Creative Sparks: Riggs Vergara

All right.

Now, so let's jump into this next one.

This next one is unique.

So this organization and this event that you started with your crew is called Real Feast.

Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, I can definitely talk about that.

Yeah.

So as I mentioned earlier, when I was in school, I found just a group of ragtime filmmakers who are really passionate about what they do, but also really passionate about community building.

So we founded this organization called Wheel Feast.

And their names are Kio, Alex, and Miguel.

And we're a bunch of...

Basically, we were...

We work a lot together with each other for gigs and stuff like weddings, corporate videos and things like that.

And we got to sit one day at a shawarma place and we were just like, there's nothing here in Calgary that's really... you know, a place, a third place for people like ourselves, creatives and artists to kind of gather and be creative, but also connect with a lot of people.

And during that time, I think we were ideating about this like 2022, 2023.

And there's probably a lot more places like that now, but there wasn't anything yet at the time.

And so we thought we can start it and build it.

And we had our first couple of events.

We had The first one is called Reframe, where basically we rented a venue and we had four different stations where we had a model station there and we have like a backdrop with different concepts.

We partnered with a secondhand thrift store to borrow clothes from them.

And we partnered with... a lot of artists around the town to help us come up with the backdrops and from there people who are photographers videographers and model got to come to the venue and just take pictures and videos and also connect with a lot of people um and and the second one is we called sip shop and shoot um It's basically we partnered with this local community coffee shop that welcomes artists.

And we did the same thing where we had like different spots in the area.

And the coffee shop was running as well.

We had different spots in the area where people can just take pictures.

And we have a stylist.