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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….

 

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!

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!

 

Early Registration Contest Winners

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Congratulations to the Early Registration Contest Winners!

Thank you to all the Saskatchewan communities and activity organizers who entered their Culture Days events on the Culture Days website – there was a terrific response!

Congratulations to our winners, who were randomly drawn from early registrants, to receive a tailor-made video to help promote their Culture Days activities online and through social media. Click on the community names to watch their videos!

The winners, by community, are:

Allan, SK – the community is boasting a myriad of heritage-themed Culture Days activities which include blacksmithing, pine cone bird feeders, quilting and cross-stitching, carpentry, button sewing, hanky dolls and gift bags, butter churning, and bannock-making.

Lloydminster, SK – Lloydminster’s Culture Days weekend includes learning greetings in different languages, science experiments, henna tattoos, Hijab dressing and information sharing, fence weaving and Métis dancing.

Nipawin, SK – Nipawin Oasis Community Centre is offering a variety of interactive, educational and fun events that revolve around the celebration and sharing of Cree culture and language such as Elders’ teachings, teepee teachings and raising, Cree bingo, beadwork and children’s activities, to name just a few.

Prince Albert, SK – Culture Days in Prince Albert this year centres around storytelling through activities like dancing, writing, painting and a Cultural Cafe.

Regina, SK – The Dunlop Art Gallery’s Culture Days focus is Native Kids Ride Bikes: Panel Presentation and Bike Riding featuring four community artists who worked with youth from four community groups to build and decorate low-rider bikes in the spirit of the teachings shared by Métis artist Dylan Miner. Participants will hear about cultural learnings, and be able to view and ride the bikes on display.

Culture Days 2016 – Early Registration Contest

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Register and publish your 2016 Culture Days in Saskatchewan event by July 17, 2016* and you could win a tailor-made video like the one below to promote your Culture Day activity.

 

Details:

It’s easy to enter! Just visit the Culture Days registration site to register and publish your Culture Days in Saskatchewan event bymidnight on July 17, 2016 and you’ll be automatically entered to win!

Up to four registered and published Saskatchewan Culture Days activities will be randomly drawn. Winners will contacted within three business days of the draw to make arrangements for interviews and videoing. Videos will be delivered to event organizers for Culture Days activity promotion by September 1, 2016.

* Events registered and published prior to the contest launch date are automatically entered to win.

SaskScapes – The Provincial Heritage Fair

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This episode is sponsored by Heritage Saskatchewan.  

Heritage Saskatchewan is the collective voice of all those who value heritage in Saskatchewan. As knowledge-brokers and pathfinders, Heritage Saskatchewan raises awareness of Living Heritage.

Join Kevin Power at the Provincial Heritage Fair held in Regina in May 2016. The Heritage Fair program is a student-centered, inquiry learning opportunity to explore Saskatchewan and Canada. For the past 20 years teachers and students from across Saskatchewan (from grades 4 to 8) have been participating in these amazing events. Students are chosen to represent their class or school at one of the four Regional Heritage Fairs and from that event several students are chosen to present their projects at the Provincial Heritage Fair. With brilliant, articulate and passionate young minds like those we hear from in this episode, the future preservation of our heritage is in very good hands!

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SaskScapes – Breathing life into the past: The Saskatchewan Archaeological Society

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Join Kevin Power and members of the Saskatchewan Archaeological Society at their 53rd annual gathering.  We all have archeology – it’s what connects us.  You’ll be amazed at just how far back Saskatchewan’s history has been traced through the discovery of artifacts. But you’ll also hear some great conversations about engaging youth through the work being done by the Society, and the importance of telling the STORY behind the objects found.

THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY SASKCULTURE

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SaskScapes is a podcast featuring the stories of arts, culture and heritage in Saskatchewan. The series is produced and hosted by Kevin Power.  To sponsor your own episodes contact SaskScapes via twitter, Facebook or by email for more information.

Host: Kevin Power www.kevinpower.net

Music provided by Jeffery Straker www.jefferystraker.com

SaskScapes is also available through the iTunes Store on Stitcher Radio and TuneIn Radio. SaskScapes now has its own app for both apple and android devices available in the iTunes store and Google Play.

Follow SaskScapes on Twitter @saskscapes

Follow SaskScapes on Facebook: Facebook.com/saskscapes

Follow Kevin Power on Twitter @kevinpowerlive

SaskScapes – Culture Days in Kamsack

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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 all part of Kamsack’s rich cultural fabric.

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SaskScapes is a podcast featuring the stories of arts, culture and heritage in Saskatchewan. The series is produced and hosted by Kevin Power.  Visit www.iheartculture.ca. Click on the Community Engagement Animateur link to view the work being done by all three of the SaskCulture CEA’s.

Host: Kevin Power www.kevinpower.net

Music provided by Jeffery Straker www.jefferystraker.com

SaskScapes is also available through the iTunes Store on Stitcher Radio and TuneIn Radio. SaskScapes now has its own app for both apple and android devices available in the iTunes store and Google Play.

Follow SaskScapes on Twitter @saskscapes

SaskScapes – Culture Days in Preeceville

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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 the dishes they’ve prepared tie in with their heritage. You’ll also hear from Lorne, one of Preeceville’s former history teachers who talks about how this town came to be, how it has changed over the years, and the history of the Doukhobour’s in this part of the province. And as far as all of those calories on display at this event, I’m told that it is only fattening if you swallow!

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