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Welcome To Our Qammaq - Recycling Seal Skin Kamiks
This week’s episode of Welcome To Our Qammaq features Susan Avingaq and Leonie Qrunnut talking about how to recycle seal skin kamiks. They also share a clip of hunters landing their boats after a beluga hunt, and some ice jigging. LIVE from Igloolik, November 17th, 2023.
Avingaq has an artistic practice that inhabits the roles of actor in film and television, Director in film, and Costume Design for film and theatre. She has been an Inuit cultural consultant, Storyteller, a keeper of traditional Inuit songs, and a cultural teacher to children and youth in the community. She directed and produced the documentary Sol, and contributed to the following feature films: Maliglutit: Costume Design, Uvanga: Actor, Director, Producer, Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Costume Design, Atanarjuat: Costume Design.