Archive for year: 2019

In consultation with the Woodland Cree women in Stanley Mission, Girls Rock Camp will be expanding to Northern Saskatchewan! Together we will be designing a culturally sensitive camp for women and girls that strengthens identity and self-confidence through cultural arts and music. February 17th – 22nd, 2020 will be the 1st Annual Girls Rock Camp: Rock The North, and fundraising begins today!! Be a part of history, and give the gift of music this holiday season. Donations are Tax-Deductible and come with a Printable Card that explains the project to your loved ones. Fundraising is a joint effort through Girls Rock Saskatoon, Ness Creek Cultural and Recreational Society, and Doylefest, together lets make this world a better place!!

Eliza Mary Doyle – Bright, feisty, and fierce, this banjo playin’ troubadour of exceptional talent and vision delivers a live show with energy that goes beyond the stage with her spontaneous and contagious energy.  Eliza Doyle is an international award winning Saskatchewan artist who, together with her band, can be described as sweet as honey and raw as hide. 

Carol Rose GoldenEagle is a Saskatchewan Author of award-winning novel BEARSKIN DIARY.   Her work has been previously published using the surname of Daniels.  Carol now chooses to use her Traditional name, which has more meaning to her.  BEARSKIN DIARY is an award-winning novel,  being chosen as the Aboriginal Literature Title for 2017 by the Periodical Marketers of Canada.  It was also shortlisted for 3 Saskatchewan Book Awards in 2016.  The French language translation of this novel, entitled Peau D’ours won a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2019.

Her first book of poetry – entitled Hiraeth – was released in early 2018 (Inanna Publications).   Hiraeth was shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2019.   Her second novel – Bone Black– is  set to be released in 2019 (Nightwood Editions).   Her third novel – Narrows of Fear – will also be released, date tba (Nightwood 2020). She is currently working on fourth novel manuscript.  Carol is also an Aboriginal artist, multi-disciplined in the areas of writing, storytelling, singing/drumming & visual art.

On a regular basis, she enjoys performing at schools, community centres and children’s festivals across the province.  She is a published poet, short story writer and novelist.  As a visual artist, her work has been exhibited in art galleries across Saskatchewan and Northern Canada.  As a musician,  a CD of women’s drum songs, on which Carol was featured, was recently nominated for a Prairie Music Award.  Carol is Cree & Dene with roots in Sandy Bay, northern Saskatchewan.  However before pursuing her art on a full-time basis, Carol worked as a journalist for more than 30 years – working in television and radio at APTN, CTV & CBC.

Born and raised in Regina, Kate Herriot has been working on stage and in film and teaching drama in Saskatoon home since 2011. She has worked for Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, Live Five Theatre, Dancing Sky Theatre, Persephone Theatre, and the Globe Theatre. Kate loves using improv and physical theatre games to encourage teamwork and outside-the-box humour. 

Danica Lorer has spent the past twenty years as a professional storyteller. She has been struck by lightning, a moose, a rogue semi-tire, vehicles, and the odd strange idea. She is a freelance writer, workshop facilitator, face and body painter, slam and page poet, and the host of Shaw Saskatoon’s literary arts program ‘Lit Happens’. She has been published in grain, antiLang, Spring, untethered, Poetry All Over the Floor, and Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland.