International Inuit Day celebration set to return to Ottawa’s Annie Pootoogook Park
Performers will include Pangnirtung singer-songwriter Joey Nowyuk, Nunavut Sivuniksavut students
Aigah Attagutsiaq, Inuit Anglican minister and co-founder of Isaruit Inuit Arts, lights a qulliq on stage beside founding co-ordinator Beverly Illauq during the 2025 International Inuit Day celebrations at Annie Pootoogook Park in Ottawa. (Photo by Nehaa Bimal)
Isaruit Inuit Arts, an Ottawa-based organization, will host its sixth annual International Inuit Day celebration Saturday at Annie Pootoogook Park in the Sandy Hill neighbourhood.
The event runs from noon to 4:30 p.m. and will feature musical performances, a feast, family games and cultural activities. It is free and open to the public.
Performers include Pangnirtung singer-songwriter Joey Nowyuk, Ottawa-based drum dancer Donovan Gordon Tootoo, who is originally from Rankin Inlet, and the Nunavut Sivuniksavut students’ performing group.
Inuit arts and crafts vendors will also sell their work at the event.
The schedule includes a qulliq lighting at 1:30 p.m., performances from 1:40 p.m., a feast at 2:30 p.m. and community games at 3:15 p.m.
An Inuit cultural activity tent will offer a qulliq making activity and photo opportunities featuring Inuit clothing.
International Inuit Day, observed annually on Nov. 7, was established by the Inuit Circumpolar Council in 2006 to celebrate Inuit culture and amplify Inuit voices across the circumpolar world.
The date honours Greenlander Eben Hopson Sr., founder of the first Inuit Circumpolar Conference in 1977.
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