Re: Sending You Flowers

This fall for Culture Days 2021, we are sending you flowers! Produced by the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery and Shared Spaces, this project will bring an augmented reality experience into the homes and workplaces of people in Yorkton and across Saskatchewan. Starting September 24, 2021, we will mail 500 postcards with a unique AR trigger. Point your phone or tablet camera (using the Shared Spaces app) to see a virtual bouquet of flowers appear! We want to celebrate and (digitally) brighten the spaces where we have been spending time over the past year. The Shared Spaces app includes a function to take photographs of the AR bouquet in your own space, so when you receive a postcard, set it on your kitchen table or in your art studio, or take it outside and share a snapshot from your garden. Want to participate? All members of the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery will receive a postcard, and we will also work with community partners to reach people throughout our community and across Saskatchewan. Not a GDAG member? That's fine! You can sign up by contacting the gallery. Quantity is limited, and we will be mailing the postcards at the beginning of Culture Days 2021. Don’t miss out! * * * Shared Spaces is a three-year project of the University of Saskatchewan Art Galleries & Collection exploring how Augmented Reality (AR) can create opportunities for connection through art, both by making art accessible anywhere through approaches such as digital 3D sculptures and by providing additional content that is often personal in nature. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is located in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, on Treaty 4, land of the Cree, Ojibwe, Saulteaux, Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota, and homeland of the Métis Nation. Through art exhibitions, workshops, education, performance, and other public programming, we aim to provide meaningful artistic experiences for everyone, reflecting the creative diversity of our community. As the only professional public art gallery in our area, we focus on curating and promoting the work of artists from here as well as artists based elsewhere in Saskatchewan and from across Canada.

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Culture Days Yorkton 2021

Angelina Kardynal Yorkton, SK

Culture Days Yorkton is a celebration of art and culture in our community. An exciting selection of art and culture events and activities will take place indoors, outdoors and online for 4 weeks starting September 24th through October 24th.