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Saturday August 25, 2012
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August 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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: 09:00 am - 05:30 pm / Location: 130 9 Avenue Southeast
August 25, 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: 12:00 pm - 01:00 pm / Location: Stephen Avenue Walk near the corner of 2nd Street SW
August 25, 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: 12:00 pm - 10:00 pm / Location: Eau Claire Plaza (3rd Street & Riverfront Avenue S.W.)
August 25, 2012
Ticket Price:
FREE Admission
Event Description:
What is FOUR +
This Festival intends to showcase Local Independent Artists/Groups within the Urban Subculture, while allowing Calgarians to explore the roots of Hip Hop and its Evolution.
Four +, different from most, aims to provide Free Family Fun and allow people of all ages to try their hand at each of the four fundamentals of Hip Hop.
It incorporates artists in all four elements including; The MC (Spoken Word), the DJ (Music Creation & Production), the B-Boy or Break Dancer and the Graffiti Artist. The focus is not only to bring community together, but to support local art!
Please find out more at www.fourplus.ca.
2012 Highlights
• Nyemiah Supreme, female Rapper & Dancer, will be coming to FOUR + straight from New York City for a FREE Performance and Keynote speech on “life as” and “how to make it” as a professional artist
• An All-Styles Dance Competition will be judged by 3 international dancers Kid David, Honey Rockwell & Sweepy. The winner of the competition will receive a $1000 cash prize
What can you find on the Grounds?
• Community Food and Artisan Vendors
• Beer Gardens
• 2 Workshop Tents:
o The first tent is occupied by Beat Drop (http://www.beatdrop.ca/) showing people and letting them try their hand at music production
o The Second tent contains rotating workshops of Capoeira Camara (www.camaracalgary.com), break dance (www.pulsestudios.ca), song-writing lessons and more.
• Pop-up Performers doing performances throughout the day around the sight (similar to that of a busker)
• Visual Graffiti Art will be on display throughout the grounds provided by local artists and organized by the Creators of Visual Orgasm (www.visualorgasm.com)
Website: www.fourplus.ca/ |
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| | Time: All Day Event / Location: Prince's Island Park
August 25, 2012 Western Canada's largest latin festival.
Celebrating it's 16th anniversary.
Creating experiences of discovery and learning through the celebration of people, music and dance.
Artist Line-up:
Chilean Superstar, “AMERICO”
World’s #1 Merengue Band, “GRUPO MANIA”
International Latin Orchestra, “LOS HERMANOS FLORES”
International MARIACHI BAND and SO MUCH MORE!
Join us on Friday as we kick start Expo Latino 2012 with Salsa Fever featuring performances from:
The evolution of Cuban Music,
“CHARANGA HABANERA”
Cuban Reggaetonero, “EL CHACAL”
Juno award winner, “RUMBA CALZADA”
Canada’s top dance company,
“SALSA RICA” Website: www.expolatino.ca/ |
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| | Time: All Day Event / Location: HG2 in the CORE
August 25, 2012 When you spend more than $200 or purchase any pair of regularly priced jeans at HG2 you will be entered to win a $2500 shopping spree! Website: www.hg2clothing.com/ |
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| | Time: All Day Event / Location: THE UAS +15 GALLERY - 205 8 Avenue SE, Calgary
August 25, 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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