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Dana Sipos was one of the performers at the second annual Amnesty International coffee house in Yellowknife.

Celebrating diversity Musicians helped the community celebrate freedom of expression and the 29 other articles protected in the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the weekend. The second annual Amnesty International coffee house filled the auditorium at Northern United Place on Saturday night. Community members of all ages and backgrounds enjoyed food and fair-trade tea and coffee while listening to an evening-long concert organized by multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Churcher.   Continued See also: Don't quit your day jobs Celebrating the light SnowKing prepares 14th festival Fiddling around for beginners

Web extras Artwork of the week Each week, arts editor Daron Letts will choose a piece of Northern artwork to feature on nnsl.com. To see a larger version of this week's art, click   here. See also: Artwork of the week - Feb. 13, 2009 Artwork of the week - Feb. 6, 2009 Artwork of the week - Jan. 30, 2009 Online lit with a northern flair

Folk deadline approaches

The 29th annual Folk on the Rocks music festival in Yellowknife is still accepting applications from Northern performers for next summer's lineup. The deadline for submissions from musicians, storytellers and dancers from NWT and Nunavut is March 1.

Each year the festival features about 25 artists from around the continent and beyond. About half are Northerners and all musical genres are considered.

Artists accepted for the festival schedule appear for one concert and participate in several workshops, jams or instructional events with the general public.

Typically, the selection committee receives about 200 submissions every year from artists around the world. Every submission is reviewed based on the quality of an artist's performance and the artist's ability to present workshop content.

Folk on the Rocks will be held July 18 to 20, 2009 at the Long Lake site in the NWT capital.

To download a festival application, visit www.folkontherocks.com.

Multi-coloured moose

Liidlii Kue/Fort Simpson

The Open Sky Creative Society scheduled two moose hair-tufting workshops on the weekend. Lucy Simon from Jean Marie River planned the workshops.

- Roxanna Thompson

Community radio

The Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) launched its first call for funding proposals from Canadian community-oriented broadcasters and associations earlier this month.Funding is now available to the community radio sector throughout Canada.

The Radio Talent Development Program and the Youth Internship Program aim to develop community interest programming while providing mentorship, education an training for local broadcasters. Proposals will be peer reviewed in April and the successful applicants will be announced in May.

The deadline to apply for each program is March 27.

Lucie Idlout releases new album

Inuit recording artist Lucie Idlout released her second album Swagger, earlier this month.

Swagger features 10 new tracks from the Baffin-born songwriter, who earned the Canadian Aboriginal Music Award for best female artist in 2003.

Idlout tours cities in southern Ontario this month and is scheduled to play Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver next month.

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