Events & Workshops

Please join the Saskatchewan Poet Laureate Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye and Youth Poet Laureate Dash Reimer at the Saskatchewan Legislative Library for a reading in honour of National Poetry Month. The theme of 2025’s National Poetry Month is family.

This event is free and open to the public; please RSVP below. All are welcome. A reception with refreshments will follow the reading.

The Saskatchewan Legislative Library is located on the second floor (east wing) of the Legislative Building. Free parking available. The main entrance is wheelchair accessible, the second floor is accessible by stairs and elevator.

All visitors to the Legislative Building must go through a security screening process upon arrival, including metal detector screening and showing valid photo ID. Please allow 5-10 minutes for this screening process. For more information, please visit https://www.saskatchewan.ca/government/visual-identity-and-protocol/the-legislative-building. 

Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Public Speaker, Chorus-Poem Playwright, and Thespian residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, dance, performance art, critical research, and the theatre world. She is the 11^th Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan from Aug 1, 2024 until July 31, 2026.

Dash Reimer is an artist and educator based out of Treaty 6 territory in Saskatoon. He works within the worlds of poetry and hip hop and has a decade of experience performing on stages across Turtle Island, North Africa, South Africa and Turkey. He is passionate about community care, grassroots neighborhood movements and baking his friends tasty treats. Dash has been an avid collaborator in playwriting, chapbook making, jazz combos, improv troupes, rap crews and everything in between. Dash is the current Youth Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan.

Please RSVP by emailing programs@skwriter.com by April 14 or by filling out this RSVP form: