Previous events

Tune in to hear CBE's host, Gina P chat with Joni about music, pandemic life & upcoming projects. Live on CBE's instagram feed: @canadian_black_entertainment at 7pm.

You can learn how to write an awesome song! Join us for 4 interactive workshops designed to give you the tools, tricks, and ideas you’ll need for songwriting. We’ll learn about song-starters and structure, how to cultivate inspiration, and crafting lyrics. All CMSWR students are welcome – you don’t need to be studying voice to join! The workshops will be hosted on Zoom.

You can learn how to write an awesome song! Join us for 4 interactive workshops designed to give you the tools, tricks, and ideas you’ll need for songwriting. We’ll learn about song-starters and structure, how to cultivate inspiration, and crafting lyrics. All CMSWR students are welcome – you don’t need to be studying voice to join! The workshops will be hosted on Zoom.

Fuck Perfect is an 8-week online workshop that is FREE to attend. During the workshop we will look at all the tricky ways perfectionism shows up in our lives, and take inspired and creative risks together through art-making, discussion, and self-reflection.

Over the 8 weeks we will meet twice a week. We will explore different art mediums with local artists, meet new friends, and create together!

When we start to take the power away from perfectionism, we help to change the harmful power structures of white supremacy. This gives us the opportunity to create the kinds of communities where everyone's voice is heard (it is ok if this brings up a lot of questions: if you do not know what this means, talk to us, we care deeply about this stuff and love learning together).

We are holding spaces for people who self-identify as: Black, Indigenous, Person Of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2I+, newcomers, people struggling with mental health and/or addictions, and/or people with visible and invisible disabilities.

You can learn how to write an awesome song! Join us for 4 interactive workshops designed to give you the tools, tricks, and ideas you’ll need for songwriting. We’ll learn about song-starters and structure, how to cultivate inspiration, and crafting lyrics. All CMSWR students are welcome – you don’t need to be studying voice to join! The workshops will be hosted on Zoom.

Fuck Perfect is an 8-week online workshop that is FREE to attend. During the workshop we will look at all the tricky ways perfectionism shows up in our lives, and take inspired and creative risks together through art-making, discussion, and self-reflection.

Over the 8 weeks we will meet twice a week. We will explore different art mediums with local artists, meet new friends, and create together!

When we start to take the power away from perfectionism, we help to change the harmful power structures of white supremacy. This gives us the opportunity to create the kinds of communities where everyone's voice is heard (it is ok if this brings up a lot of questions: if you do not know what this means, talk to us, we care deeply about this stuff and love learning together).

We are holding spaces for people who self-identify as: Black, Indigenous, Person Of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2I+, newcomers, people struggling with mental health and/or addictions, and/or people with visible and invisible disabilities.

You can learn how to write an awesome song! Join us for 4 interactive workshops designed to give you the tools, tricks, and ideas you’ll need for songwriting. We’ll learn about song-starters and structure, how to cultivate inspiration, and crafting lyrics. All CMSWR students are welcome – you don’t need to be studying voice to join! The workshops will be hosted on Zoom.

This livestream event hosted by Midtown Radio features 5 local musicians/bands. Got the pandemic blues? Hopefully this will help lift your spirits!

Midtown Radio: https://www.facebook.com/Midtown-Radio-103155674979714/

Fuck Perfect is an 8-week online workshop that is FREE to attend. During the workshop we will look at all the tricky ways perfectionism shows up in our lives, and take inspired and creative risks together through art-making, discussion, and self-reflection.

Over the 8 weeks we will meet twice a week. We will explore different art mediums with local artists, meet new friends, and create together!

When we start to take the power away from perfectionism, we help to change the harmful power structures of white supremacy. This gives us the opportunity to create the kinds of communities where everyone's voice is heard (it is ok if this brings up a lot of questions: if you do not know what this means, talk to us, we care deeply about this stuff and love learning together).

We are holding spaces for people who self-identify as: Black, Indigenous, Person Of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2I+, newcomers, people struggling with mental health and/or addictions, and/or people with visible and invisible disabilities.

X-CAMERA- An Experimental Learning Circle Speakers Series

Joni NehRita: Better Me ~ Songs For Community

The late, great Nina Simone says an artist's duty is to reflect the times. Vladmir Mayakovsky says, "Art is not a mirror held up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it".

This talk will explore Joni's in-the-works project, called "Better Me ~ Songs For Community" which feature 10 new original songs that aim to: build resilience, challenge the status quo, promote diverse experiences, normalize speaking about sensitive topics, cultivate empathy, encourage critical thinking and provoke conversations on how to build a more equitable world. By exploring these themes, we may change our inner worlds. By changing our inner world, we may begin to influence, and therefore change the world around us.

Each person has power that we mostly drift through life unaware of. How we use our voices and energy has an impact on our communities, families and workplaces. If we are each harnessing our own power and will for the greater good, and meeting with others to sing and discuss these ideas, positive outcomes will (hopefully) "spill over" as a result. Good work takes time, so let's begin.

