Saturday September 29, 2012
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September 29, 2012 Window Galleries
Works by Calgary-based artists, Diana Un-Jin Cho, Nicole LeBoutillier, Aleks Rodic, Robertus van der Wege and a selection of artists from the Calgary chapter of The Canadian Bookbinder’s and Book Artist’s Guild (CBBAG).
The new exhibits showcase a variety of artistic works ranging from sculpture, photography, painting, collage and handmade books with the aim of promoting critical dialogue and to introduce patrons and passersby to new artistic practices supported by EPCOR CENTRE.
September 29, 2012
EPCOR CENTRE’s Window Galleries (across from Max Bell Theatre)
Free Website: epcorcentre.org |
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|  | Time: - / Location: Art Central -100 7th Ave SW
September 29, 2012 Opening reception with artists in attendance, Sept 6th from 6 to 8 pm.
Recent work by ACAD graduate Jean Day addressing the issues of environment and wildlife conservation as well as the human impact that is unique to Canada.
Rather than creating imitations or impressions of nature scenes, Jean utilizes natural materials found in her environments to provide the authenticity of what she is portraying, allowing the viewer to experience the natural textures, smells and values of the materials. She also uses man-made materials such as silk plant leaves and mosses to juxtapose a level of artificiality with the natural components and lend a false and ironic sense of "life".
In the series "Aviora Natura" Jean also plays on the expression "to preserve" through the use of taxidermy as well as focus on wildlife and ecological conservation. Website: www.artcentral.ca/tenants/88-studio-intent |
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|  | Time: - / Location: Mulitple venues
September 29, 2012 The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF) is a 11-day celebration of visual arts and cinema, screening over 200 multi-genre films from around the world and highlighted by a series of gala events, awards ceremonies, and special presentations. Website: https://www.calgaryfilm.com/ |
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| | Time: - / Location: The Studio at Vertigo Theatre, 161, 115 9 Ave SE
September 29, 2012 Tickets: Starting at $21.50
Troubled by his father's death and his mother's swift remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is haunted by a ghostly courier bearing an uninviting message of murder and revenge. The young prince is driven to the brink of madness as he struggles to comprehend the situation in which he finds himself and to do his duty. Many others, including Hamlet's beloved, the innocent Ophelia, are swept up in his tragedy. Shakespeare's most famous play remains one of the greatest stories in Western literature and The Shakespeare Company is honoured to bring it to our Calgary audience. Website: www.vertigotheatre.com/main/ |
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| | Time: - / Location: Studio Space, Theatre Junction GRAND, 608 1 St SW
September 29, 2012 Tickets: $25 adults, $20 students
Theatre BSMT presents Natalie Mesiner\'s play Pink Sugar: A Dark Tale of Love, Betrayal and Stolen Body Parts. This play is the trajectory of a stolen kidney, from unwilling donor to black-market buyer. It is a darkly comic story that winds into a place where ethics and morals blur.
Website: www.theatrejunction.com/event/pink-sugar-theatre-bsmt/ |
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|  | Time: 01:30 pm - 06:00 pm / Location: The Westin Calgary
September 29, 2012 The largest MBA tour hits Calgary! Top schools from all over the globe in one venue! Book online or register on the day at the door.
http://bit.ly/PGVzo4 Website: bit.ly/PGVzo4 |
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| | Time: 05:00 pm - 05:00 pm / Location: Harry Rosen, 3rd Floor TD Square
September 29, 2012 Made-To-Measure event.
Coppley's week-long Special Event offers you a unique opportunity to customize a tailored garment to your precise tastes. Choose form an exceptional array of fabrics. Specify whatever sartorial details you prefer.
A representative will be on hand Saturday September 29th. Feel free to drop in or make an appointment by calling 403 294 0992 Website: www.harryrosen.com/eng/storeLocator/redirect.cfm?sectionID=b2c/storeLocator/display.cfm&locID=4303 |
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|  | Time: 05:30 pm - 11:45 pm / Location: Olympic Plaza - 228 8 Avenue Southeast
September 29, 2012 CBC will celebrate Calgary’s selection as 2012 cultural capital of Canada with a free concert featuring High Valley, Samantha Savage Smith and the Dudes.
