This weekend (June 21 and 22), there will be many opportunities to commemorate National Aboriginal Day. Here’s a selection; for a comprehensive list, visit Indian and Northern Affairs Canada’s website.

The Nisga’a Ts’amiks Vancouver Society will be having a two-day event in front of the Vancouver Art gallery, with stalls selling Native jewellery and artworks, storytelling, face painting, and live acts.

Performers will include rock group Bitterly Divine, the Git Hayetsk Dancers, Sayget Kuluumgot Dancers, Tsimshian Dance Group, and Aboriginal Comedian Brian Majore. There will also be a fashion show by Shannon and Shauna, identical Carrier Déné First Nations twins from the Stellat’en First Nation reservation in northern B.C.

For more details, go to National Aboriginal Day’s official website.

The Minoru Cultural Centre in Richmond will play host to a celebration of Richmond’s Aboriginal community and culture on Saturday (June 21) from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. In the lineup are the Louis Metis Riel Dancers, the Heiltsuk Dance group, blues musician Murray Porter, Mooshum Bob’s Dance and Cultural Society, Aboriginal writers, films, drum-making presentations, food by Chief Maluh, and more.

Or you could drop by the Museum of Anthropology at UBC on Saturday, where from 12-4 p.m. there will be a National Aboriginal Day concert, with four all-aboriginal bands: Asani, Bitterly Divine, Siater Says, and the Coyes-Thomson Band. More info at the Museum of Anthropology’s website .