THE KLONDIKE INSTITUTE OF ART AND CULTURE
Arts, Culture, and Music at Dënäkär Zho in Dawson City, Yukon
The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) is a community-based arts center offering a rotating schedule of workshops, screenings, festivals, exhibitions, and creative courses. Come and explore our broad range of programming and experience the artistic side of Dawson.
KIAC is also responsible for organizing signature events, such as Dawson City’s International Short Film Festival, the Print and Publishing Festival, and the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival. As well, we help to facilitate our seasonal Arts Market, which occurs weekly at Waterfront Park from June until August.
Please visit our ODD Gallery listing for more art!
In 2019, as a part of a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in initiative to rename local buildings, the Elder’s Council honoured the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture building with a new name, Dënäkär Zho, meaning “mixed colours house” in Hän. With the understanding that the renaming of the building, and the associated ceremony, is just one step in the path of truth and reconciliation, we hope this symbolic act will help inspire further discussions, collaborations, and actions.
KIAC respectfully acknowledges that we live, teach and learn on the traditional and contemporary territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in.