Candy up for grabs as Iqaluit ushers in new year
Annual tradition features variety of prizes, including new qamutik
Iqaluit residents celebrated the arrival of 2024 with the community’s annual candy toss event Monday afternoon. (Photo by Jason Sudlovenick, special to Nunatsiaq News)
Iqaluit celebrated the arrival of the new year with its annual candy toss event.
A brand new qamutik was one of the various prizes available to participants. Whoever caught a specially tagged candy could claim their prize from an event co-ordinator.
Photographer Jason Sudlovenick shared these images of the event.
Iqaluit residents celebrated the arrival of 2024 with the community's annual candy toss event Monday afternoon. (Photo by Jason Sudlovenick, special to Nunatsiaq News)
it’s not just a candy toss. It’s Inuit tradition parlak to celebrate family members first catch to show how proud we are of them. For myself my two grandsons had their first caribou so we had our grandson throw candy bags, some in them with money, note for the winner that they got a TV, beaver skin, trapper hat. These were to show gratitude. It’s a proud moment and exciting to start the new year by giving.