This section identifies the current month's events that are related to the polar regions and to the culture of the nordic populations.
If you are aware of an event which should be added to this list, do not hesitate to contact us. |
July 2010
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Canada (Newfounland)
St. John's
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July 14
@ 7PM |
Inuit throat signer Tanya Tagaq in concert.
Wreckhouse International Jazz Festival
Masonic Temple
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Canada (Quebec)
Blainville |
July 29 |
Elisapie Isaac in concert.
Parc équestre de Blainville |
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Canada (Quebec)
L'Assomption |
July 30 |
Elisapie Isaac in concert.
Bistro L'Ange Cornu |
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Canada (Quebec)
Montréal |
Until May
15 2011 |
«Portraits of Aboriginal women by documentary photographer Nance Ackerman»
McCord Museum
690, Sherbrooke St West
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Canada (Quebec)
Montréal |
July 23
@ 3PM |
Elisapie Isaac in concert.
Lilith Fair concert
Bell Center
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Canada (Quebec)
Quebec City |
July 14
@ 9:30PM |
Elisapie Isaac in concert.
Festival international d'été de Québec
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Canada (Manitoba)
Gimli
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July 30 to
August 2 |
Islendingadagurinn (Manitoba's Icelandic Festival)
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Canada (Saskatchewan)
Saskatoon |
until
September 6 |
Portraits of the North, an exhibit of 30 portraits and biographies of Manitoba's Inuit, Metis and First Nations Elders by artist Gerald Kuehl.
Wanuskewin Heritage Park
RR4, Penner Road,
Saskatoon
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Canada (Colombie-Britannique)
Vancouver |
July 17 & 18 |
Elisapie Isaac in concert.
Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Jericho Beach Park |
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Canada (Northwest Territories)
Inuvik |
July 9 to 18 |
The Great Northern Arts Festival. Each summer more than 120 visual artists performers meet in Inuvik to celebrate the diversity that is Canada's North.
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Canada (Northwest Territories)
Whitehorse
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July 19 to 31 |
Yukon 1000 Canoe and Kayak Race. Endurance race of 1600 km (1000 milles) from Whitehorse to the Alaska pipeline /Dalton Highway. Racers take from 7 to 12 days (18 hours of paddling each day) to cover the distance. This race is the longest one in its kind on the planet and represents some of the wildest and most remote paddling one can experience.
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France
Brouage |
July 7 to
September 19 |
Exhibit Carnet de voyage, photos and objects belonging to an Inuit family from Nunavut. Photographs by Pierre Mérat.
Maison Champlain
Free admission. Daily from 10AM à 12:30PM and from 2PM to 6:30PM.
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France
Daoulas (Brittany) |
until November 28 |
Exhibit Grand Nord Grand Sud reuniting 140 art works by Inuit artists (Nunavik, Nunavuk & Greenland) and aboriginal artists from Australia. Works come from the collections of the Museum of Confluences in Lyon as well as from other public and private collections.
Abbaye de Daoulas
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France
Paris |
Until
September 10 |
Photo Exhibit «Dernières nouvelles
de l'ours polaire» by Rémy Marion
Centre culturel canadien
5, rue de Constantine
75007 PARIS
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France
Paris |
July and August
Vernissage :
July 6 @ 8PM
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Exhibit "Regard sur le Groenland" (A look at Greenland), water paintings by Marie-Christine Vincent-Jeandenand.
Maison du Groenland
75 rue de Richelieu |
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France
Parly
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Until
October 3 |
Discover Inuit Printmaking! Stories and Legends: Mythology and Shamanism. The exhibit 50 years of Inuit print and sculpture, designed like a voyage offers a reading of Inuit stories and legends illustrated by over a hundred works chosen through the work of a variety of Canadian printing workshops such as Cape Dorset, Pangnirtung, Baker Lake, Holman, etc.
Centre d'art graphique de la Métairie Bruyère
Parly
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France
Parly |
July 24 |
Film Viewing: Nanook of the North. Nanook of the North (1922) is a documentary by R. Flaherty. In the first major production to be filmed in the Arctic, the explorer Robert Flaherty shares with us the joys and sorrows of the harsh life of the hunter Nanook and his family in the Canadian Great North of the 1920’s.
The soundtrack will be performed live by musicians. Centre d'art graphique de la Métairie Bruyère
Parly
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France
Saint-Malo |
July 15 to 24 |
Exhibit Le réchauffement climatique en Arctique (Climate changes in the Arctic).
Maison du Québec
Daily except Tuesdays from 10h30AM to 1PM and from 2PM to 6:30PM.
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Ireland
Dun Laoghaire
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July 23
@ 8:30PM |
Homeland, a collaborative performance featuring Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq, irish vocalist Iarla O Lionaird and Norwegian vocal ensemble Adjagas.
Festival of World Cultures
Monkstown Church
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