7/30/2019 Wild About Saskatoon festival

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/wild-about-saskatoon-festival 1/2

Hello all,

Wild About Saskatoon is a brand new collective of nature‐minded individuals working to connect

culture and nature in the city of Saskatoon. We live in an urbanizing province and a rapidly urbanizing

world. If we and our children fail to connect with nature in our daily lives, we may fail to connect with it

anywhere. Think what the consequences of that loss would be for ourselves and for the Earth

Wild About Saskatoon intends to impassion Saskatoon residents with the nature that surrounds them in

the streets, gardens, parks and back alleys of the urban environment. We plan to begin this work by

hosting a festival to celebrate Nature in the City, timed to coincide with the blooming of the saskatoon

blossoms. To do this, we need your help!

The festival will take place around the week of May 25 to May 31, 2013 and our goal is to have activities

running throughout the week, led by many citizens and organizations, exposing as many cultures, age

groups, and areas of the city as possible. The scope of your contributions is limited only by your

imagination. The main thing is that you participate, have fun, and connect your event or activity to the

cityscape of Saskatoon and to nature.

Examples include, but are not limited to:

Nature walks, Night walks, Archeological digs, Outdoor art displays, Music performance/concert,

Poetry/book reading, Pond dipping, Dance performance, Craft making, Building wildlife “houses”,

Gardening demonstration, Local food booth, Cooking demonstration, Bike tour, Sustainable living

workshop, Yoga in the park, Photo workshop.... And the list goes on!

What we need from you: Your participation! 

Please provide us details by January 7, 2013:

1.  A description of what you or your organization would like to do (can be multiple events);

2.  If important to your event:

a.  what days of the week would be preferable for the activities;

b.  what time of day would work best for your activity (e.g., morning, afternoon, night or

specific times, if applicable);

c.  the proposed location of your event;

d.  the cost of the event per person (note that we are trying to make these events

accessible to everyone so please keep it free or on a cost‐recovery basis)

e.  Whether you are needing extra volunteers to help you out, and how many (we are

assuming that most organizations will be able to run their proposed event(s) on their

own)

3.  An indication of whether you would be willing to volunteer to help organize prior to and during

the event.

If you want to participate but need more time than Jan. 7, please let us know that as well.

7/30/2019 Wild About Saskatoon festival

http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/wild-about-saskatoon-festival 2/2

Send your ideas to candace.savage@sasktel.net. Please

include Wild About Saskatoon Festival in the subject line.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Candace

Savage at candace.savage@sasktel.netor Candace and Chet

Neufeld at candace_neufeld@hotmail.com.

We are sure we have forgotten a lot of organizations or

individuals who would make a positive contribution to the

festival so PLEASE forward this message to them with our

apologies.