Indigenous Arts & Entrepreneurship Conference
- Empowering Indigenous Artists -
An event for learning, sharing and empowering Indigenous artists and entrepreneurs.
The Indigenous Arts Conference is a small inclusive community-centred event for creating, sharing and [re]learning our Indigenous art forms.
This conference ensures the transfer of knowledge and spirituality related to the production of our traditional Indigenous art forms and empower and arm our Indigenous women entrepreneurs with resources and opportunities to maximize their capacity to sustain entrepreneurship.
At this conference...
WORKSHOPS
Over 20 Indigenous art and arts based business workshops will take place over the weekend including Birch Bark Bitings, Ribbon Skirts, Inuit Linocuts and Printmaking, Hand Drums and lots more.
INDIGENOUS ARTS MARKETPLACE
Our Indigenous Marketplace in the St. Laurent Shopping Centre will attract shoppers to dozens of artists that are ready to demonstrate, share and sell their traditional Indigenous art forms.
REGISTRATION
Workshop registration is free for Indigenous women. Some workshops are open to non-Indigenous women and we are proud to host the Kairos Blanket Exercise!