About

The Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA) is Canada's oldest Indigenous arts service organization, providing support to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists. These 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, Starlight Tour 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.