Nakai Theatre is pleased to announce an online, five-day, March spring break program, Creating Together.
Register by Thursday March 10
“History is to be learned from,” reads a line from the Tomorrow Today For Our Children Tomorrow document. This March spring break camp will connect Yukon history, high school students and Yukon artists together to create – all inspired by Together Today for Our Children Tomorrow published in 1973.
Creating Together
This March break camp is offered completely online, and will have youth learning from a diverse range of Yukon artists! Artists will share about their own practices, and then offer a creative prompt connected to Together Today for Our Children Tomorrow to inspire participants.
We have eight incredible artists from around the Yukon joining us for the camp: Lyndsay Amato, Rhoda Merkel, Blake Lepine, Maria Sikyea, Aimée Dawn Robinson, Nicole Bauberger, Meg Walker, and Santana Berryman.
Each day a different artist leads the group through activities and daily prompts. At the end, participants will learn to compile their favourite parts of the camp into a zine they can share. All materials for the camp will be included.
Dates: March 14-18
Time: 10 am - 3 pm
EARN $250! Supplies supplied!
* No one will be turned away due to financial barriers, please note in your sign up form if this is a barrier and we will offer support.
All are welcome — No experience or technology required
We want to support folks interested in participating, regardless of home access to technology, and regardless of the community youth live in. We will work with local communities to find solutions for youth to join.
We encourage youth from all backgrounds to sign up to attend. We are placing a priority on having a diverse group of youth. Please let us know if you need any support in considering this opportunity.
This spring break camp is made possible with the support of Canadian Heritage.
Media Contact:
Lyndsay Amato
867-393-6040
Registration is closed – Thanks!
Lyndsay Amato is a born and raised Yukoner and a member of the Carcross\Tagish First Nation. Lyndsay is a young leader and an outspoken voice from the Ishkahitaan Clan. Lyndsay is the host of The Saturday Night Request Show on the local Indigenous radio station CHON FM. Lyndsay was only just a teenager when she sent in her resume to Northern Native Broadcasting Yukon and now has many years of experience at CHON-FM, including programming, production and on-air hosting.
Along with her work in broadcasting, Lyndsay has dedicated her life to working with children, completing her Early Childhood Development Diploma and Education Assistant Certificate (both with honours) as a single mother, and has worked in child care and education for the past 18 years. She is especially passionate about incorporating and strengthening Indigenous perspectives in education programs and helps develop programming, curriculum and facilitate workshops.
Blake Nelson Lepine is a Łingit, Hän, Scottish and Cree carver, painter, printmaker, wild herbalist, chéf, proud father and performing artist based here in Whitehorse. Blake utilizes łingit art as his primary form to translate his experiences and understandings of the natural world into artwork in many various forms.
Rhoda Merkel is a Wolf Clan member of the Tahltan Nation. She was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon.As a First Nation artist she beads, sews First Nation regalia, tells First Nation stories, paints and writes. She applies her expertise to developing First Nation art-based curriculum, workshops, developing programs. She instructs Introduction to Arts in Education at Yukon University. Rhoda is a passionate promoter of art, specifically First Nation art, culture & artists. Her studio called Dancing Aspens, it is located in Atlin, B.C.
Maria Rose Sikyea is a Young Dene mother living in the Yukon. She believes most of humanity has forgotten that everything comes from Mother Earth, thus her desire is to inspire people to reconnect with their tribal ways through connection to the land. Maria works with materials harvested within nature's cradling arms. She has been tanning hides for over 10 years and began her search to return back to her ancestral ways at age 15. She is on a prayerful journey to reclaim her family's lineage and thus decolonize through traditional ways of living. She hopes to inspire youth to reconnect with their heritage.
Nicole Bauberger has made her home in Kwanlin aka Whitehorse in the territories of the Kwanlin Dun First Nation and the Ta'an Kwach'an Council since 2003. She lives with her partner Dean Eyre, Itsy the dog and Emerson the cat in a house made of steel in Hillcrest. She is grateful for the learning friendships that enrich her life and abilities, in particular her relationship with the late KDFN elder Annie Smith and her family. She is the chair of the Yukon Artists at Work Society. She created the Dalton Trail Trail Gallery behind her house at the beginning of Covid, and it serves as an ongoing Covid-resilient venue for art and performance that supports what she can bring to other contexts. She often does art with students at the Independent Learning Centre, and made Monster Parade last fall with students at Elijah Smith Elementary School.
Santana Berryman is a Vancouver-based theatre artist. Born and raised in Whitehorse, she works as an actor, teaching artist, director, and theatre-maker. Santana is a graduate of Capilano University, Playwrights Theatre, Theatre Centre’s Block A and Rumble Theatre’s 2020 Director’s Lab. Her work and collaborations have been featured in festivals across Canada.
Aimée Dawn Robinson is a dancer, writer, performer, visual artist, teacher, director, and creator, living in the Yukon since 2012. For 28 years she’s been bringing wild spaces, the conceptual, and the feminine to embodied performance practices in Canada and internationally. www.tracedancepractice.com Aimée is grateful to live on the lands of Kwanlin Dün First Nation, Ta'an Kwäch'än Council, and Carcross Tagish First Nation.
Meg Walker is an interdisciplinary visual artist and writer grateful to live in Dawson City, in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory. She moved North after a 2008 artist residency at KIAC, and continues painting as her main visual passion (though film sneaks in too). Inside that long-term relationship she makes sound-inspired drawings to connect physical, intellectual and emotional thinking. Meg also holds space for others’ creativity through curatorial projects.