Digital Stories
Pieces of Paradise
Pieces of Paradise is an inspiring audio play about people reaching beyond adversity to find hope and community, from award-winning Canadian playwright Patti Flather.
Follow two dogs, a snake and a Yellow-rumped Warbler as they watch over and guide their humans in connecting with each other.
This audio play is an adaptation of Patti Flather’s original stage play Paradise, created with Yukon Digital Theatre Collective.
I acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Yukon Digital Stories
Discover other Yukon Digital Theatre Collective Stories
Explore these other free digital stories from creators Wren Brian, Leonard Linklater, Lillian Nakamura Maguire with Yukon Digital Theatre Collective.
Sixty Below: sixtybelow.ca
Mapping My Journey to Home: YukonHome.ca
The Investigator: YouAreTheInvestigator.com
Teach Me How to Throat Sing by Christine Genier: coming in 2025.
To learn more visit the Collective’s hub website: Yukon Digital Theatre Collective
Vuntut Gwitchin Stories
Ndoo Tr’eedyaa Gogwaandak (Forward Together)
Honouring age-old storytelling traditions and Indigenous Gwich’in language revitalization from the north Yukon’s Vuntut Gwitchin.
Experience free radio play podcasts and script booklets in both Gwich’in and English, adapted from both long ago and contemporary stories here. Learn the story behind the stories.
Discover long ago stories: Shanaghàn Neekaii Nanaa’in Hah –Two Old Women and Bushman and the Vah Srigwehdli’ – The One Who Survived.
…Along with more contemporary tales:Tl’oo Thał – Grass Pants and Ch’iitsii Khał Da Tl’oo – The Blue Cruiser.
“These radio plays and script booklets are part of an innovative multi-year project that honours age-old storytelling traditions and Indigenous language revitalization.
The Van Tat Gwich’in — “People of the Lakes,” referring to the Crow Flats area — are renowned storytellers, and do they ever have stories to tell. After all, they have survived for thousands of years in one of the toughest northern climates around. Their traditional territory in the north Yukon is vast, beautiful and unforgiving.”
– From Our Journey, Forward Together
This collaborative storytelling project with Vuntut Gwitchin Government, Gwaandak Theatre, Elders and Gwich’in language champions, community members and theatre artists was a 2019 Yukon Heritage Award winner. Patti Flather was a co-creator.
These Vuntut Stories were featured in a CBC Ideas episode with former host Paul Kennedy which aired nationally in 2019. Find an article about it HERE. We shared excerpts of the plays at The Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse, in shows filled with Gwich’in language and laughter.
This project advocates and promotes greater appreciation of and support for revitalization of Gwich’in and other endangered Indigenous languages among all peoples. These languages hold traditional knowledge and perspectives and are treasures that we all must fight for. We call on the federal government to act on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action 13 through 17 on Language and Culture.
2022-2023 is the International Decade of Indigenous Languages as declared by UNESCO, to draw global attention on the critical situation of many indigenous languages and to mobilize stakeholders and resources for their preservation, revitalization and promotion.