When is rendezvous in whitehorse

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It will be the last weekend of the Song of the Whale and Waters of the Humpback exhibits. The Rendezvous Wrap Up Parade will begin at 3 p. Long Lake Road will be closed on Saturday from 7 p. Local residential traffic will be allowed, except when fireworks are set off at Festival Whitehorse Yukon.

Yukon Rendezvous weekend kicks off today with a series of outdoor, virtual and staged events. Shipyards Park A snow sculpture exhibit will be on display in the Shipyards Park parking lot from Feb. Road closures Long Lake Road will be closed on Saturday from 7 p. Festival president Tyson Hickman said that after 57 years, it was time for a re-branding. The festival got some money last year to do it. There is some negative connotation surrounding the term 'sourdough,' and Yukon's history in general," Hickman said.

Sourdough was a staple for many who came north during the Klondike Gold Rush of , allowing them to make bread without the use of baker's yeast or baking soda. It became so closely associated with stampeders that any of them who stayed in Yukon or Alaska through at least one winter came to be called "sourdoughs. Hickman says the festival has been getting feedback in recent years that suggests some people have soured on the idea of a "sourdough festival," seeing it as a throwback to a colonial era.

And I think that it will continue to change and evolve as, you know, as Whitehorse does. The only questions people should be asking is Will there be exotic dancers and a fireworks show this year? Up Down 9. Wow, how can an organization be so tone deaf? You'd think a festival that depends on local sponsorship and support would actually listen to the local audience before making such a poorly informed move.

Being a Sourdough is a long established badge of honour for surviving a tough Yukon winter and it makes perfect sense to use the term in a winter festival. It's a tribute to the rugged frontier spirit that built this Territory. Everyone may not like the name, but it's inoffensive and a passionate part of the Yukon's heritage for many and sets us apart from other destinations.

It's one thing to think the festival needs a branding refresh, but calling the term Sourdough offensive is an insult to many and huge blunder in knowing your customers. After being a long term supporter and sponsor, I wont be supporting the festival this year. Up 31 Down Man oh man Yukoners are a self entitled bunch, eh?

Classic Gatekeeping. Rendezvous has been circling the drain for decades and the current board are trying to breathe new life into not just chirping from the sidelines like those that think being here 15 years lol give them some sort of veto power. Up 94 Down 7. Talk about being tone deaf and not knowing your audience!

Go woke and go broke comes to mind. The term Sourdough is a romantic part of the Yukon identity and a tribute to the rugged frontier spirit that built the Territory. Up 97 Down 2. Who is talking about bread? Anyone in the know would realize that in the early days a Sourdough was an old timer and a Chechako was a greenhorn to the territory. Therefore Sourdough Rendezvous meant a meeting of old time experienced trapper,etc.

Get it right folks Up 87 Down 5. Oh my Sad world when so many are offended by words.. Up 59 Down 5. It would be sad to see it disappear from history. Up Down 6. Rendezvous has slowly died ever since the festival was moved away from Main Street. I remember 's of people cheering on the contestants as they threw chainsaws, chopped wood, packed flour, raced dog teams and other northern activities.

Political correctness has ruined our winter festival. The relatively few special interest people who attend are looking for any sign of apparent non-compliance with current PC policies. What a boor. Up 76 Down Dear woke left, you are no better than the far right. You are both extremists, asking the vast majority of centrists to swallow lies and gaslighting - including the silencing of your "own people".

You are mirror reflections of each other and the rising tensions are leading us to very bad places. Smarten up. Up 16 Down Up 88 Down 7. How can sourdough have a negative connotation - and to who - a couple of people? Give me a break. I also see you dropped the picture of the Yukoner all bundled up in a parka with his hands in his pockets and replaced it with trees and mountains.

That bundled up Yukoner represented the spirit and tradition of the festival better than a couple of spruce trees sitting on a mountain. Up 82 Down 1. Not just with this name change but all of the different changes and inclusions being forced on society. Everything offends someone these days and people are getting sick of it. Too many regulations and inclusions. I get regulations for safety but I miss traditions.

Up 59 Down 6. Who was consulted? Could the consultation have been done in a better way? I am also saddened that the people are threatening the staff of the society. I think further proper consultation needs to happen to make this right. Please stop the threatening behaviour as it does not help.

Adults need to act like adults. Yes, born and raised in Yukon for many generations. Up 74 Down 2. It's a new one on me, that the word "sourdough" has negative connotations. The first years that I went to Rendezvous, it was the real thing, in that it really was the first social event in months, after a long, dark, and often very cold winter.

