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Arctic Journal Lynda Brown’s three-year-old daughter Papatsie Johnson and Kendall Ford throat singing at the Early Years graduation ceremony at the Ottawa Inuit Children’s Centre in June 2010. Papatsie and Kendall are still throat singing partners 14 years later —the next generation carrying on the nearly lost tradition. © Lynda Brown Reviving a cultural heritage Throat singing is distinctively Inuit and a musical genre all its own. In 2014, Quebec recognized throat singing as its first example of intangible cultural heritage—something you can only hear.  Throat singing is a tradi...

As theatres remain closed to the public, it hasn’t stopped two groups from planning for the future. With Southern Ontario’s stay-at-home order in effect, Post Productions and Windsor Feminist Theatre (WFT) are joining forces. Looking past Covid-19, the two groups recently announced a partnership that came from a play scheduled for later this spring. Seeing the potential, Post Productions’ Michael K. Potter has been excited from the start. Article Continues Below Local Sponsor Message “WFT artistic director Patricia Fell contacted us in early November about the possibility of perfo...