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Thursday, September 2 2010

The Broken World of John Will

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Venue / Location:
Glenbow Museum -130 9 Avenue SE

Repeats every day until Sun Nov 14 2010 .
21 Aug 2010 (All day)

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Ticket Price:
Adult (18+) $14, Senior (65+) $10, Student (with valid ID) $9, Youth (ages 7-17) $9, Family (2 adults, up to 4 youth) $28, Child (Ages 6 and under) Free, Glenbow Museum Members -- Free!

Event Description:

The irreverent and irrepressible John Will is highly regarded as an important and influential Canadian artist. He works in a tradition of artists who are satirical, subversive and sometimes slanderous in their critique of society from Hogarth and Daumier to Ensor and William Wiley. He brings formidable wit to the subjects of sex, war, racism, religion, mortality, sport, anxiety, rock and roll, the economy, celebrity culture, the art world, bizarre events, alien landings and personal hygiene. He mixes them up in topical concoctions that can be acerbic, even rude, and labyrinthine in their narrative and conceptual complexity.

The Broken World of John Will, featuring mostly lithographs, was selected from Glenbow's extensive collection of Will's art to highlight the way he cuts up snippets of a fractured world from the front line of experience and knits them together. Between 1962 and 1980, he produced over 100 prints, each of them a labour-intensive work packing a barrage of ideas and demonstrating his technical prowess as a printmaker. He shifted his focus to video, photography, performance and painting when he decided that his first comprehensive exhibition of prints would be the time to quit making prints. More recently, Will has tried to quit his entire artmaking practice through Artists Anonymous, a collaborative enterprise with fellow artist, Jeff Funnell. Luckily for us, the rehab program to treat art addiction has had limited success.
 
Educated in painting and printmaking in Iowa, he was a Fulbright scholar at the Rijaskademie in Amsterdam and a Ford Foundation Printer Fellow at the Tamarind Institute. Now a Professor Emeritus, he taught at the University of Calgary for 27 years and continues to influence students, artists and the Calgary art community.
 
— Katherine Ylitalo, Guest Curator

Free Dance First Thursday with Decidedly Jazz

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Venue / Location:
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks – 1514, 4 st SW

2 Sep 2010 - 5:30pm

Ticket Price:
Free

Event Description:

Free Dance First Thursday with Decidedly Jazz
Free Classes, Take one or take them all !!!!!

All ages and abilities welcome.

Class schedule:


Afro Funk with Deanne Walsh – 5:30-6:30 pm
Jazz/Swing with Joanne Baker – 6:30-7:30 pm
Hip Hop /House with Corinne Vessey – 7:30 – 8:30 pm
 

www.decidedlyjazz.com – 403-245-3533

Flywheel

Venue / Location:
Pages Books on Kensington, 1135 Kensington Road NW

2 Sep 2010 - 7:30pm

Ticket Price:
Free

Event Description:

Join host Meghan Doraty for the September edition of Flywheel with local writers Rachelle Pinnow, Betty Jane Hegerat, Ian Kinney and Julia Williams!

 

AND don't miss our Flywheel teaser Tuesday, August 31st 8-9pm on *Writer's Block*, CJSW's weekly foray into literature. Join radio hosts Paul Kennett and Stephanie Weidmann for a special preview of some of our Flywheel readers. CJSW: Calgary's independent radio - 90.9 fm or http://www.cjsw.com/index.html.

Flywheel is a monthly reading series, which runs every first Thursday at 7:30pm sharp at Pages. The series is curated by volunteers from the collective that brings you filling Station, your locally created, nationally distributed literary arts magazine. Visit www.fillingstation.ca to find out more.

 

First Thursday Restaurant Deals

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Venue / Location:
Various restaurants throughout the Cultural District

2 Sep 2010 (All day)

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Event Description:

Check out these restaurant deals. Available only on First Thursdays (the First Thursday of every month) and when you mention "First Thursday"

Breakfast/Lunch Royal Canadian Legion, 117 7 Ave SE. Huge platter with coffee $5.50, "meat draws" at 12:15pm, steak and stein lunch special $8.95

10am - 8pm The Cellar Fine Wine, Sprits & Accessories, 137 8 Ave SW. 10% discount (a few exceptions apply)

10:30 - 6:30pm *atomic, 623 1 St SW & 1306 1 St SW. 15% off any item on their menu at both locations.

