INFEST
UNDERGROUND ARTS FESTIVAL
Located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Friday, August 29th, 2025
Saturday, August 30th, 2025
Sunday, August 31st, 2025
ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒋᐩ ᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ | amiskwacîwâskahikan
Treaty 6 Territory | Edmonton, Alberta
INFEST would like to acknowledge that we are on Treaty 6 territory. We acknowledge and respect the history and land of the first people in this area. Treaty 6 territory is the ancestral and traditional territory of the Cree, Dene, Blackfoot, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux and Metis, we would like to pay respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge this land as an act of gratitude to those whose territory we reside on, whose footsteps have marked this land for generations.
WE ARE GRATEFUL TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE AND WORK IN THE COMMUNITY.
But just as we acknowledge the land we must speak out against the atrocities that Indigenous people face: the individual and systemic anti-Indigenous racism; the history, reality and trauma of residential schools; the brutalization and murder of Indigenous people at the hands of police; the lack of access to drinking water; poverty; substandard healthcare; broken treaties; environmental harm; employment discrimination; over-policing; and oppressive incarceration rates.
We must also acknowledge our complicity in the systems and structures that seek erasure instead of equality, incarceration instead of inclusion. And then use our voices and privilege to demand change.