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A successful year for the 35th International First Peoples Festival.
Montreal, August 19th, 2025. The eclectic and multidisciplinary international program of the 2025 International First Peoples Festival was a resounding success. Concerts, films, and exhibitions all drew large crowds under sunny skies, as the festival shone with the brilliance of the new works unveiled to an enthusiastic audience. In its world premiere on the Québecor stage, the…
Read More35th International First Peoples Festival Awards
35th International First Peoples Festival Awards Teueikan Creative Award First and second Prize Prizes awarded according to artistic merit to films that have shown originality in the subject matter and the mise-en-scène, relevance in their cinematographic approaches and which correspond, in substance and form, to the soul of the first peoples. First Prize Ka Whawhai Tonu by Mike…
Read MoreInternational First Peoples Festival, a Wave Sweeping through Montreal August 5–14
Montreal, July 16th, 2025. A wave of First Peoples presence is expected to sweep through Montreal in August 2025. The wave of creativity rising among the Indigenous peoples of the world, bearers of millennia-old traditions and prophetic visions, will bring a tsunami of diverse activities to the city, ranging from film to music, dance to performance, skateboarding…
Read MoreFirst Peoples’ Festival releases its visual for 2025 for its 35th anniversary, the event’s poster is prophetic
Montreal, June 12th, 2025. With a superb illustration by Chippewar, an artist from the Deshkaan Ziibing Anishinaabeg nation, FIPA announces its wartime colours. The ancestral values of the indigenous peoples of the Americas will soon triumph over the evil forces of hatred and destruction. A tonic program will run from August 5 to 14. It will be a…
Read MoreNotice from Terres en vues, Society for the Development of Indigenous Cultures, filed on August 15, 2024, with the Commission on Culture, Heritage and Sports of the City of Montreal, regarding the 2025–2030 Cultural Policy
By André Dudemaine, Director of Cultural Activities The modification of the city’s coat of arms, bringing the Indigenous symbol of the Great White Pine—the Tree of Peace—into the center of the escutcheon, marked a sharp correction of historical perspectives. This heraldic symbolism finally accredited the founding role of Indigenous nations, which had been conspicuously absent. It was…
Read More34th International First Peoples Festival Awards
34th International First Peoples Festival Awards Teueikan Creative Award First and second Prize Prizes awarded according to artistic merit to films that have shown originality in the subject matter and the mise-en-scène, relevance in their cinematographic approaches and which correspond, in substance and form, to the soul of the first peoples. First Prize The New Boy –…
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- A successful year for the 35th International First Peoples Festival.
- 35th International First Peoples Festival Awards
- International First Peoples Festival, a Wave Sweeping through Montreal August 5–14
- First Peoples’ Festival releases its visual for 2025 for its 35th anniversary, the event’s poster is prophetic
- Notice from Terres en vues, Society for the Development of Indigenous Cultures, filed on August 15, 2024, with the Commission on Culture, Heritage and Sports of the City of Montreal, regarding the 2025–2030 Cultural Policy
