June 9, 2022
4:00 pm
Welcome Gathering
Location: Lakeview Market Teepee
Launch the IFA Festival with us! Enjoy welcoming remarks from Grandma Pauline Shirt, festival artists and the IFA team with…
10:00 am
Hide Tanning
Location: South Lawn Tent
A four-day hands-on brain hide tanning workshop with Amber Sandy and Kanina Terry. Brain tanning is the art of preserving…
11:00 am
Digital Natives: Opportunities and Risks in New Technology for Indigenous Fashion Creatives to Know
Location: Brigantine Room
From TikTok to online retail, new technologies transform the fashion industry to support diverse representation, propagate authentic expression and create…
3:30 pm
Fashion Performance: In conversation with Kent Monkman
Location: Brigantine Room
This panel explores fashion performance and performativity in conversation with Kent Monkman, the renowned artist who “married” Jean-Paul Gaultier in…
8:00 pm
Eternal Imaginaries
Location: Harbourfront Centre Theatre
Eternal Imaginaries represents a fantastical and sometimes playfully absurd horizon, repurposing social narratives and colonial silhouettes. It is a sartorial…
9:30 pm
Opening Night Party
Location: Lakeside Terrace
Celebrate the launch of the festival at the Opening Night Party with entertainment, food and refreshments following the Eternal Imaginaries…
June 10, 2022
10:00 am
Hide Tanning
Location: South Lawn Tent
A four-day hands-on brain hide tanning workshop with Amber Sandy and Kanina Terry. Brain tanning is the art of preserving…
11:00 am
Sartorial Sovereignty: Indigenous Governance Models for Fashion
Location: Brigantine Room
Indigenous nations worldwide have sustained complex governance systems to manage their citizens and territories since time immemorial. Today, many Indigenous…
3:30 pm
Private: All My Relations: Maintaining Reciprocal Relationships for Successful Partnerships
Location: Brigantine Room
Relationships are essential for any initiative; Strong connections secure trust, confidence, and commitment to mobilize any successful partnership. Moderated by…
5:30 pm
Friday Night Market
Location: Lakeview Marketplace
The Friday Night Market is an open-air lake view fair held at nighttime featuring entertainment from ELMNT FM! We invite…
8:00 pm
Sovereign Matriarchs
Location: Harbourfront Centre Theatre
Sovereign Matriarchs honours women as knowledge carriers, teachers and role models; It is a reflection of kinship, stewardship and love.…
June 11, 2022
10:00 am
Learn to Bead Vamps & Speak James Bay Cree
Location: Harbour Kids Tent
Participants will learn two-needle applique beading and make beaded vamps for moccasins. Facilitator Rosary Spence will teach the class in…
10:00 am
Hide Tanning
Location: South Lawn Tent
A four-day hands-on brain hide tanning workshop with Amber Sandy and Kanina Terry. Brain tanning is the art of preserving…
11:00 am
Regalia Applique for Beginners
Location: Miss Lou's Room
In this introductory workshop on applique for regalia, Rhonda Doxtator will teach traditional applique methods for Pow Wow regalia, including…
11:00 am
Anti-Fashion: Resisting the Fashion Establishment
Location: Brigantine Room
Anti fashion is coined broadly as fashion that is contrary to its present trends. Rather than creating fashion works that…
3:30 pm
Private: Women in the Fur Trade: Tradition, History and Truths from Indigenous Women
Location: Brigantine Room
From an Indigenous perspective, the fur trade was not just a business. It was and is a way of life.…
8:00 pm
Time Weavers
Location: Harbourfront Centre Theatre
Time Weavers is a continuum of presence that carries history from one family member’s hands to the next. It is…
June 12, 2022
10:00 am
Hide Tanning
Location: South Lawn Tent
A four-day hands-on brain hide tanning workshop with Amber Sandy and Kanina Terry. Brain tanning is the art of preserving…
10:00 am
IFA Association Town Hall
Location: Brigantine Room
Indigenous Fashion Arts is hosting a Town Hall to initiate the new IFA Association that is member-driven and advocates for…
11:00 am
Regalia Applique for Beginners
Location: Miss Lou's Room
In this introductory workshop on applique for regalia, Rhonda Doxtator will teach traditional applique methods for Pow Wow regalia, including…
10:00 am
Learn to Bead Vamps & Speak James Bay Cree
Location: Harbour Kids Tent
Participants will learn two-needle applique beading and make beaded vamps for moccasins. Facilitator Rosary Spence will teach the class in…
3:30 pm
Orange Shirt Day: Fashion as a Tool for Sovereignty and Healing
Location: Brigantine Room
Today, wearing an orange shirt is a prominent symbol that commemorates survivors and victims of the Indian Residential School System.…
5:00 pm
A Letter from Home
Location: Harbourfront Centre Theatre
The burst of a blueberry between your teeth, the sound of fish hooks clanging, laughter echoing from your neighbours’ house…