John Hodgins

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I have been the Technical Director for IsumaTV since our launch in 2008. I've managed the growth of the site from a simple video blog to an interactive social networking and OTT VOD platform, as well as acting as lead developer for a variety of Isuma's digital projects. I've travelled extensively in the Canadian Arctic managing installation of IsumaTV MediaPlayers in Igloolik, Pangnirtuq and Iqaluit. More recently, I developed the technology and helped launch Uvagut TV, Canada's first national Inuktut television channel.See more

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  • Gjoa Haven | Uqsuqtuuq | ᐅᖅᓱᖅᑑᖅ

    uploaded by: GjoaHaven

    Gjoa Haven is a Low Bandwidth High Cost internet community. Internet service is 150 times behind southern Canada in cost-per-MB. To overcome this handicap NITV installs local server Mediaplayers to deliver high speed media to slow speed users, and broadcasts our internet films and videos to home TV.

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    uploaded date: 07-03-2016

  • Old Massett

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    The Haida community page is dedicated to telling stories from the Haida perspective. Working in the communities of Skidegate and Old Massett, this page was possible through the Haida Script Development Project, a collaboration between the Council of the Haida Nation, the UBC School of Regional and Community Planning, and NITV (Nunavut Independent Television Network).

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    uploaded date: 08-09-2016

  • Kelly Fraser

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Originally from Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, Kelly performed countless concerts across Canada in English and Inuktitut, especially the Arctic (Nunavut and Nunavik), where she was extremely well-known. Seamlessly blending the two languages with her powerful, insightful, and politically-relevant lyrics, her goal was to make the music speak to both Inuit and Qallunaat (“southerners”).

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    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Angela Amarualik

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Angela Amarualik was born and raised in Igloolik, Like many small communities in Canada’s Arctic, Igloolik had many social problems. Angela worked hard to retain good attitude, improve circumstances, and be a role model for the younger kids in her town.… Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Beatrice Deer

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Beatrice Deer, singer-songwriter, winner of the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and Canadian Folk Music Awards, is from Nunavik. Half Inuit and half Mohawk, Deer left the small Quebec town of Quaqtaq in 2007. She has five albums to her credit. It is a body of work in which she uniquely mixes traditional Inuit throat singing with contemporary indie rock.… Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Zacharias Kunuk

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Born in 1957 in a sod house on Baffin Island, Zacharias Kunuk was a whalebone carver in 1981 when he sold three sculptures in Montreal to buy a home video camera and 27” TV to bring back to Igloolik, a settlement of 500 Inuit who twice had voted to refuse outside television.… Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Aleksei Vakhrushev

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Upon graduating from the Director’s Department of the Russian State Film School (VGIK) in 1996, he launched his career with a documentary entitled The Time When Dreams Melt. He continued to film his best work in his native land, focusing on the lives of the local people.… Read more

    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Pakak Innuksuk

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Pakak Innuksuk is a reknowned drum dancer from Igloolik, Nunavut, who performs and teaches all over the Arctic. He is also an actor and associate movie director, known for Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001), The Journey of Knud Rasmussen (2006) and Maïna (2013).

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    uploaded date: 10-05-2020

  • Nancy Saunders

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Niap (Nancy Saunders) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist whose work has been collected by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Avataq Cultural Institute among others. Based in Montreal, QC, the artist divides her time between the city and her home community of Kuujjuaq, Nunavik—a place that continues to deeply influence her work.… Read more

    uploaded date: 15-04-2020

  • About

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Tunnganarniq is an Inuktitut word meaning welcoming and inclusive. Tunnganarniq Live is a welcoming, inclusive and collaborative live TV platform, to give people access and engagement with Inuit art by Inuit artists sharing live TV content.… Read more

    uploaded date: 15-04-2020

  • Inuit Artists

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    This map shows a sample of our many incredible Inuit artists, with ways to find out more about them online.

    You may search by an artist’s name, location or medium if you are familiar with them already, or zoom into a region and discover the artists listed in that area! 

