Celeigh Cardinal and Sebastian Gaskin headline ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl (Come Toward the Fire), September 14

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and Musqueam’s third-annual Indigenous festival features free concerts, dance performances, storytelling, film screenings, and more

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Sebastian Gaskin, Medicine album cover.

Celeigh Cardinal. Photo by Olya Shendrick

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC and Musqueam invite folks to mark their calendars for the third-annual Indigenous festival ʔəm̓i ce:p xʷiwəl (Come Toward the Fire), which will take place on September 14 from 12 pm to 7 pm.

Indoor and outdoor activities will begin at 12 pm, culminating with headlining performances inside the Chan Shun Concert Hall beginning at 5 pm by Métis soul and folk singer Celeigh Cardinal and genre-defying Tataskweyak Cree Nation singer-producer Sebastian Gaskin.

Two outdoor stages will be dedicated to musical acts, storytellers, speakers, and dancers all afternoon. Among the other Indigenous events in store at the free festival are poet and author readings curated by Massy Books, film screenings curated by imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, an artisan market, and food vendors.

The full festival program will be announced later this summer. For more details, visit Come Toward the Fire.

Post sponsored by Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.