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Skirt Design Competition, SkirtsAfire Media Launch 2017. Photo by Brittany Paige Balser.

Thank you for your interest in SkirtsAfire. For media inquiries, please contact Kate at Bottom Line Productions: kate@bottomlinepro.com

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🔥 Festival Recap: The Shoe Project 🔥 The Shoe Pro 🔥 Festival Recap: The Shoe Project 🔥 The Shoe Project 2026 brought together immigrant and refugee women to share their personal journeys to Edmonton, each story rooted in a single pair of shoes. Thank you to this year’s participants for their honesty, courage, and generosity in sharing such powerful experiences, and to our audiences for showing up with such care. ❤️ We’re also so grateful to our ASL Interpreters, @xoamorenaxo and @jenniwithani, for helping make these stories accessible to more members of our community. Thank you to our Venue Sponsor: YWCA Edmonton! The Shoe Project is presented by SkirtsAfire in partnership with @ywca_edmonton, with support from @workshopwest, who first brought this initiative to Edmonton. 🌟 Thank you to our Sponsors and Supporters: @ywcacanada, @kunitz_shoes, Allard Foundation, @bffoundationyeg, and @beetogether.ca 🌟 Photos by @lynnstreeterphotography
🔥 Thank you, Old Strathcona Farmers’ Market! 🔥 We 🔥 Thank you, Old Strathcona Farmers’ Market! 🔥 We’re so grateful to @strathconamarket for their generous support of SkirtsAfire, and for the delicious catering at our post-show reception for I am Eagle by Matricia Bauer (@indiginizingtheworld). In the lead-up to the Festival, Matricia even stopped by the Market with Hawk (a puppet from the show, designed and built by Jessica Hickman @mixed.media.monsters), and it was such a joy to see the curiosity and delight from everyone who encountered them. 🦅 Photos 1-2 and 5-7 by @briannejang, @bb_collective Photos 3-4 by Lindsey Tran, @understudystudio_
🔥 Festival Recap: I am Eagle 🔥 I am Eagle by Matr 🔥 Festival Recap: I am Eagle 🔥 I am Eagle by Matricia Bauer took flight at SkirtsAfire 2026, inviting audiences into a powerful and deeply personal journey of connection, identity, and transformation, told through puppetry, movement, and storytelling. Thank you to everyone who helped bring this powerful work to the stage and to those who joined us in witnessing it. ❤️ And we’re so grateful to @strathconamarket for catering our post-show reception and helping make our Opening Night even more special. Special thanks to our sponsors for this event: @capitalgmcbuick: Venue Sponsor @td_canada: Event Sponsor @albertabluecross: Complimentary Ticket Sponsor I am Eagle by Matricia Bauer Matricia Bauer (@indiginizingtheworld), Playwright / Presenting Artist Danielle LaRose (@danielle.larose), Director Teneil Whiskeyjack (@teneil_whiskeyjack), Dramaturg Jessica Hickman (mixed.media.monsters), Puppet Designer & Builder Mackenzie Kamâmak Brown, Talkback Moderator Performers/Collaborating Artists: Ayla Modeste (@shir_modesty) Rebecca Sadowski (@resadowski) Soul Spiritwalker (@spiritwalker_23) Photos 1-6 by April MacDonald Killins (@april_mac_killins) Photos 7-8 by @briannejang of @bb_collective
