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General Culture

Building capacity in the cultural sector: Lunch and Learns support member growth

SaskCulture’s Lunch and Learns are equipping cultural leaders with the knowledge and tools they need to thrive.

Saskatchewan
Jun, 2025
Photo of Gospel Choir Finale Concert Performance.
Arts

Building equity through participatory grant-making: Involvement in grant assessment builds shared understanding

Since the Building Arts Equity: BPOC (BAE) program was launched in 2023, the grant has engaged around 50 applicants in participatory grant-making, with an application review process that involves local artists, community members, and experts to review an

Saskatoon
Jun, 2025
Truth and Reconciliation

Deepening understanding of Truth and Reconciliation: Guiding change through relationships and shared learning

The release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Call to Action in 2015 marked a defining moment for SaskCulture’s commitment to listen deeply, confront difficult truths, and take meaningful steps toward change.

Saskatchewan
Jun, 2025
General Culture

Improving access and building capacity: New fund supports access to grants

Barriers to accessing funding for arts and culture projects remain a challenge for many individuals and organizations, but a recently introduced support fund is helping change that.

Saskatchewan
Jun, 2025
Photo of child painting a colourful art piece
Arts, General Culture

Increasing cultural programming in the North: Library art program fills community gap

The resulting Arts in the Library project was funded through the Northern Youth Cultural Fund and aims to improve the accessibility of cultural programming and activities in the area.

Lac La Ronge First Nation
Jun, 2025
Keegan and Taegen Isaac playing their violins
Arts

Investing in youth to build lasting impact: Creating lifelong opportunities for youth

Supporting children and youth’s access to life-changing cultural activities is an important investment in any community.

Saskatchewan
Jun, 2025
Burundian Community together in traditional dress.
Multiculturalism

Reactivating cultural connections: Celebration returns stronger after pandemic pause

“It’s important for our community to stay connected with one another to teach our future generations our identity and our history before and after we came to Canada

Regina
Jun, 2025
SaskCulture worked with Ivy + Dean Consulting, Left Turn Right Turn, and Praxis Consulting to explore leading funding practices to help guide its strategic direction.
General Culture

Shaping equitable funding through continuous learning : Increasing impact and sustainability of funding

Creating a more equitable system is essential to shaping a funding model that is both inclusive and sustainable

Saskatchewan
Jun, 2025
The Museums Association of Saskatchewan created an Elders Circle to help guide respectful repatriation efforts  across the province
Indigenous

Strengthening support for repatriation: MAS builds relationships and capacity in repatriation work

“Not every Rights Holder is going to be immediately ready to take these cultural belongings back, and that’s up to each museum to navigate that. But the important piece is that museums need to be ready to respond to what Rights Holders need.”

Saskatchewan
Jun, 2025
Photo of people participating in a Culture Days event.
General Culture

Sustaining cultural engagement across communities: Event organizers reflect on the benefits of ongoing participation

Since 2010, Culture Days has helped highlight the powerful role that arts, culture, and heritage play in bringing Saskatchewan communities together.

Saskatchewan
Jun, 2025
A photo of the choir, led by a choir director. The faces of the singers are blurred.
Arts

2SLGBTQ+ choir creates inclusive space

This vibrant community comes together every week to find their voice, build connections, and make music.

Regina
Apr, 2025
A photo of the women from different cultural backgrounds that came together to create an art piece, in front of the art piece.
Arts, Multiculturalism

Collaborative art unites diverse group of women

The collaborative process was a journey in finding commonalities across cultures.

Saskatoon
Apr, 2025
A photo of SaskCulture staff and Culture Days organizers and animateurs.
General Culture

Culture Days: Always growing, always innovating

Culture Days has continued to have a big role in building this awareness and uniting the cultural community in its promotion.

Saskatchewan-wide
Apr, 2025
Nigerian cultural items including a drum, statue, books and jewelry.
General Culture, Multiculturalism

From celebration to connection: How one event brings communities together

The celebration brings people together to reflect on what has been achieved in the diaspora, and to showcase and celebrate Nigerian cultures.

Melfort
Apr, 2025
We Treaty People artists Darryl Dozlaw, Stephen Waldschmidt, Erroll Kinistino, and Josie Linka receiving the Leading Together Award for Burnt Thicket Theatre.
Arts, General Culture, Indigenous

Groundbreaking theatre addresses Reconciliation call

The series did what the organizers hoped for — it pushed buttons without alienating people.

