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We’re back for another iteration of Meditation, Music & Meows! 😻😻 Join us for a guided meditation with live piano, gentle movements... and cats. It’s a time to slow down, reflect, and bring some cat joy into your day. ✨ Bring a yoga mat (or towel), and you’re welcome to bring pillows and blankets if you wish to be extra cozy. It’s a elongated moment of rest and stillness, followed by a chance to play and interact with the cats at @catoropets

📅 Date: June 2
📍 Location: 666 East Broadway
⏰ Doors Open: 6:45 PM | start:7 PM
💰 $35 general admission | limited spots
🔗save your spot at enablingarts.com/events

Have an idea you’re waiting to bring to life? We want to hear from you! ✨email info@enablingarts.com ✨

#vancouver #booklaunch #events #workshops #thirdspace

✨Read the full blog post on our website. Link in our linktr.ee in bio ✨

Is it giving up, or is knowing when to end something practical? A question that has been circling my mind for the last couple of weeks as I try to figure out how to keep Enabling Arts alive. I don’t know how much longer I can keep the space open if we don’t find financial security. I know some are prone to note that “that’s just the way some small businesses, especially art spaces, go,” and though that has been the trend, it’s not good enough for me to accept an ending quite yet. I need to try all I can.

What I do know is that people need other people, and community keeps us alive. 

This fact ignites, it keeps sparking the fire of passion for creating space for the community to grow. Enabling Arts aims to remind people of the power of gathering. 

By forming connections, holding grace, learning to express feelings, and committing to the work of holding threads of togetherness, we keep each other safe.

It’s hard to ask for help. It’s even harder to ask for help when I’ve done so, and we continue needing help. I’m spooned out and fighting burnout. I can’t do this alone.

Enabling Arts helps people come back to creation, to break down walls, to be vulnerable. I’ve seen friends and strangers pull up to support first-time artists’ showcases, new books and music videos, and small makers selling wares for the first time. I’ve seen people who are new to the city find company and community. I’ve seen word dumps blossom into poems, emotions being released into the air, a remembrance that we’re all in this together.

How can you help keep us alive?
✨Donate or help us seek and reach donors
✨Attend events. Host events.
✨Tell your friends and community about us. Tell your friends and community about us. Tell your friends and community about us.
✨Volunteer

With love and gratitude,

Franz ♥️

#smallbuisness #communityarts #spaceforrent #vancouver #thirdspace

✨Read the full blog post on our website. Link in our linktr.ee in bio ✨

Is it giving up, or is knowing when to end something practical? A question that has been circling my mind for the last couple of weeks as I try to figure out how to keep Enabling Arts alive. I don’t know how much longer I can keep the space open if we don’t find financial security. I know some are prone to note that “that’s just the way some small businesses, especially art spaces, go,” and though that has been the trend, it’s not good enough for me to accept an ending quite yet. I need to try all I can.

What I do know is that people need other people, and community keeps us alive. 

This fact ignites, it keeps sparking the fire of passion for creating space for the community to grow. Enabling Arts aims to remind people of the power of gathering. 

By forming connections, holding grace, learning to express feelings, and committing to the work of holding threads of togetherness, we keep each other safe.

It’s hard to ask for help. It’s even harder to ask for help when I’ve done so, and we continue needing help. I’m spooned out and fighting burnout. I can’t do this alone.

Enabling Arts helps people come back to creation, to break down walls, to be vulnerable. I’ve seen friends and strangers pull up to support first-time artists’ showcases, new books and music videos, and small makers selling wares for the first time. I’ve seen people who are new to the city find company and community. I’ve seen word dumps blossom into poems, emotions being released into the air, a remembrance that we’re all in this together.

