And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:21:17 -0500 >From: Mary Seals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; U) >X-Accept-Language: en >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [Fwd: URL Great Northern Arts Festival] > > > >-------- Original Message -------- >Dear Ish, this is newsworthy!! >be well, >Mary C. > >Subject: URL Great Northern Arts Festival >Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:28:10 +0500 > >Great Northern Arts Festival > >1998 was great! > >http://www.greatart.nt.ca/gallery98.html > >Join us July 16-25, 1999! > >http://www.greatart.nt.ca/ > >The Great Northern Arts Festival is a celebration of the diverse >cultures and art forms of the North; the premiere artistic and >cultural event in Northern Canada. > >Over 90 artists and 40 entertainers from across the North join us >under the midnight sun at the Great Northern Arts Festival. Artists >from all Northern cultures: Inuvialuit, Gwich'in, Dene, Inuit, >Athapaskan, Metis, and Non-Aboriginal meet for a 10-day whirlwind of >workshops, art demonstrations, a huge exhibit, and cultural >entertainment that delights and informs artists and visitors alike. > >Watch as carvers transform stone into mythical creatures and >depictions of Northern life; as printmakers and painters translate >their stories into colour and form; and as traditional artists create >one-of-a-kind Northern clothing. > >Take part in workshops taught by Northern artists and create your own >work of art! Visitors mingle with artists and can purchase from over >1,500 works of art in the Festival Gallery. Evenings are full of >music, dance, storytelling, fashion shows and cultural performances. > > >If you would like to be part of the event, volunteer! We always have >room for one more... Our tentative schedule of events for the 11th >annual Great Northern Arts Festival will be posted early in the new >year, so watch this site as our plans begin to take shape. > > >Festival History > >When Inuvik artists Charlene Alexander and Sue Rose decided to >organize an arts festival in 1989, they set their sights small - just >a few dozen artists from the Inuvik region was all they hoped for. But >it was not to be. > >Artists throughout the Northwest Territories were desperately in need >of a way of connecting to each other, and the first festival grew in >size and scope until every region of the territories was represented. >For the first time, artists from far-flung communities were able to >meet, share techniques, get marketing tips and inspire each other. >Carvers from Grise Fjord in the far Northeast met their Western >counterparts. Arctic island print-makers met fellow artists from the >southern part of the territory. Understandably, the artists were >enthusiastic about the Festival. But so was the public. > >As the reputation of the Festival grew, so did interest in the rest >of the world. Soon visitors from Germany, France, Japan, the United >States, and Southern Canada started making their way to the Festival, >arriving either by plane, car, recreational vehicle, mountain bike, >and occasionally by canoe. > >It has become the premier cultural event in the Northwest >Territories. Visitors have a chance to meet the artists and watch and >talk to them as they create works of art at the Festival site. They >can also browse through the Festival gallery, which sells up to 1000 >works of Northern art each year. > >The Festival has remained true to its vision over the past nine >years. Its goal is to provide a venue for artists to share >information and techniques, to grow within their medium and if they >wish, to experiment with new media. > >Artists can attend and offer workshops on a variety of techniques, >from watercolour to jewellery-making to moose-hair tufting. They also >attend seminars on the business aspects of art. The Festival has >received generous funding and support in kind from many government >departments, corporations and businesses, and from volunteers in the >town of Inuvik. We would like to recognize Canadian North, our >official carrier; the Northwest Territories Departments of Resources, >Wildlife and Economic Development, and Education, Culture and >Employment; the Federal Departments of Canadian Heritage and Human >Resources Development Canada; the Canada Council for the Arts; the >NWT Arts Council; the Northwest Trading Company Ltd.; and the many >other contributors for their ongoing support. Please take a few >minutes to visit our Partners page, which will be updated as more >partners join us. The truth is that the Festival owes its existence >to the love and hard work of hundreds of people dedicated to the >arts, to the community, and to the North. Thank you. > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
