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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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The Pirates of Penzance

8/25/2013

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I was lucky enough today to take in Calgary Opera's boisterous  pop-up performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance in the East Village. My grandfather was a big fan of Gilbert & Sullivan, so not only did his children grow up hearing their music, I did too. It's some of the music that's permanently stored in my head - in fact, I may be the only person who ever performed a song from The Pirates of Penzance at the Ship & Anchor's open jam (and that's probably just as well).

As soon as I took my seat at the piratical operatic tent, I wished I'd brought my sketchbook so that I could draw some pictures of the whole experience. A bit later, I decided I was glad just to enjoy the show. However, some of the things I would have liked to draw were: the view of the C-Train rolling across the Bow River overpass just behind the performers; the shadows of seagulls skimming above, seen through the roof of the tent; the fact that the music playing through the speakers in the adjacent fancy port-a-potties was the Papageno/Papagena duet from Die Zauberfloete (you've just gotta love that!); and the faces of the audience, some of whom were clearly longtime fans (like myself) and others who were cracking up at W. S. Gilbert's lyrics for the first time.

Some folks may not realize how deeply those lyrics have permeated western culture. For example, I love the fact that famous sci-fi author Isaac Asimov was crazy about Gilbert & Sullivan, and actually couldn't resist slipping a few lyrics into his works of fiction. It's somewhere in the Foundation series (all my books are in boxes right now, or I'd go dig it up for ya), in which he writes that someone has "journeyed for a month, or nearly..." - clearly a nod to Nanki-Poo's line in The Mikado: "So, have I journeyed for a month, or nearly/To find that Yum-Yum, whom I love so dearly..." (Well, I've never confirmed that, but there's no doubt in my mind. Anyway, how could you confirm that?) Another (more well-known) instance of this music finding a place in popular culture, is "The Elements," a really incredible spinoff of the Major-General's fast-paced tongue-twister of a song (from "Pirates") which was written and performed by satirist Tom Lehrer. And of course anyone who's read Margaret Mahy can tell that she grew up steeped in Gilbert & Sullivan - and here's my homage to that (she actually sang "The Elements" the one time I met her in person.) Ok, but I digress, as usual.

I drew some pictures of The Pirates in the Drawing Book - on my 23rd birthday, apparently (a long time ago). Seeing the performance today made me want to dig them up:

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Right now it's kind of funny to think of a 23-year-old reflecting on how the "moments quickly die." Seems like they're going a lot faster now than they were then!
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It was fun to see Michelle Minke of Cowtown Opera wonderfully well cast in the role of Edith (the rather exuberant sister) in "Pirates." Here's a picture of Michelle wowing the crowd back at our Ramsay "find it" event, "Opera on Scotsman's Hill," in 2012 (a rather less ambitious pop-up event than a full-scale opera in a tent... but very fun nonetheless!)

Most of all, it was fun to see a major opera company having so much fun. (If you don't believe me, check out the URL when you click on the link to Calgary Opera's Pirates of Penzance page.) I hope this Opera in the Village thing becomes an annual tradition!

I have to go to bed now, but you can bet these rollicking melodies will be the last thing that go through my head before I fall asleep. Good night!

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Find out about "find it"

7/7/2013

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There's a new find it pop-up event happening soon: the Inglewood Night Market, on July 12th (this Friday!).

It will be followed by another market on Friday, August 9th and one more on Friday, September 13th.

So I thought it was time I wrote a bit about find it.

It all started back in November of 2011 when Calgary arts activist and all-around mover & shaker Meg Van Rosendaal invited residents of Inglewood and Ramsay to to talk about the potential for creative collaboration in our neighbourhoods. Meg could see that there was a wealth of creative talent in the two neighbouring hoods, and she felt that there was an opportunity to turn that into something more!

Meg also had her eye on the upcoming Calgary 2012 designation of the city as one of Canada's "Cultural Capitals" - a city that would be eligible for funding, promotion, and general celebration of the arts. How could we be part of that?

Here's a picture I took at that first meeting, hosted by the AREA in Inglewood - an awesome spot that we hope will be back in business soon!

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A few of us crazy local folks - I mean, adventurous creative thinkers - came to the meeting, and then came to a few more. At the time, I was just starting to emerge from the round-the-clock sleepless life of a new parent, and just looking for something fun and not too ambitious that I could do in my own neighbourhood. Little did I know I'd be drawn into a wild world of community arts activity!

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And we definitely had a lot of ideas.

Here's the first thing we did - well, after applying for (and receiving) a wonderful grant from Calgary 2012, by the way!




