Roots Resilience: A celebration of Indigenous Culture, Music, Dance and Food.

  • The Corn Festival was awesome, I'm so glad I took my 15-year-old. We listened to an elder and saw part of a ceremony and ate some great food. I am very much a supporter of the group.

    ClimateCon! organizer

  • Every year, Treehouse Learning has a fall family Fun Run at Waneka Lake in Lafayette where we have a small raffle fundraiser supporting a local organization in our community who shares our values of helping the world thrive. We chose HAFN because last year we planted our first Three Sisters Garden with corn shared by at the Corn Festival, and for the way you inspire us to be good stewards of the land and care for one another. May your very important work in our community continue to grow. 💙

    Threehouse Learning

The Annual Corn Festival

Celebrates community, indigeneity, land, and cultural reclamation through the Food Justice & Sovereignty Program Garden Harvests, Food, Music, and Educational Workshops.

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Flyer for the Third Annual Corn Festival held on September 28 from 10 am to 8 pm at the Agricultural Heritage Center, Longmont, Colorado. The flyer features a large photo of a woman with a teepee in the background and images of other festival attendees, some with traditional attire. It includes details about performers, activities, and sponsors, with a note that no smoking, pets, or weapons are allowed, and the event is drug and alcohol-free.
Schedule of events for the Roots of Resilience celebration, including opening doors at 10 AM, kids activities, aztec ceremony at 11 AM, horse riding, land acknowledgement, workshops on indigenous land reclamation and indigenous plant medicine, native food demonstrations, live music and entertainment on main stage, and dance exhibitions with a closing event at 8 PM. The background shows a lakeside outdoor event with people, a tipi tent, and a forested area.
Poster for the third annual Indigenous De Maz Festival, held on September 28 from 10 am to 8 pm at the Agricultural Heritage Center in Longmont, Colorado. The poster features photos of indigenous women and groups, a teepee, and various logos of sponsors. It mentions activities such as indigenous leadership workshops, equine activities, traditional dance, food, crafts, and displays of indigenous culture, with a suggested donation of $10. The background showcases a grassy field with a clear blue sky.
Event poster in Spanish with background image of a group of indigenous people dancing in traditional attire near a tipi by a river. Contains schedule of activities, music, dance, food, workshops, puppet theater, and art open to all ages. Logos and a QR code are also present.
Map of the Corn Festival 2024 showing festival layout with locations for main stage, food court, market, kids area, animal area, workshops, vendor check-in, parking areas, restrooms, medical tent, volunteers, and various activity zones.

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Poster promoting Corn Fest 2024 with a photo of a woman, the text 'Stella Standingbear,' the website 'www.hafnco.org/corn-fest,' and corn illustrations.
Text about Lakota rapper Stella Standingbear winning at the 2023 Indigenous Hip-Hop Awards, highlighting her recent achievements and rising career.
Poster for the Mellissa Ivey & The Future Ancestors concert at Corn Fest 2024, featuring a woman with dark hair, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and jewelry, holding a guitar, with a website link at the bottom.
Text about a multifaceted artist from Denver, Colorado, named Melissa, who embraces her identity as a disabled, queer artist. It mentions her musical journey, performances at iconic venues, awards, and her work in art and weaving.
Poster for the Moisio Verde Collective Corn Festival 2024 featuring a stylized graphic of a band of skeletons playing instruments and the words 'Latin Reggae.' The poster includes the website www.hafnco.org/corn-fest.
Text about a Latin reggae band with a 15-year history, blending reggae, ska, and Latin rhythms, with musicians from Mexico, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Peru, Saint Thomas, and the U.S. The band aims to spread Latin reggae and its movement across N
Poster for Jackie Bird & Sons Corn Fest 2024, featuring a child with a lasso, the event date, website, with corn illustrations.
Text describing Jackie Bird, a Native American performer, showcasing her culture through Hoop Dance, blending contemporary and traditional elements, using puppetry, and sharing her heritage through her art.
Poster for the 2024 Corn Festival, featuring a photo of indigenous people with children, a festival logo, and text seeking sponsors and funding contributions.
2024 Corn Festival sponsorship tiers with details, featuring a stylized corn graphic.
Informational poster about Food Justice and Sovereignty Program impacts and 2nd Annual Corn Festival success, listing community food donations, volunteer hours, scholarship recipients, community gathering details, businesses, workshops, cultural perf
People embracing at a cultural festival, with traditional costumes and headpieces in an outdoor setting with mountains in the background.
People in colorful costumes participating in a corn festival, with one person wearing a large ornate feathered headdress, outdoors on a sunny day.
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Flyer for the 2024 Harvest Of All First Nations Corn Festival Vendor Call with date September 28th, a QR code, and background illustrations of corn.
Event flyer for the 2024 Harvest Of All First Nations Festival, scheduled for September 28, with a QR code and registration instructions in Spanish.
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Flyer titled 'Corn Festival Volunteer Application' with a QR code, a website link, and a message seeking responsible volunteers for the Corn Festival.
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The Corn Festival will be bringing Indigenous Knowledge from First Nations Peoples to the public to teach about the value and application of Ancestral and cultural teachings of regenerative agriculture and societal customs.

