Punks for Pups
When
- August 29, 2026
- August 30, 2026
Links
Punks for Pups is excited to be back for our third annual event! this year we have a great line up from all over Canada joining us. We are extremely excited to have Saskatchewan born Victoria based Northcote join our festival line up this year. Joining them we've got Brutal Youth originally from St. John's NFLD and now based out of Toronto as well as Anti-Queens who hail from T.O. Bands hailing from all the prairie provinces consisting of Real Sickies. Smelters, Mox Jet, Taylor Jade, Arts Major, Broken Yolks, Glasscult and Julius Sumner Miller who all hail from Alberta. Swayze, Me The Guts, Bitter State, Total Loss and TV Casualties from Saskatchewan and Screaming at Traffic from the province and city where the Riders won the Grey Cup!
This event is organized to help raise funds to help for Save Rez Dogs which is a local organization that is a sovereign, volunteer-powered movement rooted in nehiyaw (Cree) values and community care. They Advocate for protection, wellness, and rightful place of Rez dogs through cultural education, advocacy, and community based solutions.
Save Rez Dogs was founded by Leah Arcand, nehiyaw iskwew from Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, in 2016 while teaching a land based program, Miyo Pimatisiwin, in Thunderchild First Nation. What started as a hashtag became a call to action - a decolonial movement reclaiming how we care for our animal kin.
