The Nutcracker
2025-11-29 14:00, 2025-11-29 19:00, 2025-11-30 14:00 (America/Edmonton) | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Bella Dance Academy presents The Nutcracker, a timeless holiday tradition for the whole family! It’s Christmas Eve at the Silberhaus residence, and excitement runs high as last minute preparations are made. Guests begin to arrive to celebrate the holiday with Clara and her family. Arriving late in the midst of the celebration is Drosselmeyer, Clara’s mysterious uncle. He entertains everyone with magic tricks and mechanical dolls. Drosselmeyer then presents Clara with a wooden nutcracker soldier. Her sibling Fritzy feels slighted, becomes jealous and tries to take the nutcracker from Clara. In the struggle, the nutcracker is broken. Clara is devastated, but Drosselmeyer mends the nutcracker. As the children grow weary the guests depart, and Drosselmeyer disappears as mysteriously as he had arrived. Clara carefully places her beloved nutcracker under the Christmas tree before the family retires to bed. That night, Clara tiptoes back to the Christmas tree and falls asleep next to the wooden Nutcracker doll. Once the clock strikes midnight, the magic begins!

Join Bella Dance Academy this holiday season and experience the magic of this timeless holiday classic, The Nutcracker.

Tickets go on sale at 9am on November 1st.

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Star Light Star Bright
2025-12-03 19:00 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Ecole Sir John Franklin High School’s Drama Department proudly presents…Star Light Star Bright

Our musical Stars will be shining brightly as we play and sing themes from popular movies like Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pocahontas and the Incredibles. This concert will feature the Sir John Fiddlers in their debut performance.

Admission by donation

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ATTI! Showcase
2025-12-06 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
ATTI! Indigenous Artists Collectives is proud to launch their inaugural Performing Arts Mentorship Program to empower emerging Indigenous performers in the NWT. This program partners Indigenous musicians, singer-songwriters, playwrights, and dancers with accomplished Indigenous professionals in their field to elevate their craft. This initiative will help support the next generation of Indigenous professional artists by providing in-depth one-on-one training. Each mentor and mentee will collaborate on the development of an original performance piece to be performed in this showcase.

The Performing Arts Mentorship Program is made possible through generous support from Canada Council for the Arts, the administrative support provided by the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, and the dedication of the ATTI! Steering Committee.

Stacie Arden Smith is mentored by Celeigh Cardinal

Liz Leske is mentored by Reneltta Arluk

Stacey Sundberg is mentored by Reneltta Arluk

Christina Moore is mentored by Brad Henry

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Beetlejuice Jr
2025-12-11 19:30, 2025-12-12 19:30, 2025-12-13 14:00, 2025-12-13 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
St. Pat’s Drama brings ghost-with-the-most to the stage in Beetlejuice JR., the frightfully funny musical based on the beloved motion picture turned Broadway phenomenon. Lydia Deetz is a strange and unusual teenager, still grieving the loss of her mother and obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Lucky for Lydia, she and her father move to a new house haunted by a recently deceased couple and Beetlejuice, a delightful demon with a real zest for life. When Lydia calls on Beetlejuice to scare away anyone with a pulse, this double-crossing specter shows his true stripes, unleashing a (Nether)world of pandemonium.

With music and lyrics by Tony Award-nominee Eddie Perfect and a book by Tony Award-nominated pair Anthony King and Scott Brown, Beetlejuice was nominated for eight 2019 Tony Awards including Best New Musical. A viral “sucks-yes” on social media, this musical struck a chord with young theatre lovers who adored its unabashed humor and emotional honesty.

Created for the generation that made it a hit, Beetlejuice JR. is a wacky theatrical party for all!

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Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour
2026-01-16 19:30, 2026-01-17 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Tickets are available at Overlander Sports.

