iNuit Blanche

All events are free to the public

Saturday October 8 Main Stage 9:45pm, 10:15pm, 10:45pm

Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Vinnie Karetak. As an ongoing part of the Qaggiq Project – of the performance art collective the Qaggiavuut Society, and  Qaggiavuut!- in this piece, performers Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Vinnie Karetak combine their distinct talents and knowledge of circumpolar performance traditions to create a short and dynamic piece on masking, self determination and connection to community.

Saturday October 8 Cox & Palmer Second Space 9-11pm

Video Installation of Nomads Won’t Stand Still for their Portraits by Joar Nango in the Cox & Palmer Space

Eskimo Pie and Other Poems

Poetry Reading presented by Norma Dunning

The artists and writer Norma Dunning will be reading a series of her poems over the scheduled program for iNuit Blanche. Dunning’s work is an embodiment of her strength and Inuit identity as she voices the words often kept to the pages of her writings. Norma Dunning’s book Annie Muktuk and Other Stories, a collection of short stories will publish with the University of Alberta Press. The scheduled release date is September, 2017.ABOUT

Qaggiavuut!
inuit performance Art Presentation

Mask Dancing Photo by Aimo Paniloo

As an ongoing part of the Qaggiq Project – of the performance art collective the Qaggiavuut Society, and Qaggiavuut!- in this piece, performers Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory and Vinnie Karetak combine their distinct talents and knowledge of circumpolar performance traditions to create a short and dynamic piece on masking, self determination and connection to community.

Nomads won’t stand still for their portraits
Joar Nango 

In this video work by Sami artist and architect Joar Nango, the artist presents an aspect of a larger project first created in 2015 for the group show “A potential Architecture” at display at Ambika P3 gallery in London.  Of this work, David Thorpe has explained, “As part of his research into the informal architecture of the Ger-districts in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Joar Nango visited the country a series of times and made the short film Nomads Won’t Stand Still for their Portraits from footage shot there. The film investigates the vernacular architecture of these areas as an architectural typology and includes footage of the production of large wall pieces for the traditional yurts made from felt. The felts were made in collaboration with a family-run felt-factory located in one of the Ger-settlements. Joar Nango is interested in the link between nomadic thinking and the collective logic and growth of urban settlements and sees his film Nomads Won’t Stand Still for their Portraits as an extension of previous works which deal with indigenous identity and temporary/nomadic architecture in different ways.”