Local Arts

All Estevan Arts Council concerts, including the Koncerts for Kids series, have been cancelled for the 2020-21 season.

The Hearts and Hands Quilting Guild has once again produced a quilt for the United Way Estevan’s telethon. The quilt, which is currently on display at Henders Drugs, was created by guild members Linda Jones, Eileen McKersie and Avis Dronsfield.

Destination North Pole. It sounds impressive and inspiring. And that's how Gary Wietgrefe named his book, which he wrote after covering 5,000 kilometres by bicycle, travelling from Pierre, S.D., to the North Pole.

Drewitz School of Dance started their new year in August after a long and precise process of communicating and arranging everything so that students could proceed with classes safely.

(Photos by Chris Borshowa, Phantasma Photography) Local recording artists Small City Blues will be releasing a new single entitled, “Something Missing”, digitally on Tuesday.

Another of Carlyle’s big events for the year has been scrubbed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Everyone is invited to share their talents at the 2020 Communithon, to be held on Friday, Oct. 23, at the Legion Hall. All ages and types of acts are encouraged to participate. Performances can be live for solos or groups of up to five people.

Weyburn singer Karissa Hoffart’s album, “Life of Mine”, has started to get traction with three singles already released to country radio, with the general release of the album set for Oct. 17.

A new board game was launched in August to celebrate Estevan. Estevan-Opoly, created by Outset Media, is a game that gives players a chance to own some of the most famous landmarks in the community.

A confessed book lover, Morgan Jones, asked for a book nook library for her birthday, and her fiancé built her one. She now has “Dot’s Book Nook” in front of their home at 719 Fourth Street South, named after her little wiener dog, Dot.