In its first two years, the society obtained the historic Odd Fellows Hall, completed renovations, and established a centre known as the Klondike Institute of Art anc Culture (KIAC).  KIAC has developed a broad range of art education,creation and presentation programming.  As well as year-round visual, performing and media arts courses and workshops,and a performance series, KIAC operates the Odd Gallery, the Confluence Members' Gallery, the Macauley House Artist Residency, the Youth Art Enrichment program, the Dawson City International Short Film Festival, and the the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival.  We are also a founder of the Yukon School of Visual Arts, and govern it along with Yukon College and Tr'ondek Hwech'in.

Since 1998, we have been cultivating arts and culture creating a vibrant Dawson City where people want to live, work, and visit.

The Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC) is a vibrant, member driven artistic and cultural centre at the edge of the Arctic that cultivates creativity through film, music, visual, literary, and performing arts. We host a variety of festivals, events, exhibitions, and arts education programs in Dawson City, Yukon on Tr’ondek Hwech'in Traditional and Contemporary Territory.

We're on a mission is to increase the quality of life of Yukoners because we believe arts and culture creates strong, empowered communities. 

Your contribution will help us:

1. Support Yukon artists at all stages of development by providing accessible, culturally relevant resources, education, & activities.

2. Cultivate creativity for community health, wellness, and healing.

3. Connect with community, partners, funders, supporters, and artists through our unique story.

4. Value staff and volunteer labour, knowledge, skills, and capacity.

5. Be accountable to our members, community, and funders for what we build, create, and inherit.

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