Who we are
Girls Rock Saskatoon (GRS) is a registered non-profit, volunteer-based organization dedicated to the empowerment of female-identifying, two-spirit, and gender expansive youth and adults through collaborative music creation and performance.
What we do
GRS features Girls Rock Camp Saskatoon (GRCS), a week-long youth program where campers learn an instrument, form a band, and write a song to be performed at a showcase at the end of the week. In addition to technical training, campers take part in music workshops centred on creativity and confidence-building, as well as engaged workshops dealing with gender, social justice, image, identity, and community building. We offer two week-long day camps every summer for ages 8-14.
2022 Youth Camp
Our Mission
Girls Rock Saskatoon uses the collaborative power of music to fight sexism and gender discrimination in our communities. We strive to create safer spaces where girls, women, trans, two-spirit, and gender expansive youth and adults can have opportunities for growth, learning, social justice education, and healthy relationships through role modeling, shared leadership, and alternatives to gendered socialization.
Our Vision
Girls Rock Saskatoon envisions a world in which gender and racial justice is achieved, youth voices are valued, and there are limitless opportunities for creative expression regardless of gender, race, class, ability, or culture. We envision a world where music education is valued, where power and opportunity are shared, and where creative and powerful spaces are universally accessible. We envision a world where traditionally marginalized voices are equally entitled to, deemed worthy of, and valued and respected in these spaces.
GRS Volunteers at Saskatoon Pride, 2022
Land
Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we live and work in Treaty 6 Territory and wish to explore what this means for our practices.
Girls Rock Saskatoon acknowledges that the work we do is on Treaty 6 Territory, and that this land is the homeland of the Metis, and the traditional territory of many nations, including the Cree and Dakota. We respect the diverse Indigenous Peoples that now call this land home, and we recognize the damage of settler colonialism. Our organization supports and respects that healing from settler colonialism is taking place on traditional indigenous territory and we stand in solidarity to support safer spaces constructed by and for Indigenous Peoples.