{"id":817124,"date":"2026-07-21T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817124\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T20:58:12","slug":"36th-international-first-peoples-festival-an-indigenous-celebration-in-the-heart-of-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/817124\/","title":{"rendered":"36th\u00a0International First Peoples Festival: an Indigenous celebration in the heart of Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A documentary film about the history and resilience of Canada\u2019s Innu people will kick off next month\u2019s International First Peoples Festival in Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>The Aug. 4 premier of \u201cNitassinan,\u201d directed by Jos\u00e9phine Bacon et Kim O\u2019Bomsawin, at Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Outremont will mark the beginning of the festival\u2019s 36th edition.<\/p>\n<p>The following nine days of the festival will bring together film, music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature and more.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the events are taking place at the Place des Festivals, with most film screenings happening at Cin\u00e9ma du Mus\u00e9e.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 7, poet Flora Aurima Devatine will present \u201cThe Stars of Dawn,\u201d a documentary dedicated to her. Devatine is \u201ca leading figure in Tahitian literature and a driving force behind the revival of the ancestral Polynesian language,\u201d First Peoples Festival organizers say.<\/p>\n<p>The festival will wrap up Aug, 14 with a commemorative concert, \u201cHere Stood the Tree of Peace\u201d \u2014 an intertwining of music, song, and poetry.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A documentary film about the history and resilience of Canada\u2019s Innu people will kick off next month\u2019s International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-817124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}