Art and music from Nunavik in Montreal

Montreal’s First Peoples’ Festival opens on June 10 at the Quebec library’s Saint-Sulpice building at 1700 St-Denis in Montreal, with an exhibition called Founding Mythologies: Nunavik engravings and sculptures.

Bernard Saladin d’Anglure, an anthropologist and translator of the first Inuttitut novel, Sanaaq, by Mitiarjuk Napaaluk, curated this exhibition of Nunavik art, featuring work from the library’s collection and the Fédération des coopératives du Nouveau-Québec.

On June 19, Rez, White and Blues will perfom at the Lion d’Or at 1676 Ontario E., along with the Elisapie Isaac’s group, Taima, and Gilles Sioui, Brian André, Richard Desjardins and the Kanasuta musicians.

The festival winds up on June 21. For more information on the festival’s schedule, consult the Web site at: www.nativelynx.qc.ca