Community programming

Create here with your community.

Powered by BIPOC Foundation, the Digital Media & Creative Innovation Hub connects professional creative tools with community opportunity. This is a place for BIPOC creators, entrepreneurs, youth, artists, and organizations to build skills, tell stories, access networks, and bring ideas into the world.

Powered by BIPOC Foundation

Built for access, opportunity, and representation.

BIPOC Foundation is a Lethbridge-based non-profit advancing economic empowerment, financial inclusion, and representation for underestimated entrepreneurs and communities. The Hub extends that mission into creative production: recording, podcasting, photography, video, events, workshops, and community-led storytelling.

Business growth

Advisory, mentorship, funding pathways, and business planning support for founders and community builders.

Creative access

Studio tools for media, music, podcasting, photography, video, digital arts, and community storytelling.

Community learning

Workshops, peer sessions, learning nights, and practical skill-building for people at different stages.

Representation

Showcases, exhibitions, conversations, and platforms that make more room for BIPOC stories and leadership.

Youth & workforce

Volunteer, internship, media, tech, event, and work-integrated learning pathways connected to real projects.

Connection

Events and roundtables that help people meet collaborators, mentors, partners, and peers.

BIPOC Foundation in action

Real programs, people, and community moments.

These visuals come from BIPOC Foundation's public website and show the wider ecosystem that powers the Hub.

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Community events Gatherings, learning, and shared visibility across the Foundation network.
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Founders education Learning environments built for entrepreneurs and community builders.
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Support network Mentors, advisors, and peers helping founders move forward.
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Startup services Programs that help ideas become viable, fundable, and sustainable.
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Community outreach Connecting multicultural communities with stakeholders and resources.
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Arts & culture Creative programming that supports stories, artists, and public presence.

Foundation values

The values behind the space.

BIPOC Foundation describes its work through equity, equality, empathy, education, and inclusion. The Hub brings those values into day-to-day creative access: who gets to use professional tools, who gets supported, whose stories are visible, and who has room to build.

Equity

Reducing barriers so creators, entrepreneurs, students, and community groups can access practical tools and support.

Equality

Creating fairer pathways into creative production, business development, mentorship, and public visibility.

Empathy

Building programming around lived experience, trust, cultural context, and the realities facing underestimated communities.

Education

Offering learning moments that turn curiosity into capability, from media skills to business planning and emerging technology.

Inclusion

Designing the Hub as a welcoming place for people at different ages, stages, skill levels, and creative disciplines.

Representation

Making space for BIPOC stories, businesses, artwork, leadership, and community knowledge to be seen and shared.

Upcoming

Events & programming at the Hub.

The Hub will host workshops, artist talks, open studio nights, showcases, and community-led sessions. Exact dates are announced as each event is confirmed.

June 2026 Coming Soon

Grand Opening

The official launch of the BIPOC Digital Media & Creative Innovation Hub. More details to come.

2525 36 St N, Lethbridge

December 2026 In Planning

First Community Exhibition

A showcase of work created by community members and artists-in-residence throughout the year.

TBA

What to expect

Programming built around you.

Monthly programming is designed to build skills, connections, confidence, and practical access to creative tools.

Workshops & skill sessions

Hands-on learning in recording, photography, videography, podcasting, branding, marketing, AI, and digital storytelling.

Artist talks & panels

Conversations with working artists, entrepreneurs, educators, technologists, and creators from the community.

Demo days & showcases

Opportunities to share work, get feedback, celebrate projects, and introduce new audiences to local talent.

Open studio sessions

Drop in, use the space, meet other creators, and get comfortable with the tools available at the Hub.

Roundtables

Small-group conversations where entrepreneurs and creators can talk through challenges, resources, and next steps.

Community-led programming

Workshops and gatherings proposed by community members, partners, mentors, and subject-matter experts.

Who we are

Built around community access.

The Digital Media Hub is one part of a larger ecosystem of BIPOC-led initiatives in Lethbridge — rooted in culture, creativity, and shared opportunity.

