Tag Archives: Arts
PNLS set for northern author tour
SaskPower's Northern Reading Program will have an author tour this month at 10 schools including Gordon Denny Community School in Air Ronge. The tour is organized by Pahkisimon Nuyeh Library System (P...
Feb 07, 2020 The author tour begins Feb. 24 in Cumberland House. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Local writers receive $17,500 in Saskatchewan Arts Board funding
Two writers from the tri-communities have received a total of $17,500 from the Saskatchewan Arts Board to assist them in ongoing projects. Miriam Krner was given a $10,000 Independent Artists grant to...
Feb 07, 2020 Miriam Körner was one of the funding recipients. (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
Festival kicking into high gear this weekend
The Prince Albert Winter Festival will host some of its bigger events this weekend.Friday evening will see the festival's Rock Show Experience. A second show will take place Saturday at the Prince Alb...
Feb 06, 2020 The Classic Rock Show is happening Friday and Saturday at the Prince Albert Exhibition Centre. (Facebook/Prince Albert Winter Festival)
'I can remember the magic': northeast residents reflect on trains in the Melfort area
Melfort and District Museum celebrated Saskatchewan's Archives Week in the most wholesome way it could: Brew some coffee and share stories.The latest Coffee and Conversations hosted by the museum focu...
Feb 05, 2020 A train track setup in Melfort and District Museum. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)
Music program hits the right notes
Eliza Doyle is proud of how a one-year musician-in-residency program in Stanley Mission is progressing. The program began in September 2019 with the arrival of Erik Mehlsen, who taught community membe...
Feb 04, 2020 Mitch Dureault is teaching local kids how to play the fiddle. (submitted photo/Eliza Doyle)
La Loche man wins Indigenous artist grant on first attempt
La Loche artist Bobby Janvier received a $6,370 Indigenous Peoples Art and Artists grant to "build a skiff, sled and a canoe."Janvier told meadowlakeNOW, he applied for the grant to buy new tools to c...
Feb 04, 2020 (submitted photo/Saskatchewan Art Board Facebook)
Mistawasis school among local art grant recipients
A high school 45 minutes west of P.A. is getting $10,000 to fund a collaborative art project. Mistawasis Nhiyawak High School was one of several local grant recipients announced by the Saskatchewan Ar...
Feb 03, 2020 A Medicine Wheel mural created by Mistawasis students and artist Kris Moffatt last year. (submitted photo/Denise Desjardins)
Prince Albert Winter Festival crowns the winner of 'Funniest Guy with a Day Job Competition.'
You might be able to crack a few jokes at work but can you get up in front of a crowd and perform under pressure?Last night six amateur-Saskatchewan comedians took to the stage and competed for the ti...
Jan 31, 2020 Shawn Bourassa (centre) won the 2020 title of the 'Funniest Guy with a Day Job.' (Ron Quaroni/paNOW Staff)
Curator organizes '137 different personalities' for the P.A. Winter Festival Art Show
The two-day process of arranging the pieces submitted to the annual Winter Festival Art Show has finished at the Mann Gallery.Guest curator and artist Tim Moore told paNOW the project is challenging b...
Jan 30, 2020 Anyone is Saskatchewan was invited to submit works to the open call exhibition. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
Locally-made movie to hit major streaming service
Prince Albert and area residents have the chance to beat the world to the punch as Run Wolf, Run is set to make its Prince Albert premiere.Coming up on Monday Feb. 3, the locally-made movie will be sh...
Jan 28, 2020 (submitted photo/Run Wolf, Run Facebook page)