If all goes well, you're looking at what will soon become the new home of Super Shamou, Johnny the Lemming, and a host of other icons of northern broadcasting history. It's the Nunavut Media Arts Centre, a project launched by the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation and scheduled for completion just in time to mark the thirtieth anniversary of northern native broadcasting in 2013.
IBC’s first studio and training space was an abandoned classroom in the old adult education centre in Iqaluit; for over 20 year they have operated from rented facilities in a deteriorating one-story wooden building. The new facility, the first full-scale, state of the art, digital facility for audio/video, recording, performance and post production in Nunavut, will support local and territorial freelancers, performers, artists and production companies working in Nunavut. Its features will include:
• Studio production capacity suitable for live programming, including performance space and capacity for live studio audiences
• Office and post-production space for Inuit Communications Systems Limited
•The Inuit Film and Video Archive Centre, a storage and screening facility for preserving and storing the priceless collection of historic film and video shot by Inuit since the 1970s.
Support for the Centre has already been received from CanNor, the Qikiqtani and Kitikmeot Inuit Associations, the GN Department of Culture, Language, Elders and Youth, the Department of Economic development and Transportation, and the Jackman Foundation.
As a foundational element of Nunavut's cultural infrastructure, the Media Arts Centre will assure wider and better coverage and promotion of Nunavut artists and performers in every field, bringing the very best of Nunavut to Canada and the world. With cutting-edge production capacity and a unique, made-in-Nunavut design, IBC and partners are creating a building that IBC President Madeleine d'Argencourt described as "...a landmark for Iqaluit, a showpiece for Nunavut and a milestone in our cultural history."
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