As featured in the newly published A Passion For Knitting Knitting On the Go - Events & Travel Section

Renew Your Creative Spirit  with a  Fantastic Adventure to the Top of the World! 

   "..at the end of the tour, each person has gained an appreciation of how vast North America is, while observing the multitude of knitting styles and creative use of colors and design of native peoples."  A Passion for Knitting  by  Nancy J. Thomas and Ilana Rabinowitz  Forward by Melanie Falick

A Creative Artists Adventure To the Top of the World

Inuvik, NW Territories

 2008 DATES TBA

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL PRICES

Set your sights for a Trip of A Lifetime with a fully escorted artistic adventure to the GREAT NORTHERN ARTS FESTIVAL in Inuvik, NWT CANADA.  This special trip will move your creative soul and renew your spirit of adventure as we travel through the Yukon and into the North West Territories of Canada. This once a year festival in Inuvik, the LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN showcases the Native Art of the Far North.

Meet us in Juneau, Alaska. We’ll take the ferry through the Inside Passage to Haines where we’ll scout for bears feeding on spawning salmon and take a float down the Chilkat River through the World Famous Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve. Heading to Whitehorse up through the Haines Highway you’ll be traveling through some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. In Whitehorse, on the Yukon River, we’ll have an introduction to Native Fiber arts with a presentation on Qiviuq, and the musk ox with Wendy Chambers of Folknits. Traveling up the Klondike Highway, we’ll kick up our heels in Dawson City, the famous Gold-Rush town with a trip to Diamond Tooth Gerties and other famous sights.

Now the real fun begins! Travel up the modern frontier road, The Dempster Highway, a 460-mile trip from the Klondike to Inuvik. With incredible scenery and opportunities to view the wildlife you’ll learn about the culture and history of this vast region. We’ll cross the Arctic Circle, and the Peel & McKenzie Rivers to arrive at the Land of the Midnight Sun. Once in Inuvik ("place of the people") you’ll be fascinated with the Native Culture and this town near the Beaufort Sea Coast. Here the gathering of native artisans and performers come together for the yearly Great Northern Arts Festival that is NWT’s premier artistic event with exhibits of all types of creative art medium from fossilized mammoth, beading, embroidery work to pastel crayons. You can watch demonstrations and purchase works.

There is a wonderful spirit of hospitality in the Far North. We will be able to take side trips and tours to view more of this Artic environment and understand the Native culture and customs. Where else in the world can you have an opportunity to view Beluga whales, muskox, caribou, Dall sheep, black and grizzly bears, red fox, lynx and moose? At the end of the journey we’ll say our farewells to this amazing part of the world and you’ll fly back to Whitehorse and then to your final destination.