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By Alison Sandstrom

Lifting Spirits

Sturgeon Lake First Nation launches online talent competition

Mar 31, 2020 | 5:01 PM

COVID-19 may have forced Sturgeon Lake First Nation (SLFN) to cancel their popular Winter Festival, but band leadership has found a creative way to put on a different kind of show for the community.

On Sunday SLFN launched a week-long online talent competition.

“We’ve always looked at bringing people together,” Chief Greg Ermine told paNOW. “If we can’t do that in the physical sense then we figured we could look at a sort of online challenge.”

SLFN band members and community members are invited to submit videos of their talent on the community’s Facebook page. Contestants are divided by age: 17 and under, and 18 and over. The top three performers in each category will win cash prices of up to $300.

Ermine explained performers from any discipline are welcome to enter, “whether it’s singing, musical talent of some sort, any type of dancing, acting, impersonations, any type of talent.”

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In the interest of impartiality, the winners will be determined by a panel of judges from outside the community.

Submissions close at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday.

Ermine said aside from creating a sense of community, the talent show organizers wanted to lift people’s spirits during the pandemic.

“We just wish everybody well during these times,” he said. “We will get through it together.”

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