Celebrating Success
Saskatoon Artist Exhibition in Slovakia
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 568
On 18 May 2013, Saskatoon artist Tammy Lu will open her latest art exhibition in the Fiľakovo Castle Museum in Slovakia. The opening is part of this year's Night of Museums programme, a Europe-wide event organised under the aegis of the European Council and UNESCO.
A Winning Combination
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 605
The Core Series, a unique collaboration between PAVED Arts and the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, combines orchestral music and media art to increase accessibility and encourage new audience development.
Big River Cree Performs at Nammys
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 585
Big River Cree, a group from northern Saskatchewan, performed at the 2013 Native American Music Awards with Canadian singer Nelly Furtado on Friday, May 10, 2013. The group also received the award for Debut Group of the Year.
Life of Pi Wins Four Oscars
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 573
The film, Life of Pi, adapted from Saskatoon author Yann Martel's award-winning novel, was awarded four statues at the 2013 Academy Awards.
Members of the Arts Community Honoured
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 594
Throughout 2012, the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year, individuals across Canada were awarded medals for their exceptional service to the community. This includes a number of prominent members of the Saskatchewan arts community, such as philanthropist Dr. Jacqui Shumiatcher.
Saskatchewan 2013 Juno Nominees
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 573
Congratulations to the Saskatchewan nominees for the 2013 JUNO Awards: The Sheepdogs for Single of the Year, Album of the Year and Group of the Year; and Donny Parenteau for Aboriginal Album of the Year.
Saskatoon Ukrainian Dancers Featured on Rick Mercer Report
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 516
The Ukrainian Palette of Pavlychenko and Saskatoon School of Dance were featured on the Rick Mercer Report on CBC TV on Tuesday, January 22, 2013.
Sask Writer Wins $60,000 Writer's Prize
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 892
Saskatoon author Candace Savage has won this year's Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory From a Prairie Landscape.
Sask Musicians Win Canada Council Competition
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 570
Saskatchewan violinists Kerry DuWors and Carissa Klopoushak were among 18 winners of the prestigious Canada Council 2012 Musical Instrument Bank Competition, which gives classical musicians the opportunity to play rare, exceptional instruments for a three-year period.
Saskatchewan Craft Council Jury Results
- Details
- Category: Celebrating Success
- Hits: 640
Results of the March 10 and 11 Saskatchewan Craft Council Annual Jury Session. Ten out of twelve applicants in glass, fibre and sculpture were granted SCC Juried Status.