How can you help keep us alive?
✨Donate or help us seek and reach donors
✨Attend events. Host events.
✨Tell your friends and community about us. Tell your friends and community about us. Tell your friends and community about us.
✨Volunteer

With love and gratitude,

Franz ♥️

#smallbuisness #communityarts #spaceforrent #vancouver #thirdspace

✨Read the full blog post on our website. Link in our linktr.ee in bio ✨

Is it giving up, or is knowing when to end something practical? A question that has been circling my mind for the last couple of weeks as I try to figure out how to keep Enabling Arts alive. I don’t know how much longer I can keep the space open if we don’t find financial security. I know some are prone to note that “that’s just the way some small businesses, especially art spaces, go,” and though that has been the trend, it’s not good enough for me to accept an ending quite yet. I need to try all I can.

What I do know is that people need other people, and community keeps us alive. 

This fact ignites, it keeps sparking the fire of passion for creating space for the community to grow. Enabling Arts aims to remind people of the power of gathering. 

By forming connections, holding grace, learning to express feelings, and committing to the work of holding threads of togetherness, we keep each other safe.

It’s hard to ask for help. It’s even harder to ask for help when I’ve done so, and we continue needing help. I’m spooned out and fighting burnout. I can’t do this alone.

Enabling Arts helps people come back to creation, to break down walls, to be vulnerable. I’ve seen friends and strangers pull up to support first-time artists’ showcases, new books and music videos, and small makers selling wares for the first time. I’ve seen people who are new to the city find company and community. I’ve seen word dumps blossom into poems, emotions being released into the air, a remembrance that we’re all in this together.

How can you help keep us alive?
✨Donate or help us seek and reach donors
✨Attend events. Host events.
✨Tell your friends and community about us. Tell your friends and community about us. Tell your friends and community about us.
✨Volunteer

With love and gratitude,

Franz ♥️

#smallbuisness #communityarts #spaceforrent #vancouver #thirdspace

✨Read the full blog post on our website. Link in our linktr.ee in bio ✨

Is it giving up, or is knowing when to end something practical? A question that has been circling my mind for the last couple of weeks as I try to figure out how to keep Enabling Arts alive. I don’t know how much longer I can keep the space open if we don’t find financial security. I know some are prone to note that “that’s just the way some small businesses, especially art spaces, go,” and though that has been the trend, it’s not good enough for me to accept an ending quite yet. I need to try all I can.

What I do know is that people need other people, and community keeps us alive. 

This fact ignites, it keeps sparking the fire of passion for creating space for the community to grow. Enabling Arts aims to remind people of the power of gathering. 

By forming connections, holding grace, learning to express feelings, and committing to the work of holding threads of togetherness, we keep each other safe.

It’s hard to ask for help. It’s even harder to ask for help when I’ve done so, and we continue needing help. I’m spooned out and fighting burnout. I can’t do this alone.

Enabling Arts helps people come back to creation, to break down walls, to be vulnerable. I’ve seen friends and strangers pull up to support first-time artists’ showcases, new books and music videos, and small makers selling wares for the first time. I’ve seen people who are new to the city find company and community. I’ve seen word dumps blossom into poems, emotions being released into the air, a remembrance that we’re all in this together.

How can you help keep us alive?
✨Donate or help us seek and reach donors
✨Attend events. Host events.
✨Tell your friends and community about us. Tell your friends and community about us. Tell your friends and community about us.
✨Volunteer

With love and gratitude,

Franz ♥️

#smallbuisness #communityarts #spaceforrent #vancouver #thirdspace

Calling all poets! 💫 We’re back for another night of sharing feelings and witnessing words. We love gathering with the poets and poetry lovers to find catharsis in the shared experience of being. All of you is welcome as we explore the tangles and intricacies of this human condition.

📅 Date: June 10th
📍 Location: 104-343 Railway Street, Vancouver, BC (no buzzer, come on in)
⏰ Doors Open: 6:30 PM | start:7 PM
🎤 First-come, first-served when doors open
💰 $13.13 general admission | (No one is turned away for lack of funds-dm us)
🔗save your spot at enablingarts.com/events

#vancouver #poetry #openmic #yvr #spokenword

Step into the garden with “We’re Out Of Oat Milk, Baby” and celebrate the solstice with WOOOMB band in a cozy evening of music and whimsy. This dynamic multidisciplinary jam band explores resistance, joys in the earth, and cultivating community threads. Witness the playful nature and experimental elements as WOOMB tends to the garden of coexistence and creation. ✨ Come join in singing and dancing with us ✨ We can’t wait to spend the evening with you, hold on to your hats!

