Date : Wednesday, October 14th, 2026
Time : 7:00-9:00 pm (SK time), doors open at 6:30 pm
Location : Creative City Centre, 1819 Cornwall St Regina, SK
Price: $10 or PWYC
The Creative City Centre is a fully licensed, all-ages, and wheel-chair accessible facility located in the heart of downtown Regina. Our spoken word open mic nights offer a welcoming and safe space to share your poetry, your rhymes, your words. Poets get a maximum of 5 minutes to share their words.
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We encourage audience members to engage during the performances – snap, make cheesecake noises (mm’s and yes), laugh, stomp, or otherwise make your appreciation known!
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This month’s feature poet is Saskatchewan’s own Youth Poet Laureate, Aya Skouta!
Feature performer:
Aya Skouta (she/her) is a Moroccan-Canadian poet, writer, and University of Saskatchewan student. Currently as youth Poet Laureate, Aya uses poetry and spoken word to navigate the complexities of identity, philosophy, and curiosity about the world. She has published and shared her work across Canada and the Prairies, moving audiences at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam 2026 in Vancouver, and capturing the title in 2025 and 2026 SKribe Underground Poetry Slam in her hometown of Saskatoon. Throughout her growing artistic journey, Aya remains grounded in the belief that curiosity is the heart of poetry, and she is committed to fueling that spark of curiosity within young writers.
Check out her Instagram here to see more about her work!
*** Guidelines, Community Agreements, and Consent Statements
At the Creative City Centre we strive for inclusivity and respect in the community both inside and out of our facility, which is why we have compiled the following guidelines to remember both for our events and also in everyday life.
• We encourage respecting the way folks self-identify, without assuming gender, sexuality, orientation, religion, or ability.
• We understand that at times folks may need to leave or engage in other methods of self-care, and that’s okay.
• We encourage language that promotes inclusivity, education, and awareness and dislike all forms of explicit ignorance including, but not limited to, hate speech, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and classism.
• We encourage the culture of consent meaning we respect people’s physical, verbal, and emotional boundaries. This means respecting that some people might not want to be hugged and if you want to engage physically in any way with a person it is important to ask permission before doing so.
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Regina Word Up is a program of the Creative City Centre. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, SK Arts and City of Regina.
