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Federal Budget 2024
On April 16, 2024, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland introduced the 2024 federal budget. Titled “Fairness for Every Generation,” Read our response here.

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Arts Everywhere: Episode Twenty-two
When Roberta Cross steps into the room, you know that the conversation is about to take an enlightening turn. Her journey from the world of international diplomacy to reshaping the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance has been anything but ordinary.

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SAA Response: 2024-25 Provincial Budget
Read our response to the 2024-25 Provincial Budget: “A status quo budget for a sector in crisis is, simply, not good enough.”

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Let‘s Celebrate Music Education!
Music is life! Check out our new online resource on the benefits of music – there are many cool facts to be had.

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The Saskatchewan Arts Alliance (SAA) is an inclusive, member-driven coalition of arts organizations that provides a collective voice for the arts community of Saskatchewan.

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Federal Budget 2024

Federal Budget 2024
On April 16, 2024, Deputy Prime Minister…

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Apr 15, 2024InAdvocacy, Arts Everywhere, News

Arts Everywhere: Episode Twenty-three

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Mar 27, 2024InAdvocacy, Arts Everywhere, News

Arts Everywhere: Episode Twenty-two

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Mar 26, 2024InAdvocacy, News

SAA on the Radio: Decreased Funding to the Arts

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Mar 25, 2024InAdvocacy, News

Response Letter: Proposed Cuts to Canadian Heritage & Canada Council for the Arts

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Mar 20, 2024InAdvocacy, News

2024-25 Provincial Budget: Classrooms, Care, & Communities

Apr 15, 2022In‎ Impact Stories, News, Resources

Art Works – On the Boards Staging Company

For over 20 years, the company has provided expertise and resources in the technical and administrative areas of production to help hundreds of independent artists and performer-producers stage their art. During the pandemic, however, cancellations have been the norm, and the Refinery space has been almost empty. Gallant-Morari’s concert had been cancelled twice before they finally pulled it off.

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Sep 15, 2023InEvents, News, Uncategorized

Arts Everywhere: Episode 11

NBYXE: One Sleepless Night

Since 2014 Saskatoon…

Sep 15, 2023InEvents, News

Nuit Blanche: One Sleepless Night in Saskatoon

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Jul 4, 2023InAdvocacy, Events

2023 Artist Survey

Jul 4, 2023InAdvocacy, Events

General Public Survey

Jul 4, 2023InAdvocacy, Events, News

2023 Saskatchewan Arts Surveys

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Jun 5, 2023InAdvocacy, Events, News

Pajama Party Politics: Gathering to Gab in Saskatoon

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Apr 18, 2024InAdvocacy, News

Federal Budget 2024

Federal Budget 2024
On April 16, 2024, Deputy Prime Minister…

Apr 15, 2024InAdvocacy, Arts Everywhere, News

Arts Everywhere: Episode Twenty-three

Mar 27, 2024InAdvocacy, Arts Everywhere, News

Arts Everywhere: Episode Twenty-two

Mar 26, 2024InAdvocacy, News

SAA on the Radio: Decreased Funding to the Arts

Mar 25, 2024InAdvocacy, News

Response Letter: Proposed Cuts to Canadian Heritage & Canada Council for the Arts

Mar 20, 2024InAdvocacy, News

2024-25 Provincial Budget: Classrooms, Care, & Communities

Nov 21, 2023InAdvocacy, News, Op-Eds

What’s so important about recreational adult performance dance?

We tend to associate formal performance dance training with children…

Oct 20, 2023InNews, Op-Eds

Is Your Public Art Gallery Serving Visual Artists and the Community?

Sep 22, 2023InAdvocacy, Op-Eds

We started with an acknowledgement of wind

Sep 30, 2022InNews, SAA Bulletin

Introducing SAA’s 2022-23 Board of Directors

Thanks to everyone who attended the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance’s…

Dec 4, 2019InNews, SAA Bulletin

SAA Bulletin – December 2019

Nov 2, 2019InNews, SAA Bulletin

SAA Bulletin – November 2019

Oct 2, 2019InNews, SAA Bulletin

SAA Bulletin – October 2019

Sep 5, 2019InNews, SAA Bulletin

SAA Bulletin – September 2019

Aug 8, 2019InNews, SAA Bulletin

SAA Bulletin – August 2019

Inspiring Quotes

Jennifer McAllister, music educator

[Music] is good for us our whole life, so an investment in music education in young people is an investment in wellbeing for people for their whole life.

Albert Einstein

Life without music is inconceivable for me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music … I get most joy in life out of music.

Dr. Peter Gouzouasis, PHD. University of British Columbia

The more students study music, the better they do in Math, Science and English

Dr. Jessica Phillips-Silver, PhD, cognitive neuroscientist

We now “get” that music is one of the major frontiers of science and medicine—we have plentiful evidence, and dedicated pioneers on the path to discovering WHY we need to keep music in our lives, in our schools, and in our centers for healing.

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📣 Calling arts and culture workers! The Cultural Human Resources Council - Le Conseil des RH du secteur culturel is pleased to announce the launch of the Cultural Worker’s Individual Revenue Survey. This market research uses 2023 as the reference to gather information on artist and all cultural workers’ various revenue portfolios.

🗓️ The survey will remain open till May 10th, 2024.

Who is this survey for? 🤔
Anyone who works in arts and culture in any capacity. Whether this work is your first, second or third line of revenue does not matter, we hope you will take the survey.

