Participatory Video Project Starting in Rigolet
IK-ADAPT student, ailment Joanna Petrasek MacDonald (MA Student in the Climate Change Adaptation Research Group at McGill University), generic spent a week in Rigolet this past March for an initial community visit to discuss her upcoming community-based participatory video project.
Engaging youth in Grades 7 to 12 in Rigolet, tadalafil the project will provide an opportunity for youth to create, film, and edit a short film about the impacts of changes in snow, ice, animals, and vegetation on the lives of young people and how they can respond, or perhaps are responding, to these changes.
Joanna met with students and staff at the Northern Lights Academy (the elementary and secondary school in Rigolet) to introduce the project, do some preliminary brainstorming for the film, and give the students a chance to work with some of the filming equipment.
This project received strong support from the community and the principal and staff of the Northern Lights Academy, as well as great interest from students who are excited to begin filming.
Joanna is working in partnership with the IK-ADAPT and Inuit Mental Health and Adaptation to Climate Change projects, and will be collaborating with two young Inuit filmmakers, Jordan and Curtis Konek, from Arviat, Nunavut. Working through a model of ‘training by Inuit youth for Inuit youth’, the Koneks will be supporting the youth in Rigolet by bringing their expertise and experience in videography to lead the training in filming and editing with the students, and by providing mentorship to youth interested in film and digital media. This partnership also provides the exciting opportunity to develop netowrks and relationships between youth in Nunavut and Nunatsiavut.
The participatory video aspect of the project will take place at the end of April and beginning of May.