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 Zacharias Kunuk call-in radio, invites Igloolik community input to July 23 NIRB Formal Intervention, June 5 2011, Part 1 9:47 original Inuktitut.… Uqalimakkanirit
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Zacharias Kunuk hunting and filming at the flow edge with other men from Igloolik, April 1 and 3 2012. 8:00 by Zacharias Kunuk; editor Carol Kunnuk.
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Interview with Vivi Kunuk, Part 1, 4:02, Inuktitut-English, May 11, 2012. See also Part 2, Zach Kunuk and Lloyd Lipsett ask Vivi about mining and the past and present situation with Inuit.
Aboriginal Affairs minister John Duncan has decided to reject the re-appointment of the NIRB’s chairman Lucassie Arragutainaq. Arragutainaq was considered by many to be an excellent chairman. As chairman, Arragutainaq made the final decision when the eight-person board was split 50/50.… Uqalimakkanirit
Wildlife Impact Radio Call-in show, June 6, 2012, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ and English, 119:21, hosted by Lucasie Ivalu and Theo Ikkumaq, Igloolik Wildlife Officer, with guest wildlife biologist on-line discussing Inuit knowledge about wildlife impacts in Foxe Basin and Steensby Inlet and learning of other regions like Alaska where impacts of mining and development have been recorded, or cha… Uqalimakkanirit
June 5, 2012, Call-in Radio, ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ, Inform and Consult, 122:31, Zacharias Kunuk discussing with his community his Formal Intervention to NIRB Technical Public Hearing on Mary River Project, to be filed June 8.… Uqalimakkanirit
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Steve Sarpinak Part 1, 5:02 Inuktitut June 1, 2012. See also Part 2. Interview by Terence Uyarak of Artcirq about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
ᓂᐲᑦ ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ Steve Sarpinak Part 2, 5:10 Inuktitut June 1, 2012. See also Part 1. Interview by Terence Uyarak of Artcirq about mining around Baffin Island and what impact it will have to the Inuit and the wildlife.
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
