Stories from an Inuit Storyteller

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Friday, April 22nd, 2016
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Tales for the Telling, Stories for Adults, is delighted to welcome the very popular storyteller Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak.

Michael never fails to delight us with his stories of growing up in the Arctic and stories he learned from his grandmother.

Michael was born in Qaktiktalik (Cape Fullerton), NWT (now Nunavut) on the west coast of Hudson Bay. He was raised in Repulse Bay, right on the Arctic Circle, where people lived in igloos in the winter and tents in the summer. His family traveled by dog sled, hunted and fished, and built igloos and sod huts wherever night found them.

The stories he heard every night, falling asleep in the flickering light of a qulliq (a soapstone seal oil lamp) became the stories he now tells as he travels around the world sharing the world in which he was raised.

Audiences young and old, children and adults, are always delighted to hear Michael’s stories, including the stories of Kiviuq, the Inuit’s great heroic questing equivalent of Odysseus. He has also authored many books including A Promise is a Promise (with Robert Munsch, Baseball Bats for Christmas, The Littlest Sled Dog, and his latest book, T is for Territories.

This is a very special month at the McMillan Arts Centre. The entire gallery will be filled with First Nations Art, and Tales for the Telling is pleased to complement that art with an Inuit storyteller.

Come early, get your seat and take some time to look at the art in all three galleries.

Tickets are available at the McMillan Arts Centre, at the door, and on-line at www.eventbrite.ca.

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For more information on the Tales for the Telling, Storytelling for Adults, season, go to our website: talesforthetelling.org