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Announcing: A Colouring Book to Celebrate Canada's 150th!

6/1/2017

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At last, I get to post some news about the 3rd of my Three Things for Canada (see here for Things 1 and 2)! This one's a project I've been working on for a while, with the help of some really great collaborators!

This story starts with local charity Calgary Reads.
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In June, Calgary Reads will be launching their Children's Reading Place in Inglewood. I don't need to describe it any further, because there's already a great description of the project here (read on):
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So what does this have to do with me? Well, with the help of Calgary Reads and a grant from the Community Fund for Canada's 150th, I've been assembling my 3rd Thing for Canada: a little colouring book celebrating the themes of CANADA and LITERACY. The book will be available to the children who participate in literacy programming at the Children's Reading Place throughout 2017.
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The Cover!

Here's the lovely cover of the colouring book, created by Calgary artist Chris Pecora.
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The Artists!!!

I want to give a big shout out to the wonderful artists from around Alberta who have contributed to this project! I'm really grateful to these folks who shared their talents, their book recommendations (yes!) and their thoughts about celebrating literacy on Canada's 150th birthday.

Presenting... the colouring book artists! These are the artist headshots that will be appearing in the book. Hover over the pictures for names, and click on the pictures for links to their own sites.
By the way, not all of these artists had cartoony headshots, so I drew three of these pictures myself (for Laura, Ryan, and Karen), based on photos they sent me.

And one more shout-out to our other partners on this project: Platform Design and Little Rock Printing, both based in Inglewood, and both of whom have gone above and beyond, to turn this idea into a real thing.
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That's all for now, everybody. I have to get ready for the Panel One Comic Creators' Festival! But stay tuned, pictures of the book, and more about the Children's Reading Place, coming soon!
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Calgary Expo Artbook: Stories for Canada's 150th

4/28/2017

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So, I wrote about what I'd be bringing to this year's Calgary Expo, but I saved my favourite thing for last. Every year the Expo produces a limited edition Artbook filled with work by a whole bunch of awesome contributors. Most people draw (beautiful) splash pages, but you know me, I just can't draw pictures unless there's a story. So I'm the one who always draws those weird autobiographical text-filled strips about my real-life adventures.

Last year, the Artbook theme was "Fairy Tales and Classic Monsters," which inspired me to write a strip about my experience with post-partum depression. I felt like that was going to be a tricky subject to follow up. Imagine my surprise when, this year, the theme was (again!??) ""Fairy Tales and Classic Monters!" (Why, Calgary Expo??) Anyway, this year I took that theme and picked a new focus.

It's Canada's sesquicentennial - our 150th birthday! That's the theme I'm excited about this year! So, I decided to draw some storytellers who are shaping the fairy tales, stories, and legends of this country. This was a random sampling of people I ran into in my neighbourhood, along with a few famous folks and a couple of tall tale tellers into the mix.

- Stuart McLean, revered Canadian storyteller;

- Northrop Frye, revered Canadian unscrambler of what stories are and how they're told;

- Ken Cameron, local storyteller whom I (luckily) ran into at Caffe Rosso just before I wrote this, and who gave me some ideas about what to write! (Another local storyteller, Barb Pederson, was there too, actually. Sorry Barb, I didn't draw you, but I appreciated hearing your ideas!)

- Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring, Canadian story-distorters (and yes, Pat really lived 3 doors down from me, long ago)

- The iconic Baba, CKUA's master storyteller, whose friendly voice has been spinning tales for so many Albertans through the radio waves for many years...

- Polarman, a recently-retired real-life superhero whom I met in Iqaluit long ago, and who's the recent subject of SESQUI, another sesquicentennial project.

- I'm honoured that my neighbour Nolene, whose inspiring story I recently wrote about in my Ramsay comic strip, gave me permission to include her on this list of storytellers. It's been a privilege for me to hear from her a little bit about her experience of discovering her Indigenous roots. The stories she's been telling me, and the ancient learnings she's been absorbing from her cultural community, are by no means "fairy tales," or "tall tales," by the way. These are real stories that are a necessary part of the story of Canada's 150th, despite the fact that some of them are sad stories. I wanted to include Nolene in here, because learning about stories like hers has been important to me in understanding what Canada really means, and could mean in the future.

Ok, that's all for now - time to go!
I'm going to post this without any links because I'm out of time, but I'll add them in soon! See you at the Expo!

