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About the Cultural Industries in Saskatchewan |
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Book Publishing
Saskatchewan book publishers publish fiction, drama, poetry, educational texts, books in French and several Aboriginal languages, reference books, history books, biographies, cookbooks, natural history books, guidebooks, coffee-table books, and books for children.
Visual Arts and Crafts
The visual arts and crafts produced in Saskatchewan are of exceptionally high quality, and are characterized by a great diversity in the media used to create the product, in the methods of production employed, and in the price of the products.
Film and Video
Saskatchewan's film and video industry is the fastest growing sector among the province's cultural industries. It is also the largest sector in dollar terms because film and video production is labour intensive and requires a more sophisticated technical infrastructure than other industries. The motion picture industry is a hybrid: it combines technical expertise with ingenuity and creativity to bring into being new stories that reflect our Saskatchewan way of life to one another and to audiences around the world, using immediate and compelling media.
Music and Sound Recording
The contribution of the music and sound recording industry to Saskatchewan's economy is as important as its role in establishing Saskatchewan's cultural identity—that unique prairie sound called "flatland music" that crosses all musical genres from country to pop, rock to Celtic, folk to blues. Saskatchewan's musical identity and distinctive sound is heard the world over.
Information quoted from A Cultural Industries Development Strategy for Saskatchewan, pages 7-11