Iqaluit's quest for a performing arts centre

IQALUIT — Twenty-two-year-old Inuit singer-songwriter Jerry Laisa comes across as a happy-go-lucky young man with a ready smile and a zest for life. Originally from Pangnirtung, a community north of Iqaluit, he has a smartphone, of course, and loves travelling down south, whether it’s to Ottawa or somewhere warmer, though he also enjoys going out on the land with his grandfather.
Laisa started writing songs because he was bored at work. He was a security guard at a North Baffin iron