This is an archived event from Culture Days 2025.
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Word Up Open Mic Night featuring Andre Prefontaine
In-person
Poetry & spoken word Performance Writing & literatureDate and time
Location
The Artesian
2627 13th Avenue
Regina, SK
Access
Free, and accepts optional pay-what-you-may donations for admission.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
Creative City Centre presents Regina Word Up Open Mic Night!
Date : Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Time : 7:00-9:00 pm (SK time), doors open and open mic sign up at 6:30 pm
Location : The Artesian, 2627 13th Ave, Regina, SK
*First come, first served.
*All ages
A chance to share and listen to spoken word poetry, followed by a performance from our feature poet, Andre Prefontaine.
The Artesian is a fully licensed, all-ages, and wheel-chair accessible facility located in Regina’s Cathedral Village Neighborhood.
We encourage audience members to engage during the performances – snap, make cheesecake noises (mm’s and yes), laugh, stomp, or otherwise make your appreciation known!
Feature performer:
Andre Prefontaine is an urban legend. With seven-time national slam championships as his legacy, it was shortly after he represented Canada at the World Cup of Poetry Slam in Paris, where he lived up to the Prefontaine legacy and placed fourth, that he mysteriously disappeared. Rumors circulated that if a curious poet placed a cigarette, a cup of coffee, and a pool cue in a summoning circle while a drag queen recites puns in Latin he'd appear. Failing that, a plane ticket would work, too.
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Regina Word Up is a program of the Creative City Centre. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, SK Arts, City of Regina, and the Canada Council for the Arts that make programs like this one possible. We are grateful to The Artesian on 13th, who are facility partners for this event.
Links
- CCC Website creativecitycentre.ca
Organizer
Creative City Centre
The Creative City Centre is a registered charity and community-based arts centre. The
CCC contributes to the vibrancy and vitality of the creative community by fostering
engagement and participation with artists and the public through education, exhibitions
and performances. The Creative City Centre is currently preparing to move into a new
home, a bigger, better space for arts and culture in the heart of Regina’s downtown.
This event is part of a hub:
Celebrating Creativity with the Creative City Centre
Creative City Centre Regina, SKCreative City Centre has been programming arts and cultural activities since 2011, creating a community hub for artists and audiences alike to come, learn and share. We offer a wide variety of programming including spoken word/poetry, liv...