Social circus in the Arctic:cultivating resilience

Between 2010 and 2013, social circus instructor Jon Burtt worked on a number of social circus projects in the Arctic and the sub-Arctic in the far north of Quebec in Nunavik, a semi-autonomous region with Inuit communities dotted around the Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay coasts. In this in...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Arts & Communities
Main Authors: Lavers, Katie, Burtt, Jon
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
social circus
Inuit
Cirqiniq
Cirque du Monde
Quebec
Nunavik
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C2 - Non-refereed Article in a Refereed Journal
Arctic
Hudson Bay
Hudson
Hudson Strait
Ungava Bay
inuit
Online Access:https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/c43e7ad8-b9cd-4a16-bab7-f1275a0eb912
https://doi.org/10.1386/jaac.7.3.125_1
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Summary:Between 2010 and 2013, social circus instructor Jon Burtt worked on a number of social circus projects in the Arctic and the sub-Arctic in the far north of Quebec in Nunavik, a semi-autonomous region with Inuit communities dotted around the Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay coasts. In this interview, writer and circus director Katie Lavers talks to him about his experiences there, about the programme he was involved in, the Inuit youth involved and their communities, and the effect of the work on him personally.

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