Friday August 10, 2012
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August 10, 2012 Our popular beading activity is back! Learn traditional Blackfoot beadwork designs by using tabletop looms to create your own beaded artwork.
Visit the Blackfoot Gallery: Niitsitapiisinni: Our way of Life to see how symbols are used by the First Nations Peoples of Alberta. Website: www.glenbow.org |
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| | Time: - / Location: Glenbow Museum, 130 9 Ave SE
August 10, 2012 Discover the pioneers of Alberta in Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta by following the clues of our exploration guide. Pick up your activity sheet in the ARC Discovery Room and trade it in once it's completed for a cool decal. Perfect for family visits! Website: www.glenbow.org |
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| | Time: - / Location: Glenbow Museum, 130 9 Ave SE
August 10, 2012 Be inspired by Shayne Dark's captivating works and create a branchy, twisted and brightly coloured sculpture. Let nature inspire the movements and shapes of your scuplture. Website: www.glenbow.org |
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|   | Time: 05:00 pm - 05:00 pm / Location: Murrieta's Bar & Grill- 808 1st Street SW
August 10, 2012 Calgary's freshest culinary celebration! A festival that encompasses eveything tomato! Join us for our annual Tomato Festival at Murrieta's. Our Chef's have prepared a unique menu, showcasing one of the industry's most under appriciated ingredient. Call 403.269.7707 or visit our website for reservations today. Website: www.murrietas.ca |
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| | Time: 05:00 pm - 10:00 pm / Location: EPCOR CENTRE
August 10, 2012 Runs August 8th - 17th
Opening reception August 9th
what is Papergirl?
Papergirl is an art project from Berlin.
It has now grown into an international worldwide art distribution phenomenon.
Art should be accessible to everyone.
That is the spirit behind Papergirl: a pedal-powered, volunteer based,
community oriented art project
Papergirl redefines “street-art”. It also questions where the value and meaning
lies in art: within the object itself, within its symbolic narrative, its
economic prowess, its historical context and so on, and so forth.
What happens in a Papergirl project?
A call for 2D artworks is made to the local community where the project is based
The artworks are collected and subsequently, every single work that was
submitted is exhibited
The works are then rolled up, and delivered by Papergirls to the unsuspecting
public a.k.a. the local community.
The Results of Papergirl?
Artists gain the opportunity to exhibit their work in a local gallery, as well
as have their work eventually given to a new collector. Papergirls get some
great exercise and smiles due to their hard delivery work. Volunteers get the
chance to work with fellow artists, and get involved in their local community.
Hundreds of people make and receive art.
It’s the art of giving away art. Website: papergirlcalgary.tumblr.com/whatispapergirl |
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|  | Time: 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm / Location: Prince's Island Park
August 10, 2012 June 27th - August 10th (Showing Wednesday - Sunday)
Shakespeare in the Park will return to free public performances with a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Prince’s Island Park. Each year, the acting company will benefit from working with a professional director with experience working with Shakespeare. This year, the director will be Michael Shamata, the artistic director of Victoria’s Belfry Theatre, who is renowned for his outdoor productions of the Bard in Canada.
A Midsummer Night's Dream will run from June 27 – August 11, 2012. Showtimes (weather permitting) are Wednesdays – Sundays at 7:00pm, with added weekend matinees at 2:00pm (Note: June 30, July 1 only @ 7:00pm; No performances week of July 23). Admission is free. A Midsummer Night's Dream is suitable for all ages. Website: www.facebook.com/pages/Shakespeare-in-the-Park-Calgary/276613367329 |
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|  | Time: 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm / Location: Central Branch, Calgary Public Library
August 10, 2012 When you pen your lyrics, what do you write about? When you paint your canvas, what is the image? If you’re passionate about a social issue, can you separate it from your art? Should you? Many Afrikadey! performers ask themselves these questions as they straddle the line between artist and activist.
Come to the Central Branch of the Calgary Public Library (616 Macleod Trail SE) to hear what Emmanuel Jal, Oliver Mtukudzi (via recorded video), Dele Sosimi, Vincent Joachim, and Beatrice Byakika have to say about Artivism: the inclusion of social activism into artistic practice.
Tickets are free. Join the discussion and get involved.
