Saskatchewan Metal Summit

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We’re thrilled that @zandraks Zandra Kaszas will be speaking in our Meet the Venues & Festivals and Building Community workshops at the Saskatchewan Metal Summit! ✨


Don’t forget to register! https://www.saskmusic.org/programs/metal-summit
Zandra Kaszas is a concert promoter, venue manager, and artistic director with more than 30 years of experience shaping Saskatchewan’s live music landscape. Her work centres on artist development, all-ages access, inclusivity, and building sustainable creative communities.


Zandra founded Zandra Productions after seeing many of her friends’ bands struggle to get booked. Thinking, “How hard could it be?” she stepped in, launching more than 20+ years of booking metal and heavy music. Through Zandra Productions, she has presented hundreds of concerts, connecting Saskatchewan artists with nationally and internationally acclaimed performers.


Zandra is the Venue Manager of The Exchange, one of Canada’s longest-running all-ages music venues, as well as The Club and the Eight Track Gallery. She curates year-round programming across genres with a strong focus on emerging artists. Under her leadership, The Exchange has earned consistent industry and community recognition, including multiple Best Venue honours and a SaskMusic Award for Venue of the Year.


Her leadership and impact were recognized with a 2024 Western Canadian Music Award honouring 30 years in the music industry.


In Saskatoon: Festival portion of the Metal Summit, Feb 27-28. Conference, February 28-March 1.Visit our page for festival and conference schedules, tickets and registration: https://www.saskmusic.org/programs/metal-summit
We’re thankful to Creative Saskatchewan and The Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recordings (FACTOR) for making this event possible.

Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective – Spoken Word Night

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Thursday, February 19th – Spoken Word Night.
The Exchange – 2431 8th Ave All Ages & Licensed 7:00pm – 10:00pm www.sakewewak.ca
Please join Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective for the 2026 Storytellers Festival, celebrating winter traditions through Indigenous storytelling, art, and gathering.
From February 19 to March 1, experience spoken word, panel discussions, youth programming, art installations, a film screening, and more — with events happening across Regina.
We’re excited to welcome you as stories come to life through design, memory, and voice.
The Sâkêwêwak Annual Storytellers Festival is a community-based, multidisciplinary arts showcase featuring a diverse range of Indigenous artists.
As we reflect on the enduring power of stories and language to shape understanding, memory, and ways of being, Storytellers 2026 invites the community to slow down and be fully present. Rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, this year’s festival creates space for ancestral teachings, contemporary narratives, and lived experience to meet — not in haste, but in attention.
This year’s theme is Presence.
Presence asks a simple but challenging question: where is your focus?
In a world of constant distraction, this chapter of the Storytellers Festival invites audiences to arrive fully — with their bodies, their attention, and their hearts. Through spoken word, panel discussions, youth programming, living stories, and film, Presence becomes a practice rather than a concept.
Storytellers 2026 offers moments to pause, reflect, and reconnect — with yourself, with community, and with the stories that shape us.
We are grateful for ongoing support from the Canada Council for the Arts, SK Arts, Sask Lotteries, SaskCulture, and City of Regina, all of whom make this festival possible.