Arctic Community Exploration Tour August 5 - 12, 2020 Join host Dr. Darlene Coward Wight on a Discovery Tour of Art in Canada’s Arctic Arctic Community Exploration Tour 5 – 12 August 2020 In the lead-up to the opening of the WAG The Winnipeg Art Gallery holds in trust more than Centre in fall 2020, this tour will be escorted by Dr. 13,000 Inuit artworks – each one with stories to tell. Darlene Coward Wight, who has been the Curator of Sharing these stories with the world is at the core of Inuit Art at the WAG since 1986. Darlene has received the WAG Inuit Art Centre project. The WAG Inuit Art a BA (Hons) in Art History and an MA in Canadian Centre will be an engaging, accessible space where Studies from Carleton University and an honorary you will experience art and artists in new ways. Doctor of Letters from the University of Manitoba in On this tour you will visit two of the main centres for 2012. She has curated over 90 exhibitions and written Inuit art, Cape Dorset and Pangnirtung. You will also 26 exhibition catalogues, as well as many smaller have a chance to meet several of the artists and publications and articles. She is also the editor and engage with them as you learn about the inspirations major contributor for the book Creation & for the tremendous art they create. Transformation: Defining Moments in Inuit Art.

Inclusions:

• Includes tour escort Darlene Coward Wight, Curator of Inuit Art at the WAG • Round trip airfare Ottawa – Pangnirtung – Cape Dorset – – Ottawa • One-night accommodation Hilton Garden Inn Ottawa Airport • Two nights accommodation Auyuittuq Lodge Pangnirtung, with full board • Two nights accommodation Cape Dorset Suites, with full board • Two nights accommodation Frobisher Inn Iqaluit (no meals included) Exclusions: • Boating excursion to Auyuittuq National Park (duration approx. 4-5 hours) • Airfare from gateway city to and from Ottawa • Cape Dorset touring, as per listed on itinerary • Mandatory Travel Insurance • Iqaluit Community Tour with traditional dinner • Items of a personal nature

• $200.00 Donation to the WAG Inuit Art Centre • Meals not specified

From CAD$7807.50 per person ($6990 + $468 air taxes + $349.50 GST) based on twin share Minimum/Maximum: 10 – 12 Travellers The Great Canadian Travel Group will make a donation of $200 for every confirmed booking on this itinerary **Pricing is subject to availability and possible fluctuations in taxes and fees** Please contact Great Canadian Travel Group for airfare pricing to and from Ottawa Day 1 – Wednesday, 5 August: Departure The recommended flight to Ottawa: 2:45pm Depart Winnipeg WS #574 6:11pm Arrive Ottawa Overnight Hilton Garden Inn, Ottawa Airport Day 2 – Thursday, 6 August: Ottawa– Iqaluit - Pangnirtung Board your flight North to Pangnirtung with a short The Hamlet of Pangnirtung is located 236 km stop in the capital of , Iqaluit. Please check in Northeast of Iqaluit, on . The name is at least 90 minutes prior to departure with your valid derived from “the place of many bull caribou.” Pang, identification. as it is known, has gained an international reputation 7:15am Depart Ottawa 5T #101 for producing high quality sculptures, printmaking and weaving. Upon arrival, you will be picked up by 10:25am Arrive Iqaluit the Auyuittuq Lodge 12:00pm Depart Iqaluit 5T #824 http://www.pangnirtunghotel.com/ for a 2-night 1:00pm Arrive Pangnirtung stay, with breakfast/lunch/dinner included.

Spend the remainder of your day exploring the archaeological remains of the people were first found community with a visit to Angmarlik Visitor Centre to at Comer's Midden. The links between the Thule and view the displays of Thule and modern Inuit, along the Inuit are biological, cultural, and linguistic. with the local library and elder’s drop-in center on Evidence supports the idea that the Thule (and also site. The Thule were the ancestors of all modern Inuit. the Dorset, but to a lesser degree) were in contact They developed in coastal Alaska by 1000 and with the Vikings, who had reached the shores of expanded eastwards across Canada, reaching Canada in the 11th century. The Thule replaced the Greenland by the 13th century. In the process, they Dorset. Intensified contacts with Europeans began in replaced people of the earlier Dorset culture that had the 18th century. Compounded by the already previously inhabited the region. The appellation disruptive effects of the "Little Ice Age" (1650–1850), "Thule" originates from the location of Thule the Thule communities broke apart, and the people (relocated and renamed Qaanaaq in 1953) in were henceforward known as the Eskimo, and later, northwest Greenland, facing Canada, where the Inuit. Day 3 – Friday, 7 August: Pangnirtung After breakfast, you will enjoy a boating excursion waterways teem with narwhal and ringed seals, from Pangnirtung approximately 30km (1 hour) to Auyuittuq is a diverse and grand-scale Arctic Auyuittuq National Park. A zig-zag skyline of craggy experience. Hike alongside icy, thundering streams granite peaks and glittering glaciers overlooks tundra and amid wildflower dotted meadows. valleys and steep-walled fiords whose winding

Once back in the community, visit local artist Andrew naturalistic scenes of Arctic life; an instinctive grasp of Qappik and the weave studio. line, form and composition; and a use of lighter Andrew Qappik CM (born February 25, 1964 in colored tones with little negative space. Qappik's Nunataq, Nunavut) is a Canadian Inuit graphic artist works are published by the Pangnirtung Print Shop, currently residing in Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Qappik is under the auspices of the Uqqurmiut Centre for Arts known for his printmaking. Qappik's prints depict & Crafts. He was made a Member of the Order of both animals and traditional Inuit culture, which he Canada in 2017 for his artistic contributions as well as has learned about from his own experience and the design of the Nunavut Flag and Coat of Arms. stories by his grandfathers and other relatives. Some Enjoy dinner at the lodge, with possible evening of these relatives have been an influence on Qappik's entertainment. artistic sensibilities. He has a fondness for realistic & *One of these activities may be moved to Day 2 -6th August

