The Arctic Winter Games: Promoting Olympic and Indigenous Sports for More Than 50 Years
This instalment of Curator’s Perspective invites Canadians to discover the first four editions (1970 to 1976) of the biennial Arctic Winter Games
Posts Tagged “Nunavut”
Photo Friday | Eskimo Children on Baffin Island (1957)
Celebrate Universal Children's Day with these stunning photos from Eskimo Children on Baffin Island, by Doug Wilkinson (How to Build an Igloo).
Inuit Culture, Living History
Ensure your students have a good grasp of intercultural studies by using the world’s largest inuit films collection and its study guide.
Filmmaker Q&A: Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny
Find out how this biting socio-political satire came to be, straight from filmmaker Mark Sandiford.
NFB Education Visits the Arctic
This blog post was written by Fouad Sassi and Jessie Curell. In early December of last year, National Film Board Education Specialists Fouad Sassi and Jessie Curell traveled to Iqaluit,...
Interpreting the North: An interview with Joe Otokiak
Seeing we seem to be on a confession roll here, I don’t see much point in withholding the following information from you guys. Friends, readers – I’m a huge nerd....
Stories from the world’s largest Inuit film collection launch, pt. 3
Recently, on a beautiful fall evening in Ottawa, hundreds of people from across the country gathered at the National Art Gallery for the launch of Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories. We’d...
Unikkausivut – Sharing our Stories launches in Iqaluit, Nunavut
* Photo, from left to right: Tom Perlmutter, Eva Aariak, Christopher Duschenes, Claude Joli-Coeur and Julie Huguet. On Monday, we launched Unikkausivut – Sharing our Stories, at Nunavut’s Legislative Building in...
Unikkausivut – Sharing our Stories launches in Iqaluit, Nunavut
* Photo, from left to right: Tom Perlmutter, Eva Aariak, Christopher Duschenes, Claude Joli-Coeur and Julie Huguet. On Monday, we launched Unikkausivut – Sharing our Stories, at Nunavut’s Legislative Building in...
Postcard from Iqaluit, Nunavut
On Saturday afternoon, I went for a little stroll around Iqaluit. I love the North, I love walking, and I love taking photos. So you can imagine my delight at...
Tracing the lines of identity: an impromptu conversation about Inuit face tattoos
I’m in Iqaluit. There is snow on the ground and the sun sets around 4, but it doesn’t feel very cold, perhaps because of the very warm people we are...
Unikkasivut: Artisans from the shadows… and the cold
This post was translated from French. Most of you have seen our legendary short film How to Build an Igloo, but not many of you are aware of the scope...