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Les Voix Humaines with Tyler Hawkins
2026-01-24 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Les Voix Humaines are back in the NWT to grace our ears once again with this special Yellowknife performance, as founding member and most incredible gambist Susie Napper takes flight with the Russian harpsichordist Elizaveta Miller. Also featuring local baroque lutenist Tyler Hawkins, their collective programme ‘Adversaries in Love’ transports us to the connected worlds and unmatched genius of Gauthier, Marais, Abel, Bach(s) and Weiss, all played on authentic period instruments.

The viol duo, Les Voix Humaines, brings flair and brilliance to their performances! Susie Napper and Mélisande Corriveau have performed together as members of Les Voix Humaines Consort for two decades and collaborated on many projects. They have performed across Canada, in the USA, France and Belgium as a duo. They both play on historic viols by London luthier, Barak Norman.

The duo builds on decades of performances worldwide by Susie Napper and Margaret Little who’s musical complicity was compared to the skill of a pair of trapeze artists or the telepathic communion of jazz artists. Their many prizes and recordings are the foundation on which the new duo has built a creative repertoire and innovative style to inspire a new generation of music-lovers.

Anguille sous roche – Something Fishy, the duo’s latest recording and video features delicacies from the French repertoire offering humour, virtuosity and tenderness in a unique, creative programme. Last November they recorded a new CD of several iconic works by J.S. Bach arranged by Susie Napper for two viols.

The duo has been joined by many celebrated soloists including singers Suzie Leblanc, Daniel Taylor, Charles Daniels and Jonathon Adams and instrumentalists, Wieland and Bart Kuijken, Davide Monti and Nigel North. Susie Napper has the honour of performing with Russian harpsichordist Elizaveta Miller for this special performance in Yellowknife.

Recent recipient of the honour of Companion of Arts and Letters of Quebec, cellist, gambist and continuo player par excellence, Susie Napper is alternatively praised or admonished for her colourful and controversial performances of solo and chamber repertoire of the baroque!

A rebel to the core, from an artistic milieu in London, in her teens she played début performances of Ligetti and Stockhausen as well as performance-art productions in alternative venues. By contrast she studied at Juilliard in New York at the height of the Vietnam resistance and at the Paris Conservatoire at the end of the student riots of ‘68.

San Francisco followed, where, having had an epiphany on receiving a bass viol, she threw herself headlong into new-wave, HIP baroque music-making, teaching herself the viol by playing, reading treatises and creating new styles of performance inspired by old!

As well as co-foundiing Philharmonia Baroque with her partner and inspiration, baroque oboist and writer, the late Bruce Haynes, they spent decades parenting delightful kids and musicing in Montreal where she created the Montreal Baroque Festival, a vehicle to unite the multitalented, Montreal early music community.

She has spent decades with a foot on either side of the Atlantic recording, performing, teaching in Montreal and Copenhagen and touring around Europe, the Far East and Oceania often with the viol duo, Les Voix humaines. Amongst dozens of recordings, the complete Concerts a deux violes esgales by Sieur de Ste Colombe is a highlight and her arrangements of music stolen from the wider baroque repertoire amuse both musicians and audiences alike!

Either praised or criticized for her use of rubato, general freedom of expression, variety of bow strokes and undying preference for harmony over melody, she is constantly searching for rhetorical meaning and eloquence to bring the printed page to life!

Elizaveta Miller is a versatile historical keyboardist whose artistry spans harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, organ, and modern piano. Her repertoire encompasses five centuries of music, with a particular focus on reviving underrepresented works, curating imaginative programs, and commissioning new compositions for historical instruments. She studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Moskva and the Yale School of Music.

Winner of the First Prize at the 2013 Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges, Miller has since performed widely across North America and Europe at festivals such as the Montreal Baroque Festival, Montreal Bach Festival, Festival Classica, MA Festival Bruges, Beethovenfest Bonn, Bozar Music, the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, and The Homecoming Festival. As a continuo player, she has collaborated with leading conductors including Václav Luks, Reinhard Goebel, Maxim Emelyanychev, Robert Hollingworth, and Christian Curnyn.

