Cambridge Bay celebrates 100 years with new arts studio and heritage park
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Cambridge Bay unveiled a new arts studio and heritage park as part of its hundredth anniversary celebration on Tuesday.
The earliest inhabitants of Cambridge Bay lived there some 4,000 years ago. The hundredth anniversary marks the establishment of the first Hudson's Bay trading post in the hamlet and when the RCMP first set up its base there as well.
The new Red Fish Arts studio has opened at what was the fish plant in the 1950s and aims to teach community members a mixture of welding and other art. It is funded in part by the Arctic Inspiration Prize won by Nunavut youth in 2018.
The group won $100,000 to open a local welding studio to create art with recycled metal. Marla Limousin, the chief operating officer at Cambridge Bay, said the new studio is a space for community members, many of whom are looking for ways to be involved and engaged, can come and learn together,
"We basically understand through our own experiences, through the welding project that you can kind of turn people's lives around," Limousin said.
"By having them in a creative forum, allowing that place to create a community — [it will] certainly deal with boredom issues [and] it will certainly deal with creativity and keeping that mind thinking another way."
The other forms of art the community can learn about at the studio include watercolour painting, acrylic painting or sketching.
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