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 2025-26 school year 40 artists and arts groups travelled the Yukon to deliver over 3,500 arts encounters to elementary and secondary school students.
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Featured Artist
Scotty Swan
Scotty Swan is a professional musician, producer, and music educator with decades of experience performing, recording, and teaching. He brings real world music industry experience into the classroom, helping students develop their music skills. Find our program here [url=https://www.nlmusiclab.com]https://www.nlmusiclab.com[/url]
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Featured Program
Breaking (Break Dance) & Hip Hop Workshop with Bboy Tazzmnaio (Oleksii Ogarov)
This workshop introduces the history of Hip Hop culture and philosopy, as well as the artists' personal story of how Hip Hop changed his life.
The class teaches students the basic moves of breaking (Top Rock, Foot Work, Power Moves, Freezes), the benefits of the arts in our lives, body cordination, creativity and confidence.
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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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