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Home / Tony Eetak

Tony Eetak

Tony Eetak is an emerging artist, musician and culture connector from Arviat, Nunavut, now exploring the arts in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A founding member of the Art Borups Corners, Tony has a demonstrated passion for photography, music, composition, and visual arts. With over five years of experience as a dedicated volunteer, collaborator and co-funder of several arts projects, Tony has been involved in various participatory arts events through organizations like the Arviat Film Society, Global Dignity Canada, Inclusion in Northern Research, and Our People, Our Climate. His contributions earned him recognition as a National Role Model by Global Dignity Canada in 2023. His work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council and the OpenAI Researcher Access Program.
Just a perfect little buttercup, fresh from the field with its morning dew! Love how that pure yellow just glows – such a simple, radiant moment.
Photos and Short Stories

A Glimmer of Gold

Experience the pure joy of a buttercup flower, a radiant symbol of summer's gentle light. See how this common bloom inspires quiet contemplation and artistic…
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2025 Climate Entrepreneurship Survey
Climate Entrepreneurship

2025 Climate Entrepreneurship Survey

Add your voice to our first-ever Climate Entrepreneurship Survey and help shape new opportunities for local innovation, sustainability, and youth leadership—your input matters, and we…
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Provencher Bridge floats between breath and concrete, a tethered gesture over water’s slow murmur. Light fractures across its spine like memory refracted—half civic promise, half spectral hush. It does not span space, but thought—an architecture of pause, where crossings blur into echoes and the river forgets which way is forward. Photo: Tony Eetak
Photos and Short Stories

Provencher: A Bridge Between Memory and Sky

Provencher is part of Bridges: Waiting at the Water’s Edge, an immersive online exhibition exploring the spaces we cross, pause in, and return to.
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What looks like a tiny pine cone on a willow branch is actually a fascinating natural phenomenon: a willow pine cone gall, formed by a tiny insect! Nature truly has endless surprises.
Photos and Short Stories

The Pine Cone That Wasn’t

The Weird and Wonderful Willow Pine Cone Gall: An Artistic Discovery.
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Getting a head start on winter—cutting and stacking wood before the mosquitoes and ticks take over. We only use older trees and always plant new ones, replacing every log we burned last year. It’s part of our seasonal rhythm and our arts-based approach to sustainable living.
Photos and Short Stories

Split, Stack, and Settle In

There’s something deeply satisfying about the thunk of a wood splitter cutting clean through a log.
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This bright yellow flower is from a giant pumpkin—the first one ever grown in our food security and sustainable agriculture program.
Sustainable Agriculture

Big Dreams, Big Pumpkins

This bright yellow flower might not look like much yet, but it’s the start of something huge—literally.
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Global Dignity Canada champions innovation by fostering a culture of respect, dignity, and kindness—empowering individuals and communities to create meaningful, human-centered solutions for a better future.
Climate Entrepreneurship

Dignity as a Driving Force for #CIW25

For Canadian Innovation Week 2025, we're exploring how the concept of dignity, self-determination, and mutual respect is a powerful enabler for youth-led innovation.
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Early spring along the western coast of Hudson Bay near Arviat, Nunavut — where frost still clings to the tundra, but the land begins to stir. In the subtle shift of light and texture, the season turns quietly, one breath at a time.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Changing Seasons

The wind off Hudson Bay is still sharp, still heavy with salt and cold, but something is shifting.
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The setting sun paints the snow-covered shores of Arviat with soft hues where the frozen expanse of Hudson Bay meets the land. Wind-sculpted drifts create a stark beauty under the fading light, a silent testament to the Arctic winter giving way to the subtle promise of spring.
Photos and Short Stories

Waiting for Summer

The low sun casts a long, cool light across the snow-covered shores of Arviat, where the vast expanse of Hudson Bay meets the land.
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Education is the new Buffalo. A beautiful sculpture which can be found down near the Forks by Val T. Vint.
Arts & Creative Leadership

Education is the new Bison

Tucked into the natural paths at The Forks, my photo of, Education is the New Bison, emerges like a quiet monument—it's an outdoor sculpture shaped as…
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Jukebox In Exile is the new country music album from Flin Flon singer-songwriter C.C. Trubiak, blending classic country, honky-tonk, Americana and traditional storytelling into a collection of songs inspired by resilience, community and life in Northern Manitoba. Written during and after the 2025 Flin Flon wildfire evacuation, the album draws influence from country music legends including Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Waylon Jennings and George Jones. Featuring the singles "Old Country Songs," "Being Rich" and the charting track "Outlaws Meditation," Jukebox In Exile showcases Trubiak's signature songwriting while celebrating small-town life, northern Canadian culture, queer country music and the enduring spirit of Flin Flon. The album is available now on major music streaming platforms.
Manitoba's own C.C. Trubiak's new album "Jukebox in Exile" dropped on June 5! Check it out!

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The Under $100 Art Show is coming to Winnipeg August 13-16, 2026. Get your tickets now for this amazing event! The Art Spot Canada Under $100 Art Exhibition is coming to Winnipeg, Manitoba this August! ART SPOT was created in 2008 in Calgary to support local emerging artists.  ART SPOT has curated and facilitated over 100 successful art events, including solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, workshops, concerts, body painting competitions, markets, community events and more.

WINNIPEG ARTS PROGRAMS

This platform, our Winnipeg, Manitoba hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Arts Incubator was seeded and piloted with strategic arts innovation funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse. We thank them for their investment, supporting northern arts capacity building and bringing the arts to life.

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NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO ARTS

This platform, our Northwestern Ontario hub and programs have been made possible with support from the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program. We gratefully acknowledge their funding and support in making the work we do possible.

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