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Thursday, Sept 18, 2025 Doors @ 6:30, Show @ 7:00pm
SEASON TWO of ArtistSpeak* is on MONEY! Thursday, September 18, 2025 @ 7pm
*Part talk show, performance and craft gathering. Experience artists in performance and conversation w/ hosts Kenna Burima and Eddy Robinson followed by a collective craft activity! Craft supplies incl!
Doors @ 6:30pm. Show starts @ 7pm @ Congress Coffee, Calgary, AB, Canada
Our Season Two launches Sept 18 with 3 Artists talkin' MONEY!
For barrier free tickets
With a Special Guest Artist Appearance by Blaq Velvet, Spoken Word Poet, Burlesque Dancer, Visual Artist and CEO of MVX STUDIOS.
Featured Artists:
Join hosts Kenna Burima and Eddy Robinson as they delve into the intersections of money and creativity. The evening features an incredible line up of artists sharing how money, creativity and art intersect.
Priscilla Cherry is a vibrant soul born of Trinidadian and French-Canadian roots. A social artist, broadcaster, and peer support specialist, Priscilla is driven by the absence of her own reflection in media and transforms her lived experience into purpose. She’s excited to unpack how capitalist systems need to be faced, explored and engaged with to bring about change.
Mike Tan lights up every room he walks into room. Rooms like Downstage, Theatre Junction, and Ghost River Theatre, The Banff Centre Playwrights Lab, Vertigo Theatre, Alberta Theatre Projects, and Theatre Calgary have all benefited from his shine. As an artist who wears multiple hats and is keen for all his artist friends to succeed, he's keen to talk about whhhhhhhhyyyyyyy money? Why?
Jason Patrick Rothery is an Alberta-based writer, theatre artist, and lapsed academic. He’s a scary smart one who’s written multiple books, theatrical productions and collaborative creations that have toured across Canada and the U.S. He’s got some thoughts on funding models that facilitate artists facing hard truths of how we diminish our worth when interfacing with the very systems necessary for bringing our creations to life.
“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.
