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Atalukan Stories and
Legends Festival
Cofounded by André Lemelin and Sonia Robertson in 2011, and supported by the Fondation Diane Robertson, the
Atalukan Stories and Legends Festival returns for a seventh consecutive year. We seek to share the riches of the
collective cultural imagination of the Ilnuatsh and other First Nations. In the language of the Ilnu, Atalukan means myth.
These stories convey aboriginal cosmological beliefs and moral teachings and provide insight into their worldview. The
images that the storytellers conjure up transport us to worlds that only exist for a fleeting moment. Fall under the spell of a
tale told in the intimate glow of a campfire where new worlds come to life. This is the magic of Atalukan.
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