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Out of our discussions we came up with a concept that we thought could accommodate many different artists, arts supporters, and neighbours in general: the idea of "pop-up" arts and culture events that could take place in our neighbourhoods on a year-round basis, surprising and delighting folks from around here, and bringing audiences from the rest of the city into our "vibrant village."

To do this all officially, we formed a non-profit society with the fancy name of the Vibrant Village Society of Inglewood & Ramsay. But the name we came up with for our pop-up series is a bit catchier: find it. So you can just think of us as the find it team.

In case you don't know what a "pop-up" is, it's a (usually) temporary installation or event that pops up unexpectedly in an everyday setting, with the intent of delighting, surprising and/or otherwise enriching the environment! (Well, I just made that definition up, but hopefully you get the idea.)


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Cowtown Opera on the Hill

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You can find out more about this event (and the other pop-ups in this post) on the find it website.
Here in Calgary, in case you don't know, there's a big festival called the Stampede, which (among other things) puts on a big fireworks display every night for ten nights running in July. And a lot of folks come and sit on the top of Scotsman's Hill in Ramsay (so named because of the thrifty-minded Scottish folks who apparently would sit up there to get a free view of the show) to watch the fireworks.

Well, we thought, there's a ready-made audience just sitting around waiting for a show to start! So we brought them a pre-fireworks pop-up last summer, as our first event. Performers from Cowtown Opera appeared to surprise and delight the folks on the hill!


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By the way, have you been wondering who designed those fabulous red find it signs? And our logo?

Team member Solita Work of ReWorks Upcycle Shop in Inglewood. She's our graphic design master, among other things.

For example, she put together this poster for our next event, the New Street Spoken Word Safari.

The brainchild of local poet Roberta McDonald, this event consisted of a parade of poets performing custom-written pieces about one of Inglewood's most iconic streets. I have to confess, I am actually not usually a fan of this kind of thing. But this was awesome.

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The New Street Spoken Word Safari

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By now, something else was going on... the find it team was starting to feel like a real group! Some of didn't know each other at all, when this got off the ground. But we were starting to feel a bit like a little family... or at least, like a group of conspirators.

You're wondering who else is on the team, right? Here are a few more of us:
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Darcy and Greg from Inglewood's DaDe Art & Design Lab - who I think just singlehandedly co-ordinated the whole neighbourhood's flood relief effort from their gallery home base; arts & culture fan Sharon Barrette, who happens to be (almost) my aunt; me; and a few others who I don't have pictures of, but I wish I did.

Food in Shorts: Full Moon Movie Night at the Ramsay Rink

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What came next? Well, what else would you do if you had an empty outdoor covered rink, a giant screen, a perfect full moon night and a pair of local Oscar-nominated filmmakers? You'd do this, of course: curate a free short film fest for Calgarians to come out and watch - with instructions that they had to bring their own flashlights and lawn chairs. Live music, snacks, and an incredible lantern-lighting party topped off the night.
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The 23rd Avenue Artwalk & Street Celebration

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By now, this just seemed like the perfect opportunity to partner up with find it to do something I'd been secretly longing to do - help transform my little street into a temporary public art gallery for a day! This was so much fun. I've already written a whole bunch about the 23rd Avenue Artwalk & Street Celebration here, so here are just a few pictures.

Should we do this again this year? That's something I've been wondering. I kind of think it might have been a one-time serendipitous event. I guess we'll have to see.


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The Inglewood Night Market

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Which brings us to this year's new pop-up: the Inglewood Night Market.

Calgarians like to stay up late. And there was the perfect little street to close off and fill up with artisans, local merchants, food, live music, and fun. So that's what we did, just a month ago in June 2013. It was pouring rain... but it was still packed with night owls who seemingly had just been aching for an outdoor gathering place to stroll around, shop, and mingle.

So we're doing it three more times... starting this Friday!

Too bad I don't yet have a bunch of pictures from our jam-packed first market to give you a better idea. This will have to do for now.
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By now, our team had been joined by local food blogger and CBC Radio personality Julie Van Rosendaal, as well as by Andy, cheerful proprietor of Inglewood hot spot Gravity Espresso & Wine Bar. With what's become the trademark combination of a whole range of skill sets, personalities and crazy ideas, the find it team has been working to put together the next incarnation of the Inglewood Night Market for this Friday, July 12th.

It'll feature dozens of local merchants and artists, a whole lot of food, including food trucks and street fare courtesy of our neighbours at BITE Groceteria, live performances by local musicians Matt Masters with Craig McCaul, as well as the Rick Climans Jazz Group... and more, of course. The market starts at 6 PM and goes till midnight.

