Claire Ness
Youth Workshop Leader
Claire Ness grew up in Whitehorse, then studied Comedy Writing and Performance at Humber College in Toronto, and Circus Training at École Nationale de Cirque in Montréal. Claire is a prolific songwriter in a variety of genres: blues, country, folk, jazz, children’s, musical theatre, francophone, and comedy. Her last album won a Canadian Folk Music Award and a Western Canadian Music Award. She is the Founding Artistic Director of the Yukon Circus Society and loves to bring circus camps and workshops across the Yukon. One of Claire's favourite jobs is to play Leading Lady in cabaret and vaudeville shows, the latest being "The Garden" by ZGB Productions at the Yukon Arts Centre in October. She also runs a Tik Tok and Instagram page as her comedy character Ashley Saunders.
Events
FREE Youth Workshop - Songwriting and The Universe Poem
In the first part of the workshop Claire will lead the group through a fun exercise to generate ideas and create an outline for your writing project, whether it be a song, a play, a story, a poem, or a clown act. Then we will work on writing a song as a group, with discussions on form, rhyme scheme, word play, and uniqueness vs universality
