“That light I refuse to let go out, I now hope to stoke in others. This website is the portal into my relationship with The Song. Thank you for being here.”
Thursday, May 24, @ 1:30pm
Festival Hall: Tickets $30
Poetry + Song: A Collaborative Creativity Workshop
Shone and Kenna are excited to offer their first collaborative creavity workshop that will gently nurture your unique creative process through poetry and songwriting. Through sound, movement, and writing exercises you be easily and intuitively engaging with creativity in no time!
This workshop is a part of the fabulous InglewooDIY Festival. Check out all the incredible events! https://www.inglewoodyyc.ca/inglewoodiy-festival
Barrier free registration supported by Queer Arts Society. DM for details administration@calgaryqueerartssociety.com
Shone Thistle is a Queer poet, storyteller, multidisciplinary artist, Executive Director for Calgary Queer Arts Society and Calgary’s current poet laureate. Her words express the limitless power of artistic and creative compassion.
Kenna Burima is a songwriter, collaborator, producer, educator, and writer. She is passionate about facilitating reconnection and exploration of creativity in all people.
In this workshop you will be asked to:
· Be kind to yourself and the ways that you already create.
· Discover and play with a variety of natural and supportive creative processes
· Use all your senses to experience how music and poetry intersects in your daily life
· Mine your inner landscape through words and form into your own personal song
· Address and dissolve creative blocks that keep us from having fun when creating
Coffee and tea provided.
“Working with Kenna helped me take my music from a fleeting idea, to reality. In fact, I completed more creatively in the last year than I did in the previous 37. Most importantly, I’ve gained the courage to share my art with the world, and give it the life it deserves.”
Personalized Creativity Coaching Sessions
Discover YOUR Creative Process
Creativity Sessions are all about discovering your creative process and nurturing an artistic practice that brings you back to yourself, your creativity, and your art...
Sessions are uniquely created to directly address personal artistic and musical desires. Musicians, writers, actors, visual artists are all welcome. We all need an artistic cheerleader and a bit of support sometime.
Sessions may assist and help to:
Discover and develop a natural and supportive creative process
Build and fine tune a realistic and engaged artistic practice
Address and dissolve creative blocks
Nurture your intuition and access to the state of Flow
Deepen connections with yourself, others and the world around you
Learn to express yourself more clearly and honestly
Past Events
While She Sleeps Album Release Concert
Thank you for celebrating the release of Kenna Burima’s third solo album at the While She Sleeps Album Release Concert on May 11, 2023!
Contact Kenna for more information about the album, now available online on all major streaming platforms.
