Ivan Coyote
Ivan Coyote is a writer and storyteller who was born and raised in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. In 2021 Ivan marked 27 years on the road as an international touring storyteller and musician, and released their thirteenth book, Care Of. Coyote’s stories grapple with the complex and intensely personal topics of gender identity, family, class, and queer liberation, but always with a generous heart, and a quick wit. Ivan's stories manage to handle both the hilarious and the historical with reverence and compassion, and remind us all of our own fallible and imperfect humanity, while at the same time inspiring us to change the world.
www.ivancoyote.com
Trader Time
Take one part master storyteller Ivan Coyote and one part award-winning Swedish/Canadian songwriter Sarah MacDougall, and a generous helping of frozen Yukon landscape. Add a kind of homage to an old-time live local call-in buy-and-sell radio show where you can trade a used baby crib for a freezer full of moose meat. Exchange a skidoo helmet for a cord of wood, and liquidate your kayaks in case of pending divorce. Part song, part story, part peeling back of the hearts behind what is for sale in a northern town and the real story of what we are all looking for.
Format: Live in person
Photo: GBP Creative | Artwork: Rosemary Scanlon
Ivan Coyote Solo in Concert
Ivan Coyote is a writer and storyteller, the author of 13 books, the creator of four films, three albums, and an international touring performer. They have a variety of solo works that can be adapted to online platforms or stream from your stage.
Format: Live in person or online
Photo: Emily Cooper
Out of This Blue
Out of This Blue is an eclectic selection of the songs and stories that emerged from Ivan Coyote and Sarah MacDougall during the pandemic. Inspired by having time to watch the garden turn green in the spring and flower and wilt, infused with the longing and loss that social isolation has brought to all of our lives, and touching on matters of the heart that have always resonated for both of these artists, Out of This Blue is an homage to family, friendship, mortality, and the ability of writing and music to connect us all.
Format: Live in person or online
Photo: Jen Squires