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 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 InSIGHTS, The 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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