IBC moves ahead with fundraising for its new Iqaluit centre

The Inuit Broadcasting Corp. announced June 23 that it’s made more appointments to an advisory committee whose members will help raise money for the construction of its new Nunavut media arts centre.

Members of the committee include former commissioner of Nunavut, Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, Qikiqtani Inuit Association president Okalik Eegeesiak, Sen. Dennis Patterson, former Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission chair André Bureau and Christy Sinclair, director of northern business development for NorTerra Inc..

The committee will direct the building campaign for IBC’s $10-million, the state-of-the-art facility to be built at 870 Federal Rd. in Iqaluit.

Scheduled for completion in 2013, the 8,000-square-foot building will be a digital facility for audio, video, recording, performance and post-production.

The centre will also house an Inuit Film and Video Archive, a facility where old tapes from IBC can be preserved, catalogued, digitized and stored safely.

IBC plans to launch a fundraising campaign and website this summer.