2023/2024 Gwaandak Season

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

Quick n’ Dirty Residency & Cabaret 2024

Gwaandak's training opportunity for drag, burlesque, & cabaret performers located in Northern, Rural, & Remote communities. Experienced performers mentor & guide emerging & remote artists in creating a Cabaret.

Join us online for the Digital Cabaret on April 25th!

Fifth Annual Awaken Festival April 8th-28th, 2024

Presenting in-person and digital workshops, residencies, industry nights, & performance showcases all in an effort to celebrate the different ways we can gather & connect. Join us this Spring to learn, share, & Awaken.

Find out more about the Festival!

Indigenous Summer Play Readings 2024

We are proud to be presenting two works written by Yukon First Nations playwrights: Constellation by Tyra Ashauntie Gill (Selkirk First Nation) and Justice by Leonard Linklater (Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation).

Performer opportunities open now!

Queer & Trans Play Reading Series 2023

We are proud to be participating in Zee Zee Theatre’s Queer & Trans Playwriting Unit, which aims to support five 2SLGBTQIA+ playwrights across the nation as they participate in this virtual play development program.

Find out more about the Playwriting Unit!

Storytellers Rising 2023/24

We are pleased to launch Storytellers Rising! With this program, we are providing tickets for Indigenous youth between the ages of 14-20 to attend theatre productions in Whitehorse throughout the 2023/2024 Season.

Storytellers Rising includes opportunities to attend one free performance of each applicable theatre production in Whitehorse this Season, meet with the cast and crew post-show to talk about the play and their own experiences in theatre, and develop relationships with other Indigenous youth.

Join today and get the most out of this Season!

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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