Category: Events

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Events, Spare Room Gallery, Summer

Opening July 1, 4-5:30pm

Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

Time: Is An Illusion | All We Have: Is Now

Dana Standinghorn is a Cree artist from Sweetgrass First Nation, Saskatchewan. She has been creating artwork for the past 30 years. Her work can be understood as abstract because it expresses her interpretation of the world around her.

While I paint, I let everything unravel onto the canvas without question. I let the color of paint and paintbrushes take me where it wants to. Every painting is a feeling, thought, idea, memory or a vision… The paintings are abstract so everyone is going to see something different, and that is what I love the most about my art.
– from Dana Standinghorn, Artist Statement

detail from Dana Standinghorn's acrylic on canvas painting, I Love You
I Love You (detail) | 2011 Acrylic on canvas | 3 ft x 10 ft

Standinghorn’s exhibit will be on display through July and August 2024. Select items are for sale. Inquire with the Artist.

113 Broad Street, Cut Knife, SK
Wednesdays 1:30 – 6:30pm & Fridays 11:00am – 4pm
or by appointment. Sundays in July Noon – 1:30pm. Free admission

Sponsored by Sweetgrass First Nation

~ Debbie M.

Canada Day float
Events, Museum, Summer

July 1, 2024

Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

Canada Day at the Museum

The Town of Cut Knife is celebrating Canada Day 2024 with a full slate of activities taking place around town and in Tomahawk Park. The day begins with the Parade and will finish off with Fireworks.

PARADE at 11am. Click here to view the route map.

OPEN HOUSE at the Museum. Buildings open from 12:30 – 2pm.

SPARE ROOM GALLERY open 4 – 5:30pm. Located at 113 Broad Street.

Sneak a peek at the CMMM Canada Day Parade float. Look familiar?

View the Canada Day Events poster here.

~ Debbie M.

Poundmaker Indigenous Festival poster
Events

July 9, 10 & 11 at Poundmaker Lake

Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND

The Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival was established in 2018 by organizer Floyd Favel. Originally a celebration of the talent and diversity of local Indigenous performers, it has expanded to include Indigenous cultures and diverse theatre practices from around the world. 2024’s program hasn’t yet been released, but last year’s festival included a Greek tragedy, cultural lectures, Plains Indian sign language workshops, and performances of poetry and spoken word.

More on last year’s Festival in this July 2023 article from the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.

Floyd Favel is the Curator of the Chief Poundmaker Museum but has spent much of his life as a theatre professional, a writer, and a filmmaker.

“I went to school in Denmark and Italy working in the realm of theatre as a writer and as a director, but I moved back to my community in the 1990s”… He has also written a few books and produced two films on the Delmas Residential School.

On June 19, Favel will be awarded the 2024 Saskatchewan Award of Merit for “his commitment to helping to revive the arts, culture and language in his Poundmaker Cree Nation community.” Read more from Battlefords Now.

Floyd Favel asked the CMMM to share this year’s Festival poster, and we are happy to do so. We encourage everyone to check out the program once it’s available and make plans to attend a performance or lecture. If last year is any indication, there’ll be something for everyone!

Performances will be held at the Culture Lodge venue at Poundmaker Lake.

Upcoming Events at Sarasa Culture Site at Poundmaker Lake

Note that the Plains Indian Sign Language Workshops require advance registration as space is limited. Download the pdf here.

~ Debbie M.

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Events, Spare Room Gallery

Extended Hours

Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

Open for viewing on Saturday & Sunday

Mary Ramsay’s Landscape and Sky exhibit, sponsored by Veikle Agro Inc., will finish its run at the Spare Room Gallery on Sunday, June 23. Feedback from visitors has been glowing. We want everyone to have a chance to see how well, and how beautifully, Mary has captured moments from a lifetime of living and raising her children on the family farm.

In addition to Wednesdays from 1:30 – 6:30pm & Fridays from 11:00am – 4pm, the Gallery will also be open on these weekends:

  • Saturday, June 15 from 2 – 4pm;
  • Sunday, June 16 from 10:30am – 12:30pm:
  • Saturday, June 22 from 10:30am – 12:30pm:
  • Sunday, June 23 from 2 – 4pm.

Select pieces of artwork are for sale. A price list is available on site.

Landscape and Sky by Artist Mary Ramsay, framed canvas, sawblade, rocks
Scenes on canvas, rocks, and blades.

Free admission. Donations accepted.

~ Debbie M.

Board, Events

2024 AGM Results…

Clayton McLain Memorial Museum

Many thanks to outgoing Chair

The CMMM’s Annual General Meeting was held on Sunday, April 21 at the MAAC. The 2024 / 2025 Board is as follows:

  • Randy Strelioff, Chair
  • Debbie MacLeod, Vice-Chair
  • MJ Kammerer, Treasurer
  • Colton Stapley, Secretary
  • John Rutley, Permanent Trustee
  • Mel Sawatzky, Permanent Trustee
  • Lisa Drake, Town of Cut Knife Representative
  • R.M. of Cut Knife Representative, currently vacant

Outgoing Chair Colton Stapley has spent the majority of his 7 years as Board Trustee on the Executive as Chair. We want to acknowledge his commitment to the Museum’s preservation and growth, and his technical expertise in so many areas. He has accumulated a wealth of museum-related knowledge and experience, and we are fortunate he is willing to stay on and share it with us.

Thank you for your years of service, Colton. We hope there are many more.

~ Debbie M.