Pivot Returns to the Whitehorse riverfront January 6th to February 1st, 2025
Celebrate the weird and the wonderful!
Embrace the dark and step into the light for music, stories, laughs, and friends.
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Look Up is a series of intimate short performances combining live visual animation, storytelling and a foley soundscape. Bringing us back to the simple magic of storytelling, everything we see is analog and happening right then and there. There will be no “play” button to hit, and no computers in sight. GET TICKETS NOW!
Craft in good company! Want to start a new habit? Or have some late gifts to finish? We’ll set out the tables in the Sun Room and Drinking with Scissors’ Allison Button will have craft kits – or bring your own supplies. We’ll put on some music and beverages will be available!
We had so much fun last year, we had to do it again!
Starts at the Old Firehall and heads towards Shipyards.
Our annual night of poetry along the Yukon River in January. Curated by Peter Jickling.
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Join freelance theatre critic Aisling Murphy (New York Times, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail) for a conversation about arts criticism.
Look Up is a series of intimate short performances combining live visual animation, storytelling and a foley soundscape. Bringing us back to the simple magic of storytelling, everything we see is analog and happening right then and there. There will be no “play” button to hit, and no computers in sight. GET TICKETS NOW!
Loop Sessions is a non-competitive sample flip challenge among beatmakers and producers, in over 30 locations around the world.
A night of Yukon writing and music. Curated with Yukon Words.
Line up coming soon! GET TICKETS NOW!
Look Up is a series of intimate short performances combining live visual animation, storytelling and a foley soundscape. Bringing us back to the simple magic of storytelling, everything we see is analog and happening right then and there. There will be no “play” button to hit, and no computers in sight. GET TICKETS NOW!
We had so much fun last year, we had to do it again!
Join us at Shipyards Park to enjoy the fires, and add our own lights to the night.
New this year: event starts at Shipyards, not the Old Fire Hall!
Come sing with the Sun Room Pop-up Choir! Erica will lead a gentle body and vocal warm-up, then teach an easy 3-part harmony arrangement of "It'll Shine When It Shines" by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, a song with with big uplifting energy. The song will be taught by call and response, with lyric sheets provided.
Singers of all levels are welcome. REGISTRATION APPRECIATED!
Award-winning Canadian Clown Artist Candy Roberts assumes her alter ego in this daring and comedic piece about one dude’s hilarious attempt at self-improvement. With rock and roll, a little life-coaching, and a dip into his own psyche, Larry uncovers a little more than anyone expected. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Award-winning Canadian Clown Artist Candy Roberts assumes her alter ego in this daring and comedic piece about one dude’s hilarious attempt at self-improvement. With rock and roll, a little life-coaching, and a dip into his own psyche, Larry uncovers a little more than anyone expected. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Award-winning Canadian Clown Artist Candy Roberts assumes her alter ego in this daring and comedic piece about one dude’s hilarious attempt at self-improvement. With rock and roll, a little life-coaching, and a dip into his own psyche, Larry uncovers a little more than anyone expected. GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Play with the cultivation of curiosity, the exploration of emotional range and the practice of being seen! REGISTER NOW!
A night of live musical acts from local artists. Come have a drink, bask in the glow of our alien sun, and dance the night away.
Curated by Music Yukon
Burn Things! is a short parade with laughter and light to Shipyards where the fires will burn warm and bright ready to receive whatever it is audiences are ready to release.
Come gather around the otherworldly sun and listen to local storytellers as they spin yarns and share their inner worlds.
Curated by Yukon Words
This conversation welcomes all artists, arts workers, arts organizations and supporters, including those who are caregivers and those who receive care, who are interested in discussing needs related to care and caregiving in our arts community.
Photo: Courtesy of Gwaandak Theatre, Trinity and Kelly Vittrekwa acting in the 2022 Indigenous Summer Play Readings together.
A theatrical hilarious award-winning group of Filipina-Canadian artists is here to entertain with song, dance, stories, and laughter.
A theatrical hilarious award-winning group of Filipina-Canadian artists is here to entertain with song, dance, stories, and laughter.
