Stories Into Songs
For this project we teamed up seniors (anyone over 55) with senior musicians to create songs that represent what is on the minds of seniors. The project ended with a 5 à 7 performance in March 2018 of all the songs by professional musicians. For more information click here.
Packing Our Stories Over New Trails
WIT teamed up with the Yukon Transportation Museum to present a weekly summer series of events to take place every Tuesday. Participants were welcome to add their tall tales to the mix at the open mic or share in the song huddle as Arlin McFarlane leads the group to write a song about stories on that week’s theme. For more information click here.
Our Stories Ourselves
Our Stories Ourselves: Legacy stories from the elder years: sharing memories, settling relationships, passing on wisdom, making peace, is a story based workshop series that took place from fall 2016 to early 2017. A talk with a personal historian on January 31, and a public sharing event on March 11, 2017 concluded the project. For more information on this project click here.
My Brain is Plastic
My Brain Is Plastic is a coming of age story about a girl, her troubles, and hope. This one-woman show uses the lens of neuroscience to help us realize that we all have the capacity to re-wire our brain, and thus change our habits, because of our incredibly plastic brain. This show ran as a part of the 2016 Magnetic North Theatre Festival June 14 to 18. For more information on the show click here.