The Town of Midland and its community partners are excited to host the fourth-annual Indigenous Art & Culture Awareness Week from September 22 to September 27, 2025.
Sunrise Ceremony with Patricia Monague
Huronia Museum
Monday, September 22, from 7 a.m...
The Town of Midland and its community partners are excited to host the fourth-annual Indigenous Art & Culture Awareness Week from September 22 to September 27, 2025.
Sunrise Ceremony with Patricia Monague
Huronia Museum
Monday, September 22, from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Free. Register here.
Join Elder Patricia Monague for a Sunrise Ceremony at the Huronia Museum to kick off Indigenous Art and Culture Awareness Week throughout the Heart of Georgian Bay. The Ceremony will be followed by a breakfast. Bring your own lawn chair. Event happens rain or shine. Registration is required.
Indigenous Food Sovereignty Workshop with Trish Monague and Nahanni Born
Askennonia Senior Centre
Tuesday, September 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Free. Register here.
Indigenous food sovereignty involves providing people with healthy and culturally appropriate food using knowledge passed down from ancestors, reflecting a time when Indigenous communities embraced a place-based diet. Join Elder Trish Monague and Nahanni Born from the Huronia Museum for a morning of teachings, followed by the preparation and sharing of a community meal.
Indigenous Plant Usage with Shawn Corbiere
Midland Public Library
Tuesday, September 23, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Free. Register here.
Join Shawn Corbiere to find out more about traditional Indigenous plant usage, celebrating Indigenous Art and Culture Week!
Blood Quantum Screening
Midland Public Library
Tuesday, September 23, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Free. Register here.
The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. Join the Midland Public Library for a free screening of Blood Quantum (not rated), winner of seven Canadian Screen Awards, to celebrate Indigenous Art and Culture Week! Refreshments provided. Registration required.
Huronia Museum Film Series - So Surreal
Galaxy Cinemas
Wednesday, September 24, 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Tickets required.
So Surreal: Behind the Masks unveils the fascinating connection between the work of famed Surrealist artists and Yupʼik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw ceremonial masks, and the quest to bring some of the masks back home. Illustrating a wildly fascinating connection between the work of some Surrealist artists and Indigenous ceremonial masks from the Yup’ik and Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw nations, So Surreal: Behind the Masks goes on a journey from Turtle Island to Europe to find them. Tickets required.
Flintknapping & Atlatl with Shawn Corbiere
Huronia Museum
Thursday, September 25, from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Free. Registration here.
Bring the whole family to dive into the fascinating world of ancient tools and techniques! Shawn Corbiere from M’Chigeeng First Nation will guide us through the art of flint knapping, showing us how to create stone arrowheads. We’ll also explore the history and use of the atlatl, a traditional tool for enhancing hunting. Registration required.
Tour and Talk: Marguerite Larmand
Midland Cultural Centre Gallery of Indigenous Art
Thursday, September 25, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Free. Register here.
Why does Marguerite Larmand use so many different materials? Why does she like to process some of these materials herself and source others? Using the cloaks on display in her exhibition, Marguerite will talk about these two questions and her preference for natural materials and processes.
Evening Concert with Shawn Corbiere and Jennifer Brunelle
Huronia Museum
Friday, September 26, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Free. No registration required.
Join us at the Huronia Museum for an evening of music by Shawn Corbiere and Jennifer Brunelle.
Midland Mural Festival
Harbourside Park
Saturday, September 27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Free. No registration required.
Celebrating art, culture, and the many murals of Midland. Join the Town of Midland on September 27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and take a guided or self-guided tour of some of Midland's 30+ outdoor murals. Enjoy local artists and artisan booths, live music, food trucks, make-and-take activities, and other artistic opportunities.
There to Here: Works of Marguerite Larmand
Midland Cultural Centre Gallery of Indigenous Art
Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free. No registration required.
Marguerite Larmand was born in 1939 in Victoria Harbour on the southern shores of Georgian Bay where she grew up in a farming community. For seven years of her youth, between the ages of seven and thirteen, she was participating in most farming activities and creating intimate and private places and things that revealed her physical and spiritual connection with nature. Through this exhibition, she reveals her affective memories through stories of life lived during those early years. Her ongoing desires and goals prepared her for her artistic life and at the heart, they reflect the spirit of an Indigenous ethos.
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons Historical Program and Indigenous Ingenuity Exhibition
Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tickets required.
Sainte-Marie among the Hurons offers opportunities to learn about Indigenous history and culture every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Access a free audio tour and enjoy a self-guided exploration of the historic mission village in the heart of the Huron-Wendat territory. Connect with costumed historical interpreters. Sit by the fire and take in the atmosphere of historic longhouses and wigwams, while learning about this unique story of two cultures.
