Nunavut

Festival by the Lake attracts hundreds in Baker Lake

Music, art, food and plenty of fun fill three-day schedule in hamlet

Revellers of all ages pack Baker Lake’s community hall during the eighth annual Festival by the Lake, which ran from Sept. 13 to Sept. 15. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Tapatai)

Painting the Arctic through the decades

Janet Armstrong, 77, says she has been painting since at least the 1980s. She uses her maiden name — Ripley — when she signs her paintings and started painting late in life because, she says, “I didn’t know I could paint.” Throughout close to 50 years in the Canadian Arctic, Armstrong has created hundreds of paintings of the region. Many capture a Nunavut of the past, such as Nanisivik, a mining community near Arctic Bay that no longer exists. One of her paintings showing qamutiks is exhibited at the Black Heart Café. (Photo by Arty Sarkisian)

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