📅 Date: June 20
📍 Location: 104-343 Railway Street, Vancouver, BC (no buzzer, come on in)
⏰ Doors Open: 6:30 PM | start:7 PM
💰 $20 general admission
🔗save your spot at enablingarts.com/events

#vancouverthingstodo #yvrmusic #WOOOMBband #soundjourney #jamband

Update! @chair_isma.drag is joining us for Fetch-A-Sketch again this round! Come draw with us and this full cast of wonderful performers and models!

May 23 from 2-5pm @enablingarts

Fetch your tickets on Eventbrite 🎟️

#vancouverdrag #dragvancouver #lifedrawingvancouver #thingstodovancouver #vancouverevents

Update! @chair_isma.drag is joining us for Fetch-A-Sketch again this round! Come draw with us and this full cast of wonderful performers and models!

May 23 from 2-5pm @enablingarts

Fetch your tickets on Eventbrite 🎟️

#vancouverdrag #dragvancouver #lifedrawingvancouver #thingstodovancouver #vancouverevents

Vancouver Poetry Slam returns for the Summer Season on June 1st ⛰
Enabling Arts (343 Railway Street, Unit #104)
Doors: 7pm | Sign-up: 7:30 | Show: 8pm
$8 Advance | $10-15 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Advance tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/vancouver-poetry-slam-ft-lindi-nolte

About the feature Lindi Nolte:

Lindi Nolte is a South African-Canadian spoken word poet, educator, and TEDx speaker based in Vancouver. Her work explores themes of love, nature, resilience, and self-discovery, often weaving personal narrative with social insight. A former Grand Slam Champion, Lindi is an active member of the spoken word community and facilitates creative writing workshops that help others connect with their expressive voice. Her debut poetry collection, Barefoot and Awestruck, invites readers into moments of wonder, longing, and transformation.❤️

Vancouver Poetry Slam returns for the Summer Season on June 1st ⛰
Enabling Arts (343 Railway Street, Unit #104)
Doors: 7pm | Sign-up: 7:30 | Show: 8pm
$8 Advance | $10-15 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Advance tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/vancouver-poetry-slam-ft-lindi-nolte

About the feature Lindi Nolte:

Lindi Nolte is a South African-Canadian spoken word poet, educator, and TEDx speaker based in Vancouver. Her work explores themes of love, nature, resilience, and self-discovery, often weaving personal narrative with social insight. A former Grand Slam Champion, Lindi is an active member of the spoken word community and facilitates creative writing workshops that help others connect with their expressive voice. Her debut poetry collection, Barefoot and Awestruck, invites readers into moments of wonder, longing, and transformation.❤️

Vancouver Poetry Slam returns for the Summer Season on June 1st ⛰
Enabling Arts (343 Railway Street, Unit #104)
Doors: 7pm | Sign-up: 7:30 | Show: 8pm
$8 Advance | $10-15 at the door (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Advance tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/vancouver-poetry-slam-ft-lindi-nolte

About the feature Lindi Nolte:

Lindi Nolte is a South African-Canadian spoken word poet, educator, and TEDx speaker based in Vancouver. Her work explores themes of love, nature, resilience, and self-discovery, often weaving personal narrative with social insight. A former Grand Slam Champion, Lindi is an active member of the spoken word community and facilitates creative writing workshops that help others connect with their expressive voice. Her debut poetry collection, Barefoot and Awestruck, invites readers into moments of wonder, longing, and transformation.❤️

Join us for the return of At Least We Tried! A variety show featuring Music, Burlesque, Poetry, and more! Curated by Sam MacKinnon and Simon Massey, this month’s theme is “Monstrosity”

