This year, we celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day at Muskoka Heritage Place in Huntsville, Ontario. It was wonderful to be invited back to share Indigenous culture with students, families, and visitors from across the community. The event offered opportunities to learn from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit presenters, showing students that Indigenous cultures are diverse, vibrant, and very much alive today.
We were honoured to return to the Oshawa & Durham Region Métis Council's 17th Annual Métis Heritage Celebration on June 20, 2026. The event brought together Métis families, community members, and visitors for a full day of culture, learning, music, food, and celebration at the Ajax Community Centre.
We had a wonderful time visiting Greater Gatineau Elementary School to teach our Métis Music, History, and Culture workshop for students from Kindergarten to Grade 6.
We were invited to perform at Tartan and Red Serge: A Canadian Celtic Showcase at the Shenkman Arts Centre alongside the RCMP Pipes, Drums and Dancers, the MacLeod Fiddlers, Highland dancers, musicians, and fiddler Chad Wolfe.
We spent the day at the Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition’s 2026 Children & Youth Pow Wow at the EY Centre. It was a powerful gathering that brought together Indigenous families, youth, and community members to celebrate in spaces where culture lives and grows.
At Youth4Youth Canada, we care deeply about creating spaces where culture is not only talked about, but experienced through mind, body, heart, and spirit
The Youth4Youth Canada team had the pleasure of performing at the 2026 ISET National Gathering — a national event focused on Indigenous skills, employment training, sharing best practices, and building connections among Indigenous service organizations from all over Canada.
We’re so proud to share how Youth4Youth Canada (Y4Y) came together as vendors and performers at the MNC’s 2025 Annual General Assembly (AGA) in Ottawa... and how that gathering helped us carry forward our dual mission of culture and care.
We were honoured to be invited to the Indigenous Women’s Arts Conference 2025 as both performers and vendors. This gathering brings together Indigenous women from urban, rural, and on- and off-reserve communities, and it has grown into an important space for culture, learning, and empowerment. Since 2019, the conference has welcomed more than a thousand visitors and supported over 50 Indigenous women artists and educators. It felt powerful to be part of that circle.
We had the special honour of performing for a Metis Elder Reta Gordon. The gathering was filled with warmth, laughter, and community. Friends and family joined in, including Elders Marie-Louise Perron and Parm Burgie, who helped make the afternoon even more meaningful.