Regina Word Up Open Mic Night featuring Tea Gerbeza

"Happy New Year! We are super excited to announce our first open mic of the year! Tea Gerbeza has graciously joined to be our feature poet for this month's event. Our spoken word events offer a chance to gather with community and share stories, poems and words that make us laugh, or cry, or any emotion in between. Sign up for the open mic starting at 7:00 pm, with spots limited to 12 poets. Bring a friend, maybe a new poem(old ones welcome too), and help us kick off the Word Up season!" - Creative City Centre

Event Details:
Creative City Centre presents: Regina Word Up Open Mic Night featuring Tea Gerbeza
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Doors: 6:30PM
Event: 7:00PM
Tickets: $5.00 or pay what you can at the door

The Artesian is wheelchair accessible, all-ages, and a proud supporter of positive spaces initiatives with a zero-tolerance policy towards hate, harassment, and/or discrimination. We reserve the right to remove any patron creating an unsafe environment. The accessible entrance is available via a lift, Please ask staff for help if necessary.

More about our feature poet:

Tea Gerbeza (she/her) is the author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025), which was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust 2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for 2SLGBTQ+ emerging writers. She is a neuroqueer disabled writer and multimedia artist with a very loud laugh.

We encourage audience members to engage during the performances – snap, make cheesecake noises (mm’s and yes), laugh, stomp, or otherwise make your appreciation known!  

***  GUIDELINES, COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS AND CONSENT STATEMENTS  

At the Creative City Centre we always strive for inclusivity and respect in the community both inside and out of our facility, which is why we have compiled the following guidelines to remember both for our events and also in everyday life.
• We encourage respecting the way folks self-identify, without assuming gender, sexuality, orientation, religion, or ability.
• We understand that at times folks may need to leave or engage in other methods of self-care, and that’s okay.
• We encourage language that promotes inclusivity, education, and awareness and dislike all forms of explicit ignorance including, but not limited to, hate speech, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and classism.
• We encourage the culture of consent meaning we respect people’s physical, verbal, and emotional boundaries. This means respecting that some people might not want to be hugged and if you want to engage physically in any way with a person it is important to ask permission before doing so.  

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Regina Word Up is a program of the Creative City Centre. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, SK Arts and City of Regina. We are grateful to The Artesian on 13th, who are facility partners for this event.  

For more information on programs and opportunities, please visit www.creativecitycentre.ca
For more information, please email [email protected].