Smells Like Yukon believes in giving back to the Yukon community and is proud to sponsor a wide range of Yukon community events and organizations.
Spring 2007
Dialing for Dummies (May 26, 9:00 a.m. @ Yukon College) If you dial the occasional incorrect phone number, you’re only human. But if you possess the special ability to dial the same wrong number three or more times within the span of two hours, especially after midnight, then you may be sub-human. Fortunately, this full-day workshop presented by Yukon College’s Continuing Studies department might help you overcome your challenges. It all starts with a simple test to separate the bona fide idiots from those with learning disabilities. If you qualify, you’ll soon move on to a series of exercises designed to enhance your number recognition and equip you with useful memory aids. When you’re ready, you’ll practice dialing on jumbo demonstration keypads before slowly working up to advanced dialing techniques for Blackberries and other extremely small cellular phones. Time permitting, the instructor may provide helpful tips on drunk dialing, dark dialing and the appropriate use of the redial button, which does NOT include immediately after dialing a wrong number. For more information, visit Yukon College Admissions. No phone calls please.
Dope Springs Eternal
(April 20 - 27) - HELD OVER! Cheech & Chong meet Terms of Endearment in the Guild’s innovative new play that will surprise, delight and challenge audiences in a variety of non-traditional “stages” around Yukon’s capital. An unlikely love quadrangle involving a plucky Copper Ridge grow operator, a legal aid lawyer, a drug distribution “solutionist,” and an idealistic coffee roaster turned bloodthirsty downtown vigilante provides the dramatic centre of this moving comedy of sexual errors. And when we say “moving,” we really mean it. You’ll join the cast on a journey through Whitehorse, following step-by-step as the action plays out in real-life settings: Copper Ridge, Chinese restaurant kitchens, the Capital Hotel, 8th and Wheeler, Takhini Arena, Andrew Philipsen Law Centre, the Whitehorse Correctional Centre—and maybe even your own home! Tickets $15, including bus fare and GST. Extra charge for cab seating. (Warning: At any time, the performance could be disrupted by unscheduled and unscripted authentic drug-related activity.)
Remedial Coin Tossing (April 9) Tired of embarrassing and sometimes costly gaffes in front of your friends and associates? Perfect for members of the Flipper Lunch Club and other coin-centric gambling organizations, this intensive one-hour workshop offers a wealth of helpful tips on how to correctly differentiate between heads and tails on a tossed coin (Canadian currency only). Workshop fee of $10 includes free quarter. Ask about our union boss discount. Starts 11:00 a.m. at Whitehorse Public Library.
Yukon Indoors Club AGM (April 1)
As the sun heats up and the snow starts to melt, the pressure to get active in the great outdoors only increases. If that sounds scarier than additional usage charges for Northwestel High Speed Internet, release your joystick and get a grip on Yukon’s fastest-growing organization. The Yukon Indoors Club is looking for new board members and executive officers to guide its activities to greater depths over the next two years. Own a webcam? You’ll feel right at home in YIC. In fact, you won’t even need to leave your house to participate in the AGM or most club functions.
Flipper Lunch Club (March 30) Friday's noon club meeting at the Talisman Restaurant, hosted by DINK Flip, will be attended by all members with the exception of Priorities Fed Flip. Topics of discussion will include the Smells Like Yukon Segment 04 script; skiing Kluane's Auriol Trail with a certified madman; gymnastics for toddlers; a "Larry David moment" invoving a smelly ski-glove hand; clearing the snow off creaking house roofs; telepsychopaths who dial the same wrong number three consecutive times after midnight; and, other assorted topics. Proprietor Bobby will, as usual, inquire as to the whereabouts of the now legendary burgundy Loser's Jacket. To this day, no one knows.
