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The 2002 Spry Memorial  Lecture at a glance

THE PUBLIC ART OF INUIT STORYTELLING 
Zacharias Kunuk
(Director and Producer, Igloolik Isuma Productions)

        "People in Igloolik learned through storytelling who we were and where we came from without a written language for 4000 years. Then foreign missionaries, school and cable TV silenced all that time of oral history. Can we listen to our elders before they all pass away? Can we save our youth from killing themselves at ten times the national rate? Can producing TV in Igloolik make our community, region and country stronger? Is there room in Canadian television and film making to see ourselves?" Zacharias Kunuk calls upon young and old, artists, creators, citizens and policy makers, to work together and think to keep the public art of Inuit storytelling alive.

"The Public Art of Inuit Storytelling" Vancouver, 25 November 2002/Montreal, 28 November 2002
Vancouver: Monday, November 25, 7 pm. Simon Fraser University at Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street. Information: (604) 291-5100 or cs_hc@sfu.ca.

Montreal: Thursday, November 28, 5 pm. Room B-328, Pavillon Marie-Victorin, Université de Montréal. Information: (514) 343-5685 or eat@videotron.ca.

        Over 20 years ago, Zacharias Kunuk brought home to Igloolik the Arctic's first video camera from the sale of his carvings. Since then, he has directed and produced almost 30 documentary and dramatic films. His most recent, Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner, is the internationally acclaimed recipient of over a dozen major awards. Zacharias Kunuk is also president and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma Productions, Inc, Canada's first Inuit-owned independent production company, preserving and enhancing Inuit culture, and dedicated to creating a professional Inuit style of community-based media production.

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Further information at: www.isuma.ca and www.atanarjuat.com

 
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