ArtistSpeak* – Parenthood

Part conversation, performance, and creative pause exploring how parenthood reshapes artistic identity, time, ambition, and care.

Join us for an evening centred on the lived experiences of artists navigating parenthood — including pregnancy, caregiving, chosen family, fertility journeys, and the decision not to parent. Through shared stories and reflection, we’ll explore how creativity adapts, contracts, expands, and survives alongside responsibility and love.

This gathering creates space for nuance, honesty, and connection — honouring the many ways artists balance making work while caring for others and themselves.

Date: Thursday, October 1, 2026
Doors: 6:30 PM | Program: 7:00 PM
Location: Congress Coffee — 215 36 Ave NE, Calgary, AB
Tickets: $20 in advance / $25 at the door
Craft Activity: TBD
Email us for low-barrier ticket options: [email protected]

Adrienne Williams: Adrianne Williams is a multidisciplinary artist, working with themes of culture and the individual. Her paintings, installations and video works explore her Caribbean ancestry, while often highlighting ideas of pop culture and culture clash. Williams completed her BFA in Drawing at the Alberta University of the Arts in 2007. She has shown her work in Calgary, Edmonton, Italy and Spain.

Jamie Konchack: Jamie Konchak is an award-winning performer, puppeteer, educator, and creator with a two-decade career spanning stage, screen, and immersive performance. She is a co-Artistic Producer with Jennie Esdale of Little River Entertainment; a new Calgary-based company focusing on the development and support of music storytellers and their work. Jamie brings a wealth of cross-disciplinary experience to a creation room—equally at home in classical and contemporary theatre, physical performance, musical storytelling, puppetry, and devised ensemble work.

Michelle Thrush: Coming Soon!

Kris Demeanor: Coming Soon!

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

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