by comms | Jun 17, 2022
Naheed Nenshi is a passionate Calgarian, an accomplished business professional, and a community leader with a solid track record of getting things done. He has run a large nonprofit, has been a trusted advisor to corporate leaders in Canada and the US, and wrote the...
by comms | Jun 17, 2022
Yolanda Sargeant is the Queen of Lo-Fi Soul. A genre that she and her producer Comrade (Evgeniy) pioneered after not being able to find an appropriate label that fits their eclectic style. The duo infuses jazz, soul, funk, dancehall, hip-hop, as well as other genres...
by comms | Jun 17, 2022
Zaire is an emerging hip-hop artist with deep roots in spoken word poetry. Over the last several years he has become a fixture in the Calgary arts community through his vivid storytelling and passion for exploring subjects such as existential angst, disenfranchised...
by comms | Jun 17, 2022
As a student of both the Indian Classical and Western Classical arts, Sujeev has been learning and performing music from a very young age. He started off with the piano at the age of 4, studying through the Royal Conservatory of Music before he picked up the Tabla,...
by comms | Jun 15, 2022
Shelley Youngblut connects the world’s best authors with the world’s best audiences as the CEO & Creative Ringleader of Wordfest. She is the recipient of the 2020 Calgary Award for Community Achievement in the Arts and the 2018 Rozsa Award for Arts Leadership. She...