Events
Three things a month, and nobody pitches.
A masterclass on the third Thursday, Pastries & products in the kitchen on the first Thursday morning, and Show & tell at lunch on the fourth Wednesday. Everything below is dated, and the past ones say how many came.
- Events since 3 Nov 2025
- 19
- People through the door
- 478
- Pitches given
- 0
Upcoming
What is next.
Masterclass · The board room · Members and day passes
Masterclass: Supply chain, from prototype to supplier
Season two opens with the session members asked for most: finding, vetting and negotiating with a manufacturer, and what it really costs to land a pallet in Edmonton.
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: October
The monthly one. A bakery brings the pastries, everybody brings one thing they make, and nobody gives a talk.
Masterclass · The board room · Members and day passes
Masterclass: When to move to a storefront
Half deciding whether a storefront is a good idea for you at all, half reading the lease line by line if it is. Taught by Zenith Commercial.
Show & tell · The kitchen · Members only
Show & tell: packaging
Five members, five minutes each, one topic: the box it ships in. What broke, what cost too much, what a retailer said.
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: one year on
One year on. The bakery from the first morning comes back, and so does the folding table.
Workshop · The board room · Members and day passes
Workshop: Getting ready for the winter markets
A working session two weeks before Royal Bison, Make It and the Butterdome sale: the table, the pricing card, the float, and the one question that sells more than any sign.
The cadence
Same three things every month, so you cannot quietly stop coming.
A cadence you did not set is a cadence you cannot abandon.
- First Thursday, 8 amPastries & productsA bakery brings the pastries, you bring one thing you make. In the commons and the kitchen. No agenda, no name tags. Open to everyone.
- Third Thursday, 6 pmMasterclassOne hard skill, taught by someone who does it for a living. In the board room, 18 seats.
- Fourth Wednesday, noonShow & tellFive members, five minutes, one topic, no slides. No pitching.
Past
What happened.
Every event since the doors opened, with how many came. The counts are samples until the real calendar replaces them. Each one opens to what it led to; the masterclasses are written up on the blog.
2026
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: back to it
The September one. Thirty-one people, two new residents, one very good pie.
31 came
Masterclass · The board room · Members and day passes
Masterclass: Setting up business finances
Two practising accountants, a room full of shoeboxes, and the fifteen-minute monthly close.
18 camewritten up
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: Fringe week
Fringe week. Seventeen came, which is the smallest August we expect to have.
17 came
Show & tell · The kitchen · Members only
Show & tell: the thing that broke
Five members on the failure that taught them the most. Attendance beat every masterclass.
29 came
Masterclass · The board room · Members and day passes
Masterclass: Legal filing and entity structuring
Sole prop, partnership, ABCA or CBCA, taught by lawyers who set up businesses for a living.
17 camewritten up
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: K-Days week
K-Days week and half the floor selling at the 124 Grand Market. Fourteen came. No pastries; peaches.
14 came
Everything since November (15 more)Show fewer
2026
Masterclass · The board room · Members and day passes
Masterclass: How to write a business plan a lender will read
The plan a lender, a landlord and your future self will all take seriously, built from the unit up.
18 camewritten up
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: windows open
The first one with the windows open. Twenty-six came, and the business-plan session two weeks later filled off the back of it.
26 came
Workshop · The board room · Members only
Supplier night
Four local suppliers, no pitches: a packaging printer, a co-packer, a freight forwarder and a customs broker, answering whatever members asked.
22 came
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: patio-ish
The windows were open for the first time since October.
34 came
Workshop · The board room · Members and day passes
Workshop: Product photos on a phone
A member who shoots for retailers set up a lightbox in the board room and taught thirty people to use it.
27 came
31 came
Workshop · The board room · Members and day passes
Landlord Q&A: what the other side of the table is thinking
Two commercial landlords and a broker took questions for two hours. Nobody signed anything.
18 came
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: cancelled
Cancelled. Freezing rain, and the city asked people to stay home. We agreed with the city.
0 came
Show & tell · The kitchen · Members only
Show & tell: the first hundred units
Five members on their pilot runs: what the hundred taught them, and what changed for the thousand.
24 camewritten up
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: the cold one
Minus thirty-one outside. Twenty-six people came anyway, which told us something.
26 came
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: new year
The first one where members outnumbered visitors.
22 came
2025
Open floor · The floor · Members only
Closed for the holidays
Doors locked, fobs worked. The front desk signed for eleven parcels anyway.
0 came
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: the holiday one
Members brought their products; everybody bought their gifts on the floor.
38 came
Pastries & products · The kitchen · Open to everyone
Pastries & products: the first one
Three days after opening. A folding table, two boxes from the bakery, and nineteen people who mostly did not know each other yet.
19 came
Open floor · The floor · Open to everyone
Open floor: the first day
Doors open. One office and six desks rented on the day, three of them by people who had never worked outside their house.
47 came
Pastries & products is open to everyone.
You do not need a desk to come for a croissant. You might want one afterwards.