Local Arts

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.

Pull out your wallets and open your gift bags because the Humboldt & District Museum and Gallery is once again holding their annual Festival of Wreaths fundraiser. For the first time ever, the festival opening will be held at the new gallery on Nov.

Arts and crafts have always been keen interests of mine. I can remember at a young age making little items out of my mother's sewing scrap material, pieces of wood, tin and whatever I could find laying around on the farm I was raised on.

It's been a few months since Lorelle Holowaty and Lisa Bilinski started advertising a prospective Ukrainian dance club - referred to as the Zhvavi Ukrainian Dancers - and it has expanded to 21 members from Humboldt and area (as far away as Naicam).

September is always a busy month when students are back at school, and when the weather is warm enough for outdoor adventures.

The nostalgic sound of the old cowboy westerns of the movies continues on to this day in the work of the "Comedy and Western" quartet Riders In The Sky.

Now that we are into the month of August, it's a good time to look at the state of the summer box office race. The first conclusion we can come to is that I am no good as a prognosticator.