2024 Events
May 15
Métis Manitoba Bus Tour: Birth of a Province
1:15-3:15pm
$40 OR $25 for students/underemployed
A 2-hour bus tour of Métis historical sites in Winnipeg led by the Louis Riel Institute (affiliate of the Manitoba Métis Federation). This tour reveals the events that led up to the Red River Resistance and the Birth of Manitoba in 1870. Participants will be picked up from the Inn at the Forks.
**Limited space! Reserve a ticket via registration portal or by emailing IndigenousLSA@gmail.com
Indigenous at the Forks: A Walking Tour
2-4pm
$40 OR $25 for students/underemployed
A 2-hour walking tour of The Forks, the site of Nestawa’ya, a permanent Indigenous city that was in existence for thousands of years, led by Indigenous curator of the Forks, Niigaan Sinclair and his daughter Sarah. This was the site of the 1285 treaty, which featured hundreds of Indigenous nations who came together to share space and resources during a massive continent-wide drought and a 1785 smallpox epidemic which gutted the city and opened the way for a century later of Canadian expansion. This was the site of treaty, city, and now is ground zero of reconciliation in today’s modern Canada. Participants will be picked up from the Inn at the Forks.
*NOTE: must be mobile and have suitable walking attire.
**Limited space! Reserve a ticket via registration portal or by emailing IndigenousLSA@gmail.com
Welcome to Winipek & Treaty One
5-6pm @ Treaty Relations Commission Building at the Forks
An Evening at the Forks, with DJ Brent Phillips
6-10pm @ Private event space at the Forks
May 16
A Celebration of Indigenous Writing in Manitowapow
4:30-6pm @ Oodena Circle, The Forks
May 17
Indigenous Feminisms book l(a)unch, with Dr. Emma Larocque and Gina Starblanket
12-1:30pm @ Ballroom, Lunch provided
A book launch, with lunch! Join Drs. Emma Larocque and Gina Starblanket for a moderated discussion on the generational changes to the practice and theory of Indigenous feminism as well as process of intergenerational knowledge transmission and mobilization undertaken in the development of the forthcoming 3rd edition of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Publishing, 2024).
ILSA Celebration of New Books in Indigenous Lit.
2:30-4pm @ Inn at the Forks Ballroom
(Optional) Decolonizing Lens: “What We See” Film Showing
6-9pm @ Winnipeg Art Gallery
May 18
Ten Years of ILSA Gala Dinner
5-7pm @ Inn at the Forks Ballroom
A Night with Synonym and the Bionic Bannock Babes
8-10pm @ Warehouse private space at the Forks
Celebrate the end of our annual gathering with a Bang! Join us for a culminating drag show, with Synonym and the Bionic Bannock Babes.
