A walk along the riverfront with hot chocolate and stops for poems. We start at the Old Fire Hall and walk towards Shipyards’ Park! Featuring: Peter Jickling, Nathaniel Blackjack, Michael Bellon, Clea Roberts, Dawn MacDonald
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Join Gloria Mok for a conversation about Nightswimming's Pure Research programming for performing artists!
Come craft with Drinking with Scissors’ Allison Button! Purchase a craft kit for $10 or bring your own! We’ll set out the tables in the Sun Room, put on some music and serve up beverages!
A night of Yukon writing and music. Curated with Yukon Words.
Featuring Natalie Pendergast, Fiona Azizaj, Storri Chesson, and Elise Brown-Dussault
Bring the littles and enjoy a morning in the Sun Room with Claire Ness and friends, closing out with a kid focused dance party!
Nia Technique is a joy-filled movement practice set to world music. It incorporates elements of choreo, martial arts, and healing arts to bring together body and mind and spirit through dance and meditation. Book a spot!
Set out on the Dena Cho Trail with Cai Krikorian and Nicole Bauberger in this intimate, playful performance of poetry, storytelling, flute, and cello. Wander with Cai through a personal journey of gender and self-discovery, and find along the way that their Medzmumma always has their back.
Join Gwaandak and Pivot for works in progress and a conversation following!
An evening of board games and cards in the Sun Room!
We’ll set up some tables and have some games on hand – you’re welcome to bring your own!
Lady Pisces and the Salty Sailors is a whimsical and uplifting original musical theatre act from Whitehorse’s Jordan Hope Kaltenbruner, Hannah Mazurek, and Selina Heyligers-Hare.
Lady Pisces and the Salty Sailors is a whimsical and uplifting original musical theatre act from Whitehorse’s Jordan Hope Kaltenbruner, Hannah Mazurek, and Selina Heyligers-Hare.
Lady Pisces and the Salty Sailors is a whimsical and uplifting original musical theatre act from Whitehorse’s Jordan Hope Kaltenbruner, Hannah Mazurek, and Selina Heyligers-Hare.
An installation by Erin Cham Corbett
Jan 19-22 11am-2pm at Main and 7th / Teegatha'OH Zheh Park
January 22 5:30pm – Closing event
When you think about who and what has shaped the person you are today, what comes to mind? A relative? A place? Something more-than-human?
Tuesday January 20 at 7pm
Fire in the snow! Gathering at Shipyards, we light up for the new year. Come for the fire installations and performances and warm up around a fire.
With Yukonstruct, Yukon Circus and more!
Join creators from the festival for a conversation about creating new performances!
Come sing with the Sun Room Pop-up Choir! Erica Mah will lead a gentle body and vocal warm-up, then teach a song to sing together. The song will be taught by call and response, with lyric sheets provided. Singers of all levels are welcome.
A sweet treat of a show, Secret Ingredients is a theatrical cake tasting inspired by the emotions of the stories as they are unraveled. Buy a ticket!
Join Keely O’Brien from Secret Ingredients for a workshop that digs into the spark behind a piece of theatre: the images, questions, memories, obsessions, and references that become the seed at the centre of a new work.
A sweet treat of a show, Secret Ingredients is a theatrical cake tasting inspired by the emotions of the stories as they are unraveled. Buy a ticket!
A sweet treat of a show, Secret Ingredients is a theatrical cake tasting inspired by the emotions of the stories as they are unraveled. Buy a ticket!
We’ll launch the festival! Revealing our special presentations, the return of beloved traditions and new tasty treats to warm our hearts in the cold of January. Sign up for our email to get a first chance at tickets and Sun Room bookings!
Drained after a long day of meetings and screen time?
Maybe your brain is fried, but your body is restless. Or vice versa.
Join us for an after-work reset designed for your mind and body!
24 Hour Cabaret!
A chance to win $100 gift certificate from Air North, Yukon’s Airline
Tuesday October 28 6pm at the Gold Pan
All 24 Hour Challenge participants who share some of their creations are entered in a draw for one of five Air North gift certificates!
Jump start a new idea, scratch an itch, or realize a long held dream. Whether it’s a one act comedy of manners, the next Inconvenient Truth presentation, shadow puppets, a song cycle, or something none of us have thought of, this is a great chance to kick start a project, get some time with directors, dramaturges, performers, and an audience.
Drained after a long day of meetings and screen time?
Maybe your brain is fried, but your body is restless. Or vice versa.
Join us for an after-work reset designed for your mind and body!
Drained after a long day of meetings and screen time?
Maybe your brain is fried, but your body is restless. Or vice versa.
Join us for an after-work reset designed for your mind and body!
Drained after a long day of meetings and screen time?
Maybe your brain is fried, but your body is restless. Or vice versa.
Join us for an after-work reset designed for your mind and body!
Drained after a long day of meetings and screen time?
Maybe your brain is fried, but your body is restless. Or vice versa.
Join us for an after-work reset designed for your mind and body!
Drained after a long day of meetings and screen time?
Maybe your brain is fried, but your body is restless. Or vice versa.
Join us for an after-work reset designed for your mind and body!
Want to add a little length to your step? make your own set of leg stilts here in our woodshop and then the group will reconvene the following evening at Shipyards Park to take their new stilts on a supported stroll. All materials and tools will be provided during this workshop, but please bring a worn pair of shoes in your size if possible to fasten permanently to the foot stands.
Nakai’s Annual General Meeting – September 16th 6pm
We have two pieces of official business to share!
Want to be a part of the Pivot Festival?
Work with Norah and Jacob and others to plan, coordinate, communicate logistics and deliver Nakai Theatre’s annual festival January 5-25, 2026
Deadline to Submit: September 4, 2025
Join us at the Fireweed Market!
June 19, 26 and July 24, 31
Stilts Making and Walking!
Mon 28 Jul 6pm-9pm and Tue 29 Jul 6pm-9pm – Register here!
Join us for a evening of works in progress from Whitehorse writers.
with
Storri Chesson, Christine Genier, Nicole Schafenacker, Jacob Zimmer
and musical guest Ellorie McKnight
Join us at the Fireweed Market!
June 19, 26 and July 24, 31
Join us at Arts in the Park!
(No show on Canada Day!)
Join us at the Fireweed Market!
June 19, 26 and July 24, 31
Join us at the Fireweed Market!
June 19, 26 and July 24, 31
We’re travelling down to Vancouver for Rumble’s Tremors Festival!
Check out all their programming HERE!
Nakai Theatre is looking for a Production Assistant to work with us in Whitehorse from June 16th - August 22nd 2025.
The Production Assistant will work with the Artistic Director and Managing Artistic Producer, as well as other contract staff to plan, coordinate, communicate logistics, and deliver Nakai’s summer programming!
March 21,22 and 23. 7pm.
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Join Gloria Mok as she weaves together a personal story about long-distance relationships and immigration, with an ancient Chinese astrological folktale about forbidden love. Utilizing food, simple objects, and conversational Cantonese, a dinner table for a small group transforms into a liminal space that explores the challenges and triumphs of seeking love and connection at a distance.
How is dramaturgy like a good meal? Gloria will walk you through her approach to creating theatrical performances out of personal stories, that tie in culture, language, ritual, and food. Come hungry to learn.
Play with the cultivation of curiosity, the exploration of emotional range and the practice of being seen! REGISTER 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!
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!
Curated with Music Yukon, we plug in for a last night in the Sun Room.
Exact line-up to be announced in early January.GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
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!
