Created in 2005, Alianait! Arts Festival is one of the biggest cultural
events in Nunavut celebrating and connecting cultures through music and
arts.
IsumaTV will broadcast the Alianait Arts Festival live - June 21 to July 1 - everyday from 07PM to 10PM on www.isuma.tv
The Festival will kick off on June 21, 2009, National Aboriginal
Day, with a free afternoon show which will feature throat singers from
Nunavut and Nunavik, Ellen Hamilton & Friends, Johnny Issaluk and
the Inuksuk High School Choir.
The Alianait Opening Concert will follow on June 22nd with:
Maanilu Asianilu, a youth Brazilian drumming group from Kangiqsujuak
Naujamiut, a traditional Inuit band from Repulse Bay
The Bop Ensemble – featuring Canadian folk Shaman Bill Bourne,
Wyckham Porteous & Jas Olhauser from Alberta & British Columbia
www.billbourne.com/bopensemble.htm
Treasa Levasseur, a smoldering singer-songwriter originally from
Winnipeg, backed by guitarist David Baxter and a big sound 5 piece band
from Toronto www.treasalevasseur.com
A fantastic Circus collaboration will be presented on Saturday,
June 27th featuring Nunavut’s internationally acclaimed Artcirq and
Productions Kalabante, an African / Quebecois circus troupe featuring
Yamoussa Bangoura www.kalabante.org
The Closing Concert on June 30, 2009 will feature:
Kaina Nowlak, Iqaluit’s favourite accordionist
Liima Inui, rock, reggae, world & pop musicians from Greenland just in time to release a new CD www.myspace.com/liimainui
Kobotown, a magic mix of calypso, dub poetry, roots reggae, folk and funk – Trinidad born now living in Toronto www.kobotown.com
Students will research the Inuit style of filmmaking and list key points involved in the process by reading selections written by the three founding members of Igloolik Isuma Productions, the makers of the films Atanarjuat – The Fast Runner and The Journals of Knud Rasmussen.
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"The remarkable films out of Canada's north over the past decade have been dominated by men, in particular Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, the duo...
