Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra does a lot of outreach work and arts education with children.
But outreach took on a whole new meaning Oct. 27 when members of OrKidstra in Ottawa teleconferenced with the Iqaluit Fiddle Club in Nunavut to share and learn from each other while each watched on a large screen at their respective locations.
The children in the Nakasuk Elementary School gymnasium saw nine Inuit singers and drummers from the Nunavut Sivuniksavut (NS) program perform the opening number in Ottawa.
NS is an education program in Ottawa for Inuit high school graduates who spend eight months at the Algonquin College-affiliated school.
