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🔥 Please join us in welcoming Meghan Dunnigan and 🔥 Please join us in welcoming Meghan Dunnigan and Ellen Kartz to the SkirtsAfire Board of Directors! 🔥

We're so pleased to have them joining our board and bringing their passion for SkirtsAfire, our artists, and the work we do to help guide the organization into the future.

Interested in getting involved with SkirtsAfire? There are lots of ways to support our work, including joining one of our committees or becoming a member of our Board of Directors!

Visit our link in bio or skirtsafire.com/call-board-members/ and fill out the interest form to learn more about getting involved.
👠 The Shoe Project 2027 is underway! 👞 We’re exci 👠 The Shoe Project 2027 is underway! 👞

We’re excited to kick off another year of The Shoe Project! Our first workshop on Monday brought together the 2027 participants to begin a new chapter of storytelling, connection, and creativity.

Over the coming months, the women will take part in a series of writing workshops, developing personal stories inspired by a pair of shoes and the experiences they carry. The process will culminate in public readings at SkirtsAfire Festival this March. We’re looking forward to seeing what emerges and sharing their work with you!

The Shoe Project is presented by SkirtsAfire in partnership with @ywca_edmonton.

🌟 Thank you to our sponsors and supporters: @ywcacanada, @edmontoncommunityfoundation, @yegarts, @kunitz_shoes, Allard Foundation, Butler Family Foundation, and @beetogether.ca! 🌟
‼️ Field Law voting closes in less than three week ‼️ Field Law voting closes in less than three weeks, and we need YOUR help to bring our 2027 Indigenous programming to the stage! ‼️

Your votes truly make a difference. In 2022, thanks to the support of our voters, SkirtsAfire received Field Law funding for our MainStage production: "Ayita" by Teneil Whiskeyjack. We're hoping to receive that support again, and we need your help!

This year, we're asking you to vote for "BECOMING HER: From Wild to Wise", a new theatrical work by Cree artist Ger Carriere exploring Indigenous womanhood, voice, identity, and becoming.

Your vote will help us support Ger as she develops this work, create space for Indigenous stories, engage Indigenous youth, and bring this important production to audiences at SkirtsAfire Festival 2027.

🗳️ Vote for SkirtsAfire today! Follow the link in our bio or visit:
https://fieldlaw.com/idea/becoming-her-from-wild-to-wise-at-the-2027-skirtsafire-festival

Every vote counts. Thank you for helping us make this work possible!

Photo by Noella Steinhauer of "Ayita" by Teneil Whiskeyjack, SkirtsAfire's 2022 MainStage production.
🎃 GHOULS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN! 💃 Less tricks, more 🎃 GHOULS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN! 💃

Less tricks, more tacos! 🌮 Only THREE WEEKS TO GO until SkirtsAfire’s Let it Luz Fundraiser! 👻 Join us for a night of music, dancing, and fun in celebration of our 2027 MainStage production, Bella Luz by Alexandra Lainfiesta.

Featuring @djtkila_yeg & @the_kenaleon, a performance by Sabrosura, and a beginner-friendly Latin dance lesson with @zumba_ile. Plus, your ticket includes a complimentary drink! 🍹

🖤 Special thanks to @fruitloopyeg for generously sponsoring our artists! 

🎟️ General Admission $75 | Table of 6 $405 (save 10%!)

Don’t ghost us! 👀 Get your tickets at our link in bio or at skirtsafire.com/let-it-luz-fundraiser.
🔥 A new SkirtsAfire tradition! 🔥 Last night, memb 🔥 A new SkirtsAfire tradition! 🔥

Last night, members of our board and leadership came together to reconnect, welcome some new faces, and remind ourselves why we do what we do. We took time to reflect, share what SkirtsAfire means to us, and recommit to the work we’re building together.

A festival takes a lot of people, care, and collaboration to bring to life. Last night was a chance to celebrate the people behind SkirtsAfire and remember what we’re all working toward together.

Special thank you to our Board President, Arron Best (@meatgoddess), for hosting us and for the delicious charcuterie!

