Tag Archives: Arts
U.S. rocker returns home
The 1990s were the height of the post-grunge, alternative rock scene in Los Angeles, and Shellbrook native, Trevor Kustiak and his band Cool for August were at the center of it. "Everything happened q...
Oct 16, 2019 Trevor Kustiak (on guitar) performs at Music Midtown festival in Atlanta in 1997. (Facebook/Cool for August)
New book explores Indigenous justice in Canada
A new book by Harold Johnson called Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada explores the idea of replacing deterrence with redemption in the legal system.Johnson held a book la...
Oct 09, 2019 Harold Johnson's new book can be purchased online. (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Little Shop of Horrors ‘a perfect addition’ to Halloween weekend in the Battlefords
A musical about a seemingly innocent flower that quickly shows how not every blossom that blooms is sweet will take the stage in North Battleford this month.Little Shop of Horrors will show at the Dek...
Oct 08, 2019 The Little House of Horrors. (Instagram/pplrppl/timkip.com)
Granite benches installed to accompany 'Weeping Willow' sculpture at Mount Pleasant Cemetery
The Meditation Garden at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Melfort has some new additions.The Communities in Bloom (CIB) project that features the 'Weeping Willow' sculpture made by local welder, Rob Jun...
Oct 08, 2019 Two granite benches have been installed at the Meditation Garden at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Melfort, alongside the Weeping Willow sculpture. (Angie Rolheiser/northeastNOW Staff)
Unique community space eyes upgrades
If you don't know what you're looking for, you could drive by the St. Brieux Midway Theatre thinking it's just another one of the many metal Quonset huts that dot rural Saskatchewan, perhaps full of f...
Oct 04, 2019 Inside the Quonset hut that houses the St. Brieux Midway Theatre. (Facebook/St. Brieux Midway Theatre)
Thunderchild First Nation ballerina accepted into international company
When Kia Jimmy steps into her role on the stage as a ballerina she says she finds her voice as an artist. The Thunderchild First Nation member who grew up in Saskatoon is thrilled she was accepted int...
Oct 02, 2019 Kia Jimmy is a member of the Thunderchild First Nation. (supplied)
City of Melfort seeking input ahead of establishing art policy
Throughout 2019, staff members from the City of Melfort have been seeking ideas and recommendations for its first public art policy.The art policy's blueprint was presented by Brent Lutz, Melfort's di...
Oct 02, 2019 Brent Lutz (left) presenting the City of Melfort's plans for a public art policy to numerous members of the city's art community. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)
Council approves policy for E.A. Rawlinson Fund
Prince Albert city council has thrashed out a clear future for a half a million-dollar fund earmarked for the E.A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts. Previously the money had been managed by the P.A. and ...
Oct 02, 2019 Inside the John and Olive Diefenbaker Theatre at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre. (File photo/paNOW staff)
P.A.-raised woman makes magical moves
As a small Prince Albert schoolgirl, Carisa Hendrix would invent tricks. She'd hide playing cards and then produce them out of nowhere, or from a pocket of clothing from some unsuspecting family-membe...
Oct 01, 2019 Carisa Hendrix makes magic while in the guise of Lucy Darling. (submitted photo/Kerri O'Brien photography)
Culture Days returns to P.A.
It's going to be a big weekend for arts in Prince Albert with the annual Culture Days set to kick off on Friday."We have a lot of assets, a lot of artists and a lot of culture within our community," P...
Sep 27, 2019 Mann Art Gallery Director Lana Wilson (City of P.A. website)