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Tusarniq is the name of a two-day festival of words, music and images happening in Montreal this November 5th and 6th. This second edition of Tusarniq is a crossroads festival where indigenous artists perform alongside their contemporaries in an intimate and collaborative atmosphere.

This year the festival features top Nunavik entertainers mixing with the fabulous Kinnie Starr, award-winning poets, singers and photographers, throat-singers, and the first Nunavik Artist in Residence, audio artist Nimalan Yoganathan. The exotic and beautiful sounds of both music and language mix with images of a vast and beautiful territory most Quebecers and Canadians have never seen.

Click here to download the complete calendar and artist’s biographies.

Thursday November 5th

Kinnie Starr (poet & performer)
Taqralik Partridge (poet & throatsinger) with Guido del Fabbro (composer/musician)
Nimalan Yoganathan (Soundscapes of Inukjuak)
Moe Clark and Emilie Monnet (performance)
Robert Frechette: (images of Nunavik)

Sala Rossa 4848 St-Laurent, Montreal
doors open 8PM
$7

Friday November 6th

Beatrice Deer and Charles Keelan (Nunavik singer/songwriters)
Evie Mark (throatsinger) DJ MadEskimo (music)
Pedro Favaron (Amazonian ritual chants)
Robert Frechette: (images of Nunavik)

Casa del Popolo
4873 St-Laurent, Montreal
doors open 8PM
$5

The festival is funded with the generous support of the Makivik Corporation, as well as donations from CKUT 90.3 FM and Wired on Words Productions. For interviews and/or more information, contact:

Ian Ferrier poets@wiredonwords.com
Taqralik Partridge taqralikpartridge@gmail.com
Moe Clark moe.clark@gmail.com