





Nakai Around Back
Join us for a evening of works in progress from Whitehorse writers.
Line up TBA


Dear Star Trek in Vancouver!
We’re travelling down to Vancouver for Rumble’s Tremors Festival!
Check out all their programming HERE!

Summer Hiring Deadline!
Want to spend a summer with Nakai Theatre in Whitehorse?
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!

Long Distance Relationships for Mythical Times
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.

Delicious Dramaturgy
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.

Fool for Life - Clown 101 with Candy Roberts
Play with the cultivation of curiosity, the exploration of emotional range and the practice of being seen! REGISTER NOW!

Larry – Saturday
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!

Larry – Friday
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!

Larry – Thursday
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!

Short Works for Loud Nights
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!

A Room for Singing
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!

Burn Things Parade
Join us at Shipyards Park to enjoy the fires, and add our own lights to the night.
New this year: event starts at Shipyards, not the Old Fire Hall!


Look Up from Open Pit
Look Up is a series of intimate short performances combining live visual animation, storytelling and a foley soundscape. Bringing us back to the simple magic of storytelling, everything we see is analog and happening right then and there. There will be no “play” button to hit, and no computers in sight. GET TICKETS NOW!

Short Works for Quiet Nights
A night of Yukon writing and music. Curated with Yukon Words.
Line up coming soon! GET TICKETS NOW!
A Room for Looping
Loop Sessions is a non-competitive sample flip challenge among beatmakers and producers, in over 30 locations around the world.

Look Up from Open Pit
Look Up is a series of intimate short performances combining live visual animation, storytelling and a foley soundscape. Bringing us back to the simple magic of storytelling, everything we see is analog and happening right then and there. There will be no “play” button to hit, and no computers in sight. GET TICKETS NOW!

Criticism, artists and small towns
Join freelance theatre critic Aisling Murphy (New York Times, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail) for a conversation about arts criticism.

Poetry Crawl
Starts at the Old Firehall and heads towards Shipyards.
Our annual night of poetry along the Yukon River in January. Curated by Peter Jickling.
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!


Look Up from Open Pit
Look Up is a series of intimate short performances combining live visual animation, storytelling and a foley soundscape. Bringing us back to the simple magic of storytelling, everything we see is analog and happening right then and there. There will be no “play” button to hit, and no computers in sight. GET TICKETS NOW!

A Room for Crafting
Craft in good company! Want to start a new habit? Or have some late gifts to finish? We’ll set out the tables in the Sun Room and Drinking with Scissors’ Allison Button will have craft kits – or bring your own supplies. We’ll put on some music and beverages will be available!

Look Up from Open Pit
Look Up is a series of intimate short performances combining live visual animation, storytelling and a foley soundscape. Bringing us back to the simple magic of storytelling, everything we see is analog and happening right then and there. There will be no “play” button to hit, and no computers in sight. GET TICKETS NOW!

Pivot 2025
Pivot Returns to the Whitehorse riverfront January 6th to February 1st, 2025
Celebrate the weird and the wonderful!
Embrace the dark and step into the light for music, stories, laughs, and friends.
Tickets on Eventbrite

Jingle Mingle!
Celebrate the Season with the Arts Community!
Snacks, Drinks, And Merriment!
December 8th 4-8 at the Guild Hall

24 Hour Wings!
Celebrate and share the results of the 24 Hour Challenge!
Gold Pan Games Room. Tuesday November 13th 7pm
All participants who share something of what they worked on will be entered in a draw for one of 5 $100 gift certificates from Air North, Yukon’s Airline

24Hour Challenge 2024
A night at the Gold Rush Inn, solidarity with other creators, soup and a chance to create!

Scene Study 1 – Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard
Free – Registration Required.
Come strech and build your imaginative and associative muscles!
An opportunity for actors, directors, and/or designers to dig into a scene through text analysis, individual work, collaboration, images and physicality.

Rediscovering the moment: Upgrade your improv scenes with Paul Blinov!
Looking to take your improv to the next level? This workshop will offer tools to surprise and delight your scene partners (and yourself!) onstage, all while zeroing in on what matters most!

Midweek Morning Warm Ups
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursdays – October 1 - December 5
Doors at 9am / Led Warm-up: 9:30am-10:30am / Out by 11am
Drop in, by donation. Sign Up Appreciated