Saskatoon
Apr, 2025
A photo of people of varying ages sitting next to the South Saskatchewan River.
Indigenous, Métis

Land-based canoe trip fosters intergenerational learnings

Bringing a wide range of people together to learn encouraged meaningful relationship-building during the trip.

Saskatoon
Apr, 2025
Artist Girlynne Gascon and her mentor Patrick Fernandez standing in front of many art prints.
Arts, Multiculturalism

Mentorship program makes space for BPOC artists to thrive

The mentorship program is about more than cultivating growth for an emerging artist — it offers an opportunity to preserve culture for future generations.

Regina
Apr, 2025
Artists and performers from across different cultures taking a bow on a stage.
General Culture, Indigenous, Multiculturalism

Music brings cultures together in harmony

The event brought together artists from different cultures to show how music and dance can transcend borders.

Regina
Apr, 2025
A group photo of young people that participated in the Saskatchewan Elocution and Debate Association’s province-wide championship in 2024.
Arts

Shaping open minds through debate helps youth explore new perspectives

Engaging in debate is an innovative way to develop critical thinking skills and the ability to have difficult conversations.

Saskatchewan-wide
Apr, 2025
A group photo of Listen to Dis' performers on a tour stop in Humboldt.
Arts

Tour breaks down barriers: Sharing disability culture in rural Saskatchewan

The tour has created meaningful connections between aspiring rural artists with disabilities and performers.

Apr, 2025
A group of people holding their buffalo paintings
Arts

Art councils contribute to quality of life within communities

Saskatchewan
Nov, 2024
drum making accessories and tools
First Nations

Drum-making teaches youth respect, pride and creative expression

Regina
Nov, 2024
A group of people watch a concert
Arts

Festival experience, local history sites and rural charm attract return tourism

Bengough
Nov, 2024
an audience watches Jeffrey Straker
Arts

Historic elevator museum a tourism draw for Val Marie

Val Marie
Nov, 2024
a photo of a group of orchestra members sitting and holding violins
Arts

Life-long learning opportunities enrich the musical landscape in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan
Nov, 2024
a group of people painting circles
Arts

painting together inspires inclusion

Rosthern
Nov, 2024
People at an exhibition looking at photographs
Arts

Photography project instills multicultural understanding through moments of joy

Saskatchewan
Nov, 2024
logo that says Mixed Crips Podcast
Arts

Podcast builds awareness around disability culture

Saskatchewan
Nov, 2024
Students in the Small Fires Indigenous Mentorship Program dance Powwow.
First Nations

Powwow project empowers youth to lead

Lloydminster
Nov, 2024
Five people smiling holding up tomatoes
General Culture

Sharing stories over soup brings community together

Nipawin
Nov, 2024
Three women sit at a table smiling
Métis

Strengething community pride and connection through storytelling

Saskatoon
Nov, 2024
Five people perform on a stage
Arts

Theatre company builds their community through performance coaching and encouragement

Biggar
Nov, 2024
A photo of people at an event by an Aboriginal Friendship Centres of Saskatchewan.
General Culture, Indigenous

AFCS helps local Centres address capacity for cultural programming

In recent years, many Aboriginal Friendship Centres in the province saw unprecedented growth and demand for more culturally relevant programming.

Saskatchewan
Jul, 2024
A photo of pamphlets for the Building Arts Equity grant.
Arts, Multiculturalism

By us for us: Innovation towards equity in arts funding

The inclusive and equitable program design, resulted in many new first-time applicants and another success with the participatory grant-making process.

Saskatchewan
Jul, 2024
A photo of Yorkton residents learning how to make Jamaican cuisine as one of the Culture 365 events held throughout the year by Culture Days Yorkton.
Arts, General Culture, Municipality

Culture 365: Enjoying cultural experiences year-round

Highlighting cultural activities all year-round is a great way to keep people engaged. Who wouldn’t want to celebrate Culture Days all year long?

Yorkton
Jul, 2024
A group photo taken at the Building Arts Equity grant launch that shows staff from SaskCulture, SK Arts, the Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan, and other community partners.
General Culture

Deeper understanding of different value-based needs, key to funding renewal

Learning how to connect to a greater diversity of people and perspectives is key to building a better funding model that will be sustainable into the future.