You can find out more about all this stuff on the find it website, www.finditcalgary.ca (so it's actually pretty silly that I decided to re-cap it all here, to tell you the truth... especially when I should have been putting up some more details about the upcoming Night Market, on the find it website! Well, I'll have to do that tomorrow - so stay tuned)!

Meanwhile, I just thought a little bit of back story about who we are and why we're doing this and what it's all about, might be a good idea. And fun. This has all been so much fun!!!

And that's enough about that... for now.
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See you at the
Night Market!

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Imagine Calgary

3/19/2013

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I've had this cool group of local visionaries on my radar since 2007 or 8, when I first heard of "Plan It Calgary." That visioning process has evolved into the imagineCALGARY of today (follow that link to see their lovely new website). But I've always been watching from the sidelines since I was (first) usually out of town, and (later) always at home being a new mom.

Well, now that my son is four years old, I can actually find a little free time now and then to get out and participate in these exciting conversations. I was really looking forward to attending my first imagineCALGARY event this morning. I imagined myself talking with grown-ups about far-sighted, complicated visions, and most of all, enjoying a change of pace from my usual life at home building train tracks with my four-year-old. It's a bit ironic that one of the big selling points of this particular event was that we'd get to play with Lego. Honestly, if I never see any Lego again, I'd probably be ok with that. At least it wasn't train tracks!

Joking aside (the Lego was fun), this was an awesome crowd of thinkers and doers. The opportunity to learn about what they've been up to, and what they want to do next, was inspiring. Here are my sketchnotes:
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I was drawn to Bob Miller's suggestion that everyday citizens could engage their neighbourhood spaces with simple activities such as front-yard gardening. This idea reminded me of the 23rd Avenue Artwalk & Street Celebration I helped to organize on my street in Ramsay last year: an event that grew out of a desire to share and showcase the creative talents of a street full of neighbours.

Our one-day event certainly convinced me that getting neighbours out on their front lawns is a great way to forge connections, make streetscapes more lively and lovely, and enjoy all sorts of excellent long-lasting "by-products" into the bargain (neighbourhood safety... friendships... inspiration... not to mention a line on local vegetables, if your neighbours happen to be the Leaf Ninjas). Anyway, I joined this group of thinkers who were working on building a lego model of what our "living sidewalks" (enlivened by gardens, art and general neighbourhood creativity). Here's Mike Fotheringham showing the street we designed.
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It's a cul-de-sac that features a painted street, gardens and art installations in front yards, as well as all sorts of other front-yard features to entice visitors over: a bench, a firepit, a gazebo, and an empty lot featuring a tire filled with potatoes. Oh, and some chickens - or at least, a representational chicken leg.
Our group discussion unearthed other ways to engage our street- and sidewalkscapes:

Pop-Ups (shameless plug: take a look at find it!)
Home business ventures, from lemonade stands to yard sales to craft fairs
Street festivals
Firepits for chilly evenings (with hot chocolate for neighbours who stop by)
"Little Free Libraries"
Water tanks & rain barrels for watering gardens
Public art (for some great homegrown examples courtesy of Calgary is Awesome, see here)
(And by the way, public art can sometimes serve a purpose as well as plain old street beautification: witness the Painted Utility Box Program and Sunalta's muralized pedestrian crossing)

Good things about this kind of engagement:
It doesn't have to cost a lot
It doesn't (have to) require jumping through a lot of bureaucratic hoops
It can have great side-effects (traffic calming; crime prevention; neighbourhood networking; creative inspiration; healthy outdoor activity... the list is endless!)
And... it can get people (such as elderly folks) engaged, who wouldn't usually have that kind of opportunity

If you need more inspiration about this kind of thing, look no further than this TED Talk by Jason Roberts of Austin, Texas, in case you haven't heard about his brilliant "Better Blocks."

Well - our group of imagineCALGARIANS talked about staying in touch in order to make something happen on our own streetscapes. Stay tuned! I'll let you know what we come up with!

Thanks, imagineCALGARY, for a great morning. And now back to the train tracks.

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Calgary is Awesome at the artwalk

1/7/2013

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Can you believe it, the wonderful folks at Calgary is Awesome wrote this great photo essay about our 23rd Avenue Artwalk & Street Celebration, and I didn't even know about it until recently! I will have to put this lovely montage up on the artwalk site. But for now I'm just putting it here because it is so nice. Thanks a million, CIA!


