Annual Storytellers Festival
February 19-25, 2026
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Annual Storytellers Festival
The Sâkêwêwak Annual Storyteller’s Festival is a community based, multidisciplinary arts showcase featuring Indigenous artists. During this annual event, many Indigenous artists are invited to participate as an opportunity to share their diverse artistic practices with the Regina community.
We are grateful for ongoing support from the Canada Council for the Arts, SK Arts, Sask Lotteries, SaskCulture, and City of Regina, all of whom make this festival possible.
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Sâkêwêwak Annual Storytellers Festival 2026: Presence – join us this year at different venues around Regina for all the storytelling!
PROGRAM
Storytellers Festival 2026
Theme: Presence
Feb. 19 – March 1, 2026 (Subject to change)
Event 1
Thursday, Feb 19, 2026
Spoken Word Night
📍 The Exchange
🕖 7:00–10:00
Artists: Alexandra Jarrett; Carly Bear; Janelle Pewapsconias; Jeri Alderman-Hansson; Tai Reign
Event 2
Friday, February 20, 2026
Opulence Artist Talk
📍 First Nations University – Multipurpose Room
🕖 7:00–9:30
Artists: Kristy Derksen; Sadi Vaxvick; Samara Jackson; Shyra McNab; Tianna Delorme
Event 3
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Youth Event
📍 YWCA
🕛 12:00–5:00
Activities / Leaders: Dance Troupe; Moccasin Games; Sound Bath; Medicine Teachings
Event 4
Monday, February 23, 2026
Panel Discussion
📍 First Nations University – The Atrium
🕖 7:00–9:30
Panelists: David Garneau; Dickie Yuzicapi; Robin Cote; Stephanie Gamble
Moderator: Kerry Benjoe
Event 5
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Living Library
📍 Hotel Saskatchewan
🕖 7:00–10:00
Elders / Guests: Bevann Fox; Courtney Dawn Anaquod; Creeson Agecoutay; Jennifer Dawn Dubois; Joe Welsh; Nelson Bird; Owen Pelletier
Event 6
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Film Screening
📍 Moonlight Theater
🕑 2:00–5:00
Screening: Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising
VOLUNTEER
Are you feeling called to volunteer at this year’s festival? Get in touch with us at Admin@sakewewak.ca.
Storytellers Festival 2025: Presence
Storytellers 2026 — Presence
The Sâkêwêwak Annual Storytellers Festival is a community-based, multidisciplinary arts showcase featuring a diverse range of Indigenous artists.
As we reflect on the enduring power of stories and language to shape understanding, memory, and ways of being, Storytellers 2026 invites the community to slow down and be fully present. Rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing, this year’s festival creates space for ancestral teachings, contemporary narratives, and lived experience to meet — not in haste, but in attention.
This year’s theme is Presence.
Presence asks a simple but challenging question: where is your focus?
In a world of constant distraction, this chapter of the Storytellers Festival invites audiences to arrive fully; with their bodies, their attention and their hearts. Through spoken word, panel discussions, youth programming, living stories and film, Presence becomes a practice rather than a concept.
Storytellers 2026 offers moments to pause, reflect and reconnect with yourself, with community and with the stories that shape us.
Interested in volunteering at this year’s festival?
Get in touch with us at Admin@sakewewak.ca.
Be here.
Be open.
Be present.