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Wheat City Nuit Blanche: Make an Event Make Sense for Your Community

Nuit Blanche is an annual, overnight festival celebrating contemporary art, which transforms public spaces into temporary art installations, performances, and cultural experiences. The term "Nuit Blanche" is French and translates to "White...


Effective Board Meetings with Jason Robinson

 Many local groups struggle to recruit individuals for leadership positions such as Chair and Vice Chair due to a lack of experience in managing and leading meetings. Additionally, many groups report that their meetings are lengthy and dysfunctional,...


Sponsorship & Advertising off the Corner of your Desk with Coralie Bueckert

In many small municipalities and organizations, staff wear multiple hats—and responsibilities like sponsorship and advertising often get added “off the corner of your desk.” This practical course is designed to help you build the skills...


Language and Approach: Respectable Approaches to Including People with Disabilities

Including people of all backgrounds and abilities is important for creating inclusive and caring communities.  Canadians with disabilities often face barriers to inclusion within society, including employment, financial security and social...


Culture Days Yorkton: Make Culture Accessible by Involving all of your Community

Culture Days is a national celebration that brings communities together through free, hands-on arts and culture events every fall. From coast to coast, people of all ages get creative and connect with local artists. This three-week event is meant to build...


Best Practices for Disability Inclusion in Recreation with Taryn Barry

People living with disabilities are less likely to meet physical activity guidelines than people without disabilities. Yet even low levels of physical activity have significant positive health effects. Moreover, best practices are not readily available...


Write It, Win It: The Grant Writing Gameplan with Coralie Bueckert

Successful grant writing involves meticulous research into funders and their priorities. It also involves creating a clear, concise, and realistic proposal that directly addresses the funding need and methodically follows all application instructions. A...


Navigating Film and Making it Happen in the Southeast

It is increasingly possible to have contemporary art practices in rural Saskatchewan. The adage that you need to live in large urban cities remains the normative practice in Saskatchewan, especially when you think of where most artists live and where...


Placemaking and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Communities across Saskatchewan are unique with their own interesting heritage and culture.David and his team have been researching and visiting communities across Saskatchewan.  They realize the question is not "do we have heritage?" but rather...


Volunteer Leduc, a Case Study that exemplifies how Volunteers Impact on the Community for the community

Volunteer Leduc, a subsidiary of the City of Leduc, Alberta, exists to support the voluntary sector by providing volunteer management workshops designed to recognize, support, and enhance volunteerism and is part of the City’s five-year strategic...