A COMMUNITY THAT CARES:
Last weekend the community of Ramsay exploded at the seams with great art and I got to take some of it in on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Known as the Artists’ Avenue, 23rd Ave SE in Ramsay threw open its doors, lawns and garages for an epic art stroll last weekend. Everyone was so friendly and more than happy to share their passions for art and gardening with everyone who came by.
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Photos by Amy Jo Espetveidt, Quadrophonic Image

1. Vienna, 6-years-old, shows off her artwork. 2. Everyone gathers to chat and share. 3. Brenda Taylor’s Taylor Made Glass. 4. Laurie & Jack the 23rd Ave Resident Scientists display their work. 5. San Gimigniano by Sam Hester. 6. Paintings by Matthew Page-Hanify. 7. Sam Hester Comics. 8. Sierra Love ROBOTS! 9. Artwork at the Leaf Ninjas’ table. 10. Painting by Mariah David. 11. Ceramics by Andrew Tarrant. 12. A couple checks out the Leaf Ninjas’ table. 13. Filmmaker Andrea Mann plays her work. 14. Knitting & Yarn-Dying by Franki Morgan-Fenemore. 15. Heather Stump’s Printmaking. A whole rundown on the artists and artisans that took part can be found here.
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Binzento Vincente on 23rd Avenue

10/18/2012

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Excited to report that Calgary arts & fashion blogger Vincent Law posted a review of our recent 23rd Avenue Artwalk on his acclaimed blog Binzento Vincente. I happened to meet Vincent at an ArtPoint opening this summer and told him about our upcoming artwalk. Not only did he come by to soak up some Ramsay-style creativity, he also did two other things that made me really happy.

1. He took some really awesome photos of our event. I'm so pleased about this because we were missing a few pictures of some of our artists, and now we have a bit more evidence that the artwalk really did take place! And:

2. He wrote in his blog: "I found a hidden gem in YYC few weeks ago. 23rd Ave SE location lies the homes of artists. Officially I can call it the most artsy part of town..." Wow! This is high praise from someone who spends a fair bit of time chronicling Calgary's arts & fashion scene. I've taken the liberty of posting one of Vincent's photos here, but be sure to take a look at his blog to read the rest of the review and see the pictures. Scroll down the page a little bit - the first event on the page is Vincent's review of another Calgary arts event, opening night at the Glenbow Museum's exhibition, Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination. Thanks, Vincent!

 

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Graphic Recording Workshop

9/29/2012

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I had the chance yesterday to participate in a really eye-opening workshop that was put together by Bowness-based Conscious Brands. Kara Stonehouse of AHA! Graphic Facilitation was in town to tell Calgarians about a unique job that's increasingly in demand. "Graphic recording" means creating a live illustrated summation or record of an event like a board meeting or workshop. ...


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Thank you!

9/25/2012

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Thanks so much to everyone who helped to make our 23rd Avenue day a great success! Honestly, I'm still recovering from all the hard work and fun that went into our day. I'm looking forward to writing about it, though, so watch this space. For now, please take a look at our newly-posted photo gallery. I hope to add a few more pictures here, too, at some point soon. See you on the avenue!

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Coming out of the Woodwork...

9/20/2012

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Only a couple of days before the artwalk, and a few new artists have just signed up to take part! This is a bit of a whirlwind but so exciting. Take a look at our list of artists and artisans to find out a bit about photographer Rob Caleffi and Three Left Feet Movement Creations. A few more 23rd Avenue neighbours... who just happen to be creative artists too! And believe it or not, there are a couple more as well. Even I didn't know that there were so many artists on this short street, when this all began! Doesn't this make you wonder about what kind of cool stuff is going on behind the closed doors on your own street?
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Calgary is Awesome!

9/17/2012

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Check out this wonderful write-up of our upcoming event that was published today in Calgary is Awesome's "Calgary Arts Round Up" for the week of Sept. 17th- 23rd!

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Come out for the 23rd Avenue Artwalk
It’s known as the Artists’ Avenue, 23rd Ave SE in Ramsay is only two blocks long but the 51 houses are homes to artists and craftspeople.
On September 22, from 11am to 5pm, the community is opening its doors for the 23rd Avenue Artwalk and Street Celebration where the street will be transformed into an outdoor arts and crafts gallery. The printmakers, knitters, visual artists, bakers, glassblowers, filmmakers, dancers and musicians will host it all along their porches and front lawns. Many are decorated with original pieces of work, including custom painted front doors like the Piscasso-like one by Matthew Page-Hanify. Plus, the area is known for some of the most beautiful gardens in the city. They even got a grant from Calgary 2012 to make this happen but had so much volunteer and community support that they’re going to be awarding it down the line to a project that will benefit the street and the community at large.
The walk will coincide with the Eastside studio crawl and the community hopes to incise participants to travel the extra block further to 23rd Avenue.

                                                                -Amy Jo Espetveidt, Quadrophonic Image


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