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Hearth consumes enviornment, circus and performing arts house in Igloolik, Nunavut

Editorial Board Published February 12, 2025
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A fireplace has destroyed the world in Igloolik, Nunavut, together with an essential neighborhood hub that homes a neighborhood circus and performing arts house. 

The hearth broke out round 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, stated George Qaunaq, the neighborhood’s chief administrative officer. It engulfed the Kipsigak Area which can also be residence to Artcirq’s Black Field, the place it runs its circus and neighborhood programing. 

The constructing can’t be saved and can should be demolished, Qaunaq stated.

“The whole building is going to have come down,” he stated.

He stated the fireplace began someday within the evening, however the trigger remains to be unknown. 

The hearth was nonetheless burning in a while Wednesday morning and smoke was spreading locally, shutting colleges and the well being centre. 

“We’re still trying to contain it,” Qaunaq stated, simply earlier than midday. 

Three performers present their acrobatic expertise throughout Artcirq’s perfomance of Asiu, in 2014. (Submitted by Ellen Skura)

An area ‘filled with love’ for youth to collect, misplaced 

Guillaume Saladin is the co-founder of Artcirq, a performing arts collective fashioned in Igloolik in 1998. Its members have travelled the world and created a secure house locally for youth to collect. 

Saladin stated he acquired a name at 3 a.m. from individuals who work at Artcirq saying that their constructing was on fireplace. 

“We have a wall with all the flags, all the countries we travelled to over the years,” Saladin stated. “And I was picturing this wall of flags burning. And I was just crying.”

“Everyone is so sad.”

A take a look at Canada’s well-known Arctic circus

Launched in 1998 in Igloolik as a youth program with a social mission, Artcirq has advanced right into a world-class performing arts collective.

Saladin stated he’s nonetheless in disbelief that every thing is misplaced.

“It’s the last 20 years, and the energy they’ve put into making a safe space for young people to express themselves,” he stated.

Seven folks from Igloolik work on the Black Field full-time, Saladin stated. 

“It was their job to keep that place safe and open every day” he stated.

The Black Field ran workshops for younger folks each weekday, together with its circus and Inuit video games. It was additionally an area for musicians to collect, full with lighting and a sound system. 

Regardless of the devastation, Saladin stated he and his colleagues at Artcirq will look to rebuild. 

Saladin stated he additionally hopes others step as much as assist. 

A group of people dressed in traditional Inuit gear performing on the tundra Artcirq performers as featured in CBC’s Excessive Arctic Haulers. (CBC | Excessive Arctic Haulers)

“Share the pain and then find solutions I really hope that the hamlet council, the federal government, that many people, gather together,” he stated.

“So many people have been part of this. It’s really a unique space, it’s filled with love.”

Qaunaq stated the lack of the Black Field, together with the world, goes to felt all through Igloolik and past. 

“It is devastating for the community,” Qaunaq stated. 

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