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Independent Canadian Comics Panel at the Calgary Expo!

4/11/2017

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So here's the 1st of my 3 Things for Canada: I pitched a panel about independent Canadian comics to the Calgary Comics Expo, and it's happening!

You've heard of the Calgary Expo, right? (If not, please drop everything and take a look!)

This gigantic homegrown celebration of comics and pop culture in general, takes place on the Stampede Grounds at the end of April every year. This year, it's happening from April 27 - 30. And I'll be there!

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I'm really interested in comics that are being created and published right here in Canada, and even more if they're about Canadian stories. Right here in Calgary, there's a growing independent scene, ranging from old-timers like Damian Willcox (sorry, Damian! Guess I should probably say "creators of long-standing status" or something more dignified...) to new movements like Panel One, an independent creators' collective established in 2016.

I've been thinking a lot about contemporary comics in Canada (and in Calgary in particular), since I read back in 2016 that the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics had put out a call for papers on "The Young Canadians." They were asking, "What's happened in Canadian comics in recent years?"

I'm definitely not an expert on this subject, but I'm interested in how my own local scene has been evolving. And I thought the Calgary Expo seemed like the perfect place to have a discussion about this. So, that's part of the reason why I thought this panel might be a good idea. I am looking forward to listening and learning!

If you're coming to the Expo this year, I really hope you'll come out to hear this conversation. Right now, the Expo website still hasn't posted its programming info, but when it does, this is where you'll be able to find it. In the meantime, here's some information about our panel!

When: Saturday, April 29th,  1:15 PM - 2 PM
Where: Calgary Comics Expo, Palomino AB
What: Independent Canadian Comics, featuring the Graphic History Collective

Comics scholars Sean Carleton & Julia Smith, Winnipeg-based Bedside Press publisher and Prairie Comics Festival organizer Hope Nicholson, and indie comics creators Sam Hester & Eric Dyck, will discuss comics about real life historical & contemporary Canadian stories.

Who: Read on...!

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Julia Smith & Sean Carleton

I'd been following the work of a pretty interesting comics project called the Graphic History Collective, when I happened to go to a party at a neighbour's house in Ramsay late last year. There I met Sean and Julia, co-founders of this project and new Calgary residents!

Here's a little bit of information from the GHC website:
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Founded in 2008, the Graphic History Collective (GHC) is a group of activists, artists, writers, and researchers passionate about comics, history and social change.
We produce alternative histories - people's histories - in an accessible format to help people understand the historical roots of contemporary social issues.
Our comics show that you don't need a cape and a pair of tights to change the world.


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Hope Nicholson

Adding a splash of colour to our panel (and I'm not only referring to this lovely Twitter avatar picture by Jenn St. Onge that I lifted from Hope's Twitter account), Hope Nicholson will be joining us at the Calgary Expo!

Hope publishes Bedside Press out of Winnipeg and she's also putting together a pretty amazing independent comics event in Winnipeg this year, the Prairie Comics Festival on May 6 - 7, which I've been wishing I could attend! Maybe next year!
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Eric Dyck

I am so pleased that Eric Dyck from Lethbridge is coming up to join in this conversation. His comics about history and real life in Lethbridge (and elsewhere in Canada) are beautiful, funny, and informative. I think that I'd call what Eric is doing, "comics journalism." Does he think that's what he's doing??? This is one of the things I want to talk about in the panel. Come and find out!
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Stephanie Chan

Geek Girl Gathering organizer, techie, artist, and wearer of many hats, Stephanie Chan will be moderating our panel!
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Sam Hester

Well, you've met me.
Why should you come and listen to this panel? Well, obviously, if you’re one of those few people who’s interested in the Canadian independent comics scene, you’ll know there are only a handful of opportunities every year to find people from the field congregating to talk about this cool subject. so you won’t want to miss this.

And if you’re in the category of folks who had no idea that this was even a thing, well, then clearly this is the place you need to be, to find out more! Either way, we hope you’ll come!

And now remember: putting this panel together has been the first of my 3 Things for Canada. Stay tuned for the next two, coming soon!
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Announcing... My 3 Things for Canada! (Almost.)

