Business growth
Advisory, mentorship, funding pathways, and business planning support for founders and community builders.
Community programming
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
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.
Advisory, mentorship, funding pathways, and business planning support for founders and community builders.
Studio tools for media, music, podcasting, photography, video, digital arts, and community storytelling.
Workshops, peer sessions, learning nights, and practical skill-building for people at different stages.
Showcases, exhibitions, conversations, and platforms that make more room for BIPOC stories and leadership.
Volunteer, internship, media, tech, event, and work-integrated learning pathways connected to real projects.
Events and roundtables that help people meet collaborators, mentors, partners, and peers.
BIPOC Foundation in action
These visuals come from BIPOC Foundation's public website and show the wider ecosystem that powers the Hub.
Foundation values
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.
Reducing barriers so creators, entrepreneurs, students, and community groups can access practical tools and support.
Creating fairer pathways into creative production, business development, mentorship, and public visibility.
Building programming around lived experience, trust, cultural context, and the realities facing underestimated communities.
Offering learning moments that turn curiosity into capability, from media skills to business planning and emerging technology.
Designing the Hub as a welcoming place for people at different ages, stages, skill levels, and creative disciplines.
Making space for BIPOC stories, businesses, artwork, leadership, and community knowledge to be seen and shared.
Upcoming
The Hub will host workshops, artist talks, open studio nights, showcases, and community-led sessions. Exact dates are announced as each event is confirmed.
The official launch of the BIPOC Digital Media & Creative Innovation Hub. More details to come.
2525 36 St N, Lethbridge
A showcase of work created by community members and artists-in-residence throughout the year.
TBA
What to expect
Monthly programming is designed to build skills, connections, confidence, and practical access to creative tools.
Hands-on learning in recording, photography, videography, podcasting, branding, marketing, AI, and digital storytelling.
Conversations with working artists, entrepreneurs, educators, technologists, and creators from the community.
Opportunities to share work, get feedback, celebrate projects, and introduce new audiences to local talent.
Drop in, use the space, meet other creators, and get comfortable with the tools available at the Hub.
Small-group conversations where entrepreneurs and creators can talk through challenges, resources, and next steps.
Workshops and gatherings proposed by community members, partners, mentors, and subject-matter experts.
Who we are
The Digital Media Hub is one part of a larger ecosystem of BIPOC-led initiatives in Lethbridge — rooted in culture, creativity, and shared opportunity.
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
Beyond studio bookings, BIPOC Foundation runs programs that support entrepreneurs, creators, students, volunteers, and community partners.
Business acceleration support for founders looking for end-to-end guidance, funding pathways, sponsored resources, and ecosystem partner introductions.
Guided business model and business plan support for entrepreneurs preparing for financing, growth, recovery, grants, or investment readiness.
Support for BIPOC and immigrant entrepreneurs learning how to protect, manage, and strategically use intellectual property as they grow.
Interactive sessions with leaders and mentors covering business culture, leadership, mindset, networking, finance, marketing, privacy, AI, and growth.
A peer-to-peer roundtable where entrepreneurs share challenges, exchange feedback, and build trusted community relationships.
Curated support from advisors and subject-matter experts across business, finance, marketing, digital media, technology, and strategy.
Micro-grant pathways that can support community, entrepreneurship, student, and art projects when intake windows are open.
A membership platform for founders, innovators, businesses, investors, and impact organizations seeking business advisory, financing support, events, network access, roundtables, and promotion opportunities.
Opportunities in outreach, communications, media, events, admin, photography, videography, and social media for people building experience.
Digital art exhibitions, Black History Month events, performances, showcases, panels, creative networking, and space for community-led storytelling.
A youth-focused pathway connecting coding, Python, AI, project-based learning, and creative technology opportunities for young learners.
Community impact
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.
A celebration of creativity, technology, performance, interactive exhibits, fashion, and digital art.
A Black History Month digital exhibition and film screening centered on creativity, innovation, resilience, and BIPOC stories.
An annual celebration recognizing BIPOC entrepreneurs, leadership, innovation, and business impact.
Practical sessions on money, financial confidence, planning, business readiness, and long-term opportunity.
Community sessions on marketing, growth, privacy, AI, networking, leadership, and business systems.
Gatherings that create space for local stories, performances, artists, families, and community partners.
Find your pathway
Community programming at the Hub is designed to be participatory — not just attended. Choose the path that fits what you are building.
Stay connected
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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