News for Burning Away the Winter Blues

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Media enquiries should be directed to Yukon Educational Theatre’s Artistic Director Arlin McFarlane at:

Phone 867-633-4844

Email burning@yukoneducationaltheatre.com

Mail Yukon Educational Theatre, Box 31697, Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 6L9

“Every religion I know of and every cultural group…the one thing they have in common is fire… It goes right across cultural boundaries, right across religion.”

Jeff Boyce, quoted in
Whitehorse Star, 1999

page from newspaper headline reads: burn away the winter blues

Cover of whitehorse star with fire twirler night shot

“(The effigy) cut an oddly graceful figure against the last remnants of light in the sky over the clay cliffs, both frightening and pitiful.”

Miche Genest, Yukon News, 1999

newspaper article with burning effigy. Headline reads: City's late-winter ritual to be on national television

Cover of Yukon News photo of burning effigy

News Releases

: March 25, 2008; Event participation doubles: 300 Attend live and 300 attend over the internet

: March 17, 2008; Snow Shoveling Artist to be Part of Burning Away the Winter Blues

: February 20, 2008; Yukon Theatre Company Invites World to “Virtually” Attend End-of-Winter Event

: February 7, 2008; Live Webcast Planned of Burning Away the Winter Blues

: March 13, 2007; Theatre Company Plans 9th Annual Burning Away the Winter Blues Celebration

: February 26, 2007; The Story of Burning Away the Winter Blues

: March 8, 2004; Burning Away the Winter Blues to be Featured on CBC TV

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Media Coverage

: March 12, 2004; Whitehorse Star; The Innovators: ritual as a means to renewal

: March 8, 2004; Whitehorse Star; City’s late-winter ritual to be on national television

: March 22, 2002; Yukon News; Winter blahs burn on spring’s first day

: March 24, 1999; Whitehorse Star; Passage of winter welcomed with fire

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