A day in Yellowknife with local artist Ann Timmins
Big thanks to Ann Timmins of Artico Biota Studio in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories for the tour of the town and her studio! And, for including us in her performance art piece.
Traditional Dene Hand Games
This was one of the most incredible things we have witnessed during our travels – it’s part of the Annual Dene Hand Games Championships, held in Behchoko, a community about an hour from Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. Watch and listen to the powerful drums and the energy of the players as they participate in a tradition that is thousands of years old.
A big thanks to North Star Adventures for taking us out there. We felt like we were in very good hands with Joe – his website does tell us he has 50 000 years of experience after all! Check it out for yourself! www.northstaradventures.ca
Dream me a Dream Catcher
We made dream catchers at The Gallery of the Midnight Sun! A gallery that sells an amazing array of Northern art, crafts, books, and souvenirs.
And, they were nice enough to give us a dream catcher kit to give away to a fan of alexandluke.com! If our video has inspired you to make a dream catcher, head over to our Facebook Page and leave a comment to be automatically entered into a draw. And, if you want we’ll skype in with you and teach you how to do it!
Monday Evening: Episode 43
Check in with us as we gear up for two full weeks of daily videos on alexandluke.com!
Yellowknife Photo Album
One photo per day simply isn’t enough to show you what we have been up to this week in Yellowknife. So, we put together an album of our trip so far on Facebook. Go ahead and click right on the photo below to see the album!
A seriously northern flight.
Last Wednesday we set off from Ottawa Ontario for Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, but we didn’t just take any flight… we took a Canadian North flight, which took us up to Nunavut and then across the Canadian frozen tundra to the Northwest Territories in the west. We could not have had a better day for flying, and we were able to see the icy, snowy, barren ground beneath us the entire day.
We made two brief stops along the way – the first in Iqaluit (which is a place we had the pleasure of exploring last November), the second in Rankin Inlet (our first time there). Both of these communities in Canada’s newest Territory of Nunavut are set amongst the most spectacularly open treeless tundra, and flying in and out of all three airports was an experience we will never forget.
This video captures all three legs of our flight. If you ever have the chance to fly over the north, this is what you have to look forward to.
Big thanks to Canadian North (who supplied us with meals on all three flights – Unheard of!!!)