Outside the Down to Earth gallery, people gather to listen to music, watch pottery and soapstone carving demonstrations, and make their own buttons.
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Explore the 18th edition of Yellowknife’s Old Town Ramble and Ride, a free weekend of music, arts, crafts and more.
This year’s festival features live performances from local musicians, local vendors, artist demonstrations, a Trash-Formation art show, a children’s zone, paddling race, walking tour and more.
Check out our photos from Saturday’s events.
The festival runs from August 2-4, 2024. You can view the full schedule of events here.
All photos and video by Caelan Beard.
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A children’s bicycle parade crosses the causeway.
Jasper Tompkins, left, and Osian Bullon, right, prepare their lemonade stand on Saturday morning.
The Canadian Coast Guard held an open house, welcoming the public to learn more about what they do and view their fleet of boats.
Grace Guy, representing the Yellowknife Historical Society, sells merch and shares stories of Yellowknife history. A seven-foot-tall poster of local legend Tom Doornbos is behind her. “I think he really embodied what a lot of people typically remember Old Town as being so, like, very entrepreneurial, very independent and very kooky in the best kind of ways,” Guy said.
The Tamarack Fibre Group displays work by their members in a mobile art gallery. “I think people expect it to be like traditional quilting, and there’s just so much in textile art…. there’s more than just sewing squares together,” said Shona Barbour, one of the group’s members.
Over the past year, the Tamarack Fibre Group participated in a creative challenge, using an archival photograph – taken by Fort Smith trapper and musher Pi Kennedy- as a prompt.
The Somba K’e paddling club starts their friendly race around Latham Island.
Tłı̨chǫ Lawrence performs on the back patio of the Wildcat Café.
Attendees were invited to paint an “aquarium” of fish and algae on the side of Johnson’s Building Supplies, guided by Yellowknife artist Diane Boudreau.
Painting fish on the side of Johnson’s Building Supplies.
