For Roberta Memongana, the Good Northern Arts Competitors in Inuvik is larger than a celebration of art work and music. Paintings is therapeutic, she says.
Memogana is an artist from Ulukhaktok, NWT This yr, she’s taking a step away from the workshops she usually holds as a solution to operate the competitors’s gallery supervisor.
“Paintings is almost a therapeutic,” she talked about. “It’s a finding out course of and mixing your mediums, from carving to sewing, and stitching to painting… it makes you want to create further points and add them collectively. I try to be taught as loads art work as I can from considered one of many artists and drawback myself to try to do it.”
The competitors’s events are once more in full swing this yr after it was canceled ensuing from COVID-19. Events began July 8 and run by way of to Sunday.
Held at Jim Koe Park and the Midnight Photo voltaic Superior, artists have come from all through the nation to participate — and even, throughout the case of 1 graphic novel artist, from Belgium.
All by the competitors, people signed up for workshops with artists.
The competitors moreover featured Inuvialuit storytelling with Roberta Kuptana, reveals by the musician, filmmaker and educator Miranda Curriedemonstrations of northern video video games demonstrations and performances from musicians The Beluga Boys, the 18-year-old Ulukhaktuk accordion participant Devon Notaina and the Inuit collective Artcirq.
Painter, creator, and sports activities actions hall-of-famer Antoine Mountain was scheduled to study from his memoir Bear Mountain: The Life and Cases of a Dene Residential Faculty Survivor on Friday.
The competitors ends July 17 with a vogue current and remaining ceremonies.