Yellowhead Fire
Yellowhead Fire brings together established and emerging scholars, activists, and artists to discuss pressing concerns and issues, exchange ideas, and offer critical Indigenous perspectives on settler colonialism and the reclamation of Indigenous land and “the good life”. Yellowhead Fire events take different forms to respond to community needs and interests, from public education events, to community building opportunities and land-based initiatives.
Upcoming Yellowhead Fires
FEBRUARY 18, 2025 | 5 PM – 7 PM
1 ROOF GARDEN LANE, TORONTO, ON
Celebrating Inuit Food Sovereignty
This Yellowhead Fire will be a celebration of Inuit food and Inuit food knowledge. Yellowhead School will host Inuit Elders and leaders in Inuit food sovereignty to discuss their community’s work on the Inuksiutit project, including community-based videography and photography to document hunting, harvesting, and food processing and preparation. This Fire will include the opportunity to taste Inuit food delicacies.
Rhoda Katsak
Inuk, Igloolik
Martha Jaw
Inuk, Kinngait
Jessica Penney
Inuk, Nunatsiavut
Joshua Katsak
Inuk, Mittimatalik
Jabez Katsak
Inuk, Mittimatalik
Joseph Murdoch-Flowers
Inuk, Iqaluit
Past Yellowhead Fires
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Making Space for Indigenous Feminism | Book Launch
Join us on November 21, 2024 from 5:30 – 8pm to celebrate the most recent edition of the iconic collection, Making Space for Indigenous Feminism! Yellowhead School will host editor Gina Starblanket and book contributors Megan Scribe, Eva Jewell, and Cara Peacock for a conversation reflecting on Indigenous feminism’s intergenerational longevity and ongoing relevance in contemporary contexts and debates. This Yellowhead Fire also features Indigenous Feminism trivia!
SEPTEMBER 30th 2024
Truth & Land Back
This event will launch Yellowhead Online (YO) with the release of our first course based on the Yellowhead Red Paper, Land Back. This fire will include a panel discussion with course collaborators and Yellowhead Fellows, Shady Hafez & Riley Yesno, moderated by Hayden King. We will also be screening of Yellowhead’s first short film, Return to Gale Creek, which is featured in the Reclamation module of the Land Back curriculum. Hosted by Megan Scribe, this fire will engage the tensions in the Land Back movement against the backdrop of Truth & Reconciliation.
Yellowhead Sparks
Yellowhead Sparks are small-scale events responsive to community interests, topical in nature, and often generated by the themes, topics, and issues explored in the Yellowhead Fire series.
PAST EVENT | Bad Cree X The Big Melt Book Launch
In March 2023, Yellowhead School teamed up with Another Story Bookshop to celebrate the highly-anticipated works of two Nehiyaw writers. Jessica Johns’ debut novel, Bad Cree (2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Finalist), and Emily Riddle’s debut poetry collection, The Big Melt (2023 Winner of Griffin Poetry Prize’s Canadian First Book Prize). This Yellowhead Spark event featured readings, moderated discussion, and a friendly round of bingo.
