2013.07.22 / Inuit Circumpolar Council and Katuaq

On Monday - July 22nd - we began our week of interviews by speaking in the morning with Aqqaluk Lynge and in the afternoon with Julia Pars.  Aqqaluk is a native Greenlander and is the current Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), the ICC is a multi-national non-governmental organization established in 1977.  The ICC represents over 160,000 Inuit people in Greenland, Canada, the United States, and Russia and was granted consultive status to the United Nations in 1983.

Julia is also a native Greenlander and is the acting director of Katuaq, a facility that servers as the Cultural Center of Greenland.  Katuaq was opened in 1997 and hosts conferences, concerts, exhibits, and serves as a cinema - it also acts as an informal community center.  Following the 2012 Venice Biennale, the exhibit Possible Greenland was brought to Katuaq to share with the local community - and in February of this year Katuaq hosted a conference titled Future Greenland.

In the weeks following our travel (as we're transcribing all of the interviews) we'll also post more in-depth profiles of everyone - stay tuned.