Burning Away the Winter Booze (March 24) Never mind burning away the winter blues. You’ve been drinking hard since November, so you’re about as happy as you are fat. Now it’s time to throw that “spare tire” on the fire. Haul your empties down to the Whitehorse recycling depot where you can exchange them for an Official Winter ’06/’07 Commemorative Snow Shovel. Then, starting at 8:30 p.m., you and your trusty blade are invited to hit the streets to work up a good old-fashioned sweat for the benefit of your personal bottom line, not to mention the City’s strained snow removal budget. As an added bonus, this oh-so quirky group endeavour might prevent the whole damn town from going the way of Atlantis when the spring melt finally arrives.
*Unbelievably,
the concept and content for these unbecoming events were developed without the assistance of Yukon’s foremost advertising agency specializing in identifying words that begin with “un.”
Event Sponsorship
If you think Smells Like Yukon might be interested in sponsoring your Yukon event or organization, we encourage you to e-mail all the unbelievable details for posting on SLY.com. And if we like what you're doing? Well, hooray for you.
If you dial the occasional incorrect phone number, you’re only human. But if you possess the special ability to dial the same wrong number three or more times within the span of two hours, especially after midnight, then you may be sub-human. Fortunately, this full-day workshop presented by Yukon College’s Continuing Studies department might help you overcome your challenges. It all starts with a simple test to separate the bona fide idiots from those with learning disabilities. If you qualify, you’ll soon move on to a series of exercises designed to enhance your number recognition and equip you with useful memory aids. When you’re ready, you’ll practice dialing on jumbo demonstration keypads before slowly working up to advanced dialing techniques for Blackberries and other extremely small cellular phones. Time permitting, the instructor may provide helpful tips on drunk dialing, dark dialing and the appropriate use of the redial button, which does NOT include immediately after dialing a wrong number. For more information, visit Yukon College Admissions. No phone calls please.
Cheech & Chong meet Terms of Endearment in the Guild’s innovative new play that will surprise, delight and challenge audiences in a variety of non-traditional “stages” around Yukon’s capital. An unlikely love quadrangle involving a plucky Copper Ridge grow operator, a legal aid lawyer, a drug distribution “solutionist,” and an idealistic coffee roaster turned bloodthirsty downtown vigilante provides the dramatic centre of this moving comedy of sexual errors. And when we say “moving,” we really mean it. You’ll join the cast on a journey through Whitehorse, following step-by-step as the action plays out in real-life settings: Copper Ridge, Chinese restaurant kitchens, the Capital Hotel, 8th and Wheeler, Takhini Arena, Andrew Philipsen Law Centre, the Whitehorse Correctional Centre—and maybe even your own home! Tickets $15, including bus fare and GST. Extra charge for cab seating. (Warning: At any time, the performance could be disrupted by unscheduled and unscripted authentic drug-related activity.) 
Tired of embarrassing and sometimes costly gaffes in front of your friends and associates? Perfect for members of the 
Friday's noon club meeting at the Talisman Restaurant, hosted by DINK Flip, will be attended by all members with the exception of Priorities Fed Flip. Topics of discussion will include the Smells Like Yukon Segment 04 script; skiing Kluane's Auriol Trail with a certified madman; gymnastics for toddlers; a "Larry David moment" invoving a smelly ski-glove hand; clearing the snow off creaking house roofs; telepsychopaths who dial the same wrong number three consecutive times after midnight; and, other assorted topics. Proprietor Bobby will, as usual, inquire as to the whereabouts of the now legendary burgundy Loser's Jacket. To this day, no one knows. 
Never mind burning away the winter blues. You’ve been drinking hard since November, so you’re about as happy as you are fat. Now it’s time to throw that “spare tire” on the fire. Haul your empties down to the Whitehorse recycling depot where you can exchange them for an Official Winter ’06/’07 Commemorative Snow Shovel. Then, starting at 8:30 p.m., you and your trusty blade are invited to hit the streets to work up a good old-fashioned sweat for the benefit of your personal bottom line, not to mention the City’s strained snow removal budget. As an added bonus, this oh-so quirky group endeavour might prevent the whole damn town from going the way of Atlantis when the spring melt finally arrives. 