July 8: Zaki Ibrahim, MÁ, Poetry in Motion Collaboration
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July 8: Zaki Ibrahim, MÁ, Poetry in Motion Collaboration 〰️
ALIANAIT ARTS FESTIVAL
July 8
7:00 PM Canadian North Big Top Tent, Nakasuk School Parking Lot Iqaluit
Zaki Ibrahim
There’s a standard narrative that an artist releases an album, but for Zaki Ibrahim it seems the reverse is true. From one angle, Ibrahim’s career is punctuated by extended absences from the Toronto scene where she built her name, launched a label and found success. From another vantage, for an artist who is known for her multiplicity of influences and identities, absence from one scene is in fact presence in another. The difference between departure and arrival is simply a matter of perspective. Ibrahim’s process, very much about immersion, connection and being there, wherever there may be, is a fundamental attribute of self and sound.
Throughout her career, from Vancouver to South Africa to Toronto and many points in between, Ibrahim has worked against the encroaching systems and machinery that would limit or dilute her vision. It’s impossible to imagine the future if you can’t escape the present. There, in the hypercurious process of transposing atomic-level details into big ideas and back again, songs emerge. Ibrahim’s work pushes back against binaries, against reductiveness, against the clenching muscles of expectation.
MÁ
A border-crossing universe of sound and performance, a collaboration and togetherness creating intuitive, hypnotizing and enchanting soundscapes. With a powerful and playful voice melting together with the haunting sounds of a very special, self made cello.
Poetry in Motion Collaboration
(Greenland/Nunavut)
Aka Niviâna
(Kalaallit Nunaat)
In a space of existential questions and philosophical wonder, Aka Niviâna takes you into her world and allows you to explore her mind, as well as your own. “I may not have a lot of answers, but thousands of questions” is the way she lives her life and expresses herself – with no definite artform, but a curiosity and openness to try new things. She plays Julia Navarro in the upcoming season of HBO’s “True Detective – Night Country”, has various publications of poetry and has presented several keynote speeches at the UN and several other conferences. At this festival she participates as a poet, songwriter and performer.
Parnaq Hammond Iversen
(Kalaallit Nunaat)
Nuuk based musician and lyricist, Parnaq is considered the first female rapper in Greenland with her single 'Old School Native' feat. R.Katokra. Born in Ilulissat, the residential blocks of 'Blokkit Qaqortut' known as the concrete jungle in the coastal town of West-Greenland, she cemented her place in Greenland's Hip Hop history paving the way for women in the male dominated Nuuk underground Hip Hop scene with her innovative bars and unapologetic punchlines.
Timimie Gassko Märak
(Sápmi)
Timimie puts just as much in between the lines they write as in the words they choose to share. Like them, their poetry is a combination of deep roots and connections, read at a Big City pace. Speaker, poet and word weaver recently published in «Čatnosat. The Sámi Pavilion, Indigenous Art, Knowledge and Sovereignty» and the first to hold the title of "Poet In Residence" at the Venice biennale. Together with ‘The Sámi Pavilion’ curators Beaska Niillas and Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Märak is also one of the three founding members of Hásstuheaddji collective, a Sámi led think-tank that gather thinkers, performers and artists to dialogue and reflect.
Taqralik Partridge
Taqralik Partridge is an artist, writer and curator originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, now based in Ottawa. As a spokenword poet she has performed at venues across Canada and internationally. This year she has been shortlisted for the Sobey art award.
Marita Solberg
Solberg is a visual artist, chanter and musician. She is working with many artistic and related directions including performance art, ceramics, sound and installation. Marita was growing up in Manndalen / Olmmáivággi / Olmavankka in North-Troms, and her closest ancestral roots are from Sámi, Swedish and Finnish. In addition to her master's degree from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, she has been singing and exploring different art and musical genres ever since childhood. With a studio in Tromsø, Norway, she lives a nomadic life on the Norwegian and international music and art scene.