Performer's Café
Open Mic Night at The HIVE
January 29th - 7PM
Headliner: Hannah Elich
When Hannah picked up the guitar as a pandemic project, she didn’t anticipate getting far enough to take the skill to Performer’s Cafe. Nevertheless, it’s become a space for challenge, learning, and artistic expression. Hannah is a music teacher and apprenticing director with Harmony Arts Program. She is taking students in both piano and voice!
February 26th - 7PM
Headliner: Tanya Reimer
Born and raised on the Saskatchewan prairies, Tanya Reimer draws inspiration from the tranquil setting to craft her not-so-peaceful speculative fiction. Her literary journey began at fifteen with her first column, and she has since published six novels spanning alternate history, sci-fi, and supernatural fantasy. Under a pen name, she explores forbidden romance with six additional novels. Beyond fiction, Tanya’s passion for storytelling extends to articles, newsletters, short stories, yearbooks, historical magazines, grant writing, and her blog, Life’s Like That. She is currently dreaming up her next magical adventures.
March 26th - 7PM
Headliner: Drake Mark
April 30th - 7PM
Headliner: Triffy d'an tSidhe
Triffy d'an tSidhe is a folk singer-songwriter who's traveled across Canada from sea to sea on her own, making her living as a traveling busker. She's used this unique experience to fuel and inform her music. Recently, she's been expanding her skill set by learning to play her ukulele like a classical guitar, and by practicing on different instruments.
May 28th - 7PM
Headliner: Project 104
Project104’s Writing Collective is a group of high school youth who meet weekly to grow as writers. From ideation to publication, with laughter, tears, sandwiches, revisions, and edits, the team thrives on expanding its creative boundaries. Project 104 is made up of authors, songwriters, poets, and spoken word artists. Team members have been published provincially and nationally, in Windscript and the Claremont Review.
The Performers Café has been running for a number of years and is a free open mic at a local café in Moose Jaw for emerging and established artists. We feature ‘headliners’ who are intended to serve as mentors for aspiring musicians, writers, storytellers, etc.
The Performers Café provides local artists with a venue to showcase their talents while also allowing new artists to gain experience performing in front of an audience, and an opportunity to network with one another. It is a non-judgemental forum with the goal of encouraging the expression of creativity with no barriers due to age, gender, race, religion, artistic discipline, or sexual orientation.
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If you would like to be considered to be a headliner for the next season, please send an example of your work to performerscafe@festivalofwords.com.