Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective Storytellers Festival - Spoken Word Night

Thursday, February 19th - Spoken Word Night. 

The Exchange - 2431 8th Ave 

All Ages & Licensed 

7:00pm - 10:00pm 
www.sakewewak.ca

Please join Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective for the 2026 Storytellers Festival, celebrating winter traditions through Indigenous storytelling, art, and gathering.

From February 19 to March 1, experience spoken word, panel discussions, youth programming, art installations, a film screening, and more — with events happening across Regina.

We’re excited to welcome you as stories come to life through design, memory, and voice.

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.

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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About the Exchange

The Exchange is wheelchair accessible and offers 2 non-gender/wheelchair-accessible washrooms.

The Exchange is an all-ages venue that supports the Safer Spaces Initiative. We do not tolerate any form of harassment, abusive and/or discriminative behaviour. Such behaviour is grounds for immediate removal from the event/venue. If you are experiencing any harassment, please ask to speak to a manager.

Ticket price plus taxes and fees - lineups subject to change - no refunds or exchanges