We love Winnipeg. For us, it’s home! Winnipeg, Manitoba is a gateway city, especially for the western prairies, and north the Arctic. It’s been a meeting place for Indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Our pilot incubator for digital arts and cultural entrepreneurship is based in Winnipeg because we think our city has incredible potential for nurturing and sustaining arts industry training and professional development.
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.
Dr. Olaf Kuhlke looks on as Eric Anoee, Jr. and Nangmalik Qanatsiaq explore INUA, the inaugural exhibit at Qaumajuq while attending a digital and cultural entrepreneurship workshop at the Niizhwaaso Collaborative Learning Centre.
In April 6-10, 2022 we visited the Winnipeg Art Gallery for the day to have meetings for our digital incubator and cultural entrepreneurship projects. Joining us for this special day was me, Eric, Anoee, Jr. and his son Nangmalik and Jamie Bell along with Dr. Olaf Kuhlke from the University of Minnesota Duluth.
In this series of workshop sessions, we will describe the conversations that led to the project, share the Canada Council for the Arts grant details, and address the opportunities that the digital/cultural incubator provides for local communities. Also, these sessions provide an overview of the participatory process that will be used to set up future digital development activities.
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.
Spring is just around the corner. There is still a lot of unpredictability for our planned events but we are moving forward and maintaining a hybrid online/in-person format as we wait for news that things will open up again. Weekly meetings continue to design and test our program's structure. Here's your incubator for digital arts and cultural entrepreneurship update for March, 2022.
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.
In this first installment debuting at ArcticNet Annual Scientific Summit 2021, Northern and Southern scientists, researchers, cultural impact creators and community builders outline experiential challenges and bridge their insights into required solutions for co-creating a collaborative impact movement to address planetary challenges being faced in the Arctic regions.
Our incubator for digital arts and cultural entrepreneurship project has been up and running for just over two weeks now, and we are excited for the adventures to come.