Day 4 – Saturday, 8 August: Pangnirtung – Iqaluit – Cape Dorset After breakfast, check out of your accommodation as Arrive into Cape Dorset and settle into your you will then be transferred back to the airport. accommodations at the Dorset Suites. Check in at least 90 minutes prior to departure with http://www.dorsetsuites.com/ your valid identification. Supper with hosts followed by throat singer 9:30am Depart Pangnirtung 5T #826 performance after dinner. Evening walk with local guide. 12:07pm Arrive Iqaluit 1:30pm Depart Iqaluit 5T #806 2:45pm Arrive Cape Dorset Day 4 – Saturday, 8 August: Pangnirtung – Iqaluit – Cape Dorset Cape Dorset was named after Edward Sackville, the labour force employed in the arts. Since 1957, 4th Earl of Dorset. It is located on Dorset Island, a Studios has published an annual print short distance from the southwest coast of Baffin collection that is marketed internationally. Well- Island. The Hudson's Bay Company established a known Cape Dorset graphic artists are Kenojuak trading post there in 1913, where they traded furs for Ashevak, , Parr, , Annie supplies such as rifles, ammunition, flour, tea and Pootoogook, Shuvinai Ashoona, Kananginak sugar. The community was incorporated as a hamlet Pootoogook, and Ningiukulu Teevee. Sculptors who in 1982 and is now widely-known by its are known world-wide are Nuna Parr, Kiugak name, Kinngait. Ashoona, Osuitok Ipeelee, Pauta Saila, and Toonoo Cape Dorset has come to be described as the most Sharky. artistic community in Canada, with some 22% of the

Day 5 – Sunday, 9 August: Cape Dorset Enjoy breakfast at your hotel before making a short At first glance, Mallikjuaq Island and Dorset Island journey to the ancient Dorset archeological sites at seem barren yet they sustain many forms of arctic nearby Mallikjuaq Territorial Park, including a tundra life. In July, wildflowers dapple the tundra with vivid walk and photography tips. Mallikjuaq means ‘big colors and migratory birds return for the nesting wave’ in Inuktitut, an appropriate name for an island season. Local Inuit travel to hunting camps along the where rounded rock hills and low tundra valleys shorelines of these islands at that time. The trails of resemble giant rolling waves. While Mallikjuaq Mallikjuaq Island and Dorset Island lead to these derives its name from its topography, its spirit comes special places. Visitors can hike through gentle hills to from its ancient human history. Located conveniently crystalline lakes or relax in the sunshine along the close to the community of Cape Dorset, at Mallikjuaq shore. Territorial Park visitors can view some excellent archaeological sites with ancient and historical stone structures, some of which date back three millennia. Day 6 – Monday, 10 August: Cape Dorset – Iqaluit Enjoy breakfast at your hotel before heading out on a print demonstration. tour of the Kenojuak Cultural Centre and Print Shop After picking up some souvenirs, you will be and seeing a print demonstration. The Kenojuak transferred back to the airport for your afternoon Centre is where Cape Dorset artists create their flight. incredible art. Over the past half-century, the bold and imaginative prints of the Cape Dorset Inuit have 3:05pm Depart Cape Dorset 5T #807 become recognized as some of the finest art in the 4:10pm Arrive Iqaluit world. Spend time with the local artists and enjoy a

Upon arrival into Iqaluit, we have arranged transfers Before this event, Iqaluit was a small city and not well from our local outfitter for a 90-minute community known outside the Canadian Arctic or Canada, with tour. This tour will be followed by hotel check in at population and economic growth highly limited. This the Frobisher Inn. The evening will continue with a is due to the city's isolation and heavy dependence transfer to Sylvia Grinnell Park where we will enjoy a on expensively imported supplies, as the city, like the group dinner with traditional food, fire pit and rest of Nunavut, has no road, rail, or even ship storytelling. connections for part of the year to the rest of Canada. https://www.frobisherinn.com/ The city has a polar climate, influenced by the cold deep waters of the Labrador Current just off Baffin Iqaluit meaning "place of fish", is the capital of the Island; this makes the city of Iqaluit cold, although the Canadian territory of Nunavut, its largest community, city is well south of the Arctic Circle. As of the 2016 and its only city. It was known as Frobisher Bay from census, the population was 7,740 (Population Centre: 1942 to 1987, after the large bay on the coast of 7,082), an increase of 15.5 percent from the 2011 which the city is situated, when the traditional census. Iqaluit has the lowest population of any Inuktitut name was restored. Iqaluit became the capital city in Canada. Inhabitants of Iqaluit are called capital of Nunavut after the division of the Northwest Iqalummiut. Territories into two separate territories in 1999. Day 7 – Tuesday, 11 August: Iqaluit Free day to enjoy the capital of Iqaluit. Visits may Assembly. Hours of operation are normally 1pm – include the Unikkaarvik Visitors Centre, Nunatta 5pm 4 days per week Sunakkutaangit Museum and the Legislative

Day 8 – Wednesday, 12 August: Homebound Today, you will check out of your accommodation and will be transferred back to Iqaluit Airport. Please check in at least 90 minutes prior to your departure with your valid identification. 11:55am Depart Iqaluit 5T #102 3:10pm Arrive Ottawa 5:35pm Depart Ottawa AC#8527 7:19pm Arrive Winnipeg

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