Events

Memoir Book Cover Challenge

Celebrate your heritage and culture by creating a book cover that depicts your family history.
It can be from any period of time, your life story or the life story of previous generations. It can be in any medium including colouring, paints, decoupage—anything. Please be sure to add a title.

Age groups are preschool/ 6-12/ Teens/ and Adult. Submit your book cover to enter for a prize! Stop by the library to pick up a challenge sheet or contact the branch.

Entries must be returned to the Wawota Public Library Branch by October 14th to enter in the draw, and will be displayed in the library for the remainder of October.

MakerSpace Night

For this year's Culture Days, we are inviting everyone of all ages to try out our MakerSpace! We'll have our Cricut, button maker, and much more!

Paris on the Prairies Party

We will renew French Culture in our prairie town of Montmartre who, claims to the title of "Paris of the Prairies". The replica of the Eiffel Tower, which stands tall at the end of our main street, inspired our committee to bring French culture back! We will have a party to celebrate and educate! At the end of our main street there will be painting of the Eiffel tower, French inspired singing and fiddling music from a local musician and dancers. French cuisine will be served at the local Bistro to fill everyone's pallet. At the Montmartre Public Library we will have a French-themed craft and story with a song lead by a retired French teacher and the local Library Board & Staff volunteers. There will be a display of books and materials available at the library plus a slideshow of a Board member's trip to Montmartre, Paris!

See more on the Culture Days website: https://culturedays.ca/en/events/9e187998-a693-49c0-96bf-2ee33beed2df

Ribbon Skirt Class

Join us in making your own ribbon skirt. Materials will be handed out the first night of the class. You can arrange for pickup prior to or come down the first night - Tuesday, Oct. 5/21 Printed directions will be available along with a video available for viewing anytime on YouTube. Please register by September 30th. Funded by Sask Culture and Sask Lotteries.

Author Reading - Annette Bower

Join us as we spend the afternoon with author Annette Bower, who will be speaking about her writing.

Annette Bower believes home is where her stories begin. She has travelled extensively, but always returns home to Regina, Saskatchewan. Whether at home or away, even though she is directionally challenged she wanders the streets, parks, and lanes observing how people live, love, and care for one another. Your way of sitting, holding hands, the way you tilt your head, or a t-shirt you wear may end up in one of her stories.

Her experiences as a nurse, administrator, town councillor, teachers' assistant and student inform her stories and reflect the experiences of many readers. Annette's stories are read around the world and have been shortlisted on many national and international stages.

She is a member of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild, the Saskatchewan Romance Writers, the Romance Writers of America. She is also an alumna of The Grey Nuns' School of Nursing, The University of Regina, Sage Hill Writing Experience, Algonquin College, and Banff School of Writing.

Learn more about Annette on her website.

Ribbon Skirt Class

Join us in making your own ribbon skirt. Materials will be handed out the first night of the class. You can arrange for pickup prior to or come down the first night - Tuesday, Oct. 5/21 Printed directions will be available along with a video available for viewing anytime on YouTube. Please register by September 30th. Funded by Sask Culture and Sask Lotteries.

Join us at the spark Centre for Culture Days! We'll have our Cricut, button maker, and wood burning tools for you to try, and many other cultural groups doing different activities and demonstrations.

Author Reading - Carol Rose GoldenEagle

Join us as we spend the afternoon with author Carol Rose GoldenEagle, who will be speaking about her writing.

Carol Rose GoldenEagle (previously Carol Daniels) is Cree/Dene with roots in Sandy Bay, northern Saskatchewan. She is a published novelist, poet, playwright, visual artist, and musician.  She is the author of the award-winning novel Bearskin Diary (2015), Hiraeth, a book of poetry (2018), Bone Black (2019), and is now excited to announce the book launch of her new novel, Narrows of Fear (2020). Carol has also written poems including "Qu'Appelle" (2021), "DNA" (2019) and essays including "Joy & heartbreak: Life as an Indigenous mother" (2021), "Sanctuary" (2020) and a "Personal Essay" (2016).  Her children's storytelling include "The Ugly Little Christmas Tree" (2020), "The 7 spotted Lady Bug" (2021), and a children's play, "Mr. Brown" (not yet published).  In June of 2021, Carol was named as the 2021 - 2023 Saskatchewan Poet Laureate!

As a visual artist, her work has been exhibited in art galleries across Saskatchewan and Northern Canada.  As a musician, a CD of women's drum songs, in which Carol is featured, was recently nominated for a Prairie Music Award. Before pursuing her art on a full-time basis, Carol worked as a journalist for more than 30 years in television and radio at APTN, CTV, and CBC.  She lives in Regina Beach with her puppy dog, Saffy and her kitty cat, Pumpkin and enjoys and loves visiting with her three children, Jackson, Nahanni and Daniel.

Learn more about Carol on her website.

Cultural Film Event

We will be screening 6 short films on local culture from the past.

Featured films are:

• Learning Tagalog with Kayla
• Wood Mountain Poems - from Andrew Suknaski
• Big Drive - about a road trip across the Prairies in the 70's
• Gone Curling - comedy following a visitor to the Prairies who discovers the cult of curling
• Iceland in the Prairies - The rise of Icelandic communities in the Prairies
• Rice Harvest - How the First Nations staple of wild rice is exported as a luxury food thanks in part to bush pilots.

Due to Covid restrictions, please pre register by email wawota@southeastlibrary.ca, by calling 306-739-2375 or drop into the library during opening hours as seats are limited.

Food will be provided by the Wawota Public Library and purchased from certified food vendors. All guests are asked to adhere to the latest provincial Covid guidelines.

Ribbon Skirt Class

Join us in making your own ribbon skirt. Materials will be handed out the first night of the class. You can arrange for pickup prior to or come down the first night - Tuesday, Oct. 5/21 Printed directions will be available along with a video available for viewing anytime on YouTube. Please register by September 30th. Funded by Sask Culture and Sask Lotteries.