Join the Yukon Digital Theatre Collective’s five project creators for an evening of artist talks and presentations on their unique storytelling projects.
The Sun Room allows sun chasers and après aficionados to transport themselves to our famous otherworldly beach planet with its giant sun.
A variation on the Pivot Festival tradition to kick-off with a jam-packed crawl with people and stories in defiance of -30 and below. This year, different from previous years, we’ll be outside for the readings, and they’ll all be poets. Join small, brave groups of listeners and tromp along the river to different riverside locations where, at each stop, local poets captivate you and we provide a warming opportunity to listen, starting at Shipyards Park and ending at the Old Fire Hall.
Pivotal Conversations — A Dialogue on Arts and Media Space in Whitehorse
A forum for local artists and arts leaders to focus on creative exchange and meaningful conversations beyond the scope of day-to-day interactions. Each year responds in topic to needs in the community. In 2020 the conversation will be focused on cultural spaces and the potential for a cultural hub in Whitehorse. There is an active plan that is looking for input and contributions and this will be an opportunity to do just that.
Gathering:
January 26, 2020, 12 p.m., Old Firehall, Whitehorse
Becky Johnson of the Sufferettes returns to the Yukon, this time accompanied by Taz VanRassel of The Sunday Service improv troupe from Vancouver BC.
With their combined credits, Becky and Taz are experts in improv theatre and will be treating Pivot-goers to three nights of diverse and heartfelt longform improvisation, including collaborations with local guests Borealis Soul and Peter Jickling, as well as Toronto-based technical and multimedia improviser Mark Andrada. This year’s improv nights will also see the return of the much loved Improv Cocktails by Yukon Brewing.
Becky Johnson of the Sufferettes returns to the Yukon, this time accompanied by Taz VanRassel of The Sunday Service improv troupe from Vancouver BC.
With their combined credits, Becky and Taz are experts in improv theatre and will be treating Pivot-goers to three nights of diverse and heartfelt longform improvisation, including collaborations with local guests Borealis Soul and Peter Jickling, as well as Toronto-based technical and multimedia improviser Mark Andrada. This year’s improv nights will also see the return of the much loved Improv Cocktails by Yukon Brewing.
Becky Johnson of the Sufferettes returns to the Yukon, this time accompanied by Taz VanRassel of The Sunday Service improv troupe from Vancouver BC.
With their combined credits, Becky and Taz are experts in improv theatre and will be treating Pivot-goers to three nights of diverse and heartfelt longform improvisation, including collaborations with local guests Borealis Soul and Peter Jickling, as well as Toronto-based technical and multimedia improviser Mark Andrada. This year’s improv nights will also see the return of the much loved Improv Cocktails by Yukon Brewing.
Becky Johnson of the Sufferettes returns to the Yukon, this time accompanied by Taz VanRassel of The Sunday Service improv troupe from Vancouver BC.
With their combined credits, Becky and Taz are experts in improv theatre and will be treating Pivot-goers to three nights of diverse and heartfelt longform improvisation, including collaborations with local guests Borealis Soul and other special guests to be announced, as well as Toronto-based technical and multimedia improviser Mark Andrada.
Becky Johnson of the Sufferettes returns to the Yukon, this time accompanied by Taz VanRassel of The Sunday Service improv troupe from Vancouver BC.
With their combined credits, Becky and Taz are experts in improv theatre and will be treating Pivot-goers to three nights of diverse and heartfelt longform improvisation, including collaborations with local guests Borealis Soul and other special guests to be announced, as well as Toronto-based technical and multimedia improviser Mark Andrada.
1979 was a remarkable, bittersweet year - it saw the death of disco and the birth of Nakai Theatre. Celebrate 40 years later, in a fun evening themed around Nakai’s founding year! There will be 1970s-themed playlists, costumes, dancing, lip sync battles, a photo booth, and a collection of old Nakai memorabilia. This event will be hosted by renowned master of ceremonies, Cooja Boogie.
Party!
