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Artcirq

Artcirq

Circus arts performers: Jugglers (right) Karine Delzors (Artcirq), Leonardo Constantino (Cirko de Mente Mexico) and Yamoussa Bangoura (Artcirq), and (left) Guillaume Ittukssarjuat Saladin. Photo: Ed Maruyama

Artist Profiles and Success Stories

In the summer of 1998, in Igloolik (Nunavut), 2 adolescents committed suicide. Youth alienation is a sad part of Northern reality.

The artistic community is providing one step toward a solution: giving youth a space to express themselves. With the help of ISUMA Productions (producer of Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner), a group of 8 youth formed the Inuusiq Youth Drama Group and produced a television series on the modern realities of youth in the North. Guillaume Ittukssarjuat Saladin, co-writer and actor in the series and a student of the École nationale de cirque de Montréal, established with 6 other students the circus Artcirq.

Today, Artcirq offers workshops to Nunavut youth, while still pursuing an international presence. Its collaboration with Les 7 doigts de la main (of Montreal) and Cirko de Mente (of Monterey, Mexico) took it to Mexico to produce the Fibonacci Project. This collaboration was also taken to Igloolik in summer 2008 and will then visit Iqaluit for the Alianait Arts Festival.