Creative Entrepreneurship Day is a one-day event for artists of all disciplines who are looking to develop their skills and further define their artistic practice. Through a keynote presentation and interactive workshops, participants will gain entrepreneurial skills and learn how to use their current knowledge and expertise to create opportunities. Our 2026 theme is Pitching Your Purpose. Guided workshops, breakout sessions, a musical performance and more will help centre and prepare you to attack your creative business planning with renewed vigour!
Breakout sessions are opportunities to connect and discuss with each other in small groups, the conversation possibilities are endless! Come with questions and a desire to collaborate across artistic disciplines.
Pitching Your Purpose is presented in person at Launch Coworking – Exchange. A catered lunch and morning refreshments will be provided for all participants.
Tickets are FREE for members and $30 for non-members. Individual memberships range from $15-$25 per year.
For the breakout sessions, participants will be split into two smaller groups and have the opportunity to attend each session in the morning and afternoon:
Building Your Authentic Brand with Lourdes Still
This session will help you figure out who you are as an artist and what makes you stand out in the crowd with expert advice from Lourdes. Learn what aspects of your creative practice to focus on when crafting your pitch.
Presenting Your Art with Power with Nestor Wynrush
This session is for artists who want to talk about their work with more confidence and authenticity. Learn to express your creative process, personal story and artistic vision. You’ll leave feeling more comfortable sharing not just what you make, but who you are as an artist.
Schedule
Welcome/Meet & Greet
9:30 am
Doors open, grab a refreshment and meet and mingle with each other as we settle in for an inspiring event!
Performance and talk by Raine Hamilton
10 - 11 am
Breakout Session 1
11 am - 12:25 pm
Catered Lunch Break
12:25 pm – 1:05 pm
Catered Lunch – Please specify if you have any allergies or dietary concerns.
Breakout Session 2
1:05 pm – 2:20 pm
Practicing your Pitch with Kara Joseph and Dora Carroll
2:20 pm – 3:30 pm
Build a succinct and exciting personal pitch for your artistic practice and put it to the test. You’ll end the day sharing your elevator pitch draft, with a way forward to get yourself out there!
Meet the Speakers
Raine Hamilton
Raine (they/them) is part prairie songstress, part story-weaver. Each song has a story, delivered between songs with humour and grace.Raine invites deep love of the violin into the singer-songwriter genre, writing for violin and voice, as well as for guitar and voice. Joined by cello and upright bass, expect string arrangements that push and pull, that move as they console.
Raine believes that music is for everyone, and that we all have something to share. An experienced educator, Raine offers workshops in songwriting and fiddle tune writing (EN/FR). Raine also offers concerts with American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation, to help make live music and the community that comes with it more accessible to the Deaf community.
Lourdes Still
Lourdes Still is the creative behind Masagana Flower Farm & Studio, a seasonal flower farm, natural dye studio and experiential tourism destination near La Broquerie, Manitoba. In this Filipina-led small business, Lourdes emphasizes in ecologically sound growing practices after turning lawns into garden beds. She grows seasonal blooms specializing in plants and flowers that can be used as natural dye sources.
She started as a self-taught flower grower, natural dyer, and tourism operator but has since learned and trained from industry leaders. Her farm is seasonal, but her floral-dyed projects are year-round. She believes that growing joy (through flowers) and creating magic (through dye plants) is right at our fingertips and our gardens present opportunities to respond positively to the climate emergency. She hopes to inspire people to find that joy in their life and if that’s flowers, great!
Nestor Wynrush
Elliott Walsh (Nestor Wynrush) is a Winnipeg based emcee-singer, writer, and workshop facilitator. This first-generation Canadian taps his Caribbean roots to cook up an authentic pot-au-feu that can aptly be described as Prairie Rap with a dash of Red River & West Indian Soul. The regular day to day with a melange of thoughts exploring family, love, identity and accessibility weave between every rhythm. Ultimately, it’s sincere and unvarnished storytelling music.
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