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Creative Enterprise | Pitch Party

  • Philanthropy Center 1020 West Riverside Avenue Spokane, WA, 99201 United States (map)

Meet Terrain's newest cohort of arts-based businesses ready to take their fresh ideas to the streets of Spokane!

ABOUT

Help us celebrate Terrain’s Creative Enterprise cohort #5 by attending their Pitch Party (think shark-tank, but friendly, and no cut-throat investors (lol)!

13 artist entrepreneurs — full list below — will give 3-minute presentations, followed by Q&A from a panel of local business experts.

This is the cohort's last step as they wrap up their business plans and begin to take their fresh ideas to the streets of Spokane! Let's cheer them on!

But first! Please register — IT'S FREE — via the "Find Tickets" button just so we know how many people to prepare for. You can also register here: bit.ly/CEpitchparty23

What's Creative Enterprise you say? It's Terrain's business incubator for artists. You can learn more about the program at: terrainspokane.com/creative-enterprise

EVENING OVERVIEW

5:00PM-6PM (meet & greet)*
6PM-8:00PM (pitches and Q&A from panel)
8:00PM-8:30PM (stay and mingle if you want)

*open-house style, very casual

COHORT

Gayle M Kruger • Dancing Pine Soapworks

Curtis Baruth • District 16

Benjamin Dysart • Dysart Knives

Elizabeth Merriam • Flourish Botanicals

Fernando Ortiz • Harmony Woods

Katie Muirhead • Katie + Kin Ceramics

Melanie Hewitt • LibroBuch

Mary Hanlin • Life is Shit Toilet Spray

Makayla Sotin • Makayla Sotin Design

CarliAnn Forthun Bruner • Kindling Dance Commons

Sarah Moulton • Sarah Rose Photos LLC

Mike Beegle • Nokh

Tammy Merrill • Greencastle Soap Supply Company

PANELISTS

Lisa Gardner • Director of Communications and Community Engagement, Spokane City Council

Juliet Sinisterra • Executive Director, UDistrict

Vange Ocasio Hochheimer, M.A., Ph.D. • Professor of Economics and Finance, Whitworth University

Sarah Brown • Owner, Work/Life

A MASSIVE thank you to our program partners, WSMA and Spaceworks Tacoma for supporting this program!

Later Event: June 17
BAZAAR 2023