Local Arts

The Asante Children's Choir, a Christian children's choir from Uganda, will be performing at Trinity Baptist Church, 1702 - 16th St. North Battleford Sunday, Jan. 11 at 11 a.m.

It was a mixed bag of treats for the elementary students during their annual Christmas concert at St. Dominic’s School on Dec. 11. The school performed the concert twice on the same day, once in the afternoon and again in the evening.

The Festival of Wreaths has come to an end and the vacant space has been filled by a traveling exhibit called Hi-Fibre Content.

Tuesday is the first of three nights of musical entertainment at John Paul II Collegiate. Back to the 1980s is this year’s foray into musical theatre.

As the Festival of Wreaths comes to the end of its auction timeframe, so too do their performances. Nov. 30 marked the last of them and JoAnn Spence’s musical concert was the one to wrap it up.

Mary-Ann Kirkby, the Prince Albert author famous for drawing back the curtain on Hutterite life with her first book, I Am Hutterite, was at the Reid-Thompson public library in Humboldt on Nov.

Juno-winning children’s performer Norman Foote was in the Humboldt Collegiate Institute to put on a show for kids and parents alike on Nov. 15. The stop in Humboldt was sponsored by Arts Humboldt and Potash Corp.

Rachel Ashley is an award winning 19-year-old singer-songwriter from Manitoba whose No Time For Bullying Tour came to students and staff at North Battleford Comprehensive High School last Tuesday morning.

Regina-based performer Vincent Murphy was at the Humboldt & District Gallery to present his one-man play, "Tommy Goes to War" on Oct. 29.

by Robin Tarnowetzki Journal Staff Writer Saskatoon author Barbara Sapergia came to Humboldt to talk about her new book, Blood and Salt, which centres around the internment of about 8,500 people - most of them Ukrainian-Canadians - during WWI.