Inspiring Yukon Students
Artist in the School provides high quality, engaging and culturally diverse programming in schools across the territory. Over the course of the 2023-24 school year 37 artists travelled the Yukon to deliver over 2,300 arts encounters to elementary and secondary school students.
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Featured Artist
Patti Flather
Patti Flather is an award-winning playwright, theatre artist, writer as well as an arts educator and cultural producer. Her play Paradise toured nationally and is published with Playwrights Canada Press. Her other plays include Sixty Below, West Edmonton Mall, Where the River Meets the Sea, Street Signs (formerly The Soul Menders), and the devised work Map of the Land,… Learn more ›
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Featured Program
Bhangra Dance Workshop with Gurdeep Pandher
Gurdeep's classes are a fun introduction to bhangra dance and culture, as well as a great fitness activity. During the workshop, Gurdeep teaches 4 to 6 top bhangra moves one-by-one. To make the learning process easier, he breaks down all the moves into several smaller pieces. When all the moves are well-practiced, everybody dances the moves to uplifting Bhangra music.
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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 21 schools in Whitehorse and 14 in the communities.
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