Native Women in the Arts offers a diverse range of artistic and cultural programming, across multiple disciplines, on a year-round basis. We are dedicated to nurturing and promoting Indigenous artistic excellence through our public presentations, community engagement activities, and professional development opportunities for emerging, mid-career, and established artists.
The Kwe Performance Series presents artists from diverse nations and communities and leads to a deeper understanding and appreciation for Indigenous arts, culture, and community.
The Kwe Performance Series events include performances and workshops for the community in Toronto as well as outreach to on-reserve and under-serviced communities in Ontario.The Kwe Performance Series evolved from our long-standing Catalyst Series, a participatory, community-building series launched in 2002 that, now under the Kwe name, continues as a key element of NWIA’s year-round programming-
The Ka’nikonhrí:yo Gatherings connected cultural leaders to the Indigenous community in Toronto. Continue reading “Ka’nikonhrí:yo Gatherings”
Tributaries, conceived by Creative Producer Denise Bolduc with NWIA’s Erika Iserhoff as Associate Producer and Quach George as Event Coordinator, paid homage and respect to Indigenous creativity, presence and voice in a celebratory, large-scale experience in Toronto as part of the 2017 Luminato festival .
Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the Inaabandam Symposium!
Much gratitude to all of the artists, panelists, Knowledge Keepers and delegates, and, of course to our funders, sponsors and community partners who made the symposium such a success.
Inaabandam sought to foreground issues of concern and interest to Indigenous Women and other gender marginalized Indigenous artists from multiple disciplines including film, performing arts, visual art, and customary practices.
From 1993-2016, NWIA’s Catalyst Series presented artists from diverse nations and communities
In 2017 the Catalyst Series was re-branded as the Kwe Performance Series . Continue reading “Catalyst Series”
A Symposium for Indigenous Women Arts Leaders. Continue reading “Miiyuu Pimaatswiin”
In partnership with Native Earth Performing Art’s Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival Continue reading “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue”
In August 2013 the project included lead Métis visual artist and educator Tannis Nielsen and local Cree artist Hawlii Pichette. Continue reading “Ininew Mural Project”
What does it mean to be Indigenous? This new work, inspired by writer Thomas King’s eponymous short film, I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind, explores stereotypes existing within Indigenous North American and Indigenous Latin-American cultures. Continue reading “I’m Not the Indian You Have in Mind by Carlos Rivera”
Weaving Stories of Transformation with MataDanze was an eight-week workshop that worked with women to create, weave, and transform their life stories in movement, voice, and performance for the stage. Continue reading “Weaving Stories of Transformation”
Six creators/writers/performers from the Yukon, Manitoba, Ontario, Nunavut, and Greenland joined forces to explore and create six new original pieces. Continue reading “6 Arias from the 6 Directions”
We celebrated ten years of artistic contributions to arts and culture at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto, Ontario in 2003. Continue reading “Igniting the Spirit”
