Winter Solstice Story Circles
Community gatherings featuring epic tales, lullabies, and comedic improvisations recorded over three nights in Nunavut.
Includes VR longhouse environment
Collection Highlights
Hunting Songs Lab
Vocable-rich songs that coordinate community hunts, with motion capture visualizations of rhythm and gesture.
Companion STEM lesson plans available
When Northern Lights Speak
This audio diary threads youth reflections with elder teachings about the aurora. Spatialized soundscapes place listeners amid crackling ice and sweeping winds while subtitles trace poetic metaphors that depict the lights as living beings.
Interactive Transcript
- Switch between English, syllabics, and roman orthographies
- Segment highlights align with auroral photography
- Footnotes document oral history permissions
Available Formats
- 5.1 surround FLAC download
- Interactive web player with waveform notation
- Podcast excerpt for classroom use
Speaker Spotlights
Anniq K.
Master storyteller who bridges Inuit cosmology with contemporary climate justice dialogues.
Taavi N.
Sámi youth poet whose bilingual slam performances revive playful idioms and collective humor.
Maiya L.
Nenets linguist documenting reindeer-herding chants with kinship annotations and gesture guides.
Licensing & Community Consent
Each narrative is released under community-defined licenses. Usage guidelines clarify how content may be remixed, ensuring crediting, language retention, and proper ceremony when sharing sacred knowledge.
- Consent tiers: public, community-only, mentor-led
- Download requests monitored with automated notifications to narrators
- Embedded pronunciation keys support equitable distribution