About this Event
Part talk show, reflection, and hands-on gathering exploring how artists respond to climate change, environmental grief, and our shifting relationship to land.
Join artists in conversation about ecological responsibility, sustainability, activism, and the emotional weight of environmental collapse. Together, we’ll explore how creative practices can witness, challenge, and reimagine our connections to place, nature, and collective responsibility.
This evening invites artists and audiences to sit with complexity — acknowledging fear, grief, and urgency while also holding space for creativity as a site of care, resistance, and possibility.
EVENT DETAILS:
Date: Thursday, November 26, 2026
Doors: 4:30 PM | Program: 5:00 PM
Location: Trico Changemakers Studio @ MRU — Bissett School of Business, 4825 Mt Royal Gate SW, Calgary.
Craft Activity: Magazine Collage
TICKETING & SUPPORT:
This show is free to attend, but any donation is greatly appreciated. A suggested donation of $15 helps support future ArtistSpeak* events, but you’re welcome to contribute whatever amount works best for you. If you’re unable to donate, this event is free as our gift to you.
MRU students with a valid student ID attend for free. Thanks to the generous support of Mount Royal University’s Institute for Community Prosperity, we’re helping make this gathering accessible to our community.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Natasha Jensen: Natasha Faye Jensen is an interdisciplinary artist from Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary), located in the Treaty 7 territory of Southern Alberta, Canada. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the Alberta University of the Arts (formerly known as the Alberta College of Art and Design) in 2013, and she completed her Master of Arts (MA) in Contemporary Art Practice at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2020. Natasha has exhibited in both solo and group shows as well as festivals in Canada, the United States, Finland, and the United Kingdom.
Cindy Daniels: Cindy Daniels is from Bearspaw First Nation. She teaches from a Stoney Nakoda cultural viewpoint and supports young artists and community.
Preet Kalsi: Preet Kalsi is a Calgary-based refurbishing artist and interior stylist whose work begins where most people stop looking. Originally from Delhi, she has spent over a decade transforming overlooked objects and furniture into sculptures, installations and functional art through her studio, The Art Lab. She brings the same approach to residential and commercial spaces, shaping them into intentional environments, with a rare eye for creative solutions in small spaces.
Her practice reflects how objects carry history and how environments shape emotion. Her upcoming book, A House That Thinks, carries her practice into a new form.
PARKING INFO:
Nearest parking lot - East Gate Parkade (Evening parking rate of $8.75 applies) - MRU Visitor Parking Map.
The paystation for the East Gate Parkade is located on P2 Level (coins, Visa or Mastercard only).
Please click here for a link to the East Gate Parkade QR code.
Trico Changemakers Studio is located on the Third Floor of the Bisset Business Building.
Learn more about ArtistSpeak* and our other events comin this year at:
ArtistSpeak* is supported by the Institute for Community Prosperity @ Mount Royal University (MRU)
Event venue & nearby stays
Trico Changemakers Studio, 4825 Mount Royal Gate Southwest, Calgary, Canada
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