Stories Over Coffee
At Stella’s on Portage, coffee, conversation, and curiosity fuel Winnipeg’s Living Lab experiments in storytelling and AI.
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Arts & Creative Leadership
Here, we cultivate arts and creative leadership through participatory, arts-based community initiatives. We offer news, features and stories on developing essential skills such as collaboration, innovative thinking, and effective communication, empowering artists and communities to lead with creativity and purpose. Through hands-on training, mentorship, and community engagement, we provide opportunities to build confidence, foster resilience, and drive social impact. Connecting artistic practices with leadership development, we prepare individuals to inspire change and strengthen their communities through the transformative power of the arts.
Creativity Through Automation
GenAI is helping us move our effort away from the grind and toward the purpose behind our work.
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How Fragmentation Can Redefine Storytelling
An archive of narrative fragments invites readers to explore emotion, ambiguity, and connection without resolution or closure.
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Analyses: Reading the Fragments
Analyses transform narrative fragments into spaces of reflection, guiding readers through emotion, structure, and interpretation.
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Agentic Design? So, Where’s the Art?
It’s easy to look at these pipelines and think that what we’re building is engineering, not creativity.
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T is for Team
Understanding the ECO-STAR North Methodology for Innovation No hero completes their quest alone, and no great idea is built by a single person. The 'Team'…
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Holding Space for the Unknown
The Art of Cultivating Possibility Conventional leadership is about having a plan, giving directions, and minimizing risk. Creative leadership is a different art altogether. The…
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We Read the Currents, We Don’t Chase the Wind.
No work of art can be understood without its context. The same is true of an innovation.
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