Happy New Year! Welcome to 2022! We hope this holiday season was joyful and everyone had a relaxing and enjoyable time. This past year has been very difficult for everyone. We’re looking forward to re-starting meetings next week.
The 2021 ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meetings were a huge success!
Congratulations to everyone on our team and to all of our collaborating partners on a job well done! Participating in this year’s conference was huge a logistical challenge, we are still under restrictions and weren’t able to host in-person gatherings except for a few people, but we did it!
Videos (available here) from the Recreating Environments of Inclusion video series were screened across all three days of the conference. And on our final day, more than 100 people from all around the world took part in our first town hall session. As the Inclusion in Northern Research initiative wraps up its two-year journey and comes to a close, we’re incredibly grateful for the opportunity to have been included. We are just beginning to establish our incubator for digital and cultural entrepreneurship and have learned so much that we will be able to apply in the journeys to come.
Announcing new funding from Canada Council for the Arts
Perhaps the greatest news we’ve had all year, after multiple setbacks, delays and all sorts of other challenges in advancing our dream of establishing a small, digital incubator that can support cultural and climate entrepreneurship is that we recently received word that our project is being awarded funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Program! We are incredibly thrilled and honestly cannot believe our project was selected as being able to receive funding.
We very much thank ArcticNet, the Arctic Buying Company, Arts and Recreation Borups Corners, LembasWorks, the University of Minnesota Duluth and our families for believing that our project has potential. We have a long and challenging journey ahead, as the pandemic is not yet over, but we will be able to have the resources, time and capability to truly experiment, create and shape a program that is tailored directly to our needs. Our communities and youth will benefit as well – our program is hosted here in Winnipeg, but we have been collaborating with other communities as well, like Lac du Bonnet, Stoney Mountain and Duluth.
We aim to continue building on those connections thanks to this investment from Canada Council for the Arts.
Upcoming Events
News of our funding was an immense surprise for our project. We are planning to host a small announcement as part of next month’s National Kindness Week events that are being planned with our partners at Global Dignity Canada. More details will be available soon but the event is tentatively scheduled for February 13-15, 2021.
Happy New Year to our team, our families, collaborators and friends. Let’s make 2022 a brighter, better year.
This experimental pilot program was made possible with financial investment from the following organizations and we gratefully acknowledge their encouragement and support.
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