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Article: The Yukon Arts Centre: a future Banff North?
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- Performing Arts & Entertainment in Canada
- Article date:
- March 22, 1993
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Artists of national and international acclaim have quickly `discovered' the new Performing Arts Centre and Gallery in Whitehorse. The Yukoners who live in the city and in the wide area surrounding Whitehorse have also `found' the Centre and seem to have claimed it with their hearts.
Jim Wilhelm-Boyles, director of the new Yukon Arts Centre still speaks with pride and pleasure of the two-week extravaganza of art, music and theatre events that opened the cultural Centre in May '92. The whole city was caught up in an atmosphere of excitement that seemed to involve almost everyone. "Volunteers, almost 400 of them, made the Gala opening a magnificent success," says ...