After nearly a decade on the faculty of the Moscow State Conservatory, she resigned in March 2022 in protest of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She was subsequently appointed Assistant Professor of Harpsichord and Coordinator of the Early Music Area at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music.

In 2024, she co-founded the ensemble Les Temps Perdus with cellist Jessica Korotkin, continuing her commitment to reimagining early music through performance and scholarship, and to mentoring emerging artists at the outset of their careers.

Joined by Yellowknife’s own Tyler Hawkins, recognized for his versatile guitarist work, levels up with this rare performance on his Baroque Lute featuring the music of Weiss, Bach and Gauthier. He received a BFA Honours in Performance on multi-string classical guitars (1990) and later released both online and CD versions of Tyler Hawkins – Bach on Seventeen Strings (2007) and Georg Philipp Telemann Lute Duets for Classical Guitar – Tyler Hawkins & Christopher Irvine (2009).

As director of the NWT International Lute Festival (2007 – 2017) he became immersed into the fascinating and very real world of early music, having commissioned a period accurate replica 13 course Sebastian Schelle baroque lute, hand made by the luthier duo Barber & Harris in London England, 2011. For this life-long guitarist the migration to lute has been an ultimate game changer giving way to an exciting new trajectory.

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Moana Sing-A-Long
2026-01-31 13:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
An adventurous teenager sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, Moana meets the once-mighty demigod Maui, who guides her in her quest to become a master way-finder. Together they sail across the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous monsters and impossible odds. Along the way, Moana fulfills the ancient quest of her ancestors and discovers the one thing she always sought: her own identity.

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Tyler Hawkins in Norman Wells
2026-01-31 19:30 | Royal Canadian Legion, 25 MacKenzie Dr, Norman Wells, NT, X0E 0V0, Canada
Yellowknife’s own Tyler Hawkins, recognized for his versatile guitarist work, levels up with this rare performance on his Baroque Lute featuring the music of Weiss, Bach and Gauthier. He received a BFA Honours in Performance on multi-string classical guitars (1990) and later released both online and CD versions of Tyler Hawkins – Bach on Seventeen Strings (2007) and Georg Philipp Telemann Lute Duets for Classical Guitar – Tyler Hawkins & Christopher Irvine (2009).

As director of the NWT International Lute Festival (2007 – 2017) he became immersed into the fascinating and very real world of early music, having commissioned a period accurate replica 13 course Sebastian Schelle baroque lute, hand made by the luthier duo Barber & Harris in London England, 2011. For this life-long guitarist the migration to lute has been an ultimate game changer giving way to an exciting new trajectory.

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Romeo and Juliet
2026-02-06 19:30, 2026-02-07 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
The Borderless Art Movement! presents Romeo and Juliet.

Experience a revolutionary fusion of art forms as BAM! presents a fun, one-act reimagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Actor Jeremy Findlay skillfully inhabits every role in Jen Walden’s fast-paced, original script. The BAM! Community Orchestra performs Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony and selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Orchestral Suites.

Watch the story take shape as the BAM! artists create a live mural during the performance. With guest performances by the Yellowknife Dance Collective, this multi-sensory event is a must-see for all ages!

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Alteration
2026-02-14 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
How do our lives intertwine? How do we manage to prosperous balances? What happens when they break down? Alteration addresses the transformations that punctuate our lives and our abilities to influence our own destiny and that of others. Aly Keita depicts an oscillating humanity on an intimate and societal level, between stability and uncertainty, anchoring and uprooting, change and resistance, renewal and repetition. The relationship with the other and the complexity of ties lead to the need to hear and rebuild our relationship with ourselves and with our environment. Exploring the meaning of relationships in our society in a wide-ranging way, both interpersonal relationships and those with other-than-human beings, this work opens the way to the construction of possible new links that are formed through ecological and spiritual dimensions. Here, life takes the form of a cycle of transformations. Memories of past experiences and scars – in other words, alteration – are transmuted into a vital breath through reactivating movements, both individual and collective, that revitalize our bodies and rekindle our inner power.