4/10/2017

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I've written a little bit already about  Mayor Nenshi's 3 Things for Canada - the idea that all Canadians could use the occasion of Canada's sesquicentennial year to offer three acts of service to the country in 2017.
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I've already seen a few pretty great projects happening, and even more exciting, I've been watching this initiative spread across the country! Here are a few examples I found online, that I really liked. You can see many more by taking a look on Twitter at #3ThingsforCanada or following @3ThingsCanada.
You have to scroll through these ones, to get to mine, at the bottom!

Here are my #3ThingsforCanada! I now challenge @KennyVLimaC @ConnieJakab and @KaliYVR to do theirs and to challenge 3 friends! #canada pic.twitter.com/mFXauMxrER

— Andrew Phung (@andrewphung) February 2, 2017

Three things I want to do #mayorslunch #yyc #3thingsforcanada pic.twitter.com/ocayJWPsnT

— Achiru et al (@Achiruetal) March 22, 2017

@ayoowodunni came by my office today and is now the first person in #Guelph to pledge to do #3ThingsForCanada! Thank you! pic.twitter.com/4YqAIQJUFO

— Cam Guthrie (@CamGuthrie) March 24, 2017

So lovely to receive a #3ThingsForCanada postcard sharing the acts of service of the Highwood Senior Ladies pic.twitter.com/R9Kg134X0z

— 3 Things for Canada (@3ThingsCanada) March 8, 2017
So, what about me - what are my three things for Canada?

You know what, I really thought I was going to be able to fit these all into one blog post, but I just couldn't do it. So after all that, I'm still not going to tell you the whole story.

Instead, here are three pictures to give you three hints.

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The first one is something that'll be happening this year at the Calgary Comics Expo. That's coming up at the end of April!
The second one is something that'll be going on all year.
And the third one is something that'll be happening in May, and which is a collaboration with a whole bunch of other people.

I'll post THING #1 soon - later today, in fact! Stay tuned!

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The Storytelling Project

7/23/2016

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There is this cool organization in my city called Calgary Arts Development, which describes itself as follows:

We are a connector, facilitator, collaborator, champion, supporter, amplifier, investor, catalyst and opportunity-maker.

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From that description you can guess that their work doesn't just involve traditional support of the arts, but an active endeavour to share Calgary's creative offerings with people from all walks of life. And that's how I got to be involved in this story, as part of Calgary Arts Development's "Storytelling Project," in which local writer Stephen Hunt talked to a range of creative Calgarians about their personal versions of Calgary's arts development strategy, Living a Creative Life. The story is featured here on the Calgary Arts Development site.

I really like the idea that the city's strategy has room not only for the fine arts, but for regular folks who explore and celebrate their creativity in their own unique ways. That notion struck a chord with me, so when I was invited to draw a picture to go along with the story, that's what I drew.
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And by the way, for anyone who's interested, I thought I'd include here the "annotated version." After I drew the picture, I realized I'd put in a really random gathering of creative people (mostly my own family and friends, along with a few others who just happened to cross my mind). Just for fun, I wrote down their names, so here they are! Needless to say, it's not really an accurate cross-section of Calgary's creative population, but it'll do for a start... and I'd love to see your version of this story, too!
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Summer 2016 Catch-Up  - Part 1

7/11/2016

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These days things are always busy and I never find time to post things to my blog. Here's a rare moment of free time in which I can take a few of these images crowding up my desktop and put them up here to share with others!

Best of Calgary

At the Best of Calgary Supposium, I drew some live pictures to go along with four talks. But before the event, I made some graphics to give myself some idea about what the subject matter would be. Here are the pre-images and the live recordings too!




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The Inglewood Night Market: tonight, rain or shine!

8/14/2015

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Tonight is the Inglewood Night Market, brought to you once again by that superior team of local creative types, find it. And - the weather forecast is stormy. Why does this seem to happen to us every time? I had to write this little comic strip about how ridiculous this is getting.

To see some photos of our volunteers (most of whom have braved the elements on numerous occasions to make this super cool event happen), take a look here. Don't let the pictures fool you. I chose the sunniest pictures to trick people into thinking that coming out to volunteer for us would be a warm walk in the park. In fact, it is a really great event with wonderful people, but let's just face it, you're going to get rained on, hailed on, swept away by a windstorm, or something like that, at least once. So why pretend otherwise? Hence this little comic strip so that folks will find out the real truth about volunteering at the Night Market.
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If this tale of adventure whets your appetite for danger and excitement, feel free to show up early (say anytime starting around 3 PM) and lend a hand to the volunteers who are getting things set up. Chances are they may need extra bodies to keep the tents from blowing away. Chocolate is always good too. Or better yet, send them a note at volunteers@finditcalgary.ca and check to see if you can help out. The more umbrellas, the merrier.

