On June 21st 2020 we celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day with a full day of public programming, ending with a virtual open mic night for Inuit musicians, poets and performers! This day closed out the De-ICE-olation series of workshops with a celebration, while debuting a brand new series of Inuit artist talks hosted by the Inuit Art Foundation.

All of the workshops took place over Zoom, and were live streamed on the Inuit Futures in Art Leadership Facebook page.

Opening Event - 12:00

• Opening with Elder Lilian Elias (Inuvialuit region)

• Drum Dancing with Sylvia Cloutier (Montreal / Nunavut region)

Unikkaaqtuat

• 1:00 Children’s Storytime: "Una Huna? What is this?" with Susan Aglukark

• 1:30 Children’s Storytime: "Please Don't Change My Diaper" with Sarabeth Holden

Visual Arts and Artists

• 2:00 Screening of "Greed Story" followed by an Artist Talk with Tom Mcleod and Darcie 'Ouiyaghasiak' Bernhardt, moderated by Inuit Futures Artist-in-Residence Glenn Gear

• 3:00 Emerging Artist Talk hosted by the Inuit Art Foundation

• 4:00 Screening of "Bird's Eye" followed by Drone Photography: Tips and Tricks with Eldred Allen

Evening Performances

• 5:00 Performance by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

• 5:30 Inuit Open-Mic Hour hosted by Tarralik Duffy