For Delegates

Wednesday, June 29 until Tuesday, July 5, 2022

The Adäka Cultural Festival is delighted to return from June 29 to July 5, 2022 for its 10th anniversary with the theme, ‘Northern Connections’.

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Saturday, June 25 from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Monday, June 27 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Tuesday, June 28 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Wednesday, June 29 at 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

This teen-led exhibition by the Anchorage Museum’s Teen Climate Communicators shares climate change stories and encourages creative solutions to this complex challenge, while providing high school students from Alaska with the opportunity to use museum artwork, objects and resources to investigate and discuss climate change.

Yukon Arts Centre – ATCO Electric Yukon, Youth Gallery
300 University Drive
Whitehorse, YK

This exhibition runs until July 29, 2022

Monday, June 27 at 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, June 28  at 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 29  at 8:30 a.m. until 8 p.m.

This exhibition of artwork from the Yukon Permanent Art Collection showcases the land as our home and pays tribute to all that it generously provides: medicine, refuge, sustenance and mental and physical connection. 

Located at the Yukon Government Main Administration Building
2071, 2nd Ave
Whitehorse, YK

Tuesday, June 28 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Wednesday, June 29 from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Don’t miss exciting digital and virtual art  that will premiere at the Arctic Arts Summit before going on to exhibit in locations across the country and internationally. 

At the Old Firehall
1105 Front St.
Whitehorse, YK

Accessible Tuesday, June 28 and Wednesday, June 29 

In ARCTIC AR, experience a whole new world through your handheld device by walking along the Yukon River and seeking out QR Codes, in order to engage with augmented reality (AR) work by artists from around the circumpolar north virtually and on the land.

THIS IS AN OUTDOOR EXHIBITION AND CAN BE ACCESSED ALL THE TIME ALONG THE WATERFRONT, BETWEEN THE OLD FIREHALL AND KWANLIN DÜN CULTURAL CENTRE

Wednesday, June 29 at 5 p.m. until 8 p.m.

Art Crawl invites international guests and the public at large to take a summer stroll through downtown Whitehorse as a way to celebrate the culmination of the Arctic Arts Summit. The Art Crawl is a downtown showcase to introduce you to local artists and visual arts businesses and spaces.

All locations of the Art Crawl are within walking distance from the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre—the Arctic Arts Summit hub.

Monday, June 27 at 8 p.m.

For Delegates of the Arctic Arts Summit Only- “ Dreaming Roots is about how we see ourselves in the present, how we connect with our past and how we dream of our future as Yukon First Nations people. This show explores questions such as: Where do we come from? How do we connect to the source? How do we reconcile and heal? What are our hopes and dreams? ” – Diyet Van Lieshout, Co-director

Yukon Arts Centre
300 University Dr.
Whitehorse, YK

Saturday, June 25 from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Monday, June 27 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Tuesday, June 28 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Wednesday, June 29 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

This exhibition of Indigenous copper work holds stories of sovereignty, sorrow and joy— united by this copper thread and the act of bringing knowledge and traditions forward. 

This exhibition runs until July 29, 2022

Yukon Art Centre – Community Gallery
300 University Dr.
Whitehorse, YK

Wednesday, June 29 at 1 p.m. until 2 p.m.

Join us and the Icelandic Minister of Tourism and Culture as well as the Yukon Government Minister of Community Services, on Wednesday, June 29 at 1:00 PM in the Whitehorse Public Library meeting room for a brief reading of Brian Pilkington’s A Puffin Called Fido. 

Whitehorse Public Library
1171 Front Street
Whitehorse, YK

Monday, June 27 at 5 p.m. until 6 p.m.

Wednesday, June 29 at 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.

Come visit Kwä̀nńthàt: Great Distance– an Exhibition of Yukon First Nations Arts Through Time.

Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre
1171 Front Street
Whitehorse, YK

Tuesday, June 28 at 12 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Wednesday, June 29 at 12 p.m. until 8 p.m.

A featured exhibition of the Arctic Arts Summit that will also be shown simultaneously at other venues throughout Canada—including Toronto’s CONTACT Photography Festival during this fall’s Nuit Blanche— Land of None | Land of Us is an exhibition of contemporary circumpolar photography.  Also – Check our the Art Crawl!

Arts Underground

Hougen Centre
15-305 Main St.
Whitehorse, YK

Tuesday, June 28 at 7:30 p.m. until 11 p.m.

For Delegates of the Arctic Arts Summit Only– Performances will span theatre, dance, music, puppetry and performance arts in both contemporary and traditional practices. Venues will balance multiple stages and inside spaces with the outdoors to offer a multi-venue performance journey that spans the circumpolar north.

Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre
1171 1st Ave.
Whitehorse, YK

Monday, June 27 at 12 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Tuesday, June 28 at 12 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Wednesday, June 29 at 12 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Stop by the Yukon Theater any afternoon of the Summit to take in one of the many experimental videos, animations, documentary and other fantastic films programmed for the Summit. ~ Also, stay to watch other films the Yukon Theater is featuring during the Summit.

