Emancipation Festival returns to Iqaluit with dance, film and discussion- Nunatsiaq News
Sep 20, 2024
The Aqsarniit hotel ballroom will be filled with the sounds of Afrobeats, Jamaican dance hall and rap music Sept. 21 to celebrate emancipation.
Hosted by the Nunavut Black History Society, this weekend’s two-day Emancipation Festival commemorates the abolition of slavery across the British empire in 1883.
Juno Award-winning Canadian rapper Choclair is scheduled to take the stage on Saturday, sharing the bill with musical performances from local artists C-4, Musbe Black and Akuluk Alele, as well as B-Benji.
Breakdancers Frost Flow and Audley Coley, who is a former Iqaluit resident, are also featured acts at this year’s event.
