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Dennis Allen Stories & Music + Screening of CBQM

Saturday, February 15, 2025 at 3:00 pmYukon Arts Centre

Dennis Allen is an Inuvik born and based storyteller, writer, musician and filmmaker. This special event features Dennis telling stories about Fort McPherson and the MacKenzie Delta and playing the old gospel and country songs that have been the heartbeat of CBQM and the Delta for 70 years. Dennis will be accompanied by Whitehorse’s Daniel Janke.

About Dennis Allen:

From a long line of ancient Inuvialuit and Gwich'in storytellers, Dennis Allen is a bona fide raconteur. With a slew of awards, and a hat full of accolades, Dennis Allen was born to entertain. 

Followed by a screening of:

CBQM

DIR. DENNIS ALLEN, 2006, NWT/YT | 66 MIN

Screening sponsored by Jazz Yukon

This feature-length documentary pays tribute to CBQM, the radio station that operates out of Fort McPherson, a small town about 150 km north of the Arctic Circle in the Canadian Northwest Territories. Through storytelling and old-time country music, filmmaker and long-time listener Dennis Allen crafts a nuanced portrait of the "Moccasin Telegraph," the radio station that is a pillar of local identity and pride in this lively northern Teetl'it Gwich'in community of 800 souls.

Recommended for all ages.

Selected by guest curator, Vivian Belik, as part of Yukon Film Society’s 40th anniversary celebration of Yukon filmmaking and presentation

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