Awaken Festival 2020
Gwaandak Theatre is pleased to present its first annual Awaken Festival. This festival will feature workshops, and digital performances for our Indigi/Queer Cabaret and Creators Lab. Awaken Festival centers marginalized artists to showcase their creativity, to share a story, but most importantly we hope to offer connection and community as both artists and audience reorient […]
Ndoo Tr’eedyaa Gogwaandak (Forward Together) – Website Launch
Honouring age-old storytelling traditions and Indigenous language revitalization from Yukon’s Vuntut Gwitchin.
Gwaandak Theatre 20th Season Celebration
As Gwaandak Theatre enters its third decade, we invite you to join us in celebrating the last 20 years and welcome incoming Artistic Director Colin Wolf!
ūtszan (to make something better)
ūtszan (to make something better)
An endearing story about first language homecoming…ūtszan is a language reclamation.
Ndoo Tr’eedyaa Gogwaandak (Forward Together)
Listen LIVE With CBC Ideas’ Paul Kennedy and special guests from Old Crow, Yukon and further afield, and interviews with Vuntut Gwitchin language and culture champions.
Creators Lab 2019
Welcome to Creators Lab 2019-2020
We’re heading into the second season of our Indigenous and Northern Theatre Creators Lab Unit. Gwaandak Theatre is proud to support these promising creators and projects.
Bystander
Drink. Fight. Survive.
How would you play the game?
While Having Soup / Le Temps d’une Soupe
Enjoy soup and inspired discussions
Ndoo Tr’eedyaa Gogwaandak (Forward Together): Vuntut Gwitchin Stories
Long Ago and contemporary stories in Gwich’in and English
Indigenous Summer Play Readings
Be inspired. Be moved. – Join us!
June 11 & June 13, 2019 | 7PM | Whitehorse | The Old Firehall in Whitehorse
Paradise
May 3-5, presented by Pat the Dog Theatre Creation
Tour to Sudbury – What if we could just fly away…?
Yukon Playwrights Conference
Join the Playwrights Guild of Canada and Gwaandak Theatre at the Yukon Playwrights Conference on April 14th, 2018 at the Old Firehall in Whitehorse
Spring Thaw Play Readings
The entire Yukon community is invited to experience four short play readings by guest and local playwrights.
Hidden Memories
By Lillian Nakamura Maguire
The daughter of Japanese immigrants sifts through her parents’ memorabilia, piecing together their early BC life and forced relocation.
Map of the Land, Map of the Stars
Follow our trail. Our newest show will be showcased at IMPACT 17 in Kitchener, Ontario and Talking Stick Festival in 2018.
Paradise
February 8-9, presented by Azimuth Theatre
Tour to Edmonton – What if we could just fly away…?
Playful Playwriting
With David Geary
A hands-on exploration of essential building blocks for theatre storytelling.
Lighting & Video Design
With Bruno Matte
Learn practical ways to realize your vision in lighting and projection.
The Unplugging
By Yvette Nolan - Directed by Reneltta Arluk
Could an old woman’s wisdom save the world?
Map of the Land, Map of the Stars
Premiere in Whitehorse and Yukon Tour
Paradise
By Patti Flather
An unemployed logger, a young man accused of terrorism, a family doctor and his daughter, are all searching for their humanity inside the systems that cage us all.
The Hours That Remain
By Keith Barker
Inspired by the pervasive reality of missing women in Canada, this play from Metis playwright Keith Barker explores the legacy of loss endured by families, friends and community.
Justice
By Leonard Linklater
Whose justice prevails when cultures collide? Based on the true story of the Nantuck brothers.
Café Daughter
By Kenneth T. Williams
Yvette Wong has a secret… she can’t tell anyone. She’s part Cree.
The Soul Menders
By Patti Flather
An intelligent comedy about love-weary people and fractured families struggling to become whole at Christmastime.
Tell Me More…
By the Ynklude Ensemble
Heart-aching blues and heavy metal, imaginary friends and unrequited love, all showcasing the talents of the Ynklude ensemble.
Go Angel Girlfriends
By The Women of Ynklude
In a village watched by angels, voluptuous goddesses sing, laugh, dream, and celebrate. The women’s spirits and friendships give them strength despite barriers in their world. A celebration of resiliency and overcoming uncommon odds.
Carnival
By Mitch Miyagawa
Carnaval, where tragedy is beautiful, and sadness is celebrated.
Where the River Meets the Sea
By Patti Flather
Jade and her mom Lu-Anne are finally home, back on the West Coast with a new high school, new store, new life.
West Edmonton Mall
By Patti Flather
The rollercoaster tale of one woman’s quest to drive from the Yukon to the famed mall. A solo play about isolation, go nowhere jobs and been nowhere boyfriends…and about getting to the Polynesian Room at the Fantasyland Hotel in the middle of winter before you turn 30.