South of Inuit Nunangat: A Conversation

South of Inuit Nunangat: A Conversation

Categories: Indigenous, Panel Discussions, Visual Arts | Intended for

Monday, September 24, 2018

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Add to calendar

Carleton University Art Gallery

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Fiona Wright, 6135202120, fiona.wright@carleton.ca

Registration

No registration required.

Cost

Free

About this Event

Host Organization: Carleton University Art Gallery
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Alootook Ipellie came to Ottawa in the late 1960s to attend high school. Over the next four decades, mostly spent in Ottawa, he worked as an artist, writer, editor and cartoonist. He often described himself as “living in two worlds” – North and South – and his extraordinary body of work reflects his lifelong struggle to reconcile these worlds.

Today, Ottawa claims the highest population of Inuit living in an urban centre outside Inuit Nunangat. Inuit come south for many reasons, including education and work, to join family, or for healthcare.

Join Alootook Ipellie co-curator Heather Igloliorte (Nunatsiavut) as she moderates a conversation about the experiences of Inuit living in Ottawa. Igloliorte will be joined by Manitok Thompson, a government leader from Salliq, and Krista Zawadski, a Carleton PhD candidate from Kangiqliniq, all of whom live (or have lived) in the Ottawa region.

Admission is free and everyone is welcome! CUAG is an accessible space, with barrier-free washrooms and elevator.

Discount parking passes ($4.00 flat rate) will be available for sale at the tunnel entrance from 6:45 p.m. Please see the visiting page of CUAG’s website for directions.

Heather Igloliorte (Inuk, Nunatsiavut) is an independent curator and Associate Professor at Concordia University, where she holds the University Research Chair in Indigenous Art History and Community Engagement. Heather is the Principal Investigator of the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership SSHRC Partnership Grant, and Co-Director of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures Cluster (IIF) in the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology with Professor Jason Edward Lewis. Through these projects, Igloliorte works with collaborators and students to imagine new futures for Indigenous peoples throughout Inuit Nunangat, Canada and internationally.

Manitok Thompson was the first woman Member of the Nunavut Legislative Assembly. She was elected to Cabinet in 1999 and appointed as Minister of Public Works and Services and the Minister Responsible for the Nunavut Housing Corporation. In late 2001, she was named Minister of Community Government and Transportation and Minister responsible for Sport Nunavut. In the final year of her term she held the portfolios of Minister of Education, Minister of Human Resources and Minister responsible for Arctic College. She currently lives in Carleton Place, just outside Ottawa.

Krista Zawadski is a PhD candidate at Carleton University and has participated and worked in the Smithsonian Summer Institute of Museum Anthropology, the Nanivara Project and multiple archaeological field schools and cultural heritage worker workshops offered by Inuit Heritage Trust. She worked professionally as a GIS Technician at the Kivalliq Inuit Association for over three years, and as the Curator of Inuit Art at the Government of Nunavut’s Department of Culture and Heritage. She is also a Board Member with Nunavut Sivuniksavut.

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