Saskatchewan
Jul, 2024
A photo of kids smiling and painting at an event funded by the NYCF.
General Culture

Exploring a shared delivery model strengthens funding programs

Since they were formed, these partnerships have resulted in increased uptake, increased leadership, and more.

Saskatchewan
Jul, 2024
A photo of Cole Knutson hugging a person, receiving a diploma.
Arts, General Culture

Former Creative Kids recipients now champions for cause

Since its formation in 2010, Creative Kids has helped support thousands of children and youth, who faced financial and social barriers, access meaningful ongoing arts and cultural activities.

Saskatchewan
Jul, 2024
A photo of newcomer youth painting at an event by the Regina Open Door Society.
Indigenous, Multiculturalism, Truth and Reconciliation

Fostering a deeper understanding of Reconciliation for newcomer youth

The Youth Indigenous Education program offers an immersive and inclusive learning environment that furthers newcomers’ understanding of the land they now call home.

Regina
Jul, 2024
A photo of fiddle players at Back to Batoche Days.
Arts, Heritage, Indigenous, Métis

Increasing involvement in cultural experiences: Back to Batoche gets record attendance in 2023

Themed the ‘Year of the Youth’, the 2023 event was designed to engage more young people.

Batoche Historic Site
Jul, 2024
A photo of Damon Badger Heit, SaskCulture Supervisor, Partnerships and Inclusion, presenting at an event.
General Culture

Increasing learning opportunities for community: New ideas for cultural leaders

These online Lunch and Learn sessions were designed to provide cultural leaders with a quick introduction to emerging topics, along with ideas they could immediately put into practice.

Saskatchewan
Jul, 2024
A photo of youth in northern communities in front of computers as part of the development of the world’s first Dene language keyboard.
Heritage, Indigenous

Northern community uses art and technology in language revitalization project

Mackasey decided on an art project that would further develop how the Dene language could be more easily communicated by using technology.

Northern Saskatchewan
Jul, 2024
A graphic of a laptop and a phone open to the OGP login page.
General Culture

Online Grant Platform improves user experience for assessors

New updates to SaskCulture’s Online Grant Platform were made this year to make this process much easier and accessible for volunteer assessors.

Saskatchewan
Jul, 2024
An infographic that shows that for every $1 million invested by the province, SK-Arts-funded organizations generated over $2M from the federal government, $1.8M from the private sector, $1.75M from the municipal government, and $1.2M in earned revenue.
Arts

Report demonstrates economic impact of arts funding in Saskatchewan

The repost showed that for every dollar invested by the provincial government, arts organizations generated another $13.70 of economic output.

Saskatchewan
Jul, 2024
A group of young dancers from the Sound of Afghanistan group.
Arts, General Culture, Multiculturalism

Small grant has big impact for Sound of Afghanistan

The group’s access to the Small Grant Accessibility Program provided them with the support to continue their role of healing and spreading their message through music.

Saskatoon
Jul, 2024
A photo of two young people painting and smiling at a Culture Days 2024 activity.
Arts, General Culture, Heritage, Indigenous, Multiculturalism

Active engagement in cultural activity benefits youth

Saskatchewan
Mar, 2024
A photo of a beaded art piece.
Arts, General Culture, Indigenous

Beading connects youth to culture and develops patience

Prince Albert
Mar, 2024
A photo of a line of young Prairie Gael School of Irish Dance dance students at a performance.
Arts, Heritage, Multiculturalism

Dance develops strength, flexibility, confidence and a connection to culture

Regina
Mar, 2024
A photo of Stanley Mission youth attending a workshop at HHC High School.
Arts

Hip Hop Workshop Develops Voice of Northern Youth

Stanley Mission
Mar, 2024
A group photo of kids in a school band, posing with their instruments.
Arts

Honour groups program a symphony of success

Saskatchewan
Mar, 2024

We are Treaty people

SaskCulture's work and support reaches lands covered by Treaties 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 10, the traditional lands of the Cree, Dakota, Dene, Lakota, Nakota and Saulteaux peoples, as well as homeland of the Métis.

We aim to be accessible and safe for everyone

Our office, including front door and washrooms, is wheelchair-accessible (building access at Cornwall Street entrance) during regular office hours. A proud supporter of safer and inclusive spaces initiatives, we are committed to a workplace free from hate, discrimination or harassment, where everyone is welcome.

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