Inspiring Yukon Students
Artist in the School provides high quality, engaging and culturally diverse programming to students across the Yukon. More than 90 artists offer over 200 different programs.
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Featured Artist
Maryne Dumaine
Maryne Dumaine is the cultural coordinator at École Émilie-Tremblay and Académie Parhélie. Prior to that she worked for 7 years as the project manager at the Arts and Culture Department of the Association Franco-Yukonnaise. Maryne has a master's degree in business and marketing and experience working with a variety of audiences. As a sailing instructor, she has a background in creating fun, engaging programming for youth. Maryne develops workshops that can be customized to the… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
A RADIO PRODUCTION COURSE FOR RURAL NORTHERN COMMUNITIES with Bill Polonsky
A production course in how to use the mixing board, microphone, digital audio recording equipment. How to operate and schedule shows using Open Source web tools. How to edit audio with a PC, especially for use in community broadcast. Overview and history of community user generated radio and media. Create an inline PSA image slide for broadcast on community TV channel. More info and course descriptions available at wiki.openbroadcaster.com/university Objectives General To develop skills and techniques to produce user generated radio and variety shows through sound and the spoken word. This is a “hands-on” course teaching the use of the… Learn more ›
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Community School Touring Program
The Community School Touring Program sends performance artists to every Yukon community school. The goal of this program is to expose children to types of performance art they may not regularly encounter, with preference given to acts that have an educational component. CSTP impacts hundreds of students each year and provides important and inspiring opportunities for youth in Yukon communities.
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About Artist in the School
The Artist in the School program (AIS) provides Yukon school children with the opportunity to be instructed and inspired by practicing artists and to learn to work with a variety of art forms and media. It is available to all Yukon elementary and secondary schools, including 18 schools in Whitehorse and 14 in the communities. In 2018-19, more than 50 AIS artists travelled to every Yukon community to deliver over 5100 arts encounters for students.
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