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Lost Stories Screening of “Qamutiik: From the North to Ottawa’s Southway Inn”
March 15, 2018 at 6:15 PM to 8:00 PM
| Location: | 482 MacOdrum Library |
| Cost: | Free |
Lost Stories Screening of “Qamutiik: From the North to Ottawa’s Southway Inn”
Filmmaker Mosha Folger and historian Dr. John C. Walsh are offering the first Ottawa screening of Qamutiik: From the Norther to Ottawa’s Southway Inn (21 minutes) to the 24th Annual Underhill Colloquium. The film is one of four new films recently released by the Lost Stories Project, based at Concordia University under the direction of Dr. Ronald Rudin. The film documents the efforts of Inuit artist Couzyn van Heuvelen to create a commemorative piece of public art inspired by the unique historical relationship between Inuit travellers, largely from Baffin Island, and the former Southway Inn located in Ottawa’s south end. In doing so, the film explains that the “lost story” of Inuit travel to the Southway Inn was also part of a much broader story of family, community, and resilience in the context of postwar colonialism in Canada’s North.
Following the film, there will be a short interview with Mosha Fogler about the film and his work as a storyteller, and also a Question-and-Answer with both he and Dr. Walsh about both the film and the Lost Stories Project.
Learn more about the Underhill Colloquium here: https://carleton.ca/underhill/
Learn more about Lost Stories here: http://loststories.ca/ottawa/index.html