What can the NWT’s new arts centre learn from elsewhere?

Following our visit to the 2026 Yukon Prize festival weekend, Cabin Radio featured us on air as well as in writing as we reflected on the experience, and what we learned.

Komarnisky noted Yellowknife already has a performing arts space in the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre. That means the needs of the city and territory may not be met by simply copying the Yukon Arts Centre, which offers a NACC-esque performance area.

“I look at them and I see a lot that we’d need here, but we want to make it NWT style, you know what I mean?” she said. “It’s definitely going to reflect our context.”

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