Artists converge in Iqaluit for rare collaboration
Artist Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory on the Qaggiq Performing Arts Summit and why Iqaluit needs a performing arts centre.
It's expensive and tricky to get to Iqaluit, but this week over 50 artists from across the Arctic are converging there for a rare summit.
"Oh my goodness, it is so exciting," says Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, a storyteller, dancer and one of the organizers of the summit.
There on the south coast of Baffin Island, the artists have a big task ahead of them: to create, rehearse and perform a full professional play, in just one week.
In the lead up to the big Saturday show, Shad checks in with Bathory. She hopes the event will pave the way for Iqaluit's first performing arts centre.