This special concert is hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos along with Calgary’s Eyeopener’s David Gray, and Nirmala Naidoo from CBC News Calgary at 5, 5:30 and 6.
Canadians can keep up-to-date with Culture Days on Twitter by following @CultureDays and are encouraged to join the national conversation by using the hashtag #CULTURE, and completing the sentence “#CULTURE is _______ to me”. Culture Days is also on Facebook with links and videos suggesting how Canadians can get involved and take part in their cultural community.
Culture Days takes place on Sept. 28, 29, and 30 with some 7,000 free activities in nearly 800 cities and towns across Canada – go to culturedays.ca to find activities in your community.
Website: www.culturedays.ca |
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| | Time: 07:30 pm - 10:00 pm / Location: 115 9 Avenue Southeast Calgary, AB T2P 1K1, Canada
September 29, 2012 September 8 to October 7th
Vertigo Theatre Presents
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
By James. M Cain
Adapted for the stage by David Pichette & R. Hamilton Wright
Directed by Craig Hall
September 8 – October 7, 2012
In this new stage adaptation of James M. Cain’s classic noir novel, a smooth talking insurance salesman and a gold-digging housewife cook up a scheme to murder her husband for a tempting double-indemnity payout from his policy. But when plans start changing and events spiral out of control it’s hard to know who to trust…or who is really in control.
Contact the Ticket Office at (403) 221-3708 for more information or to purchase tickets. Website: www.vertigotheatre.com |
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| | Time: 07:30 pm - 10:00 pm / Location: 220 9 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2G 5C4, Canada
September 29, 2012 Experience a powerful portrait of love and courage as a family struggles to take care of themselves through their mother’s mental-illness. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and one of the most talked-about Broadway musicals in recent years. A triumphant, heartbreaking and thrilling musical experience.
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You’ve come to expect the unexpected at Theatre Calgary. Now, we kick off our season with one of the great, new, award-winning, rock musicals. This powerful show will seep into your bones – its ideas will make your heart race, and relating to these characters will bring you to tears. Website: theatrecalgary.com/plays/next_to_normal/more_info/ |
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|  | Time: 08:00 pm - 10:30 pm / Location: Jack Singer Concert Hall
September 29, 2012 A part of their 'Pops' series the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra plays the music of Chicago, Journey, Doobie Brothers and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Website: www.cpo-live.com/main/event_detail.php?event_id=588 |
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| | Time: 09:00 am - 04:30 pm / Location: Olympic Plaza
September 29, 2012 To celebrate Culture Days during our year as the Cultural Capital of Canada, we invite all Calgarians to join us in a day of creative play, culminating in the filming of a music video featuring our Cultural Capital theme song "Sweet City Woman".
In keeping with the spontaneous quality of the lip dub format, the finished product will involve large numbers of Calgarians from all walks of life (and even a few celebrity guests) and will demonstrate the unique character of our city.
Bring your family down to Olympic Plaza and take part in creating culture in Calgary.
Website: calgary2012.com/whats-happening/calendar/month/calgary-2012-celebrations |
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| | Time: 10:00 am - 04:00 pm / Location: Various locations throughout Calgary
September 29, 2012 Doors Open YYC - DO YYC Naked is a city-wide event that invites people to experience buildings and spaces that have never been shared before.
For two days, the public is granted access to 35 different venue for tours and events to get to know Calgary in a way that has never been possible before.
Free! Fun! Family-friendly!
Website: www.doorsopenyyc.org |
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|  | Time: 10:00 am - 04:00 pm / Location: Near Calgary Telus Convention Centre
September 29, 2012 Girl Guides will be out selling their mint cookies. |
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| | Time: 10:00 am - 07:00 pm / Location: Arts Learning Centre, Centre Court, EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts
September 29, 2012 Costume Sale
Imagine what it would be like to shop in a theatre company’s closet? Join us in the lobby of the Martha Cohen Theatre at EPCOR CENTRE and be amazed at the treasures you will find on the racks. From hats and shoes to vintage and retro items, we have it all!
