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Events Description
This year’s fourth iteration of the festival is an important milestone. “The number 4 is culturally significant and connected to physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional well-being,” shares stɑl’əw̓ Arts & Cultural Society Manager q̓ʷɑt̓ic̓ɑ, Phyllis Atkins. “Think about the four directions and colours (black, white, red, yellow) of the medicine wheel and the four stages of life: baby, youth, adult, elder. They are celebrated at the stɑl’əw̓ Pow Wow, which takes place each year during the transition from the summer to fall seasons on the shared lands of the four host First Nation communities: qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓, q̓ic̓əy̓, Máthxwi, and Se’mya’me’.”
Drive, ride, or dance your way to the Langley Events Centre on September 12, 13, and 14 to witness and support intergenerational transfer of traditional songs, dances, regalia, languages, medicines, foods, and artwork. Fill your ears, eyes, bellies, and hands with curated Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and eating.
Bring yourself, some friends and family to spend a few hours, a day, or the entire weekend at the stɑl’əw̓ Pow Wow. The Orange Shirt and Red Dress Specials will take place on September 13. Drum groups and dancers will perform, sharing their healing medicine to honour and support Residential School Warriors and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-spirit peoples (MMIWG2S) and their families. Juno award-winning artist Fawn Wood will be performing solo during the evening of September 13 and with the Host Drum group Cree Confederation over the course of the weekend.
This year’s pow wow will showcase additional sponsored special competitions. These include the 2nd Annual Hat and Boot Dance, Braeden’s Prairie Chicken Dance, Taa’baa’ha Dancing Horse White’s Junior Boys Fancy Spotlight Dance, and an All-Women’s Drum Group competition. The arena at the Langley Events Centre is going to thunder with drumming, singing, and dancing.
HOW MUCH
Tickets:
SINGLE DAY PASS
$10 – one person for a single day of choice
WEEKEND / 3 DAY PASS
$20 – one person for the full weekend (three-days)
How to get tickets?
WHEN & WHERE
Date & Time:
Friday, September 12th to Sunday, September 14th, 2025
FRIDAY
5:00 pm Registration begins
6:00 pm Doors open to the public
6:45 pm Drum Roll Call
7:00 pm Grand entry / TBD Welcome
7:30 pm Contest starts for drum & all dance categories
9:30 pm Registration closed (until Saturday)
10:30 pm Closing of colours
SATURDAY
12:00 am Doors open to public
12:45 pm Drum roll call
1:00 pm Grand entry / Kwantlen Welcome
1:30 pm Drum contest / Intertribal
Contest Jr, Teen, Golden age categories
5:00 pm Dinner Break / Performance groups
7:00 pm Grand Entry / TBD Welcome
7:30 pm Continue with drum contest
Contest Jr Adult & Senior Adult categories
10:30 pm Closing of Colours
SUNDAY
11:00 am Doors Open to Public
12:00 pm stɑl̓əw̓ Pow-wow – Pageant
12:45 pm Drum Roll Call
1:00 pm Grand Entry / TBD Welcome
1:30 pm Competitions/Drum Contest
3:00 pm Crowning for stɑl̓əw̓ Pow-wow Pageant
Women’s Hat & Boot special
Men’s Hat & Boot special
4:30 pm Committee/Volunteer Honouring
5:30 pm Closing of Colours
6:00 pm Payouts to Champions
Venue:
Langley Events Centre, 7888 200 Street, Langley
Public Transit Accessible
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