IFA Pop-Up at ROM Boutique
This Pop-Up is part of the IFA Trade Program which aims to support Indigenous designers by increasing their brand awareness…
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IFA + Original, Mexico
IFA Designers featured at the 3rd edition of Original This event takes place from November 16 – 19, 2023 in…
Learn MoreFriday Night Market
The Friday Night Market is an open-air lake view fair held at nighttime featuring entertainment from ELMNT FM! We invite…
Learn MoreOpening Night Party
Celebrate the launch of the festival at the Opening Night Party with entertainment, food and refreshments following the Eternal Imaginaries…
Learn MoreWelcome Gathering
Launch the IFA Festival with us! Enjoy welcoming remarks from Grandma Pauline Shirt, festival artists and the IFA team with…
Learn MoreHide Tanning
A four-day hands-on brain hide tanning workshop with Amber Sandy and Kanina Terry. Brain tanning is the art of preserving…
Learn MoreLearn to Bead Vamps & Speak James Bay Cree
Participants will learn two-needle applique beading and make beaded vamps for moccasins. Facilitator Rosary Spence will teach the class in…
Learn MoreRegalia Applique for Beginners
In this introductory workshop on applique for regalia, Rhonda Doxtator will teach traditional applique methods for Pow Wow regalia, including…
Learn MoreEternal Imaginaries
Eternal Imaginaries represents a fantastical and sometimes playfully absurd horizon, repurposing social narratives and colonial silhouettes. It is a sartorial…
Learn MoreSovereign Matriarchs
Sovereign Matriarchs honours women as knowledge carriers, teachers and role models; It is a reflection of kinship, stewardship and love.…
Learn MoreTime Weavers
Time Weavers is a continuum of presence that carries history from one family member’s hands to the next. It is…
Learn MoreA Letter from Home
The burst of a blueberry between your teeth, the sound of fish hooks clanging, laughter echoing from your neighbours’ house…
Learn MoreDigital Natives: Opportunities and Risks in New Technology for Indigenous Fashion Creatives to Know
From TikTok to online retail, new technologies transform the fashion industry to support diverse representation, propagate authentic expression and create…
Learn MoreFashion Performance: In conversation with Kent Monkman
This panel explores fashion performance and performativity in conversation with Kent Monkman, the renowned artist who “married” Jean-Paul Gaultier in…
Learn MoreSartorial Sovereignty: Indigenous Governance Models for Fashion
Indigenous nations worldwide have sustained complex governance systems to manage their citizens and territories since time immemorial. Today, many Indigenous…
Learn MoreAll My Relations: Maintaining Reciprocal Relationships for Successful Partnerships
Relationships are essential for any initiative; Strong connections secure trust, confidence, and commitment to mobilize any successful partnership. Moderated by…
Learn MoreAnti-Fashion: Resisting the Fashion Establishment
Anti fashion is coined broadly as fashion that is contrary to its present trends. Rather than creating fashion works that…
Learn MoreWomen in the Fur Trade: Tradition, History and Truths from Indigenous Women
From an Indigenous perspective, the fur trade was not just a business. It was and is a way of life.…
Learn MoreIFA Association Town Hall
Indigenous Fashion Arts is hosting a Town Hall to initiate the new IFA Association that is member-driven and advocates for…
Learn MoreOrange Shirt Day: Fashion as a Tool for Sovereignty and Healing
Today, wearing an orange shirt is a prominent symbol that commemorates survivors and victims of the Indian Residential School System.…
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