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Gather & Make w/ Tayla Hartemink |
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our first Gather & Make session at the IFRC!
A special thank you to Tayla Hartemink, who brought her stamps to share! We had a great time making prints and connections between Aotearoa and Turtle Island.
Gather & Make is an occasional drop-in crafting activity at the IFRC. Stay tuned for future sessions in the summer and fall! |
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Research Bites: Dailey Trainor |
As part of our Research Bites series, IFRC member Dailey Trainor presented some of his research on futurist perspectives of Indigenous design, embracing epistemologies ingrained in traditional Haudenosaunee corn husk weaving to challenge contemporary parametric design practices and modelling tools.
Dailey Trainor (he/him) is a mixed settler-Ojibwe design student and member of Thessalon First Nation. Committed to emerging and historical decolonial approaches to design, Dailey’s work centers on contemporary and futurist Indigenous perspectives in architecture and design. His work seeks to empower traditional craft and community-led approaches across design disciplines.
Thanks to Dailey for a great conversation and thanks to everyone who came! |
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⋅˚₊‧ ୨ Upcoming Events ୧ ‧₊˚⋅ |
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Round table" Un monde en commun |
Following the exhibition " Un monde en commun," the Grantham Foundation invites the public to a roundtable discussion on Sunday, June 14. This event will bring together curators Julie Bélisle and Josianne Poirier, as well as three featured artists: Maude Arès, Hannah Claus, and Angela Marsh.
Location: Grantham Foundation, 1411 Blanchard Street, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Admission: Open to all with registration
For more information and to register, visit here |
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Opening Reception for the Public Artwork Promesse/ Promise/ Kwahrharatstén:ni by Skawennati at the Conseil des arts de Montreal |
On June 17, the Conseil des arts de Montréal will unveil Skawennati’s temporary art project, Promesse/ Promise / Kwahrharatstén:ni. Along with wrapping the columns of the Maison du CAM (Gaston-Miron Building) in patterns of corn, beans and squash, there will be an Augmented Reality piece featuring the Three Sisters rapping about their current mission.
For more information, visit here |
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Research Bites: Meg Summers |
Join us for our next 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀 featuring Margaret (Meg) Summers! Meg will share her research on how digital storytelling in in video games can be used as an educational tool to bring awareness to environmental issues. In her work, she explores the relationship of Mi'kmaq values of sustainability and modern Maritime fishing practices through interactive game mechanics.
Meg Summers is a Mi’kmaq artist raised in Ottawa, Ontario who specializes in game design and programming. She strives to make education more accessible through gamification and immersive storytelling in digital media. Her work pushes players to embrace their mistakes as a way to learn and grow.
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: Thursday, June 18, 2026, at 12:30 PM EST
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: EV10.705, 1515 Ste. Catherine St. W. |
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Repéres et mémoires du terrotoire: courts-métrages autochtones |
As part of the exhibition Rising Suns: The Art of the River and Great Lakes Confederations , and to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day, the MMFA offers a selection of art films highlighting the life stories, talents and history of the Indigenous nations and confederations of the rivers and great lakes. The program includes films by Prof. Nicholas Renaud and Prof. Hannah Claus. The event takes place on Friday, June 19, at 5:30 pm. For more information visit here |
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Experience Shooting the Indian Act at AbTeC Gallery |
The AbTeC Gallery team invites you to interact with Archer Pechawis’ Shooting the Indian Act, a one-of-a-kind virtual piece created for our current exhibition, Old Cars Make My Nipples Hard (kayās-otāpānāskwak cimasowihēwak nicohcōsimisa), on view until August 9, 2026. This summer, we will have three thirty-minute tours of the experience, guided by Gallery Coordinator Arijit Debnath. The first tour will be held on June 23, 2026, at 2 PM at AbTeC Gallery in Second Life.
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Time: 2 PM EDT
Location: online in AbTeC Gallery, Second Life (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/AbTeC/78/172/1011)
For more information, visit here |
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Love Songs to End Colonization |
Stop by the FOFA Courtyard on Saturday, June 20, 2026, from 7:00 PM – 9 PM for a special activation by Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick!
