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

  • 45m 2s

    Welcome To Our Qammaq - Ajaajaa and Drum Dance Workshop

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    Host Marcy Siakuluk welcomes us to a special episode outside the qammaq. We join a workshop on drum dancing and ajaajaa songs organized by the department of culture and heritage. Featuring some elders from the Igloolik community, and led by Elisabeth Aglukka and Honore Aglukka. Some portions of the show with poor broadcast connection during the original airing have been edited out.… Read more

    uploaded date: 22-03-2023

  • Patrick Wolki Sr.

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Patrick Wolki Sr. is an Inuvialuk Elder born and raised in Utkraluk (Baillie Islands, north of Tuktuuyaqtuuq, NT) and now lives in Inuvik, NT. Patrick attended residential school for the first time at the age of 7 and spent 14 years at Stringer Hall in Inuvik. His parents Jim and Bessie Wolki had 13 children altogether.

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    uploaded date: 22-03-2023

  • 2m 16s

    2023 Ice Watch Launch Video

    uploaded by: SIKU

    channel: SIKU

     The 2023 Ice Watch has begun!
    Support ice safety and knowledge transfer in your community by sharing Ice Posts with the SIKU app - you could win a Ski-Doo from Contant, Northern gift cards and more!

    Learn more at https://siku.org/icewatch. Ice Watch is a collaboration between Arctic Eider Society and SmartICE.

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    uploaded date: 22-03-2023

  • 1h 30m 5s

    Inuvialuit Regional Drum Dance

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    On this special episode of The Tunnganarniq Show, host Margaret Elias welcomes us to the final night of a week long workshop in Inuvik, where people from different communities have gathered to share their regional songs and drum dances. We join them on the final night of the gatherings for a showcase of the dancing and songs shared during the workshop.… Read more

    uploaded date: 17-03-2023

  • 52m 24s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut - Mary Thompson

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    Host Nuatie Aggark welcomes Mary Thompson to the show for some storytelling, and to share some of her knowledge about drums and traditional songs. LIVE on March 16th, 2023.

    ᑐᖓᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᔨ ᓄᐊᑎ ᐊᒡᒑᖅ ᑐᖓᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᔪᖅ ᒥᐊᓕ ᑖᒻᑉᓴᓐ ᑕᕐᕆᔭᖅᑕᐅᓂᐊᑐᒥ ᐅᓂᑳᖅᑐᐊᕐᓂᐊᖅᑐᖅ ᐊᖅᒪᓗ ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᖏᓐᓂᒃ ᓴᕿᑎᑦᑎᓗᓂ ᕿᓚᐅᑎᓂ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐃᙱᐅᓯᑐᖃᕐᓂ. ᓴᕿᔮᑲᐅᑎᒋᔪᖅ ᒫᔾᔨ 16, 2023.

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    uploaded date: 16-03-2023

  • 53m 59s

    Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut - Margaret Hannak, Cecilia Karlak, Peter & Mary Mikiyungiak

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut

    Host Nuatie Aggark welcomes Margaret Hannak back to the show, as well as Cecilia Karlak and Peter & Mary Mikiyungiak for some singing. LIVE on March 9th 2023.

     ᑐᖓᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᔨ ᓄᐊᑎ ᐊᒡᒑᖅ ᑐᖓᓱᒃᑎᑦᑎᔪᖅ ᒫᒍᓖ ᕼᐊᓇᒃ ᐅᑎᖅᓯᒪᓕᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ, ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓯᓯᓕᐊ ᑲᐅᕐᓚᒃ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐲᑕ ᒥᐊᓕ ᒥᑭᔪᖏᐊᕐᓗ ᐃᙱᕐᓗᑏᒃ. ᓴᕿᔮᑲᐅᑎᒋᔪᖅ ᒫᔾᔨ 9, 2023.

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    uploaded date: 09-03-2023

  • 53m 21s

    Art and Inuit Art Foundation Grants with Kyle Natkusiak Aleekuk

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Host Margaret Elias welcomes Kyle Natkusiak Aleekuk to the show, all the way from Edmonton via video call. Kyle shares his story of becoming an artist with us, as well as his current position as grant programs officer at the Inuit Art Foundation. He also takes us through a current grant program available to Inuit artists across Canada through the IAF.… Read more

    uploaded date: 08-03-2023

  • Kyle Natkusiak Aleekuk

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Born and raised in Edmonton, AB, Kyle Natkusiak Aleekuk is a mixed Inuvialuk freelance writer and self-taught visual artist. Inspired by the bold colours and style of the printmakers of Ulukhaktok (Holman), Aleekuk adds his own contemporary twist by incorporating elements of classic Americana and Japanese tattoo art in crisp watercolours and digital media.

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    uploaded date: 08-03-2023

  • Gerry Kisoun

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    channel: Tunnganarniq Live TV and Inuit Art

    Gerry is from Inuvik NT, he is an Inuvialuk storyteller, tour guide, informer RCMP special constable. Gerry is the chair of the Northern Game Society board of directors. Steve is a veteran athlete, coach and officiate of the games.

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    uploaded date: 01-03-2023