The Cultural Exchange Announces Annual General Meeting

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The Cultural Exchange is always happy to share our accomplishments. On one occasion every year, we get the opportunity to give a grand overview: the Annual General Meeting. From the Workshop Tour to our provincial outreach to our activities with the Exchange and the Club, we’ll be discussing it all.

The AGM is your opportunity to hear from Board Chair Dawn Brown, Interim Executive Director John Kennedy, and the rest of the board and staff about what our organization has done in the past year and what we’ve got planned for 2015/2016.

Set your calendars: the meeting is taking place Saturday, November 21 at 1 p.m. in the Club. The agenda for the day is posted below. Everyone is welcome to attend.

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Saskatchewan Cultural Exchange Society

Annual General Meeting

Saturday, November 21, 2015

1 p.m.

The Club

2431 8th Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan

1. Call to order.

2. Approval of the agenda as distributed.

3. Approval of November 22, 2014 AGM minutes as distributed.

4. SCES reports.

4.1. Chair’s report.

4.2. Interim Executive Director’s report.

4.3. Financial report.

4.4. Nominations Committee’s report and election.

5. Old business.

6. New business.

7. Adjournment.

Arrabio Keep Making Cuban Punk Happen

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One can imagine the challenges that could go into being a punk band in Cuba. Arrabio’s gone through them, up to and including just touring around their home country, as Drew McIntosh of Solidarity Rock, a group partnering with the band, explains.

“It was half of what we were doing every day that was mind blowing to me, you know,” he told the Oral History Centre. “Trying to wrestle up a ride from Santa Clara to Havana in the streets in the morning. You know, you’re going off in three groups and trying to find the best option and meeting back up to report and figuring out if it’s going to be dump truck, bus or two cars, you know.”

The band’s kept at it, and is now returning to Canada. In the past, the group recorded their most recent album, Hecho en Trinidad, in our country with producer Jesse Gander, who’s worked with acts like White Lung and Bison.

Arrabio are in the Club on Wednesday, October 7 with Adictox, Tomorrow Starts Today, and Ballot Burner. $10 at the door. All ages and licensed.