2024/2025 Gwaandak Season

If you want to get involved in the Upcoming Season, check out our posted opportunities here:

Thank you to everyone who attended our AGM on October 6th, 2024!

Sixth Annual Awaken Festival April 13th-27th, 2025

Featuring in-person and digital workshops, cultural presentations, performance showcases, and more, all in an effort to celebrate the different ways we can gather and connect. Join us in Whitehorse YT & Online each spring.

Find out more about the 2025 Awaken Festival!

Indigenous Summer Play Readings - July 2025

Presenting readings of The Spirit of the Valley by Frank Henry Kaash Katasse and Jordan by Yvette Nolan - this annual tour creates opportunities for emerging theatre artists, promotes stronger community connections, and showcases Indigenous scripts throughout the Yukon.

Find out more about ISPR 2025!

Climate Play

Gwaandak Theatre has partnered with the wâhkôhtowin project (led by Yvette Nolan and Joel Bernbaum) and Yukon University to offer a one-day verbatim theatre training workshop as part of the wâhkôhtowin project's Climate Play. This training took place on Sat. November 9th, 2024.

Some participants of this workshop will be invited to continue with the project, collecting interviews on their own time January through March, and then gathering for a week-long development workshop tentatively scheduled for April 13th-19th, 2025 as part of Gwaandak Theatre's Awaken Festival.

Find out more about Climate Play!

New Indigenous Theatre Readings

Gwaandak Theatre is proud to present a collection of readings by Tyra Ashauntie, Jedrek Dendys, Isabelle James-Walker, and Colin Wolf as part of the 2024 Yukon Words Festival, happening November 22nd-24th, 2024!

Starting at 11AM on November 23rd, 2024, join us in the Multi-Purpose Room at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre as these artists share a selection of their work, followed by a short question and answer period with the audience.

Find out more about the readings and the Festival!

Vuntut Gwitchin Stories

In 2018 Gwaandak Theatre, led by Patti Flather and Leonard Linklater, partnered with the Vuntut Gwitchin Government to find new ways to share traditional stories and celebrate the Gwich’in language.

The result was a series of radio plays recorded in 2019 with both Gwich’in and English casts: Ch’iitsii Khał Datl’oo (The Blue Cruiser), Tl’oo Thał (Grass Pants), and Vah Srigwehdli’ (The One Who Survived), as well as an English language version of Shanaghàn Neekaii Nanaa’in Hah (Two Old Women and the Bushman).

Enjoy these stories anytime throughout the Season!

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