MUSIC WORKSHOPS
TUSARNAARNIQ SIVUMUT ASSOCIATION
MUSIC FOR THE FUTURE
Our Current 2024-2025 Workshop Schedule
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2nd annual Ukulele Workshop - September 10 - 14, 2024 in Baker Lake with instructor Aasiva
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Fall Fiddle Workshop - September 7 - 20, 2024 in Igloolik & Pond Inlet with instructors Stacey Read & Kaitlin Ganong
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Spring Fiddle Workshop - March 15-28, 2025 (tentative) in Igloolik & Pond Inlet with instructors Stacey Read & Kaitlin Ganong
Past Workshops
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Spring Fiddle Workshop - March 17-29, 2024 in Igloolik & Pond Inlet
Instructors Kaitlin Ganong & Kyle Burghout
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Fall Fiddle Workshop - September 10 - 22, 2023 in Igloolik & Pond Inlet
Instructors Stacey Read & Kaitlin Barrett
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Summer Ukulele Workshop - August 9 - 14, 2023 in Baker Lake
Instructor Aasiva
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Spring Fiddle Workshop - March 18 - April 1, 2023 in Igloolik & Pond Inlet
Instructors Stacey Read & Kaitlin Barrett
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Fall Fiddle Workshop - September 23 - October 7, 2022 in Igloolik & Pond Inlet
Instructors Stacey Read & Kaitlin Barrett
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Winter Fiddle Workshop – January 18 – February 15, 2020 in Qikiqtarjuaq, Igloolik, Pond Inlet, Sanirajak, and Kinngait
Instructors Ameena Bajer-Koulack and Greg Simm
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Fall Fiddle Workshop – September 29 – October 30, 2019 in Hall Beach, Pond Inlet, Pangnirtung, Qikiqtarjuaq and Cape Dorset
Instructors Kim de Laforest and Greg Simm
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Spring Fiddle Workshop – March 30 - April 27, 2019 in Hall Beach, Qikiqtarjuaq, Pangnirtung, Igloolik and Pond Inlet
Instructors Kim de Laforest and Greg Simm
QARASAUJAKKUT NIJJAUSIJARIURSANIQ
2024 - 2025
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Virtual Fiddle Lessons at Iglulik High School in Igloolik (October - June)
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Virtual Fiddle Lessons at Nasivvik High School in Pond Inlet (October - May)
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Virtual Guitar Lessons at Nasivvik High School in Pond Inlet (January - May)
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Virtual Guitar Lessons at Qarmartalik School in Resolute Bay (October - May)
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Virtual Ukulele Lessons in Baker Lake (October - June)
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Virtual Instrument Maintenance Sessions with Teacher in Gjoa Haven (January - TBA)
2023 - 2024
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Virtual Fiddle Lessons at Iglulik High School in Igloolik
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Virtual Fiddle & Guitar Lessons at Nasivvik High School in Pond Inlet
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Virtual Guitar Lessons at Qarmartalik School in Resolute Bay (resuming in January 2024)
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Virtual Ukulele Lessons in Baker Lake beginning in January 2024.
2022 - 2023
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Virtual Fiddle Lessons at Iglulik High School in Igloolik
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Virtual Fiddle & Guitar Lessons at Nasivvik High School in Pond Inlet
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Virtual Guitar Lessons at Umimmak School in Grise Fiord
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Virtual Guitar Lessons at Qarmartalik School in Resolute Bay (beginning in April 2023)
2021-2022
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Virtual Fiddle Lessons at Iglulik High School in Igloolik (September - June)
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Virtual Fiddle & Guitar Lessons at Nasivvik High School in Pond Inlet (April - May)
MUSIC CLUBS
Thanks to the support of generous donors like the Leanne Children’s Foundation and Anne Campbell & John Lindsay, we have been working to organize after-school music clubs (which include a nutritious snack) in more communities.
2023 - 2024
Stay tuned for details.
2021-2022
Igloolik Music Club (November/December & Spring)
2019-2020
Qikiqtarjuaq Music Club (September – March) - unable to meet after March due to COVID-19.
Sanirajak Music Club (March 2020) - unable to meet after March due to COVID-19.
2018-2019
Qikiqtarjuaq Music Club (February – May, 17 weeks) – 29 students participated (that’s more than 35% of youth aged 12-19 in Qik)
2017-2018
Qikiqtarjuaq Music Club (February – May, 10 weeks) – 27 students participated
WE COULDN'T DO ALL THIS WITH YOU
Our Airline of Choice
Canadian North Airlines
Leanne Children’s Foundation
Lunenburg
Rotary Club
Christopher Hope for Children
Anne Campbell &
John Lindsay
Seltzer Chan Pond
Inlet Foundation
AND TO OUR MANY INDIVIDUAL DONORS… Qujannamiik!
The Board of Directors of Tusarnaarniq Sivumut Association - Music for the Future acknowledges the Indigenous Peoples of all the lands and the importance of the lands, which we each call home. In particular, we want to acknowledge that the land on which
we do most of our work is in Nunavut, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Inuit. We do this to reaffirm our commitment and responsibility to improving relationships between nations and improving our own understanding of local Indigenous peoples
and their cultures, and to our collective commitment to make the promise and the challenge of Truth and Reconciliation real in our communities. From coast to coast to coast, we acknowledge the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit,
Métis, and First Nations people that call this land home.