Shayna Jones, artist and folklorist, has created a performance and publication that interprets the words shared with her over the course of conversations with African-Canadian rural-dwelling Saskatchewanians. When asked about the purpose behind this living heritage project, Jones replies, "Black and Rural Saskatchewan is a window into a readily overlooked segment of not only prairie life but Black Canadian life in general. To choose to live outside of the urban maze as a Black individual is to live outside of the narrow bandwidth afforded to us by mainstream culture. The aim of this project is to honour these hidden rural Black voices and to challenge the monolith of what matters to Black lives."
