Events & Workshops

The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Bushwakker Brewpub are pleased to present Poetry & A Pint, a celebration of poetry with Saskatchewan Poet Laureate Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Amber Goodwyn, Andrea Martineau, Elaine McArthur and Eric Gabriel.

 

Local food and drinks will be available for purchase, including a special edition cherry vanilla sundae swirl cheesecake crafted for our event. This event is free and open to the public (19+). Please note that there is limited seating: first come, first served.

 

Bushwakker is an accessible venue; the wheelchair accessible door is at the back of the building. Street parking is available.

 

Please note that Dewdney Avenue is under construction. Take 8th to Cornwall Street, which will lead to Bushwakker.

 

Our Poets:

 

Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Public Speaker, Chorus-Poem Playwright, and Thespian residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Organically from Yorubaland, Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, dance, performance art, critical research, and the theatre world. She is the 11^th Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan from Aug 1, 2024, until July 31, 2026.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amber Goodwyn is an interdisciplinary artist and an award-winning musician. Her poems have recently appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, and BAD DOG Mag. For her music project, Natural Sympathies, Amber works in concept album cycles with expansions into performance art and other disciplines. Amber’s films and videos have screened at several festivals. Amber has lived in Montreal, Nassau, and is currently based in oskana ka-asastēki (Regina, Saskatchewan), Treaty 4 territory. Amber is working on a chapbook manuscript and a new album with her band Natural Sympathies.

 

 

Andrea Martineau is a writer, poet, bibliophile, and phytomaniac with a penchant for heritage buildings and their paranormal tenants. Her poetry has previously been published and shared in untethered magazine, Blank Spaces, [SPACE], Figroot Press, and The League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause. She now resides on Treaty Four Territory in oskana kâ-asastêki (Regina, Saskatchewan) with her family, rescue cats, Horsfield tortoise, and collection of houseplants, where she is writing her first novel.

 

 

Elaine McArthur, a 3^rd Generation Residential School and Day School Survivor, is a Dakota/Nakota winyan from the Ocean Man First Nation on Treaty Four Territory. Elaine has won the Indigenous Voices Awards three times. She has been published in anthologies and literary magazines for her poetry and short stories.  She was also the recipient of the 2023 Dick & Jane Fund's Indigenous Literary Award from the Saskatchewan Foundation for the Arts for her upcoming graphic novel Akicita, which is about an Indigenous Superhero with preternatural abilities. Additionally, she was recently named a runner-up in the City of Regina Writing Award of 2024 for the same graphic novel Akicita.

 

 

Eric Gabriel, who goes by the pseudonym "Gabriel 'ArchAngel' Ehijie", is a Nigerian spoken-word poet, screenwriter, copywriter, and aspiring filmmaker. His poems have been used as therapeutic doses to aid Nigerian youths battling with depression and anxiety. Longlisted for the Economic Commission for Africa's ‘SDG Decade of Action Short Story Prize’ in 2021, he went on to win the best written poem in the Institute of Afrikology Resource Centre's 'Heritage Month Poetry Competition' held the same year. The co-author of the collective-novel, ‘Isles;’ is currently a student at the UoR, where he is taking a program in the M.A.P faculty.

 

 

 

 

 

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