📅 Date: May 15
📍 Location: 104-343 Railway Street, Vancouver, BC (no buzzer, come on in)
⏰ Doors Open: 7 PM | start:7:30 PM
💰 $20 general admission
🔗save your spot at enablingarts.com/events

#varietyshow #vancouver #poetry #music #comedyshow

✨We’re back✨ join us for This Is The Art an open mic for all performers, hosted by @mend.the.spirit 💙❤️💚💖

Bring your weird and wonderful art form. Come to perform, or simply to witness. All expressions are welcome. This is collective resonance.

This is the ART!

The night begins with sign-ups at 7:00 PM, and performances run from 8:00–11:00 PM. Stay from start to finish to experience the evening’s headlining performance — a special closing set by @oceaan.pendharkar

📅 May 22, 3036
📍104-343 Railway Street, Vancouver, BC
⏰ 7:00 PM doors
🔗 Tickets at enablingarts.com/events

While chapbooks can be crafted from handmade paper with fantastically ornate bindings and bells and whistles, they can also be made on the fly with whatever’s at hand. In this workshop at Enabling Arts, we’ll write some poetry (using two poems by May Swenson as models), and we’ll learn a few basic chapbook folds.

In the process of transferring our newly generated poems into the chapbooks that we’ve made, we’ll consider the process of editing and what goes into crafting a poem.

Touching upon the resources around us, we’ll also consider the multitude of ways chapbooks can be made. In looking at a large sampling of different types of chapbooks from micro-presses across the country published in 2024, everyone will leave with not only their favourite looking chapbook, but also their very own handmade chapbook and poem.

A poet, teacher, and reviewer, Kevin Spenst (he/him) has published four full-length poetry collections, most recently A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press, 2024) and 19 chapbooks, most recently Ghosted Under the Christmas Tree (above/ground press, 2025) and Windowful (Anstruther Press, 2025). He is one of the organizers of the Dead Poets Reading Series, has a chapbook review column for subTerrain magazine, occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and is one of the poetry ambassadors for Vancouver’s 2025-2027 Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner. He is one of the Poetry Mentors at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territory.

📅 May 27, 3036
📍104-343 Railway Street, Vancouver, BC
⏰ 6:00 PM- 8:30 PM
🔗 Tickets at enablingarts.com/events

💫✨We are hosting a very special event with @maza.arts.collective ; join us for a night of poetry magic ✨💫

Celebrate the book launches of Qurat Dar’s debut collection, Non-Prophet, Anjalica Solomon’s debut collection, Apocalpse Joy, and Cassandra Myers’ chapbook (self-bound in a clamshell), They’re Pushing The Pearls From Their Clams and I Can’t Stop Wishing. Plus, witness the Vancouver debut of I Love the Land Back by Namitha Rathinappillai, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. With special feature performances from local poets Franz Seachel & Kiranjit Shoker.

You won’t want to miss these powerhouse poets.

✨Save your spot at enablingarts.com/events
✨Doors 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm

💫✨We are hosting a very special event with @maza.arts.collective ; join us for a night of poetry magic ✨💫

Celebrate the book launches of Qurat Dar’s debut collection, Non-Prophet, Anjalica Solomon’s debut collection, Apocalpse Joy, and Cassandra Myers’ chapbook (self-bound in a clamshell), They’re Pushing The Pearls From Their Clams and I Can’t Stop Wishing. Plus, witness the Vancouver debut of I Love the Land Back by Namitha Rathinappillai, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. With special feature performances from local poets Franz Seachel & Kiranjit Shoker.

You won’t want to miss these powerhouse poets.

