OCTOBER 2016 / ST. JOHN’S / ISSUE 33 PAGE 16 STEEP YOURSELF IN INUIT CULTURE THIS MONTH 2 / OCTOBER 2016 / THE OVERCAST www.katingavik.com A Three-day celebration of Inuit creativity in film, music and visual arts. Performances, screenings, exhibitions and concerts by Inuit artists, tradition- , bearers and their collaborators at venues across St.John s. Many events are free. Performances Demonstrations Pillorikput Inuit Oct 8, The Kirk | 7pm Kakiniq: Inuit Tattooing with Marjorie Tahbone Karrie Obed | Deantha Edmunds | Nain Brass Band Oct 8, Rocket Room | 2pm Inuit Rock Oct 8, The Ship | 10pm Traditional Inuit Games with Dion Metcalfe Twin Flames | IVA | Sun Dogs Oct 8, Rocket Room | noon Nunatsiavut Jam Oct 9, Rocket Room | noon-2PM Exhibits Screenings Arctic Impressions Oct 8 & 9, Rocket Room Sol Oct 9, LSPU Hall | 8pm Inuit Art & Craft Pop-up Sale Sat OcT 8, Innovation Hall Atrium | 12:30pm-2:30pm Inuit docs Oct 8-10, Suncor Energy Hall | Sun Oct 9, Rocket Room | 10am-noon throughout the day (8.30am - 6:00pm) and much more... More than 400 Inuit tradition-bearers, community leaders, researchers and policy-makers gather to exchange knowledge and share Inuit culture. HOSTED BY TH E NUN ATSIAVUT GOVERN MEN T WITH G E N EROUS SUPPORT FROM DISCUSSIONS, ROUNDTABLES & WORKSHOPS: • Inuit culture and language • northern housing and food security OCTO BER 8 FRO M 5 PM TO L A TE • self-determination & resource management 25 LOCATIONS AROUND DOWNTOWN ST. JOHN’S • education • traditional culture in a digital world KEYNOTE SPEAKERS • Natan Obed (Nunatsiavut), President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami • Tanya Tagaq (Nunavut), Performance Artist • Joar Nango (Samiland), Architect iNuit blanche is an all-Inuit art crawl through the • Natalia Radunovich (Chukotka), Linguist heart of downtown St. John’s, from sunset to • Maatalii Okalik (Nunavut), President of the National Inuit late-night. ALL EVENTS ARE FREE. Youth Council OVER 25 IN U I T PROJECTS www.mun.ca/isc2016 interactive art exhibits • live painting drawing + sculpture • dance, video, performance arctic food, virtual reality • Inuit games and more Co-hosted by the Nunatsiavut Government and Memorial University www.iNuitblanche.com with generous support from: P RES E N TED BY T HE IN U I T ART FOU N D AT ION WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM: OCTOBER 2016 / THE OVERCAST / 3 ICYMI: Little Bits of Broken News News & Opinions Page 3-7 MARY WALSH BRINGING at least according to city councillor Danny Southeast Asia, as well as North and South Food & Drink BACK HATCHING, MATCHING, Breen, nightwork would be costlier. He also America, but his heart is in his East Indian Page 8-11 AND DISPATCHING FOR A says the people of St. John’s would complain flavours. People CHRISTMAS MOVIE too much about noise at night. Spice blends are essential to East Indian Page 12-15 It’s true, Mary Walsh is resurrecting the cooking, with Bangladeshi cuisine relying characters from 2006’s Gemini-winning NJ’S KITCHEN, AND on garlic, fennel, ginger, coriander, Cover Story TV show, Hatching, Matching, and ITS BUFFETS, NOW cumin, turmeric, and chili, Page 16-17 Dispatching. It’ll be a Christmas movie that OPEN IN CHURCHILL NJ’s Kitchen along with cardamom and reunites the characters of this immensely SQUARE will be serving daily cinnamon. NJ’s Kitchen will Select Events beloved, if short lived CBC show, which NJ’s Kitchen, an buffets, focusing on be serving daily buffets, Page 18 starred a pile of Newfoundland gold in Mary international halal buffet, East Indian, Arabian, focusing on East Indian, Walsh, Shaun Majumder, Susan Kent, Mark is infusing some spice and Hakka Chinese (or“Indian Arabian, Hakka Chinese (or Plucked from the Web Chinese”), Thai, and Page 19 McKinney, Joel Thomas Hynes, Jonny Harris, commerce into Churchill “Indian Chinese”), Thai, and and others. Its cast of killer characters form Square. Bangladeshi chef Mexican dishes depending Mexican dishes depending The Arts the Furey family, who look after the “cradle and owner Jamil Hossain on the day of on the day of the week. Page 20-24 to grave” services of its community, like says “N for Nipa, my wife, the week. Hossain’s desire to provide weddings, funerals, and ambulances, hence and J for Jamil is myself.” an abundance of choice comes Retail the show’s title Hatching, Matching, and Nipa brings “the real Bangladeshi from his own struggles trying to Page 25-27 Dispatching. Walsh thought a Christmas recipes to introduce new flavour and eat halal in St. John’s, where only a few suppliers exist. Halal refers to foods that are Miscellany movie would be the perfect story to bring taste of gourmet Bangladeshi foods to Page 28-30 these dysfunctional folks back together. A Newfoundland.” Hossain is bringing over permissible for Muslims to eat or drink under foster child (mirroring Jesus the Christmas a decade of culinary experience that spans Islamic Shariah law. miracle child) comes into their lives. She says it’ll be funny, but, heartwarming. THE TWO NEW CONSTRUCTION JOBS AT October 2016 ROPEWALK LANE ARE ... 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You need to be 16 edition of The Walrus years of age and over for most volunteer It’s fall, so now that the roles, and be available for at least a six- month commitment. How ungrateful! Like it’s our fault the they ARE Canada and we are their colony. patio has grown cold, Canadians are so wanting for it they you might be looking for A volunteer opportunity you may not be have to fly in a few Newfoundland pros Yet our colonial complaint with Canada aware of is Rogers TV (rogerstv.com/ to pluck things up. Typical. Bring in the is trivial when compared with that of its something else to fill your volunteer), where hundreds of Canadians Newfoundlanders to tell a few funny stories, indigenous population. That horror show is time, especially before the serve their communities by informing throw one of their kitchen parties, sing in intractable so will fully occupy the country and entertaining, while getting hands-on tune … but for heaven sake don’t let them and its commissions for decades. Not Christmas rush starts and training in many aspects of television stay the night. God forbid one should sit solving the problem is already an industry. you’re depressed until May. production. Positions in studio and in the on the Supreme Court. Canada should be The comparatively simple solution to the Volunteering is the ultimate field, as well as in front of and behind the thankful we export our pluckiest and spare aggravation that is Newfoundland and camera, are often filled by volunteers. them our back-talking and congenitally Labrador (and the Maritime provinces) is for in time-filler, because crooked. They get the well-tempered us to keep our mouths shut until cultural there’s no upper City of St. John’s (709- Newfoundland dogs, we keep the crackies. extinction or until we are again called upon 576-8628, volunteer@ If we sent them our Energy Warehouse to play the fool because some witless limit on how much stjohns.ca) keeps postings Visionaries we could bankrupt the place.