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    uploaded date: 13-04-2020

  • 57m 40s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Inuvik - Dez Loreen

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    Quyanaq Qaikaffi Pangma Nunaptingnun (Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut)

    Host Margaret Elias Noksana welcomes Dez Loreen to the show. Dez is an Inuvialuit performance artist born in Inuvik. He has made short films that have won Territorial awards, and won National awards for editorial writing. He is a husband and father who also loves to pro wrestle. LIVE on June 28th 2023.

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    uploaded date: 28-06-2023

  • 22m 10s

    Governor General Mary Simon - Interview June 26th 2023

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Uvagut Special Broadcasts

     ᑲᓇᑕᒧᑦ ᑭᒡᒐᖅᑐᐃᔨᐅᔪᖅ ᒥᐅᓕ ᓴᐃᒪᓐ ᐊᐱᖅᓱᖅᑕᐅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᓘᓯ ᑐᓗᒐᕐᔪᖕᒧᑦ ᓴᖅᑭᔮᓚᖅᑐᖅ ᐅᕙᒍᑦ ᕿᔾᔭᓗᒐᖓᒍ ᔪᓐ 27, 2023, 7ᒥ ᐅᓐᓄᒃᑯ, ᑲᓇᖕᓇᐅᑉ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᐅᑎᖓ ᒪᓕᒡᓗᒍ. ᑐᙵᓱᓛᕐᐳᓯ!

    Please join Lucy Tulugarjuk interviewing Her Excellency Governor General Mary Simon, broadcasting on June 27, 2023 at 7pm EST on Uvagut TV.

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    uploaded date: 27-06-2023

  • 1m 20s

    June 12-18 Ice Watch Winner - Lollita Evvik

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

     Congratulations to Lollita Evvik from Pangnirtung - the June 12-18 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post siku.org/app#/map/deployment/33412 documenting aukkaaniq near their community.

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    uploaded date: 21-06-2023

  • 2m 15s

    Ivunik - Ice Watch Word of the Week 7

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

    The Ice Watch Word of the Week is: Ivunik.

    Ivunik is piled up ice and Ivujuk is the process of ice piling up. This often happens with moving ice piling up along the shore, or at the floe edge when the moving floe closes up against the land fast ice edge and creates pressure ridges of piled up ice.
    siku.org/app#/map/browse/ice/9

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    uploaded date: 16-06-2023

  • 35m

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat - Jody Pameolik

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    Hosts Nuatie Aggark and Evano Jr. Aggark welcome Jody Pameolik to the show for a cooking episode! Jody shows us how to make a pavlova with fresh fruits, and talks about some of her other cooking skills. LIVE on June 15th, 2023.

    ᑐᖓᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᔨ ᓄᐊᑎ ᐊᒡᒑᖅ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᕙᓅ ᓄᑲᖅᖠ ᐊᒡᒑᖅ ᑐᖓᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᔪᐃᑦ ᔫᑎ ᐸᒥᐅᓕᒃᒥ ᓂᕿᓕᐅᕐᓂᐊᓂ! ᔫᑎ ᖃᐅᔨᑎᑦᑎᔪᖅ ᖃᓄ ᐹᕝᓘᕙᓕᐅᕆᐊᒃᓴᖅ ᓰᕐᓇᖅᑐᖃᖅᖢᓂ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐅᖃᐅᓯᕆᓪᓗᓂ ᓂᕿᓕᐅᕆᐊᒃᓴᕐᓂ. ᓴᕿᔮᑲᐅᑎᒋᔪᖅ ᔫᓂ 15, 2023.

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    uploaded date: 15-06-2023

  • 1m 20s

    June 5-11 Ice Watch Winner - Owen Willie

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

    Congratulations to Owen Willie from Arctic Bay - the June 5-11 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post siku.org/app#/map/deployment/32982 documenting aajuraq near their community.

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    uploaded date: 14-06-2023