Artists Peter Morin and Jimmie Kilpatrick are friends who share an abiding love for karaoke and present it through their ongoing artistic collaboration, Love Songs to End Colonization / Kanorónhkhwa’tshera Karenna’shón:’a Taká:taste ne Aionkhiia’tó:rarake, a participatory karaoke project founded in kindness, joy, futurity, and engaging a collective voice through singing. Repurposing popular love songs, this project critiques, confronts, and dismantles the historical notions and the current presence of settler colonialism and utilizes karaoke as a methodology for social change. Listeners are invited to perform a song, sing-along, clap, dance, or simply witness and soak in love and music to dismantle colonialism, one love song at a time. For more info, visit here |
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₊ ⊹₊˚‧ ꩜ Opportunities ꩜‧ ˚₊⊹ ₊ |
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Job| AbTeC Web Developer | June 12 Job| QPRIPG DisOrientation Coordinator |June 5 Job| QNW History Archivist |June 5 Job| YD Program Interns Community Liaison Workers | June 9 Call for Applications | SQIA Indigenous Summer Market | June 10 Job| Room Magazine Contests and Events Intern | June 12 Call for Participants | 2026 Spirit Walk| June 13 Call for Submissions | Avataq Cultural S'enforester | June 15 Call for Applications | Volt-Age Research Creation Residency | June 15 Call for Applications | NAHP Indigenous Papermakers Grant Job| IYR People and Culture Specialist | June 26 Job| VAC Part-time Teaching Assistant in Jewelry | rolling basis
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01. Job Call: AbTeC Web Developer |
We are seeking a full-stack Web Developer to support research-creation initiatives by collaborating across all stages of web development to build, maintain, test, and document secure, high-quality websites and web applications. The role includes updating and developing new features and sites, monitoring performance and reliability, supporting backup and archiving workflows, and providing technical expertise to interdisciplinary projects. For more info, visit here |
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02. Job Call: QPRIG DisOrientation Coordinator |
The Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPRIG)-Concordia DisOrientation Coordinator will work in collaboration with QPIRG staff and volunteers to coordinate planning, organizing, and promoting QPIRG’s alternative orientation program. DisOrientation is a free alternative orientation at the Concordia University downtown campus for new and returning students, members of the campus & the community. In the past, DisOrientation has included a wide range of activities for all interests, including introductory workshops on social and environmental justice, readings, film screenings, music, a comedy show, a radical history bike tour and more! For more information and to apply, visit here |
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03. Job Call: QNW History Archivist |
Quebec Native Women (QNW) is searching for a student to work over the summer. The History Archivist takes care of QNW’s archives, which includes documentation accumulated over more than 50 years. The archivist will be responsible for collecting, classifying, cataloguing and preserving these documents in order to centralize them in a single space, in compliance with professional archival conservation standards. For more information and to apply, visit here |
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04. Job Call: YD Program Interns Community Liaison Workers |
The Yellow Door (YD) is looking for two summer interns, the Community Liaison Worker and the. YD is an intergenerational organization that runs programs and activities to bring youth and seniors together to promote mental and physical health and prevent urban social isolation across all ages. Generations Program - Community Liaison Worker will assist with certain aspects of the Generations Program, including coordinating current volunteer services for seniors, refer and inform seniors and volunteers of community resources, assist with volunteer recruitment, training, and orientation, and complete data entry to help maintain a functional volunteer and membership database. For more information and to apply, visit here
Wellness Group – Community Liaison Worker will assist with certain aspects of the Wellness Group Program, including providing support with facilitation of online and in-person community activities and outings, and drafting and distributing YD’s monthly activities calendar. For more information and to apply, visit here
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05. Call for Applications: SQIA Indigenous Summer Market |
To celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day 2026, we are excited to host an Indigenous Summer Market as part of the festivities. This market is a collaboration between the Southern Quebec Inuit Association (SQIA) and Native Montréal. The craft fair will take place on Sunday, June 21, 2026, at Parc Arthur-Therrien (3750 Bd Gaétan Laberge, Verdun, QC H4G 2A3), from 1pm - 8pm. This is a free public event open to everyone. For more information and to apply, visit here |
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06. Job Call: Room Magazine Contests and Events Intern |
Room Magazine is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, published quarterly since 1975. Room publishes literature, art, and criticism by cis and trans women, trans men, Two-Spirit, and nonbinary people, and is committed to an intersectional feminist mandate centring 2SLGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and disabled voices.
