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Sara Campos-Silvius 🏳️‍🌈
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qbipoc writer & performer | she/her | Treaty 6 🇨🇦
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OPENING NIGHT!

Delighted to be part of Motif 2026!

We at CRIPSiE are a diverse ensemble of disabled artists!

Our collaborative piece “The Hive, The Swarm” integrates sign language, captions, & audio description!

The access informs the art & the art informs the access 💜

#yeg #yegarts #Edmonton
Several dancers stand on a black stage in single file facing forward with arms outstretched. They wear light-coloured clothing and are dramatically illuminated by a white light from below. Text reads: MOTIF MOVES 2026 PRESENTED BY ORCHESIS DANCE SOCIETY JANUARY 30 + 31, 7 PM FEBRUARY 1, 2 PM THE ROXY THEATRE 10708 124 ST
January 30, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Rehearsal photo from The Hive, The Swarm

A disability arts collaborative movement theatre piece

Created by CRIPSiE

We are thrilled to perform this new work with you this week at Motif Moves at the Roxy!

January 30, 31 and February 1

Please be welcome to join us!

#yeg #yegarts #Edmonton
Photo of an ensemble of dancers inside a rehearsal studio with beige walls and floor. The dancers are on their feet in a loose formation and are in full profile to the camera. The dancers bend their knees and lean forward deeply, intently gazing and outstretching one hand towards something out of the frame. The dancer in the front of the formation, Sara, is a femme presenting Latine person with short brown hair and medium skin tone. She wears a black blazer and shirt, black pants, and casual black shoes.
January 27, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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Happy to share that our short animated film “The Animal” received an honourable mention award at the Minute Madness Toronto 2025 Film Festival!

Thank you to Minute Madness for screening our film and for the award!

#yeg #yegarts #yegfilm #Edmonton #Toronto
Illustration of a golden laurel on a grey background. Black text reads: Minute Madness Toronto 2025, Honourable Mention. A stopwatch hovers above the text.
January 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Congratulations to Broad View and all the participants, audience, and volunteers of this year’s fest!

A pleasure to be part of the BIPOC Incubator Program and attend the film screenings and table reads!

Thank you:

Broad View Film Festival
Edmonton Screen
Metro Cinema

#yeg #yegarts #Edmonton
Large beige poster board with black text on a black metal stand in a brightly lit community league hall room. In the background are people sitting in chairs as well as a welcome table covered in a bright yellow tablecloth with event brochures, face masks, and a vase of orange flowers. Names on poster appear with a small photo. Text on poster: Broad View International Film Festival 2025 Script Development Program 1st place: Virginia Abramovich & Katherine Andrews 2nd place: Alexandra Lazarowich Honourable Mention: Sharon Lewis and Caleigh Bacchus 2025 BIPOC Incubator Program Sara Campos-Silvius, Narges Noori, Angie Bustos, Shyanne Duquette
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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TOTALLY PACKED house last night at the Olive Reading Series!

The energy was AMAZING!

💜 We had a blast sharing our poetry with you all 💜

Thank you:

Olive Reading Series
Writers’ Guild of Alberta
Rooster Kitchen
Fellow author Marco Melfi

And our INCREDIBLE audience!

#yeg #yegarts #Edmonton
A stack of chapbooks lie fanned out on a grey table top. The chapbooks have a white cover with black text reading: “Sara Campos-Silvius & Marco Melfi.” A marbled pink and purple abstract image is underneath the text.
November 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Got my copy of Marco Melfi’s “Routine Maintenance” from @audreysbooksyeg.bsky.social so I can get it signed at our reading!

Tonight at 7 PM at Rooster on Whyte!

I’ll bring the macabre vibes and Marco will bring insightful observations rooted in the everyday!

#yeg #yegarts #yegwrites #Edmonton
Marco Melfi’s book “Routine Maintenance” has a light brown cover with an illustration of a grey wrench stretching across the front. The book sits front and centre on a wooden bookshelf inside a bookstore with shelves filled with more books to the sides and in the background. The plaque above the shelf reads “Local Authors.”
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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THIS WEEK!

Join us at the Olive Reading Series to enjoy work from yours truly and fellow author Marco Melfi!

Wed Nov 12 at 7 PM
Rooster Kitchen on Whyte
Brought to you by the Writers’ Guild of Alberta

Open mic afterwards!

#yeg #yegarts #yegwrites #Edmonton

writersguild.ca/the-olive-re...
Illustrated poster. A green olive hovers above a purple olive with a large ampersand interconnecting the two shapes. Poster has a light beige background. Text reads: Sara Campos-Silvius & Marco Melfi Poetry and Prose Open Microphone Wednesday, November 12, 7 PM Rooster Kitchen 10732 Whyte Ave
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED...

To my upcoming poetry reading celebrating the mysterious, the macabre, and the morbidly marvellous!

Thank you to the Olive Reading Series for inviting me to perform!

See you there!

Wed Nov 12 at 7 PM
Olive Reading Series
Rooster on Whyte

#Edmonton
#yeg #yegarts
White text on a shaded red and black background. Poster reads: YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED... SARA CAMPOS-SILVIUS POETRY OF THE MACABRE Wed Nov 12 at 7 PM Olive Reading Series Rooster on Whyte www.saracs.art Photo of Sara Campos-Silvius. She wears an all-black outfit, lace dress, feather boa, and satin gloves. She perches on a red velvet couch and is illuminated by a soft glow of lamp light. She looks directly at the camera and gives the audience a mysterious smile.
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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What a joy to be at the launch of

CRUISING THE DOWNTOWN: CELEBRATING EDMONTON'S QUEER HISTORY 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

at EVO today!

