This Moment Will Be Different

This screening took place on Saturday, May 3, 2025 at 12:00 pmYukon Theatre

Screening as part of the Down by the River Jenni House Art Exhibit - Pay What You Can!

The town of Wells, British Columbia was founded on a gold mine, but one hundred years later, not everyone is excited about the mine's revival. Through glimpses of the characters who make up the town, This Moment Will Be Different explores how the legacies of past mining affect the daily lives of a rural community.

 

Art Exhibit Celebrates Jenni House Artists

Yukon Artists at Work (YAAW) and the consortium that operates the Jenni House artist residency in Whitehorse are teaming up to present an exhibit that features sixteen recent Jenni House artists. The show, called Down By the River, opens on May 2nd at YAAW with a reception co-hosted by Yukon Artists at Work and the Yukon Arts Centre. The Arts Centre is one of the organizations that runs the Jenni House program, along with ArtsNet, the Yukon Film Society, Jazz Yukon, and Music Yukon.

There’ll also be an off-site part of the exhibition shown on May 3rd at 12 noon at the Yukon Theatre in Whitehorse. The public will have a chance to view the film This Moment Will Be Different by former Jenni House artist Sarah Genge. Genge worked on the documentary during her residency two years ago.

“Since the Jenni House program began in 2015, we have been able to offer residencies to about 200 artists from a wide variety of disciplines,” said Janet Patterson, Outreach Coordinator for Jenni House and the curator of this exhibition. “As part of their residency, each artist is required to hold a public engagement event, such as hosting open houses, workshops or participating in the Fireweed Community Market. As a result, more than 6,000 people have interacted with the artists in some way. However this exhibit gives some of the artists an additional opportunity to showcase their work,” Patterson added.

The Jenni House artist residency is a year-round program that offers one-month residencies to Yukon and northern circumpolar artists. It takes place in two historic cabins in Shipyards Park in Whitehorse: Jenni House and Chambers House.

There’ll be an opening reception at Yukon Artists at Work (4th and Wood St.) on Friday, May 2nd from 5 to 7 pm, coinciding with the May First Friday art crawl in downtown Whitehorse.

The exhibit will run until May 31st.