2022 Festival
Highlights

Welcome remarks by FFDN Aristic Director, Ilter Ibrahimof at Evergreen Brick Works before Heirloom / Toronto performance. Photo by Marlowe Porter.

Heirloom / Toronto at Evergreen Brick Works. Photo by Marlowe Porter.

Anna Gallagher Ross Speaking at Heirloom / Toronto Evergreen Brickworks Ignite Speaker Series Panel. Photo by Marlowe Porter

Heirloom / Toronto musicians Michael Bridge and Daniel Hamin Go at Evergreen Brickworks. Photo by Marlowe Porter.

Heirloom / Toronto performance at Evergreen Brickworks choreographed by Zack Martel and Santiago Rivera. Photo by Marlowe Porter.

Lindy hop workshop as part of The Big Social at Union with live music by Bertie & the Gents. Photo by Shay Markowitz.

FFDN Team at Big Social at Union. Photo by Shay Markowitz.

The Big Social at Union with live music by Bertie & the Gents. Photo by Shay Markowitz.

Festival Patrons before 8-Count film screening at Betty Oliphant Theatre. Photo by MarlowePorter.

Milana Glumicic, Raoul Wilke and Esie Mensah at 8-Count film series premiere at Betty Oliphant Theatre. Photo by Marlowe Porter.

Audience Members at 8-Count Film Series at Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre at York University. Photo by Marlowe Porter.

8-Count film series post-screening Artist Chat at Betty Oliphant Theatre. Photo by Marlowe Porter.

Holla Jazz in Margarita choroegraphed by Natasha Powell. Photo by Kendra Epik.

Filming of Natasha Powell's Margarita at Toronto Metropolitan University Theatre. Photo by Kendra Epik.

Margarita & Family of Jazz choreographers, FFDN's 2021/2022 John and Claudine Bailey Artists-in-Residence Kimberley Cooper and Natasha Powell discussing their creative process before a performance at Toronto Metropolitan University Theatre. Photo by Edwin Luk.

Social dancing on stage with live jazz band at Toronto Metropolitan Univeristy Theatre following Margarita & Family of Jazz. Photo by Edwin Luk.

Social dancing on stage with live jazz band at Toronto Metropolitan Univeristy Theatre following Margarita & Family of Jazz. Photo by Edwin Luk.

Margarita & Family of Jazz digital broadast director Miha Matevzic, FFDN Artistic Director Ilter Ibrahimof and FFDN Festival Social Media Host Raoul Wilke at Toronto Metropolitan University Theatre. Photo by Edwin Luk.

Artist Chat at Crystal Pite: Angels' Atlas film screening at Meridian Hall. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

FFDN volunteers scanning tickets. Photo by Marlowe Porter.

Pre-performance Artist Chat at ARISE: 2022 Signature Programme moderated by Cathy Levy at Meridian Hall. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

Dancers in Dianne Montgomery's FFDN commissioned work Softly Losing, Softly Gaining as part of ARISE: 2022 Signature Programme at Meridian Hall. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

Micheal Greyeyes' short dance film Zipangu in collaboration with Ensemble Soundstreams as part of ARISE: 2022 Signature Programme at Meridian Hall. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

Dancers performing in Kaleo Trinidad's Kau Hea A Hiiaka as part of ARISE: 2022 Signature Programme at Meridian Hall. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

Dancers performing in Kaleo Trinidad's Kau Hea A Hiiaka as part of ARISE: 2022 Signature Programme at Meridian Hall. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

Dancers from Canada's National Ballet School performing in Jera Wolfe's Arise as part of ARISE: 2022 Signature Programme at Meridian Hall. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

FFDN Audience members in Meridian Hall lobby. Photo by Bruce Zinger.

Indigenous Enterprise dancers performing in Indigenous Liberation at Toronto Metropolitan University Theatre. Photo by Edwin Luk.

Indigenous Liberation post-show Arist Chat moderated by Sandra Laronde at Toronto Metropolitan University Theatre. Photo by Edwin Luk.

Indigenous Enterprise workshop at York University. Photo by Marlowe Porter.