To help connect creatives across Alberta. From a singer in Edmonton café corners to a national touring musician our Founder, Kaley Beisiegel, jumped through many hurdles faced by creatives in Alberta. Alongside her music career, Kaley also worked as a consultant in grant writing, event planning, project management, and partnerships, collaborating with communities across Alberta’s creative economy. Through this work, Kaley noticed a recurring issue: organizations, artists, and community partners were often working in silos. Even when pursuing the same goals, there was little networking or collaboration. She also saw promising strategies, meant to unite partners and industries, end up as unused documents.

Enter Bird Creatives

2020 brought many challenges to our local creative industries. Artists, venues, and communities were all left stranded and isolated in the wake of pandemic restrictions. The creative economy as a whole screeched to a halt. However, these challenges presented an opportunity. And so, Bird Creatives was born. The goal (and our slogan) was simple, “Let’s see what we can do together!”

With relationship-building at our core, Kaley sought projects and processes where she could nestle together resources, information and connections. As we’ve grown in capacity and capabilities over the years, we’ve forged strong networks in the creative economies of Calgary, Edmonton, and Alberta, and have even taken on national projects, bringing our services across Canada and into the US.

Let’s take a look back at our journey so far.

Our Timeline

2020 – Bird incorporates

Notable Milestones

We begin building out our main services and take on our first contracts. Event Management is one of our first specialties.

Project Highlights

RISE UP Calgary

We supported local artists through the early 2020s by facilitating hundreds of live performance opportunities across the city

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Bird Creatives is deeply grateful to live, work, and create on the traditional and ancestral territories of the peoples of Treaty 6 and Treaty 7.

We acknowledge that Treaty 6 is the home of the Cree, Nakoda Sioux, Dene, Saulteaux, and the Métis peoples of the Lesser Slave Lake, Lower Athabasca River, and North Saskatchewan River regions. The Métis settlements of Buffalo Lake, Kikino, Elizabeth and Fishing Lake also find home in this territory. We also recognize that Treaty 7 encompasses the traditional territories of the Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy)—including the Siksika, Kainai, and Piikani Nations—as well as the Tsuut’ina Nation and the Îyâxe Nakoda, comprising the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Wesley First Nations. We further acknowledge the Métis peoples of the Battle River Territory.

Read our full statement on our About Us page, here.