Stormy Weather

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by Mark Turner In five short days, our friends and colleagues at the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony (KWS) went from canceling a season to filing for bankruptcy and ceasing operations. And only a few weeks ago, ArtSpace in Toronto announced it…
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Part One: Contract Labour and Saskatchewan’s Creative Ecology.

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An Overview of the Increased Need for Education, Advocacy, and Sustainability for Independent Contractors in the Arts after the Pandemic.   Edith Skeard for the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance  Introduction In Saskatchewan, independent…
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Making Art in the Middle of Nowhere – Challenges of being a Rural Artist

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Making Art in the Middle of Nowhere - Challenges of being a Rural Artist Art can be made everywhere. But being an artist also involves being a part of a community, exposing oneself to new ideas and other forms of art and expression, and receiving…
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We started with an acknowledgement of wind

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We started with an acknowledgement of wind By Ariana Malthaner I have always been obsessed with words. Whether it was voraciously absorbing them through the endless stream of library books that passed through my greedy hands, or the way…
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The Future of Saskatchewan’s Arts Ecosystem: Rebuilding a Community

The Future of Saskatchewan’s Arts Ecosystem: Rebuilding a Community by Jeremy Morgan At the 2022 Sask Arts Awards I had the chance to make a few remarks about my experience in Saskatchewan since coming from Nova Scotia in 1989. I want…

On Boredom; reflections on isolation and creativity

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On Boredom; reflections on isolation and creativity.  Edith Skeard “I am alone, so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes.” ― Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie The long hours…

Hybrid Identity: Toward an Unknown

Hybrid Identity: Toward an Unknown Written by Mohadese Movahed On a cold evening in mid-February on the streets of Regina, a memory of Persian gardens came flooding back to me as I was walking on snow and trying to stay upright to avoid…

Investing in the Arts: Process over Production

Investing in the Arts: Process over Production Written by Carla Harris Over the last 10 years, I have noticed real progress being made to diversify the artists who receive funding in Saskatchewan. However, new artists need more than just an…

Circling Back

Circling Back by Em Ironstar Almost five years exactly before I started as Executive Director at the Saskatchewan Arts Alliance (SAA), in 2016, I wrote an op-ed for the SAA about the importance of scalable, responsive funding for emerging arts…
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Integration: Credit Union Spark Centre

Integration: Credit Union Spark Centre Regan Lanning, Curator for the City of Weyburn writes about their innovative Spark Centre where they believe believe that by integrating the two we are doubling our reach, creating opportunities for…
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Personal Essay on being a Disabled Artist by John Loeppky

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Personal Essay on being a Disabled Artist by John Loeppky Working as an emerging disabled artist in Saskatchewan gave me a nervous breakdown. I have cerebral palsy (CP), but it is safe to say I have never been in the business of collecting…
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The Psychology of Creativity: How the Arts Benefit Mental Health

Read Graham Wall's Op-ed as he explores three benefits that artistic activity has for mental health: concentration, self-expression, and socialization. To read the magazine pdf format, click here. The Psychology of Creativity: How the Arts…
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4 Simple Lessons Artists Can Learn from Software Engineering by Josh Gonzales

4 Simple Lessons Artists Can Learn from Software Engineering The world feels like it’s changing faster than we can keep up. COVID-19 has fundamentally changed how artists interact with audiences and there is no going “back to normal”.…
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Publishing in a Pandemic by MacKenzie Hamon

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Publishing in a Pandemic By MacKenzie Hamon I was first asked to write this article back in February, which feels simultaneously like the eight months it’s been, but also like several years, or just yesterday. Ask me what I thought the future…
The troupe from the Saskatchewan Arts organization Listen to Dis on stage accepting applause from the audience.

Shaping the Stage by Kelsey Culbert

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Shaping the Stage By Kelsey Culbert Art, in all its forms, is a powerful thing. It can change people’s lives in many different ways; it certainly changed mine. It allowed me to be involved in a career that is often overlooked as an option…

Some Thoughts on Reconciliation and Canada 150 by Michel Boutin

I’d like you to look at your feet. What are they touching? Is it earth, maybe wood? Most likely it is some form of laminate, polyester carpeting or concrete. How far do you actually have to go to touch the ground?For Indigenous people land…

Worth More Than the Minimum

I am often reminded of how fortunate Canadian artists are to labour under our status quo; that is, a national fee schedule that articulates appropriate payment standards. In other national contexts, artists aren’t protected by a framework…

Learning Inside-Out by Krista Solheim

I am a dancer, choreographer, body worker and teacher.  I am inspired by the uniqueness of how a single body moves through this world, the literal container for all that an individual has collected and accumulated over time, the physical and…