Midnight Sun Arts & Culture Tour - Yellowknife and Inuvik - $3297.00
Fly from Edmonton to Inuvik for a 4 night stay. You will want to use the 24 hours of daylight to take in the Great Northern Arts Festival featuring artists and performers from around the north. Experience the charm of the Mackenzie Delta during your air and boat tour. Visit the traditional Inuvialuit community of Tuktoyaktuk where you can dip your toe in the Arctic Ocean. Travel the famous Dempster Highway to the Arctic Circle Monument and capture the breathtaking views of the Richardson Mountains. This is your best chance to see arctic wolves, moose, caribou and grizzly bears.
Spend another 4 nights in Yellowknife during the annual Folk on the Rocks music festival. Our traditional tour of Great Slave Lake lets you take in the view while learning about the traditional ways of the Dene people. Enjoy a scenic drive on the Ingraham Trail and a short hike to Cameron Falls. Learn about Yellowknife and its fascinating characters as you tour the town built on gold that is now the Diamond Capital of North America.
Your Midnight Sun Package includes;
- Return air travel between Edmonton, Inuvik and Yellowknife
- Four nights accommodation at the Mackenzie Hotel in Inuvik
- Inuvik tours - Tuktoyaktuk and Arctic Circle/Dempster Highway
- Four nights accommodation at the Yellowknife Inn
- Yellowknife tours - Great Slave Lake tradition tour, Ingraham Trail/Cameron Falls, Yellowknife city tour
The Greath Northern Arts Festival
Since 1989, up to 80 visual artists and 40 performers from across the North gather each summer in Inuvik to celebrate the diversity that is Canada's North. They are Inuit, Inuvialuit, Gwich'in, Dene, Metis and many of Canada's additional First Nations, as well as non-Aboriginal artists and artisans; they come from as far away as Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, Gjoa Haven in the Arctic Archipelago, Fort Smith on the NWT/Alberta border, and from the Yukon Territory. They come to show their work, meet other artists, see different styles of work and learn new techniques.
The First Great Northern Arts Festival was held in July, 1989. It is an annual event occuring in mid-July and lasts for approximately 10 days. At inception, the festival hosted 35 artists from the Northwest Territories. In the 13th year, the Festival hosted 92 artists from across the Canadian North, as well as 14 musicians and performers, from as far away as Alaska, the Orkney Islands of Scotland, and the Yucatan in Mexico.
The unique circumstances of Northern artists cannot be over-emphasized. No other region of Canada is faced with the same challenges in terms of isolation, prohibitive cost of travel to other communities or regions of the country, unavailability of such basic requirements as art supplies, or professional services of photographers for the production and maintenance of portfolios. The list is endless and what is taken for granted in the South, is often unavailable or prohibitively expensive in the North. The Festival has sought to provide Northern artists, as much as possible, with many of the same advantages and experiences enjoyed by their Southern peers.
Local visitors and world travellers alike, from Japan, Germany and Denmark, from New York to San Francisco, and Canadians from sea to sea to sea, appreciate the chance to see such a variety and range of talents in one location. Australian visitors to the Festival commented: "This is absolutely fabulous! We have come a long way and would not have missed it for the world."
One week in July every year
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