Home Grown Festival

A Cappella Rap
Daniel Ashley
15 min

Army Wife’s Daughter
Kristina Mercs
An exploration of the subculture of armed forces living from the perspective of an army wife's daughter. This story follows three generations of women and their experiences. A sometimes funny, sometimes painful look at the isolation, uncertainty, danger, and politics associated with this job.
30 min

Caprimulgiformes
Moira Sauer
Starring Dave Haddock and Trudi d’Ambrumenil A love story based on perfect weather, fruit, ripped book pages and the ever mysterious F.F.B.R…A meeting in mask.
30 min

Darwin: A fish out of water
Created by Brian Fidler and Dean Eyre
Written by Dean Eyre. Music by Kim Barlow.
Murder and mutation in a quiet river eddy.
Can Darwin save the School from the depredations of a pair of evil drifters from priver? Can a catfish ever go home again? What dangers lurk in the shallows?
Starring Brian Fidler, Joe Zucchiatti, Susie Anne Bartsch, Jude Wong, Dean Eyre, and the mystery puppeteer. Music by Kim Barlow. A puppet version of Darwin: A Fish Out of Water is currently under development for Yukon Educational Theatre's new sister company L'Ark. A Mudskipper Production.
50 min

Hat Trick
The story of an unlikely dance duo: a man and a hat
Brian Fidler
The Homegrown Festival proudly presents the 1921 short film Hat Trick. The star of the film, a 95 year old hat, will be in attendance and there will be a description of how this unique film was created.
40 min

I'd Rather Be Snow Shoveling
Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez
In the past year, their snow shoveling collaboration has developed in Halifax and Dawson City. This spring, Valerie and Hannah continue to take-the-snow-on-the-road, (this time to Whitehorse)! Through on-going work with this 'medium', they continue to explore the sculptural, performative and interactive potential of snow shoveling as an artistic process.
15 min

Just Passin’ Through
Paul Davis
Dayton Stockdale is the Prime Minister. The pipeline came through, and the toilet paper train is run by robots. Buddy and Mac cut wood and shoot moose to survive the Integral Market Agreement. The Global Economy passes right through their territory without slowing down enough to hear what they have to say....
5 min

Northern Town, Episodes 1 & 4
Daniel Janke
Daniel Janke will read an episode from 'Northern Town,' the television series he is currently working on. The series story was written by Janke. Story editor is Don McKellar. Scripts are being written by Bob Martin and Daniel Janke. The reading will be a first-draft television script format. 'Northern Town' has just been picked up by CBC television for production in 2005.
15 min

Perpetuation of the Yukon Myth
Tara Fallat
Enter a world where Lusty Lissa will do anything to win the Doctor, Mae North gets a break in the dance world, and man's best friend is a frozen squirrel. Will Yukon Justice prevail? Based on true stories of Dawson and Fairbanks.
40 min

Scrapbook 1978
Andrew Connors
Reflections of a seven year old boy read by a 33 year old man. Includes pictures and a stick of stale bubble gum inside.
10 min

Six Turning Out to Be Nine: Jimi Hendrix meets Georg Friedrich Handel
Murray Munn
Two geniuses. Both wrote about water.
What happens when the greatest electric guitar player in history moves next door to the sublime Georg F. Handel–209 years after the latter died? Will musical warfare erupt? Will the two geniuses salute one another? Coronation Street across two centuries? Tune in, turn on and find out!
A play about genius, pride and prejudice. And music.
30 min

Stand-Up
Michael Couchman
15 min

Stage Bites
Celia McBride
Celia McBride slams her poetry, which considers the nature of existence,
obsessive love and a one-legged goat man.
15 min

Surfing Blue
Leslie Hamson / Arlin McFarlane
Surfing Blue by Leslie Hamson is an intimate, lyrical duologue in which two people describe their marriage of thirty-five years from very different perspectives. Two people who can barely converse with one another are poignant, fluid and passionate when speaking with their deep inner voices to the audience. The play was written from the author's conviction that even the most inarticulate person has a poetic voice if only they can find someone who knows how to listen for it.
40 min

Surviving Daunting Adventures in Puerto Vallarta
Lou Redmond
The story is about how a Mexican city came under attack from a tantrum of mother nature. How life can change in a single moment. How a body is fragile yet resilient, when attacked. It's about people surviving every day, one day at a time.
30 min

Things in my Fridge
Chris McNutt
Just exactly what is the organic awareness inside the cold, dark womb of the refrigerator? Only the Ranch Dressing really knows. The ubiquity of the appliance that sustains our life who we thank by filling full of condiments. A personal exploration into fridges and all things fridgulor.
30 min

The Wedding Song
Mitch Miyagawa
A mermaid-in-training finds the true meaning of sisterly love when she‚s asked to sing at a wedding the day of her final exam. Plus some puppets. And a hypnotist. Oh, and lots of eggrolls. Featuring an all-star cast of scalliwags and buccaneers.
50 min

Wizards (one-time presentation*)
MAD Program
A high school class goes on a day trip to a local ski hill. Some students decide to make a choice to use marijuana, show off and ski out of bounds. An avalanche traps the group. After the group has been buried, we follow the student's spirits/stream of consciousnesses. The final question/statement to the audience is: you must think of the consequences of your actions and the only one in charge of your life is you.
*MAD program presents a 5pm show of Wizards on Fri, May 21 at the Wood Street Annex (Wood St, between 3rd & 4th Ave)