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Sask Game Developers Attend Game Con Canada

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Thanks to sponsorship from SaskInteractive and Creative Saskatchewan, a group of independent game developers were able to attend Game Con Canada in Edmonton to promote their projects!

Here’s what they had to say about their experience:

 

“Hey, this is Jay at GCC. I just want to thank Creative Sask and Sask Interactive for bringing us to Edmonton for this year’s Gamecon Canada. It was amazing.”

Way to put Saskatchewan on the map, folks!

Learn more about our showcase or sell travel grant and our digital game development grant.

 

TheatreCon 2025 “Behind The Stage”

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Judith Schulz, Executive Director of Saskatchewan Association of Theatre Professionals (SATP), talks about TheatreCon and this year’s theme of “Behind The Stage.” Here’s what she had to say:

 

When asked to describe what TheatreCon was all about, Judith replied, “Absolutely, yeah! TheatreCon is a conference for theatre folks and folks who work in the Live Performing Arts industry here in Saskatchewan to build their skills that they don’t necessarily have time to build during a contract. So it’s all the skills that people need to know to be artists, but also as an artist you’re running your own business, right? You’re promoting yourself as someone who can work in this industry. And so these are the skills like grant writing, portfolio, website and how to run a production meeting – all the skills you don’t learn necessarily in an acting class. It’s “Behind The Stage,” it’s all the things you need to know to be an artist in Saskatchewan.

Creative Saskatchewan has been so generous and is funding the majority of this conference. We have some other sponsors, obviously, but they are the primary funder. It is so important to have funding for things like TheatreCon because to bring people together is to build community and that’s how we strengthen the industry and make strides in being better at what we do, better at being an outreach to the rest of the province, creating better art and all of those good things.”

We’re proud to support SATP and TheatreCon! They provide essential resources, professional development, and advocacy for the theatre sector in Saskatchewan.

Learn more about our Industry Sponsorship.

Game Developer Maximizes Success With Grant Funding

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Michael Long of Foolish Mortals games has successfully applied for a few of our grants: the Showcase or Sell Travel, Marketing and Digital Game Development grants. 

With the funding he was able to attend the PAX West Game Convention in Seattle, hire Bamboo Shoots to create a high-quality trailer for his game, Kaiju Wars and create the WWII strategy game, Real-Time General. Here’s what he had to say about the funding:

 

“So Creative Saskatchewan helped us in multiple ways. For Kaiju Wars, we applied for multiple grants from them. We applied for a market travel grant (now called the Showcase or Sell Travel Grant) where we actually went down to Seattle and presented Kaiju Wars at PAX West. So that’s a very big video game convention and one of the largest in the world.”

“We also got another marketing grant for Kaiju Wars that allowed us to create a live-action trailer and that was shot here in Saskatoon by a company called Bamboo Shoots. The trailer turned out really well, so we shot that live action trailer. We hired a video editor, a scriptwriter, capture the gameplay footage and a good trailer is essential for any game.That’s like the first thing that you see when you go to the online store pages. You see that trailer and if it’s doesn’t catch someone’s interest in the 1st 2 seconds, they click away. So that trailers got to be really good. It’s got to be really, really polished. And I think it is. So thanks to Creative Sasaktchewan One for letting us make the trailer the best it could be.”

Thanks for the shoutout, Michael! We’re so glad you are happy with your results! Check out all of Foolish Mortals’ Games here: http://www.foolish-mortals.net/ 

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Foxwarren Records New Album in Saskatchewan

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Darryl Kissick of the band Foxwarren successfully applied for our Sound Recording Grant to record their newest album here at home in the province.

 

“Hey, this is Darryl and I play in a group called Foxwarren and I just wanted to take a second to talk about how Creative Sask helped us finish our recent album. So this is the album, and thanks to the support of Creative Sask, we were able to work with some people that we probably wouldn’t have been able to otherwise, such as Neil H Pogue, who mixed the album and he’s done work for Outkast and Tyler, The Creator, amongst others. And so it was great that we were able to take the project to another level thanks to support. And yeah, now the album is done and we’re going to be hitting the road soon, so thanks Creative Sask.”

Congratulations to Foxwarren on the Album release, it sounds amazing! Stream or purchase it here: https://foxwarrenhq.com/ 

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🎵Song: “Deadhead” by Foxwarren 

Driverworks Ink Shares Prairie Stories

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Deana Driver successfully applied for the Author-Funded Book Publishing grant through her publishing company, DriverWorks Ink, which shares stories about fascinating Prairie people and unsung Canadian heroes. 

Here’s what she had to say about the funding:

 

“Hi, I’m Deana Driver, and I am a book publisher here in Saskatchewan. My company is DriverWorks Ink and I’m pleased that Creative Saskatchewan has been able to provide us with some grants through their Author-funded Book Publishing Production program so that we can help others to get their stories out there.

I’m a nonfiction writer, so I’m an author as well as a book publisher, and because I’m an author, I don’t qualify for other grants that are available to some of the larger publishers and some of the traditional publishers. So my hybrid publishing company is really grateful that authors can come to me, and I can provide the editing and the services of layout and the design to do fabulous books like Gary Hoium’s Don’t They Kick When You Do That, Volume 2. Mary Harelkin Bishop is a Saskatoon author, and I’ve worked with her on something like 10 books, a number of those which have received Creative Saskatchewan funding. And we’ve redone her Tunnels the Moose Jaw Time Travel Adventure series recently because of the support of Creative Saskatchewan’s Book Publishing Production grants.
A couple of the books that I’ve been involved in personally, as a writer, are the Flight series and these are Volumes 1 and 2, and when I met this lovely gentleman here, Reg “Crash” Harrison, through working on Volume 1 of the series, I decided to try to do a book about him and only him. Reg is almost 103 years old. He lives in Saskatoon, and he is a bomber pilot who survived four plane crashes during the Second World War. And so his incredible historical story is now an award-winning book thanks to the support of Creative Saskatchewan.

These are the stories that I love to put out there, and these are the stories

I’m so grateful to have received support for to enable myself as a publisher, as an author, to get more important Prairie stories out to the readers across the country and across the world. Thanks, Creative Sask! ”

Check out all of their publications here:https://driverworks.ca/ 

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Marion Pitches Projects At Banff Media Festival

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Saskatchewan-based Writer and Producer Moniquea Marion successfully applied for our Showcase or Sell Travel grant, which provides support to individuals and businesses to attend markets, industry showcases and pitch events. The funding from this grant allowed her to attend the Banff World Media Festival this month. 

 

“Hi, my name is Moniquea Marion,I am a Saskatchewan-based writer and producer in the film and television sector and I happen to be here in beautiful Banff, Alberta as part of the Banff World Media Festival. And you know how I got here? It’s because of Creative Saskatchewan and their Showcase or Sell Travel grant. Thanks to their incredible support, I’m able to attend this festival to pitch my projects, to gain valuable contacts, and to learn about all of the media and market trends not only here in Canada, but around in the world. So thank you so much, Creative Saskatchewan!”

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