{"id":219,"date":"2022-04-08T01:44:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T01:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2026-01-26T07:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T07:46:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/?page_id=219","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lauren Froese is a queer event producer, artist, creative director, and community organizer based on Treaty 6 territory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is the co-producer of Sapphic Saturdays and the founder of Feel Better Productions, a queer-led production company focused on producing, coordinating, and designing community-centred events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lauren has nearly a decade of experience working in live events, arts, and nightlife, including ten years living and working in Toronto\u2019s Church-Wellesley Village. Her work spans large-scale themed events for 250\u2013350 attendees, ticketed theatre nights, festivals, workshops, trivia series, and community activations. She has overseen full-cycle production including concept development, budgeting, vendor and artist coordination, marketing and graphic design, ticketing, accessibility planning, and on-site management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notable projects include Sapphic Saturdays (bi-monthly large-scale events), Sapphic Skate (in partnership with Winterruption), Drag Lunches, Learn to Line Dance workshop series, and closed queer theatre nights featuring post-show talkbacks. Lauren regularly collaborates with queer-owned businesses, performers, and community organizations across Saskatchewan to ensure events reflect diverse identities, body types, and lived experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lauren has a background in education and creative studies, which informs her facilitation style, inclusive programming, and commitment to skill-building and community learning. Her practice prioritizes trans inclusion, equitable representation, and the development of sustainable queer cultural infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feel better about your events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF8795-edited-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF8795-edited-1-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-565\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6660292188299126;width:298px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF8795-edited-1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF8795-edited-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF8795-edited-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF8795-edited-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF8795-edited-1.jpg 1317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lauren Froese is a queer event producer, artist, creative director, and community organizer based on Treaty 6 territory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She is the co-producer of Sapphic Saturdays and the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurenfroese.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}