KWE! Festival
Free - Place Jean-Béliveau
Artistic performances, conferences, demonstrations and exchanges!
Ongoing activities throughout the festival
The following activities are free and ongoing. The schedule is as follows: Friday June 14 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday June 15 and Sunday June 16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Pick a colored heart in our garden to support one of the important causes for Indigenous Peoples. Choose either a purple heart, to raise awareness about Joyce’s Principle, the orange heart, to honor the residential school children who could never return home, or the red heart, to remember the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
Meetings with the Inuit who will present a qamutik (a traditional sled), a collection of artworks and historical items, as well as photographic and television archives about qimmiit (dogs) and the Inuit people's relationship with them.
Come and meet the Wendat and Kanien'kehá:ka peoples.
An interactive giant screen with a map to locate First Nations and Inuit communities in Quebec.
Our shop where you can buy handmade unique and authentic art pieces, manuals, greeting cards, clothing and more!
A bookstore that offers a varied selection of books by Indigenous authors as well as children's literature focused on Indigenous Peoples.
A space dedicated to creative activities for children, parents and people of all ages interested in creating a pocket inspired by the Medicine Wheel teachings. Animated by Anishinabe representatives, this is the place to learn about the skills of indigenous peoples as well as the meaning of certain symbols related to the knowledge and cultural identity of Indigenous Peoples.
This space is dedicated to demonstrations of know-hows. 5 different stations to exchange with our artisans who have acquired their skills and knowledge from generation to generation. Meet with the our cultural bearers from the Innu Nation (beading), Mi’gmak Nation (ash threshing and ash basket-making), Atikamekw Nation (birch bark canoe and basket-making), Anishinaabe Nation (hide tanning) and Cree Nation (snowshoe-making).
game meat or fish traditionally hunted, caught, prepared by Indigenous peoples are cooked on a wood fire and explanations are shared with you.
ITQ presents the multiple tourism destinations and facets for everyone to know!
Meet with Indigenous organizations! On Friday, come and make walking sticks with Puamun Meshkenu. On Saturday, the Institut Tshakapesh Institute is featuring performances by Innu artists. On Sunday, Wapikoni Mobile will be presenting flashes from their 20 years of filmmaking.
Off-site events
Some unmissable events also take place outside Place Jean-Béliveau and are offered through collaborations.
June 13, 2024, 5:00 PM
Grand théâtre de Québec
Free
June 14, 2024, 11:00 AM
Grand théâtre de Québec
Free
June 15, 2024, 8:00 PM
Salle Albert-Rousseau
$$
June 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
Grand théâtre de Québec
Free
KWE! Restaurant
Professional chef Maxime Lizotte from the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation and his team offer you a tasty menu ($).
See menuDr. Stanley Vollant, our Honorary President
Since the first steps of KWE! Meet with Indigenous Peoples in 2017, Dr. Stanley Vollant, a renowned surgeon from the community of Pessamit (Innu) played a crucial role as the official ambassador of the event. Dr. Vollant's reputation and commitment have greatly contributed to KWE!
Founder of Puamun Meshkenu, “The Path of a Thousand Dreams”, he managed to mark and encourage many people to join an annual symbolic walk during the KWE! festival. In 2024, the Puamun Meshkenu Walk will take place on June 15 at 11:00am and the meeting point is right at the KWE! festival site at Place Jean-Béliveau, at the giant screen in the middle of the site.
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