ArtistSpeak* – Environment

Part talk show, reflection, and hands-on gathering exploring how artists respond to climate change, environmental grief, and our shifting relationship to land.

Join artists in conversation about ecological responsibility, sustainability, activism, and the emotional weight of environmental collapse. Together, we’ll explore how creative practices can witness, challenge, and reimagine our connections to place, nature, and collective responsibility.

This evening invites artists and audiences to sit with complexity — acknowledging fear, grief, and urgency while also holding space for creativity as a site of care, resistance, and possibility.

Date: Thursday, November 26, 2026
Doors: 4:30 PM | Program: 5:00 PM
Location: Trico Changemakers Studio @ MRU — Bissett School of Business, 4825 Mt Royal Gate SW, Calgary.
Craft Activity: Magazine Collage

Ticketing & Support:

This event is free with RSVP for MRU students (with student ID) and Werklund Centre TD Incubator artists. Thanks to the generous support of Mount Royal University’s Institute for Community Prosperity, helping us remove financial barriers and keep this gathering accessible.

Natasha Jensen: Natasha Faye Jensen is an interdisciplinary artist from Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary), located in the Treaty 7 territory of Southern Alberta, Canada. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the Alberta University of the Arts (formerly known as the Alberta College of Art and Design) in 2013, and she completed her Master of Arts (MA) in Contemporary Art Practice at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Natasha has exhibited in both solo and group shows as well as festivals in Canada, the United States, Finland, and the United Kingdom.

Tara Began: Tara Beagan is a proud Nlaka’pamux and Irish “Canadian” halfbreed. She is cofounder& codirector of ARTICLE 11 with Andy Moro. Nine of her 40 plays are published. One won a Dora Award. In 2020, Honour Beat won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama. In 2025 The Ministry of Grace did the same. Beagan is a Dora & Betty nominated actor. Beagan was the 2020 laureate of the Siminovitch Prize for theatre, playwriting. In 2025, she was twice nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, winning with Rise, Red River.

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PARKING:

Nearest parking lot - East Gate Parkade (Evening parking rate of $8.75 applies) - MRU Visitor Parking Map.

The paystation for the East Gate Parkade is located on P2 Level (coins, Visa or Mastercard only).

Please click here for a link to the East Gate Parkade QR code.

Trico Changemakers Studio is located on the Third Floor of the Bisset Business Building.

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ArtistSpeak* is supported by the Institute for Community Prosperity @ Mount Royal University (MRU)

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