Friday, June 17, 2016

Montreal First Peoples Festival 2016

Présence autochtone
Montreal First Peoples Festival
26th Edition

CELEBRATING FIRST NATIONS CULTURE
August 3 -10, 2016

This annual festival is very popular with the generalcpublic and also tourists who visit Montreal in August. Held in downtown Montreal, at Place des Festivals in the Quartier des spectacles, it attracts people of all the ages and many different backgrounds. This year, as always, there will be arts and crafts kiosks, stage concerts, dance performances, and film projections held both indoors and outdoors.


A travelling art exhibit

ᐊᐛᓯᔅ awaasis, a Naskapi word that means animal, is a travelling art exhibit that will begin in the Aboriginal community of Kawawachikamach (Naskapi Nation) in mid-July, and will travel to Montreal for the First Peoples Festival 2016. The exhibit will grow in scope as it travels, enabling the creations of a platform for exchanges between different Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. The exhibit’s central theme, insects and animals, will help pinpoint the bio-cultural diversity involved in insect-plants-humans relations through two different cultures and spaces: the urban space of Montreal (Quebec) and the rural and sub-Arctic space of the Naskapi nation of Kawawachikamach (Quebec). 


Also, in the context of theMontreal First People Festival and in collaboration with LAND InSIGHTSThe Guild gallery presents PULPE FICTION, the latest exhibition by artist SYLVAIN RIVARD. The artworks by this multidisciplinary French Canadian and Abenaki artist depict a world nearer to First Nations’ identity than to that of the Québécois. The main part of his work draws a portrait of contemporary ethnographic art which lies beyond cultural hybridity. Through a dozen creations, Pulpe fiction proposes a reinterpretation of the Abenaki nation’s mythical and legendary culture. 


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The detailed schedule of all the activities will be available at the end of June, 2016 at www.presenceautochtone.ca



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