BYTE Blog
Press Release: BYTE – Empowering Youth Society celebrates 25th Anniversary
Whitehorse, YukonFebruary 8, 2023FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE This year, BYTE - Empowering Youth Society is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. “Celebrating BYTE’s 25th Anniversary is a truly special occasion and we look forward to sharing the festivities with many of...
Skaydu.û (Autum) Jules, Nicole Edwards Leadership Fund Recipient
Last summer, Skaydu.û (Autum) Jules embarked on an important journey of teaching, community, and language with a little help from BYTE’s Nicole Edwards Leadership Fund. The 25-year-old Leadership Fund recipient participated in a group hike with more than 20 folks...
Green Resilience Project Community Report
In March 2021, a group of individuals and organizations working in climate change and income security received funding from Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Climate Action and Awareness Fund to organize a series of community conversations on the topic...
DaveOdd, Nicole Edwards Leadership Fund Recipient
DaveOdd is an alternative artist (and songwriter, costume designer, music video director, and guitar player) based in Carmacks, Yukon. His music, influenced by alt-pop and 90’s grunge, tells honest coming-of-age tales of love and loss. He recently released his first...
Exploring Anxiety
Note: This blog post does not offer medical advice. Please contact a health care professional or mental health support if you are concerned about your health. Anxiety has become a commonly used word in the past decade. We use it to describe anything from nerves before...
Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation
Cultural Appropriation vs. Cultural Appreciation is a very interesting and important topic, especially as Halloween approaches. You may notice more people sharing those “My culture is NOT your costume” posts, I know I have shared a couple already. While I do believe...
The Life of a Young Indigenous Entrepreneur
My name is Carissa Waugh, my Northern Tutchone name is Eke Ewe, after my great-grandma Emma Shorty. I am Taku River Tlingit First Nation belonging to the Crow Clan. I was taught how to bead by my mom Charlene Waugh and she was taught by her late grandma Elizabeth...
Jesse Khan, Nicole Edwards Leadership Fund Recipient
Jesse Khan is a 22 year old filmmaker from Carmacks, Yukon. Jesse is also a writer, editor, co-creator of Chromatic Dreams Film Production - and also a Nicole Edwards Leadership Fund recipient! Jesse was awarded $1500 from the Nicole Edwards Leadership Fund to...
Building Youth Futures Fund!
The Communities Building Youth Futures Partnership Table is seeking applications from youth serving organizations for innovative projects that support underrepresented youth aged 16-30! ABOUT THE COMMUNITIES BUILDING YOUTH FUTURES (CBYF) INITIATIVEIn June 2019, the...
Being Human
Life doesn’t turn out the way you plan most of the time. When Covid-19 hit the world by force, everyone had to change how they lived their life. BYTE had to start working from home because we did not know how big of a threat Covid was. We were preparing workshops to...
Often people focus on the bigger picture…
And forget to look at and appreciate all the small things in life. People will look at the 30-year, ongoing, state of emergency that is suicide among Inuit; and their first thought is, “wow. 30 years in a state of emergency? Why isn’t anything working?” Despite...
Covid-19 Policies and Procedures
Please note that we have postponed all community visits until a time when there are no active cases and is no ongoing contact tracing in the territory but if you want to know more about the precautions we are taking when programming resumes, please read on!...
BYTE Leadership Fund – Applications now open!
The BYTE Leadership Fund was launched in 2018 to celebrate youth leadership in our community! The goal of the fund is to support young people in pursuing their passions, gifts, leadership skills and identity through awards of up to $1500. Since 2018, BYTE has awarded...
2020 Dawson City Skate Comp
Over Labour Day weekend, Sarina and Abbey drove up to Dawson City to run some workshops and put on the 2020 Skate Competition. We had such a great time on Tr'ondek Hwech'in territory and were received so warmly by the community. Parents and community members were...
Yukon Youth Organizations are excited to share their partnership with the Communities Building Youth Futures Initiative
For Immediate Release August 12, 2020 – Yukon Youth Organizations are excited to share their partnership with the Communities Building Youth Futures (CBYF) Initiative. The project is a five-year initiative and is a collaboration, between the Tamarack Institute,...
Northern Youth Got Talent Wrap-up
This year we hosted the first-ever “Northern Youth Got Talent” competition, virtually on our Facebook page. We asked for media submissions from youth all across the North, in the Yukon, NWT, and Northern BC. We noticed a gap in our events after Battle of the Bands was...
A Statement and Some Anti-Racism Calls to Action
On Friday, May 29th several members of the BYTE team attended the #justiceforregis solidarity vigil in Whitehorse organized by some incredible members of our community (thank you Paige, Asad, Meriya, Antoinette, Annie and Colin). Since then I’ve been reading and...
#BYTElife update: COVID-19 Edition
We're coming up on four weeks of working from home at BYTE HQ. A whole month, a full moon! One of our staff has borrowed a desk from the office, others have s-l-o-w-l-y converted nooks and rooms as conference/office rooms and so it made sense to write to you a bit of...