This is a pretty cool initiative by Regina Public Library’s Dunlop Art Gallery and a variety of other partners and agencies to have public art in a variety of communities across Saskatchewan and encourage people to visit as many as they can.
From the project’s “About” page:
Saskatchewan is geographically diffuse. While half of the province resides in urban centres, the other half are spread across small communities and reserves on Treaty 4, Treaty 6 and Treaty 10 territories. Given the sparse and scattered provincial population, long road trips are a fact of life for many Saskatchewan residents. This Prairie sprawl, along with the “boom and bust” rhythm of its resource-based economies, has shaped people’s way of life and ways of thinking about working with the land. The services offered by libraries, museums and cultural centres, often situated in the downtown cores of Saskatchewan’s many communities serve as critically important spaces for cultural exchange and participation. These places, typically free, build community by bringing people together for conversation, while also providing a site for refuge that presents opportunities to consider different perspectives and world views.
Roadside Attractions, organized by Dunlop Art Gallery and partners across the province, presents a network of contemporary art commissions across Saskatchewan during the summer of 2018. Each participating artist considers the unique histories, geographies, and populations of their exhibition locations – factors that have shaped dozens of Saskatchewan spaces into meaningful places.
While emphasizing the importance of historic downtowns and public institutions in place-making, Roadside Attractions also encourages a sense of discovery among viewers. Original artworks positioned along a 20+ hour scenic Prairie road trip create a network of unique experiences with art – encounters that range from public sculptures and site-specific installations to sound art pieces that accompany viewers on their Saskatchewan journey.
I’ve always known the games were rigged towards the operator and had a general sense of how they are – mostly by playing with the size and shape of the game pieces – smaller rims, longer distances, tinier holes or whatever – but Pace really wanted to play a couple games before we left for the night.
So I blew about $20 to win a rainbow coloured ball (at least it wasn’t another stuffed animal!) that I could’ve got online for about $3 (and I’m sure the carnival buys in bulk so their price point is a lot less than that.)
Oh well, can you really put a price on memories? 😉
During our tour of Mosaic Stadium earlier this week, we got to “tour” the gift shop as well and Sasha loved that she was able to put her own name on a jersey (and I loved that we could go all the way to the last step without clicking “Order” and spending over a hundred bucks on a jersey!)
I didn’t get a picture of it but she even put her last initial so her name was “Sashah”. 😉
Thinking of our tour of the new Mosaic Stadium yesterday, here’s a pic from a game we went to a few years ago in the old Taylor Field (not sure how we got such great seats – think we bought them last minute off Kijiji?)
Had a great “Behind The Scenes” tour of Regina’s Mosaic Stadium tonight, courtesy of the alumni association for Luther College at the University of Regina and Luther High School.
We weren’t allowed into the Riders’ locker room (only the Visitors’ locker room) but we did get to take a family photo in front of the doors…
One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect:
One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely tomorrow, sometimes by the same person who wrote them today. So ultimately, what you need to ask yourself every day, every transaction is ‘What am I doing to help the person standing in front of me?'”
I didn’t think to get a picture with all the dads who were around our camp site this weekend but did get separate pictures of Shea’s parents (including her dad) and my parents (including my dad *and* me) so we’ll count that as a worthwhile Father’s Day post!