🔥 Festival Recap: Ms. Pat’s Kitchen 🔥 What a way 🔥 Festival Recap: Ms. Pat’s Kitchen 🔥 What a way to kick off the 2026 Festival! Ms. Pat’s Kitchen by Jameela J. McNeil opened to a sold-out crowd, setting the tone for an unforgettable SkirtsAfire. This bold and lively new work invited us into a world rich with culture, community, and unforgettable storytelling. A huge thank you to our incredible cast, creative team, and audiences for making this opening so incredible. ❤️ And a special shoutout to @otto_yeg and @sauce_caribbean for a delicious Opening Night celebration! Ms. Pat's Kitchen by Jameela J. McNeil (@jameela_jade) Patricia Darbasie, Director Kat Evans (@katlynnevans), Production Manager/Technical Director Amy Dass (@amy.dass), Sound Designer Andraya Diogo (@andrayadiogo), Lighting Designer Chantel Fortin (@chinook410), Set Designer Chariz Faulmino (@cheeky.rizz), Costume Designer Makeda Romanetti (@majesticmakeda), Stage Manager Aaron Harrity, Head Carpenter Kat Evans / Chantel Fortin / John Evans, Carpentry & Paint Crew Featuring: Noreta Lewis (@noretalewis), Pat Michelle Todd (@metoddyeg), Sharmaine Rochelle Laplante (@ro_laplante), Kenise Kijo Gatama (@e.u.n.ice), Phyllis Douglas Prout (@mobayvibez), Robert Photos 1-2, 4-5, 9-10 by @april_mac_killins Photos 3, 6-8 by @briannejang, @bb_collective
A heartfelt thank you to @servusalberta, our Pay-W A heartfelt thank you to @servusalberta, our Pay-What-You-Will Ticket Sponsor for SkirtsAfire 2026. Because of their support, we were able to make our programming more accessible! 💚 We loved having the Servus team onsite at Ms. Pat’s Kitchen by Jameela J. McNeil and emBODYment, connecting with audiences and helping make these events even more special. Thank you Servus Credit Union for helping us remove barriers and ensure more people can experience the power of live performance. 🔥 Photos by Lindsey Tran, @understudystudio_ . . . . . #SkirtsAfire2026 #ServusCreditUnion #YEGHerStory #YEGTheirStory #WomenInTheArts
🎉 Congratulations to Our 50/50 Winner! 🎉 A huge c 🎉 Congratulations to Our 50/50 Winner! 🎉 A huge congratulations to Kristen Finlay, the lucky winner of our 50/50 Raffle! 🎟️ With your amazing support, we raised a jackpot of $3,100, and Kristen takes home half! Thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket, your contributions help keep SkirtsAfire thriving and support women and non-binary artists across Edmonton. We’re so grateful for your generosity and can’t wait to do it all again next year! 🔥❤️ . . . . . . . #SkirtsAfire2026 #RaffleWinner #YEGHerStory #YEGTheirStory #YEGOurStory #YEGHistory #FeelTheHeat #InternationalWomensDay #EdmontonArt #ExploreEdmonton #YEGFestival #YEG #WomenInTheArts #YEGTheatre #CityOfFestivals #YEGgers #YEGEvent #YEGDance #IndigenousArt #YEGMusic #YEGPoetry #YEGDate #YEGDesign #QueerTheatre #QueerArt
⏳ Last Chance! ⏳ Today is the final day to comple ⏳ Last Chance! ⏳ Today is the final day to complete our SkirtsAfire Festival survey and enter to WIN an Epiphone DR100 acoustic guitar, a Rouge Valley gig bag, and a $50 Long & McQuade gift card! 🎸✨ Your feedback helps shape the future of the festival, and it only takes a few minutes to fill out. Don’t miss your chance! 🔗 Take the survey now at skirtsafire.com/survey or click the link in our bio. Photo by Lindsey Tran (@understudystudio_) of Nat & Chrissy performing at Comedy Night
Congratulations to Sari Haas, the winner of our Sk Congratulations to Sari Haas, the winner of our Skirts on Whyte giveaway! 🎁 Sari is taking home a fantastic bundle of gift cards from local Old Strathcona businesses, the perfect way to keep exploring and supporting the neighbourhood. 🛍️ A huge thank you to @oldstrathcona for sponsoring Skirts on Whyte and generously providing this prize. We’re so grateful for their continued support of local artists, local businesses, and community-driven events. Thank you as well to our talented skirt design artists, and to everyone who took part in Skirts on Whyte this year, we loved seeing so many people exploring the avenue and celebrating local art! ✨
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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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