The inception of the Corn Festival Initiative is a clear step towards reparations that Indigenous communities have been demanding for centuries. Racial reconciliation, environmental, economic, and social justice must be reclaimed through the opportunity for land and food restorations amongst BIPOC communities by accessing land and the native foods without corporate influence. This festival will have the intention to educate, share and help with the decolonization process amongst our people and other cultures by bringing the culture of the corn alive again from the ground. This project was born from the collaboration between FLOWS, El Centro AMISTAD and a community learning series that hosted a talk titled El Maíz: Reclamando el Poder de la Comida Ancestral.

We are organizing the Corn Festival to develop a way where we can all benefit by learning, teaching, planting, healing and empowering each other. We believe that this festival will bring a lot of healing to the people, while recovering ancestral memory.

The land is a place of power, power which has been taken from BIPOC communities through systemic oppression, genocide, slavery, and erasure, creating multiple generational traumas through the banishment of the land, and taking away and essential sacred ways of life to the Indigenous people like corn. We are in revolutionary times and it is time for us to claim food justice, land reparations and take our power back as BIPOC communities!

Come celebrate, connect, learn, and dance at the Harvest of All Nations Corn Festival with us and share in the harvest of food we've grown for the people!

 

Illustration of Native American culture and wildlife on a map outline of North America, featuring indigenous people, animals like a turtle, eagle, jaguar, bison, and features of nature and traditions.
Native American women and men participating in a cultural event or ceremony outdoors, dressed in traditional clothing and accessories.
A group of Native American dancers wearing feathered headdresses and traditional clothing dance outdoors during the daytime.
A person wearing a traditional Native American costume with a large feathered headdress and holding pink feathers, participating in a cultural event or ceremony outdoors.
A person dressed in traditional indigenous attire with a large feathered headdress, participating in a cultural festival with other similarly dressed individuals and spectators in the background.
A native man dressed in traditional tribal attire with a large feathered headdress, face paint, and body tattoos, holding a staff, during a cultural event or parade.
A Native American woman in traditional headdress and regalia interacting with a woman in a white dress and red sash, during a festival with tents and spectators in the background.
People dressed in indigenous or traditional tribal costumes participating in a cultural event or festival outdoors on a sunny day with grassy field and mountains in the background.
Group of people participating in a cultural or traditional event, wearing colorful costumes and feathered headpieces.
Back view of a person wearing traditional colorful embroidered clothing with a feathered accessory, outdoors with a blurred crowd in the background.
People participating in an outdoor cultural festival, dressed in traditional indigenous clothing, with a vendor stall in the background advertising quesadilla birria and flautas, and some individuals holding umbrellas for shade.
Two women dressed in traditional Indigenous attire, including feathered headdresses and decorated clothing, are dancing outdoors near a river with onlookers and tents in the background.
Indigenous women dressed in traditional attire dancing in a circle outdoors with onlookers in the background.
People walking around tents near a river with houses and trees in the background under a partly cloudy sky.
Three women performing music and singing under a colorful, abstract canopy. One woman with a hat and a colorful scarf is playing guitar and smiling, another woman is holding a microphone and singing, and the third woman is partially visible with tatt
A woman with dark hair, tattoos on her arms, and earrings, speaking into a microphone at an outdoor event.
A person with short hair, glasses, and colorful earrings is smiling and holding thin, stick-like objects while sitting on the ground. Two other individuals are sitting nearby with arms crossed, in a forest-like setting with dirt and trees visible.
A man with short black hair playing an electric guitar at an outdoor event, surrounded by other musicians and decorative colorful canopy overhead.
Native American woman wearing a colorful, traditional outfit and large feathered headdress, singing or speaking into a microphone while playing a string instrument at an outdoor event under a tent.
Two musicians wearing traditional Native American attire are playing guitars and singing under a tent at an outdoor event.
Group of musicians performing on stage under a tent, including a man in a wolf hat, a woman in traditional indigenous attire singing into a microphone, and others playing instruments, with sound equipment and microphones visible.
A woman wearing a white tank top and a black cap, holding a brown horse by its lead rope in a field with orange grass, large white tents, and other people in the background.
A person in a cowboy hat and another in sunglasses are riding a horse during sunset, with the sun shining and creating a glow around them.
Three young people outdoors, backlit by the sun, with two women and one man, dressed casually.
A red barn with a large triangular window and a small weather vane on top, set against a bright sky with mountains in the background, and a silo to the left.
A tipi tent with a lodgepole pole structure in a field, surrounded by a crowd of people at a festival, with cars parked nearby and mountains in the background during sunset.
Two children and a woman are outside at sunset. One child is wearing striped socks and sitting on a stroller, the woman is standing nearby and the other child is standing facing her.
A group of five people sitting in a circle, engaged in a cultural or spiritual ceremony. A person with a white headscarf appears to be leading or chanting, while others listen attentively. They are indoors with simple, light-colored walls, and some a

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If you have any questions or concerns about the Annual Corn Festival, feel free to reach out to us at cf@hafnco.org We're here to help and are eager to hear from you!