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Uvagut TV to begin streaming across Canada on Monday – Nunatsiaq News
Jan 20, 2025 Canada’s first Inuit language channel will be available on basic cable packages after CRTC’s approval last October TV watchers across the country will be able to tune in to Canada’s first Inuit-language channel on cable and satellite starting Monday. Uvagut TV launches on basic cable packages nationwide on Jan. 20, after receiving […]
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Cheers, applause from Igloolik for Zacharias Kunuk’s latest film – Nunatsiaq News
Jan 17, 2025 Audience invited to watch private screening of ‘Wrong Husband’ This story was updated on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, at 11:15 a.m. ET. Igloolik filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk has wrapped up filming and post-production work on his latest feature Wrong Husband, which draws on ancient Inuit legends to tell the tale of an arranged […]
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Make me laugh’: The North of North co-creators try to figure out if there’s an ‘Inuit sense of humour’ – CBC
Jan 16, 2025 Co-creators of new comedy talk about the realness at the show’s core The premise for North of North, a new comedy series set in the fictional village of Ice Cove, Nunavut, came in part from a lot of real, often serious conversations. In North of North, Anna Lambe — from Trickster and […]
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North of North co-creators on making a heartfelt, relatable and groundbreaking Inuit comedy – CBC
Jan 08, 2025 Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril talk to Q’s Tom Power about their new CBC sitcom North of North is a heartfelt new comedy series from CBC that follows a young Inuk mother named Siaja (Anna Lambe) who’s on a journey to reclaim her life. Siaja lives in the fictional Arctic community […]
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‘North of North’ co-creators depict a different side of Inuit life – Nunatsiaq
Jan 7, 2025 Nunavut-based comedy premieres on CBC, APTN Jan. 7 before spring Netflix streaming Two Nunavut filmmakers are rather miffed at previous storytelling about Inuit. So it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that Stacey Aglok MacDonald and Alethea Arnaquq-Baril were keen to show the world a contrasting portrayal of Inuit life. The pair […]
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Q&A: Inuk actress proud to share North of North – Cabin Radio
January 7, 2025 An Inuk actress says she “just can’t wait” to share her TV debut when North of North arrives on screens this week. Zorga Qaunaq, a multidisciplinary artist who grew up in Igloolik, Nunavut, and now lives in Ottawa, plays Millie in the new comedy. The first two episodes of the eight-episode series launch […]
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Inuk artist Ashevak’s ‘The Enchanted Owl’ fetches record price at auction – Nunatsiaq News
Dec 13, 2024 Blue trial proof of 1960 work sells for $366,000 at a Toronto auction A rare, stonecut print in blue ink of Kenojuak Ashevak’s “The Enchanted Owl” set an auction record of $366,000 on Dec. 2 and has been sold to a “prominent Canadian collector of Inuit art.” (Photo by Dieter Hessel courtesy […]
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Igloolik writer’s short story evokes post-apocalyptic Arctic utopia – Nunatsiaq News
Dec 12, 2024 Megan Ungalak earned second place in recent Inuktuuqta! contest; plans to write a sequel next summer It’s the year 2050. Civilization has collapsed amid war and plague. Inuksugalingmiut — residents of a fictional 26th Nunavut community — are thriving by relying on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit, or Inuit traditional knowledge. This is the post-apocalyptic […]
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$80,000 literary prize winner to plot path to publication – Nunatsiaq News
Dec 6, 2024 Award brings support, opportunity and challenges, says Inuktut writer Emerging Inuktut writer Donna Adams has a lot of tough decisions to make over the holidays, and none of them have to do with spending $80,000. That’s the value of the prize Adams accepted Dec. 4 as the winner of the third annual […]
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Call for members for the NWT Arts Council
November 27, 2024 Individuals from the South Slave, Dehcho, and Tłı̨chǫ regions with a passion for the arts, culture, and heritage are encouraged to apply to join the NWT Arts Council. Members will serve a two-year term beginning January 2025. Council members provide recommendations to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment on financial awards […]
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