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Article: Hands together for Harvest Moon
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- Winnipeg Free Press
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- September 14, 2008
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CLEARWATER -- Inuit artist Ame Papatsie, renowned for his talent at drawing with both hands simultaneously, is the perfect symbol for the rural-urban message of the Harvest Moon Society.
It's mesmerizing to watch Papatsie. His hands seem to almost race each other. Sometimes they race parallel; other times they speed around the canvas as if each has a mind of its own. The hands finish in a dead heat. Voila! A work of art!
The right hand working in concert with the left hand is how Harvest Moon Society wishes rural and urban communities operated. The non-profit group moved into this hamlet in 2001 to launch a ...