THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

Culture

  • By March 24, 2010

    The film opens with three friends at a ski hill trying to figure out a way to get on the hill without purchasing lift tickets. The characters are Joe, his best friend Dan and Dan’s girlfriend Parker. They succeed by paying off the guy operating the lift and spend the day having a good time in the snow. Upbeat music plays over a montage of snowy frolicking. As the day starts to come to a close, however, Joe starts itching for “one last run.”

  • Peer Gynt enters the 21st century

    By March 24, 2010

    The Greystone Theatre season comes to an end with a classic work of epic fantasy penned by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The question for theatre-goers is, can the average university student connect to a play that was written in Norway in 1867 by a guy with epic facial hair?

  • Memories explored at the Snelgrove

    By March 24, 2010

    This week, the Snelgrove Gallery hosts three graduating exhibitions which take up themes of stillness, memory and memorial.

  • RIP Alex Chilton

    By March 24, 2010

    Alex Chilton is gone. He died in a New Orleans hospital of what doctors called a heart attack. Fans, of course, know better: Chilton died of a broken heart ”” too many powerfully sad songs.

  • The Sheepdogs learn to burn

    By March 17, 2010

    The Sheepdogs are running back to Saskatoon after a three-week tour of eastern Canada and the north-eastern U.S., which concluded at Toronto’s Canadian Music Week.

  • Greystone’s latest is a modernized epic fantasy

    By March 17, 2010

    Greystone’s last play of the season is Peer Gynt, a fantasy epic by playwright Henrik Ibsen, best known for introducing the style of naturalism to theatre and for such works such as Hedda Gabler and A Doll’s House.

  • Sly Business aim to get fit and have funk

    By March 17, 2010

    Take a pinch of ska, a funk-tastic dash of jazzy trumpets, reggae guitar chords and a well-seasoned portion of soulful hip-hop and you’ve got one of Saskatoon’s new and most vibrant local bands ”” none other than Sly Business.

  • Multi-media explorations of location and identity at the Snelgrove

    By March 17, 2010

    This week, three shows at the Gordon Snelgrove gallery tackle place, landscape and identity.