Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
Supported events

In the Land of the Headhunters, Edward Sheriff Curtis (1914)
Film concert
2026
An experience at the crossroads of early cinema and contemporary musical creation. In 1914, Edward S. Curtis filmed the very first feature-length film starring members of the Kwakwaka’wakw communities, an exceptional record of life on the Pacific Northwest coast of...

Haïda Manga
Drawn concert
2026
A performative talk and a drawn concert where two worlds meet and reinvent themselves. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is the creator of the Haïda manga, a hybrid visual form blending Northern Pacific Indigenous art with Japanese. A visual artist and...

Elisapie
2026
A concert in which the Inuktitut language takes over the world and makes it its own. Born in Salluit, a remote village in Canada’s far north, Elisapie has created a musical world unlike any other. A singer, activist, and symbol...

Aalaapi – ᐋᓛᐱ .
Aalaapi Collective
2026
A performance that blends theater and radio drama. An invitation to listen in order to better see the Far North – free from clichés and portrayed from he inside. Aalaapi means “to be silent in order to hear something beautiful”...

First Nations of the American Northwest Coast
Traditions and Contemporary Issues
2026
This symposium, intended as a continuation of the exhibition “First Nations—Arts and Cultures of the American Northwest,” aims to explore cultural, artistic, and museological aspects. Such a gathering will highlight the partnerships established with First Nations as part of the...

First Nations
Arts and Culture of the American Northwest
2026
Along nearly 1,800 kilometers of coastline and across some 40 languages, the First Nations of the American Northwest have made their art a sacred language, filled with spirits and totemic figures. The First Nations of the American Northwest developed—without agriculture...
