SaskMusic x Regina Songwriters Meetup: Personifying Nature with Émi Lebel

Dreaming of spring? We are too - and we have the perfect workshop coming up in April to wake you up from the winter slump! 🌱
SaskMusic x Regina Songwriters Meetup: Personifying Nature with Émi Lebel
Sunday, April 19, 7:00-9:00 pm
In person at The Club (The Exchange - 2431 8th Ave) and via Zoom.
Free to attend, and songwriters of all skill levels and styles welcome!

We encourage you to register in advance, but drop-ins are also welcome. The link is in our bio!

This month, we’ll be joined by guest speaker Émi Lebel, who will talk about her experiences as a bilingual writer, collaborating with other artists and how she finds inspiration in nature.

Workshop description:
In 2019, I went on a wildflower walk with the Meewasin Valley Authority and everytime the tour guide mentioned anything about a plant or animal or phenomenon, I was able to relate to it. The plant that started it all was Blue Gramma, a very resilient type of prairie grass shaped like eyelashes. I immediately started thinking about a grandma (cause I also misheard the tour guide gramma ≠ grandma). I imagined her having lived a very hard life and compared it to our resilience towards the extreme prairie weather and nature's resilience towards global warming. In 2020, I started working with Marie-Clo from Ontario on a bilingual project, Beau Nectar, this inspiration deeply inspired my bandmate and the rest is history. As a bilingual duo project, we not only collaborate, often remotely, but we also write in both French and English. I will be sharing my experiences as a bilingual writer, I will share tips on collaborating with other artists and hopefully inspire a whole new method of research-based art. - Émi Lebel

Following the discussion, we'll have a song share - bring a song you’re working on, or test drive a fresh song that you’d like to get feedback on (maybe you’re struggling with a chorus, a bridge, etc.). You can share this song with the group, and other songwriters can provide feedback.