11am - 2am Original Joe's, 109 8 Ave SW bottles of wine 1/2 price, wines by the glass are $1 off.

4pm - 5:30pm Pita Express, 237 8 Ave SE. $2 off any sandwich.

4 - 7pm deVille Luxury Coffee & Pastries, Art Central & Fashion Central Wine happy hour $7 per glass.

7:30 - 9:30 Piq Niq, 811 1 St SW. Complimentary wine by the glass with a $20 food purchase.

Get more deals with your Cultural District Pigeon Card

 

First Thursday - Tour of the Downtown Public Art Circuit

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Venue / Location:
Meet at the information booth, main level, Municipal Building, 800 Macleod Tr SE

1 Apr 2010 - 5:00pm
6 May 2010 - 5:00pm
3 Jun 2010 - 5:00pm
1 Jul 2010 - 5:00pm
5 Aug 2010 - 5:00pm
2 Sep 2010 - 5:00pm

Ticket Price:
Free

Event Description:

Meet us at 5:00 p.m., at the information booth, plaza level of the Municipal Building. This one-hour Downtown Public Art Circuit introduces you to Civic Art Collection pieces in and around the Municipal Building and Plus 15. This free guided tour is primarily indoors, with a short jaunt outdoors.

Historical Walk of Downtown Calgary

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Venue / Location:
Meet inside the Calgary Telus Convention Centre, in front of the Glenbow Museum entrance

3 Jun 2010 - 10:00am

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Ticket Price:
Free

Event Description:
So you think Calgary has a short history, compared with longer-in-the tooth locales such as Cairo or Kyoto? Well, you have to look back, way back, to find our beginnings.
 
Know the secrets behind the Tribune building on Stephen Avenue? Guide Hugh Main isvsure to tell you some stories you're not to forget and won't believe!

First Thursday - Art Central

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Venue / Location:
Art Central - 100 7th Ave SW

2 Sep 2010 - 5:00pm

Ticket Price:
free

Event Description:

 

Join us for the First Thursday for exhibition openings, live music by Bigfoot Rocketship, and happy hour on wine, cheese, and beer at deVille.
 
Main Level
 
Micah Gallery: Featuring authentic Cowichan sweaters made by Emily Modest, handmade masks and wall plaques by artist Alfred Crocker, and spirit boxes of various totem animals.
Shisomiso: Featuring scarves by JUMA
Swirl Fine Art: Opening Reception for Introductions: New Artists

Upper Level
 
Collage Gallery: New Works by Jim Etzkorn, Hayley Erza, and Phaedra Vandenbrun
OneBlueWall Gallery: Opening Reception for the Super Secret Show
The New Gallery: Opening Reception of Contours in the Crosshairs by Nancy Nisbet. An installation combining video projection, broken glass sculpture and still images. Show your Pigeon Card and get a free copy of the book Towers by Scott Rogers.
Panagakos Gallery: Opening Reception of Metallica by Shannon Gillette
 
Lower Level
 
Heather Brewster Studio: Closing Sale! Come and enjoy some great art at reduced prices and get a sneak peek at "The Red Road" - assemblage art reflecting her journey with kidney disease and dialysis.
My Escape Studio Bulk Up: cards for All Occasions by Design Artist Melody Germain. Bonus specials on First Thursday.
Calgary Arts Development: Let's dream big for Calgary 2012! Calgary is bidding to be named the Cultural Capital of Canada in 2012, and we are looking for your ideas about how we should celebrate!  Join us in a discussion about culture in Calgary and dream big! RVSP to suzanne.boss@calgary2012.com by Tuesday, August 30, 2010.

