Ashoka Presentation: “Filming for our Future” Socio-historical, Cross-generational, and multi-media approaches to Inuit youth mental health and wellbeing
Presented in Arlington Virginia at the office of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public on October 26 2012
Join Curtis Konek from Arviat Nunavut and be a hero! - Global Dignity Day
Curtis Kuunuaq Konek of the Nanisiniq Arviat History Projected named Canadian Role Model by Global Dignity Day. Read the full article at Nunatsiaq News Online today!
Young Arviat filmmaker a mentor for youth: Jordan Konek travels the world following his passion
Nicole Garbutt
Northern News Services
Published Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012
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Jordan Konek has found himself all over the globe in the past few years, film camera in hand.
Jordan Konek, a 23-year-old filmmaker in Arviat, lines up a shot on one of his many ongoing projects. - photo courtesy of Jordan Konek
After graduating from a theatre production program in Toronto, Konek returned to his home community of Arviat, only to be pulled almost immediately into a project by his cousin, Curtis Kuunuaq Konek. What Jordan did not know is that the Nanisiniq: Arviat History Project would open many doors for him, both personally and professionally. Read the full article on Northern News Services Online.
International Polar Year Conference- “From Knowledge to Action”
When: April 22-27, 2012
Where: Montreal Canada
Why: To discuss issues affecting polar regions and peoples
For more info: http://www.ipy2012montreal.ca/index.php
We Are Not A Number
by Jordan Konek
January 1st, 2012
We are becoming people that we aren’t today, we’re people that are relying on stores and money today. Nothing we can do about that today, because we are already used to it now. But to be honest, I think the Government can do a lot better than what it’s doing right now. Why is it that we disagree with so many things? Like me wanting the Government to do a lot better? That’s what makes us human I guess, but that depends on who you are and what you’re taught.
Reason why I think the Government can do a lot better is because there are a lot of Elders that have their Birthdays set to January one, these are people that were all born in one day? Or did the Government just decide to give a Birthday to 100 Inuit Elders because they didn’t do enough research on Inuit? Did they just decide to spend their money on a mining research when they can do a research on Inuit Birthdays? Or is that too lame for them? How lame is it to do fake research on Climate Change and ignore the people that are experiencing it and are trying to tell the truth? I mean this is something that’s serious and the Government will spend “their money” on saving lives in the future because permafrost melted or something. Did I forget to tell you that my Canadian Government is stupid or am I stupid? I’m not going to keep my mouth shut to the people that are telling me to get a certificate to make money and and spend money to print my certificate at a university or a college. I’m not the one knowing that aboriginal people are having housing issues because they’re not funded by the Government and their money is being spent on some kind of research for a mining corporation. I mean, it doesn’t make sense to me, they’re already making the animals look stupid, yet they’re the stupid ones. Accusing people that are spending the time with Mother Nature more often while they sit down in their offices thinking “what’s next?”. I want to sit in their offices and be as stupid as I can be to help my people. How much do I know about American History? Probably a little more than I know my culture. I am being expected to know a culture and history of all the Canadians to get a certificate. I don’t really care anymore about reading Canadian history. I’m lost, I don’t know where I’m going. It’s because this world I’m trying to create is lost yet I’m trying to keep what I can of my history. I’m doing what I can because we are not a number.
