Nakai is beginning a multiyear project to develop and support outdoor and landbased theatre practices in the Yukon. We started in 2019.
This is where we will share our reflections and plans here.
On August 23rd we went to the Yukon Arts Centre. It was a day of processing and mapping the work and discussions of the previous week. We needed to surface what we knew, what questions remained and what happens next. And we needed to surface the big questions that remained. Out came the index cards, post-it notes and craft paper.
Read MoreOn Wednesday August 21st, we left Whitehorse to camp for one night at Conrad Campground, outside of Carcross. It was important while planning the residency that we included an element of camping, to actually immerse participants within an outdoor site away from urban areas and out of cell service, however complicated the logistics of sleeping, cooking, car-pooling and staying warm.
On Tuesday August 20th, we visited Brian Fidler’s property in Wolf Creek where every year he hosts Ramshackle Theatre’s Theatre in the Bush. To imagine possibilities and the future, it’s crucial to understand and experience what is happening now.
Read MoreOn Friday August 16 and Sunday August 18 the cohort attended two dance and movement workshops led by residency participant Aimée Dawn Robinson in the woods outside her cabin near the Carcross Cutoff.
Read MoreWe sat down for a chat with four Yukon artists to talk about how the landscape of the territory impacts their art and lives. Lianne Charlie (Visual artist / Educator), Matthew Lien (Composer / Binaural sound artist), Emily Ross (Musician / Borealis Soul) and Jayden Soroka (Filmmaker / VR/AR maker)
As part of our Landscapes Theatre project earlier this summer, Nakai Theatre held three days of drop-in theatre workshops for local First Nations youth at the fish camp of Dianne Smith at Fish Lake.
Read MoreIn pursuit of “Theatre that can only be made here,” Yukon’s Nakai Theatre is launching an ambitious new program this summer that asks, “What is the theatre that matches the scale of our landscape?”
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