This show includes the use of smoke, which may persist throughout the performance. In addition, vibrating sounds and low frequencies are used, which may cause physical sensations. Please take this into account if you are sensitive to these effects.

This multi-arts work is as much a choreographic piece as a circus piece, a musical work as well as a work of visual art. Martin Bellemare (Note d’intention)

Kira is a word in Sousou, the language of Guinea, meaning “path”. It evokes the idea that life is a path where we walk, gather, and unite. Founded in 2023, Kira Arts creates staged works that bring together different artistic practices on equal footing and promote intercultural dialogue. In this way, they cultivate an inclusive and diverse environment based on principles of knowledge sharing and collaboration. Their artistic approach focuses on mediation as a field for research and creation. When selecting collaborators, it is essential that each artist possess a deep understanding of the body, rhythm, and movement. The uniqueness of each body and individual is a tool that can enrich shared creation. Their approach is to invite artists to embody the multiple interpretations of a single event.

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Bella Beats Celebration of Dance!
2026-02-21 13:00, 2026-02-21 18:00 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Join us for a celebration of dance and movement, featuring performances in a variety of genres. This special one-day showcase highlights the passion and artistry of the Bella Beats Dance Troupe as they bring their repertoire to life on stage.Get ready for a fun, energetic performance that will leave you inspired, smiling, and tapping your feet!

Tickets go on sale February 1 at 9:00am!

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Hairspray Sing-A-Long
2026-02-26 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with all the right moves, is obsessed with the Corny Collins Show. Every day after school, she and her best friend Penny run home to watch the show and drool over the hot Link Larkin, much to Tracy’s mother Edna’s dismay. After one of the stars of the show leaves, Corny Collins holds auditions to see who will be the next teen regular. With the help of her friend Seaweed, Tracy is chosen. She then realizes it’s not fair that Black kids can only dance on the show once a month. With the support of Seaweed, Link, Penny, Motormouth Maybelle, her father, and Edna, she’s determined to integrate the show without denting her ‘do.

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Brett Hansen's Confluence
2026-02-28 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Presented In Collaboration With

A six-person ensemble featuring some of Canada’s greatest Jazz musicians

Possessing “one of the purest sounds on the six string” (The Listening Sessions), guitarist-composer Brett Hansen has boldly stepped out from his work as one of Canada’s first-call session musicians with a striking debut album of his own, Confluence. Hansen’s compositions showcase his fleet technical skill and cinematic sonic palate, but perhaps most notable is his emotional and dynamic capacity to tell stories without words. Influences from his work in folk, rock, jazz, and orchestral ensembles shine across the album, which has remained on the international jazz charts since its release in 2024 and has garnered critical acclaim, drawing comparison to Pat Metheny and John Abercrombie. Brett Hansen has studied with the likes of Mike Stern, Julian Lage, Oz Noy, Matthew Stevens, Nir Felder, Jim Head, and Rez Abassi. He performs regularly as a part of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, has toured internationally through Asia, Europe, and Canada, and has performed on hundreds of recordings across genres with some of Canada’s finest musicians across many genres of music. Without a doubt, Brett Hansen a guitarist “deserving of your attention” (The Intelligencer).

Brett Hansen’s Confluence is a live show experience that brings together folk-inspired sensitivity, muscular rock phrases, and Latin rhythms to conjure a sound both atmospheric and powerful, while showcasing a six-person ensemble featuring some of Canada’s finest jazz musicians: Mallory Chipman on vocals, Luis Tovar on percussion, Murray Wood on bass, Joel Jeschke on drums, and Chris Pruden on keyboards.

Drawing comparison to the likes of Pat Metheny and John Abercrombie, Brett’s skills as a guitarist are only met by his expressivity as a composer, weaving together years of influence and experience from his work as a side person with award-winning and internationally touring ensembles across genres, and resulting in a sound that is simultaneously sophisticated and raw.​

Tender yet fierce… relatable yet fresh… Confluence showcases Brett’s focus on lyricism in both writing and performance while showcasing traits of modern jazz/improvised music with contemporary production techniques.

