Office hours

Hours:
Our in-person office is closed for the fall and winter and will reopen in May 2024. Please feel free to reach out via email (see the contact section below).

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions for Sappyfest 19 (August 2-4, 2024) closed on February 1st, 2024. Please check back in the fall for the Sappyfest 20 call for submissions.

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CONTACT

For General inquiries January-August: director@sappyfest.com For Board of Directors + general inquiries September-January: producer@sappyfest.com
For Press + publicity requests: trevor@trevormurphy.ca

Mailing address

PO Box 6443
Sackville, NB
E4L 1G6

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Sappyfest acknowledges, respects, and recognizes that we operate within the unceded, traditional, and ancestral homelands of the Mi’kmaq Nation in the Siknikt district of Mi’kma’ki. This territory is covered by the “Treaties of Peace and Friendship” signed between the British Crown and the Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik/Wәlastәkwiyik (Maliseet), and Passamaquoddy Peoples beginning in 1725. It is important to explicitly state that these treaties recognized Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik, and Passamaquoddy titles and established the rules for what was to be an ongoing relationship between nations, but did not deal with the surrender of lands, waters, and resources, all of which were never ceded. We are all treaty people and have a responsibility to respect the past, present and future custodians of this unceded and unsurrendered territory. We also recognize that land acknowledgments are a first step in reconciliation and that a future rooted in peace, friendship and care requires ongoing education, addressing injustices, and relationship building.