The Coffee Pilot · Digital Passport launch
The Economic / Creative Impact pillar in action. Calgarians collect digital-passport stamps at participating cafés hosting Creative Sessions (puzzling, knitting, crocheting). Beta of the 3-sided platform connecting Participants, Shop Owners, and Vendors.
Who
Anyone who likes coffee + analog hobbies; café owners looking for slower-day traffic.
What
Weeknight Creative Sessions, host-supplied activity kits, passport stamps.
Why come
Discover new cafés, support local, build the platform with us.
The Pilot is intentionally small — a handful of participating cafés, a beta-quality digital passport, and weekly Creative Sessions. Its purpose is to test the 3-sided economic loop: Participants gain reasons to visit slow-day cafés; cafés gain bookings on slow nights; vendors place creative-kit inventory in real venues.
Lessons from the Pilot feed into the post-finale Workland Centre programming and a wider 2027 Coffee Festival rollout. Starter Stories from successful cafés get featured in Puzzle Time Magazine as Field Reports.