September 29, 10 am to 7 pm
Cash only
Arts Learning Centre, Centre Court, EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts Website: epcorcentre.org |
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| | Time: 11:00 am - 03:00 pm / Location: Jack Singer Concert Hall Lobby, EPCOR CENTRE for the performing Arts, 205 - 8th ave SE
September 29, 2012 Behind-the-Scenes Tours
Tour the Centre and experience the Jack Singer Concert Hall and its 6,040 pipe Carthy Organ; the Max Bell Theatre, the Martha Cohen Theatre; and much more! Cameras and questions welcome; please wear comfortable footwear. Tour subject to change.
In partnership with Doors Open Calgary
Tours start in the Jack Singer Concert Hall foyer on the hour from 11 am to 3 pm.
FREE Website: www.epcorcentre.org/ |
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| | Time: 11:00 am - 11:30 am / Location: Stephen Avenue - Centre Street
September 29, 2012 Join us in the kickoff for Senior Centres Week as seniors from all over Calgary join us in a flash mob. Website: www.healthyliving50plus.ca |
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| | Time: 12:00 pm - 01:15 pm / Location: Lunchbox Theatre, 160 - 115 9th Avenue SE
September 29, 2012 The Bob Shivery Show
A World Premiere Comedy
by David Sealy
September 10 - 29, 2012
When the girl of Bob Shivery’s dreams moves to Alberta to take up with an oil man, Bob decides to win her back, fair and square, and heads out on a dangerous and magical journey.
SHOWTIMES:
Monday to Saturday at 12:10 pm
"Happy Hour" Fridays at 6:10 pm
"Date Night" Saturdays at 7:30 pm
Website: www.lunchboxtheatre.com/the-bob-shivery-show.html |
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| | Time: All Day Event / Location: EPCOR CENTRE’s Rehearsal Hall (access from Stage Door, 9th Avenue)
September 29, 2012 La Nostalgia Remix: Solid Gold
La Nostalgia Remix is a series of live performances by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and James Luna, joined by local Blackfoot artist Terrance Houle, that explore the cultural, symbolic and iconographic dimensions of nostalgia both on the Native American "rez" and in the Chicano "barrio." Presented in partnership with Truck Contemporary Art, the Indigeneity Artist Collective Society and Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival (M:ST). This piece is an anthology of past and recent work in the form of a live art record album. Performing within the architecture of a Long House, the artists challenge the audience to move, groove and experience the performance actions from multiple perspectives and “git down” to participate in the celebration. They are joined by curator, producer and cowgirl performance artist Heather Haynes who has been on tour with them for the past three years.
EPCOR CENTRE’s Rehearsal Hall (access from Stage Door, 9th Avenue)
Free Website: www.epcorcentre.org/ |
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| | Time: All Day Event / Location: EPCOR CENTRE’s Ledge Gallery (+15 Centre Court)
September 29, 2012 LEDGE Gallery
The 90kmh Economy Drive by Dick Averns
The artist creates a sculptural and performative installation featuring depictions of Canada’s gasoline and energy consumption, statistics on driving speeds, and details on how to participate in the 90kmh Economy Drive.
EPCOR CENTRE’s Ledge Gallery (+15 Centre Court)
Free
Exhibition continues until November. Website: epcorcentre.org |
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| | Time: All Day Event / Location: THE UAS +15 GALLERY - 205 8 Avenue SE, Calgary
September 29, 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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| | Time: All Day Event / Location: Downtown Calgary
September 29, 2012 Alberta's largest celebration of our artistic sector, heritage, cultural diversity and provincial pride is now Alberta Culture Days. Last year, thousands of Albertans participated in 1,046 events in 93 communities.
Now is the time to start thinking about planning events for 2012. Don’t forget to mark September 28 - 30 in your calendar! All communities, artists and arts organizations, schools, libraries, museums, historic sites, culture and recreation facilities, and individual Albertans are all encouraged to join the celebration. Website: www.culture.alberta.ca/events/default.aspx |
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