Sandy Okatsiak, Eva Okatsiak, and Mallory Okatsiak have been singing for about 10 years to the community and the public. They have sung for their family, the community, and on on air for the radio. They sing gospel songs, inuit songs and others. They live in Arviat, Nunavut.
Ernie Eetak is a well known inuk drum dancer and has been performing as a drum dancer since 1992. He is from Arviat and has been living in Arviat Nunavut since birth. In his childhood, he would go with his grandmother and mother to a gathering place of igloos for drum dancing and singing pihiqs (Inuit songs).… Read more
Cecile Kinniksie is a inuk singer with a group of ladies whenever there is a drum dance. Cecile was also a part of ‘Arviat Qaggitiit’ group here in Arviat. She has participated at different events and has performed for the famous Governor General: David Johnston. Cecile also does drawings, water painting, beading, and she sews wall-hangings.
David started playing guitar when he was 8 year old in Naujaat and has been playing ever since. He has written at least 26 songs and makes copies on CD. David has a band with his brothers in Repulse Bay which started around 2007 or 2008 and has travelled to: Coral Harbor, Folks on the rocks, Rankin Inlet, Iqaluit, Puvirnituq and Igloolik and Arviat where he currently lives.
Monica Pingushat makes wall hangings that hang in many places all over Canada, on displays that she has made. Her mother taught her how to do wall hangings at age of 17 (in 1979) and she has not stopped making them since because she enjoys making them so much. Each wall hanging has a different meaning with different designs telling different stories.
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.’s Phase 2 development proposal for the Mary River mine continues, and IsumaTV/DID records the process of public engagement sessions in communities. Sessions started in January 2019, leading to public hearings scheduled for summer 2019.
Tunnganariq Nunagijavut (Welcome to Where We Live Now) is a weekly, live cultural and current affairs series produced in-house by Uvagut TV with community partners throughout Inuit Nunangat.
Based on oral histories and conversations with elders who grew up on the land, ᐅᐃᒃᓴᕆᖕᒋᑕᕋ Uiksaringitara (Wrong Husband) follows director Zacharias Kunuk’s cinematic tradition of critically acclaimed Inuktut-language historical drama pieces set in the distant past, like Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (2001) and Angakusjaujuaq: The Shaman’s Apprentic… Read more
Carol Kunnuk introduces Susan Avingaq and Madeline Ivalu to the audience again, for an episode of storytelling about the old days, and some sewing. Recorded in Igloolik on September 7th, 2022.
Host Margaret Noksana Elias welcomes Anna Pingo to the show. Anna plays a few of her original songs and shares some of the inspirations for those songs. LIVE on September 7th 2022, on the Tunnganarniq Show.
Anna Pingo was born in Inuvik and lives there to this day. Her mother is from Tuktoyaktuk and she is the eldest child of Ann Christine Omilgoituk and the late Charlie Kasook.
As far as she knows from the time she could talk she was able to sing. Her dad taught her how to play the guitar when she was about 12 or 3 years old.
Evano Jr. Aggark hosts this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut from Arviat. He welcomes retired firefighter Michael Akaralak to the show. LIVE on August 25th, 2022.
Host Lucy Tulugarjuk welcomes Angugasak Angutimarik to talk about Bowhead Whale Fat and why it is used for the Qulliq (stone lamp). The first of two Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut episodes featuring Lucy's family in Igloolik. LIVE on August 19th, 2022.
A special broadcast featuring many of the cast members of Tautuktavut and Artcirq performers in Igloolik. Hosted by Lucy Tulugarjuk. LIVE on August 18th, 2022.