In case you're wondering, the market is still on - rain or shine! So be brave! Come out. We'll see you there!


By the way - I put an asterisk next to "derring-do" because I thought I'd write a little explanation at the bottom for folks who aren't familiar with that quaintest of terms. But I forgot, so those of you who don't know what derring-do means will just have to come down to the market and find out!
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Calgary Alphabet Utility Box, Revisited

6/26/2015

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I'm just going to post a few pictures of a utility box I painted back in 2012, to show some folks an example of a comic-strip alphabet mural. These pictures are of a painted utility box on Elbow Drive in Calgary. Each of the panels is pretty small (a few inches in width/height), so there isn't room for more than a single phrase and image. Bigger panels would allow for a bit more than this.
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Mayor's Lunch for Arts Champions 2015

2/19/2015

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Right at this minute, the third annual Mayor's Lunch for Arts Champions is happening in Calgary!
I can't make it this year, but I just remembered that I wrote a blog post about last year's lunch... and then got busy and forgot to post it.
So here it is - a retrospective on last year's event. I am quite sure that what's happening at this year's lunch is equally inspiring for all the attendees. Hopefully I will make it there next time!
Now, back to work...


Last Year's Mayor's Lunch for Arts Champions 2014
I was delighted to attend the second annual Mayor's Lunch for Arts Champions last week.

This celebration of the arts in Calgary happened for the first time in February 2013 (I went with the find it team - some amazing volunteers from Inglewood & Ramsay who are currently hard at work getting ready for the 2014 Inglewood Night Markets). Here's my post about last year's Lunch.

The Mayor's Lunch happens at the BMO Centre on the Calgary Stampede grounds. Before the lunch began, everyone mingled around in the lobby enjoying performances by a bunch of youthful Calgary artists.
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When we went in for lunch, I recognized the numbers on the tables - as well as the handwritten name tags - as the work of Calgary artist Kirsten Horel. I love her lettering!

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Dave Kelly was the MC...
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For me, the best part was meeting people at the table.

There were folks from the Calgary Foundation, the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society, and Alexi, Daniel and Michelle from Studio C. I heard about this organization last year because they had a project on InvestYYC!

Thanks to CADA, all the people at my table received a copy of my comic book!

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Here's what I learned about Edward, who was also at my table:

One of today's featured Immigrants of Distinction Award finalists was Edward Perez Beltran. He was nominated for the Arts and Culture award.

Edward grew up in Valle De Santiago, located in Central Mexico.

As a child, Edward’s love of sculpture began after seeing his eldest brother playing with modeling clay, which he naturally began playing with as well. With community support, Edward gravitated towards sculpture as not just a hobby, but as a potential career. Upon finishing high school Edward travelled to Salamanca Guanajuato to study the traditional method for sculpting in wax. He was soon making a living as a wax sculptor.

In December 2011, Edward arrived in Calgary where his wife and sculpting partner, Danira Miralda, was waiting for him. At present Edward is working on a body of work that he intends to exhibit here in Calgary. It consists of nine sculptures of which five have already been completed. The work is called Dinamica Perfecta.

Congratulations, Edward!

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Behind the Scenes at the Inglewood Night Market

9/7/2014

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Are you one of the many Calgarians who've been enjoying the wonderful Inglewood Night Market? Would you like to know who's behind this unique, creative event? Here's the story of a tiny volunteer-based team that has been working around the clock to build an event that promotes fun, culture, art, local shopping and inner-city vibrancy.

It's also a story about a lot of work. This is my call for help! Read on to find out what we have been doing... and to learn how you can help keep the Inglewood Night Market alive.
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Here's a picture of our team (plus a few poets) back when we were getting started two years ago.
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The Vibrant Village Society of Inglewood & Ramsay

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Our very first meeting at the "Area" in Inglewood
Back in 2012, inspired by the fearless leadership of Inglewood resident Meg Van Rosendaal, a handful of neighbours from the inner-city Calgary communities of Inglewood and Ramsay started the non-profit "Vibrant Village Society of Inglewood & Ramsay," with the mission of bringing fun "pop-up" arts & culture events to our hoods. We called our pop-up series find it. I've written a bit about how it all got started in this blog post - check it out for more details!


