Creative Expression Circle

A welcoming community gathering for music, movement, visual art, spoken word, storytelling, performance, and creative connection.

Express • Connect • Grow

Come spend an afternoon in community sharing creativity, connecting with others, and supporting one another’s growth.

🎶 Music 💃 Movement 📝 Spoken word 🎨 Visual art 📖 Storytelling 🎭 Performance ✨ And whatever else you feel called to bring

Creative Expression Circle is a space to bring what lives inside you and give it room to be expressed. We welcome many different forms of creativity and create a supportive space for people to share their work, explore their craft, and experience one another’s expression.

No particular level of experience is required. Bring something polished, something you’re still developing, something completely improvised, or simply yourself.

How the Circle works

We gather in a circle and make space for people to share their creative offerings, one at a time.

Each person who shares decides how they’d like the community to support their offering. You might invite others to jam or play along, move with your offering, add accompaniment, improvise with you, offer a particular kind of support, give growth-focused feedback, or simply witness and hold space.

Collaboration is always optional and happens at the invitation of the person sharing. Feedback is also optional and only offered when requested.

We’ll make room for as many individual offerings as time and the flow of the gathering allow.

There is no pressure to lead or perform. Listening, witnessing, supporting, joining in when invited, connecting with others, and simply being part of the experience are all meaningful ways to participate.

Bring whatever you’d like to share or explore

🎵 Music
💃 Movement or dance
📝 Poetry or spoken word
🎨 Visual art
📖 Stories
🎭 Performance
✨ Experimental or interdisciplinary work
🌱 Something we haven’t thought of yet

Creative practices that unfold over a longer period of time are welcome too. Painters, makers, writers, and other artists are invited to create throughout the gathering rather than needing to fit their work into a short performance or presentation.

If your practice requires equipment, materials, additional space, power, amplification, specialized performance equipment, or another kind of setup, please reach out beforehand.

Part of the vision for this community is figuring out how we can build the infrastructure needed to welcome an increasingly diverse range of creative expression.

Come comfortable

The Magic Mansion has seating and cushions available, but you’re welcome to bring anything additional that helps you feel comfortable and settled.

If you prefer a particular cushion, floor pillow, or other compact seating option, feel free to bring it along.

🥨 Optional potluck snacks are welcome too.

Community-supported • Pay what you can

Creative Expression Circles are community-supported and offered on a pay-what-you-can basis so that finances never need to be a barrier to participating.

When registering, choose whichever contribution level feels comfortable:

• Community Member — Free
• Community Patron — $5
• Community Support — $10
• Community Sustainer — $25
• Choose Your Contribution — Any amount you wish

Every ticket includes admission and the same opportunities to participate, regardless of contribution.

Contributions help support these gatherings and grow what’s possible for future Circles, including new spaces, equipment, and resources that allow us to welcome more forms of creative expression.

Those who are able to contribute financially also help keep these experiences accessible to everyone.

Your presence, creativity, support, and energy are meaningful contributions too ❤️

Photos & video

We may occasionally capture photos or short videos to share moments from the gathering and help introduce the community to others.

We’ll respect everyone’s preferences around being photographed or recorded, and ask permission before sharing identifiable close-ups or individual creative offerings.

You’re always welcome to decline.

Stay connected between Circles

We now have a Creative Expression Circle Discord where you can share your work, join conversations, discover events and opportunities, find collaborators, share photos and videos from the Circles, and stay connected with the community between gatherings.

💬 Join the Discord:
https://discord.gg/ESkYVJvQ9v

Event details

🕛 Sunday, November 22, 2026
12:00 PM to 4:00 PM

The Circle begins at 12:00 PM, so arriving close to the start is encouraged when possible. Please avoid arriving before noon while we’re setting up.

🚗 Parking: Free street parking is available on Rue Victor-Beaudry beside the Magic Mansion.

Come as you are. Bring what you have.

Create, connect, and grow with us ❤️