Creative City Centre presents Regina Word Up Open Mic Night!
Date : Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
Time : 7:00-9:00 pm (SK time), doors open at 6:30 pm
Location : The Artesian, 2627 13th Ave, Regina, SK
Price: $5.00 or pay what you can
The Artesian is a fully licensed, all-ages, and wheel-chair accessible facility located in Regina’s Cathedral Village Neighborhood.
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CREATIVE CITY CENTRE PRESENTS REGINA WORD UP AT THE ARTESIAN!
We are patiently waiting for the renovations on our new facility to be completed, but until that time, we are presenting our spoken word events at the Artesian on 13th.
We are grateful to the Artesian for welcoming us into their space!
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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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Feature performer: 
The Merchant of Poetry is a slam poet and fiction writer from Calgary, Alberta. She began writing and performing in 2018, when her close friend bullied her into joining her high school slam team. Now she is a 2 time finalist of the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam, A youth slam coach, a member of the Woolf’s Voices Artist Collective, and a passionate member of the Canadian spoken word scene. Most of her work is epistolary, exploring themes of feminism, butch identity, love and spite.
*** 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. We are grateful to The Artesian on 13th, who are facility partners for this event.
For more information on programs and opportunities, please visit www.creativecitycentre.ca
For more information, please email social@creativecitycentre.ca.
