Shameless Friend Promotion: Help Send Spaceman Zac to Space Camp

 

 

My friend Zac wants to go to space and live on Mars. He's not scared to admit it, he's not scared to do it. As long as I have known Zac, he's had a driving passion to make the world better, to make things better and doing it all through his complex faith in science. I've always been impressed with Zac's ambition to hit his goals straight on, plowing through walls as though they are made of marshmallow fluff when in reality, to me they looked like granite.

 

How can you not want to support a man who uses his life so fully to pursue his dreams.

 

Check out Zac's campaign here and while you're at it, help send him to Space Camp.

Also, on Friday May 30th you can catch Zac at The Odyssey Coffeehouse for Space Chat and BBQ
Tickets and more info can be found here!

 

 

Movie Night with Zac Trolley: Aliens

 

 

Have you heard of Mars One?

Have you heard of my good friend, Zac Trolley?

 

Well, you have now-- and count yourself lucky! Zac is about passion, mission, science and space. Along with being a Mars One Candidate, he has also been accepted into the prestigious International Space University to attend the Space Studies Program this summer. To pay for his tuition, he has created a fantastic event this Thursday, March 20 at The Plaza featuring his favorite sci-fi movie, Aliens.

 

This event is great because it's supporting local talent to flourish and grow in an industry that is just starting to gain mainstream awareness while also being a great retro date night! When was the last time you had a chance to see Aliens on the big screen? If ever?!

 

Come help Zac and other space pioneers continue to tend to and live their dreams and get your sci-fi on

 

And as an added bonus The Plaza has some of the best movie theater popcorn in all of the land. Gobble-gobble.

 

Event and Ticket Info:

Movie Night with Zac Trolley: Aliens

Plaza Theatre
1133 Kensington Rd NW Calgary, AB T2N 3P4
Canada                           

Thursday, 20 March 2014 from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM (MDT) 

 

General Admission $10.00 (+ service fee)  

To buy tickets go HERE  

 

Further info on Zac Trolley

 

 

Extras to make a full night of it:

Interested in dinner and a movie, check out the Kesington Brasserier for some of the best food in the city-- it's just right next door to The Plaza! Or, down the road is the ever popular and very faithful Kensington Pub.

 

 

 

 

 

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An Italian Sunset: Mountain View Connection & Lougheed House

 

I have always enjoyed Chamber Music, it sounds weird-- I think. I came home from a day of school in grade 4 raving about these high school students who came to perform for my class. They style of music was apparently called "Chamber Music" and all I could picture was a chamber pot and someone playing a violin into it but I was still in love. My  mum thought I was crazy....

 

Since then, I have found a special place for classical (and more specifically Chamber Music) in my life as I have found it to be powerful at creating a peaceful mindset. When I saw this event I jumped on it, the Lougheed House is beautiful and as a big fan of Italian opera's.. personally, I can't think of a more beautiful way to spend a Monday night.

 

Oh and wine.

 

An Italian Sunset

Lougheed House
707 13 Ave. S.W.
Calgary

March 16 to Mar 17, 2014

7:30 PM

 

Italian music performed in one of Calgary's sandstone mansions makes for an incredibly luxurious evening. This concert will take listeners around Italy as the music of some of Italy's finest composers is performed. Soprano Allison Angelo is joined by pianists Kathleen van Mouril and Charles Foreman, as well as violinist Laura Reid and cellist David Morrissey, both from the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Enjoy a wine reception during the intermission and food catered by The Restaurant at the Lougheed House.

 

Adult tickets $40.

 

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Culinaria: A Taste of Food History on the Prairies

 

This Event looks great and it's located at the beautiful and historical Lougheed House in West Conaught-- thought I think the house is always beautiful, the property comes alive in the Spring and Summer as the stunning gardens fill with unique and colorful foliage.

 

Collecting Culinaria: An exhibition of cookbooks and domestic manuals mainly from the Linda Miron Distad Collection.

June 18 – October 5, 2014

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The Linda Miron Distad Culinaria Collection, housed at the University of Alberta Libraries, currently consists of more than 3,000 food-related texts from around the world, spanning several centuries. Collecting Culinaria features cookbooks and household guides from the collection, as well as other selected items from the Library’s holdings. The exhibition, and accompanying catalogue, highlight some of the collection’s most intriguing texts and their themes, including manuscript cookbooks, dietetics and health, and celebrity chefs. Collecting Culinaria draws from and celebrates this vast and diverse trove of social, cultural, and gastronomic history. Lougheed House is grateful to partner with the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, to bring you this exhibit.

The public is invited to the opening reception on Wednesday June 25^th, from 6.30-8.30pm with cash bar, where the curators, Merrill Distad and Caroline Leiffers, will be in attendance.

 

View the related web-exhibit ‘Culinaria: A Taste of Food History on the Prairies’