The 2023 edition of Yellowknife’s Sǫǫ̀mba K’è Multicultural Festival featured more than 15 cultures through interactive booths, performances and a fashion show.
Cultural representatives from Cameroon to Pakistan, Zimbabwe to India and Burkina Faso to Mexico took part. Booths in Somba K’e Park offered free food samples, information about a range of cultures and, at some booths, demonstrations of cultural games or traditions.
“It’s an opportunity to welcome newcomers to my Dene homeland and to create meaningful cross-cultural exchanges,” Dettah resident Stacey Drygeese Sundberg said in a press release issued ahead of the event by organizers the Multicultural Community of Yellowknife, Diversity NWT and Nunavut, and the NWT Literacy Council.
“We get to share in the fact that we get to enjoy this place all together.”
Explore some of our photos from the day here.
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