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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to share I’ve been selected to take part in the Creatives Empowered IBPOC Creative Leadership Program!

Thank you to Creatives Empowered for this opportunity! Looking forward to it!

IBPOC CREATIVE LEADERSHIP 2025 PROGRAM

Empower yourself to be a resilient storyteller & produce your own content + works

Embody your authentic creative leadership style

Gain capacity to have financial & creative control of your IP

WITH THE CREATORS OF THE SMASH HIT MUSICAL "BEAR GREASE" CRYSTLE LIGHTNING & HENRY CLOUD ANDRADE

AND Tonya Williams, Sable Sweetgrass, Reena Samra, Rochelle Grayson, & Soni Dasmohapatra

PROGRAM DATES OCTOBER 12, 19, 25-26

The poster features a photo of Crystle Lightning and Henry Cloud Andrade.

Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 5d

What are you doing this weekend?

Folks of all generations are invited to

🎭 FEST: The Festival of Edmonton Seniors Theatre 🎭

October 3-4, 2025

Our disabled/accessible dance group CRIPSiE performs on Saturday with other artists!

Come join the fun!

geriactors.ca/event/fest/

#yeg #yegarts

A light red poster featuring images of seniors performing music, dance, and theatre.

Text reads

fest: festival of Edmonton seniors theatre by GeriActors

performance events
theatre workshops
and more

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 6d

Great poetry, first off, and then moving and nuanced reflections on living within this enormous complexity 💚 Loved the form poems (including yours!) they were so fun to read out loud! My new favourite book 🌈📖

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 6d

It’s SO GOOOOOOD

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 6d

GORGEOUS

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 7d

Just got home from picking up my copy from Audrey’s Books! Awesome book!

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 7d

Just picked this up @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social
today and I already love it! Great book. So moving and current

#yeg #yegarts

Red and blue paperback book cover superimposed with white letters reading:

I’ll get right on it

Poems on working life in the climate crisis

Edited by the land and labour poetry collective

Forward by Anjali Appadurai

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 11d

CRIPSiE will be performing as part of the Festival of Edmonton Seniors Theatre!

Thank you to GeriActors and FEST for having us!

#yeg #yegarts

geriactors.ca/event/fest/

GeriActors

A seniors’ theatre organization in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

geriactors.ca

Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 13d

Enjoyed Banana Musik from Common Ground Arts (Written by Kris Alvarez) tonight! Such a lovely show! #yegarts #yegtheatre #yeg

Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 13d

Latest CRIPSiE project! 🎭♿️

Hive/Swarm 🐝

Facilitator: Brooke Leifso

Movement, vocals, text, captioning, ASL

Exploring: democracy, belonging

PS Got to use heavy/scream vocals in rehearsal this past weekend which is always a treat 🤪🤘

#accessibility #disability #yeg #yegarts #yegtheatre

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Brent Jans (he/they)💜🖤🤍 @dorklordcanada.bsky.social · 19d

Heya, we're looking for a few good #yeg GMs! Join us November 8th and run a cool Indie TTRPG for Worldbuilders YEG, an annual fundraiser to support Nekem! Details and sign-up form on our nifty website: worldbuildersyeg.com

And hey, share this post to spread the word, yeah?

World Builders YEG

A community of Indie TTRPG gamers in Edmonton, Alberta

worldbuildersyeg.com

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Writers' Guild of Alberta @writersguildab.bsky.social · 29d

The Queer Writers' Collective is back on September 17th, 2025 in Edmonton at a new time: 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM MT at the Rooster Bar & Kitchen. Join us, and feel free to stick around for the WGA Pub Night to follow right after, with an open mic!

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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 22d

Edmonton friends!
We are looking forward to the Harvest Book Fair at the CKUA building on September 27 and 28 from 1 to 5 pm. Come down and enjoy Edmonton's vibrant book culture.
Big thanks to Hungry Zine for all their hard work.
https://bit.ly/4px8hM3
##books #bookstores #publishers #festival

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 24d

We had a great season launch party today! I’m so excited for all the upcoming events and grateful to be part of this community!

Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 25d

“CRIPSiE gave me a place where my chronic illnesses, disability & use of a wheelchair were just a part of who I was & understood.” - Alison Neuman, CRIPSiE Artistic Director

Join us September 14 for our season launch party!

Website: cripsie.com

#yeg #yegarts #disability #accessibility

CRIPSiE | integrated dance | Edmonton, AB, Canada

CRIPSiE - integrated dance, community dance, dance body

cripsie.com

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Amanda/iamatrex @iamatrex.com · 25d

Sprigs & Kindling Volume 4 is now available! Issue 1 is themed around Public Access & Other Analog Oddities, and Issue 2 is Lost Transmissions! Download it for FREE from sprigsandkindling.com and shout out all the amazing contributors, editors and layout ppl for 250 pages of amazing creative works!

Sprigs and Kindling

An ongoing digital zine of community collected creative works for Carved from Brindlewood TTRPG games

sprigsandkindling.com

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 25d

“CRIPSiE gave me a place where my chronic illnesses, disability & use of a wheelchair were just a part of who I was & understood.” - Alison Neuman, CRIPSiE Artistic Director

Join us September 14 for our season launch party!

Website: cripsie.com

#yeg #yegarts #disability #accessibility

CRIPSiE | integrated dance | Edmonton, AB, Canada

CRIPSiE - integrated dance, community dance, dance body

cripsie.com

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 28d

YESSSSSSSSSSS !!!

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 28d

My fave system that offers immediacy, room for creativity, low prep, and re-playability? I think Trophy Dark!

One of my absolute favourite sessions was playing the Deadmonton incursion with GM @iamatrex.com at RPG A Thon this summer!

SOOOO GOOOOOD

#ttrpgs

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 28d

Sara’s #ttrpgs list - in order played

1. D&D 2024
2. The Zone
3. Shadowdark
4. Trophy Dark
5. Coyote & Crow
6. Pulp Alley
7. Mothership
8. Brindlewood Bay
9. Trophy Gold
10. Carta Nautica (solo RPG)
11. Vampire Masquerade

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 28d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 28d

I started playing ttrpgs one year ago in September 2024 when I tried D&D for the first time! I’ve now played exactly 29 sessions of various different games! Just one away from #30 yessssss

#ttrpgs

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 28d

I keep brief notes of my #ttrpgs games — date, system, story/adventure title, GM, my character, fellow players/characters, and whether it’s in person or online 🧵

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Michelle Lobkowicz @mlobkowicz.bsky.social · Sep 2

University of Alberta Press poetry window is now open, until Sept 30, for collections by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. 50 pages min. Our poetry jury will choose up to three manuscripts for publication in Spring 2027.

ualbertapress.submittable.com/submit/71285...

University of Alberta Press - Poetry

University of Alberta Press accepts poetry manuscripts between September 1 and 30 each year, written by Canadian citizens or landed immigrants. At the end of the submission period, the Press, working ...

ualbertapress.submittable.com

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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 29d

September-December in #yegarts will be a busy time so I’m sure to get my 12th show in soon! See you out there #yeg pals! Keep supporting live and local!

Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈 @sarasupernova.bsky.social · 29d

I would have had a few more on that list already except it was a busy year for me as a playwright! My new play was in three readings / festivals (Springboards at WWPT, Expanse, Script Salon) so I was double booked a bit in the spring there lol 🤪

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