By 2013, with the help of some great community partners and a few amazing arts grants, our team of five or six unpaid volunteers had put together some great events.

The Inglewood Night Markets

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Andy!!!
In 2013, our team came up with the idea of a Night Market. It seemed pretty evident that Calgarians wanted something like this! With a very short time frame, and in the midst of the 2013 flood, our tiny team managed to pull together the necessary permits to close off Inglewood's 10th Street, find a bunch of vendors who were willing to take a chance on us, and promote our event around town.

We certainly had a lot of help from neighbours and local businesses. Our amazing event partner Andy of Inglewood's Gravity Cafe loaned us $1000 up front to help us get started. The results were more than we could have imagined. People poured in. Local merchants had record nights. It was fabulous!
Now it's 2014 and our second market season is almost finished. Our September market will be the best one yet - DJ Reggie Suave, JUST DANCE on a giant screen, the Chinook Country Line Dancers, pedicabs, food trucks, and... as part of the annual Beakerhead festival, we're hosting El Pulpo Mecanico... an enormous flaming robot octopus. You don't want to miss this!!!
(Details on our website, by the way... www.finditcalgary.ca)
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Credit for this amazing photo goes to Cat Laine. Click here to see her website.

But what has to happen to make the Night Markets happen? They don't just run themselves.

What We Do

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Solita of ReWorks Upcycle Shop does our graphic design and makes our posters! Allison coordinates our volunteers. We're ALL volunteers, of course, but for a big event like the Night Market, we need a few more people to come out and help us get set up.

What kind of help do we need, you might ask?

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Setting up tents: It takes six people to set up this tent! And there are only about six of us on the whole team. That means we need husbands, wives, children, friends and neighbours to come out and lend a hand. (And they do... and they are awesome!)
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Stringing up lights: You need lights at a Night Market, and that means someone has to put them up. Here's Meg walking the walk - she doesn't just dream up creative artsy pop-up events, she also does more than her share of the heavy lifting!
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Unloading supplies and putting up signs: We do that too. And this all has to happen on the afternoon of the market. Even if it's raining. So time is of the essence!
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Coordinating vendors: Our vendors arrive on the afternoon of the market, and they appreciate having a team member there to direct them to the right spot, let them know where to park, and provide any other information they need. Our vendor coordinator David not only helps vendors on the spot, he also developed an online process which vendors can use to apply to participate in the market and get signed up. He is amazing!
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And here's Greg, who's our link to the Inglewood BRZ.
Operating heavy machinery: This is a portable light tower that gets set up at each market to shine some light on the street. It has to be assembled and taken down at each market!!!
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Decorating: Banners, chalk drawing, sandwich boards. Even if you're five years old, we'd be happy to have you come out and help us decorate!
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Guarding the exits:
10th Street SE is barricaded off, and we make sure there's always someone watching each barricade to make sure no vehicles are trying to get through while the market's happening.
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Manning the information tent: This job is always fun. So many nice folks show up to keep us company at the find it tent. This could be you!
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The Perks: We have to take everything down at the end of the night, too. That can be hard work, after a long evening. But last time we did this, a Mexican mariachi band stuck around to play for us while we took down the tents and cleaned up the street! Is there anywhere else in Calgary where you could enjoy something like this? (If there is, please tell me about it!)
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So, what can you do?

So, now that you know what we need, I know you'll want to send us a note right away to volunteers@finditcalgary.ca and sign up to come lend a hand on Friday, September 12th. But don't stop there. I hope you might also want to help us make the market happen again in 2015 and beyond. We've had an overwhelmingly positive response to the event - Calgarians love it! And we'd love to keep it going past this year. But this volunteer in particular isn't sure she'll be able to keep this up. With a job and two little kids, I just don't have the time to contribute to our team (and I haven't actually even been doing a whole lot, beyond making the find it website, doing some promotions, and helping on the day of the market).

When we started find it, we were dreaming of doing all sorts of different cool artsy creative events. This summer, we've spent most of our time running the Night Market. We did it, and we loved doing it... but, at least on a volunteer basis, we can't keep doing this forever. Would you like to help? You would? Let us know! Come talk to us at the find it tent on Friday, at what we hope won't be the last Inglewood Night Market. We need you!
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