Taqralik Partridge

Taqralik Partridge is a spoken word performer, Inuit throatsinger, writer and curator. Originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik (Northern Quebec), she later lived in Ottawa, and she now lives in Kautokeino, Norway. She has performed on stages from Toronto to Iqaluit to the UK and Norway. Her work communicates a mix of influences from hip-hop to Inuit story-telling. Partridge's writing focuses on both life in the North and on the experiences of Inuit living in the South. Her performance work has been featured on CBC Radio One, and she has toured with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. In 2018, she was named a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize. She has previously worked as Communications Director for Avataq Cultural Institute and Editor-at-Large for the Inuit Art Quarterly. She is a member of the Inuit Leadership Group for Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq/Pijariuqsarniq Project. Her work is currently included in the touring exhibition Among All These Tundras and this year showed at NIRIN the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, in Australia. Taqralik is one of the featured emerging artists in the CBC's upcoming Next! series.