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

  • 1m 20s

    May 15-21 Ice Watch Winner - Naalak Mifsud

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

     Congratulations to Naalak Mifsud from Kangiqsujuaq - the May 15-21 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post siku.org/app#/map/deployment/31929 documenting qainngu near their community.

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    uploaded date: 25-05-2023

  • 2m 33s

    How to make a Goose Post 2023

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

     Learn how to make a Goose Watch post using the SIKU App! Add a photo of the goose or nest and tag your community. Upload your post to SIKU and you’re automatically entered to win great prizes! Harvest, nest and other observation posts are all eligible and SIKU works without an internet connection, so you can save posts when you are on the land.

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    uploaded date: 25-05-2023

  • 1m 29s

    SIKU 2023 Goose Watch Community Winner Video #1

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

     Congratulations to our recent SIKU GooseWatch community winners, Paulusi Alayco, Dylan Basto, Cornilusie Niviaxie, Brian Kasudluak, Danny Angnatuk, Jobie Fleming, Billy Palliser, Allan Rumbolt, David Saunders, Ryan Solomon Jaaji Akpahatak, Daryll Baker and Daniel Jaaka for posting the first @sikuapp Goose Posts in Akulivik, Hopedale, Umiujaq, Inukjuaq, Kuujjuaq, Kuujjuaraapik, Puvirnituq,… Read more

    uploaded date: 19-05-2023

  • 2m 10s

    Sikuaq - Ice Watch Word of the Week 3

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

    Sikuaq, or Hikuaq in the western dialects, is when Qinu or slushy ice begins to solidify and forms very thin freshly formed ice.
    siku.org/app#/map/browse/ice/20

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    uploaded date: 19-05-2023

  • 58m 49s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat - Peter 2 Aulatjut

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    Host Evano Jr. Aggark welcomes returning elder Peter 2 Aulatjut back to the show. Peter 2 tells some stories and teaches us a bit about fishing. LIVE on May 18th, 2023.

    ᑐᖓᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᔨ ᐃᕙᓅ ᓄᑲᖅᖠ ᐊᒡᒑᖅ ᑐᖓᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᔪᖅ ᐅᑎᖅᓯᒪᓕᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ ᐃᓐᓇᐅᔪᖅ ᐲᑕ 2 ᐊᐅᓚᑦᔪᑦ. ᐲᑕ 2 ᐅᓂᑳᖅᑐᐊᕐᓗᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᓕᓐᓂᐊᖅᑎᑦᑎᓗᓂ ᐊᐅᓚᓴᕐᓂᕐᒥ. ᓴᕿᔮᑲᐅᑎᒋᔪᖅ ᒫᐃ 18, 2023.

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    uploaded date: 18-05-2023

  • 59m 40s

    2023 Beluga and Muskrat Jamborees

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    ICS hosts Bambi Amos and Karli Zschögner guide us through the Beluga and Muskrat Jamborees in Tuktoyaktuk and Inuvik showcasing the games, dancing and dog mushing. Produced by the Inuvialuit Communications Society, first broadcast on May 17th 2023.

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    uploaded date: 17-05-2023

  • 2m 36s

    Ice Watch Challenge Featured Video

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

     Johnassie Ippak’s Ice Watch Challenge post has been chosen as a feature video for broadcast on UvagutTV! It is an excellent example of community knowledge sharing using the SIKU App!… Read more

    uploaded date: 17-05-2023

  • 1m 20s

    May 1-7 Ice Watch Winner - Valerie Qaunaq

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

     Congratulations to Valerie Qaunaq from Arctic Bay - the May 1-7 Ice Watch Winner for their SIKU Ice Post siku.org/app#/map/deployment/31184 documenting the floe edge near their community.

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    uploaded date: 10-05-2023