Inuit art meets architecture – Saguenay exhibition winds up on Sunday
An exhibition showcasing the art integrated into the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) will be winding up Sunday in
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Canada: Nunavut artist’s work unveiled on Parliament Hill
A new sculpture by Nunavut (eastern Arctic) artist Bart Hanna will soon be on display in the House of Commons
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Eye on the Arctic report Death in the Arctic recognized at Dart Awards in U.S.
Eye on the Arctic has received an honourable mention from the 25th annual Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of
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Cultural appropriation argument ‘brings us back a few steps,’ says head of Indigenous Music Awards
The woman who runs the Manito Ahbee festival said she doesn’t believe cultural appropriation is possible within the Indigenous community,
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Inuit artists boycott Indigenous Music Awards over cultural appropriation concerns
A group of Inuit artists are pulling their support from the Indigenous Music Awards over concerns that a First Nations
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Blog – Pursuing polar studies from below the Arctic Circle
Last Friday marked the first week of spring, which means that it was also Polar Week! It was also the
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Set of Indigenous Yup’ik masks reunited in Alaska after more than a century
It’s a reunion that’s been more than a century in the making — a set of century-old Yup’ik masks have
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Norway sends song with Sami joik to Eurovision Song Contest
KEiiNO, a Norwegian-Sami group mixing pop, electronica, dance and joik, was crowned as winner of the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix
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Canada mourns death of legendary Inuk singer Charlie Panigoniak
Legendary singer-songwriter Charlie Panigoniak has died. Panigoniak, who was born near Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut, was a household name in the
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Finland hosts first Nordic visual song contest
Danish sign language performer Lea Hyldstrup was named the winner of the Nordics’ first visual song contest for the deaf,
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Beijing finds a Chinatown in Arctic Norway
The Asian superpower looks towards the Arctic and finds a home in this year’s Barents Spektakel winter festival in Kirkenes,
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University students in Montreal learn about Inuit stone carving
Geta Etorolopiaq has been carving stone for nearly three decades and shared his art on Wednesday with eager students at
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Snow church opens in southeast Finland
Locals in Lappeenranta in southeast Finland formally opened the city’s snow church, otherwise known as the Church of St. Lawrence
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Arctic Canadian co-operative behind renowned Inuit art program celebrates 60th anniversary
The West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative, the Arctic Canadian business behind the renowned Cape Dorset print program, is marking its 60th
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Exhibit in Arctic Canada to showcase evolution of parkas
Mary Avalak deftly threads a needle with caribou sinew and makes a couple of stitches in a caribou-skin parka. Picking
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