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Fringe Theatre Adventures — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:52:10 -0500

Company Background
Fringe Theatre Adventures Society (FTA) is dedicated to the creation of theatre that challenges and celebrates the cultural fabric of our communities and provides a home for developing new and emerging artists, audiences and forums. For over 27 years FTA has provided the infrastructure and support for the creation of hundreds of new theatrical works and now, as one of Alberta’s Major Performing Arts Companies, Fringe Theatre Adventures (FTA) continues to be an energetic theatre company successfully maintaining three distinct initiatives.
- FTA is the proud producer of the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, the largest and oldest Fringe theatre festival in North America with an 11-day attendance of over half a million and annual ticket sales of over 75,000.
- FTA presents the Fringe Theatre Season, a programmed series of theatre performances that reflect the energy and creativity of the Fringe Festival year round. read more »

Calgary Arts Development Seeks Financial Consultant - Request for Quote

Suzanne Boss — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:32:30 -0500

Request for Quote
Outsourced Financial Services Consultant

Calgary Arts Development is accepting proposals from a Financial Consultant to provide services for our organization. We invite interested proponents to submit a proposal to us by December 5, 2008, for consideration. A description of our organization, the services needed, and other pertinent information follows. read more »

COURSE DEVELOPER - COSTUME CUTTING & CONSTRUCTION MAJOR

Irene Zarelli — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:53:22 -0500

Contract COURSE DEVELOPER COSTUME CUTTING AND CONSTRUCTION MAJOR Salary: $30.00 per hour The School of Business has an opportunity for a contract Course Developer for the Costume Cutting and Construction major within the Apparel Technology diploma program. This position will appeal to a wardrobe person in the performing arts industry who is looking for a short term contract which provides the freedom to creatively apply their knowledge of costume cutting and construction to the development of course instructional plans and materials. The anticipated term of this contract is January 5, 2009 to May 31, 2009. Responsibilities include development of course competency profiles, outlines, and instructional plans to be used by instructors at Olds College. This course development will be supported by the Olds College instructional design department and will require collaboration with the Apparel Technology instructional team in order to develop materials that meet specific learning outcomes. read more »

Big Box Reuse

Terry Rock — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:00:11 -0500

Slate has a very interesting pictorial essay of creative uses of surplus big box stores (from Julia Christensen's book Big Box Reuse) . We often think of "adaptive reuse" as a means of employing heritage buildings. I suspect the "heritage" of the 80's, 90's and early 2000's is going to include a huge inventory of big boxes. Imagine what we could do with them... read more »

Calgary Girls Choir presents Hark the Glad Sound

Calgary Girls Choir — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:05:41 -0500

Calgary Girls Choir presents
Hark the Glad Sound - a Calgary Christmas Tradition

Calgary Girls Choir will present its annual Festive Concert on Sunday, December 14 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, The EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts. Featuring Salvator Mundi by William Mathias with members of the CPO.

Sunday, December 14, 2008
2:00 p.m.
Jack Singer Concert Hall
Tickets through Ticketmaster at 403-777-0000

Please join Artistic Director Elaine Quilichini and all of the choirs for an afternoon of joyful music of the season.

For more information please contact the Choir office at 403-686-7444 or office@calgarygirlschoir.com

IGNITE! 2009: Call to Emerging Artists (Three Weeks Left to Apply!)

ellenclose — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:28:11 -0500

PLEASE FORWARD -- POST -- CIRCULATE FREELY
IGNITE! 2009: Call to Emerging Artists (Theatre / Dance / Music / Art)
Submission Deadline: Friday, December 12th
(submissions should be post-marked by Dec. 12th)

Sage Theatre is pleased to accept submissions for their fifth annual IGNITE! : Calgary's Festival for Emerging Artists, running June 11-13, 2009 at the Pumphouse Theatres. IGNITE! features brand-new plays, dance, music, visual art and multidisciplinary endeavors, all created by up-and-coming artists. The festival provides support in the creation of new work, access to professional mentorship, and showcase opportunities, while fostering a community of local emerging artists.

For more information on the festival and what we consider an emerging artist, please visit our website: www.sagetheatre.com/howtoapply

We are seeking submissions from emerging artists in all disciplines, including: read more »

Attention Actors

Jacqueline Russell — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:41:32 -0500

Barkerville, BC's Largest Historic Site is looking for experienced actors/interpreters to fill the streets. Tours, scene work and monologues give life to the heritage preserved in this site. The five month contract starts in May and ends near the end of September. $15.50/hour with a $.50/hour contract completion bonus. Auditions are TBA. Please send your headshot, resume and employer references to Mark Dawson C/O Red Beak Productions at theclowninthebox@hotmail.com

Canadian Conference of the Arts - Alain Pineau Speech

Mike Scullen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:58:31 -0500

Audio only: MP3 (right click and 'save link as' to download)

The Canadian Conference of the Arts stopped in Calgary on November 4, 2008 as part of a national tour to consult with the arts sector and its supporters about how the CCA and the sector as a whole can work to better position the sector in public discourse and on the political agenda. A group of artists, cultural workers and arts champions participated in a regional forum hosted by the CCA, and later that evening the CCA's national director, Alain Pineau, delivered a short speech and engaged in dialogue with leaders from the arts and corporate sectors. The video of that speech is available here. For more information about the regional forums being hosted by the Canadian Conference of the Arts. read more »

Follow us on Twitter

Mike Scullen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:38:54 -0500

What is Calgary Arts Development doing now? You can find out now on Twitter. The team here has started dishing out tasty tidbits of information via this micro-blogging platform. If you are not familiar with the service, here's an introduction:

Twitter in Plain English Video

Our Twitter is grabbing all of the content appearing on CalgaryArtsDevelopment.com so you can follow us there to stay informed. New classified advertisements posted on our website will go out through Twitter as well so you too can tweet to the Calgary Arts Development followers.

@CalgaryArtsDev read more »

A poem for the journey through a budget process

Karen Ball — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:39:03 -0500

Provisions

What should we have taken
with us? We never could decide
on that; or what to wear
or at what time of
year we should make the journey

So here we are in thin
raincoats and rubber boots

On the disastrous ice, the wind rising

Nothing in our pockets

But a pencil stub, two oranges
Four Toronto streetcar tickets

and an elastic band holding a bundle
of small white filing cards
printed with important facts.

- Margaret Atwood read more »