If you haven’t had a chance to experience an Arts Commons Art Party, this is your invitation to join the artists exhibiting in the Arts Commons Galleries for an evening that’s never the same twice! Starting with a tour of the galleries accompanied by the artists sharing their passion and inspiration for their work, it takes the party to Centre Court with music, drinks, and more! What more do you ask? Read on!
This May, Alberta Theatre Projects (ATP) is thrilled to present the Arts Club Theatre Company production of The Birds and the Bees by Mark Crawford, directed by Lauren Taylor. Just in time for warmer weather, budding leaves and blossoming flowers, The Birds and the Bees is the perfect comedy to usher in the Springtime.
Roaring onto the stage this spring, Dinosaur World Live is an epic live show for families and young audiences that brings the ancient past to life! The story follows Miranda who has grown-up on a far-off island where dinosaurs never went extinct. The true stars of the show are the larger-than-life puppets designed to be as lifelike as possible operated by expert puppeteers. The smallest fits comfortably into the puppeteer’s arms, and the largest needs four people to move it!
Throughout the month of March, students of all ages were hard at work making some rather large creations. The whales, one bowhead and two orcas, not only helped them learn about ocean ecosystems but also gave the opportunity for them to get messy creating something truly unique. Each whale was constructed from recycled materials led by Dean Bareham, artist director of Green Fools Theatre.
After two years of meticulous planning and design work, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) and its partners at Arts Commons and The City of Calgary are thrilled to reveal the architectural design for the Arts Commons Transformation expansion. Behind the expansion’s design is a team of internationally recognized architects and designers from Toronto’s KPMB Architects, Calgary’s Hindle Architects, and Arizona’s Tawaw Architecture Collective.
On Friday, March 22, Alberta’s government announced that it will be coming to the table with historic funding of $103M to Arts Commons over seven years to transform Calgary’s downtown into a premium destination to take in the arts. Watch the announcement below, along with a special guest performance by NAME HERE from Theatre Calgary’s Beaches.
Every other dawn before the birds take to their singing, I sit at my desk thinking of the myriad ways a story can be told or a life lived to appease a foe’s aggro or appeal to the sentiments of readers and spectators waiting to be intrigued; people asking to be enthralled in a web, a weaving that transforms the acts and flaws of a character into the magic created from a marriage of the mind, the ink, and a blank sheet of paper; the most perfect threesome ever since man opened his eyes to see the breaking of dawn and the falling of dusk, the two constants that determine his days, ways, and the canvas on which he paints his masterpieces.