First Thursday - Tour of the Cantos collection

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Venue / Location:
Cantos Music Foundation - 134 11 Ave SE

5 Aug 2010 - 6:00pm
2 Sep 2010 - 6:00pm
7 Oct 2010 - 6:00pm

Ticket Price:
free

Event Description:

View the impressive assortment of instruments represented in Cantos’ collection.

Downtown Green Market

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Venue / Location:
located on Stephen Avenue Walk between Centre St and 1st St SE (outside the Telus Convention Centre)

2 Sep 2010 - 10:00am

Ticket Price:
free

Event Description:
Offering up local baking, produce, organic products and handmade goodies. Stop by and pick up ingredients for dinner on your way home – or just grab a bite for lunch!  On top of food vendors, there will be people selling clothing, jewellery, artwork and many other treasures.
 

First Thursday September 2nd

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Venue / Location:
Throughout the Cultural District, various venues

2 Sep 2010 (All day)

Ticket Price:
Various. Most events free or discounted.

Event Description:
September's First Thursday is part of Culture Month in Calgary. Don't miss out as we ramp up the launch of the Fall arts season with this culture crawl through the district.
 
Go to one event or many and hop your way through some of the Cultural District's most interesting venues.
 
 
 
TOURS
10am
Meet inside the Calgary Telus Convention Centre, in front of the entrance to the Glenbow Museum, 130 9 Ave SE, free
So you think Calgary has a short history, compared with longer-in-the tooth locales such as Cairo or Kyoto? Well, you have to look back, way back, to find our beginnings.
 
4:30
Meet in the lobby of the Glenbow Museum, $5

Meet up with fellow culture crawlers to explore the events of First Thursday. Start at the Glenbow Museum for The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, head to the Epcor Centre for The Wild Vibrations of Wildurban,  Battleship Down, SWAP: Alberta/Yukon Video Exchange, stroll through Fashion Central, the galleries, studios and boutiques at Art Central, then hop across the alley for Theatre Junction Grand's Season Launch Alley Party. Please rsvp to art.proctor[at]gmail.com.

 

5pm

Meet at the information booth, main floor level, Municipal Building, 800 Macleod Tr SE, free
This Downtown Art Circuit introduces you to the Civic Art Collection downtown in and around the Municipal Building and the Plus 15. The free guided tour is primarily indoors with a quick jaunt outdoors.  You can also download the podcast or Iphone app at www.calgary.ca/publicart
 
6pm
Cantos Music Foundation, 134 11 Ave SE
Tour the Cantos Music collection at 6.00pm, free
View the impressive assortment of instruments represented in Cantos’ collection.
 

LIVE MUSIC

7:30pm
John Hiatt & The Combo with Los Lobos
Jack Singer Concert Hall, EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, 205-8 Avenue SE, $59.85, tickets at epcorcentre.org
After 35 years together, Los Lobos still knows how to mix Mexican roots with rough rock, and guitarist Cesar Rosas remains a truly spectacular blues soloist.
 
8pm
bbmusique Sound Sessions Presents:  XIBIT 7 “Live” Improv Electronica Ambient meets World Musique in The OuterRealm.
Cantos Music Foundation, 134 11 Ave SE
Doors 7.30pm, $5 cover
 

VISUAL ARTS

All day
The +15 Window Space, 2nd level, EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, 205-8 Avenue SE, free
Randy Niessen’s site specific installations are formal explorations created through a hybrid of painting, print media, and sculpture. Battleship Down is an explosive scene of geometric shapes and colour. Fire, water, and light are represented by paint and string erupting around an abstract dreadnought engulfed in its own environment.
 
All day
Video monitors throughout EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, 205 - 8th Avenue SE, free
Short films, animation and video from 10 sensational Alberta and Yukon artists.
 
All day
The +15 Soundscape, 2nd level, EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, 205-8 Avenue SE, free
A Multichannel Soundscape created by locally and internationally recognized sound artist Charles Fox. Open your eyes and ears to the Saskatchewan wilderness and the diversity of the ecological communities of the Canadian Prairies and Boreal Forest that are disappearing before us.
 
