We are excited to welcome everyone to our AGM and annual celebration!
Please join us for some incredible BINGO prizes just in time for the holiday season!
We are SO PUMPED to welcome Jodie B to the stage to kick off the festivities with some groovy tunes and sweet melodies.
Entry $5 ( includes 1 BINGO card)
Doors at 2:30
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society proudly supports Miesha and the Spanks on their cross-Canada tour with a showcase at the Kelowna Curling Club, Firday April 14th, 2023. Doors at 8 pm
Tickets on sale February 24, 2023 @ 8 am
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society is excited to host our 3rd annual Bingo Karaoke Fundraiser at Runaways Lounge on Sunday February 19th from 2 pm to 6 pm. All proceeds will support the 2nd annual Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Festival.
Tickets $10 and include 2 Bing cards
Food and Drink Specials
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society is jigging with joy to announce we will be hosting a Pow Wow Body Fit Cardio Class to keep our relatives moving throughout the year to keep us in Pow WOW shape, No experience / regalia required, just bring your good medicine and come join traditional dance, fitness and fun!
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society is “over the moon” to welcome Blue Moon Marquee to the stage for a swinging good time on their “Scream, Holler and Howl” tour.
Doors @ 6:00 pm at Frequency Sound rooftop patio.
We are super CHUFFED to collaborate with Music in the Park West Kelowna to bring JUNO award winning Indigenous icon iskwē to perform July 22nd!!!!!
Influenced by risk takers such as Bjork, David Bowie and Erykah Badu, IsKwé explores cross-cultural teachings and political ideology to discover “where self fits into community.” Her music reaches out to bring you in.”
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society proudly hosts the 2nd annual Earth Day Community Clean Up on Earth Day April 22, 2022. Please join us as we uphold our responsibilities to the tmxʷulaxʷ with this fun and exciting event!
Where: 1900 Quail Lane, Westbank First Nation Tsinstikeptum #9 When: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Sign up: Teams of 4 – 10 for Earth Day Community Clean up
All gloves, garbage bags and trash-grabbers provided!
Walk thru BBQ @ WFN Outdoor Kitchen 5:30 pm
PRIZES! PRIZES! PRIZES!
Contact info@okanaganfestival.org for more details on how to participate.
Register www.okanaganfestival.org/register
Our hands are up to the Central Okanagan Regional District and the Green Vanity for sponsoring this community event.
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society CHALLENGES YOU!!!
Join us in upholding our responsibility to the siwɬkʷ on #WorldWaterDay. We invite you to share a photo of one way you are upholding the health of our watersheds! A great opportunity to get our families out to the water for some fun Spring Break activities . Contest closes March 31, 2022.
Learners will use traditional textile tanned moose hides to craft custom made winter mittens under the guidance of syilx fashion designer and artist Krystal Withakay. Hand measurements will be required in advance of the workshop to ensure adequate materials are available.
To request further information or to sign up, please email info@okanaganfestival.org
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society is excited to host the Annual General Meeting inviting stakeholders to attend an Artistic Showcase from Local Indigenous Musicians to celebrate the appointment of the Board of Directors.
For further information please message: info@okanaganfestival.org
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society proudly hosts a Ribbon Skirt workshop with Syilx artist Krystal Withakay. Learners will receive the knowledge to construct a ribbon skirt on their own through the creation of a pattern block that is custom to their body and technical skills to ensure they pick the correct materials on their own. They will be able to teach someone their knowledge and learn about Syilx perspectives on wearing skirts, the origins, and some nation to nation differences or similarities.
Workshop Fee: $50,00
Saturday, November 13, 2021 10 am - 2 pm - Pattern Construction / Ribbon applique
Sunday, November 14, 2021 10 am - 2 pm - Waist band construction / Skirt assembly / embellishments
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society is honoured to observe this day of recognition by inviting our Women Warriors to join us with a drumming circle led by sqilxw song carrier Krystal Withakay to uphold our Indigenous ways of being healthy and loving up our tmxʷulaxʷ with our songs!
Hike is moderate difficulty, good footwear and weather appropriate attire required.
Meet up location is at the base of Mount Boucherie (East Boundary entrance) light snacks and drinks will be provided. Registration required for lunch.
“The Seed” by April Doepker
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society proudly presents Blue Moon Marquee @ Grizzli Winery as part of Kelowna’s International Fringe Festival!
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society proudly presents Blue Moon Marquee @ Grizzli Winery as part of Kelowna’s International Fringe Festival!
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society proudly presents the first annual EARTH DAY COMMUNITY CLEANUP! Ten teams are invited to "adopt" one of ten designated roads and remove roadside litter. There will be lots of PRIZES!
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society is excited to participate in Storytime with Sncewips Heritage Museum virtual storytelling.
In this unprecedented and unyielding undoing of our arts sector due to physical distancing and mandated measures preventing all of us from gathering, experiencing and earning, the Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society (OIMAS) is moved to launch a celebration of our artistic resilience that will be shared amongst the entire community. We are excited to announce our partnership with Kelowna’s Gospel Mission and Sncewips Heritage Museum to launch the “Honouring Our Stories” Artistic Mural and Beautification Project launching January 15th, 2021.
Theme: What does Resilience and Reconciliation mean to you?
OIMAS is excited to sponsor the $10,000.00 prize for the winning installation!
Artist Submissions open February 1, 2021
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society is honoured to support this wonderful celebration and is excited to present the Okanagan's very own singer-songwriter Francis Baptiste to join the stage with an incredible line up Syilx artists at the Living Our Arts Celebration at the Mary Irwin Theatre located in the Rotary Centre for the Arts.
Okanagan Indigenous Music and Arts Society is proud to host an Indigenous knowledge transfer with our Elder Carol Fraser. Join us to learn the art of drum stretching and working with rawhide. Admission is $100 and has been subsidized through funding from BC Arts Council.
Join us as we celebrate our first anniversary!
Tipi Pole Peeling and Preservation with Elder Noel Ferguson
Empowered Women Project featuring artist Ana Enes Luyben
Watercolours and Live Art with Danielle Crowe
Indigenous Musical Showcase featuring: Mr. Awesome, Crowd the Joanna, Ms Panik and Old Soul Rebel
We are SUPER EXCITED to announce that our dates have been EXTENDED this year!
Join us July 3-5, 2020 to celebrate the beauty and diversity of our Indigenous Culture! We will have an amazing line up of contemporary Indigenous musicians and performers as well as honoured knowledge keepers and traditional dancers, singers and storytellers!
EARLY BIRD TICKETS AVAILABLE NOIW!
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/okanagan-indigenous-music-and-arts-festival-tickets-96832700213?aff=erelexpmlt
Our very first LIVESTREAM event featuring the incredible music and vocal stylings of Dani Lion, Stephen Kubz and Jodie B!
Join our girls for an Okanagan Medicine Necklaces learning circle lead by Indigenous knowledge keeper and learner Spaxwawlm Lezard. Enjoy the view of our beautiful tmwulalxw!
Our Elder Carol Fraser along with Shauna from Passionate Blooms will lead a Sacred Bundling Workshop, followed by wild foraged tea and greens and a paired 3 course luncheon, featuring the incredible vocal stylings of Jodie B!
Limited capacity, physical distancing in place
We are excited to host an amazing evening celebrating Indigenous fashion design for the International Indigenous Tourism Conference! We will showcase our Okanagan designers and feature the acclaimed designs of fashion Matriarch Dorothy Grant!!!
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