About Me and Teatime Circus
My name’s Christina, and I’m so glad you’re here. I’m a born-and-raised Calgarian with a love of exploring and trying new things. Like many people in Calgary, I have a full time job in the energy industry and spend a lot of my days exploring downtown. I’m also the co-owner of a creative agency, meaning I get to stay connected to our emerging technology scene and get to meet a lot of amazing entrepreneurs and startups.
The name “Teatime Circus” comes from two very British things that I identify with closely. In Calgary, a lot of business and socializing begins with a cup of coffee and when you meet someone for the first time or if you want to catch up, it’s usually over a coffee. As a non-coffee drinker, coffee dates always become tea dates, and so for me, meeting people and sharing new ideas was better done at teatime. A circus refers to a traffic circus, or a traffic circle, as we’d call it on this side of the pond. Though traffic circles can be kind of annoying, I really liked this idea of a lot of roads leading to one central connection, like ideas revolving around one central hub. Hence “Teatime Circus” to me is a place for sharing lots of ideas around one central hub. Today, Teatime Circus