Contact Info:
Email: ahadlari@ntilands.com

Attima is an Inuit drum dancer who lives with his family in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. He has been actively drumming since his early teen years and attributes his ability to his teachers, Hadlari, (his father) and Quaquqtuuq. Attima drums in the Natttilingmiut style accompanied by one or more chant singers. Over the years he has performed with his drum to audiences across the world, often explaining the significance and traditional uses of the chants and the dance. Other times Attima demonstrates such traditional skills as the use of the seal skin whip or Inuit games.

Attima was born out on the land between Taloyoak and Kugaaruk and raised in tents and igloos until his family moved into the settlement of Taloyoak when he was a teenager. He started hunting on his own, by dog team, at an early age. He is proud to say that if he had to, he could survive out on the tundra still today.

Some of his performances include:

• Expo 86, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Folk on the Rocks, Yellowknife , N.W.T., 1982- present
• Arctic Winter Games, various locations, until present
• Yokohama Museum Art Gallery opening, Japan, 1992
• Traditional World Fair, Mexico, 1992
• Oceanographic Museum opening, Paris, 1993
• Private audience to Prince Rainer, Monaco, 1993
• Royal Visits to Nunavut by Queen Elizabeth
and the Duke of Edinburgh, 1994, 2000
• Verona, Italy 1995
• CNE, Toronto, Ontario, 1995