Kuugalak

Year:
2022
Region:
Inuit Nunangat, Nunavut
Type:
Finalist
Theme:
Climate Change, Culture, Arts, & Language, Education
Category:
$1 Million

Kuugalak aims to build a highly customized language campus in Cambridge Bay, combining indoor and outdoor cultural activity areas, community-designed cultural production equipment, and experimental landscaping bridging green energy research with the growing of local plant species for climate adaptation, nutrition, and cultural use. It will be a site for free public programming that draws from deep reserves of Inuit and local knowledge to foster innovation. 

Nominator: Lynda Brown
Alumni Team Lead, SOI Foundation
Team:
Emily Angulalik, Executive Director, Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society (team lead), Annie Atighioyak, Tammy Omilgoetok, Bessie Omilgoitok, Eva Kakolak, Brendan Griebel, Sophie Pantin, Tom Rutherdale, Sandi Gillis, Melanie Ross