PROGRAMMING
Art of (re)Conciliation Community Workshop, photo credit: AILEEN MARTIN
We invite you to learn more about Common Weal’s recent and ongoing programming.
Photo credit: Ibukun fasunhan
Own the Stage: The Expansion
Occurred in July 2024, Own the Stage: The Expansion is the third iteration of our Own the Stage summer poetry workshop program in Regina, which offers Saskatchewan youth the tools to share their stories and voices through the art of spoken word.
Buffalo futurism app
Buffalo Futurism
Launched in June 2024, Buffalo Futurism is a geolocated Augmented Reality(AR) experience in māmowimīwēyitamōwin Park (formerly Regent Pool Park) in Regina, Saskatchewan. The app transports viewers to an Indigenous futuristic park where Tatanga (Buffalo) has returned to the land and roam freely.
PHOTO CREDIT: Esubiyi Samara
From the Margins to the Centre
Began filming in May 2024, From the Margins to the Centre is a filmic documentation of racial discrimination against Black people in Saskatchewan. The project seeks true change—justice, equity, and diversity, and eventually, positively influence public policy to support marginalized communities within our province.
Photo credit: Michèle mackasey
Northern Languages
The Northern Languages Program supports Indigenous language revival and retention, particularly among the youth. In 2024, lead Artist Michèle Mackasey and Elder Carol Estralshenen have been bringing workshops in the Northern Denesuline community of Patuanak, as well as Saskatoon through a partnership with White Buffalo Youth Lodge.
photo credit: All My Relations Photography
Creative Connections
2024 boasted the third season of the Creative Connections project, bringing multisensory, poetry-based programming into the Herb Bassett Day Home and Pine View Care Home in Prince Albert. Writer Beth Gobeil created weekly activities kits tailored to the interest and abilities of the long term live-in residents as well as daily visitors.
photo credit: Kamisha Alexson
Creative Drop-In Spaces
The Creative Drop-In Spaces program is a casual, drop-in art program taking place outside the Prairie Harm Reduction Drop-In Centre and Safe Consumption Site in Saskatoon. The program consists of diverse workshops that explore the potential of art as a harm reduction tool for health and healing.
photo credit: don hall
Why the Caged Bird Sings—Immersive Engagements (Dunlop)
In 2023, we brought interdisciplinary artist Cheryl L’Hirondelle’s Why the Caged Bird Sings—Immersive Engagements exhibition to the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina. The exhibition incorporates images and sounds of Indigenous territories and current realities of incarceration conveyed through technologies familiar to contemporary viewers.
