Culture Days Animateurs: Getting Communities Engaged and Sustained

Culture Days Animateurs: Getting Communities Engaged and Sustained

SaskCulture will be offering the Culture Days Animateur Program to communities in Saskatchewan that have not held an activity/event before or have only hosted an event once. Communities can apply to have an Animateur present a cultural activity for their residents during Culture Days, which takes place on September 27-29, 2019. South East District is assisting in finding a community that would benefit from this opportunity.
What will the Animateur do?
The Animateur, an artist or cultural worker, works with community organizers to identify and deliver an interactive cultural activity that would engage a range of community residents with a goal of building new audiences for the cultural activity. In the past, Culture Days Animateurs have engaged people in painting parties, drum-making, interactive dance, theatre workshops, clay workshops, meme-making, photo art, video journals, and more. The Animateur will present one or more workshops, or various sessions, over the course of the Culture Days weekend, that are free and open to the public.

Why is this an opportunity?
SaskCulture wants to encourage communities to engage residents in cultural activity, so it will pay an honorarium of $1,000* (inclusive of all costs) to a District in partnership with a community to hire a Saskatchewan artist or cultural worker to deliver an interactive, free, hands-on, interactive cultural activity with a goal of building new audiences in one community per District. SaskCulture would also take the opportunity to connect in person with community organizers to help them connect to cultural funding opportunities into the future. (* the Honorarium may be adjusted to accommodate work in the Northern District)

What does the community need to do?
A community would need to identify a community organizer who would:
- Help identify the appropriate artist or cultural worker;
- Be a liaison to the Animateur, particularly if they are from outside the community;
- Book a venue;
- Register the activity on the Culture Days web site at www.culturedays.ca;
- Promote the Culture Days activity or activities to the community at large; and
- Provide a brief follow up of how many people attended and photos, if possible.
Who can apply?
Any community that has not participated in Culture Days before or has only held Culture Days once. Organizations that receive significant Lottery funding are not eligible.
Community Organizer

First NameLast Name
Address

Street Address

Street Address Line 2

CityProvince

Postal Code
Email
example@example.com
The proposed interactive cultural activity or activities – including a description of the participant experience, ie. The participants will have the opportunity to learn from a professional artist how to paint with acrylics on tiles and see their work as part of building a community tile mosaic in the park.
Start Date

MonthDayYear
Date
End Date

MonthDayYear
Date
Proposed Artist or Cultural Worker
Estimated Costs
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