Personal, intimate, and experiential, Curtain Razors is Saskatchewan's longest tenured experimental multidisciplinary theatre company that works in Saskatchewan, across Canada, and internationally.

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Finale of the Playing for Change Saskatchewan concert on September 22 in Regina,organized by Blue Sky Cultural Connections in collaboration with the Artful Dodger and Common Weal Community Arts.

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The Regina Folk Festival presents an amazing weekend once a year. In 2013, it rolls around August 9th -11th in the heart of Regina's vibrant community, Victoria Park. This is a spectacularly good time. Be sure to check our website for our lineup!

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SaskMusic is a non-profit association that represents, promotes and develops the commercial music industry of Saskatchewan. If you have questions about the scene here, SaskMusic can help. It is the voice of Saskatchewan music.

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SAA Culture Days Event in Eastend at the T.rex Discovery Centre.

Chris Bullough (Scarecrow), Sheldon Davis (Winkie General), Michael De Rose (Lion), Beth Graham (Witch), Nathan Howe (Toto), Alex McCooeye (Tin Man), Katie Ryerson (Dorothy), Darla Biccum, Tess Degenstein, Jonelle Gunderson, & Kaitlyn Semple (Winkies).

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Margie Gillis at the 2012 Arts Congress: Matters of Engagement.

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OSAC Showcase that was held in Prince Albert in October. In its 44th year, OSAC was pleased to present SHOWCASE 2012 which offered the very best of performing and visual talent from Saskatchewan, across Canada and internationally.

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Welcome to our new Website!

The Saskatchewan Arts Alliance (SAA), a non-profit coalition of arts organizations, provides a collective voice for the arts in Saskatchewan. Established in 1984, SAA advocates on issues such as public funding of the arts, freedom of expression and artists' working conditions. SAA promotes the lively existence and continued growth of the arts and cultural industries in Saskatchewan through:

  • advocating healthy levels of public and private support encouraging public acknowledgement of the arts
  • encouraging and assisting in the development of arts education
  • providing information related to the arts
  • providing a forum for issues affecting the arts and cultural industries.

Op-Ed/Living the Arts

A short history & self-justification of a working artist

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Reflections
  • Life is short, art is long...

    Hippocrates

  • For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

    Georges Rouault

  • The actor is an athlete of the heart.

    Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double

  • Creativity is contagious, pass it on.

    Albert Einstein

  • What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

    John Updike

  • Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

    Sophocles

  • Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

    Henry Ward Beecher

  • Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

    Stella Adler

  • Man will begin to recover the moment he takes art as seriously as physics, chemistry or money.

    Ernst Levy

  • After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

    Aldous Huxley

  • Our brains are organized by stories and images, not statistics.

    Gloria Steinem

  • Line is a force....it takes its force from the energy of the person who has drawn it.

    Henry van de Velde