From 21st June to 1st July, 2008, Iqaluit will host the Alianait ! Arts Festival. This annual event organised in Nunavut’s capital city is devoted to Inuit arts and consists in ten days and nights of art, music, film, storytelling, circus arts, dance, theatre and much more.
Alianait is the expression of joy and celebration in [...]

The aim of this blog consists in examining and documenting Inuit artistic creation on a pan-Inuit scale close to past and contemporary Inuit culture in Alaska, Greenland, Nunavut and Nunavik (Canadian Eastern Arctic).
Our interest focuses on works of art, creators and artistic events like exhibition and cultural projects devoted to Inuit art and more largely [...]

Our Theme: Meetings and Encounters
For thousands of years, Québec has been a natural meeting place for encounters great and small, historic and contemporary.
Encounters between Europe and North America, First Nations and settlers, France and England. The confluence of a mighty river and a chain of mountains, of fresh and salted waters, of Upper and Lower [...]

As the title of the exhibition, In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun, suggests, Canada’s Inuit people and Scandinavia’s Sámi people share the same northern latitudes. But if geography is a jumping-off point for the artists in this expansive, unexpected show, it isn’t destiny. Many of the works — which date between 2000 and 2005 [...]

Nunavik co-op federation celebrates 40 years
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 | 12:52 PM CT
CBC News
A federation of Inuit co-operatives in northern Quebec is marking its 40th anniversary this year with a celebration and some prize draws for members.
La Fédération des Coopératives du Nouveau-Québec was formed in 1967 after five of Nunavik’s 14 communities had [...]

Cape Dorset Winter 2007
Each time I travel in Nunavut to gather new artworks I always imagine James Houston first venture in Cape Dorset. He came first with a dog team and lived among the Inuit in small houses and Igloos. His goal was to introduce a new production of artwork in order to help the [...]

Since I often get similar requests from many people interested in subjects closely related to Inuit art and Inuit culture I decided to open up a new blog. A blog is a great way to communicate and exchange on the web. The information posted by the writer can be discussed by everyone, from anywhere and [...]