Holiday Office Hours

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The offices of the Cultural Exchange are taking a quick break. From December 24 to January 3, our offices at 2431 8th Avenue won’t be open regular business hours. If there are any questions or concerns during this time, please email zandra@culturalexchange.ca or james@culturalexchange.ca. We’ll be back to regular hours starting January 4.

During this period, the Exchange and the Club will still be going strong. Go to our Events page to have a look at the many upcoming events you can see through the holidays.

Whatever you’re celebrating this December, we wish you all happy holidays! We’re looking forward to telling you what we’ve got ready for the new year.

Yukon Blonde 2016 Headlining Tour Hits the Exchange

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“…every song on the Vancouver rockers’ second album is an utter and complete summer jam: 10 euphoric exercises on saccharine, psychedelic pop fit for the cottage, the patio or for turning up so loud in your car that people on the sidewalk start to walk in sync with the uplifting synth notes and frantic high hats.”
–– CBC Music (Top Albums of 2015)

Two weeks ago, Vancouver’s Yukon Blonde returned home from a tour with Hey Rosetta! that saw them travel clear across the country playing sold-out shows at historic venues like Massey Hall, The Vogue, National Arts Centre, the Jack Singer, and more. Now, they’re ready to do it all again. Beginning February 5 at home in Vancouver, the JUNO Award-nominated and twice Polaris Music Prize-listed band will take to the road for a month long tour that makes sure to stop in almost every province along the way.

The tour hits the Exchange on February 16, 2016. Tickets for the Cultural Exchange Presents show will be available at Vintage Vinyl, Madame Yes, and online. Tickets will be in stores on Friday, December 11. We’ll be updating the event in our website listings with all the details, including special guests as soon as they’re announced.

Out now via Dine Alone Records, Yukon Blonde’s On Blonde, produced and mixed by Tony Hoffer (M83, Beck, Foster the People, Air, Depeche Mode), gazes wistfully away towards the more shadowy elements of pop production, soft synthesizers, punching bass lines, crushed drums, 80s cosmic pop compositions, and saturated psychedelic guitar effects. It’s more dynamic, more visceral, instantly accessible, and sonically denser than its predecessors — an ambitious, fully realized psychedelic pop record from a band truly in its ascendancy.

Visit Yukon Blonde’s website, Facebook page, and Twitter feed, and Dine Alone Records website.

Thanks for a Successful Annual General Meeting

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Once year, the Cultural Exchange gets an opportunity to share our accomplishments from the past twelve months and our plans for the next. It’s our Annual General Meeting, and we held one on November 21, 2015. We’d like to thank the almost two dozen people who showed up to learn more about our organization and help guide it in the right direction. Your participation means the world to the staff and board.

In part of the meeting, elections were held to form our new Board of Directors. Seven directors from 2014/2015 were acclaimed for new terms: Barbra Bailey, Dawn Brown, Jesse Chatterson, Nick Faye, John Fettes, and Billy Patterson. Additionally, we welcome three new directors who were acclaimed at the meeting: Steven Dribnenki, Jon Josephson, and Caelan Reilly. Watch the Staff and Board section of our website in the near future to learn more about all our current board members.

As we welcome new faces, we say goodbye to old ones. Thanks goes out to outgoing directors Keegan Duck, Dylan Ludwig, and Josh Morrison. Their service to the Cultural Exchange has been invaluable.

This was also our opportunity to share our annual report, where our staff and board talk about the health and goings-on of the previous year. You can find a copy online here.

Our 2014/2015 Annual Report

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At our Annual General Meeting, the Cultural Exchange presented the 2014/2015 Annual Report. In it, we take the opportunity to talk about some of our accomplishments from the past year, look forward to new ones, and thank the volunteers and our funders, SaskCulture and the Saskatchewan Arts Board, for their support.

We have physical copies in our Regina office if you care to stop by, but you can also read it online here.