January 18, 2020, 8 p.m., Whitehorse Legion Branch 254
Take a ride with Simon Douglas, an Indigenous man from the Secwépemc Nation, as he navigates his memories of life in Vancouver and rural British Columbia. The story begins in 1972 and spans 22 years of Simon’s struggle for survival, belonging, and hope, with the same actor playing over 40 characters, all as seen through Simon’s eyes.
The play, written by Darrell Dennis, an Indigenous comedian best known for his role on CBC’s Northwood and The Rez, Tales of an Urban Indian is performed on a moving bus, which will travel across Whitehorse, visiting locations that mirror those of the play’s plot. The play’s immersive staging allows for the exploration of tensions between the urban and rural, as well as issues of ostracization and assimilation faced by Indigenous people across Canada. These themes almost seamlessly reconstitute themselves within the local frame of the city of Whitehorse and the Yukon’s surrounding rural communities.
Its list of past performers have included playwright Darrell Dennis, director Herbie Barners, Jonathan Fischer, and Royal Canadian Air Farce star Craig Lauzon. For Pivot, Brendan Chandler will be portraying Simon.
Performances:
January 15-17, 2020, 7 p.m., White Pass Building, Whitehorse
Audience pickup and drop-off will be in front of the White Pass Building, 1109 Front Street, Whitehorse.
Take a ride with Simon Douglas, an Indigenous man from the Secwépemc Nation, as he navigates his memories of life in Vancouver and rural British Columbia. The story begins in 1972 and spans 22 years of Simon’s struggle for survival, belonging, and hope, with the same actor playing over 40 characters, all as seen through Simon’s eyes.
The play, written by Darrell Dennis, an Indigenous comedian best known for his role on CBC’s Northwood and The Rez, Tales of an Urban Indian is performed on a moving bus, which will travel across Whitehorse, visiting locations that mirror those of the play’s plot. The play’s immersive staging allows for the exploration of tensions between the urban and rural, as well as issues of ostracization and assimilation faced by Indigenous people across Canada. These themes almost seamlessly reconstitute themselves within the local frame of the city of Whitehorse and the Yukon’s surrounding rural communities.
Its list of past performers have included playwright Darrell Dennis, director Herbie Barners, Jonathan Fischer, and Royal Canadian Air Farce star Craig Lauzon. For Pivot, Brendan Chandler will be portraying Simon.
Performances:
January 15-17, 2020, 7 p.m., White Pass Building, Whitehorse
Audience pickup and drop-off will be in front of the White Pass Building, 1109 Front Street, Whitehorse.
Take a ride with Simon Douglas, an Indigenous man from the Secwépemc Nation, as he navigates his memories of life in Vancouver and rural British Columbia. The story begins in 1972 and spans 22 years of Simon’s struggle for survival, belonging, and hope, with the same actor playing over 40 characters, all as seen through Simon’s eyes.
The play, written by Darrell Dennis, an Indigenous comedian best known for his role on CBC’s Northwood and The Rez, Tales of an Urban Indian is performed on a moving bus, which will travel across Whitehorse, visiting locations that mirror those of the play’s plot. The play’s immersive staging allows for the exploration of tensions between the urban and rural, as well as issues of ostracization and assimilation faced by Indigenous people across Canada. These themes almost seamlessly reconstitute themselves within the local frame of the city of Whitehorse and the Yukon’s surrounding rural communities.
Its list of past performers have included playwright Darrell Dennis, director Herbie Barners, Jonathan Fischer, and Royal Canadian Air Farce star Craig Lauzon. For Pivot, Brendan Chandler will be portraying Simon.
Performances:
January 15-17, 2020, 7 p.m., White Pass Building, Whitehorse
Audience pickup and drop-off will be in front of the White Pass Building, 1109 Front Street, Whitehorse.
A food-filled evening of storytelling with a pillar of the Whitehorse community, Antoinette GreenOliph. Join Antoinette inside the warm space of her own restaurant for stories. Each course will mark a moment in Antoinette’s journeys from the Caribbean to the North, from desk job monotony to successfully running her own business, and from coming out as queer at the age of 40 to finding belonging and love.
One night only, limited seating, and the price includes dinner!
SOLD OUT