Here’s a little peek at our evening! ❤️‍🔥
💃 LESS THAN ONE MONTH AWAY! 💃 We’re less than a m 💃 LESS THAN ONE MONTH AWAY! 💃

We’re less than a month away from SkirtsAfire’s Let it Luz Fundraiser! Join us for a night of music, dancing, and fun in celebration of our 2027 MainStage production, Bella Luz by Alexandra Lainfiesta. ❤️‍🔥

Enjoy tacos from @street_taco_yeg, music by @djtkila_yeg & @the_kenaleon, a dance performance by Sabrosura, a beginner-friendly Latin dance lesson with @zumba_ile, and fabulous Silent Auction finds! 💖 Special thanks to @fruitloopyeg for generously sponsoring our artists! 

🎟️ Tickets are on sale now! Get yours at our link in bio or at skirtsafire.com/let-it-luz-fundraiser
- Earlybird: $69 (going fast!)
- General Admission: $75
- Table of 6: $405 (save 10%!)

Grab your friends and get ready to dance the night away, all in support of SkirtsAfire! 💃
🌟 We need YOUR vote! SkirtsAfire’s 2027 project, B 🌟 We need YOUR vote! SkirtsAfire’s 2027 project, BECOMING HER: From Wild to Wise by Cree artist Ger Carriere, has been selected for the Field Law Community Fund Program, and you can help us bring this powerful new work to life!

🔥 Voting is easy! Just two clicks, with no sign-up or personal information required. You can cast your vote once per device. Follow the link in our bio and click VOTE to support BECOMING HER: From Wild to Wise!

Drawing from Ger’s books Wild Woman and Wild to Wise, her original music, and her lived experience as an Indigenous woman, artist, educator, and community leader, BECOMING HER will explore Indigenous womanhood, identity, leadership, creativity, and the journey of becoming.

With support from Field Law, we’ll create space for Indigenous women, girls, and youth to see themselves represented with complexity, strength, joy, and possibility. Through artistic development, community collaboration, and youth workshops, this project will centre Indigenous voices and create new possibilities for the generations to come.
💃 LET IT LUZ! 💃 Get ready to dance the night away 💃 LET IT LUZ! 💃

Get ready to dance the night away at SkirtsAfire’s Let it Luz Fundraiser! In celebration of our 2027 MainStage production, “Bella Luz” by Alexandra Lainfiesta, we’re bringing the flavour, music, and Latin dance vibes for a night of food, fun, and fundraising. ❤️‍🔥 Special thank you to @fruitloopyeg for being our Artist Sponsor once again! 

Here’s what’s in store:
∙ Delicious tacos catered by Street Taco YEG (@street_taco_yeg) 🌮
∙ One complimentary drink with your ticket
∙ Music by DJ Tkila (@djtkila_yeg) & DJ Kena León (@the_kenaleon)
∙ A dance performance by Sabrosura (@amalia.bailarina)
∙ A beginner-friendly Latin dance lesson with Ileana Rodriguez (@zumba_ile)
∙ Fabulous silent auction items to bid on!

Come hungry, bring your dancing shoes, and help support SkirtsAfire’s mission of uplifting underrepresented voices. Let’s make it a night to remember! ✨ 

🎟️ Get your tickets at skirtsafire.com/let-it-luz-fundraiser or at the link in our bio!
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SkirtsAfire respectfully acknowledges that we are telling stories on the traditional and ancestral homeland of diverse Indigenous peoples including Nehiyawak (Cree), Metis, Inuit, Dene, Blackfoot, Saulteaux and Nakota Sioux, who have lived and travelled through this place thousands of years before us. We are all treaty people and as settlers to Treaty 6 Territory, which is also home to Métis Settlements and the Métis Nation of Alberta, we are striving to better listen, understand and learn from the Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing. We respect and celebrate the languages, history and culture of the First Nations, Metis and Inuit whose presence continues to enrich this vibrant community here in ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ, Amiskwacîwâskahikan, also known as Edmonton, and at SkirtsAfire.

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