Here's where Manitobans can celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day

CBC News

· Posted: Jun 20, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

There are a scope of events happening connected and up of this play welcoming Manitobans to celebrate the taste traditions, practice and stories of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people, arsenic portion of National Indigenous Peoples Day, observed each June 21.

Most programming happens connected Saturday — from a rooftop philharmonic accumulation astatine the Winnipeg Art Gallery successful Winnipeg to a slate of activities astatine Brandon's Riverbank Discovery Centre, a thoroughfare festival successful The Pas and much more.

Several events successful Winnipeg kick things disconnected a time aboriginal connected Friday, including a ineffable occurrence and tube ceremonial astatine the University of Manitoba's Mashkiki Gitigaan Medicine Garden astatine 9 a.m. (or Joe Doupe Concourse successful the lawsuit of rain). That's followed by a feast astatine the Brodie Atrium astatine 11 a.m. connected campus, wherever visitors tin instrumentality successful a assortment of vendors, arsenic good arsenic a ceremonial recognizing the Indigenous field assemblage successful the afternoon.

Also connected Friday is simply a National Indigenous Peoples Day marketplace enactment connected by Shared Health, which co-ordinates health-care transportation successful the province. The marketplace is unfastened from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. successful the William Avenue Mall astatine the Health Sciences Centre.

Circles for Reconciliation is hosting a escaped barbecue, children's games, a market, a talking ellipse and entertainment from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday at Sergeant Tommy Prince Place (90 Sinclair St.).

On Saturday, The Forks launches "Many Nations, One Heartbeat," which includes 11 days of free, family-friendly taste and assemblage programming that wraps on Canada Day, July 1.

The Manitoba Children's Museum has Indigenous storytelling times, teepee gathering and more.

The WAG-Qaumajuq rooftop lawsuit runs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and includes artists from the Prairies showcasing collaborative hep hop and R&B music. It marks the extremity of the gallery's Threads of Kin and Belonging: A Trinnipeg Live Mixtape Project, an grounds celebrating Indigenous and Black voices that kicked disconnected during Black History Month.

The Saint-Joseph Métis National Union of Manitoba and Festival du Voyageur big the yearly Métis picnic astatine Fort Gibraltar from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Winnipeg Goldeyes fans volition beryllium treated to unrecorded amusement celebrating Indigenous civilization earlier and during the game Saturday at Blue Cross Park. About 400 radical displaced from ongoing wildfires volition get free admittance and nutrient vouchers, acknowledgment to a Manitoba Blue Cross donation, the squad says.

Waterways, an Indigenous-led non-profit, is taking members of the nationalist retired connected the h2o for a escaped paddle from the St. Vital vessel motorboat to the Manitoba Canoe and Kayak Club. It ends with a barbecue astatine the club, a works locomotion and music. Spots are constricted and registration is required.

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Beyond Winnipeg, radical successful southwestern Manitoba can drawback a afloat time of events astatine the Riverbank Discovery Centre in Brandon connected Saturday, opening astatine 10 a.m., including a powwow demo, a puppet show, a endowment show, unrecorded musical performances and a scope of different activities for each ages.

Waywayseecappo First Nation, northwest of Brandon, is hosting a powwow astatine 1 p.m.

In the Interlake region, the Manitoba Métis Federation's Selkirk chapter is hosting events successful Selkirk Park, besides starting with a pancake breakfast. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. determination volition beryllium food, a Red River Métis market, a household structure and unrecorded entertainment.

Gimli is hosting an day of programming from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. astatine the Gimli Park Pavilion, with escaped bannock and refreshments.

In bluish Manitoba, Thompson has an aboriginal greeting (4:45 a.m.) tube ceremonial Saturday followed by a pancake breakfast, blistery canine lunch, teepee teachings, karaoke — and an aerial set contention with currency prices for the apical 3 finishers.

The Pas Friendship Centre is holding a thoroughfare festival starting astatine noon with accepted dancing and drumming, Métis fiddlers, section performers and younker activities.

And events proceed successful Winnipeg on Sunday, arsenic the Manitoba Museum hosts a bead-a-thon from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Assiniboine Park volition diagnostic a powwow, nutrient trucks, workshops and euphony from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.