Arctic Inspiration Prize Awards Ceremony
Every year the AIP invites its community, as well as individuals from across the country, to join together in celebration of the current year’s Finalists and new winning Laureates. The live Awards Ceremony is hosted in partnership with a variety of different organizations and in collaboration with a different host city each year (typically alternating between North and South).
In addition to celebrating the nominated and winning projects, the awards ceremony is a cultural showcase, including musical performances from artists from across the North. Each winning team also receives an original piece of artwork from a Northern Canadian artist.

13th Annual Awards Ceremony
Time to celebrate the wonderful achievements of the Arctic Inspiration Prize laureates past and present. The AIP’s 13th Annual Awards Ceremony will take place on May 13 in Ottawa at the Rogers Centre (formerly the Shaw Centre). The reception will take place at 1 pm, and the ceremony will start at 2 pm.
This is a wonderful opportunity to come together as an AIP community in celebration of Northern ingenuity and excellence.
We are so pleased to be hosting the AIP ceremony on the same day as Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s Tapiriit, known as A Taste of the Arctic. Tapiriit will be at the National Arts Centre from 6 pm to 10 pm.
There is no cost to attend the ceremony, we only ask that you RSVP by April 18, 2025, by emailing: [email protected].
We look forward to seeing you in Ottawa!
Check out the videos from the 12th annual awards ceremony below.

12th Annual Awards Ceremony
The AIP and the Yukon First Nation Chamber of Commerce hosted the 12th annual awards ceremony for the Arctic Inspiration Prize on May 7, 2024 in Whitehorse, in conjunction with the Arctic Indigenous Investment Conference at the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre.
Watch the recording of the 12th annual AIP Awards Ceremony below!
Join hosts Andrea Brazeau and Leonard Linklater as we recognized this year’s incredible finalists and winners at the 12th Annual Arctic Inspiration Prize Award Ceremony. Under the masterful artistic direction of Sylvia Cloutier, the ceremony included performances by artists from across the North and an opportunity to connect as an AIP community!
12th Annual Arctic Inspiration Prize Winners:
$1 Million – Inotsiavik Centre
AIP – Indigenizing Work with Traditional Knowledge and Support Project
AIP – Hebron and Nutak Reunions
AIP – Thay K’i Anint’i
AIP – Learning, Harvesting, Earning
AIP – Therapeutic Farm School
AIYP – Investing in the Futures of Inuit Women
AIYP – L.O.V.E. Inuktut
AIYP – Youth Coalition 4 Food
AIYP – Yukon Young People’s Theatre Festival
Although the Governor General Mary Simon was unable to attend, they sent their congratulations to all the Finalists from the 12th Annual AIP.
Celebrating the Regions
Nunatsiavut
Watch the highlights of previous year’s ceremonies:
11th Annual Ceremony (virtual)
10th Annual Ceremony (virtual)
9th Annual Ceremony in partnership with the Arctic Indigenous Investment Conference (virtual)
8th Annual Ceremony in partnership with Northern Lights Business and Cultural Showcase (Ottawa, ON)