Land Acknowledgment

The Flight Festival of Contemporary Dance reflects upon and honours the ongoing complexities of shifting perspectives and practices. Our organizational team operates from two locations: the city of Tkaronto and New York City, while our festival takes place on the soils of Prince Edward County. As guests, we are grateful to live and create on these lands.  

We acknowledge and honour the traditional territories -  the ancestral lands and waterways of the Anishinaabe (Mississaugas of Credit First Nation), Haudenosaunee Peoples from the Six Nations Confederacy of the Grand River, the Wendat, the Chippewa, as well as the Lenape, Rockaway and Canarsie Peoples and all other Nations who cared and continue caring for these lands. Acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded. Today, these regions are still home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in a community on this territory.

The territory is the subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Confederacy of the Anishinaabe and Allied Nations to peaceably care for and share the resources around the Great Lakes.