Join Inspired Word Café at UBC Okanagan for a plurilingual night of music, storytelling, and poetry! At the Many Tongues Open Mic, all languages are welcome. As part of our New Leaves Festival of Arts and Culture, Many Tongues is an event co-organized by Espaces francophones and will be hosted in French. Though English is welcome, priority for the Open Mic will be given to French and other bilingual speakers.

This event is free to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

Many Tongues will be held in EME 1123 (Engineering, Management and Education Building) at UBC Okanagan. This classroom is right near the bus loop.

The New Leaves Festival of Arts and Culture 2026 is made possible by the support of the City of Kelowna, the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies and Faculty of Education at UBC Okanagan, the Province of British Columbia, the Government of Canada, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Espaces Francophone, and BNA Brewing Co.

We acknowledge our events take place on the unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan Peoples and that we are uninvited guests on their ancestral lands. We invite anyone who comes to our events to check out https://www.syilx.org/about-us/syilx-nation/ to learn about, connect with, and endeavour towards reconciliation within our community.