Show Us Your North
The objectives of the Show Us Your North website project are to:
· showcase arts and culture in the north
· connect knowledge of the students’ own artists, communities and cultural resources with curriculum content in arts education and social studies
· build pride in cultural traditions and resources
· build awareness among northern educators, artists and communities about the resources that may be available to them through the Saskatchewan Arts Board and SaskCulture.
Who are the People?
The first component of Show Us Your North invites schools to identify and welcome into the school cultural people in their community: dancers, storytellers, musicians, craftspeople, visual artists, filmmakers, carvers, quilters... people who participate in creative activity in the community. The goal of this part of the program is to encourage schools to build relationships with artistic people in their community and introduce students to the idea that the arts and culture are in all communities.
Our North
The program also invites schools to undertake a cultural investigation of their community, show the results of their investigation in a unique way through the arts, and document their investigation for show-casing on this website. Students might interview artists, tell or write stories, take photographs or video, write and perform songs, look into the history of an art form in their community, look into the history of a building in their community that has hosted arts and cultural events over the years….the list of possibilities is endless.
Show us Your North is administered by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and funded through a partnership with the Ministry of Education, SaskCulture and the Saskatchewan Lotteries Trust Fund for Sport, Culture and Recreation.
