By Northern Sport Culture and Recreation

Northern Artists and Knowledge Keepers – You Are Needed for Your Communities

Mar 6, 2011 | 3:14 PM

Many First Nations traditional arts and craft artists, story tellers and knowledge keepers have cultural information that will soon be lost if it is not collected and celebrated.

Northern Saskatchewan is proud to have a variety of talented artists and knowledge keepers from traditional story tellers and crafts people, musicians and dance performers to contemporary visual artists.

However, many artists are ‘hidden’ in Northern Saskatchewan’s small and often isolated communities. The artists have little opportunity for exposure and to market their artwork or to share their knowledge with the next generations.

The Northern Sport, Culture and Recreation District’s goal is to help promote Northern artists and to link artists to their communities in Saskatchewan and the art world.

The NSCRD recently received funding of $ 9,500 through the SaskCulture Capacity Building Grant toward the establishment of a Northern Saskatchewan Arts and Culture Handbook.

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Each participating artist will be presented with a short biography, a photo of the artist/their artwork and how they would like to be involved in the community (i.e.through teaching workshops, selling artwork, doing performances).

“It’s a great opportunity to link artists with each other, their community, and the Saskatchewan art world. It will help schools and communities to access artists for programming, community events and showcasing. And it will help artists to pass their skills on, develop them further and receive
support through communities and grant programs,” says Miriam Körner, who was hired as the coordinator for the project.

Community leaders are encouraged to help identify artists within their community and help with the registration progress to ensure their community is well represented in the handbook.

The initial version of the handbook is planned to be completed by the end of March and distributed
to NSCRD members, communities, schools and recreation coordinators.

Registration forms are available through the NSCRD’s web page www.nscrd.com or by phoning the main office at 425-3127 ext. 6 (toll free: 1-877-777-6722).

Artists and communities can only win – and that’s in the double sense of the word: Artists who register by February 15th are entered into a raffle to win a gift-certificate of $ 300 from their favourite
art supplies store.