The sākihiwē festival is kicking off June with a new outreach series that includes free workshops for families and free songwriter concerts for music lovers around the globe. The program will run every Wednesday and stream online for free from the festival's YouTube channel and Facebook page.
The 50/50 Performing Arts Collective is launching a new Indigenous music festival on May 15 and the sākihiwē festival has the honour of presenting Leela Gilday during their opening night. The three day celebration, entitled the Tkaronto Music Festival, will debut online this year before bringing audiences and artists together in Dish With One Spoon territory (Toronto) next summer.
We support collective efforts to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic and we have decided to push the sākihiwē festival back to the last weekend in August. Everything is now set for August 28-30 instead of our original dates in June.
The sākihiwē festival is teaming up with the National Arts Centre and event producer Ila Barker to deliver the second edition of the Artist in Residence Sessions (AIRsessions), which takes free music workshops to the Indigenous Family Centre in Winnipeg's North End. The series begins on January 16 and youth between the ages of 13 and 25 can register for any workshops that interest them.
The sākihiwē festival is teaming up with the Assiniboine Park Conservancy to present Shanley Spence with Boogey The Beat, the Ivan Flett Memorial Dancers, Sebastian Gaskin, and the legendary Billy Joe Green at the Zoo Lights Festival on Sunday, December 29. The performance is set for 5:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. at Town Hall in the Assiniboine Park Zoo and tickets are $12, which includes access to all Zoo exhibits.
The sākihiwē festival is excited to bring 2019 to a close with the debut of a new concert series, entitled sākihiwē nights. This first edition features Omaha, Nebraska-based rapper Antoine Edwards Jr., Opaskwayak's Rhonda Head, singer/songwriter Ila Barker, rapper Rey, powwow step music producer Boogey The Beat, and the Kind Hart Women Singers at The Good Will Social Club on Sunday, December 29.
The sākihiwē festival is teaming up with the Wall-to-Wall Mural & Culture Festival and the Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art Gallery to present Anachnid, Boogey the Beat, Pop-Up Pow-Wow 2.0, and the Studio 393 performers and dance crew on street in front of LANTERN at 211 Pacific Avenue during Winnipeg's biggest art night of the year- Nuit Blanche Winnipeg.
The sākihiwē festival and the North Point Douglas Women's Centre (NPDWC) are working together to present blues legend Billy Joe Green, Inuit throat singer Nikki Komaksiutiksak, singer/songwriter Gabrielle Fontaine, the Southern Thunderbird Medicine Drum, and artists from Studio 393 at the Austin Street Festival on Friday, August 2.
The family and friends of Claudette Osborne-Tyo are hosting the 11th annual No Stone Unturned concert in honour of all Manitoba’s missing and murdered at St. John's Park on Saturday, July 27 and the sākihiwē festival is presenting folk music duo Burnstick, country rocker Dawn Chartrand, singer/songwriter Richard Inman, and pow wow drum group Southern Thunderbird/Humming Bird Calling during the event.
Nathaniel Sinclair from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, loves singing round dance and pow wow music. At 2-years-old he learnt how to...