Culture 2024 Ottawa IYCFF Inuit Grassroots Group

Culture Care: Qilaujjarniq (knowledge surrounding the drum).

Funded Amount: $30000
This project aims to provide opportunity for urban Inuit to: share traditional knowledges, practice the Inuktitut language while making Inuit drums as well as learning traditional drum songs and dances, to offer healing by carrying on traditions that were initially banished by oppressive and dispossessive colonial institutions, community building via connecting Inuit to other Inuit in an urban setting, provide culture-based education connected to ceremonies, medicines, arts, and sciences.