Calgary Arts Development and CalgaryCulture.com welcome Calgarians and visitors to Culture Month, an opportunity to celebrate and experience the diversity of talent within Calgary’s arts and creative industries scene. 

Culture Month is a new annual initiative to promote and celebrate the arts and creative industries in Calgary during the launch of the fall arts season each September. Starting off the month, Calgary plays host to WorldSkills 2009, which will draw international attention with a global skills, trades and technology competition. First Thursday takes place on September 3rd in the Cultural District, and the ArtCity Festival of Art, Architecture and Design will bring visual art to all Calgarians in a variety of urban settings from September 4th to 13th. Stylocity, a new downtown fashion event, will take place from September 8th to 12th. Alberta Arts Days celebrates art across the province from September 18th to 20th, and the Mayor's Evening for Business and the Arts will recognize the contributions of Calgary artists and patrons on September 21st. At the end of the month and leading into October, the Calgary International Film Festival will celebrate their 10th anniversary from September 25 – October 4. 

“Like many world-class cities, Calgary has a thriving arts community,” said Mayor Dave Bronconnier, who officially proclaimed September as Culture Month in Calgary at a press conference last week. “Culture Month gives us the opportunity to showcase why Calgary was once again named the most cultured city in 

Canada.” 

”We’re thrilled to be part of launching Culture Month as a way to celebrate Calgary’s thriving arts sector,” says Terry Rock, President & CEO of Calgary Arts Development. “Calgary’s arts scene is becoming known nationally and internationally as one to watch, and it’s time for us to start taking notice of this as a city. We hope Calgarians and visitors will see Culture Month as an opportunity to learn more about our city’s arts and cultural scene.” 

For more information on Culture Month, visit CalgaryCulture.com, your one-stop source for arts and culture listings in Calgary. Everyone is encouraged to sign up for the weekly Calgary Culture newsletter, which provides detailed information on upcoming arts events, festivals and cultural activities in Calgary.

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Calgary Arts Development is moving to Art Central on September 2! As such, we have a few items that need to find a new home: 1 Microwave, 1 Refrigerator, 3 Grey plastic Rubbermaid shelving units, 6 IKEA "Galant" desks, 3 Computers (come ready to compute with desktop Linux installed) and more!

Items are free to practicing artists and CADA clients, and must be picked up no later than September 11th from the 3rd floor of the Calgary Public Building, 205 8th Avenue SE.

Come visit us after September 2nd in our new space in Art Central!

For more information, please contact Julie Baratta at 403-264-5330 or email julie.baratta@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.

Upon request from the City of Calgary and in cooperation with Tourism Calgary, Calgary Arts Development is working with a Steering Committee of representatives from the arts, culture, sport, recreation, neighborhoods and business in conducting an Event Impact Study.

The study includes extensive community consultation that will inform the future direction of the Event Policy for the City of Calgary, providing direction on how the City will invest human and financial resources to events and festivals in Calgary over the next 5 years. We need the event community – both organizations and participants – to have a strong voice in how the City investment should be made.

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Calgary Arts Development is pleased to have been named one of Calgary's Best Places to Work, according to the 2009 Best Places to Work survey conducted by CalgaryInc. Magazine.

CADA, along with 11 other organizations, is featured in the August 2009 issue of Avenue Magazine.

The full article is available on newsstands now, or at AvenueCalgary.com.