Updates ahead of our Annual General Meeting on Tuesday Tuesday, September 16, 2025 6:00 PM
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In the summer of 2023, Nakai continued our learning and development for performances outside, with the assistance of the funding from the Sector Innovation project Old Dogs, New Tricks: What is Sustainable Theatre Design. We held two weeks of creative experiments during the summer of 2023 with locals and summer staff.
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On January 18th 2023, Nakai hosted a one day peer to peer workshop followed by a public discussion focused on the environmental realities and potentials of Whitehorse performing arts and events sector. Unfortunately, the audio recording was unusable.
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Show us your fave photos of arts in the Yukon and follow the rules of the contest to enter. The person with the most creative picture will win our Good Night Out prize pack!
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Made a short video? Want to see it above downtown Whitehorse?
Nakai is opening submission for our video installation in second floor windows of the Old Fire Hall. The installation will run during the Pivot Festival from January 10-20 from 8am-10am and 4pm-6pm on a loop with other videos.
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Nakai Theatre's Annual General Meeting will be held on Monday, September 26th at 6pm.
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Art has a way of re-energizing and re-awakening the young parts in all of us.
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In a sea of artists and delegates from circumpolar regions and Indigenous nations across the north, a bouncing jellyfish attracted the attention of 250 audience members in an artistic-fuelled version of Follow the Leader.
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The Joy Seeker Festival was a celebration of life and love organized by Nicole’s closest friends, family and musical colleagues. And the puppets were invited!
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We made a very special friend during our four-week stint at the Fireweed Market. A talented young artist visited our booth regularly.
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On Monday, June 6, Nakai Theatre’s ensemble doubled in size with summer staff arriving from Ottawa and Vancouver to join the team – and we dove headfirst into our Big Fish Summer.
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Summer Production Assistant (2 positions)
Want to spend a summer with big puppets and stories not about gold?
Nakai Theatre is looking for two Production Assistants to work with us in Whitehorse from June 6 through September 2nd, 2022.
The Production Assistants will work with Associate Producers, Managing Producer, Artistic Director and other contract staff to support and deliver Nakai’s summer programming
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It’s been a year.
A year when it was sometimes hard
to believe.
NEVER NOT PIVOTing:
Nakai Theatre’s Pivot Festival 2022 brings us together again
Nakai Theatre released its lineup for Pivot Festival 2022 today. The two-week festival runs from January 11–22, 2022 and brings theatre, storytelling and comedy to the Yukon.
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Storytellers, writers, musicians, puppeteers, performers, comedians, improvisers and dreamers alike!
Pivot 2022 is seeking for you—specifically you!— to perform short works of 5 to 10 minutes (actually just 10 minutes!) for our Short Works for Long Nights, and lunch time fun time performances.
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT: https://forms.gle/9px3juhKqM8acgTu6
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Nakai Theatre is thrilled to welcome Lyndsay, Martin, Melaina and Kaila to the Nakai team for our winter and spring programming.
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