1pm – 8pm
Art Therapy
Endeavor Arts, 200 – 1209 1 St SW*, $10
Art therapy is the opportunity for the left side of your brain to take a vacation and to allow the right side to come out and play. Bring something from your closet and bring it to life by turning it into a work of art or create a masterpiece on a t-shirt or a coffee cup provided to you by Endeavor Arts. *Within walking distance of the Cultural District
 
9am – 5pm
Glenbow Museum, 130 9 Ave SE, $18 Adult, $9 Student
The Baroque World of Fernando Botero is the first retrospective exhibition of Botero's work since 1974 and is Calgary's first-ever exhibition of this celebrated artist's work. The exhibition consists of 87 paintings, drawings and watercolours, 10 small sculptures and three monumental sculptures.
 
5 – 9pm
100 7 Ave SW, free
Join us for the First Thursday for exhibition openings, live music by Bigfoot Rocketship, and happy hour on wine, cheese, and beer at deVille.
 
Main Level
Micah Gallery: Featuring authentic Cowichan sweaters made by Emily Modest, handmade masks and wall plaques by artist Alfred Crocker, and spirit boxes of various totem animals.
Shisomiso: Featuring scarves by JUMA
Swirl Fine Art: Opening Reception for Introductions: New Artists

Upper Level
Collage Gallery: New Works by Jim Etzkorn, Hayley Erza, and Phaedra Vandenbrun
OneBlueWall Gallery: Opening Reception for the Super Secret Show
The New Gallery: Opening Reception of Contours in the Crosshairs by Nancy Nisbet. An installation combining video projection, broken glass sculpture and still images.
Panagakos Gallery: Opening Reception of Metallica by Shannon Gillette
 
Lower Level
Heather Brewster Studio: Closing Sale! Come and enjoy some great art at reduced prices and get a sneak peek at "The Red Road" - assemblage art reflecting her journey with kidney disease and dialysis.
My Escape Studio Bulk Up: cards for All Occasions by Design Artist Melody Germain. Bonus specials on First Thursday.
 

THEATRE

8pm
MOTEL theatre at the EPCOR CENTRE for Performing Arts (across from Big Secret Theatre) 205 - 8 Ave SE, $20 adult, $15 equity/senior/student/low-income
Heterophobia, a dark comedy, is a tall glass of gay with a twist of straight. In the world of heterophobia, social norms are flipped on their ears, and extreme role reversal ensues. Being gay is the norm, and being straight is the ‘deviance’.
 

PARTIES

5 – 10:30pm
Back Alley, Theatre Junction GRAND, 608 1 St SW, free
Theatre Junction GRAND partners with the Hi Fi Club to present the second annual Season Launch Alley Party! Join us for live DJs, performances and dancing in the streets! Preview our new season and take advantage of your last chance to buy a season pass at the early bird rate.
 

COMMUNITY EVENTS

6 - 7:30pm
Calgary is bidding to be named the Cultural Capital of Canada in 2012, and we are looking for your ideas about how we should celebrate! Whether it’s acknowledging Calgary’s cultural history, experiencing everything this city has to offer or something entirely new, no idea is too big, no act is too small. The ideas YOU suggest will be the basis for Calgary’s bid. Join us in a discussion about culture in Calgary and dream big! RVSP to suzanne.boss@calgary2012.com by Tuesday, August 30, 2010.
 
67:45pm 
Drop-In Career Coaching
Calgary Public Library, Central Branch, 3 Fl. Technology Discovery Centre, 616 Macleod Tr SE, free
Drop in for one-on-one help and feedback on resume writing, job searching skills and cover letters. Bring a disk or USB.
 
6 - 8pm
Aboriginal Writers’ Circle
Calgary Public Library, Central Branch, 4 Fl. Meeting room, 616 Macleod Tr SE, free
Join in on this exploration of the written word and oral storytelling.

 

EATS

10am – 2pm

Located on Stephen Avenue Walk between Centre St and 1st St SE (outside the Telus Convention Centre)
Offers up local baking, produce, organic products and handmade goodies. Stop by and pick up ingredients for dinner on your way home – or even just grab a bite for lunch!  On top of food vendors, there will be people selling clothing, jewellery, artwork and many other treasures.