Member news Louise Halfe recently received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Wilfrid Laurier University. See details here: www.ammsa.com/publications/ saskatchewan-sage/honorarydegree-bestowed-uponpoet and here: w w w. w l u . c a / n ew s _ d e t a i l . php?grp_id=0&nws_id=9673
Welcome New Members Sandra Dyck, Moose Jaw SK Paul Eisenzimmer, Vancouver BC John Fleming, La Ronge SK Bevann Fox, Fort Qu’Appelle SK Amanda Gaertner, Saskatoon SK Pam Garner, Saskatoon SK Elizabeth Greene, Kingston ON Marilyn Matice, Prince Albert SK Maria Meindl, Toronto ON
Bringing Back the Buffalo—Aboriginal Youth Writers’ Retreat
Date: Tuesday, August 7- Friday, August 10, 2012 Time: 9:00am- 4:00pm Ages: 14-22 Place FNUniv Free, but space is limited to 20 participants The “Bringing Back the Buffalo” Aboriginal Youth Writers’ Retreat is an opportunity for youth to actively participate in writing workshops to encourage them to share their stories and put pen to paper. All Aboriginal youth in primarily Regina and Southern Saskatchewan will be targeted and there will be accommodations available for 5 youth at the University of Regina dormitories. This retreat will help Aboriginal youth to be actively engaged as they participate in writing workshops. Writing leads to healing and opening the door to researching their own Aboriginal history to discover their strengths and hopefully will encourage them to share their stories in order to find their place in the world. This writers’ retreat is to encourage Aboriginal youth to share their dreams, their goals and aspirations while also sharing their concerns, their fears, and their worries. Hopefully, they will feel nurtured and empowered by the Aboriginal role models facilitation the workshops. There will be a combination of writing and art exploration, as both complement each other. The youth will develop their writing skills and will be creating a number of written literary pieces and artwork to be included in an anthology that will be professionally bound, edited and distributed to all Saskatchewan First Nation schools and school divisions. For more information contact: Joely BigEagle Aboriginal Program Coordinator, Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Suite 100- 1150 8th Avenue, Regina, SK S4P 3R9 swgap@skwriter.com (306) 791-7744
JUNE-JULY 2012
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