06/23/2025
❤️ sākihiwē festival 2025 in Winnipeg ❤️
Our full schedule is here!!!
💥 THUR JUNE 26: Opening Night || sākihiwē festival 2025
💥 FRI JUNE 27: sākihiwē festival stage at Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre's 40th anniversary celebration & sākihiwē festival welcome with Melissa St. Goddard
💥 SAT JUNE 28: Turtle Island Block Party || sākihiwē festival 2025
💥 SUN JUNE 29: Central Park Block Party || sākihiwē festival 2025
Catch performances by Ernest Monias, Jade Turner, Chester Knight, Norman Chief Memorial Dancers, RaytheNihilist, Darla Daniels, Angela Amarualik, Juurini, Mitchell Makoons, Gurlz Gurlz Gurlz, Melissa St. Goddard, Ivan Flett Memorial Dancers, NIYA, Stun, Tyrell Bird, Highway 373, The Wrigley Brothers, Kristen McKay, Anishinaabe Voice, Singing Wolf, and Ma Mawi's Powwow Club.
Shop the Indigenous Marketplace on Saturday and Sunday. It will include By Niizhode, From Turtle Island, Alissa Hildebrand Crafts, O’Meara.Roots, Deadly Creeations, Autumn dawn beads, Traditions Winnipeg, Black Wolf Dog Designs, Ironstar Co, Beader Believe it, Fox n' Fuddle, The Garden of Beadn', White Faced Wolf Studio, No Roots No Wings, ClanWear OgeeCree-ations, North Thunderbird, La Vaalii Rivyeer Roozh, Indigify, and .Thunderbird Threads by Jazmin.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Big thank you to our festival helper Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries along with festival champions Manitoba Music, Indigenous Music, Manitoba Film and Music, the West End BIZ - Winnipeg, Assiniboine Credit Union, and the City of Winnipeg.
The sākihiwē festival is made possible by partnerships with the Ma Mawi Wi Chi Itata Centre, Inc. and the Spence Neighbourhood Association.
We acknowledge the Government of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council for their financial support of the sākihiwē festival.