Tatanniq Idlout
PROJECT CONCEPT /CO-DIRECTOR/
CO-PRODUCER / CO-TRANSLATOR

Tatanniq Idlout is a Canadian singer/songwriter, actor, and theatre artist from Nunavut. She is the daughter of Leah Idlout-Paulson and granddaughter of Joseph Idlout. Idlout’s first full-length album (as Lucie Idlout) was released in 2004: E5-770, My Mother’s Name. The title is an homage to her mother, directed at the Canadian government’s dark history of identifying Inuit by disc numbers instead of names. Her second album, Swagger, was released in February 2009. The album includes “Lovely Irene,” which was later reworked with a children’s choir from Iqaluit and renamed “Angel Street.” The song inspired a campaign to call attention to the issue of domestic violence in Canada by asking Canadian cities to name a city street “Angel.” To date, eight cities have taken part. In the fall of 2009, Tatanniq recorded a new song, “Road to Nowhere,” for CBC Radio 2’s Great Canadian Song Quest. She has since written the score for renowned filmmaker, Zacharias Kunuk’s film, Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, as well as music for several television shows. In 2017, she starred in Alan Zweig’s documentary film on Nunavut, There Is a House Here. She has worked as an Inuk representative on the Government of Canada’s federal panel on Women and Mines, worked in positions to address climate change mitigation as well as to address territorial food insecurity, and has worked for 25 years in documenting the proceedings of the Nunavut Legislative Assembly to produce Hansard. Tatanniq is an associate artist with Volcano and founder of 662 OVA.