2023-07-27 23:47:44
Each year, the organization makes the Innu Nikamu site even more attractive. For the past few days, the Festival team has been working on the site with several new features. (Photo Jean St-Pierre, Macotenord.com)
The physical development of the site is well underway a few days before the opening of the Innu Nikamu Festival. The largest stage on the North Shore was erected today on the site in Maliotenam. In addition to the amazing program of shows, the event will host many crafts, animation and other expressions of ancestral culture.
As soon as it opens on Tuesday, August 1, young people will take pride of place with the large gathering of high school graduates from the Innu and Naskapi communities. The family component of the Festival Innu Nikamu program is particularly interesting this year with two fireworks, contests and inflatable games.
Accessible to everyone
Innu Nikamu adds a VIP section for people with reduced mobility and seniors. Present on the assembly site today, festival coordinator Normand Jr Thirnish made sure that new rubber mats will make traffic easier for people in wheelchairs.
The dressing rooms of the artists will be much more numerous, considering the programming and the will of the organization to spoil the guests a little. These are mostly casters of film crews. A special lodge is kept exclusively for members of the Gipsy king group.
In addition to music
Several partners will embellish the place with their tasting or exhibition booth. The site of the largest Indigenous music festival in the country is embellished with new banners and several spaces for culinary art made from salmon and caribou, as well as traditional crafts and textile art such as Mathida’s clothing Puamun Creation Fountain.
“It’s going to be beautiful! Grand! I hope all this will make people even more proud of their festival,” exclaims coordinator Normand Jr Thirnish.
The site of the largest Aboriginal music festival in the country is even more beautiful this year. (Photo Jean St-Pierre, Macotenord.com)
The Tshakapish Institute will mark its 45th anniversary with a special shaputuan offering a showcase on a different decade each day. A team from Wapiconi Mobile will also set up on the site to show short films produced as part of its mission to welcome young people and introduce them to cinema.
Remember that the 39th edition welcomes Roxane Bruneau, Florent Vollant, Richard Séguin, Émile Bilodeau, Claude McKenzie, Gipsy Kings, Natasha Kanapé Fontaine, Mario Saint-Amand, Maten, Loud, Bill St-Onge and several other Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists.
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