The Creative City Centre is a vibrant cultural hub that brings together artists of diverse disciplines and experience levels in a central venue to foster collaboration, innovation and creative development. Located in a recently restored heritage building in Regina’s downtown core, we offer affordable artist studios, an intimate performance venue, a visual art gallery, and meeting and workshop space. The space is run by artists, with an aim of nurturing a lively, inclusive and sustainable creative community in Regina. Prior to the pandemic, the Centre offered a variety of regular programming in our performance space, including music concerts, a monthly poetry slam, play readings, and a songwriters’ circle. We also made the space available to community members and groups that use it for workshops, meetings, conferences, and other events. Our visual art gallery, the Hague, displayed evocative new work from emerging artists, with exhibits changing every 6-8 weeks. Our series of satellite art exhibits, Pop Up Downtown, extended our visual art curation outside of our doors, using vacant storefronts and independent business locations to display the work of new artists during the summers of 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. When we went into lockdown mode in March 2020, we realized we would not be able to maintain any kind of social distancing practices in our small venue. We found some financial support from SK Arts Special Projects Fund, purchased some new equipment to augment what we already had, and converted the gallery from a performance and exhibition space to a production studio. We’re now creating digital content on a regular basis. We are also offering different artist development programs, such as our Social Media Marketing for Artists (SMMART) program, which teaches artists the skills they need to market themselves in the digital age! We are also in the process of completing the second round of our Recording Artist Development (RAD) Program. The RAD program allows music artists to set up shop in our Hague Gallery for a month and learn all the ins and outs of the music industry. In addition, we have been partnering with other organizations in the city to continue to bring live events to Regina, including spoken word (Regina Word Up) and visual art events (Drink & Draw and Path to Reconciliation). Staff:
Marian Donnelly, CEO
Roxie Riffel, Music & Spoken Word Programming
Emma New, Social Media
Riley McLennan, Audio Engineer
Board of Directors:
Marian Donnelly, Chair
Danny Jones
Erika Folnovic
Susan Parkin
