Date: May 5th, 2020 to May 15th, 2020
Community: Yellowknife
Somba 'Ke Park
Dene Nahjo's 5th Annual Urban Hide Camp!
Everyone is welcome at Urban Hide Camp. Come out and learn about hide tanning, make friends and have some tea by the fire.
Camp is open from 10:00am - 6:00pm daily except for Sundays.
Opening Ceremony will begin at 12:00pm on May 5th!
Hide tanners - we welcome you to bring your own hides! Please fill out the registration form through this link: https://forms.gle/wRRqkzxRAsdtQ8TN9
Mahsi cho and see you in May!
Date: May 9th, 2020
Community: Yellowknife
Northern Arts and Cultural Centre
Children’s entertainer Miranda Currie, released her latest album Bouncing in the Boreal in November of 2018! Currie writes fun, catchy, and original kid friendly songs with a northern indigenous flair!
As singer-songwriter, fiddle and guitar player, Miranda uses these instruments to convey the beauty and adventure she finds near her Yellowknife home, where she lives with her two sled dogs! Her show includes references to the indigenous Dene language of Tlicho, as well as songs about her favourite animal - the busy beaver! Miranda is an outdoor educator and author of 3 children's...
Date: May 15th, 2020
Community: Yellowknife
Northern Arts and Cultural Centre
Wesley Hardisty is a fiddler and composer whose music blends rock, country, folk, Celtic and Métis sounds. His passionate playing is compelling to watch, his love of music evident.
Wesley is from the Dene First Nation in the North West Territories. Largely self taught, he took up the fiddle at age thirteen in Fort Simpson through the outreach work of the Kole Crook Fiddle Association. He attended the prestigious Gulf Islands School of Performing Arts on Saltspring Island BC.
His debut CD 12:12 won the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award for Best Fiddle CD. Just 25, he...
Date: May 16th, 2020
Community: Yellowknife
Northern Arts and Cultural Centre
In search for a musical identity that embraces all of Canada, the duo meagan&amy presents connections between Canadian music and the traditional canon of classical repertoire. Selected as winners of the "Road Trip! A Pan-Canadian Partnership" recital tour offered by Debut Atlantic, Jeunesses Musicales Canada, and Prairie Debut, the duo will explore with Canadian audiences in all ten provinces and all three territories what it is that makes Canadian music "Canadian". Their program pairs Canadian composers such as Jocelyn Morlock, André Mathieu and Saskatchewan's own David McIntyre with...
Date: May 22nd, 2020
Community: Yellowknife
Northern Arts and Cultural Centre
Kiera-Dawn Kolson is an award winning Multi disciplinary artist, performer and young leader. For over 20 years Kiera-Dawn has been involved nationally and internationally in various realms of advocacy work involved in art and empowerment. Kiera-Dawn's work has focused on Indigenous peoples human rights, environmental protection, cultural preservation, Indigenous women's right's/MMIW, Indigenous communities and decolonization, harm reduction and empowerment through art and culture. Kiera-Dawn is passionate about the revitalization of Indigenous heritage nationally and internationally and...
Date: May 29th, 2020 to May 31st, 2020
Community: TBD
Mark your calendars for the 2020 NorthWords NWT Festival which will take place May 29-31, 2020.
Check back for more details.
Date: May 30th, 2020
Community: Yellowknife
Northern Arts and Cultural Centre
Martin Rehak is a multi disciplinary artist and stand up comedian who primarily produces comedic video shorts that incorporate practical effects such as stop motion and puppetry; often times designing and creating props and sets all by hand. Currently he is writing and developing a multimedia stage performance consisting of live humouristic story telling assisted by video projections that will take you on a journey into the absurd.
