StampEid Breakfast draws thousands for first post-pandemic celebration
CBC NewsAccording to organizers, more than 7,000 people took part in the StampEid breakfast event.
According to organizers, an estimated 7,000 people attended this year's free StampEid event on Saturday. It is the 25th year the event has been put on, only taking a break during the pandemic."It's a wonderful day today. we've got lots of warm weather, lots of crowd with lots of smiles," said Alisha Kanji, one of the event organizers and member of the Ismaili Council of the Prairies.
"We were starting to notice that a lot of our Muslim festivities were starting to coincide with Stampede and so it's really important to us to understand how we bring the Stampede traditions that we are creating — this being our 25th one — and our cultural traditions to come together," Kanji said.After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the celebration this year returned with extra vigor within the community.