Inuit Throat Singer and Beat Boxer
May-Jun Inuit Throat Singer Becky Beat Boxer Mike preform at the live lounge Ottawa (via mayjunmusic)
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Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings of contemporary Inuit life - Boing Boing
Boing Boing:
The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian is exhibiting 39 drawings “that chronicle the realities of contemporary Inuit life by renowned artist Annie Pootoogook.” It open on June 13.
Pootoogook’s detailed work describes everyday life in her home community of Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Her scenes of Inuit traditions include the less romantic but real integration of modern technologies such as video games and televisions as well as domestic abuse and tragedy. Her method, carefully outlined shapes in black filled with blocks of solid color, recalls traditional Inuit drawing while the subject matter reflects the unvarnished viewpoint of her generation. Other drawings are more personal and abstract, illustrating an emotional landscape of mental anguish, such as “Sadness and Relief for My Brother,” and the austere but compelling, still life of the artist’s prescription- medicine bottle, cup and a single dangling key in “Composition (Annie’s Tylenol).” Cheerful domestic scenes such as a family opening Christmas presents (“Christmas”) are depicted with the same precision and calm attention to detail as the emotion-laden composition “Memory of My Life: Breaking Bottles.”
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via Urban Native Girl Stuff: Before Tomorrow or was it yesterday?
The film is set in 1840 and shows how Inuit were living when the onslaught of white men were merely rumours told by few. We first see the reunion of two families during the summer when there is much happiness abound. Shortly after, the two main characters Ninguiq (Madelin Ivalu) and her grandson Maniq (Paul-Dylan Ivalu) head to an island to begin drying the fish and bring Ninquig’s best friend Kutuguk (Mary Qulitalik).
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The Inuit, a group of indigenous people living in the Arctic, are finding their land and cultures rapidly changing as climate change deepens its grip. As ice declines, so does the number of days available for Inuit to hunt for animals such as seals and walrus. Shifting winds are also reshaping ice formations used as landmarks for generations, making navigation more difficult. But, as Theo Ikummaq of Canada’s Nunavut Province said, “We have lived in this region for centuries and we will continue to. As the climate changes, we will adapt.”
Photograph by Joel Sartore
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Inuit throat singers share tradition
http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/yourict/39787982.html#ynext
By Kerry Davis
The sound of mosquitoes filled the air in Indianapolis recently when Charlotte Qamaniq and Kendra Tagoona (Inuit) visited the Eiteljorg Museum and demonstrated the traditional art of throat singing.
Also known as katajjaq, throat singing is a musical performance found only among the Inuit (though similar overtone singing can be found in Tibet, Mongolia and other places). Performers are generally women who sing duets as they stand facing each other. One singer develops a short rhythmic pattern with brief intervals and the other fills the silence with another rhythmic pattern. The sounds produced by singers can be actual words or merely syllables created during exhalation. When done years ago, the lips of the two singers almost touched, allowing once singer to use the other’s mouth cavity as a sound resonator. Inuit throat singing is sometimes accompanied by a rhythmic shuffling of feet. Historically, throat singing was done by women while the men were gone hunting for periods of time. Each song has a story behind it and many include sounds that imitate wildlife or other aspects of nature such as the wind.
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Inuit Throat Singing: Kathy Keknek and Janet Aglukkaq (long) (via FrancesWindward)
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Eskimos in the Kinneret? No, this is not a joke - Haaretz - Israel News
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1020479.html
Bathers enjoying the waters of Lake Kinneret yesterday had a chance to observe a highly unusual sight: a group of Native Americans, Maoris and Inuit sailing past them in a canoe.
The visitors were part of a group of 450 members of tribal peoples who are currently visiting Israel for a conference at the Nof Ginosar hotel
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