Cultural Fire Events

12/22/2025

Our offices are closed for the next two weeks🌿✌️🏾

11/21/2025

11/10/2025

🌟 Thank You To Our Sponsors! 🌟

Cultural Fire Events would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our amazing sponsors — Utah Division of Indian Affairs, Moab Arts & Culture, and the Moab RAP Grant — for supporting our Dancing with Traditions event.

Your continued commitment to celebrating and uplifting Indigenous culture helps keep our stories, songs, and dances alive for future generations. We’re honored to bring our community together through dance, culture, and tradition — and it wouldn’t be possible without your generous support.

🔥 Culture is Infrastructure. 🔥

11/06/2025

Excited to have our team down in Durango, CO! If you’re near, plz join us🌿

11/02/2025

Siyisgaas to the Paskenta Tribe and the Rolling Hills Casino Resort for bringing us in to perform for your Big Time cultural event🌿 Special thank you to the Chairman and his family for hosting us🪶 Best way to open up Native American Heritage Month🦅

10/14/2025

Friendly reminder, the Moab (Red Canyon Powwow) is cancelled this year. We are having a one hour performance on Friday for the community, but thats all. Sorry folks.

Dear Cultural Fire Events Community,

By now, some of you have probably heard that we are announcing the cancellation of the 2025 Red Canyon Powwow. This decision was not made lightly, and after much thought and discussion, we felt it was important to be transparent with you—our community that we deeply respect and serve.

Over the past years, the Moab and Grand County community has welcomed us with open arms, helping us create a space where culture, connection, and celebration could thrive. Your support has meant everything to us, and we are deeply grateful for every dancer, singer, vendor, volunteer, sponsor, donor, and attendee who has helped make this event so special.

Unfortunately, changes in funding this year have made it impossible to provide the experience and quality our community deserves. Without the necessary resources, we are unable to host the powwow at the level of excellence that reflects its spirit and significance.

While we are sad to cancel the powwow this year, we are excited to announce “Dancing with Traditions”, a smaller community event hosted by Cultural Fire Events, which will take place. We invite the Moab and Grand County community to join us on Friday, October 17th, at 7 PM for an evening of dance, culture, and connection. This is our way of ensuring that the heart of the powwow remains alive and present in the community we love so much.

Thank you for your understanding, patience, and the love you have shown us year after year. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.

With gratitude,
�The Cultural Fire Events Team

10/13/2025

Looking for something fun to do on Indigenous Peoples Day (October 13, 2035), at 7:00 PM at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center to support Cultural Fire Events Dance Troupe.

📍 Utah Cultural Celebration Center
🕖 October 13, 2025, from 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM (75 mins of dance)
🎟️ Tickets are free, so bring the entire family

Bring your friends, your family, your lawn chairs, and your good energy. Let’s celebrate Indigenous culture together!

It’s vibrant, and it’s October magic. 🌿🦬🪶

10/10/2025

Excited to host this workshop next weekend! Thank you Waterford Upstart for your generous sponsorship. Happy but also sad to announce that this workshop is full and we are no longer accepting applications.

10/08/2025

Workshop Full🌿

09/30/2025

Today we wear orange not as a fashion, but as a prayer, as remembrance, as a stand for truth. Each shirt we put on carries the voices of our children — awâsisak — who were taken from their homes, stripped of their language, and made to feel small in places that were supposed to teach but instead inflicted silence and pain.

The color orange carries the story of one little girl who had her shirt taken away at a residential school, and with it, her sense of worth. Today, that orange is reclaimed as a banner of love, resilience, and survival.

When we wear orange, we say: every child matters. We honor those who never came home, we lift prayers for their families, and we walk with the survivors whose hearts still carry those memories. This is not just a day of sorrow, but of strength — because our languages are still spoken, our drums still sound, and our children are still here, laughing, growing, carrying forward the fire.

So let us wear orange with intention. Let it remind us that healing is not only for Indigenous Peoples, but for all of us together, as one human family. Every shirt is a promise: that we will not forget, that we will not let silence win, and that we will walk forward in kinship — wâhkôhtowin — to build a future where all children are cherished.

—Kanipawit Maskwa
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