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The Giant Turnip
2026-03-05 19:00, 2026-03-06 19:00 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Join the Aurora Ukrainian Dancers for their year end show celebrating Ukrainian culture. The Giant Turnip is an old folktale. How will Dido (grandpa) cope with a magical turnip? The whole farmyard comes to help!

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Hughes
2026-03-07 22:30 | The Underground, 4910 Franklin Ave, Yellowknife, NT, Canada
Presented As part of the Northern Spark Emerging Artist Series

A Collaboration Between NACC and The UNDerground

Hughes is the folk‑alt‑country project of Yellowknife musician Benji Straker. Blending folk, alt‑country, and indie sensibilities, Hughes creates music that is honest, atmospheric, and deeply personal. The project draws inspiration from the stark beauty of the North and the quiet complexities of lived experience, offering listeners space to reflect, breathe, and connect.

With textured arrangements, intimate lyrics, and a grounded sense of place, Hughes crafts soundscapes that feel both expansive and close to home. The self‑titled debut full‑length album, released in July 2025, captures the heart of the project’s sound — vulnerable, spacious, and rooted in the lived‑in details of northern life and relationships.

Must be 19+

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Spectacle d’humour avec Neev
2026-03-10 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Neev est un humoriste au style mordant, rapide et sans filtre. Avec ses origines marocaines et françaises et son éducation québécoise, il transforme son vécu en anecdotes percutantes et en absurdités brillantes.

Habitué des galas Juste pour rire et ComediHa!, il a aussi assuré pendant plusieurs années les premières parties de Louis-José Houde. Il présente actuellement son premier one-man show Pas besoin d’ajouter la sauce! Un spectacle énergique, efficace et franchement hilarant.

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Chicago Sing-A-Long
2026-03-12 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
When nightclub sensation Velma murders her philandering husband, Chicago’s slickest lawyer Billy Flynn is set to defend her. But when Roxie also winds up in prison, Billy takes on her case too and turns her into a media sensation. The two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer’s attention.

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Mike Greenwood’s Max-out Always Stand-Up Comedy Tour
2026-03-13 20:00 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
Don’t miss one of the country’s fastest-rising headliners as he brings his cross-Canada Maxout Always Stand-Up Comedy Tour to Yellowknife!

Come see why The Bonfire’s DJ Lou said, “Super funny…I love this guy!” and why comedians Pete Correale and Sebastian Maniscalco of The Pete Correale & Sebastian Maniscalco Show called Mike “the type of guy who could be an overnight star!”

Known for his one of a kind energy amd must see self-deprecating stories, Mike Greenwood’s live shows are a rollercoaster of laughter and heart. He’s been touring across the country getting big laughs while winning over audiences with his charm, storytelling, and jokes you will see why he is quickly becoming one of Canada’s most talked-about comedians.

You may have caught him on his 604 Records debut album, regularly played on SiriusXM, or hosting a national theatre tour that also appeared at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Wherever you’ve seen him, one thing’s for sure—you won’t forget his performances.

This night will also feature two of the funniest local guest comics, making it a full evening of laughs. These shows sell out fast, so grab your tickets early!

$30 Early Bird Tickets Available in Limited Quantities! Act Fast!

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SHORTS
2026-03-20 19:30, 2026-03-21 14:00, 2026-03-21 19:30 | Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC), 4701 52nd Ave, Yellowknife, NT, X1A 2N7, Canada
SHORTS is a show of contemporary dance featuring 13 original works, each under 10 minutes, created by local choreographers and performed by dancers of the Yellowknife Dance Collective.

Fast-paced and full of variety, SHORTS offers a vibrant mix of movement styles, ideas, and perspectives.From playful to powerful, intimate to expansive, these bite-sized works celebrate the creativity of our local dance community.

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