Tag Archives: Arts
Battleford Street Fest now set for September
Despite a rough start, the Battleford street festival will go on.The Battleford Spirit Group volunteers who are organizing the event have decided to set a new date for the festival, as the event had t...
Aug 02, 2019 An example of a street festival in Prince Albert. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Witness Blanket exhibition coming to North Battleford
A national art project that serves to collect memories as much as it does to preserve a dark period in Canada's history will come to the Chapel Gallery later this year.The Witness Blanket Project serv...
Jul 27, 2019 The Witness Blanket Project will be coming to North Battleford in December. (submitted photo/Leah Garven)
International Street Fest kicks off in North Battleford
With the sweet lemonade sun shining through blue skies and the sound of children's giggles filling the air, there couldn't have been a more perfect day to unbox this year's North Battleford Internatio...
Jul 26, 2019 One of the festival performers entertains people Friday afternoon. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Organizers for Danceland at Manitou Beach less concerned about water levels ahead of homecoming
Saskatchewan's famous dance hall with a horse hair floor at Manitou Beach will host a homecoming this weekend.Danceland has survived 10 years of high-water levels at Little Manitou Lake and still stan...
Jul 18, 2019 Danceland at Manitou Beach will host a homecoming on Friday and Saturday. (Angie Rolheiser/northeastNOW Staff)
Sask. researchers to study health benefits of Métis jigging
The fitness potential of traditional Mtis jigging is the subject of a new research project at the University of Saskatchewan (USask).Heather Foulds, assistant professor in the College of Kinesiology, ...
Jul 15, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Métis youth heading to Kenya for program says learning has no borders
For Gavin Blondeau, learning doesn't end in the classroom, it's a way of life. That's why the Mtis youth is over the moon to be one of two youth from Saskatchewan selected in an international internsh...
Jul 14, 2019 Métis youth Gavin Blondeau, the son of one of the current Chapel Gallery show artists, has been selected for an internship program that will take him to Kenya. (Submitted photo/Gavin Blondeau)
North Battleford Public Library hosting '80s themed escape room
Residents will have the chance to travel back in time this weekend at the North Battleford Public Library.Saturday, the library is hosting a 1980s themed escape room event from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Group...
Jul 10, 2019 Illustration 132539939 © Taras Gavryliuk - Dreamstime.com
Artists take on 2016 oil leak that impacted North Saskatchewan River
It's an artistic list that depicts a dark episode for a critical waterway: an adding machine, the colour black, fauna displaced, visual cut-outs of children "lost" by environmental damage, and quilted...
Jul 06, 2019 Artist Heather Hochbaum shows her art project depicting the river and the communities that access it. (Angela Brown/battlefoNOW Staff)
Hoop Dancer vows to unite people on provincial tour
An accomplished grass and hoop dancer from Regina will be touring the province this summer, and the elimination of racism is one of his key messages.Terrance Littletent has been performing for over 30...
Jul 05, 2019 (Facebook/ Terrance Littletent)
Local artist of Ukrainian descent tells story of Canada's immigrant internment camps
Sandra Semchuk wants to bring to light many of the untold stories of those who suffered in internment camps in Canada, largely from the present-day Ukraine, during the First World War with her new boo...
Jul 05, 2019 Sandra Semchuk will present her book The Stories Were Not Told: Canada’s First World War Internment Camps at an upcoming event in North Battleford. (submitted photo/The Chapel Gallery)