Still from Wawatay | Image source: Montreal First Peoples Festival Into its 29th year, the Montreal First Peoples Festival runs for a week in August and is established as one of the first and largest festivals in North America celebrating Indigenous cinema, arts, and culture. The festival was originall...
The Lesley Hampton Collection | Image credit: Ted Belton Values-Based Innovation Indigenous Entrepreneurship is a forty-hour workshop for Indigenous women, two-spirit and non-binary creators working in fashion, textile and craft. The five-day program caters to turning creative practices into freelance b...
There are so many reasons we learn to dislike ourselves. Even when we finally manage to feel self-loving, it never completely stops being an issue and we can still have bad moments or bad days. There is no debating that violence and neglect in our communities is devastating to our ability to feel love f...
Caribou – by Chief Lady Bird who featured her work at Indigenous and Ingenious this year. | Image source: Indigenous and Ingenious Now that the holiday and winter season has begun, let’s celebrate love for friends, family, and self with acts of kindness and gift–giving. There is no better way to c...
La Selva Negra/ The Modern Jungle won for Best Documentary | Image source: Présence Autochtone Diversity in Indigenous cinema was celebrated at The 28th Annual First Peoples Festival in Montreal. The Indigenous rooted film festival introduced audiences to an elderly Andean couple living in the remote mo...
There is a lot of literature on how to achieve your desires in life. Much of it focuses on setting S.M.A.R.T goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Time-based. For some folks, SMART works well. Funders and businesses like to see SMART goals in proposals and strategic plans. But many oth...
Photo: BBC.com Ever feel like you’re in a rut? Unsure about how to make change? Waiting for that key ingredient to arrive before you move, only it never comes? We all get stuck now and then. Feeling stuck can be frustrating and depressing. Here are some mindset hacks to break out of your stuckness. See...
Implement UNDRIP Poster at Idle No More rally on July 1, 2017 | Image source: Erica Commanda While 2017 marked Canada 150 celebrations across the country, there were many powerful actions across Indigenous Country that ignited an important counter narrative: Canada is our home ON Native Land. Let’s take...
Traditional storyteller and knowledge keeper Esther Osche on stage at The Stockey Centre for Performing Arts. | Image source: Meg Wallace It was a packed house, even though the weather outside was frightful during the 3rd Annual Gchi-Dewin Indigenou Storytellers Festival, December 7-9 at The Stockey Ce...
Maori Grandmother Sharon Heta and Anishinabe Elder Shirley Williams, taken at the 2014 Trent Women’s Gathering themed: Celebrating Our Relationships with Water. | Image source: Zainab Amadahy You already know how to survive white supremacy or you wouldn’t be reading this. But are you thriving? Be...
