Just spent a few days in Whitehorse where I had lunch with Her Worship Bev Buckway and took in some cultural events, most notably the preview performance of Mitch Miyagawa’s new play Carnaval staged outdoors at the Raven Recycling Centre within an amazing set designed by my friend Veronica Verkley consisting of stacked bales of cardboard and coloured plastic bottles.
Thursday night the Yukon Artists at Work Society had a incredibly well attended benefit show for potter Patrick Royle who suffered a heart attack a few weeks ago but is on the mend. All forty members were given a plain birch wood box to decorate in some way or another to be displayed as the Box 40 exhibit. You can view my contribution here. The YAAW Gallery in Macrea is surrounded by a million dollar vista of valleys and mountains, just beautiful.
On City business I picked up our audit package from the accountants office. Although everything has to come before council for approval I’m delighted to say our ‘report card’ gives us top marks. More details to follow.
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