It was lots of fun, you had the run of downtown, not just Main Street. Bannock and pancake breakfasts at Skookum Jim's, sit down dinners at the CYO hall, those crazy competitions, dog races. It could get very rowdy in the bars, when live music came back after months without it. In the mids, there was a move to de-emphasize the alcohol and make it more family-friendly.

Somehow they managed to relay that message and make the transition without insulting anyone. Anyway, clearly there is a lack of corporate memory on the board, or they might have remembered the huge kerfuffle over taking the goldpanner off license plates and replacing him with fireweed.

Up 78 Down I am not surprised to see this reaction from a sizable portion of our community. The recent racial compensation adjustments made by the government have brought this topic to the fore and it would appear many Yukoners have had enough of these changes to our society without any input from the people who live here.

Lord save us from our saviours. Up 56 Down 4. The festival has been dying because of the changes to make it more 'inclusive' imo. Inclusive is good, but who is feeling excluded in this particular situation? No group has come forward in support, have they?

Rendezvous needs to be outside and recently it has moved more indoors. No one likes that. Where's the huge tent parties? Post covid of course People want to shake off the winter blues and party and that's what rendezvous should be about. The folks who are cutting things like ice carving to have more 'inclusive' programming are completely misguided. A massive week-long party to shake off the winter blues and welcome spring Trying to turn this into some watered down and 'inclusive' aka government fundable is absolutely the wrong strategy.

Make rendezvous great again! Up 63 Down 4. I came here in I was a "Cheechako" until or so, when Jim Robb was introducing me to someone as, 'an old "Sourdough" gal.

We came from all over the Territory. Sourdough Rendezvous, a gathering of old timers. When Rendezvous first got started, the Sheffield, The Whitehorse Inn, and the New North all had to be booked as soon as summer ended to be sure you got a room.

Wonderful memories. Herbies for an excellent Chinese dinner, Mimi's for after hours pot of special Yukon Tea. It could be rum tea, or vodka tea. We got old, for a long time, our kids replaced us or went with us to various committees, boards, events. I was in the rickety jail more times than I care to count.

Then, newcomers started coming to town, and change came with them. Some good, some not so good. But the sense of community the 'sourdoughs' shared, became a new modernization. I was not ready. Don Taylor fought like crazy when our electoral system changed from not party lines, all independent candidates, to party candidates and voting.

Any one still remember Don? A name is just another sign of a new era in the Yukon. Sourdough or Cheechako has no meaning to the people that have inherited our community culture. The winds of change.. Personally, because I never speak for anyone but myself, Sourdough Rendezvous ceased to be anything real special when they took it off Main Street.

I miss it. But, so many of those Sourdoughs are gone now. Traditions change, and new ones are made. A virtual Rendezvous. Up 80 Down 8. The thought police have reared their ugly heads again.

My family has lived continuously in the Yukon for years, hence my name. Get over it! Up 29 Down Is this really the biggest issue of the day?

Is anyone at all hurt by this? Come on people, literally a pandemic going on right now, move along. Up 36 Down 5. There will probably still be lots to do with sourdough. Holy cow. They closed their offices to keep them safe? Up 39 Down Maybe instead of defunding the Police, as so many rabid SJW's bleat for Saskrita Shresthra Check out her attitude in an article at the "state broadcaster" Wow SJW extreme.

Up 9 Down It was most likely white men. Up 65 Down 5. They tried to drop the name Sourdough on the low down and are surprised when people are calling them on it. Up 35 Down I for one would like to see the program. My recommendation for decolonization of the Rendezvous is to eliminate the English language.

English is the foremost tool of the British Empire. Don't replace it with French for they too are colonizers, and don't replace it with Chinese for they too are in process of colonizing Canada. Don't replace it with Hindi or Punjabi for they have colonized their own people.

I suggest a replacement by Athapaskan and Tlingit. Up 57 Down 3. That saddest part is all the former songs written, art created, etc. No longer displayed?

Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous is known in so many places around the world and now the name is changing? How does this make any sense? I can only imagine how much money a name rebranding costs and it's sad to think that this money wasn't put towards the festival itself.

Up 69 Down 7. My father-in-law came into the country in via The Chilkoot. Sourdough is an honourable moniker and part of our history as well as heritage. Celebrate it!! Up 53 Down 2. Who'd have thought that the independent Yukon way of leavening one's bread would be "offensive". It only goes to prove that somebody will be offended by anything, and somebody will make threats about anything.

Let's dismiss the offended like we dismiss the threateners. Buncha whiny diaper babies. Lol forever. Up 20 Down Yukoners complain about everything, and at very little provocation.