Join Tipi Confessions and guest facilitator Pearl Sorcierè for a hands-on, relational workshop focused on safer spaces practices and anti-oppressive production for community gatherings, events, and creative work. 

This workshop is shaped by Indigenous relationality, consent culture, and our lived experiences producing Tipi Confessions and other burlesque/cabaret shows. We share behind-the-scenes care practices that help us create accountable and supported spaces for participants, performers, and organizers.

This is a practical, conversation-based workshop grounded in real examples, reflection, and collective care-building.

In this workshop, participants will:

• Learn about Tipi Confessions’ Safer Spaces framework, including consent practices, care roles, and accountability pathways;

• Explore examples of safer spaces support in practice (performer care, audience support, conflict navigation, and aftercare);

• Reflect on power, access, and responsibility within creative and community-based spaces;

• Build a personal or collective safer spaces plan, including care bundles;

• Share tools and practices for adapting safer spaces work to your own events, classrooms, workshops, or community spaces.

This workshop centers care, consent, and choice. Participation in all activities is voluntary and folks can engage at their own pace and capacity.

No prior experience is required. This workshop is open to all identities and experience levels.

Supplies and refreshments are provided at no cost! Registration is required. Space is limited to 20 participants.

Please share any accessibility or accommodation needs, dietary restrictions, or other considerations in the registration form so we can prepare.

This workshop is supported by the Edmonton Heritage Council and the City of Edmonton through Funding Indigenous Resurgence in Edmonton (FIRE) and the Alberta Public Interest Group (APIRG). 

Join Tipi Confessions for an evening of embodied and creative learning in community - with lots of Auntie laughs!

Teas, Tease, and Pasties: Embodied Approaches to Sovereignty and Care

Date: Thursday, November 27

Time: 5-8 PM

Location: kihew waciston Indigenous Centre, MacEwan University

Teas, Tease, and Pasties is an interactive workshop exploring bodily autonomy, wellness, sexual and reproductive health, and movement through decolonial and Indigenous perspectives.

This workshop is open to all experience levels and identities, so come as you are! Supplies and refreshments are provided at no cost.

Registration is required. Space is limited to 20 participants.

Accessibility: We can support transportation, access needs, and reimburse childcare. Please share what you need in the registration form.

This workshop is supported by the Edmonton Heritage Council and the City of Edmonton through Funding Indigenous Resurgence in Edmonton (FIRE).

Are you an emerging Indigenous, queer, Two-Spirit, or allied performer/storyteller with a story to share?

Tipi Confessions invites you to apply for our Emerging Performer Workshop, a supportive, peer-led space to hone your voice and performance presence. We’ll work together on writing your artist bio, getting a professional headshot taken by Noella Steinhauer, and workshopping your storytelling or performance piece. Whether you’re just beginning or rekindling a performance path, you’re welcome here.

This is a preparatory space for potential performers in Tipi Confessions' upcoming shows or those growing their creative practices. You do not need a polished act to apply.

Space for 15 participants
Application Deadline: EXTENDED Wednesday, July 9, 2025

We will follow up with all applicants by early July.

Accessibility: We can support transportation, access needs, and kinship-based childcare. Please share what you need in the application form.

This workshop is supported by the Edmonton Heritage Council and the City of Edmonton through Funding Indigenous Resurgence in Edmonton (FIRE).