Countdown to Copenhagen: Live from the Floe Edge

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When: 07:45 PM May 29, 2009

"Groundbreaking online campaign to promote Inuit knowledge and human rights in the lead up to the global discussion on climate change." - Judy Rebick

Countdown to Copenhagen is Isuma’s six-month internet campaign to promote the importance of Inuit knowledge and human rights in the global discussion of Climate Change. Monthly webcasts on IsumaTV from May to November will culminate in Live From the Floe Edge, ten days of daily internet streaming hosted by Zacharias Kunuk live from his arctic wilderness hunting camp during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 7-17.

The series will launch with a live webcast on Friday May 29, featuring Siila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit climate activist and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaking on Inuit, Human Rights and Climate Change live from Iqaluit, Nunavut to a worldwide audience.. The program leads off at 7:45 pm EST with the World Premiere of Tungijuq, Isuma’s new 6-minute video starring Inuit jazz and throat-singing sensation, Tanya Tagaq. At 8 pm Siila Watt-Cloutier delivers the 9th annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture, introduced by John Ralston Saul, The Right Honorable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, Isuma’s Zacharias Kunuk and The Honourable Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, Commissioner of Nunavut.

Screenings organized so far for Friday, May 29 include:

MONTRÉAL Ewola Cinéma
7:45 pm - 10 pm EST Eastern Time
3981 Blvd Saint Laurent Suite #900
contact Nanauq Kusugak
514-629-1524
nanauq@isuma.tv

TORONTO Hart House (U of T)
7:45pm- 10pm EST
7 Hart House Circle (Debates Room)
Contact Pieter Basedow
Students Against Climate Change
pbasedow@yahoo.ca

IGLOOLIK Isuma building
7:45-10pm EST
www.isuma.ca
Contact Carol Kunnuk
ph. 867 934 8809
carol@isuma.ca

WINNIPEG Urban Shaman Gallery
6:45pm-9pm CST
203-290 McDermot Avenue
contact Amanda Smart
204.942.2674
communications@urbanshaman.org

CALGARY Arusha Centre Society (old YMCA)
5:45 - 8 pm MST Mountain Time
223 12 avenue SW
403.270.3200
www.arusha.org
contact Sharon Stevens
infoactive.arusha@gmail.com

VANCOUVER Vancity Theatre
4:45 pm - 7 pm PST Pacific Time
Vancouver International Film Centre
1181 Seymour St
contact Zoe Quinn
zoe@viff.org
tomcharity@gmail.com

Vancouver Peak Oil Group and Vital Knowledge 2.2
4:45 pm - 7 pm PST
Studio 302 - 1067 Granville Street
Contact: Brennan Wauters, 604-727-4694
brennanwauters@gmail.com

Or get your own group together to watch the launch! Maybe in a screening room/small cinema or just at somebody's house with a good internet connection- anybody interested in climate justice, native issues/culture, or else fans of Isuma's films (Atanarjuat, Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Before Tomorrow-) Invite your friends, make it a creative happening/salon- we need some grassroots (cross-continental) energy to start going viral-!

IsumaTV pioneers a low-cost model for internet distribution of Indigenous media for community organizing on issues of global importance. Throughout 2009 Countdown to Copenhagen Live Webcasts will be downloaded to a growing network of digital
screening rooms from Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal to as far as Tromso, Norway and Alice Springs, Australia. IsumaTV has the goal by December 2009 of a network of1000 local-to-global screening groups around the world watching Live From the Floe Edge
through digital download-to-projection.

Watch us at: http://www.isuma.tv/hi/en/isumatv-live-feed/icc-may-29th

Contact information: Norman Cohn (514) 576-0707 cohn@isuma.ca

Web link for more information: www.isuma.tv

Source: Isuma-TV

by robinsoleil