Foundation

BIPOC Foundation

BIPOC Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Lethbridge dedicated to empowering Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour through community programs, cultural initiatives, economic opportunities, and accessible resources. The Digital Media & Creative Innovation Hub is one of their flagship projects — bringing professional creative infrastructure directly to the community.

Programs & initiatives

Foundation programs connected to the Hub.

Beyond studio bookings, BIPOC Foundation runs programs that support entrepreneurs, creators, students, volunteers, and community partners.

Founder support

Accelerator BFH

Business acceleration support for founders looking for end-to-end guidance, funding pathways, sponsored resources, and ecosystem partner introductions.

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Business planning

LIFT Program

Guided business model and business plan support for entrepreneurs preparing for financing, growth, recovery, grants, or investment readiness.

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Innovation

ElevateIP / IP Program

Support for BIPOC and immigrant entrepreneurs learning how to protect, manage, and strategically use intellectual property as they grow.

Learning

Learning Series

Interactive sessions with leaders and mentors covering business culture, leadership, mindset, networking, finance, marketing, privacy, AI, and growth.

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Peer network

The Table

A peer-to-peer roundtable where entrepreneurs share challenges, exchange feedback, and build trusted community relationships.

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Mentorship

Mentorship & advisory

Curated support from advisors and subject-matter experts across business, finance, marketing, digital media, technology, and strategy.

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Micro-grants

BIPOC Activation Grant

Micro-grant pathways that can support community, entrepreneurship, student, and art projects when intake windows are open.

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Membership

BIPOC Foundation Membership

A membership platform for founders, innovators, businesses, investors, and impact organizations seeking business advisory, financing support, events, network access, roundtables, and promotion opportunities.

Workforce

Volunteer & internship pathways

Opportunities in outreach, communications, media, events, admin, photography, videography, and social media for people building experience.

Arts & culture

Arts, culture & community programming

Digital art exhibitions, Black History Month events, performances, showcases, panels, creative networking, and space for community-led storytelling.

Youth & tech

Code & AI Club

A youth-focused pathway connecting coding, Python, AI, project-based learning, and creative technology opportunities for young learners.

Community impact

Programming with a track record.

BIPOC Foundation has supported events that bring together entrepreneurs, artists, families, educators, community leaders, and local partners. Past programming has included digital art festivals, Black History Month exhibitions, financial wellness sessions, learning series, business awards, and cultural showcases.

Digi Art Festival

A celebration of creativity, technology, performance, interactive exhibits, fashion, and digital art.

Keeping It Reel

A Black History Month digital exhibition and film screening centered on creativity, innovation, resilience, and BIPOC stories.

Legacy Gala & Excellence Awards

An annual celebration recognizing BIPOC entrepreneurs, leadership, innovation, and business impact.

Financial wellness sessions

Practical sessions on money, financial confidence, planning, business readiness, and long-term opportunity.

Founder learning nights

Community sessions on marketing, growth, privacy, AI, networking, leadership, and business systems.

Cultural showcases

Gatherings that create space for local stories, performances, artists, families, and community partners.

Find your pathway

This space is yours.

Community programming at the Hub is designed to be participatory — not just attended. Choose the path that fits what you are building.

I’m a creator Book a studio, attend a showcase, propose a workshop, or join a creative event.
I’m an entrepreneur Explore mentorship, advisory, learning programs, grants, and membership.
I’m a student or youth Look for volunteer, internship, media, tech, and event support opportunities.
I’m a partner Sponsor programming, bring a workshop, support an event, or collaborate on community access.
I want to volunteer Support outreach, media, photography, videography, social media, events, or admin.

Stay connected

Get programming updates.

Stay connected to BIPOC Foundation programming, Hub openings, workshops, showcases, grants, volunteer opportunities, and community partnerships.

BIPOC Foundation is situated on the unceded, traditional and ancestral Siksikaitsitapii (Blackfoot) Confederacy territory, Nations of Treaty No. 7, and the historical regional homeland of the Metis. We pay respect to the past, present and future Indigenous Peoples who steward the land while recognizing and respecting their cultural heritage, beliefs and relationship to the land.

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