Jon Gelinas
Jon Gelinas has been in the Yukon for 18 years using images, sound and light to tell stories while working in visual communications as an educator, designer and technologist.His graphic design, layout, photography and web design work has been featured on devices and publications throughout the Yukon. As a film-maker, his short films have won audience choice at the 2017 48HR Film Challenge and the 2018 48HR Music Video Challenge. His submission for this year’s 48 Film Challenge won ‘Best Use of a Prop’. Past projects have seen him partnered with: Ramshackle Theatre, Magnetic North Theatre Festival, Varietease, Frostbite Music Festival, Nakai Theatre, Longest Night, The Virtual Museums of Canada, Bringing Youth Towards Equality, Nicole Edwards, Team Yukon, The Upstanding Knives, Bent Spoon Café, Board Stiff and several others.
As a sound designer he travelled to Toronto to perform with Ramshackle Theatre’s presentation of The Cloaker and the Cabinet at the SummerWorks Theatre Festival. His generative, digital artworks were featured in Red Wagon Union’s, Dark Days art show.
Jon currently instructs the Multimedia Communications program at Yukon College.