#yeg #yegarts

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A book and balloon on a glass table in a restaurant booth illuminated in shades of red, purple, and pink. Book cover reads CRUISING THE DOWNTOWN: CELEBRATING EDMONTON'S QUEER HISTORY
November 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Always a pleasure to share my work!

Thank you to

The Rooster

@writersguildab.bsky.social

And all the folks in attendance at the WGA open mic! 🎤

Catch me next at:

Olive Reading Series
Wednesday November 12, 7-9 PM
The Rooster (10732 82 Ave)

See you there, pals!

#yeg #yegarts #yegwrites
Sara Campos-Silvius performs poetry on a stage with a microphone. She wears a long black dress. A purple and yellow banner for the Writers Guild of Alberta is at the right side of the stage.
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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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.
October 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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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
October 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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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
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Pic from performing at the Verse Queer Reading Series & Open Mic! Awesome to have so many readers. Love hearing our queer & trans voices in a venue packed with support & love. Thank you to Verse & funders for providing this place for us to be seen and heard! #yeg 💖🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
Sara Campos-Silvius stands against a cafe wall speaking at a microphone. She is dressed all in black wearing a short-sleeve shirt, pencil skirt, and ankle boots. Her black-and-white heart-shaped earrings say “Sinner” in white lettering. Her arms are outstretched to her sides and she holds a brown leather notebook in her right hand.
September 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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My

horror

chapbook

public libraries & little libraries

ubiquitous magpie dandelion

pop-up nightmare

ENJOY!

#yeg #horror #poetry
A hand holds a chapbook in front of a metal newspaper dispenser on the street. The chapbook cover reads “Sword and Smoke” by Sara Campos-Silvius. The cover graphic is a purple and grey collage of the following images: a stoic female face smoking a cigarillo, a snarling black dog head with open mouth, three wooden crosses, and a bright red flame.
September 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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POET TOOLS OF THE TRADE LET’S GOOOOOOOO 📓🖋️🍻

Here at the Verse Queer Poetry Night season launch! 🚀🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#yeg #yegarts #yegwrites
A light brown leather bound notebook sits on a wooden table beside a beer can. The beer can reads: Whistling Pig, Arcadia Brewing Co.
September 4, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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I absolutely LOVE this performance photo of me performing my macabre and horror-inspired poetry from a past CONNECTIONS//COLLISIONS @milezerodance.bsky.social
📸 Mat Simpson

Fall 2025 performance announcements coming up right away!

#yeg #yegarts #yegwrites #yegtheatre
Sara Campos-Silvius stands illuminated against a totally black curtain and stage background. She has a microphone in her hand and points directly at the camera with wide eyes and an intense expression. She wears large glasses, black pants, and a sparkly green blouse.
August 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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A couple of years ago my short film POWER CHORD screened at EIFF the Edmonton International Film Festival, among others! #yeg #yegarts #yegfilm #Cdnfilm #femalefilmmakers #canadianfilm #ABfilm
Three women look at the camera with expressions of determination and attitude. The drummer in the centre is seated at the drum kit and her shirt reads No Flowers for White Powers. The heading of the poster reads Power Chord: A Short Film By Sara Campos-Silvius
August 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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We had a great time in the AWCS poetry workshop! Thank you to facilitator @marionlougheed.bsky.social for the fun!
An illustration of a blue sky and a blue butterfly perched on a twig. The text reads: Poetry is Everywhere with Marion Lougheed.
August 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Now time for Polesque at #yegfringe #yegarts #yeg
A blue painting with a large white S on a green velvet wall.
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Fabulous turnout tonight for the inaugural Edmonton Queer Writer’s Collective meetup and the August @writersguildab.bsky.social monthly event!
A small bar stage. A yellow banner with blue text reads: Here for Alberta Writers with logos of arts organizations underneath.
August 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Fun show! Great turnout!

#yegfringe
A Fringe show poster reads The Lost Sock Rescue Society with a photo of two women holding up multiple socks of different colours and styles. One woman appears excited and one woman appears reluctant.
August 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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YEAH ALCOHOL

GO BACK TO THE SHADOW

#yegfringe
A sign reads BREW SHALL NOT PASS: NO ALCOHOL BEYOND THIS POINT PLEASE in black letters on a white background above a graphic of beer bottles crossed out by a red line and circle.
August 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Mark your calendars for our upcoming CRIPSiE season launch! We are a collective of artists that include people who experience disability and allies. ASL interpretation is provided. Everyone is welcome! Come find out what our new season has in store! #yeg #yegarts #yegdance #yegtheatre #yeg
White text superimposed on a picture of a blue theatre curtain reads: CRIPSIE 2025/2026 SEASON LAUNCH PARTY SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025 OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 8426 GATEWAY BLVD NW DOORS OPEN: 9:30 AM CONTACT REBECCA@CRIPSIE.COM
August 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Thank you so much to @milezerodance.bsky.social for the great dance classes & dance films all these past two weeks! The Reeling festival has been such a blast! 🪩💃🏿🌈
A brightly lit dance studio with wood coloured flooring, white walls, and a black curtain. Chairs and a music speaker line one of the walls.
July 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM