The Northern Arts and Cultural Centre is located in

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, Northwest Territories, Canada. It is the only performing arts centre in the NWT. The 313 seat Centre opened May 3, 1984. Created by Yellowknife residents with major support from

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newspaper, the Centre was built with government, business, foundation and individual contributions from across Canada. Since then, with a mandate to “encourage the development of the performing arts from all cultural traditions", the institution has become the central point in the territory for community, territorial, national and international performing artists. NACC is led by a volunteer Board of Directors. It engages in NWT community and educational activities, supporting programs for emerging and established NWT artists and outreach programmes for NWT schools, community and performing arts groups.

Facility

In 2003 the Centre modernized its technical facilities and was integrated with the

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building. The upgraded facilities are now one of the most technically sound theatres, for its size, in North America. The stage has been described as, “an intimate space upon which anything is possible". The Northern Arts and Cultural Centre held a "Children's Festival of

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" in January 2012.

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