A Community Celebration for National Indigenous Peoples Day

Get ready for National Indigenous Peoples Day with a gathering celebrating local Indigenous voices, culture, and community. The afternoon begins with featured speakers, followed by a craft social with refreshments and rawhide painting. We’ll close the day in the medicine garden with traditional drumming, a smudge ceremony, and a giveaway. Throughout the event, browse our mini market featuring authentic Indigenous handmade products. This event is family-friendly and open to everyone.

Featured speakers:

Angela Cimino – Owner of Wiishkobi Home Baked Goods, an Anishinaabe-owned bakery known for award-winning butter tarts, pies, cookies, and cakes. Wiishkobi (weeshko-beh) is the Ojibwe root word for “sweet.”

Christine Myrden – Also known by her Cree name Kathaschose, Christine is a writer and cultural practitioner from northern Saskatchewan now based in Richmond Hill, Ontario. She carries forward her family tradition of birch bark biting, learned from her mother, Sally Milne.

Bernadette Rombough –  a Dene healer and Indigenous woman entrepreneur in York Region. She is the owner of Holistic Healing & Wellness and is originally from the Northwest Territories. Self taught, she shares knowledge and traditional teachings with both Indigenous and non Indigenous communities throughout York Region and the GTA.

Miskwaadesi Studio gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.