SWAN RIVER, MAN. — A new cultural arts centre, multi-purpose room and outdoor teaching area is now open at the Swan Valley Regional Secondary School in Swan River, Man.
The $16.6 million project includes a 4,200-square-foot cultural arts centre featuring a large auditorium with a raised stage; a 2,100-square-foot multi-purpose room; and an outdoor teaching area located adjacent to the cultural arts centre.
The centre at Swan Valley Regional Secondary School, a Grade 9 to 12 high school, will support the school’s arts and culture curriculum and accommodate increasing area enrolment, a release reads. It will also offer a space for a wide range of arts and culture programming including square dancing, Ukrainian dance lessons, art exhibits and band concerts.
The multi-purpose room will provide additional space for student instruction, presentations and training opportunities, while the new outdoor space will promote student mental wellness and serve as an outdoor classroom.
The space was developed in consultation with Indigenous community leaders to incorporate Indigenous learning and cultural practices. The centre will celebrate Indigenous histories, cultures, languages, traditional values and worldviews, and will feature programming that incorporates oral traditions and storytelling, land stewardship and resource management presentations, medicine wheel teachings and smudging, the release adds. Programming will also include jigging, drumming, powwows and hand drum singing, the minister noted.
The surrounding community will also be able to use the space, including the Wuskwi Sipihk First Nation, the Swan River School of Dance and 4-H.
It was designed by Public City Architecture.
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