Kevin Wesaquate

Kevin is the founder of the Indigenous Poetry Society and has hopes of building an increasing community of spoken word artists. He works remotely from his home studio as a ‘Virtual Artist Teacher’ for Northern communities for the Taking IT Global, Connected North Program, as one of their most valued presenters.  Kevin has represented Saskatoon for Tonight Its Poetry at the Canadian Individual Slam in Vancouver in April of 2018. He also represented the same group for the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in 2017 and 2018. He recently finished the Indigenous Fine Arts Residency in Banff Centre for the Arts, called ‘Ghost Days, Making Art for Spirit’. During this residency, he created the art performance ‘Sahkihitok’, which was preformed at Nuit Blanche Saskatoon. His work has led to community initiatives like planting misaskwatomina (Saskatoon Berry) shrubs by the river near downtown Saskatoon with a group known as Locals Only.

With many public speaking engagements, his aim is to always inspire the next upcoming artists, like the first Indigenous Poets Society Team who he had coached at CFSW 2019 in Guelph, Ontario. A collection of paintings that were created by Kevin still hang at the Saskatchewan Polytechnique Adult Education building. He is from Piapot First Nation where he learned the value of a community and proudly shares those teachings in Saskatoon or where ever his work takes him.