The 2023 ‘Alianait Arts Festival’ celebrates Inuit and circumpolar artists: its 18th edition runs in Iqaluit (Canada) from June 29 to July 3. The schedule includes about 50 performers: throat singing, musical bands, live plays and other types of artistic performances. Artists include Silla, Jaaku Sorensen, Young Black Inuk and local bands like Noteven! A play co-written by Vinnie Karetak and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is also scheduled. There is a noticeable Greenlandic presence this year, with artists such as Uyarakq, Ivaana and INUK: the connection goes back a couple of years, when the Alianait crew was invited to the ‘Arctic Sounds’ music festival in Sisimiut (Greenland). Fantasy art by Nuuk-based artist Ivinguak Stork Høegh is also bringing the Arctic and the exotic together (‘ArcticExotic’) to the Alianait festival.
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What is throat singing? Never heard that term before? 😀