The APTN Indigenous Day Live event is back this weekend after a two year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Adam Garnet Jones, director of TV content and special events and senior management for APTN says that the most important thing about the event is gathering as a community.

APTN director of TV Content and special events Adam Garnet Jones (Courtesy APTN)

The day brings Indigenous and non- Indigenous people together to celebrate and this year, the event is “moving away from the concert of the past and will be reinvented into a cultural and artistic showcase,” according to the indigenous Day Live website.

Artists and participants who identify as women or members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community will be featured, and the 2022 theme is “Celebrating our Lands,” which covers the important relationship between Indigenous peoples and the land.

Jones says there’s a huge investment this year from both APTN and Canadian Heritage, adding that major support comes from the APTN team that puts in the hours to put together the event.

Watch the Indigenous Day Live event on June 18^. here

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