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Students from across Saskatchewan were drawing to the beat thanks to a Culture Days and LIVE Arts partnership.

By: Shaunna Grandish

Artist and illustrator Allan Dotson worked with grades one to eight students at Caswell School in Saskatoon on September 27 and 28, 2018 as part of the 2018 Culture Days weekend. His workshops were simultaneously broadcast, thanks to LIVE Arts, across the province to over 120 schools, with over 2,700 students registered to view and participate in learning how to draw a detailed scene of a dancing humanoid character.

The students began the session by sketching simple drawing of musical instruments. They then listed to four different music samples and were encouraged to move their own bodies to the rhythm. After listening to each song, the children drew a stick person whose pose and lines best responded to the music. The students afterwards chose one of the stick figures to finish as a detailed drawing. Read more….

 

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When Art is the Best Medicine

Imagine being sung to before surgery. Picture weavings in a medical procedure room. Visualize a painter’s canvas and palette next to a hospital bed. In different parts of Canada, these imaginings—and more—are reality. From coast to coast, links are growing between arts and medicine. Read more…

 

2018 Culture Days in Saskatchewan Activity Guide

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The 2018 Culture Days in Saskatchewan Activity Guide is your key to finding FREE, hands-on and interactive arts and cultural activities near you! Check it out and start planning your Culture Days weekend!

Culture Days in Saskatchewan 2018 – Event Organizer Resources

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To help you make your Culture Days activity extra fun and memorable, and to add a bit of Culture Days flair, here are some templates for you:

Culture Days Bingo Card

This item serves two purposes: the bingo card side gives participants an idea of the incredible array of cultural activities that they can participate in. For events with multiple activities, it can be used to encourage participants to explore all of the activities (with small prizes for those who get a BINGO). On the back of the card is a short form that activity and event organizers can use to collect contact information in order to send information about upcoming programs and opportunities.

Click on the image below and then print off, double-sided, in colour on letter-sized (8.5″ X 11″) paper. You can then colour photocopy as many as you want! Don’t forget to separate the cards!

Culture Days Bunting Flag Design

Click on the template below for a bunting flag design that you can print off in colour on legal-sized (8.5″ X 14″) paper, colour photocopy and then assemble yourself.

Grab your scissors, a glue stick/tape/or stapler and some string and get busy creating your own bunting flag to add a little flair to your Culture Days activity!

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Try Something New @ Culture Days Paper Fortune Teller

Check out this super fun activity for the young and young-at-heart that will give you ideas to try for Culture Days! Just click on the template for a paper fortune teller design and then print it off in colour on letter-sized paper (8.5″ X 11″) to have extras on hand for your Culture Days weekend. PS: you can colour photocopy as many as you like!

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Have fun!

Get #OnBeat with Culture Days!

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Photo courtesy Culture Days 2017 by Kevin Hogarth

What is OnBeat?

Presented by National Partner Sun Life Financial, OnBeat is a collective drumming and rhythm-inspired event bringing together Canadians from coast-to-coast, in-person and online, to celebrate making the arts accessible, inclusive and fun!

Drumming is:

  • Universal – nearly every culture in the world has some form of percussion music
  • Varied – there are thousands of rhythms and patterns to explore
  • Accessible – whether someone is a toddler or a centenarian, they can bang a drum!
  • Inclusive – collective drumming events are welcoming, and designed to include all willing participants
  • Powerful – the rhythm of a drum excites the heartbeat, moves the feet and stirs the soul

OnBeat programming does not have to be limited to drumming. Rhythm can make its way into many different art forms and cultural practices including dance, visual arts, theatre, digital arts and storytelling.

OnBeat events will activate public squares and plazas, parks, streets, concert halls, community centres, gymnasiums and other public spaces where thousands of Canadians will get on beat together!

Coordinated live-streams will broadcast from locations across the country, direct to the Culture Days homepage throughout the weekend reaching thousands more.

Here are a few other ways you can incorporate rhythm into your Culture Days weekend:

  • Develop a dance workshop. Recent examples include tap, powwow dancing, hip hop, break dancing, Bhangra, line dancing, Scottish ceilidh and belly dancing
  • Schedule a jam session or instrument petting zoo
  • Lead a deep-listening hike through a park or urban environment to identify the rhythms all around us
  • Plan a beat poetry slam to find the rhythm in spoken word
  • Host a build your own instrument workshop. How many different ways can you build a drum? A guitar? A trumpet?
  • Program a paint-to-the-beat event. Have participants listen to music and paint what they hear
  • Organize a DJ workshop and mix your own beats
  • Coordinate a Battle of the Bands or musician mash-ups

Check out Saskatchewan’s Culture Days events listing so you can get OnBeat for Culture Days!

Culture Days in Saskatchewan – 2018 Shipping Form

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Hello Culture Days activity organizers! Each year we strive to equip everyone with promotional items like balloons, posters and buttons to help make Culture Days activities extra fun and memorable.

In order to get these items delivered in advance of Culture Days on September 28, 29 & 30, 2018, we require a shipping address by August 24, 2018.

Please note that the form has been slightly modified this year to include requests for Culture Days flags and/or sample proclamation wording for those communities that plan to make a Culture Days municipal proclamation and/or hold a flag-raising ceremony.

Don’t forget that in order to receive your SWAG, your Culture Days activity must also be registered and published on the Culture Days website.

Please fill out the form below and submit it to make sure you get your FREE Culture Days promo items!

 

Culture Days SWAG – Shipping Address Needed

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Hello Culture Days activity organizers! Each year we strive to ensure that everyone is equipped with promotional items like balloons, posters and buttons to help make your Culture Days activity fun and memorable. In order to get these items delivered in advance of the Culture Days weekend, we require a shipping address by August 25, 2017. Please note that in order to receive your SWAG, your Culture Days activity must also be registered and published on the Culture Days website.

Please fill out the form below and submit it to make sure you get your FREE Culture Days promo items!

 

Proclaim Culture Days in your Community!

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Since Culture Days began in 2010, more and more communities are using an official municipal proclamation as an opportunity to highlight and celebrate the cultural activities in their area. Moose Jaw, Bengough, Elbow, and Estevan, as well as the Province of Saskatchewan, have all proclaimed Culture Days in the past.

Join the movement. Celebrate the difference culture is making in your community! Visit www.culturedays.ca for more information about Culture Days.

Please note that flag supplies are limited  and will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.

Download the Sample Culture Days Proclamation Wording here!

To request your flag – please fill out the form below:

Culture Days in Saskatchewan 2017

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It’s never too soon to start thinking about Culture Days! Stay tuned for more information about the eighth annual Culture Days in Saskatchewan weekend, taking place September 29, 30 and October 1, 2017.

In the meantime, here’s a little reminder of last year’s Culture Days in Saskatchewan weekend – enjoy!

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