High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Yukon International Storytelling Festival is held every Summer in Whitehorse, Yukon, generally in an outdoor setting. The storytelling festival was conceived in the mid 1980s when one the Yukon`s last Tagish speakers found herself going to the Toronto Festival of Storytelling to disseminate her peoples` stories to a world audience. 1987 saw the coming together of interested parties and the planning stages for the first Yukon Storytelling Festival in 1988. It has since grown beyond the scope of Yukon and Canada to attract storytellers from all over the world with am emphasis on native peoples storytelling and circumpolar countries.