🎉 Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day at Assiniboine Park
🗓 Date: Saturday, June 22
🕚 Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
📍 Location: Assiniboine Park — Gardens at The Leaf (outdoor) and The Leaf classroom (indoor)

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with a vibrant day of music, cultural teachings, family-friendly fun, and community connection at Assiniboine Park. Activities take place at the outdoor Gardens at The Leaf and inside The Leaf classroom.

🌟 Activities & Entertainment

All Day (11:00 AM – 5:00 PM):

• Live music, dancing, and performances at the Performance Garden

• Fire and tobacco teachings at the Fire Node in the Indigenous Peoples Garden

• Food trucks on-site: Sol Food Truck, GG Gelati, La Taqueria, Zah Pizza Bistro, and Pubtoba

• Community booths featuring CancerCare Manitoba, Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society, and Manitoba Blue Cross

11:00 AM – 4:00 PM:

• Bouncy castle and face painting with Legends Characters at The Grove

• Teepee Teachings in the Indigenous Peoples Garden

🎨 Workshops & Teachings with Summer Fisher

📍 Tannis M. Richardson Classroom inside The Leaf

• 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Tobacco Tie Teaching

• 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Dangled Beaded Earrings Teachings

• 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Bannock Making Workshop

Summer Fisher, an Anishinaabe artist from Nipissing First Nation, will share her teachings throughout the day.

🌿 Guided Garden Tours

Led by the Assiniboine Park Education Team
🕐 Tour Times: 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, and 3:00 PM
📍 Meet at the Fire Node in the Indigenous Peoples Garden
👥 Space is limited to 20 people per tour

🎤 Performance Garden Schedule

Hosted by Cassidy Mann and Ray Coco Stevenson

• 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM: Opening Welcome with Elder Gayle Pruden

• 11:15 AM – 11:45 AM: Buffalo Red Thunder Pow Wow Demonstrations & Drumming

• 11:45 AM – 12:30 PM: Métis Prairie Steppers – Square Dance Jig featuring Morgan Grace

• 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM: Buffalo Red Thunder Pow Wow Demonstrations & Drumming

• 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Red River Jig Workshop featuring Morgan Grace

• 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM: Miranda Currie – Sub-Arctic Family Sing-along

• 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM: Miranda Currie – Family Storytime

• 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM: Miranda Currie – Music and Folksongs

Pow Wow and Métis programming curated by Joe Thomas.