Events in Regina: April 7 to 9, 2017

1. First Nations University Pow Wow

FNUniv 2017 Spring Pow Wow – The First Nations University Pow-wow is one of the longest running celebrations in Saskatchewan and has grown to be one of the largest as well. This come-and-go event has exciting and colorful performances that run continuously throughout the afternoon and evening, beginning with our Grand Entry at 12:00 noon on Saturday and Sunday and closing with a “retiring of the flags” ceremony at about midnight each night.Details

2. Museum Madness

The Royal Saskatchewan Museum is a pretty cool place! Come learn about the history of the museum, and discover all of the secrets that this building holds! Young Explorers Club is a program designed to give 9 to 12 year olds a fun, social, and educational way to spend Friday night. Each program includes pizza and pop for supper, a full-length film in our theatre, and an interactive learning program that includes gallery exploration, experiments, games, and crafts. Details

3. Vimy 100 – Commemorative Ceremony

A commemoration ceremony is planned outdoors at the Legislative Building followed by a Vimy Ridge Exhibition and Reception in the Rotunda of the Legislative Building. This ceremony will include a Guard of Honour, flypast and cadet involvement. The Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, Provincial Military Liaison, federal representative and Colonel Abthorpe with 38 Canadian Brigade Group will attend and bring remarks. We will have a Tribute to the Fallen where Army Cadets will march to the Saskatchewan War Memorial to lay a wreath. Details

4. Vimy 100

For the public, marching of troops from St. Paul’s Cathedral to Cenotaph at Victoria Park, Ceremony approx.10:15, flypast. Followed by a re-dedication of Branch #001 of the Royal Canadian Legion (RCL). The museum at RCL will be open for viewing on Saturday April 8 from 12 until 4pm. Details

1. Weekday Music events

1. The Age of Electric on Tuesday, April 4 | 8:00 PM @ The Exchange
2. Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer on Wednesday, April 05 | 8:00 PM @ The Exchange

2. Val Halla Tour Fundraiser

Val Halla‘s musical wanderings have taken her across North America. Now, the Regina-based singer-songwriter is not only releasing a new album, A Walk on Part in the War, but also getting to tour the world. This night is to support that goal. The night features Orin Paquette, Richie Pollack of Pile of Bones Brass Band, Eliza Doyle from the Midnight Roses, Thomas Roussin of the Grain Report, Rob Dakiniewich, Jayson Brinkworth, Malcolm McLeod of the Highlanders, the Alley Dawgs, the Snake Oil Salesmen, Amy Nelson, Carmelle Pretzlaw of the Regina Symphony Orchestra, Ron Lawson of Big Bad Storm, Scott Pettigrew, Mariel Buckley, Micah Erenberg, and Sheena Rattai from Red Room Road. Details

3. Abbamania & Night Fever

Relive all the hits from two of the most iconic 70s pop bands ever to hit the stage! With amazing vocals, look and sound, ABBAmania and Night Fever will take you back in time to when ABBA and the Bee Gees ruled the pop charts. Hear all the hits of both bands recreated exactly as the original recordings. Details

4. Pavlo

Over the span of his 20-year career, Pavlo, the internationally renowned, award-winning recording artist, performer and songwriter, has released 10 albums of his own music, plus two collaborative projects, including 2015’s Guitarradas with Remigio Pereira of The Tenors, and 2009’s Trifecta with fellow guitar masters Rik Emmett and Oscar Lopez. Details

5. Regina Symphony Orchestra

Strauss Horn Concerto. Details

6. Kelevra w/ Between Now and Then and More

South Saskatchewan Music Productions presents Kelevra. The Regina group continues to grow outside the city’s borders, building on the audiences they’ve accumulated since debuting in 2009. They’ve also continued to build out their riff-heavy groove metal sound. Their latest EP, Lividity, came out in late 2016. Regina metalcore group Between Now and Then, Regina hardcore group In Ruin, and Moose Jaw, SK metal group Northern Fallout open. Details

7. The Lonesome Ace Stringband

The Lonesome Ace Stringband is a trio of Canada’s finest players taking old-time, Appalachian music to the extreme. The band, all members of The Foggy Hogtown Boy, came together in 2008. The music they were coming up with as a trio seemed different enough, from what they were doing with The Foggy Hogtown Boys, to warrant a new band. Their music features blistering fast instrumentation accompanied by their three unique vocal stylings. They have released two critically acclaimed albums since their inception, Old Time (2014) and Gone For Evermore (2016). Details

8. Dali Quartet

With an artist’s grace and a Caribbean soul, the Dalí Quartet is today’s freshest voice in Classical and Latin-American music. Anchored in both Venezuela’s El Sistema and in American classical conservatory traditions, this exciting quartet combines the best of both worlds. The Dalí Quartet’s captivating performances of traditional string quartet and LatinAmerican repertoire create an extraordinary concert experience that takes listeners on an eclectic journey of rhythm and sound. In the spirit of famed Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, the Dalí Quartet embraces imagination and excellence as central to its art form. Details

1. Intergenerational Dances

NDH presents several new works that feature dancers of different ages, often multiple generations within a family, creating and dancing together. Featuring: Connie Moker-Wernikowski, Katrina Currie, Evelyn Currie, Elle Wernikowski in Loops & Crinkles; Kendra Kembel and Suki Kembel in an untitled work and Robin Poitras, Astrid Gibson, Val Crowther, Angelina Wu in FLUTTER DANCES. Details

2. Vimy

Aided by a nurse from Nova Scotia, four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, each of them suffering from post-traumatic stress and reliving, through flashbacks, the horrors of war. Details

1. Naughty Puppets Part II

A two-part puppet workshop for adults created and facilitated by Regina Artist Sylvia Ziemann. Participants will create an alter ego puppet based on personal imaginings and desires. Always wanted pink hair and tattoos? Want your old lover back? Wish you had an evil twin? Well there’s a puppet for that. We will learn basics of puppet making and how to infuse a puppet with movement and character. Details

2. Brushworks Art Guild 2017

Show features original paintings created by members of the Brushworks Art Guild. Artwork in oil, acrylic, pen and ink, watercolour and mixed media. Details

3. Regina Floral Conservatory Easter Tea

Musical entertainment by harpists: Sharon David, Sharon Elliott, and Marguerite Lavigne-Canales. Details

4. Mosaic Gala

Travel the world in one evening of spectacular performance. This Gala event will feature performers from our many participating pavilions for Mosaic 2017. The Gala will be the launch of Mosaic 2017 and will include the presentation of Medallions to the Mosaic 2017 Ambassadors and Youth Ambassadors in a ceremony prior to the show. Details