✨Save your spot at enablingarts.com/events
✨Doors 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm

💫✨We are hosting a very special event with @maza.arts.collective ; join us for a night of poetry magic ✨💫

Celebrate the book launches of Qurat Dar’s debut collection, Non-Prophet, Anjalica Solomon’s debut collection, Apocalpse Joy, and Cassandra Myers’ chapbook (self-bound in a clamshell), They’re Pushing The Pearls From Their Clams and I Can’t Stop Wishing. Plus, witness the Vancouver debut of I Love the Land Back by Namitha Rathinappillai, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. With special feature performances from local poets Franz Seachel & Kiranjit Shoker.

You won’t want to miss these powerhouse poets.

✨Save your spot at enablingarts.com/events
✨Doors 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm

💫✨We are hosting a very special event with @maza.arts.collective ; join us for a night of poetry magic ✨💫

Celebrate the book launches of Qurat Dar’s debut collection, Non-Prophet, Anjalica Solomon’s debut collection, Apocalpse Joy, and Cassandra Myers’ chapbook (self-bound in a clamshell), They’re Pushing The Pearls From Their Clams and I Can’t Stop Wishing. Plus, witness the Vancouver debut of I Love the Land Back by Namitha Rathinappillai, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. With special feature performances from local poets Franz Seachel & Kiranjit Shoker.

You won’t want to miss these powerhouse poets.

✨Save your spot at enablingarts.com/events
✨Doors 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm

💫✨We are hosting a very special event with @maza.arts.collective ; join us for a night of poetry magic ✨💫

Celebrate the book launches of Qurat Dar’s debut collection, Non-Prophet, Anjalica Solomon’s debut collection, Apocalpse Joy, and Cassandra Myers’ chapbook (self-bound in a clamshell), They’re Pushing The Pearls From Their Clams and I Can’t Stop Wishing. Plus, witness the Vancouver debut of I Love the Land Back by Namitha Rathinappillai, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. With special feature performances from local poets Franz Seachel & Kiranjit Shoker.

You won’t want to miss these powerhouse poets.

✨Save your spot at enablingarts.com/events
✨Doors 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm

💫✨We are hosting a very special event with @maza.arts.collective ; join us for a night of poetry magic ✨💫

Celebrate the book launches of Qurat Dar’s debut collection, Non-Prophet, Anjalica Solomon’s debut collection, Apocalpse Joy, and Cassandra Myers’ chapbook (self-bound in a clamshell), They’re Pushing The Pearls From Their Clams and I Can’t Stop Wishing. Plus, witness the Vancouver debut of I Love the Land Back by Namitha Rathinappillai, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. With special feature performances from local poets Franz Seachel & Kiranjit Shoker.

You won’t want to miss these powerhouse poets.

✨Save your spot at enablingarts.com/events
✨Doors 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm

💫✨We are hosting a very special event with @maza.arts.collective ; join us for a night of poetry magic ✨💫

Celebrate the book launches of Qurat Dar’s debut collection, Non-Prophet, Anjalica Solomon’s debut collection, Apocalpse Joy, and Cassandra Myers’ chapbook (self-bound in a clamshell), They’re Pushing The Pearls From Their Clams and I Can’t Stop Wishing. Plus, witness the Vancouver debut of I Love the Land Back by Namitha Rathinappillai, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. With special feature performances from local poets Franz Seachel & Kiranjit Shoker.

You won’t want to miss these powerhouse poets.

✨Save your spot at enablingarts.com/events
✨Doors 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm

💫✨We are hosting a very special event with @maza.arts.collective ; join us for a night of poetry magic ✨💫

Celebrate the book launches of Qurat Dar’s debut collection, Non-Prophet, Anjalica Solomon’s debut collection, Apocalpse Joy, and Cassandra Myers’ chapbook (self-bound in a clamshell), They’re Pushing The Pearls From Their Clams and I Can’t Stop Wishing. Plus, witness the Vancouver debut of I Love the Land Back by Namitha Rathinappillai, a cinematic love letter to and reckoning with the stolen ground beneath our feet. With special feature performances from local poets Franz Seachel & Kiranjit Shoker.

You won’t want to miss these powerhouse poets.

✨Save your spot at enablingarts.com/events
✨Doors 6:30 pm, show at 7 pm