Website: www.afrikadey.com |
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| | Time: 09:00 am - 05:30 pm / Location: 130 9 Avenue Southeast
August 10, 2012 July 14th - September 3
Critical Mass is an exhibition of recent sculpture by Ontario-based artist Shayne Dark, whose works exploit the tensions between the natural and the manmade with intriguing results.
The exhibit includes seven sculptures, including four freestanding works collectively known as Critical Mass. Website: www.glenbow.org |
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|  | Time: 11:00 am - 02:00 pm / Location: Near The Bay
August 10, 2012 Supported by Calgary 2012, Momentum Dance Collective presents Coalesce: A Cause To Grow Together. Featuring music by Matt Blais, live visual art creation by Sarah Curts, and abstract and colorful living statues by Momentum Dance Collective, Coalesce highlights Calgary’s landscape, people and culture in a multi-disciplinary performance. See the link between three distinct artistic genres brought together under one theme. |
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|  | Time: 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm / Location: Stephen Avenue Trolley Stage
August 10, 2012 Once again transforming historic Stephen Avenue into a dance floor, Afrikadey! invites you to come take in the music of Beatrice Byakika and other artists as they bring you deeply rooted grooves and rhythms guaranteed to make your hips move. Website: www.afrikadey.com |
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| | Time: 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm / Location: Stephen Avenue Walk near the corner of 2nd Street SW
August 10, 2012 Each Thursday in August
In partnership with the Calgary Downtown Association, NMC sets Stephen Avenue to music with this summer busker performance program. Performing on a restored, one-of-a-kind, NMC branded piano, musicians rock 8th Avenue, providing a soundtrack for the vibrant noon-hour scene on one of Calgary's favourite promenades.
Website: www.nmc.ca |
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| | Time: All Day Event / Location: Stephen Avenue Walk
August 10, 2012 Come join us on Stephen Avenue and cheer on Team Canada! Starting with the Opening Ceremonies on July 27th, and for 17 days straight days, our Stephen Avenue Celebration Site will feature CTV’s coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games! Calgarians are encouraged to watch FREE coverage on a massive state of the art LED screen.
Capture the spirit with the Calgary International Pin Club that will be set up daily from 11:00 am to 2:00pm to trade, buy and sell collectable pins. Come and talk to a knowledgeable member about your collection.
For the complete Stephen Avenue Celebration Site broadcast schedule, daily special events and the location of the screen check out www.downtowncalgary.com/celebration.
Website: www.downtowncalgary.com/celebration. |
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| | Time: All Day Event / Location: THE UAS +15 GALLERY - 205 8 Avenue SE, Calgary
August 10, 2012 Exhibition Runs: August 8th to September 30th, 2012
Closing Reception: September 20th, 7 - 8pm
Artist Talk: August 30th at 7pm (at UAS Satellite Gallery)
Stack Mimetics enacts it’s presence through applied surfaces and expressed materiality. Exploring the cultural logic of mimesis within the sphere of sub-cultural identification, the work is manifested as selected woodland camouflage patterns, applied with specific technical processes onto composite materials and aggregated into stacks. Alluding to the notion of “fitting in”, whether it be into the terrific/terrifying natural Alberta wilderness or into the subsequent aesthetics of one’s own branded identity, Stack Mimetics presents the opportunity for reflection into how we chose to mimic the objects and entities that surround us, and the cultural logic of mimesis and camouflage as it is derived from the basis of an archaic survival process.
Artist Bio:
Stephen Nachtigall is a Calgary based artist whose work focuses on the contemporary paradox of the actual and the virtual from his point of view as a “Net Native” and also a native to the foothills of the Alberta Rockies. After studying sculpture and completing his BFA at the Alberta College of Art & Design in 2011, Stephen has been establishing his practice within the Calgary arts community, participating in group exhibitions such as BYOB Calgary, Return to The Dollhouse for the Truck Gallery, and The Works at Untitled Arts Society. His work has also seen online exposure on blogs and websites such as vvork.com. Some of his most recognized achievements include an installation entitled Electric Lettuce at Sled Island in June 2011 as well as receiving the Board of Governors award during his time at ACAD.
Website: www.facebook.com/events/341666355909490/ |
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