With the support of the Magazine Association of BC, Room is offering a 330-hour, part-time paid internship at a rate of $23.00/hr for 15 hours per week, paid bi-weekly from Monday, July 13, 2026 to Friday, December 18, 2026. For more information, visit here |
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07. Call for Participants: 2026 Spirit Walk |
Participants for this year’s Spirit Walk will meet at 1pm at the Monument to George-Étienne Cartier on Parc Avenue at the base of Mount Royal (registration opens @ 12PM). Participants will then walk a loop of around 5km together, accompanied by drumming and singing of local Indigenous artists. The goal for this year’s Spirit Walk is to raise $50,000 leading up to June 13th, 2026 in order to support the operations of the NWSM and the annual NWSM healing retreat. For more information, visit here |
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08. Call for Submissions: Avataq Cultural Institute S’enforester ᓭᒪᓇᕐᑐᒦᑦᑐᕐᒃ Residency |
Avataq Cultural Institute is inviting printmakers from Nunavik to apply for a three-week research and creation residency at Atelier de L’île in Val-David, Quebec. S’enforester ᓭᒪᓇᕐᑐᒦᑦᑐᕐᒃ is a residency and exhibition project bringing together artists from different territorial realities including artists from Nunavik, around a direct experience of the forest. For more information and to apply, visit here |
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09. Call for Applications: Volt-Age $50K Research-Creation Fellowship for Concordia Fine Arts graduates |
The Volt-Age Spark Fellowship, funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund, will be awarded in 2026 to up to two individuals who are recent graduates of a terminal degree granted by the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. This Fellowship is intended for recent graduates whose body of work is focused on the visual arts. This includes the following disciplines: media art, cinematic arts, installation, sculpture, drawing, fibres, painting, photography, print media, ceramics, design. We understand that many artists today work across disciplines or employ interdisciplinary techniques in their work. For more information and to apply, visit here |
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10. Call for Applications: NAHP Indigenous Papermakers Grant |
The North American Hand Papermakers (NAHP) Organization is accepting project proposals from First Nations people in Canada, Native Americans in the United States, and the Indigenous Peoples of Mexico at any stage of their career or practice. The Indigenous Papermakers Grant awards $1,000 to fund projects such as: making a new body of artwork consisting primarily of handmade paper, conducting handmade paper-related research, tool & material development, organizing community papermaking outreach events or activations. For more information and to apply, visit here |
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11. Job Call: IYR People and Culture Specialist (Equity and Engagement) |
Indigenous Youth Roots (IYR) is looking to fill the position of People and Culture Specialist (Equity and Engagement). The Equity and Engagement Specialist is responsible for leading organizational practices for employee support and well being including: compensation, benefits management, engagement initiatives, staff requests, and more. For more information and to apply, visit here |
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12. Job Call: VAC Part-time Teaching Assistant in Jewellery |
The Visual Arts Centre (VAC) is looking to hire a part-time teaching assistant in Jewellery. Jewellery assistants are responsible for supporting the jewellery teacher by communicating instructions and techniques to students, answering student questions, setting up, and tidying up. Candidates must have professional training in jewellery and be bilingual. For more information and to apply, visit here
Deadline to apply: On a rolling basis |
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⊹₊⋆☁︎⋆⁺₊⋆ Member Highlights ⋆⁺₊⋆☁︎⋆₊ ⊹ |
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Love Medicine at the Mackenzie Art Gallery |
A huge congrats to Dr. Michelle McGeough and all the participating artists in the exhibition Love Medicine! This exhibition aims to create a space of recognition and community, offering an artistic embrace in response to the historical traumas inflicted by the settler nation-state on 2Spirit/Indigiqueer bodies. It features approximately 22 Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA+ artists whose works span various time periods and regions, exploring love as healing, community and belonging, affirmation and embrace, and resilience and identity.
The exhibition is on display from June 12 to November 1, 2026. It is curated by Dr. McGeough and includes several artists, including IFRC members, Dayna Danger and Van Racine! For more info, visit here |
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Hannah Claus at Capture Photo Fest |
If you are in Vancouver, check out prof. Hannah Claus’ work on display at the Canada Line: Vancouver City Centre as part of the 2026 Capture Photography Festival.
The series flatrocks is composed of many images of the Kaniatarowánen (St. Lawrence River) that flows from the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean. The river holds deep cultural significance for the Kanien’kehá:ka and is a source of food, medicine, and livelihood. This particular area by the water was once a community gathering place. In the 1950s, the construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway – a water transportation system of locks, canals, and channels – dramatically altered and expropriated Kanien’kehá:ka land, cutting off the community from the river. Claus’s artwork addresses both the cultural significance and the colonial disruption of this place. For more info, visit here
The work is on display until August 31, 2026. |
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