"In addition to her comedic talent, Ms. Stevenson has good business sense and a professional atittude. I have found Bev to be highly motivated, ambitious and intelligent. She has terrific interpersonal skills which allow her to easily read people; both individually and as an audience."
Cheryl Monar, Director Fund Development & Public Affairs Calgary Handi-Bus Association
Upcoming Keynotes
Canadian Association of Critical
Care Nurses National Conference
Dynamics 2012 Voices of Conviction:
From Sea to Sky
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
September 23 - 25, 2012
Iowa Emergency Management
Association's 6th Annual University of Okoboji
Conference - May 9 - 12, 2012
Finding the Funny in Nursing
August 30, 2011, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB
Finding the Funny in Nursing
December 6, 2011, United Nurses of Alberta Local 1,
Peter Lougheed HospitalLocal Union Annual Meeting, Calgary, AB
Recent Keynotes
Finding the Funny in Nursing
Annual CARNA Calgary West Nurses Dinner, Glenmore Inn,
May 9, 2011
Finding the Funny in Your Workplace
Executive Women International, Calgary Zoo, January
19,2011
Finding the Funny in Your Workplace
MCF Housing for Seniors Employee Conference, April 14,
2010
Finding the Funny in the OR
Operating Room Nurses Association (ORNA), Red Deer, AB
Finding the Funny in the Nursing
December 2, 2010, Mount Royal College, Calgary, AB
Sex Crimes Investigator's Conference 2009
September 14-16, 2009, The Palliser Hotel, Calgary, AB
Visit www.calgarysexcrimesconference.ca to register.
Emergency Nurses Interest Group of British Columbia
October 24, 2009, Kamloops, BC
Visit www.engbc.com for more information.
Alberta Occupational Health Nurse's Association (AOHNA) Conference 2009
May 28, 2009, Greenwood Inn, Calgary, AB
The 50th Annual Convention of Health Information Management of Alberta
May 7 and 8, 2009, Edmonton, AB
The Colon; The Long & Short of It
April 25, 2009. GI Nurses Conference, Red Deer Regional Hospital Center, AB Find out more about the CSGNA
Thoracic Surgery Conference
April 24, 2009. Canada Olympic Park, ATCO Centre, Calgary, AB
Choices - A Day of Wellness
March 31, 2009. JJ O'Brien Junior High School, Calgary, AB
'The Real ER' - A very graphic and up-close look and discussion of ER visits of teens after trauma, drug use and other poor choices. Rated as 'Cool', 'Awesome' and 'Totally Gross!'.
Cabin Fever 2009 Conference
February 7, 2009. University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine Rural Physicians Group, Kananaskis' Delta Lodge, AB
Choices - A Day of Wellness
February 6, 2009. Grades 7 - 9 students at Our Lady of Peace School, Calgary, AB
Hematology Nursing Day III: More Blood, Sweat and Tears
January 29, 2009. Peter Lougheed Hospital Hematology & Oncology Departments in conjunction with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. La Joie de Vivre in Inglewood, Calgary, AB
Forzani & McPhail Colon Cancer Screening Center Nurses Education Day
December 15, 2008, Teaching, Research & Wellness Building, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, AB
EnCana Team Building Event by the Canadian Plains Business Services Group
Safari Room at the Calgary Zoo, Calgary, AB
"Beve provided 300 EnCana employees with a scientific view of just how and why humour is good for health AND for business. She helped them move past their stresses and frustrations to Find The Funny in their own demanding workplace, while laughing their heads off!"
Western Canadian Rheumatology Nursing Speaker Training Program
September 12, 2008, Delta Bow Valley Hotel, Calgary, AB
The Pajama Party
March 14 - 16, 2008, The Fairmont, Jasper Park Lodge, Jasper, AB
Calgary Neonatal Nurses Association Conference
February 7, 2008, Peter Lougheed Center, Calgary, AB
Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses Conference
February 6, 2008, Edmonton, AB
"Beve carried entire conference day! The morning was spent facilitating an interactive workshop designed to help nurses deal more successfully with the difficult people and situations inherent in high-stress hospital environments. Registrants worked their way through realistic scenarios, learned how to use humour in their workplace, and gained experience in the kind of challenging human relations situations unique to nursing. Beve then changed it up by giving a sobering personal account of her near-death experience with anaphylaxis in the educational lecture, 'To Bee or Not To Bee'. She finished off the day with a light-hearted presentation on Humour in the Workplace."
Comedy Performances
Beve has the unique gift of appropriate humour around
any subject. She often compares your workplace or situation
to one she's encountered in the Emergency Room. She entertains
with myriad stories about past ER experiences or medical that
everyone can relate to. She can get 'down and dirty' with the
Emergency Crowd or dazzle a room full of accountants. She is likeable, always funny and her humour often
expounds upon the things she SAYS that everyone else just THINKS!
Beve and Mark Breslin
Founder of Yuk Yuk's Comedy Clubs
Past Performances
Calgary Health Trust's 'Funny Bone Event' 2004
An innovative and FUNNY fundraiser to support diagnostic
imaging at the Peter Lougheed Centre in Calgary allowing
for the purchase of a new MRI and CT scanner to enhance
the care of Albertans. Beve performed original stand up
material, was a vital member of the Volunteer
Organization Team and arranged for approximately 75% of
auction items and services.
Toronto Yuk Yuk's 2003
Beve not only completed the Stand Up Comedy portion of
the Humber College Summer Comedy Camp, but was unanimously
chosen to perform her original stand up at the Toronto Yuk
Yuk's Comedy Cabaret with owner Mark Breslin's encouragement.
Mic in Stone Award 2003
Beve was chosen to receive the 3rd annual Mic In Stone
Award for her "support of the CHEERS Project and the concept
of using comedy and humour to make a more healthy and
inclusive community... You have been living proof of the
power of comedy in difficult and stressful situations.
Your performances have entertained thousands and enlightened even more".
Chicks for Cheers
This breast cancer fundraiser, organized by the CHEERS
Project featured female stand up comedians doing their bit
at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Cabaret in Calgary. Beve and the rest
are featured on the Chicks for CHEERS comedy CD.
Two Gals, Two Mikes and a Rod Comedy Show
In 2001, Beve organized, directed and produced an entire
evening of comedy at the Carriage House Hotel. AND THEN she
performed 40 minutes of her original stand up material to a very
appreciative audience.
