• How Hip-Hop Can Save the World: Mindfulness and Creativity

    This is the second of three articles in the series How Hip-Hop Can Save the World by author and public speaker Khodi Dill. This edition focuses on how to move past mindless distractions with hip-hop’s help to create calm mindfulness.

    Read it here!Read the first article on equality here
  • National Culture Indicators First Quarter 2024

    Statistics Canada’s news outlet The Daily has released the National Culture & Sport indicators for the first quarter of 2024. Click below to read SAA’s summary of the most relevant culture data.

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  • Chalk and Cheese

    Read the latest article in our Rural Artist Working Group Series on what it is like to work in isolation. dee Hobsbawn-Smith writes of life on her quirky old farmhouse with her partner Dave Margoshes.

    This op-ed will be followed by a response written by Dave Margoshes.

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  • The Future of Professional Dancers in Saskatchewan

    Read our latest op-ed written by professional dancer Marcus Merasty as he writes on realities of Dancers in Saskatchewan and their future.

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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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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.

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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Advocacy means supporting a cause or a proposal, something you believe in, especially the importance of an issue to decision-makers.

Jacqui Shumiatcher

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