Yukon Cinema
304 Wood St.
Whitehorse, YK

Tuesday, June 28 at 2 p.m. until 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 29 at 10 a.m.  until 4 p.m.

By The Collective invites you to join them inside the Sami lavvu for stories, conversation and art.

Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre
1171 1st Ave.
Whitehorse, YK

Saturday, June 25  (Public Opening) from 3 p.m. until 5 p.m.

Sunday, June 26 – CLOSED

Monday, June 27 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Tuesday, June 28 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Wednesday, June 29 from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

TETHER – is a featured visual art exhibition of the 2022 Arctic Arts Summit— of more than fifty artworks by Northern Indigenous artists whose works display the complex and inseparable bonds across diverse lands, waters, nations and peoples.

Yukon Art Centre
300 University Dr.
Whitehorse, YK

This exhibition runs until August 26, 2022

Tuesday, June 28 at 10 p.m.

For Delegates of the Arctic Arts Summit Only- REGISTRATION REQUIRED (Limited Seating)

“ Theatre in the Bush creates the opportunity for the Arctic Arts Summit to engage in quintessential Yukon theatre with its land-based, performance-based works. Ramshackle Theatre is a distinctive way for circumpolar artists to collaborate and build a production that reflects the nature of what this Summit celebrates.” – Reneltta Arluk, Summit Artistic Producer

15 km South of Whitehorse, shuttle bus service will be available.

 Registration required.

Monday, June 27, 2022, from 7 p.m. until 8 p.m.
Yukon Art Centre Lobby

Opening Remarks by the Honourable Minister Ranj Pillai, Government of Yukon; Jesse Wente, Chair, and Simon Brault, Director and CEO, the Canada Council for the Arts

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
At the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Longhouse

Organized by CCUNESCO

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 1

Organized by the Arts Council Norway and Sámi Parliament Norway

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 3

Organized by Western Arctic Moving Pictures

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 4

Organized by Hålogalang Teater / The Arctic Theatre of Norway

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
At the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Longhouse

Organized by the Government of Yukon

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 1

Organized by Sámi Allaskuvla and Norwegian Crafts

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 3

Organized by Nuit Blanche Toronto and the Indigenous Screen Office

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 4

Organized by Canada Nordic Environmental Journalist Fellowship

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m.
At the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Longhouse

Organized by Nordic Council of Ministers

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 1

Organized by the 2022 Arctic Arts Summit

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 2 p.m. until 3 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 3

Organized by the Government of Yukon

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 3:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
At the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Longhouse

Organized by Nuuk Art Museum (Greenland)

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 3:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 1

Organized by the University of Lapland

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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 3:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 3

Organized by the International Sámi Film Institute Norway

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By The Collective invites you to join them inside the Sami lavvu for stories, conversation and art.

Tuesday, June 28, 2022 from 3:30 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
Outdoors at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre

Last year, the Hásstuheaddji collective approached Norwegian Craft to ask whether they would be interested and able to fund a project that was developing through joint conversations between Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Timimie Maräk and Beaska Niillas. All three had for some time been working in different capacities to realize the Sámi Pavilion project in the 59th Venice biennale – Timimie as the poet in residence, while Beaska and Liisa-Rávna worked as curators Their interaction with the Western world of art during the preparations for the biennale gave rise to many different and problematic discussions, but all were related to ideas of indigeneity andperformativity. In time, these discussions created a need to look beyond.

Starting from the idea of searvevuohta, or collectivity, the project was initiated from the Indigenous Sámi perspective of the world as one of relations, shaped collectively by and through the interactions between and to humans and land, water, other-than-human-beings, spirits, and objects and things. How we perceive the world[s] we live in, or otherwise engage in/with, is as such shaped by the collective interactions of all these relations coming together. The result is “By the Collective”, an ongoing discursive performance that create searvelatnja, multiple and collective space[s] across borders of time and place to discuss how we may act to decolonize art, or more to the point, indigenize it.

Because it is an ongoing performance, “By the Collective” has since appeared in different guises. For Arctic Art Summit 2022, “By the Collective” will present itself as “lávvu jođus”, or lávvu on the move.

A lávvu is an old Sámi dwelling that is meant to be temporary, and although its structure has similarities with other Indigenous dwellings, the lávvu has been developed within the context of the plains found in the Arctic that often has little natural shelter by way of trees from wind and harsh weather. As part of the summits section, “On the Land”, lávvu jođus will in collaboration with the land and the people living on it, forge, not only a metaphorical, but also visual searvelatnja

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
At the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Longhouse

Organized by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Arts Council Norway

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 1

Organized by CBC North

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 3

Organized by Nunatsiavut Government

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Wednesday, June 29 2022 from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 4

Organized by the Government of Northwest Territories

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
At the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Longhouse

Organized by Daiddadallu

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 1

Organized by Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 3

Organized by the University of Lapland

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Wednesday, June 29 2022 from 11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
At the Sternwheeler Hotel, Room 4

Organized by the Nordic Culture Point

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from 1:30 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.
At the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Longhouse

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022 from 2:30 p.m. until 2:45 p.m.
At the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, Longhouse

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