Entries by Kevin

SaskScapes featured on CBC’s “Podcast Playlist”

What a thrill for us all to have SaskScapes featured in an episode of the national CBC radio show “Podcast Playlist”.  The show features podcasts from around the world and in this weeks episode entitled “Keeping it Local” episode 57 of SaskScapes is featured in the last segment. A stand-out experience this summer has been the […]

SaskScapes – The Meadow Lake Story Slam

It’s another live Story Slam episode! Recorded with an audience at the Meadow Lake library, these stories, told by locals, range from pap smears, to being lost on the side of a mountain, to a crises of translation in a foreign land. Perhaps, most stirring of all the stories is that told by a local […]

SaskScapes – School Stories

It’s great to be back in Meadow Lake, and this time Kevin Power heads off to school! This episode features conversations and stories with two high school classes over two days. The school: Carpenter High School. The stories: funny, silly, and touching. Does it make you wish you could live your high school years again?! […]

SaskScapes – Culture Days in Kamsack

Join Kevin Power in this 3rd episode during the Culture Days weekend in Saskatchewan. In this episode Kevin visits the community of Kamsack where once again food is front and centre; baked goods, ethnic cuisine and even lessons in butter churning. Bannock making, lessons in history, First Nations song and dance, and Doukhobor tradition are […]

SaskScapes – Culture Days in Preeceville

It’s another Culture Days episode! Join Kevin Power as he heads to Preeceville, SK after spending time in Yorkton (episode 65). The Preeceville Heritage Museum committee pulls out all the stops with an “Ethnic Desert Night”. Prepare to have your salivary glands activated as several of Kevin’s guests talk about their cultural background and how […]

SaskScapes – Culture Days in Yorkton

It’s a Culture Days 2015 retrospective as Kevin Power travels to Yorkton to explore how that community celebrates during the nation wide movement honouring our culture. This is Kevin’s first stop during the weekend, but as you’ll see, there is a common theme in all three of the Culture Day’s podcast episodes coming up. That theme […]

SaskScapes – The Happy Nun Story Slam

Kevin Power travels to one of the smallest towns in Saskatchewan with one of the top restaurants in the Province! The Happy Nun Cafe (www.thehappynuncafe.com), located in Forget, has all the ambience of a country cafe with a menu that is as sophisticated as they come.  The Happy Nun is a dream come true for […]

SaskScapes – with guest Gary Edwards

Gary Edwards is a Cultural Support Provider for Residential School Survivors at All Nations Hope in Regina. A survivor himself, Gary was rounded up by a gunboat and issued to a residential school in Ile Ste. Croix at the age of 2. Gary talks about his experience, painting pictures with his words- his phrasing almost poetic. He speaks of his […]

SaskScapes – “6 degrees of Taron”

If you ever find yourself playing a Saskatchewan music trivia game you’ll want this guy on your team! And if you are ever in search of the perfect Saskatchewanian to be the subject of a “6 degrees of separation” game, well look no further! Taron Cochrane has received many accolades in our province and it’s […]