Kyle Syverson

Kyle Syverson is a teacher, dancer, lover of language, and the outdoors. Kyle spent her childhood in Prince Albert, doing gymnastics and ballet and enjoying Emma Lake. She has traveled extensively in Latin America, and hence is fluent in Spanish, and also French. She completed an Honours B.A. in Languages and Linguistics at the U of S. Kyle has taught conversational Spanish and creative movement for kids through various community associations. She has instructed dance and gymnastics since she was 13, and currently teaches Ballet and movement improvisation to adults. For the past 10 years, Kyle has worked for the Greater Saskatoon Catholic School System as an educational assistant, working with many different types of learners and teachers. She also is co-director of KSAMB Dance Company, specializing in outdoor dance, and she dances with Free Flow Dance Theatre. She enjoys facilitating dance for differently abled people, teaching workshops for seniors’ residences, SaskAbilities and Saskatchewan Alternative Initiatives. Kyle loves trees (especially Linden and Tamarack) and the river, and growing raspberries, and singing, and spotting bunnies and mink. She feels very fortunate to be able to explore and grow with the Wild Sky community!!

Laura Hosaluk

Laura is of European Saskatchewan Settler descent. Her ancestry travels back in four directions: Ukraine, Poland, Scotland, and England. Arriving upon Treaty 6 and Treaty 4 Territory in 1983 in Saskatoon, Hosaluk had the opportunity to absorb Arts and Crafts from her father and the many rural and international craftspeople who worked beside him. Craft became Hosaluk's culture, reflecting a mutual interrelation (earth-human dynamic) of working with the earth's resources with one's hands to make beautiful things.

For the past 15 years, Laura's creative practice has been a personal pursuit and a powerful tool for community engagement. She has dedicated herself to serving Saskatchewan children, their families, and the community through various impactful community art projects, leaving a lasting impression on those she has worked with.

In 1996, while attending high school at Mount Royal Collegiate, she was able to leave class to participate in cultural ceremonies, such as sweat lodges, offered by an Indigenous Studies teacher, Mr. Smith. She found that real learning happened for her outdoors. From 2009 to 2011, she became the Clubhouse Director with the Boys and Girls Clubs after-school program in Confederation, Here she crossed paths with Elder Joseph Naytowhow. This connection has since led to an ongoing collaboration on art and cultural programming, enriching her cultural education. She emphasizes that some of her most significant learning has come from community programming, as it allows her to meet the people of this territory and broadens her perspective on new ways of thinking.

Hosaluk is furthering her education after completing her BFA at Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning Program. 

Cindy Wright

Hello, my name is Cindy Wright. I am a watercolour artist, photographer, wife, mother, farm owner, and outdoor adventurer. My work with children spans from the time I was a teenager to today. I’ve provided childcare at a young age, to experience as assistant teacher at Montessori School of Regina as well as teaching art classes to Outreach teens and homeschooled children in Alberta.
I grew up in the great outdoors with animals and nature all around me. I was raised on a ten-acre hobby farm in Furdale, south of Saskatoon. At a very young age I cleared out a special camp spot of the native Poplar tree patch near our house. It was my first campground! Building shelters, sleeping outdoors and fires are all second nature to me. I would spend time in the summers riding my horse along with my dog adventuring to banks of the South Saskatchewan River.
I’ve continued this lifestyle through hiking trips with my outdoorsy husband, and feeling very fortunate since 2003, to have found a core group of six women who go on annual canoe trips where we are self guided on seven-to-fifteen-day excursions. A number of these have been fly- in trips and often involve whitewater rapids. I’ve taken training as a volunteer Search and Rescue worker in the early 2000’s and am constantly exposed to my husband’s preparation as a Master Trainer to all levels of Ground Search and Rescue workers.
I have come full circle as I an adult; I again have my own campsite and it too is in the middle of a Poplar tree patch! Currently you can find me working in my Art Studio with watercolours and in regular practice of fire building and Bushcraft skills at the campsite on our eighty acres west of Saskatoon.
I most look forward to empowering children to learn and discover in the outdoors just as I did growing up.

Owen Ish

Owen grew up in Saskatoon and attended the Outdoor School Program through Saskatoon Public Schools in Grade 11 where he further developed his skills and love of camping, hiking, backpacking, and canoeing. In the program, he also received wilderness first aid training and learned to tie several types of knots. Owen is a runner and competed in cross country and track and field (100m, 200m, 400m, 5000m) in high school, and had the opportunity to join the Huskies last fall but decided to take a break. He has played soccer since he was 4 years old and now plays in an adult league. Owen collects figures and can talk about the history of Transformers in great detail, he also loves film and movie production, plays guitar, bass, and piano, and has been learning Japanese for four years. Currently, Owen is a student in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program and is an artist and musician and recently completed his first art installation at the Snellgrove Gallery. He works at Wild Sky as a substitute preschool leader and will be working at the summer camps in Saskatoon in 2024.