The Uluit is a team of women playing hockey in Inukjuak. They are women of all ages, mothers and grand-mothers, students and workers having fun on the ice. The series will consist of 5 episodes aired on APTN in 2011. Co-produced with Montreal based company, Rotating Planet.
Arnait Video Productions and Rotating Planet are co-producing a documentary series of 5 episodes about an amazing all women hockey team in Inukjuak, Nunavik, The Uluit. We will follow the lives of these remarkable women, athletes and mothers, grand-mothers, students and workers, who are role models in their community and in the North. The series will aired on APTN in 2011.
Women of the Arnait Video Collective reenact a traditional women's activity: the use of the qulliq. The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only source of light and warmth. The women tell the story in words and songs as they install the qulliq in their igloo.
Synopsis: In 1840, two isolated Inuit families reunite in celebration after many years of separation. These tribes have never met any white people, although rumours circulate about them. When Ninioq, an old woman, her best friend, Kuutujuuk, and her grandson, Maniq leave camp to dry fish on a remote island a strange illness attacks the camp.… Uqalimakkanirit
Collecting, Connecting and Creating Women’s Voices in Nunavut
September 13-17, 2010 Iqaluit, Nunavut
Welcome to the blog we created during the Symposium! We want to keep you updated on what happened in Iqaluit during this exciting meeting. You will find here photos, videos and texts, in Inuktitut and English from the Symposium participants.
This channel is dedicated to the wonderful work of Inuit midwives.
Interviews with traditionnal midwives from Igloolik done in 1991, rescued from 8mm video recording (so sorry for the technical quality) are here in their original Inuktitut version.
Seperarete English transcripts are also available on this channel for each of the interviews.
Bonjour, nous sommes des Inuit et on habite tous au Nunavik (nord du Québec). Nous sommes ici au Cégep Marie-Victorin et c'est notre 2e trimeste. On a tous des intérêts différents. Dans ce blog, vous allez trouver des photos, des vidéos et des textes à propos de notre vie à Montréal. Écrivez-nous des commentaires.
This site is part of an ongoing effort to create links between Inuit media artists in Nunavut and indigenous media groups in Mexico. It is also a reflection about cultural connections more generally. In what ways do cultural exchanges bring about new and innovative creative conversations? What do people learn from them?
This channel presents Paul Apak's two Expedition Films, Qidtlarssuaq by dogteam from Igloolik to Qanaaq, Greenland; and Umiaq by walrus skin boat from Siberia to Alaska across the Bering Strait. Paul Apak Angilirq (1954-1998) was vice-president and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions in 1990.… Uqalimakkanirit
What you will find here are excerpts of the travels of Arnait Media Productions to Nuuk: meetings, encounters. discoveries.
This exchange with media producers , filmakers and artists of Greenland was possible with a grant from Canada Council for the Arts through the Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange.
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 4/4, 5:09 Inuktitut Version. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for huma… Uqalimakkanirit
Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 2/5 7:15, original English. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for human rights in mining developments and why human ri… Uqalimakkanirit
Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 3/5 9:06 original English. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for human rights in mining developments and why human rights impact assessment and monitori… Uqalimakkanirit
Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 4/5, 6:51 original English. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for human rights in mining developments… Uqalimakkanirit
Lloyd Lipsett with Zacharias Kunuk, Formal Intervention, NIRB Technical Hearing, July 23, 2012, Igloolik, Part 5/5 5:09 original English. Human Rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett, commissioned by IsumaTV's new media project, Digital Indigenous Democracy, explains current international standards for human rights in mining developments and why human rights impact assessment and monitori… Uqalimakkanirit
MINING.com, Frik Els | August 9, 2012, Mining Watch Canada, an NPO, tells the CBC that the Qikiqtani Inuit Association needs to adopt a code of conduct to rule out any conflicts of interest because the organization’s president is on a junket at the London Olympics as a guest of ArcelorMittal this week.
Mary River project owner bankrolls Olympic trip for three Inuit org reps, DAVID MURPHY, nunatsiaqonline, August 3, 2012. See below with 56 comments. Download PDF version with comments at left.
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ July 25, 2012, Part 3 afternoon, Igloolik Community Roundtable Inuktitut live radio feed from NIRB Baffinland Mary River Final Public Hearings.
The final hearings into Baffinland's project wrapped up on the weekend.... Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk is in the middle of capturing the life and land of Nunavut on film. "What I want to do is record the wildlife, the land, the beauty of the land," he said.… Uqalimakkanirit
July 31, 2012, The mayor of Igloolik, Nunavut, announced he will step down from his position due to a potential conflict of interest. Nicolas Arnatsiaq was elected mayor in December. He's also an employee of Baffinland Iron Mines, which is proposing to build a massive iron ore mine at Mary River, and Igloolik will be one of the affected communities if the mine gets approved.… Uqalimakkanirit
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Lloyd Lipsett Live Radio Call-in, July 27, 2012, summary report from first two days of Pond Inlet NIRB Baffinland Final Public Hearings July 26-27, 57:40, English and simultaneous Inuktitut by Celina Irngaut.
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ July 25, 2012, Part 2, Inuktitut live radio feed from Igloolik Community Roundtable Wednesday, 87:19, Inuktitut, morning session Part 2, Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) Baffinland Mary River Final Public Hearing Day 3 in Igloolik, Nunavut. Community members have the opportunity to ask questions or make comments to NIRB Board, to Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.… Uqalimakkanirit
The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation provides a window to the Arctic by producing award-winning television programming by Inuit, for Inuit. Created in the late 1970's, IBC is, indeed, Nunavut’s public producer. IBC does not produce the regular fare of TV sitcoms and talk shows.… Uqalimakkanirit
