The Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA), Canada's oldest Indigenous arts service organization, provides support to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists. The artists identify as Elders, Knowledge Keepers, Indian Residential School Survivors, Intergenerational Survivors, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQ+ relatives and friends, Indigenous Human Trafficking Survivors, Children's Aid Survivors, 60's Scoop Survivors, Two-Spirit, unemployed, under-employed, single parents, and the Houseless.

Our signature events and programming facilitate healing through the arts by creating safe spaces to learn and share in culturally appropriate ways.

MISSION

To create healing through the arts by restoring cultures and identities to Indigenous artists and communities.

MANDATE

We identify, promote, and create opportunities for Indigenous artists to support and develop a self-sufficient community of Indigenous artists who preserve traditional knowledge, advance respective cultural identities and reflect evolving cultural expression helping the community heal from the trauma of colonization.

VISION

To be a well-known national provider of healing opportunities through the arts while supporting Indigenous artists. 

MANIFESTO

We envision a healthy Indigenous community that is healing from the traumas of colonization. Our community acknowledges, respects, and supports emerging and established artists, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers as the protectors and carriers of First Nations, Metis and Inuit cultures and languages as well as the innovative and original Indigenous ways of knowing.

FUTURE

A cultural hub that provides a physical safe space for healing, better health, a sense of purpose, the opportunity to use, grow, and share inherent gifts and be at peace.

SIGNATURE PROGRAMMING