We’re back! Join IWC as we kick off Season 16!

Inspired Word Café is thrilled to present our Open Mic featuring special guest Joshua Whitehead! Come down for an evening of poetry, prose, and music at BNA Burger! Entry is a $6-$10 sliding scale, and $5 for members.

Curious what type of material you can share? Music, poetry, dance, comedy—you name it, we welcome it! IWC offers an inclusive and encouraging environment for all skill levels.

About Joshua Whitehead: Joshua Whitehead is a Two-Spirit, Oji-Cree member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He is the author of full-metal indigiqueer, Jonny Appleseed, Making Love with the Land, and Indigiqueerness: a Conversation About Storytelling. He is also the editor of Love after the End: an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Currently, Whitehead is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary where he is housed in the departments of English and International Indigenous Studies.

Doors are at 6:30 pm, and sign up begins promptly at 6:30 pm with our hosts. We have 10 open mic spots, so bring your stories, poems, and music! Spots are first come, first served. Both food and drink will be available from BNA.

There are two single user, gender-neutral washrooms available and the space is wheelchair accessible.

Our programming is made possible by the City of Kelowna, the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan, and BNA Brewery.

We respectfully acknowledge that we live and work in the unceded, ancestral territory of the Syilx people. It is a privilege to be able to put on events as uninvited guests on their land.