Paprika’s 2024-2025 Staff Team commit to the following:
- Paprika gatherings always start with a land acknowledgement, including dedicated time to share and discuss current news and happenings about Indigenous communities
- Paprika offers an online and in-person resource table during the Festival to connect audiences with Indigenous-led organizations to support, resources for learning about this land and its caretakers, and provide context for festival presentations and projects
- Paprika reaches out to Indigenous organizations directly to share and invite community members to free programming opportunities and public events
- Paprika invites regular feedback from Indigenous staff, facilitators, artists, and community and applies feedback to our programming decisions
- Paprika commits to highlighting Indigenous artists and Indigenous artistic contributions throughout the month of June on our social media platforms in celebration of National Indigenous History Month
- In our spaces, Paprika staff will not tolerate any words or actions that perpetrate colonialism, anti-Indigenous racism, ideologies, and histories
- Paprika honours the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation by pausing all work activities, with the intention that staff and artists spend this day learning and taking action to support the Indigenous people of Turtle Island and beyond
- Paprika budgets include an additional accessibility line for the Indigenous Arts Program to increase support for artists who travel in from further distances such as on reserve, and to bring in cultural practices including traditional medicines and food to the program
— Aaheli, Amanda, Julia, Juliet and Rose