The Oratory

oratory /’ôrə-tôrē/ (noun)

1. the art of discourse and conversation; and 
2. a place of prayer, such as a small room for private devotions.

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Think Saturday Night Live, meets your favourite talk show, sprinkled with experiential learning; welcome to The Oratory! This live interactive talk show invites you to spectate, participate and create all in the name of healing through the arts, play, and storytelling.

📍Location:

In-Person - cSPACE Eau Claire Neighbourhood Hub, 381 2 Ave SW, Moh'kinstsis, Calgary, AB

🎉🍾April 30th Wrap-Up Party & Community Potluck Agenda (IN-PERSON ONLY) - *registration required*

✨Pay online, or opt to pay at the door with-a-dish as we recap the entire month's festivities. Hear from all of the guests-in-residences including Becka the Astrologer, arts worker Pam Tzeng, creator of Recess Calgary, Tyson Bankert, and Ellenie with Agapii Collective.

3pm-6:30pm | games, potluck BBQ, bouncy castle, photo booth, flash tattoos

7pm | Key 30 Orchestra band (Roby Misterdrums, Chris Wood, Perpie Awele)

7:15pm | aloT of Poetry

7:20pm | welcome

7:30pm | guests-in-residence panel 

8:00pm | group activity

8:25pm | group Q&A

8:45pm | B*les x Bobby Henderson x Key 30 Orchestra

9:15pm | final thoughts

9:20pm-late | DJ Catfish the Wizard 

 🏛 Our Pillars

1. Relational Learning: We believe in the gift of lived experience, embrace adaptive relational ways of being and are life-long learners whose only destination is respect for all.

2. Wonder: We’re curious beings who welcome play, creativity and child-like whimsy while ‘going deep’ and doing ‘the work’. 

3. Collective Liberation: We remember that we're never alone and recognize the healing possibilities in collaboration and relationship with each other. We practice the art of gathering, share our discoveries and understand that introspection can lead to transformation.

4. Compassion: We are heart-centred, person-first-focused and acknowledge love, patience and humility as radical tools toward just change and equitable futures.

Supported by cSPACE Pilot Projects, the City of "Calgary" Moh'kins'tsis and Safehouse Society for Innovation and Creativity.

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“When we’re engaged in acts of love, humans we’re at our best. Be a joyful conduit”

- adrienne maree brown

 
Give yourself permission to heal and experience creative placemaking in action. 

Trust yourself. Trust the process. All you have to do is show up at The Oratory!

Oki / Amba'wastitch / Danit'ada - The Oratory is a collective whose home is situated on the sacred unceded territories of the Siksikaitsitapi peoples (Treaty 7 region in southern Alberta), known as the Blackfoot Confederacy, and comprises the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Káínawa First Nations; the Tsuut'ina First Nation; and the Îyârhe Nakoda, which comprises the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations, as well as Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We honour, respect, remember and fight for the original caretakers, traditions, languages, beauty, knowledge and wisdom of this land and its original peoples.