Yukon Arts Centre, Art museum and performing arts venue in Whitehorse, Canada.
The Yukon Arts Centre stands southeast of Yukon University's main campus in Whitehorse. Its theatre seats 306 on the main level and 112 in the balcony, with 10 wheelchair spaces; the stage is 14 metres wide and 11 metres deep, and a loading dock opens directly behind it. The building also holds three galleries covering 390 square metres, plus a green room, studio rehearsal theatre, dressing rooms, a bar station and offices.
The center opened in 1992 as the first major cultural institution in Yukon Territory for visual and performing arts. This establishment marked a turning point for artistic offerings in the region and laid the foundation for a developing arts scene.
The centre's name comes from its role as the territory's main arts venue, run under the 1988 Arts Centre Act with the Government of Yukon as owner. Its gallery hosts travelling exhibitions alongside music, performing and visual arts programming, and since 2016 it has run a gallery and storefront in Carcross with the Tagish First Nation.
The theatre seats 306 on the main level, 112 in the balcony and 10 wheelchair spaces; the stage is 14 m wide and 11 m deep, with a loading dock giving direct outdoor access from the stage. The building lies southeast of Yukon University's main campus and also holds a green room, studio rehearsal theatre, dressing rooms, a bar station and a community gallery.
The permanent collection began in 1995 and now holds over 100 works by artists from northern Canada; about 80 per cent is kept in a climate-controlled storage facility, and the whole collection has been viewable online since December 2016. The same storage space also houses roughly 300 works from the Government of Yukon's Yukon Permanent Art Collection.
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