Arts and Culture

Indigenous circumpolar films take centre stage in Ottawa snow theatre

Snowscreen event features 7 films screened outdoors, hot chocolate and music

Indigenous storytelling from the circumpolar North is set to be projected onto screens of snow and ice at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa this weekend as the Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival hosts its 10th annual outdoor Snowscreen event.

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Getting ready to stand with Greenland

Mylena Idlout-Mullin crafts a Greenland flag at Iqaluit’s Pirurvik Centre on Friday. She and other students from her adult Inuktitut language class are preparing for a solidarity demonstration in support of Greenland at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Four Corners intersection in Iqaluit. A demonstration is scheduled at the same hour in Nuuk, Greenland. (Photo by Daron Letts)

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Iqaluit candy toss celebrates new year, hunter’s first caribou

Siku Rojas tosses candy to a crowd from the back of a pickup truck during a New Year’s Day parlak in Iqaluit. At least 40 people attended the Thursday afternoon event in the Nakasuk School parking lot to usher in the new year. It also served as a celebration of Rojas’ first tuktu — or caribou — hunt in the summer of 2025. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)