This is a historically significant winter feast that celebrated the coming year, marked the new sun after the winter solstice, and traditionally involved appeasing spirits for good luck in the hunting season. Today, it has merged with and is often celebrated around Christmas and New Year’s.
Held in mid-January, this major five-day festival in Igloolik celebrates the re-emergence of the sun after weeks of total darkness. Feasts of local foods are central to the celebration.
Held annually in early April to commemorate the date Igloolik officially became a hamlet. These feasts of local foods are often accompanied by traditional Inuit games.
Celebrated on July 9th, these territorial holidays include community feasts, barbecues, and cultural activities.
community meetings, or mark cultural festivals such as the Rockin’ Walrus Arts Festival in the summer.
Traditionally, feasting also occurs for personal milestones, though these are often smaller family or close-knit gatherings.
Feasts for a boy’s first kill (hunting rite of passage). Feasts are associated with naming ceremonies and honoring the dead.
Russel & Sonia Murray
Ministry Founders