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International 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 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 –…
Read MoreOpening of the 34th Festival, Land InSIGHTS in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation
Montreal, August 1st, 2024. Amnesty International has made the unprecedented decision to designate Likhts’amisyu Clan Wing Chief Dsta’hyl of the Wet’suwet’en Nation as the first-ever designated Amnesty International prisoner of conscience in Canada. This decision recognizes Aboriginal peoples’ challenges when defending threatened territories against powerful economic forces prioritizing financial gain over ecological concerns. Yintah, the opening film…
Read MoreLand Insights and La Guilde presents the exhibition Time and Tide – While either wait on no one, both have changed
From July 25th to September 8th, 2024 Montréal, July 25th. In partnership with the International First Peoples’ Festival, La Guilde is proud to present Time and Tide. While either waits on no one, both have changed, an exhibition featuring the captivating work of two talented artists from Kikiak/Rigolet (NL): Eldred Allen and Jason Sikoak. This exhibition presents…
Read More34th International First Peoples’ Festival : From the realm of shadows to the light of life
The 34th FIPA is about to take off. Sparkling on screen and stage, in darkened rooms and sunny squares, in the spotlight and in the radiant days of summer, Indigenous artists will dazzle with their talent, enlighten with their gaze, move with their sincerity. Native art is still, and always will be, an art of fight. The…
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- 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
- 34th International First Peoples Festival Awards
- Opening of the 34th Festival, Land InSIGHTS in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation
- Land Insights and La Guilde presents the exhibition Time and Tide – While either wait on no one, both have changed
