Into the Future Wild: Taking Charge of Change

This picture provides insights into the system’s current health and longer term sustainability and, in particular, the capacity of artists to adapt to challenges and changes from inside and outside the system. Mary…

Bring Out Your Dead! (Better yet, bring out your artists)

(Opinion piece by Kelley Jo Burke, SAA president, but trust me…this is just from me…..)I have a friend who’s one of the true Eeyores of the world…gloomy by nature, and proud of it. So when the new year began with the dollar plunging…

Making space for Saskatoon artists: artSpace eyes the bus barns

Saskatoon has a thriving, vibrant arts community, but it's missing purpose-built, dedicated makerspace, and artSpace aims to change that. Ashleigh Mattern is a Saskatoon-based writer, editor, and entrepreneur. She has been working…

Is Tradition Limiting Music Education?

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The musical tree has many branches and it's up to those who are passionate about each branch to keep it vibrant and alive. Allen McWilliams is a music teacher with Regina Public Schools. He is in his thirteenth year of teaching.…

My Music Education – Outside of Tradition

By looking at forms of music education outside traditional models such as those created through technology, an understanding of music is increased.  Chris Merk, also known as Merky Waters, is a Regina Saskatchewan based Hip-Hop producer,…

Open Letter from Members of the Arts Community to the Arts Board

Last March, one of the province’s most well respected arts administrators: Jeremy Morgan resigned as interim CEO of Saskatchewan Arts Board (SAB) – just three months after his appointment. SAB Board Member Ranjan Thakre quickly resigned…

Lead by Example: Cut the Cord

Emily is proof that art opens doors in the mind. It allows children to wander within themselves and sort out life in their own way; confidently.  Dawn Brown is a Communications Consultant based in Regina, Saskatchewan. She worked in…

A Rope of Sand: Change in Saskatchewan`s Creative Economy

Did working toward developing an agency like Creative Saskatchewan alleviate the worry and fear in the arts and cultural sector? It didn`t.  Jillian Bell is a writer and editor who lives in the Qu’Appelle Valley. She was part of the…

A Pointed Shoe: The Challenges of Securing Arts Funding in Northern Saskatchewan

As an independent artist, and on behalf of both groups, I have applied for numerous arts grants.  Some have been successful, and many have not.  I don’t give up easily.    I carefully place an elegant shoe next to the laptop and…

Turning Mistakes Into Gold

Turning Mistakes Into GoldMarsha DeLouchery-Day works in Saskatoon as an artist and visual art reviewer for the StarPhoenix newspaper.The vacated premises at the Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus are a sorry sight of downed power lines, damp boarded-up…

Interim President and Vice-Chancellor, U of S Comments on the Kenderdine Campus

Gordon Barnhart, C.M., S.O.M., Ph.D. - Interim President and Vice-Chancellor, University of SaskatchewanThe Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus has been, since its opening in 1936, a symbol of the University of Saskatchewan’s, and the province’s,…

Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus

The Kenderdine Campus -  September 2014Marcus Miller - Op/Ed EditorOn November 15, 2012, the University of Saskatchewan announced the suspension of all activities at the Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus for a three-year period as it embarked on…

Weddings Aren’t Free. And You Shouldn’t Treat Them As Such.

Something I've noticed as problematic for me is the preponderance of people who feel I should do my work for free. It’s ART after all, right? Born and raised in Regina, Saskatchewan, Andrea Norberg left a promising career at…

Copyright: A Lot at Stake

People will simply go on using what they need, but the creators and publishers will not get paid. Kelly-Anne Riess is the author of two bestselling books about Saskatchewan, and the poetry collection To End a Conversation (Thistledown…

Dance Education Today!

By Ann Kipling Brown, PhD Most administrators, teachers, students, parents and members of the communities in Saskatchewan believe in the aim, goals and objectives of the Arts Education Curriculum. Ann Kipling Brown, Ph.D. is presently…

Challenges Facing Saskatchewan Writers

​ Somehow we’ve lost touch with the community spirit support, the solidarity that once prevailed in being there for the “team.” Judith Silverthorne is an award winning Saskatchewan-based author of over a dozen children's novels,…

A short history & self-justification of a working artist

Many cultural workers are growing weary of quoting statistics and constantly fighting for the arts... Twyla is a visual artist based in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. She studied visual art in Regina and Montreal, graduating with a Bachelor…

Our Changing Landscape

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I am - for the first time in my career – seriously considering a move from my home province. Film Director Lowell Dean loves the Saskatchewan landscape. He’s eager to tell local stories and is convinced that this province is “the…