Tag Archives: Arts
The North Battleford City Kinsmen Band to celebrate 70th anniversary
The North Battleford City Kinsmen (NBCK) Band will be celebrating 70 years of sharing their music with the Battlefords. They will be holding a concert titled You Can't Stop the Beat on October 20 at 2...
Aug 30, 2019 NBCK Band will play concert to celebrate 70th anniversary (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)
Onion Lake teepee aims to connect education with tradition
The Onion Lake Cree Nation has announced it is planning a grand opening for its new teepee monument that is part of The Virtues and Community Belonging Project.Organizers helped develop the 31.5 ft. m...
Aug 27, 2019 The new Onion Lake Teepee Monument will have a grand opening celebration Sept. 3. (Submitted photo/Laili Yazdani)
Delta blues guitarist and singer from California coming to The Gog
Veteran Delta Blues guitarist and singer Dorian Michael from California will perform a house concert at The Gog in North Battleford for an upcoming show.Michael is currently on tour and said since he ...
Aug 15, 2019 Blues guitarist and singer Dorian Michael from California will perform at The Gog in North Battleford on Sept. 8. (Submitted photo/Dorian Michael))
Walking with Our Sisters project to honour MMIWG to conclude at Batoche ceremony
The Walking with our Sisters art installation that includes work by local contributors, to commemorate the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) has reached the end of its l...
Aug 14, 2019 Shown are some of the elders who helped create the exhibit when the project visited North Battleford in 2016. Left to right: Elders Jenny Spyglass, Evelyn Thomas, Grace Okemow, Gladys Wapass-Greyeyes and Doreen Thomas. (Submitted photo/Walking with Our Sisters North Battleford)
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)