Why is this survey necessary? 💡
There is an ongoing sector-wide appetite for this information that is difficult to capture in the gig-economy. Multiple revenue streams create blind-spots for official statistics (CENSUS, etc.). This innovative survey embraces the reality and addresses it accordingly. The timing of this survey aligns with folks having their T4s in hand and their independent contract revenues tracked as we head towards the individual tax deadline with Canada Revenue Agency.

✍️ Take the survey online (link in our bio @saskartsalliance)!

#CHRC #CulturalHumanResourcesCouncil #CultureSurvey #ArtsAndCulture #SAA #SaskArtsAlliance #TakeTheSurvey

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In case you missed it... our Executive Director Em Ironstar was on The Afternoon Edition a little while ago! Em joins host Theresa Kliem to talk about what that cut in funding means for artists in the province.

🎧 Listen online (link in our bio @saskartsalliance)!

#SAA #SaskArtsAlliance #EmIronstar #TheAfternoonEdition #TheresaKliem

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Going Through Rough Times? Tell Your Funders. (And Tell Us, Too!) 🙋🏻

These are challenging times for arts organizations: audiences are not attending at the same level as before the pandemic, costs are rising, and public funding is, at best, stalling.

The SAA recently participated in a discussion between the @canada.council, @cdn.heritage, the arts service organization. Over the course of this discussion, representatives of two funding bodies reminded us that they, too – just like ASOs – need to know when arts organizations are struggling. They notably asked us to pass on two messages, so we can help them help us:

1. Please submit your reports (for example, CADAC financial and statistical reports) on time. These reports contain highly valuable information about your reality.

2. If you experience serious financial hardship or other exceptional circumstances, please contact your funding program(s) well before you reach a breaking point. Funders can exercise flexibility within program guidelines: delivering an advance payment, extending timelines, reallocating expenses, etc. The earlier you notify your funders, the more flexibility they may be able to provide. While these kinds of discussions with your funders can be intimidating, they can happen in confidence, without prejudice.

Similarly, if you are going through particularly rough times, we would like to know.
Did your revenues or expenses shift by more than 50% over the last few years?
Do you find yourselves having to cut your programming down significantly?

📞📧 Email us or call us. We can relay this kind of information to both bureaucrats and politicians. Visit the link in our bio @saskartsalliance!

#SaskArtsAlliance #SAA #ContactUs #TellYourFunders

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Calling all Arts leaders! 📣 The Wallace Foundation is hosting a webinar about a recent report authored by Francie Ostrower and her research team at the University of Texas at Austin.

This is the culminating report from the Wallace Foundation’s Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative, which awarded $41M in grants to 25 large and well-established nonprofit performing arts organizations to support projects designed to build new audiences across various demographics spanning age, race, geography, frequency of attendance, and more.

👉 To learn more and get the registration link, leave a 👋 below and we'll DM you!

#SaskArtsAlliance #SAA #WallaceFoundation #Webinar

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On behalf of the SAA board and staff, we wish you a Happy Easter and quality time with your loved ones this weekend! 🌸

The Sask Arts Alliance office is closed tomorrow on Good Friday and Easter Monday. See you Tuesday!

#SaskArtsAlliance #SAA #EasterWeekend

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In case you missed it, the Saskatchewan provincial government announced status quo funding for the Arts sector in their 2024-25 budget.

"A status quo budget for a sector in crisis is, simply, not good enough. Funding to SK Arts is flatlined and well below historical levels – approximately $383,000 less than a decade ago."

🔗 Read our full response on our website (link in our bio @saskartsalliance)!

#SaskArtsAlliance #SAA #SAABudgetResponse #ProvincialBudget

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Today the Honourable Donna Harpauer, Minister of Finance, delivered the 2024–25 Provincial Budget: Classrooms, Care, & Communities. The provincial government projected a $1 billion surplus for 2023-24, only to see that evaporate into a projected $273.2 million deficit for 2024-25.

With the arts in Saskatchewan still being negatively affected by the ongoing impacts of the pandemic, massive inflation and the continued collection of the PST expansion on admissions, entertainment and recreation, the SAA is disappointed with yet another year of status quo funding to the provincial arts sector.

🔗 Read the SAA's full response to the 2024–25 provincial budget on our website (link in our bio @saskartsalliance)!

#SaskArtsAlliance #SAA #SAABudgetResponse #ProvincialBudget

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📣 Calling arts and culture workers! The @CulturalHRC is pleased to announce the launch of the Cultural Worker’s Individual Revenue Survey.

✍️ Take the survey before May 10:

Artist/Cultural Worker revenue survey

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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In case you missed it... our Executive Director @emironstar was on The Afternoon Edition a little while ago! Em joins host Theresa Kliem to talk about what that cut in funding means for artists in the province.

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The call for the 2024 Indigenous Artist in Residence Program is now open! 🎉

This program will give an artist from an Indigenous background the chance to make artwork and add it to our Civic Art Collection.

Application deadline is April 26 at 4 p.m. http://Regina.ca/artist
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📖 The latest issue of Engage Magazine is here!

To explore these success stories about how active engagement in cultural activity benefits children and youth, visit ➡️ http://conta.cc/3xbpST3. Featuring stories from across SK!⭐

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Federal Budget 2024

Arts Everywhere: Episode Twenty-two

SAA Response: 2024-25 Provincial Budget

Let‘s Celebrate Music Education!

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The Saskatchewan Arts Alliance (SAA) is an inclusive, member-driven coalition of arts organizations that provides a collective voice for the arts community of Saskatchewan.

Inspiring Quotes

Jennifer McAllister, music educator

Albert Einstein

Dr. Peter Gouzouasis, PHD. University of British Columbia

Dr. Jessica Phillips-Silver, PhD, cognitive neuroscientist

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