Fuck Perfect is an 8-week online workshop that is FREE to attend. During the workshop we will look at all the tricky ways perfectionism shows up in our lives, and take inspired and creative risks together through art-making, discussion, and self-reflection.

Over the 8 weeks we will meet twice a week. We will explore different art mediums with local artists, meet new friends, and create together!

When we start to take the power away from perfectionism, we help to change the harmful power structures of white supremacy. This gives us the opportunity to create the kinds of communities where everyone's voice is heard (it is ok if this brings up a lot of questions: if you do not know what this means, talk to us, we care deeply about this stuff and love learning together).

We are holding spaces for people who self-identify as: Black, Indigenous, Person Of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2I+, newcomers, people struggling with mental health and/or addictions, and/or people with visible and invisible disabilities.

Fuck Perfect is an 8-week online workshop that is FREE to attend. During the workshop we will look at all the tricky ways perfectionism shows up in our lives, and take inspired and creative risks together through art-making, discussion, and self-reflection.

Over the 8 weeks we will meet twice a week. We will explore different art mediums with local artists, meet new friends, and create together!

When we start to take the power away from perfectionism, we help to change the harmful power structures of white supremacy. This gives us the opportunity to create the kinds of communities where everyone's voice is heard (it is ok if this brings up a lot of questions: if you do not know what this means, talk to us, we care deeply about this stuff and love learning together).

We are holding spaces for people who self-identify as: Black, Indigenous, Person Of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2I+, newcomers, people struggling with mental health and/or addictions, and/or people with visible and invisible disabilities.

This interactive workshop is designed to give songwriters of varying levels some tools, tricks & ideas on how to fine-tune their songwriting. We'll learn about song-starters & structure, how to cultivate inspiration, crafting lyrics based on a central concept. If you're looking for ways to ignite your imagination - this workshop is for you! I'll help you find the joy & discipline in upping your songwriting craft.

Fuck Perfect is an 8-week online workshop that is FREE to attend. During the workshop we will look at all the tricky ways perfectionism shows up in our lives, and take inspired and creative risks together through art-making, discussion, and self-reflection.

Over the 8 weeks we will meet twice a week. We will explore different art mediums with local artists, meet new friends, and create together!

When we start to take the power away from perfectionism, we help to change the harmful power structures of white supremacy. This gives us the opportunity to create the kinds of communities where everyone's voice is heard (it is ok if this brings up a lot of questions: if you do not know what this means, talk to us, we care deeply about this stuff and love learning together).

We are holding spaces for people who self-identify as: Black, Indigenous, Person Of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2I+, newcomers, people struggling with mental health and/or addictions, and/or people with visible and invisible disabilities.

Fuck Perfect is an 8-week online workshop that is FREE to attend. During the workshop we will look at all the tricky ways perfectionism shows up in our lives, and take inspired and creative risks together through art-making, discussion, and self-reflection.

Over the 8 weeks we will meet twice a week. We will explore different art mediums with local artists, meet new friends, and create together!

When we start to take the power away from perfectionism, we help to change the harmful power structures of white supremacy. This gives us the opportunity to create the kinds of communities where everyone's voice is heard (it is ok if this brings up a lot of questions: if you do not know what this means, talk to us, we care deeply about this stuff and love learning together).

We are holding spaces for people who self-identify as: Black, Indigenous, Person Of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2I+, newcomers, people struggling with mental health and/or addictions, and/or people with visible and invisible disabilities.

Fuck Perfect is an 8-week online workshop that is FREE to attend. During the workshop we will look at all the tricky ways perfectionism shows up in our lives, and take inspired and creative risks together through art-making, discussion, and self-reflection.

Over the 8 weeks we will meet twice a week. We will explore different art mediums with local artists, meet new friends, and create together!

When we start to take the power away from perfectionism, we help to change the harmful power structures of white supremacy. This gives us the opportunity to create the kinds of communities where everyone's voice is heard (it is ok if this brings up a lot of questions: if you do not know what this means, talk to us, we care deeply about this stuff and love learning together).

We are holding spaces for people who self-identify as: Black, Indigenous, Person Of Colour (BIPOC), LGBTQ2I+, newcomers, people struggling with mental health and/or addictions, and/or people with visible and invisible disabilities.

A little late to the party, but that's ok! This will be my first online concert live! I've done a lot of recorded performances during the pandemic that were hosted on the sites of whomever was hiring me, but this one will be live. *This mini-concert is open to current subscribers to my patron space as a way of saying thank you! It will also hopefully put my mind at ease- I've been anxious about doing live stream concerts for too many reasons to list here. But this will be a nice, intimate introduction!

To become a Patron, click on the "Subscribe" tab on my website's menu. To register for the event, email: info@luvsum-music.com & you will be sent the Zoom link.

This workshop is only for students in residence at Wilfrid Laurier University.