We’re thrilled to share our 2023-2024 Activities, Impacts, and Outcomes Report! This year has been transformative, as we continued rebuilding our facilities, expanded our arts-based programming, and deepened our focus on climate entrepreneurship and creative leadership.
It is important that communities have the tools and skills to tell their own stories so that they have the power to construct and communicate their own identity. Arviat Film Society (AFS) has aimed to do this. It was a small, non-profit, youth and community-driven film society.
There are a lot of different qualities such as learning, alignment, innovation, and inclusion that are highly sought after on projects like ours. However, these qualities are often not directly attainable; they emerge from an intricate web of both implicit and explicit design choices.
Tony Eetak re-connects with Jordan Konek, both from Arviat, Nunavut on campus at the University of Winnipeg during the Inuit Studies Conference earlier this month. Ten years ago this October, Jordan was a student with the original Nanisiniq Arviat History Project. This project draws on many of those early experiences.
A special and unexpected opportunity to explore careers in media came while we were all attending a closing session for the Inuit Studies Conference. Our project’s participating artists were able to get hands-on with CBC North’s Pauline Pemik and Jaison Empson as they interviewed the youth for CBC News and CBC Igalaaq.
Ethan Tassiuk, Chase Nogasak, Eriel Lugt and Maeva Gauthier led a hybrid roundtable discussion on the use of arts in support of inclusive and participatory learning environments at the University of Winnipeg June 21, 2022. The special session was held during Auviqsaqtut, the 2022 Inuit Studies Conference held in Winnipeg, June 19-22, 2022. #CINUK
An accomplished young musician, he started getting an interest in photography and climate entrepreneurship from taking the University of Minnesota Duluth’s Creativity for Entrepreneurship online course in 2021.
Congratulations to Ethan Tassiuk on receiving the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers from the Rt. Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada this week!
Our very first in-person workshops and public presentations are just around the corner! We’ve had a couple weeks now where we have not been able to meet, but restrictions are finally coming to an end and we will be able to start hosting our in-person workshops.
Restrictions return and our incubator program has suffered a few setbacks. But we have been doing good work together, and our journey is just beginning. This is our incubator for digital arts and cultural entrepreneurship update for February 2022.
