Building healthy, active and creative lifestyles through sport, culture and recreation.

April 2025

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Nominations Open April 7 for the 2025 Sask Recreation Awards

The Sask Recreation Awards celebrate the outstanding achievement of individuals, communities, and organizations who improved the quality of life for others through recreation.

Nominations will be accepted for the Community Wellbeing, Leadership Excellence and Volunteer Champion awards until May 16, 2025.

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National Survey on Inclusive Green Spaces

We need your feedback!

Are you involved in the parks sector? Your insights are essential in understanding how to improve access and inclusivity in parks and green spaces.

CPRA has launched the first-ever National Survey to gather insights on equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI) and reconciliation in parks and green spaces.

We want to hear about your work in the sector and how we can keep advancing inclusive parks and green spaces. Your feedback will contribute to the Canadian Inclusive Green Spaces Symposium.

Make your voice heard and help create change – take the survey now.

Deadline for completion is April 25, 2025.

FACILIATED BY: LEAH FERGUSON

Building your Coaching Toolbox: Applying Self-Compassion to Athletes’ Perfectionism

On May 6, join Canadian Sport Centre Saskatchewan for an insightful 1-hour Zoom webinar designed specifically for coaches of athletes who experience less desirable effects of perfectionism, such as fear of failure, negative reactions to imperfections, and unrealistic performance expectations.

This session will delve into the understanding and application of self-compassion to manage perfectionistic concerns in athletes. Coaches will gain practical strategies to foster a supportive and resilient sporting environment and leave with valuable insights to enhance your coaching practice and build your coaching toolbox.

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The Culture Days Hub Sponsorship, offered by SaskCulture, aims to support communities and cultural groups in Saskatchewan that bring together two or more community cultural partners to hold free, interactive, participatory cultural activities during Culture Days. Applications that include activities and programming that advance Truth and Reconciliation as part of September 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, will be prioritized. There is no deadline – applications will be accepted and reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis until the sponsorship budget is expended. To learn more about this opportunity, go to saskculture.ca/culturedays.

February 15-21, 2026

The 2026 Saskatchewan Winter Games are coming to Flying Dust First Nation and the City of Meadow Lake!

On December 10th, a major milestone was reached with the signing of a historic quad-party agreement that formalizes the partnership between the two host communities, the Saskatchewan Games Council, and the 2026 Saskatchewan Winter Games Host Society. These Games will mark the first-ever time in the program's 52-year history that a First Nation and a City have partnered to host the youth multi-sport event.

The 2026 Saskatchewan Winter Games will be held on Treaty 6 Territory from February 15-21, 2026 and will bring together upwards of 1800 participants, 1000 volunteers, and 5000 spectators from every corner of the province for a weeklong celebration of sport, culture, and community.

Saskatchewan, we can't wait to see you at the Games!

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2026 Saskatchewan Winter Games

Employment Opportunities

Director of Recreation and Parks: Town of Tisdale, Closes April 30, 2025

Executive Director: Lakeland District for Sport, Culture & Recreation, Closes May 2, 2025

Aquatics Programmer: City of Prince Albert, Closes May 31, 2025

Lifeguard (Permanent): City of Prince Albert, Closes May 31, 2025

Lifeguard (Casual): City of Prince Albert, Closes May 31, 2025

Training | Education | Workshops

Sport Wrapping and Taping Courses (SWAT)

The sport wrapping and taping (SWAT) workshop is a 7-hour practical worshop with content that deals with types of soft tissue injuries, cycle and mechanisms of injuries, stages of healing, assessing and return to sport guidelines, knowing when to tape vs. not to tape, ankle wrapping, ankle taping, wrist taping, thumb and finger taping, hip wrap, and tensor bandaging.

It should be noted this workshop isnot a certified workshop. It does not give anyone any type of official certification or designation.

It is an educational workshop only, and is not officially recognized by any professional body.

$50 / person - Min 8, Max 24 attendees

April 26, 2025 - Regina, SK

Location: 2205 Victoria Ave

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

May 10, 2025 - Saskatoon, SK

Location: 510 Cynthia Street

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Spring Training Symposium Celebrates 20 Years!

SPRA is excited to announce the 2025

Spring Training Symposium will be held from April 28 - May 1 in the City of Humboldt. The Symposium is sponsored by 1 Stop Playgrounds Ltd.

To celebrate 20 years of the Symposium, we've expanded the event to offer 17 courses in 8 different streams!

Registration launches in early March!

SEDA Community Builders Workshop Series

May 5-9, 2025 Registration Deadline April 23

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May 9 RM of Prince Albert

REGISTRATION FEES INCLUDE LUNCH AND REFRESHMENTS:

$30 for attendees from a SEDA member community/organization.

$35 for all other attendees.

MAS Certificate Program in Community Museum Studies:

Museums 101 (1 day)

Saturday, May 10 2025

9:00am - 4:00pm

Online (Zoom)

Instructor: Tomas Jonsson

This course will increase your familiarity with the most recent edition of Standards for Saskatchewan Museums, focusing on applying the standards to your museum. It will also examine the relationship between your institution, sector standards, and public trust, as well as look at the museum standards in a provincial, national, and international context. This course is one of the ten required classes needed for the completion of the Museums Association of Saskatchewan Certificate in Museum Studies Program.

$100 Member, $150 Non Member, $75 Student

Registration now open!

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