’ market shelter on the waterfront.

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(S)hiver festival organizers Carly Woolner and Blair Douglas A live band has also been scheduled to play at the Westminster to close up the festival.

Both Douglas and Woolner are excited, as well as nervous, as the festival date draws near. This is their first experience organizing such an event, and both feel that it has been a good learning experience and hope that the festival

will become an annual event.

“We’re really enjoying it,” says Douglas.

“People have been very helpful, we couldn’t ask for anything more. This is really awesome.”

For more information on the (s) hiver festival, go to www.dawsonshiver.com.

Gabriela Sgaga lives off the grid in her West Dawson cabin with her sled dogs. She enjoys mushing, skijoring and writing about everyday life in the Yukon. Please send comments about her articles to dawson@ whatsupyukon.com

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Active Interest LISTINGS Wed, Jan 21 Lunchtime Yoga 12:10 PM Shanti Yoga 867-456-7123 Learn to breathe, stretch and relax! Use back entrance of Hawkins House No experience required all are welcome Wed, Jan 21 Adult Biathlon 5:30 PM Biathlon Range Wed, Jan 21 Hand to Hand - Level 2&3 with Gael 6:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Wed, Jan 21 Drop In Badminton 7:00 PM Takhini Elementary School Newcomers are welcome For more information: birdiebash@gmail.com Wed, Jan 21 Staff/Jo with Gael 7:00 PM Aikido Yukon Dojo Wed, Jan 21 Badminton 7:30 PM Golden Horn Elementary For more information: gh_bad@live.ca

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Photos: Alexander Weber

Scary Stuff Ice climbing ain’t for the faint of heart

Blue ice is the safest ice to climb

“… I took a moment to appreciate the beautiful view afforded by the new height.”

by Alexander Weber perspective, in rock climbing, it is not only common, but expected, that a leader will fall. That often means you’re climbing at your grade, pushing your limits.

- Falling or belaying with sharp stainless steel spikes sticking out of your feet and hands and all over your body. I have recurring nightmares of puncturing a major artery and dying, prostate, in my climbing buddy’s arms.

- Being hit by falling blocks of ice, with nowhere to run or hide, as you are literally tied into a hunk of ice hundreds of feet from the ground.

Despite these fears I persist, because the few times I have made it out this year, I have come back with “I just climbed a motherlovin’ waterfall”, resounding in my head, as I do a little happy dance, alone in my room.

My first proper ice climb was in November. My friend and I attempted to a 300-metre climb; it

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had four stages, stacked on top of each other, with the last climb not involving ice — a climber should use his gear (axes in both hands, crampons on both boots) on bare rock (again, terrifying) to reach the summit.

On the morning of the climb we set off down the Alaska Highway.

After an hour of driving, we put on our heavy mountaineering boots, made small talk about how cold it was, and with packs on, headed into the woods.

The hike itself took nearly two hours, and at one point involved travelling through a snow gulley, otherwise known as What-theheck-are-we-getting-ourselvesinto terrain.

After the effort of sweating and steep hiking and stopping to shed layer after layer, we beheld our climb; she was magnificent.

Ice climbers know a lot about ice. Different kinds have names that describe how good or how

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have been a rock climber for seven years; I went from being an indoor climbing warrior to outdoors enthusiast. I climb 1500 feet walls; I bushwhack for hours for a single climb and travel to exotic countries to taste the different rock.

All the while, I keep a cool head. I don’t consider my lifestyle scary or dangerous.

This year I tried ice climbing; I am officially scared.

Here is a list of things that absolutely terrify me about ice climbing: - Losing toes or fingers to freezing cold temperatures.

- Avalanches (some climbers even forego beacons and avalanche equipment because they figure, “If an avalanche catches you while you’re way up the face of a steep ice climb, you’re a gone-er”.)

- The ice climbing motto, which is “the leader does not fall”. For

After about 50 metres I The first frozen waterfall Alex Weber climbed came to a difficult section of the route. I stopped there to set up an anchor — I placed several screws close together, and attached webbing and more carabineers in order to belay my partner up the bad it is. They use words like route I had just “chandelier”, “cauliflower”, climbed. I took a moment to appre“mushrooms”, “candle sticks”, ciate the beautiful view afforded and “curtains” to describe ice, all by the new height. I was proud to the while making me hungry for a be leading my first ice-climb. fancy dinner.

When my partner reached me, The colour of ice ranges be- he congratulated me, and looked tween crystal clear (scary), white, up — he was leading next. The ice yellow, or blue. Blue, I have been wall was wide, so he had several told countless times, is the best climbing routes. He chose a seccolour — it mean the ice is well tion that seemed safe and within consolidated, and will take good his comfort zone. Not wanting to protection and axe hits. be a Debbie Downer, I was happy We faced the bluest of blue ice he had chosen the more conservaat the base of our climb. It went tive route. up and up and up, as high as our What followed was a nerve craned necks would allow us to wracking 20 minutes. His cramsee. pons slipped from their purchase The first section was easier several times, leaving him danthan the next, so I volunteered gling from his ice axes, which to go first. This would be my first were secured by an inch in the time on what climbers call the frozen water. ‘sharp end’ of the rope, which When he got to the top I let out means being in the lead position. a huge sigh of relief, and followed I would climb up and, every now after him. The route was scary, and then, pause and screw 10- and I was impressed with him. As 20 centimetre ice screws into night was quickly approaching, the frozen waterfall. The screws with a 4:30 sunset, we decided to connect the rope to carabineers, end our climb there, leaving the which will arrest my fall. Trusting two sections above us for next a 10-centimetre screw lodged in time. ice is another item to add to the above list.

Alexander Weber is usually The ice was good; I didn’t have too busy adventuring to think to kick or swing many times be- seriously about his life or where fore getting a solid boot or ice axe he is heading. When he isn’t placement, and up I went. Conoutside risking his life, he can tinuously pushing aside any fears I often be found inside reading had about falling to my icy grave, a good book. Contact him via I persevered. editor@whatsupyukon.com.

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2015 **Please register at the Frank Slim Building in Shipyards Park at least 30 minutes prior to each event.** Flour Packing Contest Sponsored by ATCO Electric Yukon SATURDAY, FEB. 21 AT 11:30 AM Sign up to haul some flour in one of the longest running events at Rendezvous. Prospectors had to tow heavy loads with them when they traversed the Chilkoot Trail at the turn of the century. In this competition, participants test their essential survival skills by packing hundreds of pounds of flour on their backs and attempt to make it to the finish line. Needless to say, this takes strength and determination.

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