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
Doris John
Doris John is a trained YNLP language teacher with 9 years experience at Nelnah Bessie John School in Beaver Creek. She completed the Centre for Indigenous Theatre Certificate Program at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, AB in 2014. Doris is a traditional singer, dancer and storyteller. She is enthusiastic about teaching the Athabascan song, dance, chants and traditional stories handed down to her by past generations.
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Featured Program
Sculpture Using Recycled and Reclaimed Materials with Leslie Leong with Leslie Leong
Each student can create their own sculpture from recycled and reclaimed materials or a large group project can be broken down into parts and assembled at the end. The reclaimed materials helps students to think outside the box, and makes it easier to let go of trying to make their sculpture realistic. It unleashes creativity and shows students how useful recycled materials can be. The subject can be linked to curriculum. For example, simple projects could be sculpting healthy meals, creating mythical insects, or making ceremonial masks of the world. An example of a complex project was Soyuz descent capsules… 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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