Join us for an evening of poetry, prose, and music at BNA Burger! As part of our Say Anything/Something program stream, IWC is delighted to feature Mackenzie Ground!

Entry is a $6-$10 sliding scale, and $5 for members. Become a member and support the IWC programming by checking out our Membership page.

Doors and sign up are at 6:30 pm. 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.

About Mackenzie: Mackenzie Ground is a writer and nehiyawiskwew from Enoch maskekosihk Cree Nation and amiskwacîwâskahikanihk Edmonton, Alberta in Treaty Six territory.

She is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University in the Department of English. She attended the University of Alberta for her MA and BA. Her writing has appeared most recently in The Capilano Review, The Denver Quarterly, and C Magazine. She is a member of the Writing Revolution in Place research collective, and she is an alumni of the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity’s Literary Arts 2023 Winter Writers Retreat and the Indigenous Arts 2021 Write Over Here — Open Rezidency.

She is a language learner of nehiyawewin (the Plains Cree language) which informs and guides her writing and thinking along with her walks and outdoor running. Her work considers the relationships of identity and place, to the land and to cities, and to the more-than-human beings who live on there. She often works with writing, story, images, inks and drawing, and collage.

There are gender neutral and shared, multi-stall washrooms 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, the Province of British Columbia, British Columbia Arts Council, and BNA Brewing.

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